To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884, pp. 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Buchhandlung (E. Hegener). Müller, Hermann. 1869. Die Anwendung der Darwin’schen Lehre auf …
- … und blumen-besuchende Insekten. [Read 18 May 1869. ] Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen …
- … and flower-visiting insects; H. Müller 1869 ). Müller had earlier studied the adaptation …
- … and especially moths ( H. Müller 1869 , pp. 64–5). The order Diptera comprises true flies …
To Charles Boner [before 8 January 1870]
Summary
Has received [read?] CB’s two works [Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria (2d ed., 1860) and Forest creatures (1871)] and has made use of them in his present book [Descent].
CB’s descriptions of the Tyrol make CD long to be "strong and young again to ramble over the mountains".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Boner |
| Date: | [before 8 Jan 1870] |
| Classmark: | Kettle ed. 1871, p. 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7073 |
From George Henslow 3 March 1870
Summary
Experiments with Lapageria.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7126 |
From Benjamin Collins Brodie 9 June 1870
Summary
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
| Author: | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7225 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
To Frances Power Cobbe 23 March [1870?]
Summary
Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.
Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7145 |
To W. T. Preyer 17 February [1870]
Summary
Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.
Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | Ralph Colp Jr (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 17, letter to W. T. Preyer, [before 21 March 1869] , and letter from W. …
- … T. Preyer, 21 March 1869 . See letter from W. T. Preyer, [before 17 February 1870] . …
- … Collection–CUL, and possibly also Preyer 1869 . The pamphlets have not been identified. …
- … See Preyer 1868 . See Preyer 1869 . CD had used prussic acid gas to kill pigeons and …
From Georg Recht 17 March 1870
Summary
Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.
| Author: | Georg Recht |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7140 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … an earlier monograph ( Recht 1869 ) to a scientific society (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 17, letter from Georg Recht, 9 February 1869 ). …
- … Imprimerie du Cercle-Social. Recht, Georg. 1869. Die Entwicklung der Weltgesetze. Munich: …
- … German, see pp. 72–6. In his letter of 1 March 1869 ( Correspondence vol. 17), Recht had …
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 20 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of Orchids— Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist. Sep. 1869 Zoological works A monograph of the …
- … Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 141–59. [ Collected papers 2: 138–56. ] ‘ …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 10 (1869): 437–54. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: …
- … 17, letter from W. T. Preyer, 21 March 1869 and n. 2). Quatrefages had supported CD’s …
- … Linnean Society of London ( Botany ) 10 (1869): 393–437. Journal of researches : Journal …
From Jacob Heinrich Schmick 12 November 1870
Summary
Sends CD two books outlining a new geological theory. Believes his theory explains the discontinuities in the fossil record.
| Author: | Jacob Heinrich Schmick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7368 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1870]
Summary
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 169–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7200 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 May 1870]
Summary
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 47–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7198 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … animales et végétales. Revue des deux mondes 2d ser. 78 (1868): 832–60; 79 (1869): 208– …
- … 40; 80 (1869): 64–95, 397–432, 638–72. Variation : The variation of animals and plants …
- … Record for 1868 was published at the end of 1869. For Armand de Quatrefages’s response to …
- … 17, letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 29 March 1869 . Quatrefages discussed Variation in …
From Federico Delpino [1870]
Summary
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7055 |
From John Murray 10 June [1870]
Summary
Asks CD whether he is far enough along with his new work [Descent] to allow him to announce it as a forthcoming publication in his next quarterly list.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 375 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7226 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 October 1870
Summary
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7343 |
From W. W. Reade 4 June 1870
Summary
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7216 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Stellung zur Moral und Religion ( Jäger [1869] ). See also the letter to Gustav Jäger, 17 …
- … John Murray. 1872. Jäger, Gustav. [1869. ] Die Darwin’sche Theorie und ihre Stellung zur …
- … letter from W. W. Reade, 26 December 1869 and n. 7. Reade refers to William Charles …
- … merchant who sponsored Reade’s 1868 and 1869 expeditions into the Niger region, gave them …
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
| Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 14 July 1870
Summary
Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 82, DAR 193: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7274 |
To W. H. Flower 25 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7148 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Reade, W. W. | (4) |
| Galton, Francis | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (71) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (122) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Murray, John (b) | (5) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition …
- … that is something’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] ). Much of the remainder of …
- … to be the case’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). Hooker went straight to a crucial …
- … probable’ (see also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January [1869] , and letter from A. R. Wallace, …
- … in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin had argued ( Origin , pp. …
- … formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Croll could not supply Darwin with an …
- … have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). Darwin did not directly …
- … towards [Thomson]’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 19 March [1869] ). Towards Descent …
- … ‘everlasting old Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ), he was able to return to work on …
- … ( letter from Robert Elliot to George Cupples, 21 June 1869 ). Details on mating behaviour …
- … in the garden ( letter from Frederick Smith, 8 October 1869 ). Albert Günther, assistant in the …
- … varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February [1869] ). The data contined to …
- … cocks & hens.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] ). Yet completion of the work was …
- … for Descent . Researching emotion In 1869, Darwin still expected that Descent …
- … hatred—’ ( from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and …
- … ( enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 ). Darwin had often complained of the …
- … in regard to Man’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). More remarkable still were Wallace …
- … seem to you like some mental hallucination’ ( 18 April 1869 ). Since his marriage to Annie …
- … (Wallace 1869a; letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 March [1869] ), and scolded him for again being too …
- … demands justice’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). Proceeding on all fronts …
- … South American cordillera ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 May 1869 ), and fossil discoveries in …
- … investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February 1869 ). In a letter to the Gardeners …
- … of the soil ( letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 May [1869] ). In March, Darwin received …
- … in the early 1860s ( letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March 1869 ). This research contributed to …
- … editions ( see letter from Victor Masson, 29 September 1869 ). The work had been undertaken, like …
- … Animals”’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] ). Angered by these proceedings, Darwin …
- … of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (Dallas trans. 1869). The book, an explication of Darwinian …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Crichton-Browne, James 20 May 1869 32 Queen Anne St. …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 19 May 1869 West Riding …
- … Gray, Asa 9 May [1869] [Alexandria, Egypt] …
- … Gray, Jane 9 May [1869] [Alexandria, Egypt] …
- … Gray, Asa 8 & 9 May 1869 Florence, Italy (about …
- … King, P.G. 25 Feb 1869 Sydney, Australia …
- … Maudsley, Henry 20 May 1869 32 Queen Anne St. …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 17 Jan 1869 Sierra Leone, Africa …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 28 June [1869] Sierra Leone, …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 26 Dec 1869 Sierra Leone, Africa …
- … Scott, John 2 July 1869 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
Perfect copper-plate hand: From Adolf Reuter, 30 May 1869
Summary
My favourite correspondent was chosen not because he is a brilliant conversationalist or a significant scientific thinker – but after a decade of reading a series of challenging hand writings, my favourite is the one who wrote in a perfect copper-plate…
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- … My favourite correspondent was chosen not because he is a brilliant conversationalist or a …
A beginning, & that is something: To J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869]
Summary
Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker after finishing corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869.
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- … corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869. …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … of self-fertility over subsequent generations. In June 1869, Müller remarked, on receiving a new …
- … sometimes depends’ ( From Fritz Müller, 15 June 1869 ). By May 1870, Darwin reported that he was …
- … Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …
- … pod were mutually sterile ( From Fritz Müller, 14 March 1869 ). ‘The case of the Abutilon sterile …
- … of this plant sent by Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 18 July [1869] ). Darwin sent specimens of plants …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L to Darwin, [8 & 9 May 1869] Jane Loring Gray, …
- … Williams , M. S. to Darwin, H. E., [after 14 October 1869] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … Letter 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July 1869] John Scott responds to Darwin’s …
- … - Darwin to Gunther, A. C. L. G., [21 September 1869] Darwin asks Gunther for “a great …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … of Robinia rubra and Pirus malus , 23 September 1869 Alexander Agassiz's …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted …
- … down here on purpose’. Payments to the firm on 25 July 1869 and 5 April 1870 in Darwin’s banking …
- … widely disseminated images of Darwin were taken in summer 1869, and which in summer 1871: the …
- … were dated by Darwin’s daughter Henrietta on the backs to 1869. By 1871-2 some of Elliott and Fry’s …
- … it ‘abt. 1870’, then crossed this date out in favour of 1869 – the date which John van Wyhe assigns …
- … some of the Elliott and Fry group as having been taken in 1869 and 1871, but dates others (still …
- … to this source. It is significant that none of these 1869–71 Elliott and Fry photographs were …
- … as belonging to groups of photographs taken in summer 1869 and summer 1871, possible also in 1874. …
- … letters from Darwin to A.B. Meyer, 27 November [1869], (DCP-LETT-7014), and to Wallace, 5 December …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … work on human expression. Donders visited Darwin in 1869 , and a year later Darwin consoled him …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … he attracted many admirers in German-speaking countries. In 1869, his birthday was celebrated by an …
- … vol. 17, letter from F. M. Malven, 12 February [1869] ). An extract from Darwin’s reply to Malven …
- … with his’ ( letter to F. M. Malven, [after 12 February 1869] ). Accompanying this extract was the …
- … some of whom drew substantially on his theory. In 1869, Hermann Müller (brother to Fritz) sent …
- … theory to flowers and flower-visiting insects; H. Müller 1869)). Darwin was full of admiration and …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. B., [8 November 1869] Darwin thanks Antoinette …
3.12 Edwards, second group of photos
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< Back to Introduction Despite the prior difficulties experienced by both photographer and sitter, it is evident that Ernest Edwards portrayed Darwin again in the late 1860s; but exactly when and in what circumstances is not known. There are strong…
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Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … In 1869 Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
