From Raphael Meldola 18 June 1879
Summary
Discusses Fritz Müller’s paper on the mutual protection of certain mimics ["Ituna and Thyridita", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1879): xx–xxviii]. [Thyridia!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12113 |
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- … 1879): xx–xxix. Weir, John Jenner. 1869. On insects and insectivorous birds; and …
- … edibility of butterfly larvae ( J. J. Weir 1869 and 1870 ). The English translation of F. …
- … and the edibility of Lepidoptera and their larvae. [Read 1 March 1869. ] Transactions …
- … of the Entomological Society of London (1869): 21–6. Weir, John Jenner. 1870. Further …
From E. A. Darwin 13 March [1879]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11931 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
To Ernst Krause 9 March 1879
Summary
CD and his brother Erasmus have read EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. Asks whether EK would object to a translation by W. Dallas, to be offered to Fortnightly Review or to be published at CD’s expense as a book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 9 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11920 |
From E. P. Wright 26 February 1879
Summary
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11905 |
From W. S. Dallas 23 January 1879
Summary
Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843 |
From E. R. Shaw 2 December 1879
Summary
Describes bearded horses seen on island of Sark.
Author: | Edmund Rogers Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12339 |
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- … had been a correspondent of CD’s in 1860, 1869, and 1872 (see Correspondence vols 8, 17, …
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
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- … on natural philosophy , 2 vols. , 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD. Thinks …
From E. S. Galton 25 March 1879
Summary
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11954 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 March [1879]
Summary
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 108–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11923 |
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- … 2 (1867): 518–38; 3 (1868): 452–71; 6 (1869): 58–72; 10 (1871): 696–717; 11 (1872): 46–70. …
To H. W. Bates 12 February 1879
Summary
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (14 December 2017, lot 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11871F |
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- … of the Entomological Society of London in 1868, 1869, and 1878; his qualifications on the …
To G. S. Ffinden 31 May 1879
Summary
CD’s sister-in-law, S. E. Wedgwood, is willing to refund £10 of the money paid for her land if the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will write saying she ought to do so, or if a qualified surveyor proves that the first measurement was wrong.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 31 May 1879 |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12071 |
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- … vol. 17, letter from J. B. Innes, 20 October 1869 and n. 5. CD’s sister-in-law, Elizabeth …
From A. B. Buckley 16 December 1879
Summary
On Wallace’s need for a regular income. He has been rejected as Superintendent of Epping Forest. Thinks men such as Lubbock, Hooker, and CD might help.
Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12358 |
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- … for the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1869, the government planned to open a branch of …
To G. S. Ffinden 11 November 1879
Summary
Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 11 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12308 |
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- … savings; CD served as treasurer from 1848 to 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to …
To John Fordyce 7 May 1879
Summary
Believes it absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and evolutionist; gives the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards CD’s own views, his judgement often fluctuates but "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God". Thinks that "generally (and more and more as I grow older) … an Agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fordyce |
Date: | 7 May 1879 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12041 |
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- … The term ‘agnostic’ had been coined in 1869 by Thomas Henry Huxley (for more on the …
From F. B. Goodacre 8 December 1879
Summary
The hybrid geese FBG sent to CD were brother and sister from the same hatch. Would greatly value a copy of Nature containing CD’s letter.
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12346 |
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- … of the primrose and the cowslip, in his 1869 paper, ‘Specific difference in Primula’ . …
To Francis Darwin 3 June [1879]
Summary
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 3 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11541 |
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- … the self-registering auxanometer between 1869 and 1870 and described and illustrated it in …
From Anthony Rich 7 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for CD’s amusing letter from Coniston.
Commiserates on CD’s proof-reading chore.
George Darwin has visited him.
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12298 |
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- … was Slade Professor of art at Oxford from 1869 to 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), …
From T. H. Farrer 4 May 1879
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12031 |
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- … Read 19 March 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 10 (1869): 437–54. …
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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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
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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, …
A beginning, & that is something: To J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869]
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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. …
Perfect copper-plate hand: From Adolf Reuter, 30 May 1869
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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 …
Cross and self fertilisation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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< 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
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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…