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From Ernst Pfitzer   19 June 1871

Summary

Sends publication [unspecified].

Notes adaptive mechanism in epiphytes.

Author:  Ernst Hugo Heinrich (Ernst) Pfitzer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 174: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7825

Matches: 8 hits

  • … papers are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See Pfitzer  1869–72 , pp.  63–72. …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Pfitzer, Ernst. 1869–72. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Hautgewebe …
  • … Pflanzen. Jahrbucher für wissenschaftliche Botanik 7 (1869–70): 532–87; 8 (1872): 16–74. …
  • … Pfitzer, Ernst. 1869. Beobachtungen über Pfropfhybriden. [ …
  • … Read 5 July 1869] Botanische Zeitung 27: 839–43. …
  • … CD an offprint of a paper on graft hybrids ( Pfitzer 1869 ) and the first two parts of his …
  • … study on the dermal tissue of plants ( Pfitzer 1869–72 ). …
  • … It is the third part of Pfitzer 1869–72  that is referred to in this letter. The …

From C. H. Thiebout   [1871]

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As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].

Author:  Carel Hendrik Thiebout
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 201: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6523

Matches: 4 hits

  • … foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)]. …
  • … refers to Eduard von Hartmann , Hartmann 1869 (Philosophy of the unconscious), Immanuel …
  • … of empiric-psychology’ is Thiebout 1869 ; the other two titles have not been identified. …
  • … Bibliography Thiebout, C. H. 1869. Kort begrip der proefondervindelijke zielkunde, …

From W. B. Dawkins   8 February 1871

Summary

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7477

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Dawkins, William Boyd. 1869. The Denbighshire caves. …
  • … of the Manchester Geological Society 9 (1869–70): 31–7. Descent : The descent of man, and …
  • … While on holiday in Wales in 1869, CD had sent Dawkins a box of animal bones discovered at …
  • … Correspondence vol.  17, letter to W.  B.  Dawkins, 19 July [1869] , and letter from W.   …
  • … B.  Dawkins, 19 October 1869 , and Correspondence vol.  18, letter from W.  B.  Dawkins, …
  • … Dawkins published on the finds in Dawkins 1869 , Dawkins and Busk 1870a, and Dawkins and …

To Michael Foster   16 April 1871

Summary

Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Michael Foster
Date:  16 Apr 1871
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7689G

Matches: 5 hits

  • … John Murray. 1872. Foster, Michael. 1869. Mouvements involuntaires chez les animaux. …
  • … scientifiques de la France et de l’étranger 6 (1869): 677–85 and 712–20. Holland, Henry. …
  • … in animals, with particular reference to the heart, in February 1869 ( Athenæum , …
  • … 9 January 1869, p.  38). …
  • … Revue des cours scientifiques ( Foster 1869 ). Foster replied in his letter of 4 June [ …

To T. H. Huxley   30 September [1871]

Summary

On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  30 Sept [1871]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7976

Matches: 5 hits

  • … natural selection, was published in the Roman Catholic journal the Month in July 1869 ( [ …
  • … Mivart] 1869 ). The editor of Scientific Opinion was Henry Lawson . The footnote has not …
  • … Murray. 1871. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1869. Difficulties of the theory of natural …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  17, letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 9 July [1869] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 24 July [1869] . In T.  H.  Huxley 1871b , pp.  460–7, Huxley criticised the …

To J. D. Hooker   21 March [1871]

Summary

Asks name of an Abutilon from Fritz Müller.

Questions about Drosophyllum for experiments;

the meaning of "Sirdar".

Wonderful success of Descent. Astonished by liberality of public. No abuse yet.

Marvels at JDH’s plans for a trip to Morocco. Asks him to look for alpine insects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 190–192
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7607

Matches: 6 hits

  • … was evidently grown from seed sent to CD by Müller in late 1869 (see Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 17, letter to Fritz Müller, 1 December [1869] and n.  2). The reference is to High Elms, …
  • … of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Portugal in 1869 and had given two plants and seed to …
  • … book , p.  197, No.  336, 29 September 1869; see also Correspondence vol.  17, letter to …
  • … W.  C.  Tait, 27 August [1869] and n.  4). CD had studied Drosera (the genus of sundews) …
  • … 17, letter from John Scott, 21 December 1869  and n.  4. The reference is to a tribal …

To C. V. Riley   1 June [1871]

Summary

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Valentine Riley
Date:  1 June [1871]
Classmark:  Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7794

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Publishing. 1990. Riley, Charles Valentine. 1869–77. Annual reports on the noxious, …
  • … year is established by the reference to Riley 1869–77 (see nn.  2 and 3, below). CD refers …
  • … insects in the state of Missouri ( Riley 1869–77 ), published in 1871. CD’s annotated copy …
  • … is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 710–12). See Riley 1869–77 , 3: 148–51. CD …
  • … Walsh , who died following an accident in 1869. Riley and Walsh met in 1864 and founded …

To T. R. R. Stebbing   18 March [1871]

Summary

Thanks TRRS for copy of his book [Essays on Darwinism (1871)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:  18 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.388)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7594

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Torquay Natural History Society, Feb. 1 st , 1869. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Oxford: …
  • … Murray. 1871. Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe Rede. 1869. Darwinism: a lecture delivered before …
  • … of Stebbing’s essay, Darwinism ( Stebbing 1869 ; see Correspondence vol.  17, letter to …
  • … T.  R.  R.  Stebbing, 3 March 1869) . CD also received a copy of Darwinism and the …

From C.-F. Reinwald   1 February 1871

Summary

Has left Paris because of the war.

J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 176: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7472

Matches: 5 hits

  • … letter from J.  J.  Moulinié, 5 November 1869 . The Franco-Prussian War lasted from 19  …
  • … vol.  17, letter to J.  J.  Moulinié, 23 October [1869] , and letter from J.   …
  • … J.  Moulinié, 5 November 1869 , and this volume, letter to J.  J.  Moulinié, 28 June [ …
  • … 17, letter from C. -F.  Reinwald, 13 November 1869 and n.  2). Paris was besieged from 19  …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1869. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by …

From H. M. Westropp   20 April [1871]

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Summary

Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].

Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].

Author:  Hodder Michael Westropp
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703

Matches: 4 hits

  • … of London 2 (1865–6): 288–93. Westropp, Hodder Michael. 1869. On cromlechs and megalithic …
  • … structures. Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 3. Westropp, Hodder Michael. 1871. On the …
  • … On cromlechs and megalithic structures’ ( Westropp 1869 ), in Descent 1: 233 n.  25. …
  • … annotated copy of the first half of Westropp 1869  is in DAR 80: B176. Westropp refers to …

From Federico Delpino   7 January 1871

Summary

Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.

Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.

Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.

Author:  Federico Delpino
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1871
Classmark:  DAR 111: A77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7430

Matches: 5 hits

  • … letter from Federico Delpino, 1 November 1869 . In Forms of flowers , pp.  332–3, CD cited …
  • … Naturali Milano 11 (1868): 265–352; 12 (1869): 179–233; 13 (1870): 167–205; 17 (1874): …
  • … kingdom; Delpino 1868–75 ). CD had received part I in 1869 (see Correspondence vol.   …
  • … letter from Federico Delpino, 22 August 1869 ). The work as a whole consists of two parts, …
  • … and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 141–59. [ Collected papers 2: 138–56. ] …

From John Wood   6 April 1871

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Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].

Author:  John Wood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 145–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7661

Matches: 4 hits

  • … CD refers to Descent , but the numbers are page numbers referring to J.  Wood 1869 . …
  • … of the Royal Society of London ( J.  Wood 1869 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin …
  • … of Edinburgh 6 (1866–9): 65–6. Wood, John. 1869. On a group of varieties of the muscles of …
  • … and homologies in mammalia. [Read 17 June 1869. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …

From W. B. Dawkins   27 August 1871

Summary

Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7918

Matches: 4 hits

  • … vol.  17, letter to W.  B.  Dawkins, 19 July [1869] ). Dawkins described Neolithic …
  • … in a cave at Cefn, Denbighshire, in 1869 in Dawkins and Busk 1870b, Dawkins 1871b , and …
  • … In 1869, CD had sent Dawkins a box of animal bones discovered on the Rhagatt estate, …
  • … letter from W.  B.  Dawkins, 31 July 1869 , and Peter Lucas 2007 ). Dawkins 1871b …

From W. W. Reade   10 January 1871

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Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Jan 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7435

Matches: 3 hits

  • … In Lecky 1869 , 1: 82, Lecky commented, ‘the conceptions of beauty formed by a nation of …
  • … Comte , Comte 1837 (book 3, chapter 4), William Edward Hartpole Lecky , and Lecky 1869 . …
  • … 1874. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1869. History of European morals: from Augustus to …

From G. H. Darwin   [c. 17 July 1871]

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Gives CD some information on wills.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 17 July 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6765

Matches: 3 hits

  • … with Charles Meaburn Tatham from October 1869 until 1872 ( Correspondence vol. 17, letter …
  • … from G. H. Darwin, [18 October 1869] ); he was called to the bar on 30 April 1872, but …
  • … London, while he was studying law from 1869 to 1872 (see Correspondence vols. 17–20). CD …

From W. W. Reade   25 September 1871

Summary

Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].

Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7968

Matches: 3 hits

  • … J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)]. Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The …
  • … London: Macmillan. Murphy, Joseph John. 1869. Habit and intelligence in their connexion …
  • … the laws of matter and force ( Murphy 1869 ); see letter from W.  W.  Reade, 20 September  …

From George Rolleston   22 February 1871

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Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.

Author:  George Rolleston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 15–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7506

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Bibliography Braubach, Wilhelm. 1869. Religion, Moral & Philosophie der Darwin’sche …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 September 1869 and n.  4), and was cited by CD in Descent 1: …
  • … 63. In Descent 1: 68, CD cited Wilhelm Braubach and Braubach 1869 . There …
  • … is an annotated copy of Braubach 1869  in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.   Robert …

From J. W. Spengel   10 May 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for his letter referring to JWS’s bibliographical paper ["Darwinian bibliography", Z. Ethnol. 3 (1871): 56–67]. Will be glad to inform CD of any additions to the list and would be grateful for information on future publications.

Author:  Johann Wilhelm Spengel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 May 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 235
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7751

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Organismen. Deutsche Vierteljahrs-Schrift.  1869. Heft 125. Prof. Reuschle. Philosophie …
  • … Garland Publishing. 1990. Reuschle, Carl Gustav. 1869. Philosophie und Wissenschaft, mit …
  • … und Darwinismus. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 1869 (125): 197–243. Riolacci, D. 1868. La …
  • … Anon.  1871, Wagner 1870 , Reuschle 1869 , E.  O.  Schmidt 1870 (a copy of an earlier …

From W. E. Darwin   11 November 1871

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Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 121–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8061

Matches: 3 hits

  • … letter from Lawrence Ruck, [after 29 April 1869? ] ( Correspondence vol.  18, Supplement). …
  • … 1868): 242–300. Cope, Edward Drinker. 1869. On the origin of genera. Philadelphia: …
  • … A separately published version ( Cope 1869 ) was reviewed in Nature , 9 November 1871, …

From J. J. Moulinié   7 July 1871

Summary

JJM’s Origin translation is being held up so that it can conform to the 6th English edition.

Author:  Jean Jacques Moulinié
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 July 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 276
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7853

Matches: 3 hits

  • … of the fifth edition of Origin since 1869 (see Correspondence vol.  17, letter from J.   …
  • … J.  Moulinié, 5 November 1869 , and letter from C. - …
  • … F.  Reinwald, 13 November 1869). Moulinié’s translation of the sixth edition of Origin was …
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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

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, …

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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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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  • … (letter from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869 ) Darwin cited Gray’s …
  • … their year long trip to Europe and North Africa in 1868 to 1869, the Grays visited Charles and Emma …
  • … 1868, and visiting again on their return journey in August 1869. Although they never met again, the …

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…

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  • … standard of science’ ( to Charles Layton, 24 November [1869] ). From the 3 rd edition on …
  • … published, 1866 5 th English edition published, 1869 6 th English edition …
  • … on the fifth edition from Boxing Day 1868 until February 1869.  Among the changes were stories about …

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…

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  • … comprised two halves kept at different temperatures, and in 1869 Darwin told the botanist William …
  • … temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] ,  Calendar  no. 6661). …

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. 
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  • … 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…

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  • … Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to Darwin, [13 January 1869] Becker tells Darwin that …
  • … Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. L. B., [8 November, 1869] Darwin writes to feminist …
  • … Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to Darwin, [13 January 1869] Suffragist and …

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…

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  • … vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His views were presented more fully in a …
  • … comparative anatomist through his work on primates. In July 1869, Mivart published the first of a …

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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  • … later 1860s. Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to him in December 1869 to report that a young German …
  • … of the undocumented photographs by Edwards as being before 1869.   physical location …
  • … Letter from Darwin to George Charles Wallich, 18 April [1869], DCP-LETT-6701. Letter from Alfred …

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,…

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  • … " Letter 6728 : from Charles Lyell, 5 May 1869 "I feel that …
  • … Letter 6866 : From Federico Delpino, 22 August 1869 "Perhaps because of intellectual …

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…

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  • … one of Darwin. However, in a letter to Wallich of 18 April 1869, Darwin declined to come to his …
  • … in 2005.   Darwin’s solicitude to help Wallich in 1869 reflected the fact that they had …
  • … letters to Wallich: 12 Dec. [1860], DCP-LETT-3020; 18 April [1869], DCP-LETT-6701; 24 February [1872 …
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