From F. P. Cobbe 28 March [1870?]
Summary
Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.
Author: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7149 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From F. P. Cobbe 28 March [1870? ] …
- … DAR 161: 186 Frances Power Cobbe unstated 28 Mar [1870? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … refers to Despine 1868 ; see letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870 ? ] and n. 2. …
- … and the letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870 ? ]. Cobbe refers to Immanuel Kant . …
- … See letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870 ? ] and n. 2. The disciple of Kant was Carl …
- … views ( ODNB ). The meeting was held in Hanover Square on 26 March 1870 and reported in …
- … the Times , 29 March 1870, p. 9. John Stuart Mill and John Morley attended; none of the …
From Louis Rérolle 22 June 1870
Summary
Copies of the French translation of Orchids were sent to C. V. Naudin, Quatrefages de Bréau, and Charles Martins at CD’s request and to Duchartre, Brongniart, Baillon, Lecoq, Godron, and Alphonse de Candolle on Rérolle’s initiative.
Author: | Louis Rérolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7240 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Louis Rérolle 22 June 1870 …
- … DAR 176: 133 Louis Rérolle Lyons 22 June 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Rérolle refers to his translation into French of CD’s Orchids (Rérolle trans. 1870). See …
- … letter from Louis Rérolle, 15 June 1870 . CD’s letter to Rérolle has not been found. …
- … Reinwald was the publisher of Rérolle trans. 1870. Rérolle also refers to Charles Victor …
- … Lyon, June 22 1870 Sir I feel very pleased and grateful that my translation should have …
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870]
Summary
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 179–180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7273 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870] …
- … DAR 94: 179–180 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 July [1870] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1870 . The reference is to Robert Lambert Playfair . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1870 and n. 1. See letter …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1870 and nn. 2 and 3. Moses Ashley Curtis , not William …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1870 . CD refers to experiments conducted by Henry …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 July [1870] and n. 9). CD refers to experiments performed …
To Asa Gray 7 December 1870
Summary
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 7 Dec 1870 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7388 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Asa Gray 7 December 1870 …
- … Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Dec 1870 Asa Gray …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 21 November 1870 . CD was correcting the proof-sheets of …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [13 June 1870? ] and n. 3. Nolana prostrata is a synonym of …
- … to Lewis Henry Morgan . See letter from L. H. Morgan, 9 August 1870 , and letter to L. …
- … H. Morgan, 11 August [1870] . CD refers to Jane Loring Gray . …
- … Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E. Dec 7. 1870 My dear Gray I have been very glad to receive …
To John Lubbock 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7286 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To John Lubbock 21 July [1870] …
- … CD refers to William Farr . See letter from John Lubbock, 16 July [1870] , and letter from …
- … William Farr, 16 July 1870 . …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 July [1870] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … for his book [ Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". …
- … and the letter to John Lubbock, 17 July 1870 . CD refers to Lubbock’s book The origin of …
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870
Summary
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7272 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870 …
- … Correspondence 17a: 117) Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 10 July 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [13 June 1870? ]. CD had asked for seeds of Iberis amara , …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 June 1870] and n. 2. In Cross and self fertilisation , …
- … place in Liverpool from 14 to 21 September 1870 ( Report of the fortieth meeting of the …
- … University Press. 2004. Sachs, Julius. 1870. Lehrbuch der Botanik nach dem gegenwärtigen …
- … tingitanus from Playfair on 4 July 1870. No other seeds were recorded. The references are …
- … on botany ( W. Curtis 1805 ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1870] and nn. …
- … 3 and 4, and 8 July [1870]. George Douglas Campbell evidently agreed with the view …
- … s.v. Campbell, George Douglas ). Hooker refers to Julius Sachs and to Sachs 1870 . CD’ …
- … s annotated presentation copy of Sachs 1870 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … the memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [13 June 1870? ]. Iberis umbellata is globe candytuft. …
From Armand de Quatrefages 18 July 1870
Summary
CD lost first round of nominations at the Académie Française to Jean-Frédéric de Brandt. QdeB and Milne-Edwards continue the battle, but CD is fiercely attacked.
Asks for complete citation of CD’s geological work on South America because it has to be shown he did more than collect objects.
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7283 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Armand de Quatrefages 18 July 1870 …
- … Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau Paris 18 July 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from Jean Baptiste de Lamarck ( Revue des Cours Scientifiques , 23 July 1870, p. 529). …
- … to the Franco-Prussian war; France declared war on 19 July 1870 ( Wawro 2003 , p. 65). …
- … war: the German conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … Paris 18 July 1870 Dear Sir and colleague Be so good, pray, as to tell me whether you have …
- … Henri Milne-Edwards spoke on 18 July 1870 in favour of CD’s admission. Emile Blanchard …
- … 6, below. Johann Friedrich von Brandt was elected on 4 July 1870 (see letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6 or 7 July 1870] and n. 5). …
- … According to a report in the Revue des Cours Scientifiques , 23 July 1870, p. 529, …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 7 August [1870]
Summary
Plans to visit Down in a week.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7297 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky 7 August [1870] …
- … Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) Nice 7 Aug [1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 28 February [1870] . See letters from V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 20 February [1870] and …
- … 28 February [1870] . CD was away from home at the time of Kovalevsky’s visit (see Emma …
From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870]
Summary
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 5 Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387H |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870] …
- … DAR 274.1: 19 Francis Darwin Cambridge [before 5 Dec 1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 5 December [1870] ( Correspondence vol. 18). …
- … In his first letter of [before 5 December 1870] (this volume, Supplement), Francis had …
- … the full amount ( Correspondence vol. 18, letter to Francis Darwin, 5 December [1870] ). …
To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
From William Winwood Reade [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]
Summary
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 or 9] Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7069 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From William Winwood Reade [ c. 8 or 9 April 1870] …
- … DAR 176: 36 William Winwood Reade Accra 8 Apr 1870 9 …
- … Apr 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and the letter from Reade of 24 April 1870 , in which he says that he has been at the …
- … Taylor Ussher . ( Colonial Office list 1870. ) Michel Adanson studied the natural history …
- … Gerhard Friedrich Rohlfs. Reade arrived back in London in August 1870 ( letter from W. …
- … W. Reade, 3 September 1870 ). See Correspondence vol. 17, letter from W. W. Reade, 28 …
- … Agassiz and Asa Gray (see letter from Asa Gray, 27 February and 1 March 1870 and n. …
- … 4, and letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1870] ). See Correspondence vol. 17, letter from …
- … see letter from W. W. Reade, 24 April 1870 ). Akropong is now in Ghana. The mission …
To Armand de Quatrefages 23 August [1870]
Summary
Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.
Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.
Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.
"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7308 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Armand de Quatrefages 23 August [1870] …
- … Darwin Bassett Down letterhead 23 Aug [1870] Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) …
- … war: the German conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 . CD refers to Quatrefages’s support for …
- … des Sciences (see letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 , and letter to Armand …
- … de Quatrefages, 20 July [1870] ). CD also alludes to …
- … Prussian war, which had begun on 19 July 1870 ( Wawro 2003 , p. 65). Henri Milne-Edwards …
- … Académie des Sciences (see letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 and n. 5). CD …
- … Revue des Cours Scientifiques , of 13 August 1870. It contained a resumé of all the points …
- … les travaux de Ch. Darwin’, Revue des Cours Scientifiques 7 (1870): 588–92). According to …
- … in Revue des Cours Scientifiques , 23 July 1870, p. 529, an academician, believed to be …
To St G. J. Mivart 23 April [1870]
Summary
Thanks StGJM for prompt answer correcting inaccuracies in CD’s notes on StGJM’s opinions. Expects "universal disapprobation" when he publishes Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 23 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7171 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To St G. J. Mivart 23 April [1870] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.375) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Apr [1870] St George Jackson Mivart …
- … this letter and the letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 . See letter to St G. …
- … J. Mivart, 21 April [1870] , and letter from St G. …
- … J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 . CD refers to Mivart 1865 , 1866a, 1866b, and 1867. CD refers …
To Thomas Henry Farrer 13 [May 1870]
Summary
Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.
Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 [May 1870] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7188 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Thomas Henry Farrer 13 [May 1870] …
- … H. Vivian, 11 May [1870] . See Variation 2: 123–4. Frances Farrer . …
- … 299/13) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 [May 1870] Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st …
- … between this letter and the letter to H. H. Vivian, 11 May [1870] . CD enclosed part …
- … of the letter from Fritz Müller, 16 February 1870 . It is the only section of that letter …
- … Farrer with his letter of 16 February 1870 . Earlier, Farrer had concluded that humming- …
- … Austin Bruce . See letter from H. H. Vivian, 10 May 1870 and n. 1, and letter to H. …
From Paul Broca 4 August 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for compliments on the first part of his "discours",
but the later part was critical of natural selection. Nevertheless, CD should see him not as a systematic adversary, but in the camp of Quatrefages de Bréau and Milne-Edwards.
Author: | Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7294 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Paul Broca 4 August 1870 …
- … DAR 160: 313 Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca Paris 4 Aug 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … been found, but was evidently written on 29 July 1870. Broca refers to his lecture ‘Sur …
- … delivered at the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris in April 1870 and published in the …
- … 23 July and 30 July 1870 issues of the Revue des Cours Scientifiques ( Broca 1870a ). A …
- … of the French Académie des Sciences. See letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 . …
- … Paris, 4 août 1870 Monsieur, Je suis heureux du témoignage de bienveillance que vous avez …
- … Paris, 4 August 1870 Dear Sir, I am pleased by the mark of benevolence you were so good as …
From Edouard van Beneden 17 December 1870
Summary
CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.
Author: | Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7396 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Edouard van Beneden 17 December 1870 …
- … Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden Liège 17 Dec 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dohrn, Anton. 1870. Untersuchungen über Bau und Entwicklung der …
- … Liège 17 X bre . 1870 Monsieur et illustre Confrère, J’ai éprouvé un véritable joie en …
- … 315–16. See letter from L. A. J. Quetelet, 15 December 1870 . CD had been nominated for …
- … the zoological section of the Académie des Sciences on 27 June 1870 ( Comptes Rendus de l’ …
- … Académie des Sciences 70 (1870): 1418). The Institut de France includes five academies, …
- … Liège 17 December 1870 Dear Sir and illustrious Colleague, I felt a real joy on learning …
- … from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 and n. 6. There are offprints of Beneden 1868 , …
- … articles, later collected into a book ( Dohrn 1870 ), on the morphology and development of …
- … concerning the genealogy of Crustacea in Dohrn 1870 , pp. 159–61. Beneden did not publish …
From Edward Livingston Youmans 25 September 1870
Summary
Concerning an American edition of Descent by Appleton’s.
Author: | Edward Livingston Youmans |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 183: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7324 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Edward Livingston Youmans 25 September 1870 …
- … DAR 183: 2 Edward Livingston Youmans New York 25 Sept 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Co . also published an edition in 1870. In 1871, Youmans founded the International …
- … see the letter from Asa Gray, 14 February 1870 and n. 5. The American edition of Alfred …
- … and corrections. New York: D. Appleton. 1870. Variation : The variation of animals and …
- … New York Sep. 25 1870 Mr Charles Darwin Sir I have been long interested in pushing into …
- … 1869 ) was published by D. Appleton & Co . in 1870. The American edition of Thomas Henry …
- … was published by D. Appleton & Co . in 1870. The reference is to Alexander Macmillan . …
To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870]
Summary
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 [June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7214 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870] …
- … DAR 94: 174 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 [June 1870] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to praise his Student’s flora of the British Islands ( Hooker 1870 ); see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1870] and enclosure. For an earlier disagreement between Hooker and …
- … Press. 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1870. The student’s flora of the British Islands. …
From T. H. Farrer 5 June 1870
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7219 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From T. H. Farrer 5 June 1870 …
- … and 1st Baron Farrer London, Gloucester Terrace, 3 5 June 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … dried flower of Passiflora (see letter from Fritz Müller, 16 February 1870 , and letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 12 May 1870 ). On Farrer’s notions about the corona of Passiflora , see the …
- … letter to T. H. Farrer, 13 [May 1870] , n. 3. …
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The …
- … machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December [1870] ). Finishing Descent; …
- … some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ). Darwin was still working hard on …
- … I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). She had previously read proof-sheets …
- … shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Henrietta disagreed: ‘Certainly …
- … of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February 1870] ). Darwin was also encouraged …
- … sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] ). Cobbe accused Darwin of smiling in …
- … great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870?] ). Humans as animals: ears …
- … [1868] ; this volume, letter to Thomas Woolner, 10 March [1870] ). Darwin included Woolner’s …
- … findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). Indeed, Darwin noted the same …
- … bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). Researching expression: …
- … spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 ). Keen for more evidence of …
- … hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] ). Darwin made a similar request of …
- … not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] ). Darwin’s queries were part …
- … of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to a leading Dutch …
- … on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). Human evolution: debates and …
- … more fully in a collection of essays published in April 1870 (Wallace 1870a). Wallace wrote to …
- … naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). Despite their increasing …
- … in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). Darwin alluded here to the …
- … No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). Darwin very rarely used the …
- … never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). St George Jackson Mivart …
- … to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ). In his letters to Mivart, Darwin …
- … on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). He also tried to recruit Mivart’s …
- … lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 ). Mivart hinted that his …
- … his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In his critical essays (later revised …
- … Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français (Quatrefages 1870), that gave a detailed account, as …
- … many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870] ). Quatrefages had …
- … discord’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March 1870 ). In proposing Darwin for election, …
- … them’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 ). The assertion had been made by Emile …
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … Brooke, C.A.J. 30 Nov 1870 Sarawak, Borneo …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 15 March 1870 West Riding …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 18 March 1870 Down, Kent, …
- … Donders, F.C. 27 May 1870 Utrecht, Netherlands …
- … Forbes, David 13 June 1870 Portman Square, London W. …
- … Nicol, Patrick 13 May 1870 Sussex Lunatic Asylum, …
- … Reade, Winwood W. [c.8 or 9 Apr 1870] Accra, West …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 4 June 1870 Lagos, Africa …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [25 May 1870] Bedford, Cape of Good …
- … Weir, J.J. 27 June 1870 Blackheath, London, England …
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Letter 7124 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [8 February 1870] Darwin seeks Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 September 1870] Written shortly before …
- … Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, J., [29 September 1870] Darwin asks Murray to …
- … Letter 7177 - Cupples, G. to Darwin, [29 April 1870] George Cupples tells Darwin about a …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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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- … behaviour of her dog (letter from J. L. Gray, 14 February 1870 ), she also passed on information …
Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … on my mind’ ( letter to W. T. Preyer, 17 February [1870 ])) that without earthworms aerating the …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … more litters & no happy results”, he wrote on 26 April 1870 . In the following year, Galton …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … of Descent (letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Audio of more …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … grateful I shall be.”(Letter to Darwin, H. E., [8 Feb 1870] ) Although Miranda acknowledges that …
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…
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … you owe any more … Darwin to his son Francis, 1870. …
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…
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … Photograph: Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870 – 1890 (London and New York: …
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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- … & I feel deeply for you. ( Letter to F. C. Donders, 19 May 1870 ) …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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…
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters : Letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] Letter from Mary Treat, …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…