To H. K. Rusden [before 27 March 1875]
Summary
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Keylock Rusden |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1875] |
| Classmark: | Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 March 1875, p. 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … October 26th, 1874) and essay ( Rusden 1872 : The treatment of criminals in relation to …
- … Bibliography Bagehot, Walter. 1872. Physics and politics: or thoughts on the application …
- … Review 22: 412–26. Rusden, Henry Keylock. 1872. The treatment of criminals in relation to …
- … it in human societies in the final chapter of his Physics and politics ( Bagehot 1872 ). …
- … and the essay was his ‘The treatment of criminals in relation to science’ ( Rusden 1872 ). …
- … Rusden argued in Rusden 1872 that convicted criminals should never be released, and that …
To Gustaf Retzius 12 February 1875
Summary
His thanks for MGR’s valuable Anatomische Untersuchungen (1872).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9853A |
From A. M. Lane Fox 3 August 1875
Summary
Hexadactyly. Regrowth of removed supernumerary digits.
| Author: | Alice Margaret Stanley; Alice Margaret Lane Fox; Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10108 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 283, and Charterhouse register, 1872–1900 , pp. 6 and 228). CD mentioned polydactylism in …
- … Bibliography Charterhouse register, 1769–1872 : Charterhouse …
- … register, 1769–1872: with appendix of non-Foundationers, 1614–1769 . Compiled by R. L. …
- … Phillimore. 1974. Charterhouse register, 1872–1900 . Compiled by John L. Stokes and Edmund …
- … Henry James Evans was their house master ( Charterhouse register, 1769–1872 , p. …
From R. F. Cooke 21 April 1875
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.
Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet
and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 448 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9944 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. …
- … Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich], trans. 1872. O vyrazhenii oshchushchenii u cheloveka i …
- … of Expression ( [Kovalevsky] trans. 1872 ; see also letter from R. F. Cooke, 19 March …
- … 20, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 8 August [1872] . CD had arranged for John Murray to …
From E. B. Tylor 4 May 1875
Summary
EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.
AT’s "pluvial period" theory.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9971 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a consequence of higher than normal rainfall. By 1872, other geologists had begun to argue …
- … vol. 20, letter from Alfred Tylor, 8 June 1872 and n. 3), and Tylor published a full …
- … with an appendix outlining his view of the disputes surrounding it ( Tylor 1872 ). …
- … passing of the Education (Scotland) Act in 1872 ( ODNB ). This letter has not been found. …
- … London 24 (1868): 1–2, 103–25. Tylor, Alfred. 1872. On the formation of deltas: and on the …
From R. F. Cooke 19 March 1875
Summary
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 445 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9893 |
From D. Appleton & Co 1 February 1875
Summary
Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9837 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to have bred rabbits himself except in 1872, when he was looking after the rabbits that …
- … experiments (see Correspondence vol. 20, letters from Francis Galton , 26 May 1872 and …
- … 28 May 1872 , and letter to …
- … Francis Galton, 27 May [1872] ). Old James has not been identified. Legrain’s experiments …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson [11 April 1875]
Summary
"We have not a day to lose if our [Vivisection] Bill or our petition is to do any good". Reports on the activities of the opposition and the attitude of politicians on the subject. Believes a meeting with a minister should be arranged and thinks Lord Derby would be a good man. "All will depend on some half-dozen or 9 or 12 men agreeing on the bill."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [11 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9923 |
From Albert Günther 6 February 1875
Summary
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 256 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9842 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1875]
Summary
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 397–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10209 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … London: Longman, Green, & Co. Watts, Henry. 1872–4. A dictionary of chemistry and the …
- … of the first edition ( Watts 1863–8 ), and a supplement to the first edition dated 1872. …
- … See Watts 1872–4 , 3: 233, for the reference to the awn of a seed of Stipa being used as a …
- … volumes of the second edition ( Watts 1872–4 ), volumes four and five of an 1871 reprint …
To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To R. F. Cooke 17 December [1875]
Summary
Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10304 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 22 October 1875
Summary
Has heard that 2d ed. of Variation is out. If CD will send it to him, he will complete the Italian translation in a short time.
His translation of Expression is nearly finished [published in 1878],
and the 2d ed. of Origin is almost entirely published.
| Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10220 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
From J. V. Carus 28 June 1875
Summary
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10033 |
To August Weismann 1 and 4 May 1875
Summary
Comments on AW’s work [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 1 (1875)].
On seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera in relation to sexual selection.
Discusses evolutionary reversion.
Comments on birds’ avoiding brightly coloured caterpillars. Offers references on subject.
Alpheus Hyatt says Franz Hilgendorf mistaken [about Planorbis multiformis].
Quotes from letter from J. J. Weir on birds’ rejection of brightly-coloured caterpillars.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
| Date: | 1 and 4 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 344 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9965 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Petrunkevitch, Alexander. 1963. August …
- … of London (1870): 337–9. Weismann, August. 1872. Ueber den Einfluss der Isolirung auf die …
- … Joel Asaph Allen ( Allen 1871 and Allen 1872 ) when making this point in Descent 2d ed. , …
- … also Hilgendorf 1866 and Weismann 1872 ). Alpheus Hyatt may have discussed Hilgendorf’s …
From Alpheus Hyatt 8 January [1875]
Summary
Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].
Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.
| Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 29 July 1875
Summary
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
| Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10102 |
From R. F. Cooke 3 July 1875
Summary
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 456 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10040 |
| letter | (85) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (11) |
| John Murray | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (85) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (15) |
| John Murray | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (5) |
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 29 hits
- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
- … as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin …
- … s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in …
- … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
- … of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
- … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
- … beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have …
- … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
- … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
- … towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ). Despite Darwin’s request that he …
- … world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January 1872 ). Darwin, determined to have the last …
- … acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin …
- … I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Darwin's theories under …
- … the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ). 'Here is a bee' …
- … it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he …
- … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
- … of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an …
- … standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing Expression …
- … doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their …
- … to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ). Riviere had been suggested to …
- … clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the …
- … from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 May 1872] , and letter from Samuel Butler, 30 …
- … feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
- … Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only …
- … myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of …
- … partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 June, a messenger arrived in …
- … to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 ). Darwin was quietly using his …
- … an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). Darwin and Wallace: …
- … Wallace’s defence ( letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] ). Although the two men were …
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,…
New features for Charles Darwin's 208th birthday
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The website has been updated with an interactive timeline (try it!) and enhanced secondary school resources for ages 11-14. What's more, the full texts of the letters for 1872 are now online for the first time, and a selection of Darwin's…
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…
Referencing women’s work
Summary
Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Matches: 7 hits
- … Letter 8321 - Darwin to Litchfield, H. E., [13 May 1872] Darwin consults his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
- … Letter 8427 - Darwin to Litchfield H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … 8193 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [1 February 1872] Amy Ruck sends a second …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
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…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
- … Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to Darwin, [17 December 1872] Dora Roberts reports an …
- … 8144 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [5 January 1872] Darwin asks his niece, Lucy, …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 8169 - Wedgwood, L. to Darwin, [20 January, 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, gives the …
- … 8427 - Darwin to Litc hfield, H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8153 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William …
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). Click on the play …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … the fittest’ as ‘survival of the better’ (see Spencer 1872, and the letter to Herbert Spencer, 10 …
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…
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Matches: 1 hits
- … for the prosperity I have long enjoyed” ( 29 March 1872 ). …
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
Summary
< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
Matches: 3 hits
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Climbing Plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
Summary
< 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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born …
- … him in May, August and October 1871, and in March and August 1872, but some of these payments, and …
- … April 1871, and reproduced in the London Journal in June 1872. Darwin also sent it to various …
- … one of Huxley, in The London Journal , 55:1426 (8 June 1872), p. 357, illustrating an article …
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
