From C. A. Kennard 26 December 1881
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The author of a paper on the inferiority of women has cited CD’s Origin as her authority. CK wishes to know if she has satisfactorily represented CD’s views.
Author: | Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13579 |
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- … had graduated from St Lawrence University in 1872, had been appointed to the staff of the …
To W. W. Baxter 9 February 1881
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Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 9 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13047 |
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- … petroleum jelly for medicinal purposes in 1872. In 1858, he had observed that the black …
From C. G. Semper 16 July 1881
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Thanks CD for his kind judgment on his book [The natural conditions of existence (1881)].
E. Ray Lankester has written an unfriendly review of it [Nature 23 (1880–1): 405–9].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13246 |
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- … vol. 26). Semper visited Down on 29 August 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
From R. M. Lloyd 14 June 1881
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Although CD says in Expression that foxes are not known to lick hands of their masters, RML can report a case of such an occurrence.
Author: | Richard Mosley Lloyd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13204 |
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- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
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Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
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- … during the Carboniferous period; between 1872 and 1876 he had circumnavigated the world as …
To Francisco de Arruda Furtado 3 and 6 July 1881
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Thanks Fd’AF for his interesting letter. CD suggests observations it would be worth making [in the Azores] although he is too old to make any direct use of them. Fauna and flora of different islands should be compared and the plants and animals from all high mountain summits collected. Suggests Fd’AF investigate the presence of glacial deposits and fossils on the islands. Survival of eggs in salt-water should be tested, as the wide distribution of lizards, land molluscs, and earthworms is a perplexing problem.
Will be very glad to read the essays Fd’AF sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
Date: | 3 and 6 July 1881 |
Classmark: | Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13231 |
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- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1876a. The geographical …
To B. W. Savile [before 8 October 1881]
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There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bourchier Wrey Savile |
Date: | [before 8 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13366 |
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- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 29 July 1881
Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 114a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13258 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Volcanic islands : Geological observations …
From Grant Allen 10 December [1881]
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Thanks for copy of Origin with its flattering inscription.
Hopes some day to have leisure to do original research.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13545 |
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- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
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On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
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- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From Ernst Haeckel 21 June 1881
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Plans visit to Ceylon.
Describes rejection of his application for funds by Berlin Academy. Asks about possibility of obtaining support in England. Is writing to Lubbock and Huxley about it.
Hopes that new microscope from Zeiss is satisfactory. Ernst Abbe selected lenses.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13213 |
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- … the dredging expedition of HMS Challenger (1872–6) were published between 1880 and 1895. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
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Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166F |
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- … influences on root movement ( Sachs 1872 and 1873–4 ). No record of the meeting of the …
From R. F. Cooke 5 November 1881
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Memorandum: "3500 Worms!!!" sold at annual sale; 117 Movement in plants; 180 "Naturalist" [Journal of researches]; 600 Origin; 320 Descent.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 523 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13460 |
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- … edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. …
To G. J. Romanes 8 December 1881
Summary
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 8 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13536 |
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- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
To G. J. Romanes 24 June [1881]
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Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 June [1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10813 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Romanes, George John. 1876. The physiology …
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Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Allen, Grant | (1) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
Beveridge, Peter | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'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…
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- … ‘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
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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,…
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
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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…
Referencing women’s work
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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.…
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- … 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
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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 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
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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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- … Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). Click on the play …
Language: key letters
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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
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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…
Darwin as mentor
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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....
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... 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'
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< 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
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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…
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- … for the prosperity I have long enjoyed” ( 29 March 1872 ). …
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
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< 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…
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Earthworms
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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
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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
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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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- … 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
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< 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…