From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873]
Summary
Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1–15 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714F |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [1–15 March 1873] …
- … DAR 274.1: 10 Francis Darwin [1–15 Mar 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Robert Pryor had visited Down with Moore on 1 March 1873. …
- … the Darwins left Down for London on 15 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George …
- … 294). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary, ‘began Arsenic’ on 13 March 1873, and ‘Left off …
- … Arsenic’ on 5 April 1873 (DAR 242). Moore, a friend of Francis’s …
- … at Cambridge University , qualified as a medical doctor on 30 January 1873 ( Medical Times …
- … and Gazette 1 (1873): 156; ODNB ). Arthur Parslow was the son of CD’ …
- … Joseph Parslow . Moore visited Down on 1 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Darwin had influenza from 26 February 1873 until about 6 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … letter from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [6 March 1873] , DAR 258: 573). Marlborough …
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after March 1873] …
- … 58.1: 133 Francis Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [after Mar 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … The date is established by the publication of Klein et al. 1873 in …
- … late March 1873 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 1 April 1873, p. 222; see n. …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [after March 1873] and n. 2. Francis Darwin refers to Dalton …
- … Digestion and secretion’ in Klein et al. 1873, p. 422. Francis refers to Alfred Baring …
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after March 1873] …
- … DAR 58.1: 132 Francis Darwin unstated [after Mar 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [after March 1873] . Francis refers to Atropa belladonna ( …
- … letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 25 July 1873 and n. 4. Casein is a milk protein, but …
From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873 …
- … 318 James Crichton-Browne West Riding Asylum, Wakefield 2 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … under the photograph. See letter to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] and n. 2. …
- … Press. 1985–. Crichton-Browne, James. 1873. Nitrite of amyl in epilepsy. West Riding …
- … Riding Asylum, | Wakefield. 2 nd. March 1873. My dear Sir, If you could see my face at the …
- … letter to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] and n 4, and Correspondence vol. 20, …
- … the Metropolitan Asylum, Leavesden, Hertfordshire ( Medical directory 1873), appeared in …
- … the April 1873 issue ( Journal of Mental Science n.s. …
- … 49 (1873): 93–122). In his paper on the use of nitrite of amyl in the treatment of …
- … Expression , pp. 325–6; Crichton-Browne 1873 , p. 153). The photographs are probably …
- … from D r J. Crichton Browne | March 4 th 1873 | Perhaps of no direct use— | The insane …
From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873
Summary
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796 |
From Henry Reeks 3 March 1873
Summary
Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.
Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Henry Reeks 3 March 1873 …
- … DAR 88: 105 Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks unstated 3 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Remarks by Henry Reeks (see his letter) March 3 d 1873 on my Book on Expression. —’ ink …
- … 1689–95, 1741–59, 1849–58. Reeks, Henry. 1873. A list of the flowering plants & ferns of …
- … End, | East Woodhay, | Newbury— March 3 rd . 1873 My dear M r . Darwin, I have just closed …
- … see letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] ). In Expression , p. 46, CD described how some …
- … birds and plants ( Reeks 1869 and Reeks 1873 ). The Mi’kmaq are native inhabitants of the …
- … in 1867 ( Reeks 1869 , p. 1854; Reeks 1873 , p. 1). See Expression , p. 32. See …
- … identified in his letter to Reeks of 5 March [1873] as himself, trembling so much from joy …
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From C. -F. Reinwald 4 March 1873 …
- … DAR 176: 99 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 4 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Moulinié’s translation of Origin (Moulinié trans. 1873) has been found. Moulinié began …
- … translation of Origin (Moulinié trans. 1873) using the fifth English edition, switched to …
- … revisions by Edmond Barbier , appeared in two volumes in 1873 and 1874 (Moulinié trans. …
- … 1873–4), and Barbier later produced a new translation from the second English edition ( …
- … civilisation ( Lubbock 1870 and Lubbock 1873 ). The first and second French translations …
- … Moulinié trans. 1872 and Moulinié trans. 1873–4) were both published in two octavo …
From W. H. Hall 5 March 1873
Author: | William Honnywill Hall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8800 |
From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873
Summary
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Author: | Collier, W. F. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8801 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873 …
- … DAR 161: 211 Collier, W. F. Horrabridge 7 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the system of handicapping of racehorses; in 1873, he gave evidence to the House of Lords …
- … Woodtown Horrabridge 7 March 1873 Dear Sir I am very glad indeed to find that my pamphlet …
- … 1872 ) with his letter of 22 February 1873 . CD’s letter to Collier has not been found. An …
- … pp. 310–11. In his letter of 22 February 1873 , Collier had suggested that the speed of …
From Henry Reeks 8 March 1873
Summary
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8802 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Henry Reeks 8 March 1873 …
- … DAR 176: 82 Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks Newbury 8 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … was published after CD’s death. See letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] and n. 5. …
- … See letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 and n. …
- … 1, and letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . Jan Swammerdam . …
- … See letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 and n. …
- … 2, and letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . William L. P. …
- … Reeks; see letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 . See …
- … letter to Henry Reeks, 5 March [1873] . Reeks’s observation was added to Expression 2d …
- … End, | East Woodhay, | Newbury— March 8 th . 1873 My dear M r Darwin, I found your kind …
From F. B. Johnston 9 March 1873
Summary
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Author: | F. B Johnston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 183–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8803 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Athénaïs Michelet 9 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Author: | Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8804 |
From Otto Caspari 12 March 1873
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Author: | Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8808 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Otto Caspari 12 March 1873 …
- … 117 Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari Heidelberg 12 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see Backenköler 2008, pp. 111–15. No English translation of Caspari 1873 was made. …
- … Urgeschichte der Menschheit , 2 vols. (1873)]. In Germany CD’s views have achieved great …
- … Bibliography Caspari, Otto. 1873. Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit: mit Rücksicht auf die …
- … prehistory and the evolution of mind ( Caspari 1873 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down; it is …
From G. M. Humphry [before 14] March 1873
Summary
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | George Murray Humphry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14] Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809F |
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- … From G. M. Humphry [before 14] March 1873 …
- … University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1 George …
- … Murray Humphry Cambridge [before 14] Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and the letter to G. M. Humphry, 14 March 1873 (this volume, Supplement). CD evidently …
- … at CUL. Adam Sedgwick had died in January 1873. William Cavendish was the seventh duke of …
- … Anatomical Museum , | Cambridge. March 1873 Sir , A meeting of the friends of the late …
From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8811 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873 …
- … 139 Alfred William Bennett London, Park Village East, 6 16 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … previous year ( Hildebrand 1872 ), appeared in Gardeners’ Chronicle , 15 March 1873, p. …
- … 362, and 22 March 1873, pp. 400–1. …
- … 6 Park Village East | N.W. March 16 th . 1873 My dear Sir Thank you for your expression of …
- … See letter to A. W. Bennett, 11 March [1873] . See letter to A. …
- … W. Bennett, 11 March [1873] and n. 3. Bennett had intended to reuse woodcuts originally …
From Hubert Airy 17 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8812 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Hubert Airy 17 March 1873 …
- … DAR 159: 26 Hubert Airy London, Dacre Park, 27 17 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of abstract of HA’s paper [ Nature 7 (1873): 343–4]. Explains again his theory of " …
- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
- … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
- … an exposition of this theory, see Airy 1873 , and also Correspondence vol. 20, letters …
- … as the seed-heads of sunflowers ( Airy 1873 ), he never published his observations on the …
- … Dacre Park. Lee. | London S.E. 17 th March 1873. My dear Sir I am very glad indeed to have …
- … in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ( Airy 1873 ), was reprinted in …
- … Nature , 6 March 1873, pp. 343–4. …
- … See also letter from Hubert Airy, 21 January 1873 and nn. 1 and 2. Airy had attached oak …
- … of ‘contraction ( with twist)’ ( Airy 1873 , p. 177). Airy and CD had corresponded …
From William Pengelly 17 March 1873
Summary
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
Author: | William Pengelly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Pengelly ed. 1897, pp. 229–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8813 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From William Pengelly 17 March 1873 …
- … Pengelly ed. 1897 , pp. 229–30 William Pengelly Torquay 17 Mar 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Nature , [before 13 March 1873]. Robert Fry . William Kirkpatrick . Captain …
- … Lamorna, Torquay, March 17, 1873. Your letter on ‘Perception in the Lower Animals’ in …
From J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes 18 March 1873
Summary
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8815 |
From Arthur Nicols [before 20 March 1873]
Summary
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Arthur Nicols [before 20 March 1873] …
- … 1885, pp. 51–2 Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols [before 20 Mar 1873] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter to Arthur Nicols, [20 March 1873] . Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … in a letter to Nature , 20 February 1873, p. 303, that the homing ability displayed by …
- … sense of smell; Nicols had criticised the idea in his letter to CD of 21 February 1873 . …
From G. H. Eggers 21 March 1873
Summary
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Author: | G. H Eggers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8819 |
letter | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Caspari, Otto | (1) |
Collier, W. F. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Cross, Marian | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Eggers, G. H. | (1) |
Evans, Marian | (1) |
Hall, W. H. | (1) |
Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
Huber, Johannes | (1) |
Humphry, G. M. | (1) |
Johnston, F. B. | (1) |
Lewes, Marian | (1) |
Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Michelet, Athénaïs | (1) |
Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
Pengelly, William | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Thornbery, G. B. | (1) |
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved …
- … A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response to The expression of the …
- … to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of …
- … leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the …
- … copy of the Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873), a detailed guide to animal …
- … Darwin’s other main focus of botanical investigation in 1873 was cross- and self-fertilisation, work …
- … & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August 1873 ). Darwin worried, however, that …
- … when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the family …
- … their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin …
- … will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ). Erasmus, who had studied medicine …
- … work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
- … 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to you on the …
- … anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April ([Baynes] 1873). Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
- … before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). Readers' lives …
- … letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 February 1873 ). The surgeon Francis Stephen …
- … ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 February [1873] ). Some readers proposed alternative …
- … that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish physician William Main …
- … with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The zoologist Henry Reeks suspected …
- … and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). Robert Swinhoe wrote from Ning …
- … a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 ). One of the leading …
- … the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). Crichton-Browne was trying …
- … the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 ). Instinct In …
- … to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February 1873 ). Darwin soon became …
- … shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 February 1873] ). Huggins’s letter prompted replies from …
- … to Nature ( letter to Nature , [before 13 March 1873] ) about a horse who had pulled a mail …
- … with his finger ( letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873] ). Moggridge suggested the …
- … fellow species” ( letter to Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). Character and genius …
- … as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ). Continuing the line of research he …
- … money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among character traits, he listed …
- … honest & industrious” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Supporting science, …
- … father ( enclosure to letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ). In April, Darwin also …
All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin
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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…
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- … of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. We have also …
- … Here are some highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1873: I do not think any …
- … in Drosera. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) In 1873, Darwin continued …
- … work to do ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) As well as working on …
- … of them sold! ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ) Expression of the …
- … brother. ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ) Darwin wrote this to Thomas …
- … and marvellous ( Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ) Darwin was invited to …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was very interested in hay fever. On 14 June [1873] he wrote to Blackley to thank him for …
- … Aestivus (hay-fever or hay-asthma). And on 5 July 1873 Darwin wrote again, saying: ‘The …
- … in every direction. (Letter to C. H. Blackley, 5 July [1873] ) Blackley wrote back …
- … regions of the atmosphere. Blackley wrote on 7 July 1873 that his high altitude experiments had …
- … remained elusive. He wrote to Darwin on 11 July 1873 : The problem of cure has still …
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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- … 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of …
- … system to follow ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also working on experiments with …
- … with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the …
- … Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to his German …
- … when it will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from …
- … my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, in turn, had found Müller’s …
- … them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although Darwin had completed a …
- … must turn to the vegetable kingdom’ In June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that …
- … to avoid crossing ( From Federico Delpino, 18 June 1873 ). Darwin was intrigued. ‘I am very glad …
- … Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwin’s suspicion that sweet peas …
- … his crossing experiments through the early summer, by August 1873, Darwin decided to shift focus …
- … effects of Interbreeding’ ( To J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin wrote a …
- … conditions of life’ ( To Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Just as the free-swimming barnacle …
- … of their parents’ ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to …
Your letter eternalized before us: From N. D. Doedes, 27 March 1873
Summary
Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch student fans of Darwin and the photographs they exchanged with each other.
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- … Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch …
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
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- … Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more …
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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- … including photography, anthropometry, and fingerprinting. In 1873, he proposed founding a society to …
- … difficult to judge on these latter heads” ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his contemporaries, …
- … particular inherited talents, except for business ( 28 May 1873 ). Galton grew increasingly …
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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- … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
- … had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, when he realised the difficulty a …
- … vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble …
- … of human evolution and inheritance himself. In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary …
- … the use of the Down schoolroom as a winter reading room in 1873 (see Correspondence , vol. 21, …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] ). In 1873, Hooker had begun a series of …
- … vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted several weeks in …
- … Moulinié, who had died after a period of ill health in 1873. Edmond Barbier corrected defects in …
- … was a copy of Joseph Simms’s book on physiognomy (Simms 1873), which contained Darwin’s portrait to …
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 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, [1873] Ellen Lubbock, wife of naturalist …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat reports in detail on her …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat provides a detailed …
- … 9156 - Wallace, A. R . to Darwin, [19 November 1873] Wallace reassures Darwin that …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
- … Letter 8719 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 January 1873] Darwin gives Mary Treat close …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
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),…
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- … 8962: Darwin, C. R. to Max Müller, Friedrich, 3 July 1873 In the 1870s, Darwin corresponded …
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…
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- … work” (letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
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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- … in different species of Gasteria , 7 December 1873 F. F. Hallett's rough sketch …
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…
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
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- … Science and the Churches , is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate …
- … not to have progressed beyond its first issue of December 1873. A detached and damaged copy of The …
- … (pseudonym) date of creation 30 November 1873 computer-readable date 1873-11 …
- … references and bibliography The Gauntlet 1 (Dec. 1873). Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley Papers: …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
- … on at least two occasions during the construction (1872–1873). Most of the money for the building …
- … saloon where Darwin’s bust was to be placed in 1873, together with a bust of Karl Ernst von Baer, …
- … image Adolf von Hildebrand date of creation 1873 computer-readable date …
- … ‘The Zoological Station at Naples’, Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to …
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Weale, J.P.M. [Jan 1873] Bedford, Cape of Good Hope, …
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…
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- … Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 August 1873] Darwin thanks Treat for sending over …