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From William Preyer   25 November 1880

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Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].

Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.

Author:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12857

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  • … IV). See Correspondence vol. 21, letters to Nature , [before 13 March 1873] and [before …
  • … 3 April 1873] . The …
  • … letters were printed in Nature , 3 April 1873, pp. …
  • … 417–18, and 13 March 1873, p. 360 (reprinted in …
  • … the Zoologist 2d ser. 8 (1873): 3488–9). A copy of Preyer’s Naturwissenschaftliche …
  • … about your papers in “Nature” VIII.  p.  417. 1873 (Origin of certain instincts) and in “ …
  • … Zoologist” VIII.  3488. 1873 (Perception in the lower animals). I would return the copies …

From Hermann Vöchting   8 December 1880

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Thanks for Movement in plants, which confirms HV’s unpublished conclusions concerning gravity and the horizontal bending of radicles.

[CD note forwards letter to Francis Darwin.]

Author:  Hermann Vöchting
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 180: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12896

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  • … John Murray. 1880. Vöchting, Hermann. 1873. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Anatomie der …
  • … Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik 9 (1873–4): 327–484. Vöchting, Hermann. 1875. Der …
  • … and anatomy of the Rhipsalideae; Vöchting 1873 ), as well as his work ‘Der Bau und die …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   18 January [1880]

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Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  18 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12431

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  • … Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   27 January [1880]

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Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  27 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12440

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  • … Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   15 April 1880

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Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  15 Apr 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12576

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  • … Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   15 January 1880

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Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  15 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12424

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  • … Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200) Charles Robert Darwin Down …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   23 November [1880]

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WTT-D’s suggestion about absorbent function of pegs in Abronia suggests origin of pegs in Welwitschia, which deeply interests CD. Previously could not see how pegs became large enough to be of mechanical use. Now thinks tissue between hypocotyl and radicle absorbs fluid, which would favour rise of peg to expose larger surface.

Rejects German contempt for investigating use of organs.

Asks WTT-D to observe how worms draw Robinia leaves into burrows.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  23 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 209–11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12843

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  • … Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 209–11) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 …

From John Fiske   20 April 1880

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Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.

Author:  John Fiske
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1880
Classmark:  DAR 164: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12585

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  • … Fiske had spent a year in Britain in 1873 and visited CD at that time (see Correspondence …
  • … vol. 21, letter to John Fiske, 3 November [1873] ; see also J. S. Clark 1917 , 1: 478–9, …

From Joseph Prestwich   2 January 1880

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Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.

Author:  Joseph Prestwich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12394

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  • … to John Tyndall, 5 June [1876] ; see also Lyell 1873 , p. 307, and Tyndall 1876 , p. 238). …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1873. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man, with …

To T. H. Huxley   5 November 1880

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Has read THH’s review of Sir Wyville Thomson’s [Introduction to the] Voyage of the "Challenger".

Sends a draft of a letter for Nature [Collected papers 2: 223–4]. He particularly asks THH to decide whether he should include a certain paragraph [see ML 1: 389].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  5 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 344)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12796

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  • … Roberts, Michael. 2009. Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873): geologist and evangelical. In Geology …
  • … voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76 . Volume 1 (Zoology). Prepared by C. …

From Ernst Krause   4 December 1880

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Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.

Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.

Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 169: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12889

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  • … Bibliography Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1873. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im …
  • … sprout’, or ‘germ’ (see Carus trans. 1873 , p. 492 and passim). CD had expressed the …

To J.-H. Fabre   31 January 1880

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Comments on JHF’s book [Souvenirs entomologiques (1879)].

Discusses story told by Erasmus Darwin about a wasp cutting off wings of fly.

Sorry JHF is opposed to descent theory.

Suggests experiment concerning insects’ sense of direction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:  31 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 144: 14; Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12443

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 21, letters to Nature , [before 13 March 1873] and [before …
  • … 3 April 1873] . A manuscript by CD on instinct, containing an extended discussion of …

From Adolf Ernst   7 August 1880

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Cobaea fertilisation.

Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.

Author:  Adolf Ernst
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Aug 1880
Classmark:  DAR 163: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12682

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  • … Gesellschaft; Braumüller. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten …
  • … 2 and 3. Hermann Müller and H. Müller 1873 . The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. CD and Ernst …

From Charles Layton   24 September 1880

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Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Aug 1880 and a cheque for the balance due to CD.

Author:  Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 159: 106, 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12725

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  • … By Charles Darwin. From the 6th London edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1873. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton. 1873. Forms of flowers US ed. : The different …

To James Torbitt   12 March [1880]

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Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  12 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12535

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  • … had been carrying out his experiments since 1873 and corresponding with CD about them from …

To A. R. Wallace   5 January 1880

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Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".

Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.

Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12401

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  • … other property by the living ( Wallace 1873 ). Thomas Henry Farrer made a similar argument …

From Anton Dohrn   11 February 1880

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Sends birthday greetings

and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12471

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 November 1873 , and letter to G. …
  • … H. Darwin, 15 November [1873] . See Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Anton Dohrn, 7 March …

To Nature   5 November [1880]

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Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  5 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  Nature, 11 November 1880, p. 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12800

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  • … voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76 . Volume 1 (Zoology). Prepared by C. …

To A. B. Buckley   31 October [1880]

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Has talked to Lubbock and Huxley about pension for Wallace. Asks for help in getting information about Wallace’s circumstances.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:  31 Oct [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12785

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  • … president of the Royal Society of London from 1873 to 1878; William Spottiswoode was the …

To James Torbitt   20 March 1880

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Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  20 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12539

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  • … CD’s niece Katherine Euphemia Farrer in 1873. In his letter of 17 March [1880] , CD had …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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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

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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

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  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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  • … However, while footnoting a second letter from Chance in 1873, a discovery was made.  This letter …
  • … (Letter from Frank Chance, 31 July–7 August 1873 ) The pony hair turned up in the …
  • … son William’s house near Southampton on 10 August [1873] . William had followed up on a similar …

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…

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  • … Constantijn Costerus and his friend had written to Darwin in 1873, praising his works and describing …
  • … Letter to J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, [22?] March 1873 ) The Dutch friends so …

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 
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  • … ‘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 …

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  • … width="191"] Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1873)[/caption]   …
  • … and biographical sketches of men of the day , (1873).   …

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 …
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