To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [1871 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 1 February 1871
Summary
Has left Paris because of the war.
J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7472 |
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- … 5th ed. and Origin 6th ed. , and appeared in 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to …
To Miss Fenwick 8 February [1871–82]
Summary
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miss Fenwick |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1871-82] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13806 |
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- … Darwin unstated 8 Feb 1871 8 Feb 1872 8 Feb 1873 8 Feb 1874 8 Feb 1875 8 Feb 1876 8 Feb …
From W. W. Reade 21 February 1871
Summary
Various comments on Descent;
on suicide on Gold Coast;
on mulattoes’ not being prolific.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 172–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7501 |
From J. J. Moulinié 3 March 1871
Summary
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7538 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Moulinié was translating the fifth edition of Origin into French (Moulinié trans. 1873). …
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Summary
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
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- … February 1871 . Reade returned to Africa in 1873. Thomas Henry Huxley . Reade’s book, The …
From Alphonse de Candolle 8 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7557 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 March 1871
Summary
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 65–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7627 |
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- … science and government in England, 1870–1873. In Science and values: patterns of tradition …
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1871
Summary
Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.
Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689 |
From St G. J. Mivart 23 April 1871
Summary
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7710 |
From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
From László Dapsy 12 June 1871
Summary
As a professor of natural history, LD has spread CD’s doctrines in Hungary. Now wishes permission to translate Descent.
| Author: | Laszlo Dapsy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7817 |
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- … Origin into Hungarian ( letter from László Dapsy, 1 June 1873 ( Calendar no. 8931)). …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 4 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8963 |
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- … Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [ Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)]. …
From J. J. Moulinié 7 July 1871
Summary
JJM’s Origin translation is being held up so that it can conform to the 6th English edition.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7853 |
To George Grove 17 July [1871]
Summary
The cat exhibition might provide information on unusual breeds of cats and their inheritance.
Expresses interest in deafness of white, blue-eyed cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Grove |
| Date: | 17 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7870 |
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- … Tait’ s remarks in Nature , 27 February 1873, p. 323, for this information, adding that …
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
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- … CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [ Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)]. …
- … the Collembola and Thysanura ( Lubbock 1873 ). Campodea (the bristle-tail) is a genus of …
- … and the larval stages of some insects ( Lubbock 1873 , pp. 40–54 and plate 50). This, he …
- … difficulties in the theory of natural selection’ ( Lubbock 1873 , p. 52; see n. …
- … 6, below). In Lubbock 1873 , p. 44, Lubbock restated the distinction between ‘ …
- … would necessarily be injurious’ ( Lubbock 1873 , p. 52). He argued that Collembola ( …
- … and suctorial in the adult ( Lubbock 1873 , pp. 50–2). See Living Cirripedia (1854) , …
- … the mouth parts than by those in any other part of the body ( Lubbock 1873 , pp. 51–2). …
- … pheasant in the published version of Lubbock 1873 ; page 40 is the first page of a chapter …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 19 August [1871]
Summary
A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.
The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.
Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.
His brother-in-law has been arrested.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7911 |
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- … sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 20 (1873), no. 5: 1–73. Kupffer, Carl. 1870. Die …
To Alexander Agassiz 28 August [1871]
Summary
Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918G |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 August 1871]
Summary
In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [31 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 9 September 1871, p. 1166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7927 |
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- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 13 (1873): 58–64. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
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- … p. 2. After the station opened in 1873 ( Heuss 1991 p. 153), John Murray published an …
| letter | (44) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Airy, Hubert | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Dapsy, Laszlo | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gillman, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (2) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (4) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
| Shuttleworth, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Reade, W. W. | (4) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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 …
