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To George King   18 February 1873

Summary

Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George King
Date:  18 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 146: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8772

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To George King   18 February 1873
  • … DAR 146: 14 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Feb 1873 George King …
  • … See letter to Gerard Krefft, 17 February 1873 . King had been suffering from consumption ( …
  • … Down | Beckenham, Kent. February 18 th . 1873. My dear Sir, I really do not know how to …

To W. M. Canby   19 February 1873

Summary

CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Marriott Canby
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  The Society of Natural History of Delaware
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8773

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To W.  M.  Canby   19 February 1873
  • … Natural History of Delaware Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb 1873 William Marriott Canby …
  • … See letter from W.  M.  Canby, 1 February 1873  and nn.  2 and 3. CD refers to Canby 1868. …
  • … See letter from W.  M.  Canby, 1 February 1873  and n.  4. CD had confused Canby’s home, …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 19— 1873 Dear Sir I am very much obliged for your kind …

From T. R. Clephan   19 February 1873

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Summary

Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].

Author:  Thomas Richmond Clephan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 87: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8775

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From T.  R.  Clephan   19 February 1873
  • … DAR 87: 53 Thomas Richmond Clephan Tübingen 19 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Tübingen. | Würtemburg. 19 Feb.  1873 Honoured Sir, Whilst reading your work, “The descent …

To Albert Gaudry   19 February 1873

Summary

Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8776

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Albert Gaudry   19 February 1873
  • … b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb 1873 Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry …
  • … gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [ Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)]. …
  • … du Mont Léberon (Vaucluse) (Gaudry et al. 1873). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 19 1873 Dear Sir I am greatly obliged by the gift of the …

From F. X. Neumann von Spallart   19 February 1873

Summary

The editor of a supplement to the New Free Press to be published during the next Vienna Exhibition, asks CD to contribute a few columns on any topic.

Author:  Franz Xaver Neumann von Spallart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 172: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8774

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From F.  X.  Neumann von Spallart   19 February 1873
  • … DAR 172: 15 Franz Xaver Neumann von Spallart Vienna 19 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … was held from 1 May until 1 November 1873 in Vienna at the Prater, a large public park and …
  • … 1990). Issue 27595 of The Times (24 January 1873, p.  9) contained a report on the Neue …

To James Shaw   19 February 1873

Summary

Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Shaw
Date:  19 Feb 1873
Classmark:  Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8776A

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To James Shaw   19 February 1873
  • … dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289) Charles Robert Darwin 19 Feb 1873 Down James Shaw …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 19 1873 Dear Sir Many thanks for the excellent photo. The …
  • … under the headline ‘to ? , 19 February 1873’. The photograph was of a donkey showing an …

To [Williams & Norgate]   19 February [1873]

Summary

Orders a copy of the St Paul’s Magazine for February.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Williams & Norgate
Date:  19 Feb [1873]
Classmark:  Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8776F

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To [Williams & Norgate]   19 February [1873] …
  • … dealers) (9 May 2012, lot 849) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb [1873] Williams & Norgate …
  • … Murray. 1872. Holbeach, Henry [William Brighty Rands]. 1873. [Review of Expression . ] …
  • … St. Paul’s Magazine , February 1873, pp. 190–211. …
  • … Expression that appeared in St. Paul’s Magazine in February 1873. CD’s regular bookseller …
  • … was Williams & Norgate. The February 1873 issue of St. Paul’s Magazine included a …
  • … the pseudonym Henry Holbeach ( Holbeach 1873 ). There is a lightly annotated copy of the …

From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield   20 February 1873

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Summary

Recommends a language teacher.

Remarks on expression.

Author:  Laura Mary Forster
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  20 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 164: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8778

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From L.  M.  Forster to H.  E.  Litchfield   20 February 1873
  • … DAR 164: 159 Laura Mary Forster Magdalan 20 Feb 1873 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma …
  • … Magdala Feb.  20 th . 1873 My dear Harrot I can quite recommend Plathe and think he would …
  • … Henry Farrer was announced in February 1873 (R.  B.  Litchfield, Record, personal and …

From J. D. Hooker   20 February 1873

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Summary

Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].

Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.

Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8777

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   20 February 1873
  • … DAR 103: 149–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 20 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Moggridge’s book [ Harvesting ants (1873)]. Has suggested he plant seeds in various …
  • … Press. 1998. Moggridge, John Traherne. 1873. Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders: notes …
  • … Moggridge’s Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders ( Moggridge 1873 ) was published …
  • … in January 1873 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1873, p.  76). …
  • … In Moggridge 1873 , pp.  24–5, Moggridge had noted that ants were able to check the …

To J. D. Hooker   21 February [1873]

Summary

Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.

Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 Feb [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 259–60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8779

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   21 February [1873] …
  • … DAR 94: 259–60 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Feb [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Bibliography White, Francis Buchanan. 1873. The influence of insect-agency on the …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873  and n.  4. CD refers to Botany for young people part II: …
  • … White’s article focused on moths as agents of fertilisation ( F.  B.  White 1873 ). …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873 . CD and Hooker were both intrigued by John …
  • … nests did not germinate (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 February 1873  and n.  3). CD …
  • … London, from 15 March until 10 April 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from …

From Arthur Nicols   21 February 1873

Summary

Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]

and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.

Author:  Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 172: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8780

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From Arthur Nicols   21 February 1873
  • … DAR 172: 60 Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols Hampstead 21 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Church Row. | Hampstead N.  W Feby.  21 st 1873. Dear Sir. I have read with interest D r …
  • … See letter to Nature , [before 13 February 1873]. The reference is to William Huggins . …
  • … feeling appeared in Nature , 20 February 1873, p.  303. Wallace suggested that the …

From W. F. Collier   22 February 1873

Summary

Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.

Author:  Collier, W. F.
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 161: 210
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8782

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From W.  F.  Collier   22 February 1873
  • … DAR 161: 210 Collier, W. F. Horrabridge 22 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Horrabridge, | S.  Devon. 22 Feb. | 1873 Dear Sir I have read with great interest your …

From J. R. Martin   22 February 1873

Summary

CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.

Author:  John Royle Martin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 171: 55
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8781

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From J.  R.  Martin   22 February 1873
  • … DAR 171: 55 John Royle Martin Liverpool 22 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 51, South John Street, | Liverpool, Feby 22. 1873. Dear Sir, We held our annual Meeting in …
  • … Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.  was held on 15 February 1873 ( The Times , …
  • … 8 February 1873, p.  13). The report has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. Mr …
  • … General Dwellings Co.  on 27 February 1873 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House …

From Ernst Haeckel   23 February 1873

Summary

Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.

Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.

Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8783

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From Ernst Haeckel    23 February 1873
  • … DAR 166: 60 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 23 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … his phylogenetic classificatory system, written by Léon A.  Dumont ( Dumont 1873 ). …
  • … It appeared in the 22 March 1873 issue of Revue scientifique de la France et de l’ …
  • … German, see Transcript. Haeckel 1872a . See letter to Ernst Haeckel, 20 January 1873 . In …
  • … his letter to Haeckel of 20 January 1873 , CD had suggested that Haeckel should take some …

From J. C. Houzeau   24 February 1873

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Thanks CD for Expression.

Suggests saving some anthropoid Quadrumana from extinction by taming and studying them in their own environments to learn about their development.

Author:  Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (Jean-Charles Houzeau)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 87: 94–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8785

Matches: 2 hits

  • … From J.  C.  Houzeau   24 February 1873
  • … de Lehaie (Jean-Charles Houzeau) Gordon Town, Jamaica 24 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Robert Smith   24 February 1873

Summary

Asks for references to works on CD’s views for a paper he is preparing.

Author:  Robert Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 177: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8784

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From Robert Smith   24 February 1873
  • … DAR 177: 199 Robert Smith Belfast 24 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Darwinism’, was read at the meeting of 12 March 1873, and an abstract was published in the …
  • … are notes for his reply of 27 February [1873]. He refers to Alphonse de Candolle , Gaston …

From Asa Gray   25 February 1873

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Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 165: 183; Nature, 27 March 1873, p. 404
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8786

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   25 February 1873
  • … DAR 165: 183; Nature , 27 March 1873, p.   …
  • … 404 Asa Gray unstated 25 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404]. …
  • … Feb.  25, 1873 Dear Darwin Some of Agassiz’s sayings and doings are of such a sort that …
  • … of the fittest’, with no signature, in Nature , 27 March 1873, p.  404. Numbers 23: 11. …

From J. D. Hague   26 February 1873

Summary

Sends a paper on behaviour he has observed in ants.

Author:  James Duncan Hague
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8788

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  • … From J.  D.  Hague   26 February 1873
  • … DAR 166: 81 James Duncan Hague San Francisco 26 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Hague’s account in his second letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873], published in …
  • … the 10 April 1873 issue. Expression . Hague refers to George Howard Darwin and Francis …
  • … 609 Bush Street. | San Francisco, Feb 26 th 1873 My dear sir, I can hardly expect to add …

From R. B. Litchfield   26 February 1873

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Additional errata in Descent.

Author:  Richard Buckley Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 88: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8787

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  • … From R.  B.  Litchfield   26 February 1873
  • … DAR 88: 126 Richard Buckley Litchfield London 26 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …

From H. A. Head   27 February 1873

Summary

Winter in Duluth.

HAH is leaning toward spiritualism.

Limit of natural and sexual selection.

Has been around the world three times.

Author:  Henry A. Head
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8789

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  • … From H.  A.  Head   27 February 1873
  • … DAR 166: 127 Henry A. Head Duluth, Minn. 27 Feb 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Duluth February 27 th 1873 Dear Sir, Your kind note I received long ago before I went to …
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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 
 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 …

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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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