To Edmund Hartnack 1 March 1874
Summary
Has been waiting several months for a microscope objective and would like it without delay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edmund Hartnack |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9326 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s letter has not been found. In October 1873, CD had decided to order an immersion lens (a …
- … vol. 21, letter to Francis Darwin, 10 October 1873 ), having purchased a microscope …
- … from Hartnack in June 1873 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [before 26 June 1873] and n. 9). Hartnack had developed a …
To the Royal Society of London 2 March [1874]
Summary
A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9329 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 228). Only fifteen candidates, selected by the …
From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1874
Summary
The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.
The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9331 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of the Linnean Society of London (1873–4): xii–xiii). This disagreement resulted in …
- … 21, letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 January 1873 and n. 8). John Crawfurd’s distinction …
- … of the Linnean Society of London (1873–4): xvii–xviii. George Russell , grandson of the …
- … 21, letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 August 1873 ). The secretaries were Algernon Bertram …
To H. B. Tristram 3 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9330 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 228). Swinhoe was not elected a …
To T. L. Brunton 4 March 1874
Summary
On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.
Comments on expression on two halves of human face.
Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.
Poison of venomous snakes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9334 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … S. Burdon Sanderson, 19 November [1873]); the results of Burdon Sanderson’s experiments …
- … gelatine’ in Medical Record , 22 January 1873, pp. 36–7. See letter from T. L. Brunton, …
- … on the two sides of the face in December 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from …
- … T. L. Brunton, 2 December 1873 ). There is no reference to Brunton in Expression 2d …
- … Society of London (Brunton and Fayrer 1873–4, pp. 74–5). CD’s lightly annotated copy of …
To Eugène Desmarest 4 March 1874
Summary
Thanks for letter announcing election to honorary member of the Entomological Society of France. Has always felt entomology admirable for throwing light on general problems in biology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eugène Desmarest |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser. 4 (1874): xlvi |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9334F |
To J. D. Hooker 4 March [1874]
Summary
CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.
Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.
Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].
"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 313–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9333 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Henry Huxley (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 December [1873] ). …
- … second edition of Descent on 20 November 1873, and continued to work on it for the first …
- … reefs . Andrew Clark had begun treating CD in 1873; he was renowned for prescribing strict …
- … 21, letter from Andrew Clark, 3 September 1873 . Hooker had forwarded a letter from Asa …
From T. H. Huxley 6 March 1874
Summary
Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9336 |
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- … Springer Verlag. John Murray (Firm). 1873. Handbook for travellers in southern Italy. 7th …
- … London: John Murray. Karl Baedeker (Firm). 1873. Italy. Handbook for travellers. Part …
- … aquarium to be opened at the Villa Reale in 1873 as part of the Zoological Station founded …
- … A handbook for travellers in Southern Italy , published in London by Murray in 1873 ( John …
- … Murray (Firm) 1873 ), made no mention of the aquarium or Zoological Station; it was not …
- … 21, letter from T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn, 15 November 1873 , and letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ). In his letter (see enclosure), Dohrn told Huxley that his …
- … 21, letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 November 1873 ). Huxley’s inaugural address (see n. …
- … published in the Contemporary Review 23 (1873–4): 657–79, in March 1874. Huxley’s death …
- … s handbook to Southern Italy ( Karl Baedeker (Firm) 1873 , p. 77), mentioned that the …
To Anton Dohrn 7 March 1874
Summary
CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9338 |
From J. T. Moggridge 7 March 1874
Summary
Sends abstract of Martin Ziegler’s paper on sensitive movements in Drosera ["Sur un fait physiologique observé sur des feuilles de Drosera", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 74 (1872): 1227–9].
JTM’s experiments with formic acid and ants have failed to reveal the secret of the ants, but have taught him a great deal about germination.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9339 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … a reply to Moggridge’s letter of 4 November 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21); Moggridge had …
- … CD had begun writing on Drosera (sundew) in 1873; he began writing Insectivorous plants on …
- … 21, letter from J. T. Moggridge, 4 November 1873 ). CD had made this suggestion in his …
- … letter to J. T. Moggridge, 27 August 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21). The micropyle is …
From George Cupples 12 March 1874
Summary
Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.
Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.
Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9356 |
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- … and Company. Marshall, William Elliot. 1873. A phrenologist amongst the Todas, or, the …
- … Cup, held at Great Altcar in Lancashire; Peasant Boy came second in 1872 and 1873, losing …
- … the 1873 race to the greyhound Muriel, who ran only this one race in …
- … her career. Peasant Boy’s owner in 1873 was Francis Richard Hemming of Bentley Manor, …
- … work of William Elliot Marshall ( Marshall 1873 ), and might have recommended the book to …
To Alfred Newton 12 March [1874]
Summary
Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.
Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".
In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9354 |
From Prior Purvis 12 March 1874
Summary
Sends report on an infant with congenital heart disease who died at ten months. Post-mortem showed it had the "heart of a fish": two cavities, one auricle and one ventricle.
| Author: | Prior Purvis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9355 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was born of healthy parents on April 17 th . 1873 and died February 12 th 1874, living 10 …
From Hubert Airy 13 March 1874
Summary
Has rewritten paper on leaf arrangement after criticism by Royal Society referees. Has found new factor influencing leaf arrangement, i.e., spontaneous variability in the number of vertical leaf-ranks.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9357 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. …
- … by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
- … of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 298–307. Correspondence : The correspondence …
- … 21, letter from Hubert Airy, 7 December 1873 , and this volume, letter from Hubert Airy, …
- … from Hubert Airy, 26 [September–November 1873] ), but an abstract had been published ( …
- … H. Airy 1873 ). CD did communicate Airy’s revised paper to the Royal Society. It was read …
From John Phillips 14 March 1874
Summary
Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.
CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.
| Author: | John Phillips |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9360 |
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- … the Athenaeum Club at a meeting on 16 March 1873. See letter to George Bentham, 9 March [ …
From J. V. Carus 15 March 1874
Summary
Proposal to collect all of CD’s works in a German edition. Asks CD’s opinion and suggests an outline of volumes.
Lists German sales of various volumes.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9363 |
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- … Carus trans. 1868 and Carus trans. 1873 (editions of Variation ); Carus trans. 1872 and …
From E. A. Darwin 17 [March 1874]
Summary
Reports the balloting [for Henry Parker at the Athenaeum?] went off just right.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9365 |
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- … who was ousted from his post in December 1873 on the unspecified grounds that he was unfit …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 March 1874
Summary
Sends his MS on Dionaea and hopes it may be useful for JSBS’s lecture ["On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 7 (1874): 332–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9368 |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 14 September [1873] ). …
To H. E. Litchfield 21 [March 1874]
Summary
Proof-correcting [of 2d ed. of Coral reefs?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 [Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9324 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … preparing Descent 2d ed. on 20 November 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21, Appendix II); it …
- … the publishers Smith, Elder and Co. in December 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter …
- … to Smith, Elder & Co . , 17 December [1873]). CD’ …
- … s illness had begun on 26 August 1873, when he suffered a partial loss of memory for …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 23 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for MS which he intends to read while on a week’s holiday.
Sends thanks for Francis Darwin’s offer of help and says that Francis’s experiments on digestion are complete.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9370A |
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- … to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 19 November [1873] ). He did not send his results until his …
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| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Alglave, Émile | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
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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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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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 …
