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To ?   6 January [1873 or 1874]

Summary

"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  6 Jan [1873-4]
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7429A

Matches: 2 hits

  • … To ?    6 January [1873 or 1874] …
  • … Wilson (dealer) (no date) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Jan 1873 6 Jan 1874 Unidentified …

From J. D. Hooker   7 January 1873

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Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.

Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.

Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].

Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.

JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.

Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 140–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8727

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   7 January 1873
  • … DAR 103: 140–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 7 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Macmillan and Co. Gladstone, William Ewart. 1873. Address delivered at the distribution of …
  • … refers to CD’s letter to him of 5 January [1873]; the last extant letter from CD to Hooker …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  3. William Rathbone Greg’s Enigmas …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5  January [1873] and n.  6). William Ewart Gladstone was …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  7. William Carruthers was keeper of …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  9). Gladstone’s address was published …
  • … in The Times , 23 December 1872, p.  8, and published by John Murray in 1873 ( …
  • … Gladstone 1873 ). Hooker refers to Gladstone 1869 ( Iuventus mundi (Latin): the youth of …
  • … president of the Royal Society of London from 1873 to 1878 ( ODNB ). His opponent in the …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] . Hooker was employing Thiselton-Dyer part- …
  • … Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Sachs 1870  and 1873; Sachs 1875 ). Miles Joseph Berkeley . …

To Asa Gray   8 January 1873

Summary

Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.

Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  8 Jan 1873
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8728

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   8 January 1873
  • … Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Jan 1873 Asa Gray …
  • … vol.  21, letter to Mary Treat, 1 January 1873 . Drosera filiformis is the threadleaf …

To J. D. Hooker   9 January 1873

Summary

Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.

Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.

Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.

Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 94: 248–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8729

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   9 January 1873
  • … DAR 94: 248–50 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Jan 1873 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … s visiting Down; Hooker visited on 19 April 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See …
  • … Insectivorous plants , p.  50. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 January 1873  and n.  26. …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  3, and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 7 January 1873 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 7 January 1873 . CD worked on barnacles between 1846 and 1854. See …
  • … Down,| Beckenham, Kent. Jan 9. 1873 My dear Hooker, First for business. — It w d .  be an …
  • … Schacht , also a botanist) in Hooker’s letter of 7 January 1873 . CD’s annotated copy of …
  • … Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Sachs 1873 ) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 January 1873  and n.  15). CD alludes to Hooker’s disputes …
  • … national herbarium (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  6, and letter …
  • … from J.  D Hooker, 7 January 1873  and n.  8). CD had enjoyed apparently cordial relations …

To ?   9 January 1873

Summary

Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  9 Jan 1873
Classmark:  Private collection
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8728F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To ?    9 January 1873
  • … Private collection Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Jan 1873 Unidentified …
  • … the national herbaria (see letter to W.  E.  Gladstone, [before 16 January 1873] ). …

To M. D. Conway   11 January [1873]

Summary

Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].

Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:  11 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8730

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To M.  D.  Conway   11 January [1873] …
  • … Book and Manuscript Library Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Jan [1873] Moncure Daniel Conway …
  • … Bonham-Carter ) are mentioned. Jane Norton was at Down on 27 January 1873 ( letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 27 January [1873] and n.  10). …

To the Spectator   11 January 1873

Summary

Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Spectator
Date:  11 Jan 1873
Classmark:  Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8731

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To the Spectator    11 January 1873
  • … of life. — I am, Sir, &c. , | C harles D arwin . Down, Beckenham, Kent, Jan. 11, 1873. …
  • … Spectator , 18 January 1873, p.  76. …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Jan 1873 Spectator …
  • … In the Spectator , 11 January 1873, pp.  42–4, there was a discussion, headed ‘Dr …

To J. D. Hooker   12 January [1873]

Summary

Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.

Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.

Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.

9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 251–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8733

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   12 January [1873] …
  • … DAR 94: 251–2 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Jan [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … ed. of Sachs’s work [ Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial. Has …
  • … this letter and the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 January 1873 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12 January 1873  and n.  9. CD refers to William Ewart Gladstone . …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 January 1873  and n.  7. CD refers to Richard …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  3. Orpington Station was the …
  • … the part of Hooker’s letter of 7 January 1873  where he mentioned that William Turner …
  • … was translating Julius Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Sachs 1873 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12 January 1873  and n.  2. CD’ …
  • … Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Sachs 1873 ) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
  • … did refer to Bert’s publication in Sachs 1873 , p.  786 n.  2. For CD’s disagreement with …
  • … plants , pp.  256–7. Sachs referred to Cohn 1860  in Sachs 1873 , p.  789 n.  4. …

From J. D. Hooker   12 January 1873

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Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.

The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.

R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.

Letter from Gladstone.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 146–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8732

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   12 January 1873
  • … DAR 103: 146–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 12 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … honours. R. Strachey [ Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment. …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 January 1873  and n.  6. Hooker refers to Hermann Schacht , Julius …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 January 1873  and n.  3. Hooker refers to William Ewart …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] . Hooker had been invited to stand for …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 January 1873 and n.  15). ‘Uneasy lies the head that …

From J. D. Hooker   [13 or 20 January 1873]

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The Drosophyllum goes to Orpington by train this evening.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 or 20] Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 103: 138–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8734

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [13 or 20 January 1873] …
  • … DAR 103: 138–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 13 Jan 1873 20 …
  • … Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … this letter, the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 January 1873 , and the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 20 January 1873 . …
  • … In 1873, 13 and 20 January were Mondays. Hooker refers to Drosophyllum lusitanicum (the …
  • … that CD wanted to experiment on. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 January [1873] and n.  3. …

To A. R. Wallace   13 January [1873]

Summary

Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  13 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8735

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To A.  R.  Wallace   13 January [1873] …
  • … Library (Add MS 46434) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Jan [1873] Alfred Russel Wallace …
  • … to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression , Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18]. …
  • … the review was published in January 1873. Wallace’s review of Expression was published in …
  • … the Quarterly Journal of Science ( A.  R.  Wallace 1873 ). See A.   …
  • … R.  Wallace 1873 , p.  116, and Expression , pp.  46–7. Wallace had doubted CD’s account …
  • … expression of indifference ( A.  R.  Wallace 1873 , p.  116; Expression , pp.  287–8). See …
  • … when it had both feet ( A.  R.  Wallace 1873 , p.  116, Expression , pp.  35–6). Wallace’s …

From Alphonse de Candolle   14 January 1873

Summary

Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.

Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 161: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8737

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From Alphonse de Candolle    14 January 1873
  • … DAR 161: 17 Alphonse de Candolle Geneva 14 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Candolle, Alphonse de. 1873. Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux …
  • … Genève 14 Janvier 1873. Mon cher Monsieur Vous avez été bien bon de me communiquer vos …
  • … to his Histoire des sciences ( Candolle 1873 ); see Correspondence vol.  20, letter to …
  • … Geneva 14 January 1873. My dear Sir You were very good to communicate to me your …
  • … Pearson  1914–30 , 2: 135–9. Candolle 1873  reflected critically upon Galton’s Hereditary …
  • … Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 134). See Candolle 1873 , pp.  311–12, and Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 136. …
  • … Browne, [29–31 March 1871] . See Candolle 1873 , p.  331. In Lucas 1847–50 , 2: 502, …

From A. R. Wallace   14 January 1873

Summary

Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 181: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8736

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From A.  R.  Wallace   14 January 1873
  • … DAR 181: 8 Alfred Russel Wallace Grays 14 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 13 January [1873] . Wallace’s review of Expression ( A.   …
  • … R.  Wallace 1873 ) appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Science . See letter to …
  • … A.  R.  Wallace, 13 January [1873] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … to A.  R.  Wallace, 13 January [1873] and n.  6. See Correspondence vol.  20, letter from …
  • … The Dell, Grays, Essex. Jan. y 14th.  1873. Dear Darwin I am not at all surprised at your …

To W. E. Gladstone   [before 16 January 1873]

Summary

Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ewart Gladstone
Date:  [before 16 Jan 1873]
Classmark:  Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9206F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To W.  E.  Gladstone   [before 16 January 1873] …
  • … XXII.1 (pp. 31–2) Charles Robert Darwin [before 16 Jan 1873] William Ewart Gladstone …
  • … was first published in Nature , 16 January 1873. The first commissioner of works was Acton …

From H. P. Lee   17 January 1873

Summary

Describes shaken index finger in Japan and blushing among Chinese servants.

Author:  Henry Pincke Lee
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1873
Classmark:  Expression 2d ed., pp. 291 n. 40, 335 n. 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8739F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From H.  P.  Lee   17 January 1873
  • … 2d ed. , pp.  291 n.  40, 335 n.  13 Henry Pincke Lee 17 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Mr H.  P.  Lee (letter Jan.  17, 1873) describes a lateral shake of the index finger or of …
  • … Japan. ] [Mr H.  P.  Lee (letter Jan.  17, 1873) has observed that the intelligent Chinese …

From Ernst Meitzen   17 January 1873

Summary

Sends his book [Bhawani (1872)], which is a poem in praise of evolutionary theory and showing its roots in ancient India.

Author:  August (Ernst) Meitzen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 171: 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8738

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From Ernst Meitzen   17 January 1873
  • … DAR 171: 115 August (Ernst) Meitzen Cologne 17 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Cologne the 17 Jany 1873. M r . Darwin, Professor and D r . , at Down near Bromley. Kent. …

From James Paget   17 January 1873

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Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 87: 56–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8739

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From James Paget   17 January 1873
  • … 56–8 James Paget, 1st baronet London, Harewood Place, 1 17 Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … pointed ears. Robert Aglionby Slaney . See letter to James Paget, 18 January [1873] . …
  • … Place, | Hanover Square. | W. Jan y . 17. 1873. My dear Darwin It is so great a pleasure …

From Alois Humbert   [before 18] January 1873

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On a humming-bird Sphinx moth which tried to extract nectar from flowers on wallpaper. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 317.]

Author:  Alois Humbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 18] Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 89: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8718

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  • … From Alois Humbert    [before 18] January 1873
  • … DAR 89: 76 Alois Humbert Geneva [before 18] Jan 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … explored at least 25 to 30 bunches in succession. — Aloïs Humbert Geneva. January 1873. …
  • … and the letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 18 January [1873] . This letter may have been …
  • … from Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January 1873 . Macroglossa stellatarum is now known as …
  • … bouquets. — Aloïs Humbert Genève. Janvier 1873. 2.7 Après … fleurs, 2.8] underl red crayon …

To Alphonse de Candolle   18 January [1873]

Summary

The evidence of tameness of Alpine butterflies [see 8672] seems good and the fact is surprising to CD for they can hardly have acquired this in their short life-time.

The question whether butterflies are attracted to bright colours independently of the supposed presence of nectar is still unanswered.

CD has great difficulty in believing that any temporary condition of parents can affect the offspring.

Pangenesis is much reviled, but CD must still look at generation from this point of view, which makes him averse to believing that an emotion has any effect on the offspring.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alphonse de Candolle
Date:  18 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8741

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Alphonse de Candolle   18 January [1873] …
  • … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Jan [1873] Alphonse de Candolle …
  • … between this letter and the letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January 1873 . Letter …
  • … from Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January 1873 . See …
  • … Alois Humbert, [before 18] January 1873 . CD refers to Edmund Langton . See Correspondence …

To James Paget   18 January [1873]

Summary

JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  18 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8740

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  • … To James Paget   18 January [1873] …
  • … of the Burndy Library) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Jan [1873] James Paget, 1st baronet …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letter from James Paget, 17 January 1873 . See …
  • … letter from James Paget, 17 January 1873 . CD refers to Robert Aglionby Slaney ( …
  • … see CD’s annotation to the letter from James Paget, 17 January 1873 ). …
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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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