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To A. W. Howitt    [September 1874]

Summary

Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred William Howitt
Date:  [Sept 1874]
Classmark:  M. H. Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9617F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To A. W. Howitt    [September 1874] …
  • … Walker 1971, pp. 221 and 338 n. 25 Charles Robert Darwin [Sept 1874] Alfred William Howitt …
  • … Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874. Howitt, Alfred William. 1904. The native …

From Theodosia Marshall   [September 1874]

Summary

Sends count of remains on Pinguicula leaves.

Author:  Theodosia Louisa Marshall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 124
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9616

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  • … From Theodosia Marshall   [September 1874] …
  • … DAR 58.1: 124 Theodosia Louisa Marshall Keswick [Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …

From James Ross   September 1874

Summary

Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.

Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.

Author:  James Ross
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 176: 217
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9617

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From James Ross   September 1874
  • … DAR 176: 217 James Ross Waterfoot, Manchester Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Sends his book [ On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory. Suggests why the lips …
  • … London: John Murray. 1872. Ross, James. 1874. On protoplasm: being an examination of Dr. …
  • … House | Waterfoot | near Manchester Sep 1874 Dear Sir. I send you by to-day’s post a small …
  • … of Professor Huxley’s views ( Ross 1874 ), discussed a recent dispute between the Scottish …
  • … extension of the same principles ( Ross 1874 , p.  80). On the firm closure of the mouth …

From Charles Lyell   1 September 1874

Summary

Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.

CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Sept 1874
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9619

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From Charles Lyell   1 September 1874
  • … Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) Charles Lyell, 1st baronet 1 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Tyndall ’s presidential address on 19 August 1874 at the Belfast meeting of the British …
  • … Sep.  1. 1874 Copy Sir C. Lyell—to M r . Darwin I have been intending from day to day to …
  • … Foster, & Figgis. Judd, John Wesley. 1874. On the ancient volcanoes of the Highlands and …
  • … the Mesozoic strata. [Read 21 January 1874. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
  • … 82. Tyndall, John. 1874b. Presidential address. [Read 19 August 1874. ] Report of the 44th …
  • … Association for the Advancement of Science (1874): lxvi–xcvii. Woodward, Henry. 1866–78. A …
  • … long section on Darwinian theory (see Tyndall 1874 , pp.  lxxxiv–lxxxvii). Tyndall did not …
  • … and physical section of the British Association in 1874, lectured at the Parish …
  • … Church, Belfast, on 23 August 1874. For a summary of his lecture, and of the …
  • … s address, see The Times , 24 August 1874, p.  5. Some of the responses were published in …
  • … of the world ). John Wesley Judd . Judd 1874 . Lyell discussed evidence for the former …

From D F. Nevill   2 September [1874]

Summary

Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9620

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From D F.  Nevill   2 September [1874] …
  • … Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill Dangstein, Petersfield 2 Sept [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 August 1874] ). Drosera dichotoma is a synonym of D.   …
  • … letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 3 September 1874 . To assist CD’s research on orchids, Nevill …

From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   3 September [1874]

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Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

Author:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9623

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson   3 September [1874] …
  • … Sanderson, 1st baronet London, Queen Anne St, 49 3 Sept [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … this letter and the letter to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] . Letter to J.   …
  • … S.  Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] . See letter to J.   …
  • … S.  Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] and n.  3. Burdon Sanderson was director of the …

To Charles Lyell   3 September [1874]

Summary

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9621

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   3 September [1874] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.448) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Sept [1874] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … 1862 . CD refers to John Wesley Judd . See letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
  • … Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . Maria Sophia Heathcote . …
  • … the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 , had not been found when the letter was …
  • … in Southampton from 30 July to 24 August 1874 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Joseph …

To D. F. Nevill   3 September 1874

Summary

Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].

Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.

Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  3 Sept 1874
Classmark:  Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9624F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To D.  F.  Nevill   3 September 1874
  • … 107–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Sept 1874 Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill …
  • … See letter from D.  F.  Nevill, 2 September [1874] . See letter from D.   …
  • … F.  Nevill, 2 September [1874] . CD acknowledged Nevill for providing a specimen of …
  • … D own , B eckenham , K ent 3rd September 1874 D ear L ady D orothy N evill ,— I am much …

From Chauncey Wright   3 September 1874

Summary

Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.

Also discusses space and colour perception.

Author:  Chauncey Wright
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9624

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From Chauncey Wright   3 September 1874
  • … DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 Chauncey Wright Cambridge Mass. 3 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Cambridge Sept 3 1874 My dear Sir In a late talk with Dr Gray he expressed so much …

From T. L. Brunton   4 September 1874

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Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].

Author:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 86–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9625

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From T.  L.  Brunton   4 September 1874
  • … Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet London, Somerset St, 23 4 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … see letter to T.  L.  Brunton, 11 May 1874 ). Brunton refers to Samuel Hatch West and …
  • … the letter to T.  L.  Brunton, 25 May [1874] and n.  5. Brunton probably refers to Henry …
  • … S t . Portman Sq | London W. Sept.  4 th . 1874 My dear Sir I am sorry that I have been so …

From J. D. Hooker   [after 4 September 1874]

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Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 4 Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 222–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9615

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [after 4 September 1874] …
  • … DAR 103: 222–3 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [after 4 Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] and n.  5, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 30 August [1874] . …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August [1874] and n.  6). CD had been investigating the …

From W. C. Marshall   5 September [1874]

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Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.

Author:  William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 128–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9626

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From W.  C.  Marshall   5 September [1874] …
  • … 128–9 William Cecil (Bill) Marshall Derwent Island 5 Sept [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter to W.  T.  Thiselton Dyer, 9 June 1874) . Horace Darwin was a friend of Marshall; …
  • … between this letter and the letter from W.  C.  Marshall, 30 August [1874] . Marshall had …
  • … sent leaves of Pinguicula (butterwort) on 30 August 1874 (see letter from W.   …
  • … C.  Marshall, 30 August [1874] ). CD had written that he would be interested in seeing a …
  • … to W.  C.  Marshall, [after 30 August 1874] ). The list has not been found; see, however, …
  • … to W.  C.  Marshall, [after 30 August 1874] , has been found; it did not mention tracing …

To W. C. Marshall   7 September [1874]

Summary

Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:  7 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9627F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To W. C. Marshall   7 September [1874] …
  • … 15 December 2015) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Sept [1874] William Cecil (Bill) Marshall …
  • … the letter from W. C. Marshall, 5 September [1874] ( Correspondence vol. 22). Marshall had …
  • … 22, letter from W. C. Marshall, 5 September [1874] ). Graminivorous: feeding on grass and …

To D. F. Nevill   7 September 1874

Summary

Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  7 Sept 1874
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9627

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To D.  F.  Nevill   7 September 1874
  • … Mss.B.D25.449) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Sept 1874 Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny …
  • … of the bladders in Uticularia , see the letter to Edward Frankland, 31 August 1874 . …
  • … see letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 3 September 1874 ). Drosera dichotoma is a synonym of D.   …
  • … binata , the forked-leaf sundew. In 1874, the Saturday before 7 September was 5 September. …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Sep 7. 1874 Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill The Drosera arrived quite …

To J. D. Hooker   8 September [1874]

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Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.

CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 334–335
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9629

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   8 September [1874] …
  • … DAR 95: 334–335 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Sept [1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 7 September 1874  and n.  2. For CD’s difficulties in growing …
  • … to W.  T.  Thiselton Dyer, 28 [June 1874] . Acacia farnesiana is a synonym of Vachellia …
  • … farnesiana. See letter from D.  F.  Nevill, 3 September 1874 . …
  • … the letter from D.  F.  Nevill, 3 September 1874 . Hooker had tried to obtain specimens of …
  • … tropical plants (see letter from D.  F.  Nevill, 2 September [1874] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [after 4 September 1874] ). CD had received two …
  • … Dionaea muscipula from Kew on 31 August 1874 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards book , …

From D. F. Nevill   8 [September 1874]

Summary

Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.

Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 [Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9628

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From D.  F.  Nevill   8 [September 1874] …
  • … Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill Dangstein, Petersfield 8 [Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … the letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 7 September 1874 . CD had asked about the growing conditions …
  • … the forked-leaf sundew, in his letter to Nevill of 7 September 1874 . See letter to D.   …
  • … F.  Nevill, 7 September 1874  and n.  2. Utricularia montana is an epiphytic species of …

From H. C. Sorby   9 September 1874

Summary

Reports on his spectroscopic examination of the colouring matter in the hairs (tentacles) of Drosera.

Author:  Henry Clifton Sorby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 88–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9630

Matches: 2 hits

  • … From H.  C.  Sorby   9 September 1874
  • … DAR 58.1: 88–9 Henry Clifton Sorby Broomfield, Sheffield 9 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …

From John Price   10 September 1874

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Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.

Author:  John Price
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 90
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9631

Matches: 5 hits

  • … more specimens of Utricularia minor (lesser bladderwort) in his letter of 28 July [1874] . …
  • … From John Price   10 September 1874
  • … DAR 58.1: 90 John Price Chester 10 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Watergate S t . | Chester Sept 10. 1874 My dau r . remembers with me that U.  vulgaris did …
  • … see letter from John Price , [ c. 27 July 1874]). In Insectivorous plants , pp.  397–8 and …

From D. F. Nevill   [11 September 1874]

Summary

Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.

In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.

Asks for another photograph.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [11 Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9633

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From D.  F.  Nevill   [11 September 1874] …
  • … Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill Dangstein, Petersfield [11 Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Nevill, [ c. 14 March 1862]. See letter from D. F. Nevill, 8 [September 1874] and n. 2. …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 11 September [1874] . …
  • … In 1874, 11 September was a Friday. Nevill refers to Utricularia montana , an epiphytic …
  • … bladderwort; see letters to D.  F.  Nevill, 7 September 1874  and …
  • … 11 September [1874]  and n.  2. Utricularia montana is a synonym of U.  alpina. CD …

To D. F. Nevill   11 September [1874]

Summary

Returns a Drosera, from which he cut a piece for microscopic examination.

Utricularia montana just arrived.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  11 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9632

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To D.  F.  Nevill   11 September [1874] …
  • … collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1874] Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny …
  • … see letter to D.  F.  Nevill, 7 September 1874 ). Drosera dichotoma is a synonym of D.   …
  • … in his letter to Nevill of 7 September 1874 . Utricularia montana is a synonym of U.   …
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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…

Matches: 23 hits

  • … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
  • … intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, …
  • … and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ).  Such reminiscences led Darwin to …
  • … much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel very old & …
  • … old & helpless’  ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor …
  • … on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and …
  • … Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, …
  • … and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all …
  • … perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting …
  • … at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New …
  • … Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 …
  • … of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March 1874] ). The book came out in June with the …
  • … Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did not retract his …
  • … dog breeders (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material …
  • … Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 ; letters …
  • … islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 ). One of the most significant …
  • … enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). The technical nature of Huxley’s …
  • … mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). The second edition of  …
  • … would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's son George …
  • … of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). The Mivart affair …
  • … mental and physical disorders (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the …
  • … libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ).  George, however, consulted with his …
  • … [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). He drafted a brief statement of …

Darwin's 1874 letters go online

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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…

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  • … of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. …
  • … ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ) The Mivart affair highlights …
  • … are some other highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1874: I feel as old as …
  • … signifying so much.  ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) At the age of 65, Darwin …
  • … more quietly was severely tested by some of the events of 1874. He had a clear idea of the shape of …
  • … must be enough for me  ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) During the year he …
  • … the positive  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] ) – he mourned after several …
  • … day’s work  ( Letter to D. F. Nevill, 18 September [1874] ) Darwin’s family continued …
  • … have to do—  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ) Darwin’s continuing …

St George Jackson Mivart

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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  • … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
  • … appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …
  • … of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 ). Darwin hastily advised against …
  • … to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin provided a draft of the …
  • … to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). He sent a second draft, which Darwin …
  • … a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 . George and Darwin were also …
  • … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
  • … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
  • … a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In other words, Mivart had used …
  • … reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). Hooker and Huxley between them …
  • … the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley met Mivart at an evening …
  • … ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 .) A reply soon came from Mivart . …
  • … of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 ). However, Huxley still wrote to …
  • … this.   124 Gower St W.C. Dec. 24th 1874. Private & Confidential …
  • … to John Tyndall ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 …
  • … 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly Reviewer of 1874’. In it he reiterated his claim that …

Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874

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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…

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  • … understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the book, …

Joseph Simms

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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…

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  • … physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874 , while he was staying in London. …
  • … stockings. (Letter from Joseph Simms, 14 September 1874 ) The foot could tell …

Essay: What is Darwinism?

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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…

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  • … Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge …

Essay: Evolution & theology

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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…

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  • … EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
  • … had also considered taking up the issue with Murray in 1874, even threatening to break off future …
  • … laid to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a …
  • … botanical research and had visited Down House in April 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letters …
  • … A scientific friendship had developed between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s …
  • … white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ).   Testing Pangenesis …
  • … had learned of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was …

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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  • … 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza Story-Maskelyne …
  • … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall sends …
  • … 9606 - Harrison, L. C. to Darwin, [22 August 1874] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, sends a …
  • … Letter 9616  - Marshall, T.  to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall details …
  • … Letter 9485 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [8 June 1874] Mary Treat details her experiments …

4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1

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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’ s French-born artist Faustin …
  • … this anti-Darwinian argument – a surprising one for 1874 – was genuine or tongue-in-cheek, it is …
  • … appeared on the front page of the issue for 18 February 1874, surrounded by an elaborate wood …
  • … The caricature of Darwin was not included until the May 1874 issue of the Sketch-Book (vol. 1, …
  • … at bottom left. 
 date of creation February 1874 
 computer-readable date c. …
  • … of the Huntington Library. Figaro no. 475 (18 February 1874), cover illustration. James G. …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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  • … started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Darwin took Emma to a Sunday afternoon at …

4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire

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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum …
  • … in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy appeared in 1874, Fiske sent Darwin a copy, but …
  • … mind generally towards the doctrine of Evolution in 1874-1875. I like to keep this design before me …
  • … bottom right) 
 date of creation September 1874 
 computer-readable date 1874-09 …
  • … and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, Outlines …
  • … and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and London: Macmillan, 1874); there were many subsequent editions. …
  • … letters to Fiske about Outlines : DCP-LETT- 9706 (3 Nov. [1874]) and DCP-LETT- 9749 (8 Dec. [1874

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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  • … to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) Zouteveen’s editions of …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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  • … can be chloroformed (letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 December 1874 ). In the previous sections …

4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy

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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
  • … [1861] (DCP-LETT-3256]. Simms’s letter to Darwin, 14 Sept. 1874 (DCP-LETT-9637; from DAR 177:164). …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … A GRAY 3 AUGUST 1871 201  TO A GRAY 3 JUNE [1874] 202  FROM A GRAY 16 …

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 9580 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H. D., [1 August 1874] Darwin gives feedback on work …
  • … Letter 9613 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [30 August 1874] Darwin comments on a “clever” …

3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

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  • … 1871, but dates others (still with the spotted waistcoat) to 1874.   Elliott and Fry were …
  • … Table in November 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June 1874 published a wood engraving which …
  • … taken in summer 1869 and summer 1871, possible also in 1874. 
 computer-readable date c …
  • … 140.1.9). Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June 1874), p. 228 (DAR 140.1.3). Another …

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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  • … ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to have arisen when …
  • … with new & related matter. ( To J. V. Carus, 19 March [1874] ). A year later, Darwin still …

3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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  • … as a steel engraving, which was published in Nature in 1874, and was included in Francis Darwin …
  • … to the Subscribers to Nature no.  240 June 4 th 1874’. Wood engraving in The Graphic , XI:278 …
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