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To S. P. Woodward   15 May [1856]

Summary

Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  15 May [1856]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1875

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  • … DCP-LETT-1875

To John Fiske   21 October [1875]

Summary

Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.

Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Fiske
Date:  21 Oct [1875]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 8264)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10208

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To John Fiske   21 October [1875] …
  • … The Huntington Library (HM 8264) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Oct [1875] John Fiske …
  • … Wright. Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [ Nation 21 (1875): 168–70]. …
  • … Bibliography [James, William. ] 1875. Chauncey Wright. …
  • … Nation , 23 September 1875, p. 194. …
  • … Wright, Chauncey. 1875. German Darwinism. …
  • … Nation , 9 September 1875, pp. 168–70. …
  • … Fiske probably sent the obituary that had appeared in Nation , 23 September 1875 ( [ …
  • … James] 1875 ). It mentioned Wright’s recent review article (see n. …
  • … 2, below). Wright’s article, ‘German Darwinism’ ( C. Wright 1875 ) appeared in …
  • … Nation , 9 September 1875. See also letter to C. …
  • … E. Norton, 7 October 1875 . …

From Hermann Müller   23 October 1875

Summary

Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.

Author:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Oct 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 305
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10219

Matches: 22 hits

  • … From Hermann Müller   23 October 1875
  • … 305 Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt 23 Oct 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … in fertilisation?" , Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross- …
  • … Bibliography Comes, Orazio. 1875. Continuazione degli studii sulla impollinazione. …
  • … London: John Murray. 1876. Meehan, Thomas. 1875. Are insects any material aid to plants in …
  • … Lippstadt Oct.  23. 1875. My dear Sir. Many thanks for your kind letter of Oct.  9. Today …
  • … letter to Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ), but the sentences quoted by Müller are …
  • … for the Advancement of Science ( Meehan 1875 ). Meehan referred to George Howard Darwin’s …
  • … on marriages between first cousins ( G. H. Darwin 1875a ) in Meehan 1875 , p. 244. CD’s …
  • … are notes for his reply to Müller (see letter to Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). …
  • … banking account (Down House MS) for 9 October 1875 recorded that he had received a cheque …
  • … Cross and self fertilisation on 1 September 1875, but this may be an error, since he also …
  • … 24: 243–51. Pedicino, Nicola Antonio. 1875. Della impollinazione nella Thalia dealbata , …
  • … under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … American Naturalists in Detroit of Aug.  12. 1875 Thomas Meehan of German town has read a …
  • … to Variation 2d ed. until 3 October 1875 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II); see also …
  • … letter to Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Nicola Antonio Pedicino and Comes had published …
  • … in Rendiconto dell’Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche ( Pedicino 1875 ; …
  • … Comes 1875 ). Meehan had …
  • … sent a copy of his paper ( Meehan 1875 ) as reprinted in the Philadelphia Press to …
  • … CD (see letter to Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 and n. 2). Meehan evidently told …
  • … Philadelphia-Press, Friday, August 13, 1875” abounds with perversities and is, I think, no …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   22 October 1875

Summary

Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].

Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  22 Oct 1875
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10210

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer   22 October 1875
  • … Darwin 1873–81: 35–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct 1875 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
  • … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 October 1875 . Thiselton-Dyer had commented on the tendency …
  • … Bibliography King, George. 1875. Note on a sport in Paritium tricuspe , G. …
  • … Don. [Read 16 December 1875. ] Journal of …
  • … the Linnean Society of London ( Botany ) 15 (1875–7): 101–3. …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Oct 22 1875 My dear Dyer As you seem interested about the …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 October [1875] and n. 5, and letter from W. …
  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 October 1875 and n. 3. …
  • … King’s manuscript was read in December 1875 and published in the Journal of the Linnean …
  • … of London ( Botany ) in May 1876 ( King 1875 ). Paritium was a subgenus of Hibiscus ; the …
  • … Talipariti hastatum . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 October 1875 , and letter to W. …
  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 October [1875] and n. 5. See also letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 October [1875] and n. 5. See letter from …
  • … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [16–22 October 1875] and n. 2. Imantophyllum cyrtanthiflorum is now …

To J. D. Hooker   15 October [1875]

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Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.

Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Oct [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 394–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10200

Matches: 20 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   15 October [1875] …
  • … DAR 95: 394–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Oct [1875] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … 23: 225–70. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. King, …
  • … George. 1875. Note on a sport in Paritium tricuspe , G. …
  • … Don. [Read 16 December 1875. ] Journal of …
  • … Linnean Society of London ( Botany ) 15 (1875–7): 101–3. Movement in plants : The power of …
  • … 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. Variation : The variation of animals and …
  • … Thiselton-Dyer, [16–22 October 1875] and n. 2). Imantophyllum cyrtanthiflorum is a synonym …
  • … the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 14 October 1875 . CD had asked Hooker’s advice on whether …
  • … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 October [1875] ). Hooker counselled CD to refuse on the …
  • … of poor health and too much work ( letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 14 October 1875 ). Tait …
  • … had visited Down on 17 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Lawson Tait’s address …
  • … s letter to CD with his letter of 14 October 1875 and telegraphed Tait’s address to CD in …
  • … to reply to Tait (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1875 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 14 October 1875 and n. 6. Imantophyllum is a synonym of Clivia ; the family …
  • … letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 October 1875 . CD referred to Cistus tricuspis in Variation …
  • … Dyer and published in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( King 1875 ; see letter W. T. …
  • … Thiselton-Dyer, 22 October 1875). Hibiscus tricuspis and Paritium tricuspis are synonyms …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 14  October 1875 and n. 5. CD described the action of …
  • … of Imantophyllum cyrtanthiflorum was sent to CD on 14 October 1875 (see letter from W. T. …

To C. E. Norton   7 October 1875

Summary

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Eliot Norton
Date:  7 Oct 1875
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10185

Matches: 18 hits

  • … To C.  E.  Norton   7 October 1875
  • … Emma Darwin, 14 and 17 September [1875] (DAR 239.1: 3.2)). The article in the Boston Daily …
  • … Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Oct 1875 Charles Eliot Norton …
  • … Press. 1985–. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Wright, …
  • … Chauncey. 1875. German Darwinism. …
  • … Nation , 9 September 1875, pp. 168–70. …
  • … See letter from C. E. Norton, 22 September 1875 . See …
  • … also letter from Woodward Emery, 17 September 1875 . …
  • … Wright had died on 12 September 1875. CD’s response to Woodward Emery has not been …
  • … had noted in his letter of 17 September 1875 that Wright was reading Insectivorous plants …
  • … Norton in his letter. Wright’s article, ‘German Darwinism’ ( C. Wright 1875 ), appeared in …
  • … Nation , 9 September 1875. George Rolleston , in his address to the department of …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Oct.  7. 1875 My dear Mr Norton I am very much obliged for your …
  • … several times during their stay. In May 1875, Leonard Darwin had visited the Norton family …
  • … from Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin, 20 May [1875] (DAR 239.1: 2.13)). Leonard, who was an …
  • … arrived at his posting in Malta on 16 September 1875 ( letter from Leonard Darwin to …
  • … the Advancement of Science ( Rolleston 1875 , p. 150), had referred to Wright’s ‘brilliant …
  • … letter from George Rolleston, 30 August 1875 ). Norton and his wife, Susan Ridley Sedgwick …

From Francis Darwin   1 and 2 May [1875]

Summary

Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 and 2 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961F

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From Francis Darwin   1 and 2 May [1875] …
  • … DAR 274.1: 31 Francis Darwin Pantludw 1 May [1875] 2  …
  • … May [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Lucy Bird’s work on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin considered …
  • … from Emma Darwin to William Darwin, [5 March 1875] (DAR 219.1: 88)). See n.  3, above. …
  • … Bibliography Bird, Isabella Lucy. 1875. The Hawaiian archipelago: six months among the …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Post Office directory of the six home …
  • … CD began receiving proof-sheets of Insectivorous plants in April 1875 (see letter to J.   …
  • … V.  Carus, 19 April [1875] , and letter from R.   …
  • … F.  Cooke, 21 April 1875 ). Francis had received the proofs of …
  • … see letter to Francis Darwin, 30 April [1875] ). CD had asked Francis to correct an error …
  • … see letter to Francis Darwin, 30 April [1875] ). This does not correlate with page 86 of …

From R. F. Cooke   27 August 1875

Summary

The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?

Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 466
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10135

Matches: 9 hits

  • … publishers ( letter from D. Appleton & Co. , 16 August 1875 ). …
  • … From R.  F.  Cooke   27 August 1875
  • … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 27 Aug 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … plants 2d ed. was, as CD had expected, not published until November 1875 ( letter to J. …
  • … V. Carus, 19 August 1875 ; Publishers’ circular , …
  • … 16 November 1875, p. 932). See letter from …
  • … R. F. Cooke, 12 August 1875 . Stereotypes of Climbing plants had been requested by the US …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Climbing plants : On the movements and …
  • … under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. …

To Anton Dohrn   24 May 1875

Summary

Thanks AD for his Ursprung [der Wirbelthiere (1875)], which astonished CD. AD’s views, if accepted by competent authorities, will show how much we have to learn about the history of every animal. Suggests caution on "degradation principle". Comments on other views in the work. Has long seen importance of the principle of "Functionswechsel" [transfer [change!?] of function], but never enunciated it as a distinct principle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  24 May 1875
Classmark:  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1122)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9991

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To Anton Dohrn   24 May 1875
  • … Ana 525. Ba 1122) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 May 1875 Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn …
  • … for his Ursprung [ der Wirbelthiere (1875)], which astonished CD. AD’s views, if accepted …
  • … Bibliography Claus, Carl Friedrich. 1875. Ueber die Entwickelung, Organisation und …
  • … Zoologie 25: 217–84. Dohrn, Anton. 1875. Der Ursprung der Wirbelthiere und das Princip des …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 24 | 1875 My dear D r Dohrn I am very much obliged …
  • … systematic place of the Argulidae; Claus 1875 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
  • … at Naples from 20 March until 14 April 1875 and had promised CD a copy of this paper (see …
  • … from F. M. Balfour, [20 March – 14 April 1875] ). Argulidae is the family of fish lice. …
  • … principle of change of function; Dohrn 1875 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
  • … result of degeneration from a vertebrate form (see Dohrn 1875 , pp. 32–60). For more on …
  • … Dohrn’ s theory, see Maienschein 1994 and letter from Anton Dohrn, 7 February 1875 . …
  • … See Dohrn 1875 , pp. 7–9. Dohrn proposed that the original mouth (which in annelids is …
  • … two gill slits ( ibid . , p. 9). See Dohrn 1875 , pp. 13–15. Dohrn proposed, in accordance …
  • … be functionless ( Mivart 1871 , p. 38; Dohrn 1875 , p. 61). CD’s copy of Carl Friedrich …

From Quintino Sella   28 November 1875

Summary

Letter enclosing decree from the Accademia dei Lincei, with signatures dated 2 and 16 July 1875.

Author:  Quintino Sella; Accademia dei Lincei
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Nov 1875
Classmark:  DAR 229: 43, DAR 230: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10280F

Matches: 18 hits

  • … From Quintino Sella    28 November 1875
  • … 229: 43, DAR 230: 44 Quintino Sella Accademia dei Lincei 28 Nov 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … enclosing decree from the Accademia dei Lincei, with signatures dated 2 and 16 July 1875. …
  • … Rè d’Italia con Suo decreto del 4 Febbrajo 1875, si degnò rifermare l’Accademia dè Lincei. …
  • … dell’Accademia del 24.  e 25 Gennajo 1875, che ho l’onore di trasmetterle, Ella vedrà le …
  • … Court. Granted at Sant’Anna on 2 July 1875 Signed Vittorio Emanuele | signed Ruggiero …
  • … at the State Audit Court | on 16 July 1875 | Reg. 432D.  at the Court 152 | signed Ayres. …
  • … the King of Italy by His decree of 4 February 1875 has deigned to confirm the Accademia dè …
  • … sessions of the Academy of 24 and 25 January 1875, which I have the honour of passing on …
  • … the Atti dell’Accademia dei Lincei from 1875–80 are in the collection of unbound journals …
  • … di detta Accademia del 16  Giugno 1875; Sulla proposta del Nostro Ministro Segretario di …
  • … alla Corte dei Conti. Dato a Sant’Anna a di 2 Luglio 1875 f o . Vittorio Emanuele | f. …
  • … to alla Corte dei Conti | Li 16 Luglio 1875 | R o . 432 D. Lerf. a C te 152 | f o . Ayres. …
  • … Rè d’Italia, con Suo Decreto del 2 Luglio 1875. Mi faccio un dovere di mandarle copia del …
  • … di Roma approvato col Nostro Decreto del 14 Febbrajo 1875; Vista la lettera del Presidente …
  • … the King of Italy, in His Decree of 2 July 1875. It is my duty to send you the Decree of …
  • … Rome that was approved by Our Decree of 14 February 1875; We have seen the letter of the …
  • … President of the said Academy of 16 June 1875; At the suggestion of our Minister the …

To G. H. Darwin   13 September [1875]

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Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  13 Sept [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10156

Matches: 12 hits

  • … Alekseevich Severtsov . See letter to H. E. Dresser, [10 September 1875] . …
  • … To G.  H.  Darwin   13 September [1875] …
  • … DAR 210.1: 47 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Sept [1875] George Howard Darwin …
  • … London: G. Routledge. Huth, Alfred Henry. 1875. The marriage of near kin considered with …
  • … the letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 August 1875 . No letter from George giving CD news about …
  • … book on consanguineous marriage ( Huth 1875 ), Huth had published extracts from Legrain …
  • … Legrain’s account to be fraudulent. George had published a review of Huth 1875 in the …
  • … Academy , 28 August 1875, pp. 226–7. …
  • … theory that inbreeding led to albinism ( Huth 1875 , pp. 297–8). The visitor was Nikolai …
  • … See letter from Eduard van Beneden, 18 August 1875, letter to G. …
  • … H. Darwin, [19 August 1875] , and letter from G. …
  • … H. Darwin, 20 August 1875 . There is an annotated copy of Delamer 1854 in the Darwin …

From Lawson Tait   24 June [1875]

Summary

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 June [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10029

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From Lawson Tait   24 June [1875] …
  • … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … DAR 178: 13 Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait Birmingham 24 June [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784– …
  • … 5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17. ] …
  • … plants to the Birmingham Natural History Society on 15 June 1875; it was reported in the …
  • … Birmingham Daily Post , 16 June 1875, p. 5. …
  • … Tait summarised his experiments in a letter published in Nature , 29 July 1875, pp. 251–2. …
  • … Flower–traps’, in the Spectator , 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5, reported on Tait’s lecture at …
  • … appeared in the Spectator , 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17. He argued that his observations …

To Karl von Scherzer   22 September 1876

Summary

Thanks for sending Moritz Wagner’s letter and his essays [on "Der Naturprocess der Artbildung" in Das Ausland (1875)]. Will read them and write to Wagner when his health is better.

Declines to receive Scherzer at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl von Scherzer
Date:  22 Sept 1876
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-10613

Matches: 11 hits

  • … Naturprocess der Artbildung" in Das Ausland (1875)]. Will read them and write to Wagner …
  • … Bibliography Wagner, Moritz. 1875. Der Naturproceß der Artbildung. …
  • … Das Ausland , 31 May 1875, pp. …
  • … 425–8; 7 June 1875, pp. …
  • … 449–52; 14 June 1875, pp. …
  • … 473–5; 21 June 1875, pp. …
  • … 490–3; 28 June 1875, pp. …
  • … 513–16; 19 July 1875, pp. …
  • … 570–5; 26 July 1875, pp. 589–93. Wagner, Moritz. 1889. Die Entstehung der Arten durch …
  • … der Artbildung’ (The natural process of species formation; Wagner 1875 ) appeared between …
  • … May and July 1875 in Das Ausland . It was later reprinted in a posthumous collection of …

To Thomas Meehan   3 October 1875

Summary

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Meehan
Date:  3 Oct 1875
Classmark:  DAR 146: 354
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10181

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To Thomas Meehan   3 October 1875
  • … DAR 146: 354 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Oct 1875 Thomas Meehan …
  • … Cross and self fertilisation on 1 September 1875, but this may be an error, since he also …
  • … corrections to Variation 2d ed. until 3 October 1875 (see Appendix II). In Cross and self …
  • … Insectivorous plants US ed. By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1875. Meehan, …
  • … Thomas. 1875. Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilization? Proceedings of the …
  • … Down. | Beckenham. Kent. Oct.  3. 1875. My dear Sir. I received several days ago either …
  • … that appeared in a New York newspaper, the Independent , 9 September 1875, p.  10, is in …
  • … DAR 139.18: 10. In August 1875, Meehan had presented a paper at the annual meeting of the …
  • … material aid to plants in fertilization? ’ ( Meehan 1875 ). CD’s copy of the version of …
  • … in the Philadelphia Press , 13 August 1875, has not been found. It is not known which …
  • … under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … but the conclusion is as given in Meehan 1875 , p.  251. Meehan argued that insects played …
  • … to ensure cross-fertilisation (see Lubbock 1875 , and H.  Müller 1873  and 1873–7). …

From J. T. Knowles   9 February 1875

Summary

Assures CD that space will be reserved in the April Contemporary Review for W. D. Whitney’s article and solicits an introductory section from C.D.

Author:  James Thomas Knowles
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Feb 1875
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney family papers (MS 555) Box 22, folder 584 1875 Feb. 8-11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9848F

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From J. T. Knowles   9 February 1875
  • … Archives (William Dwight Whitney family papers (MS 555) Box 22, folder 584 1875 Feb. 8-11) …
  • … James Thomas Knowles The Hollies, Clapham Common 9 Feb 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Contemporary Review , April 1875, and was twenty pages long. In 1874, Knowles had tried to …
  • … Knowles, 5 August 1874 ). In the event, CD did not write an introduction to Whitney 1875 . …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Max Müller, Friedrich. 1875. My reply to Mr. Darwin. …
  • … 1874–5): 305–26. Whitney, William Dwight. 1875. Are languages institutions? Contemporary …
  • … by Friedrich Max Müller ( Max Müller 1875 ), has not been found (see letter to G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, 10 [February 1875] and n. 2). CD sent this letter to Whitney along with two …
  • … not been found (see letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 10 [February 1875] ). Whitney’s article, ‘ …
  • … Are languages institutions? ’ ( Whitney 1875 ), was published in …
  • … Hollies | Clapham Common | S.W Feby 9 th . 1875 My Dear Sir/ I lose no time in assuring …

From J. H. Gilbert   31 December 1875

Summary

Discusses fairy rings.

Author:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1875
Classmark:  Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10331F

Matches: 17 hits

  • … From J.  H.  Gilbert   31 December 1875
  • … Research (GIL13) Joseph Henry Gilbert Harpenden 31 Dec 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … and n. 4). See letter to J. H. Gilbert, 11 August 1875 and n. 3. Josiah Gilbert had edited …
  • … vols. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. Gilbert, Joseph Henry. 1875. Note on the occurrence of ‘ …
  • … Harpenden S t . Albans Dec r 31, 1875 Dear Sir, I am truly sorry to have allowed your two …
  • … land (see letter from J. H. Gilbert, 24 July 1875 and n. 4). CD returned the tables with …
  • … his letter to J. H. Gilbert, 11 August 1875 ; his second letter has not been found. …
  • … Gilbert had presented a paper on 3 June 1875 on fairy-rings (fungi that grow in circles) …
  • … fairy-rings’. [Read 3 June 1875. ] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 15 (1877): 17– …
  • … 24. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
  • … plants had been published on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The Scientific …
  • … Note on the occurrence of “fairy-rings”’; J. H. Gilbert 1875 ). For CD’s interest in …
  • … fairy-rings, see the letter from James Paget, 7 July 1875 , the letter from M. …
  • … J. Berkeley, 13 July 1875 , and the letter to J. …
  • … S. Burdon-Sanderson, 16 July 1875. Gilbert collaborated with John Bennet Lawes at the …
  • … of branching filaments. See J. H. Gilbert 1875 , p. 20. ‘a. nudus’: Agaricus nudus , a …
  • … to the surrounding grass ( J. H. Gilbert 1875 , p. 22). Agaricus arvensis , the horse …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   [19 December 1875]

Summary

CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  [19 Dec 1875]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10308

Matches: 18 hits

  • … To W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer   [19 December 1875] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 [19 Dec 1875] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
  • … between this letter and the letter to W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 16 December [1875] . …
  • … The Sunday following 16 December 1875 was 19 December. CD wanted Henry Walter Bates to …
  • … after Lankester had been blackballed at the meeting of 2 December 1875 (see letter to W.   …
  • … T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 16 December [1875] ). Possibly Andrew Crombie Ramsay (see letter to …
  • … the University of Edinburgh on 17 December 1875. Lord Derby advocated science as a means …
  • … for men of science ( The Times , 18 December 1875, p. 9). St George Jackson Mivart was …
  • … CD had cut off all communication with Mivart in January 1875 (see letter to St G. …
  • … J. Mivart, 12 January 1875 ). …
  • … W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 16 December [1875] and n. 8). John Gould . Benjamin Thompson …
  • … See letter to J.  J.  Weir, 18 December [1875] . A reference to botanists associated with …
  • … to W.  T.  Thiselton-Dyer, 16 December [1875] . James Murie . CD’s letter to Murie has not …
  • … fees (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1875 ). Lankester had been elected …
  • … a fellow of the Royal Society of London in June 1875 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 December 1875 and n. 7). CD probably alludes to the refusal by the Council …
  • … Thiselton-Dyer had been employed as Hooker’s assistant since June 1875 ( letter from J. …
  • … D. Hooker, 20 June 1875 and n. 2). Edward Henry Stanley , the …

From John Murray   22 November [1875]

Summary

Sends cheques in payment on three of CD’s books.

Proposes to print 500 copies of Insectivorous plants before distributing the type.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 478
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10270

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  • … From John Murray   22 November [1875] …
  • … DAR 171: 478 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 22 Nov [1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … John Murray, 29 July [1874] . See letter from John Murray, 19 November [1875] and n. 2. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by …
  • … and the letter to John Murray, 20 November 1875 . The cheques were for CD’s share of the …
  • … ed. (see letter to John Murray, 20 November 1875 ). CD recorded deposits for these amounts …
  • … in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS) on 23 November 1875. See …
  • … letter to John Murray, 20 November 1875 and n. 2. On the payment for Origin 6th ed. , see …
  • … The present Ed n .  of 1500 was printed March 1875— Of Insectivorous Plants”, I propose to …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   18 April 1875

Summary

Encloses a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938).

Sir John Lubbock has agreed to meet CD, but no arrangement has been made.

Maybe they should drop the petition, since Lord Derby has agreed to help.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  18 Apr 1875
Classmark:  University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9939F

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  • … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   18 April 1875
  • … Sanderson) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr 1875 John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet …
  • … a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938). Sir John Lubbock has agreed …
  • … very sincerely | Ch. Darwin F.O. April 17. 1875 Dear M r Darwin I am honoured by your …
  • … Litchfield , was at Down from 17 to 18 April 1875 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Joseph …
  • … Society of London. See Correspondence vol. 23, letters from J. D. Hooker, 7 April 1875 and …
  • … 15 April 1875 ). F.O. : Foreign Office. Edward Henry Stanley (Lord Derby) was the foreign …
  • … secretary. See Correspondence vol. 23, draft letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875 . …
  • … letter from E. H. Stanley, 17 April 1875 (see Correspondence vol. 23 for a transcription …
  • … Huxley visited Down from 17 to 18 April 1875 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The home …
  • … been found, but see the draft letter to R. A. Cross, May 1875 ( Correspondence vol. 23). …
  • … been in London from 31 March to 12 April 1875 ( Correspondence vol. 23, Appendix II). John …
  • … from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 February 1875 ). For CD’s work on the subject, see ibid. , …

From J. D. Hooker   [7 February 1875]

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Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.

Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Feb 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 11–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9843

Matches: 15 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [7 February 1875] …
  • … DAR 104: 11–13 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [7 Feb 1875] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1875. On some of the results of the expedition of …
  • … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: …
  • … by the reference to the death of Henry Lyell , who died on 5 February 1875 ( The Times , …
  • … 10 February 1875, p. 1). …
  • … The Sunday following 5 February 1875 was 7 February. Harriet Anne Hooker was Hooker’s …
  • … H.  Huxley 1875 , pp.  642–4). Diatoms are mostly pelagic unicellular or colonial algae, …
  • … ODNB ). The Royal Society annual soirée took place on 7 April 1875 ( The Times , …
  • … 8 April 1875, p.  5). Hyacinth Jardine . George Bentham and Hooker were co-authors of …
  • … in Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875 ( Publishers’ circular , …
  • … 16 July 1875, p.  498). Hooker had asked for an assistant to help with his work at the …
  • … recalled to lead the Arctic expedition of 1875–6 ( ODNB ). The Challenger expedition was …
  • … not the Royal Society) on 29 January 1875, entitled ‘Some results of the Challenger …
  • … of Antarctic Diatomaceae , appeared in the Contemporary Review in March 1875 ( T.   …
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Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online

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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…

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  • … of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first …
  • … it behaved in similar ways to the Drosera secretion. In 1875, Klein was a very controversial …
  • … I liked the man .’   Other highlights from the 1875 letters include: I am very …
  • … of my books.  ( Letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 June [1875] ) Darwin wrote this to his …
  • … new Editions .  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 August [1875] ) Darwin also completed …
  • … this possible  ( Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Agitation for a law …
  • … made false statements  ( Letter to John Lubbock, 8 April 1875 ) Relations between the …
  • … always succeeds  ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 13 October [1875] ) Darwin wrote …
  • … help his father and brothers with scientific instruments: in 1875, he designed a hygrometer. …
  • … his great works ( Letter to A. B. Buckley, 23 February 1875 ) The year was saddened …
  • … in my time  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1875] ) In December, Darwin was …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

Summary

‘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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  • … during his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close …
  • … mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have …
  • … again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered …
  • … learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : ‘I declare to you I did not believe …
  • … carried out on live animals in laboratories. In January 1875, he received details of experiments by …
  • … printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). In the event, the book …
  • … in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 July 1875, by Ellen Frances Lubbock: ‘in Utricularia …
  • … born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875).   Back over old ground …
  • … which I had long wished to see,’ he wrote on 21 April 1875 , ‘and now that I have seen it, I am …
  • … do a good deal of “hammering”,’ he wrote on 14 July 1875 . ‘I shall not let Pangenesis alone …
  • … his own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
  • … & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February 1875?] ). By May, having finished …
  • … proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] ). But Francis also found …
  • … on astronomy, or the Duke of Wellington on art (Max Müller 1875, pp. 305–7). The debate between Max …
  • … researches (Carus trans. 1875b; the series is Carus trans. 1875–87). More controversial was the …
  • … Darwin wrote: ‘An anonymous compliment | received Feb 16th 1875’.   The great and the good …
  • … Insectivorous plants ( letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875] ). Such visitors from the upper …
  • … I can talk to anyone’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] ). Finally it was arranged for the …
  • … of twining plants (letters from Lawson Tait, 16 March [1875] and 27 March [1875] ). ‘As I am …
  • … Nepenthes & will soon publish’, Darwin warned on 17 July 1875 . But Tait was undaunted. He …
  • … Thiselton-Dyer ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1875 ). It was Thiselton-Dyer who …
  • … was appropriate for so distinguished a nominee. Already in 1875, Lankester had been elected a fellow …
  • … of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was notified of …
  • … ‘high type’ ( letter from Woodward Emery, 17 September 1875 ).  …

Darwin and vivisection

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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  • … the Trichinae’ (letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ). Darwin also worried that any bill …
  • … their own petition (letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ). In the event, Darwin became …
  • … within Darwin’s family. In his letter of 14 January 1875 to Huxley, Darwin mentioned the effect …
  • … (letter from Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe, 14 January [1875] ). In the course of the public …
  • … to Huxley (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 February 1875 ). Darwin was in London from 31 …
  • … sketch for a petition (letter from T. H. Huxley, [4 April 1875] ). This was evidently passed back …
  • … on 7 April (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 7 April [1875] ), and circulating it to others in …
  • … were made (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 10 April 1875 ), and another version was prepared …
  • … of Lords (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). He was still unsure whether …
  • … Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 April [1875] ). The next day he wrote to …
  • … else you think best’ (letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875 ). After further consultations, a …
  • … are evident in Darwin’s correspondence in April and May 1875. The initial petition (DAR …
  • … order of the clauses. In the revised sketch, dated 24 April 1875, the penalty for unlawful …
  • … at this alteration (letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 May 1875 , letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, …
  • … corrections had been made (letter to Lyon Playfair, 26 May 1875 , and letter from Lyon Playfair, …
  • … ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates , 3d ser., vol. 224 (1875), col. 794). A Royal Commission was a …
  • … the RSPCA. The commission met between 5 June and 15 December 1875, examining fifty-three witnesses, …

I never trusted Drosera: From E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875

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  Francis Neary has set his favourite letter to music (with additional vocals and bass by Deen Manning). The satirical verses were sent to Darwin by Ellen Frances Lubbock in 1875 after the publication of his book on insectivorous plants. They…

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  • … verses were sent to Darwin by Ellen Frances Lubbock in 1875 after the publication of his book on …

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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  • … but inconclusive (see letter from G. J. Romanes, 14 July 1875 ). Eventually Romanes, who had …
  • … physiologists’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 18 July 1875 ). Darwin was concerned that the method be …
  • … let loose from hell’ ( letter to F. B. Cobbe, [14 January 1875] ). Darwin’s involvement in …
  • … position most frankly in a letter to Henrietta, 4 January [1875] . I have long thought …
  • … present agitation. ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Darwin worked closely …
  • … death in this country. ( letter To T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ) Legislation was passed …

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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  • … on this subject. ( To J. V. Carus   7 February 1875 ). In fact, Darwin had planned a new set of …
  • … fact seems to me all important.’ ( To Asa Gray, 30 May [1875] ). In earlier papers on plants with …
  • … any material aid to plants in fertilization?’ (Meehan 1875) prompted Darwin to inform him that he …
  • … to plants to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann Müller had also read Meehan …
  • … obscure this matter’ ( From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ). The Italian botanists were …
  • … plants that crossing was of little importance (Pedicino 1875; Comes 1875). Darwin was philosophical, …
  • … Kölreuter’s papers’ ( To Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). Darwin’s copy of Johann Kölreuter’s …
  • … in the conditions’ ( To Ernst Haeckel, 13 November 1875 ). He added on a darker note, ‘What I …
  • … papers in the same book ( To J. V. Carus, 25 December 1875 ). As Darwin continued to write …

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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  • … 10194: Max Müller, Friedrich to Darwin, C. R., 13 Oct [1875] For Müller, human and animal …
  • … Letter 9887: Dawkins, W. B. to Darwin, C. R., 14 Mar 1875 The relationship between language …

Thomas Burgess

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As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…

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  • … about him again until he opened a letter from him in March 1875 . It was written from Rainow, a …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … preparing a second edition, which eventually appeared in 1875. In the same year, Darwin published a …
  • … in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). While  Climbing plants  focused …

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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  • … sketch showing his system of selection,  21 May 1875 J. G. Joyce's report of …

4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…

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  • … book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of …
  • … forms. A writer in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in March 1875 remarked that Darwin had ‘invested …
  • … Sambourne 
 date of creation December 1875 
 computer-readable date …
  • … references and bibliography Punch vol. 69 (11 December 1875), p. 242. Gardeners’ Chronicle …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
  • … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
  • … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
  • … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
  • … in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by …
  • … Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the ‘awful job …

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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  • … not retract his criticism in his own second edition (Dana 1875, p. 274). Descent …
  • … (Correspondence vol. 23, from J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1875] ), preferring to attack Mivart in …
  • … Anthropogenie  in the  Academy   (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. 644–5) . The affair …
  • … wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any future …
  • … and a second French edition was published in January 1875 ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald , 4 February …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Climbing Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…

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  • … expressed. The paper was little noticed, but when in 1875 it was corrected and published as a …
  • … Letter 10214 - Darwin to T. H. Huxley, 23 October 1875 Darwin writes to his good …

Vivisection: Darwin's testimony to the Royal Commission

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Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. 4661. (Chairman.) We are very sensible of your kindness in coming at some sacrifice to yourself to express your opinions to the Commission. We attribute it to the great…

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  • … Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. …

Vivisection: first sketch of the bill

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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …

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  • … cited for all purposes as “The Experiments on Animals Act, 1875.” SCHEDULE. …
  • … under the provisions of “The Experiments on Animals Act, 1875,” empowering me to make experiments on …
  • … under the provisions of the Experiments on Animals Act, 1875, that the above-named M.N. is enaged in …
  • … under the provisions of the Experiments on Animals Act, 1875, accompanied by Certificate, such as is …

1.6 Ouless oil portrait

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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…

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  • … Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from …
  • … the resulting picture was shown at the Royal Academy in May 1875, the Times reviewer noted …
  • … Walter William Ouless 
 date of creation March 1875 
 computer-readable date …
  • … and letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 30 March [1875], DCP-LETT-9905. ‘The Royal Academy’ …

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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  • … to an end. The dispute was not resolved until early 1875, and, even then, not to Darwin’s complete …
  • … from J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). By January 1875, Mivart had still not made any …
  • … book Anthropogenie , in the Academy , 2 January 1875. ‘Possessed by a blind animosity against …
  • … (Mivart was a Catholic convert.) On 12 January 1875 , Darwin finally wrote to Mivart, …
  • … article in a letter published in the Academy , 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly …

Insectivorous Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…

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  • … mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin …
  • … 1 The resulting volume, Insectivorous Plants (1875), was one in a series of works in which …
  • … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles. 1875. Insectivorous Plants. London: John …
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