From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From John Tyndall 2 February 1876 …
- … DAR 106: C20–1 John Tyndall Royal Institution 2 Feb 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Louisa Charlotte Hamilton on 29 February 1876 ( ODNB ). Her family home was at 19 Eaton …
- … Institution of Great Britain 2 nd . Feb y 1876. My dear Darwin I hope I am not wrong in …
- … written a letter to The Times , 25 January 1876, p. 11, in which he argued that Tyndall’s …
- … in the field. Tyndall replied in a letter to The Times , 28 January 1876, p. 12, which was …
- … followed by another from Bastian ( The Times , 29 January 1876, p. 14), …
- … from Tyndall ( The Times , 4 February 1876, p. 11). The medical profession had been …
- … Royal Society of London on 13 January 1876 and published in the society’s transactions ( …
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [4 February 1876]
Summary
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10380 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [4 February 1876] …
- … his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin from 3 to 5 February 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [4 Feb 1876] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … London to vote at the meeting on 3 February 1876 ( Proceedings of the Linnean Society of …
- … volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker was president of …
- … its meetings, but at the 3 February 1876 meeting, William Spottiswoode , the treasurer and …
To John Tyndall 4 February 1876
Summary
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10379 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To John Tyndall 4 February 1876 …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead 4 Feb 1876 John Tyndall …
- … to Louisa Charlotte Hamilton in his letter of 2 February 1876 . CD stayed in London at the …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin from 3 to 5 February 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Francis …
- … See letter from John Tyndall, 2 February 1876 and nn. 2 and 3. Henry Charlton Bastian had …
- … read before to the Royal Society of London on 13 January 1876 ( Tyndall 1876a ) appeared …
- … in Nature , 27 January 1876 and …
- … 3 February 1876. For more on the debate about spontaneous generation and Tyndall’s role in …
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10381 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From John Tyndall 5 February 1876 …
- … Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) John Tyndall unstated 5 Feb 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 5 th . Feb y 1876 It is not the gift but the altar which sanctifieth the gift. And it is …
- … tea set as a wedding present (see letter to John Tyndall, 4 February 1876 and nn. 1 and …
- … 2, and second letter from John Tyndall, 5 February 1876 ). See …
- … letter to John Tyndall, 4 February 1876 and nn. 3 and 4. Tyndall had been working on the …
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10382 |
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- … From John Tyndall 5 February 1876 …
- … Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) John Tyndall unstated 5 Feb 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to John Tyndall, 4 February 1876 and n. 2). Louisa Charlotte Hamilton, Tyndall’ …
- … 5 th . Feb y . 1876. My dear Darwin I wrote to you this morning when the teapot was a …
To Eduard Koch? 6 February 1876
Summary
Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Koch |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10383 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Eduard Koch? 6 February 1876 …
- … Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Feb 1876 Eduard Koch …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … 2d ed. was published in German in October 1876 (Carus trans. 1876c; see letter to J. …
- … V. Carus, 25 October 1876 ). It formed the first part of volume 9 of the collected German …
- … Cross and self fertilisation until May 1876, when he began correcting the second edition …
- … fertilisation was published on 10 November 1876 ( Freeman 1977 ) and Orchids 2d ed. was …
To J. B. Innes 7 February [1876]
Summary
Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10833 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. B. Innes 7 February [1876] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Feb [1876] John Brodie Innes …
- … to letter to J. M. F. Ludlow, 11 February 1876 ; the other form, which was returned to the …
- … Office Savings Bank , has not been found (see letter to A. C. Thomson, 11 February 1876 ). …
- … this letter, the letter to J. M. F. Ludlow, 11 February 1876 , and the letter to A. …
- … C. Thomson, 11 February 1876 . The Down Friendly Society was established by CD and Innes …
To Società dei Naturalisti di Modena 8 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Società dei Naturalisti di Modena |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10383F |
To Fritz Müller [9 February 1876]
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10384 |
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- … To Fritz Müller [9 February 1876] …
- … 88205868) Charles Robert Darwin Down [9 Feb 1876] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … middens, habits of ants, etc." , Nature 13 (1876): 304–5]. Would be grateful for Ceropegia …
- … vol. 23) was printed in Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5. In his letter of 25 December …
- … as a travelling naturalist in October 1876. For more on Müller’s difficulties with the …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [ 1876] ). In 1874, Joseph Dalton Hooker had sent CD …
To A. B. Buckley 11 February [1876]
Summary
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10387 |
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- … To A. B. Buckley 11 February [1876] …
- … DAR 143: 179 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Feb [1876] Arabella Burton Buckley …
- … Comments on her new book [ A short history of natural science (1876)]. …
- … theory of natural selection by CD and Alfred Russel Wallace in Buckley 1876 , pp. 425–6. …
- … Bibliography Buckley, Arabella Burton. 1876. A short history of natural science and of the …
- … s A short history of natural science was published in the second half of January 1876 ( …
- … Buckley 1876 ; Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 1 February 1876, p. 84). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. Buckley had organised …
- … as ‘another celebrated geologist’ ( Buckley 1876 , p. 406). She discussed William Smith’s …
To J. M. F. Ludlow 11 February 1876
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10840 |
To [Post Office Savings Bank] 11 February [1876]
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10388 |
To H. T. Stainton 11 February [1876]
Summary
Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10385 |
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- … To H. T. Stainton 11 February [1876] …
- … Manuscripts MSS DAR 26) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Feb [1876] Henry Tibbats Stainton …
- … London . The certificate, dated 10 February 1876 and bearing CD’s signature second on the …
- … The form was submitted on 24 February 1876 and resubmitted in 1877; McLachlan was elected …
To A. C. Thomson 11 February 1876
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Christie Thomson |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10386 |
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- … To A. C. Thomson 11 February 1876 …
- … MS.7781/1–32 item 14) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Feb 1876 Alexander Christie Thomson …
- … the letter to J. B. Innes, 7 February [1876] . CD and John Brodie Innes were trustees of …
- … See letter to J. M. F. Ludlow, 11 February 1876 and enclosure. The registrar of Friendly …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 11. 1876 Sir There has been some delay in answering your …
From A. B. Buckley 12 February 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.
| Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 365 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10389 |
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- … From A. B. Buckley 12 February 1876 …
- … DAR 160: 365 Arabella Burton Buckley Paddington 12 Feb 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1 St Mary’s Terrace | Paddington W. Feb 12. 1876. Dear M r . Darwin, Thank you so much for …
- … In his letter to Buckley of 11 February [1876] , CD had commented on her book …
- … A short history of natural science ( Buckley 1876 ). See letter to A. …
- … B. Buckley, 11 February [1876] and n. 3. Buckley added a brief description of Roderick …
- … Bibliography Buckley, Arabella Burton. 1876. A short history of natural science and of the …
- … on botany ( letter to A. B. Buckley, 11 February [1876] and n. 4) See letter to A. …
- … B. Buckley, 11 February [1876] and n. 5. Buckley had written, ‘ …
- … Browning’s little spectroscope’ ( Buckley 1876 , p. 322). She changed the text to read, ‘ …
From S. B. Herrick 12 February 1876
Summary
Inquires whether insectivorous habit in plants supplements or replaces the normal method of plant nutrition.
| Author: | Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10390 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876]
Summary
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10391 |
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- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876] …
- … 22a) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 14 Feb [1876] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 15 February 1876 . Francis Darwin , the amanuensis, evidently …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) for 21 February 1876 records the receipt of seeds of Pleroma …
- … plant of Pleroma is recorded on 3 March 1876. Müller’s letter to CD of 25 December 1875 ( …
- … 23) was printed in Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5. Müller had enclosed specimens of …
- … of bull-horn acacia in 1874 (see letter to Fritz Müller, [9 February 1876] and n. 2). …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) for 17 February 1876 records the dispatch to CD of Acacia …
- … member of the Linnean Society on 3 February 1876; CD and Francis had made a trip to London …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] and n. 2). Hooker had sent Francis grass …
- … Transactions of the Linnean Society in June 1876 ( F. Darwin 1876c ). When Thiselton-Dyer …
To J. J. Weir 14 February [1876]
Summary
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10392 |
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From Thomas Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 February 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10394 |
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- … From Thomas Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 February 1876 …
- … DAR 76: B186–7 Thomas Moore Chelsea Bot. Gard. 15 Feb 1876 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] ). Senecio cruentus is a synonym of Pericallis …
- … Chelsea Botanic Garden Feb 15. 1876 My dear Dyer The Cinerarias have no special names but …
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| John Murray | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Tyndall, John | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
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Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
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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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
- … has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, happily …
- … life. But the calm was not to last, and the second half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief …
- … in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the second edition …
- … Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1876 ). When Smith, Elder and Company …
- … observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) Darwin focused instead on the …
- … ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids was less a …
- … with his new research in mind: ‘During this autumn of 1876 I shall publish on the “Effects of Cross …
- … pamphlet, Darwin confounded (C. O’Shaughnessy 1876), which, he informed Darwin, ‘completely …
- … and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). Combatting enemies... …
- … disguised his views as to the bestiality of man’ (Mivart 1876, p. 144). Not only was the comment …
- … in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had long been a …
- … a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s …
- … in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle& …
- … issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission report was published …
- … The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John …
- … The 'insect eating theory' Throughout 1876, Darwin continued to receive responses …
- … published later that year and a German translation in 1876. ‘What is more to be wondered at—Nature …
- … an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 ). Others questioned whether insects …
- … eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 ). William Dallinger from Liverpool …
- … to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). Pangenesis v. perigenesis …
- … second edition of Variation was published in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date …
- … ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March 1876] ). A less welcome reaction came from an ardent …
- … previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September 1876] ). ...all sorts of …
- … later told Muller ( letter to Fritz Müller, [9 February 1876] ). Likewise, when Johann von Fischer …
- … ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before 15 September 1876] ). Hubert Airy’s latest paper on leaf …
- … of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). Darwin recognised scientific skill …
- … Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles, 16 …
- … it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 ). Darwin beat an angry retreat. He …
- … untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ). Darwin also had cause to …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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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- … in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project …
- … the self-fertilised’ ( To G. H. Darwin, 8 January [1876] ). George explained the difficulties of …
- … equal value.’ ( From G. H. Darwin, [after 8 January 1876] ). It was his cousin, the statistician …
- … introduction to the book ( To Francis Galton, 13 January [1876] ). Joseph Henry …
- … on yet another experimental aspect of his work. In February 1876, he wrote to the agricultural …
- … in a state of nature’ ( To J. H. Gilbert, 16 February 1876 ). Darwin wanted to try to remove all …
- … soil to remove nutrients ( From J. H. Gilbert, 4 March 1876 ). In June 1876, Darwin had supposedly …
- … samples differed ( To Edward Frankland, [before 6 June 1876] ). The project proved to be too …
- … am convinced that the book is of value’ By August 1876, the book had gone to press and …
- … shall ever do on this subject’ ( To Asa Gray, 9 August 1876 ). As Darwin began correcting …
- … I would suggest 1,500’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 16 September 1876 ). In the meantime, a happy event, the …
- … it too much for you’ ( To Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). Francis must have found some …
- … slightly modified’ ( To Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). Darwin continued to send work, …
- … & very useful’ ( To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876] ). At the end of September …
- … early in November’ ( To J. V. Carus, 27 September 1876 ). The title had now changed from that …
- … alone worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote …
- … Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). Gray was impatient for a copy …
- … had not yet been released ( From Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). Darwin sent the sheets, apologised …
- … that of almost anyone else’ ( To Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray reassured him, ‘I have as yet …
- … faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The book was published on 10 …
- … 6 or 700 would sell.’ ( To John Murray, 15 November 1876 ). In fact, Murray sold 1100 copies of …
- … for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). After reading the book, Hildebrand …
- … for further work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). Alphonse de Candolle noted the …
- … experiments ( From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876 ). One critical review came from Alfred …
- … yet been produced’ ( From A. R. Wallace, 13 December 1876 ). No reply to this letter has been …
Darwin's 1876 letters online
Summary
Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. To mark the 211th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we have released online the transcripts and footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters written before…
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- … footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters …
- … was devoted to the means of crossing. The year 1876 started energetically, with Darwin …
- … of Variation under domestication appeared early in 1876. Reprints of Origin, Climbing plants …
- … in January 1877; Darwin had been working on it since May 1876. Work was probably a welcome …
- … letters written or conjectured to have been written before 1876, which have been discovered or …
- … to a span of years, but that were probably written before 1876. Many of these are from a recently …
From Argus pheasant to Mivart: To A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876
Summary
This letter has almost everything you might want from a Darwin letter, and merits a correspondingly, magnificently complete set of notes provided by the Correspondence Project. First, the letter is to that other doyen of natural selection, Alfred Russel…
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- … records Darwin's views on the first volume of Wallace's 1876 book The geographical …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
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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- … Emma to a Sunday afternoon at the Leweses’ on 30 April 1876 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … hurrah, 2795 games. (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ) And an entry in Jane …
4.28 'English celebrities' montage
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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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 10439 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [3 April 1876] Mary Treat describes a field trip …
- … 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B . to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick asks …
- … Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis, …
- … Letter 10517 - Darwin t o Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis …
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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3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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- … Mark , published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured …
- … and continued collecting wild plants in the spring of 1876. The resulting observations would …
- … his observations. On 7 September 1876, Francis welcomed his son Bernard into the …
- … on the nature and function of aggregation. Francis’ 1876 paper on aggregation sought explicitly to …
- … protoplasm, rather than condensations of cell-sap (F. Darwin 1876, p. 312). Cohn’s comments on …
- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. Darwin, F. 1876. The Process of Aggregation in the …
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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- … religious sect’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 June [1876] ). Experimenters and a portion of the …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
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- … Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis Darwin, 29 May 1876 Darwin writes to Francis to …
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 10523 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 June 1876] Darwin praises Treat’s work and …
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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- … THE OLDER ONE GETS THE MORE THERE IS TO DO: 1868-1876 In which the friends consider the …
- … 20 JULY 1857 45 A GRAY, PREFACE TO DARWINIANA, 1876 46 THE NICENE CREED, …
- … TO A GRAY, 22 MAY 1860 91 A GRAY, DARWINIANA, 1876 92 A GRAY, REVIEW OF …
- … TO JD HOOKER 1870 183 C DARWIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1876 184 A GRAY, PREFACE, …
- … GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST 1876 194 FROM A GRAY 25 …
- … JUNE 1874 203 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to Paris in 1889. …
- … and was sent back to Europe as a military attaché. Since 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the …
- … Kautschuk- und Leder-Industrie. 2 nd issue. Wien: Manz 1876. N.N.: GM Josef Edler von …
- … society Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … 10546 – Darwin to Editor of The Times , [23 June 1876] Darwin forwards to The …
Essays & reviews by Asa Gray
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Asa Gray wrote a series of reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. These gave publicity to Darwin’s theories, and they also contained extended reflections on the possible implications of these theories…
