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To E. R. Lankester   [after 1 November 1876]

Summary

Offers to contribute £10 towards ERL’s expenses in prosecuting Henry Slade, the spiritualistic imposter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:  [after 1 Nov 1876]
Classmark:  Warner ed. 1896, 2: 4391
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10660F

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  • … To E. R. Lankester   [after 1 November 1876] …
  • … Warner ed. 1896, 2 : 4391 Charles Robert Darwin [after 1 Nov 1876] Edwin Ray Lankester …

To Nature   [before 2 November 1876]

Summary

Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 2 Nov 1876]
Classmark:  Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10660

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  • … To Nature    [before 2 November 1876] …
  • … Nature , 2 November 1876, pp. 18– …
  • … 19 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 2 Nov 1876] Nature …
  • … Bibliography Mivart, St George Jackson. 1876. Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind …

From H. N. Moseley   3 November 1876

Summary

Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 171: 254
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10661

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  • … From H.  N.  Moseley   3 November 1876
  • … 171: 254 Henry Nottidge Moseley Exeter College, Oxford 3 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … round the world, in the years 1872–1876. London: Macmillan and Co. ODNB : Oxford …
  • … Exeter College | Oxford Nov 3. 1876. Dear Sir I send you by book post an odd volume of a …

To Asa Gray   4 [November 1876]

Summary

Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  4 [Nov 1876]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130c)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10662

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   4 [November 1876] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (130c) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 [Nov 1876] Asa Gray …
  • … self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. …
  • … this letter and the letter to Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 . CD was sending Gray proof-sheets …
  • … and self fertilisation ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray had asked for them to …
  • … thirty days in his letter of 12 October 1876 ; this postcard was franked in New York on 15 …

To J. J. Weir   4 November 1876

Summary

Promises to propose JJW for membership in Zoological Society.

Sympathises with JJW’s enthusiasm about the Danais and hopes it may become naturalised in this country.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  4 Nov 1876
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 October 1962)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10698

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  • … To J.  J.  Weir   4 November 1876
  • … s (dealers) (29 October 1962) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Nov 1876 John Jenner Weir …
  • … Down 4 November 1876 [promising to propose him for the Zoological Society, sympathising …
  • … of the Zoological Society of London in 1876 ( Science Gossip n.s.  1 (1894): 49–50). On …

To H. N. Moseley   5 November 1876

Summary

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:  5 Nov 1876
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10663

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  • … To H.  N.  Moseley   5 November 1876
  • … 8 November 2018, lot 7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Nov 1876 Henry Nottidge Moseley …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Nov.  5 1876 My dear Sir, I am very much obliged to …
  • … See letter from H. N. Moseley, 3 November 1876 . The book has not been found in the Darwin …

From J. F. McLennan   7 November 1876

Summary

L. H. Morgan has plagiarised his and Henry Maine’s works for years.

Encourages George Darwin to continue his work on consanguineous marriages.

Author:  John Ferguson McLennan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 171: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10664

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  • … From J.  F.  McLennan   7 November 1876
  • … DAR 171: 23 John Ferguson McLennan Algiers 7 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography McLennan, John Ferguson. 1876. Studies in ancient history: comprising a …
  • … s letter to McLennan has not been found. In 1876, McLennan had published a reprint of his …
  • … Studies in ancient history ( McLennan 1876 ). There is a lightly annotated copy of it in …
  • … s views on communal marriage, see McLennan 1876 , pp. 329–71 and 423–49, respectively. ‘ …
  • … of the ancient Irish family’, McLennan 1876 , pp. 451–507. Henry James Sumner Maine . …

From H. N. Moseley   7 November 1876

Summary

Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 171: 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10665

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  • … From H.  N.  Moseley   7 November 1876
  • … 171: 255 Henry Nottidge Moseley Exeter College, Oxford 7 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter to H. N. Moseley, 5 November [1876] . See letter from H. …
  • … N. Moseley, 3 November 1876 . On the rise and fall of physiognomy as a practice, see …
  • … Exeter College | Oxford. Nov 7. 1876. My dear Sir Very many thanks for your kind letter …

From Frigyes Medveczky   11 November 1876

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Writing under the name of Friedrich von Bärenbach, FM sends his paper on J. G. Herder as a precursor of Darwin’s theory [Herder als Vorgänger Darwins (1877)]; hopes CD will acknowledge him as such.

Author:  Frigyes Medveczky
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10666

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  • … From Frigyes Medveczky   11 November 1876
  • … DAR 160: 41 Frigyes Medveczky Vienna 11 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Wien. (Grand Hotel) Nov 11. 1876 Highly honoured Sir! Will you allow a total stranger—a …

From E. B. Tylor   11 November 1876

Summary

Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.

Author:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 178: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10667

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  • … From E.  B.  Tylor   11 November 1876
  • … DAR 178: 205 Edward Burnett Tylor Athenaeum Club 11 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Asa Gray   12 November 1876

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Thanks for sheets of new book. Intends to talk about it at a scientific social club meeting.

Is amused to read CD’s criticisms of his own style, as in the U. S. it is spoken of as being as faultless as his temper. Corrects a reference.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 165: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10668

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  • … From Asa Gray   12 November 1876
  • … DAR 165: 191 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 12 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Dupree, Anderson Hunter. 1959. Asa Gray, …
  • … of Orchids 2d ed. in his letter of 28 October 1876 . He had sent Gray proof-sheets of the …
  • … fertilisation ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). For the founding of the Cambridge …
  • … 285. See letter to Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 . The monograph on Asclepias (milkweed) was …

To E. B. Tylor   12 November 1876

Summary

Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:  12 Nov 1876
Classmark:  Kew Books (dealers) Newsletter 6 (1976)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10669

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  • … To E.  B.  Tylor   12 November 1876
  • … Newsletter 6 (1976) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 12 Nov 1876 Edward Burnett Tylor …
  • … See letter from E. B. Tylor, 11 November 1876 . The original letter is complete and is …

To August Weismann   13 November 1876

Summary

Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:  13 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 148: 347
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10670

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  • … To August Weismann   13 November 1876
  • … 148: 347 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Nov 1876 Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann …
  • … Thanks for present of Studien [ zur Descendenz-Theorie , vol. 2 (1876)]. …
  • … on the theory of descent; Weismann 1876 ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
  • … Garland Publishing. 1990. Weismann, August. 1876. Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie. II. Über …
  • … Down, Beckenham, Kent Nov: 13. 1876 My dear Sir I thank you cordially for your most kind …

From J. D. Hooker   14 November 1876

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JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].

Return of Challenger.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 104: 69–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10671

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  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   14 November 1876
  • … DAR 104: 69–70 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 14 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Address to the Royal Society [ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62]. Return of Challenger . …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1876. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national …
  • … the Beagle voyage. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1876] , and letter from J. …
  • … D. Hooker, 26 April 1876 . John and Ellen Frances Lubbock lived at High Elms, Down, Kent. …
  • … visited the Darwins on Saturday 2 December 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George …

From Peter Henderson   15 November 1876

Summary

Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.

Author:  Peter Henderson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 166: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10673

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  • … From Peter Henderson   15 November 1876
  • … DAR 166: 140 Peter Henderson New York 15 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter from Phebe Hanaford, 3 September 1876 . No letter containing the results of …

From J. W. Judd   15 November 1876

Summary

Thanks for new edition of Coral reefs [1874]

and Volcanic islands [1876].

His travels and studies confirm CD’s explanation of the banded structure of lavas.

Author:  John Wesley Judd
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 168: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10674

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  • … From J.  W.  Judd   15 November 1876
  • … DAR 168: 82 John Wesley Judd Royal School of Mines 15 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of Coral reefs [1874] and Volcanic islands [1876]. His travels and studies confirm CD’s …
  • … observations were published in 1874 and 1876 respectively. Geological observations 2d ed. …
  • … Ponziane) in Judd 1875 ; of Hungary in Judd 1876 . See Geological observations 2d ed. , p. …
  • … Jermyn Street | S.W. 15 th . Nov r . 1876. Dear Sir, I write to thank you for your kind …
  • … Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1876. Geological observations 3d ed. : On the …

To John Murray   15 November 1876

Summary

Is satisfied with sales of his books.

Did not expect Orchids to sell more than 600 or 700 copies.

Only bad item is Expression, which astonishes him, since it sells well in Germany.

Asks size of printing of Cross and self-fertilisation; thinks 1500 would be ample.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  15 Nov 1876
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 306–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10672

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  • … To John Murray   15 November 1876
  • … Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 306–7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Nov 1876 John Murray …
  • … produced by B. J. Edwards & Co. (see letter from B. J. Edwards & Co , 16 February 1876). …
  • … to the list, which is dated 10 November 1876, Murray sold 1100 copies of Cross and self …
  • … hand, ‘Photographs sent to Mr Edwards Nov 1876’, in DAR 53.1: C121. Eduard Koch , Carus’s …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Descent 2d ed. : The descent of man, and …

To James Geikie   16 November 1876

Summary

On JG’s Great ice age.

Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.

Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].

Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.

Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:  16 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 144: 331
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10676

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  • … To James Geikie   16 November 1876
  • … DAR 144: 331 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Nov 1876 James Murdoch (James) Geikie …
  • … University Press. 1966–96. Blytt, Axel. 1876. Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian …
  • … Blytt [ Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)]. Has had fearful misgivings that the step- …
  • … 1877, Geikie’s book was published between 1 and 15 November 1876 ( Publishers’ circular , …
  • … 16 November 1876, p. 922; …
  • … also letter to James Geikie, 26 October 1876 ). CD’s eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin , …
  • … the past. Geological observations 2d ed. was published in November 1876 ( letter from J. …
  • … D. Hooker, 14 November 1876 ). On the step-formed plains of Patagonia, see Geological …
  • … the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1876. Holst, …
  • … Nils Olof. 1876. Om de glaciala rullstensåsarne. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm …
  • … ice running over the ice sheet ( Holst 1876 ). Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly was working …
  • … in the British Isles ( Agassiz 1840a ). See letter to Axel Blytt, 28 March 1876 and n. …
  • … 1, and Blytt 1876 ( Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating …

From Horace Pearce   16 November 1876

Summary

Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.

Author:  Horace Pearce
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 174: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10675

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  • … From Horace Pearce   16 November 1876
  • … DAR 174: 33 Horace Pearce Stourbridge 16 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … The Limes | Stourbridge. 16 Nov: 1876. Chas. R.  Darwin Esq. M.A. &c. &c. | London Dear …

From Charles Voysey   17 November 1876

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Asks CD’s opinion of a proposed protest [unspecified] and asks whether he will sign it.

Author:  Charles Voysey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 202: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10677

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  • … From Charles Voysey   17 November 1876
  • … DAR 202: 126 Charles Voysey Dulwich 17 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 November 1876 . According to L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 470, ‘An …
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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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  • … 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

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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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  • … 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

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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

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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)

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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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  • … 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....

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... 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

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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…

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  • … English Celebrities, 19 th Century (1876) . Fiction writers and …
  • … of image unknown 
 date of creation 1876 
 computer-readable date 1876-01-01 …
  • … th Century , Part 1 (London: Hughes and Edmonds, 1876), given to the NPG by Mrs Granville …

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…

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  • … 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B. to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick responds …
  • … Letter 10415 - Darwin to Herrick, S. M. B., [6 March 1876] Darwin responds to a …
  • … Letter 10508 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [15 May 1876] Mary Treat thanks Darwin for …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 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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  • … with different titling, in The Garden in January 1876. Rejlander’s photograph was re-interpreted …
  • … also appeared in Neue Illustrierte Zeitung (1 October 1876); L’Univers Illustré (29 April …
  • … Wood engraving in a supplement to The Garden (1 Jan. 1876), serving as frontispiece to an …

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…

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  • … collection of Gray’s reviews was published in book form in 1876 under the title Darwiniana . This …
  • … to obtain. Seven of these reviews, written between 1860 and 1876, which bear especially on the topic …
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