From R. W. Griffiths December 1877
Summary
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
| Author: | Richard William Griffiths |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11263 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 December 1877
Summary
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 498 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11264 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 1 December 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 1 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … John Murray . In his letter of 23 November 1877 , Cooke had informed CD that the type for …
- … see letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 and n. 3). In the event, when a second edition …
To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877] …
- … American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 Dec 1877] [2 …
- … Dec 1877] George John Romanes …
- … Bibliography Jäger, Gustav. 1877. Physiologische Briefe. Ueber Vererbung. Kosmos 1: 17–25, …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. J. Romanes, 2 December 1877 . …
- … In 1877, 2 December was a Sunday. Romanes sent CD a copy of his lecture to the …
- … letters’ on inheritance in Kosmos ( Jäger 1877 ); CD probably refers to the second of …
- … see letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 and n. 6). ‘It’s dogged as does it’ is the …
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877 …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Dec 1877 William Darwin Fox …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … obliquity of planets ( G. H. Darwin 1876b and 1877) and was working on an explanation of …
- … Railway Station | Orpington, S.E.R. Dec 2. 1877 My dear Fox, Your sympathy is very warm to …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 29 November [1877] . Richard Buckley Litchfield , CD’s son-in- …
- … see letter to Horace Darwin, 1 November [1877] and n. 7). Leonard Darwin had injured his …
- … letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [23 September 1877] (DAR 219.9: 159)). …
- … Darwin married Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had …
- … Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 June 1877] (DAR 219.9: 148)). In his paper on marriages …
- … an honorary LLD, bestowed on him at a special ceremony on 17 November 1877 (see letter to …
- … Hyacinth Hooker, [18 November 1877] ). CD had been a student at Christ’s College, …
- … Wedgwood , and her family, from 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘ Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma …
To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877]
Summary
Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) Moleschott |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Laage 1980, p. 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267A |
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- … To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877] …
- … 1980, p. 106 Charles Robert Darwin Down [2 Dec 1877] Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) …
- … Bibliography Moleschott, Jacob. 1877. Der Kreislauf des Lebens . Vol. 1. 5th edition. …
- … Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877). …
- … Kreislauf des Lebens (The cycle of life; Moleschott 1877 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
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- … From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877 …
- … p. 68 George John Romanes London, Cornwall Terrace, 18 2 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … reprinted in that journal (see letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 8). …
- … CD’s reply of 5 December 1877 suggests that this letter was edited for publication. …
- … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Thomas Henry Huxley had given a speech …
- … Huxley’s speech, see Nature , 22 November 1877, p. 64). Huxley told CD he had said only …
- … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 21 November 1877 ). A version of the speech was published in …
- … 18 Cornwall Terrace: Dec. 2, 1877. It was most kind of you to write me such a long and …
- … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Vici (Latin): I have conquered. CD had …
- … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 4). Romanes refers to the maggots …
- … them hard to eradicate. CD’s letter to Nature , 21 November [1877], was published in …
- … Nature , 29 November 1877, p. 78. …
- … letter from Fritz Müller to CD of 19 October 1877, discussing various plants and insects. …
- … In Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 84–7, John Scott Burdon Sanderson’s paper ‘Remarks on …
- … the Royal Society of London on 22 November 1877, was printed in full. Burdon Sanderson was …
- … the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the editor of …
From Sara Sedgwick Darwin [3 December 1877]
Summary
Describes her and W. E. Darwin’s honeymoon.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267F |
To R. A. Vance 4 December 1877
Summary
Thanks RAV for valuable letter [11232]. CD too ignorant of anatomy to form a decided opinion, but is inclined to attribute spiral folds to reversion and the valves to partial abortion of the fold. Asks RAV to verify by examining lower intestine of an opossum for the structure. If missing he would hesitate to allude to reversion. If RAV can prove the nature of these remnants it would be a conclusion of much interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reuben Aleshire Vance |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11269 |
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- … To R. A. Vance 4 December 1877 …
- … Health Sciences Library Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Dec 1877 Reuben Aleshire Vance …
- … See letter from R. A. Vance, 12 November 1877 . CD refers to the scroll or spiral valves …
- … see letter from R. A. Vance, 12 November 1877 and n. 2). Opossums are the only marsupials …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 4 1877 Dear Sir, I am obliged for your long & …
- … see letter from R. A. Vance, 12 November 1877 and nn. 4 and 5). Vance was evidently …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
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- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877 …
- … Mss.B.D25.527) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 5 Dec 1877 George John Romanes …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 5. 1877 My dear Romanes, One line to say that my …
- … See letter from G. J. Romanes, 2 December 1877 and n. 5. Henry Lettington was …
- … The part of Romanes’s letter of 2 December 1877 in which he commented on using the title ‘ …
- … LLD at Cambridge University on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis …
To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
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- … To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877] …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 805 …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down [6–12 Dec 1877] Maxwell Tylden Masters …
- … letter from M. T. Masters, [13 December 1877] . When Masters published this part of CD’ …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, pp. 805–6), he added the species name of the …
- … specimen to be identified (see letters from M. T. Masters, [before 13 December 1877] and [ …
- … 13 December 1877] ). Cotyledon is a genus in the family Crassulaceae; Echeveria was …
- … in Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 807, and was made from the specimen that CD …
From T. A. Edison 7 December 1877
Summary
Offers to send green insects that give off a powerful odour of napthalene.
| Author: | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11271 |
From John Michels 9 December 1877
Summary
Sends a drawing [missing] of alleged fossil man found in Colorado. JM is certain it is a hoax perpetrated by P. T. Barnum. It was designed to conform to CD’s well-known views of man’s ancestor.
| Author: | John Michels |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11272 |
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To W. W. Bailey 10 December [1877]
Summary
"Many thanks for the specimens which will be very useful whenever a new Edition is required."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whitman Bailey |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1877] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Alfred Williams Anthony collection: box 7, folder 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11274 |
From A. W. Rimpau 10 December 1877
Summary
Sends his paper ["Die selbst-sterilität des Roggens", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6 (1877): 1073–6] on self-sterility in Secale cereale. AWR was wrong in claiming Beta vulgaris was perfectly self-sterile.
Reports results of crossing wheat varieties. In the first generation offspring are always uniform; some are intermediate, some resemble one parent. In the second generation, on the contrary, he got a diversity of parental and intermediate forms.
| Author: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11273 |
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- … From A. W. Rimpau 10 December 1877 …
- … 159 Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau Schlanstedt 10 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Wilhelm Rimpau, 16 January 1877 and n. 2. Beta vulgaris is beet. Rivet wheat …
- … des Roggens", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6 (1877): 1073–6] on self-sterility in Secale cereale . …
- … see letter to Wilhelm Rimpau, 16 January 1877 and n. 1). Secale cereale is rye. Rimpau …
To R. F. Cooke 11 December [1877]
Summary
Sends corrected sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. How many copies will be printed? Asks whether he is correct in thinking that he has not been paid for the July printing.
Plans to correct Forms of flowers when new edition is needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1877] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 297–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11276 |
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- … To R. F. Cooke 11 December [1877] …
- … 42152 ff. 297–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Dec [1877] Robert Francis Cooke John Murray …
- … and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 13 December 1877 . William Clowes & Sons were printers to …
- … see letter from A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 and n. 1). Only ‘Second Edition’ appears on …
- … 2d ed. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 16 March 1877 and n. 1. No copies of Cross and self …
To C. H. Merriam [11 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks him for sending his Birds of Connecticut.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
| Date: | [11 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11276A |
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- … To C. H. Merriam [11 December 1877] …
- … dealers) (9 March 1983) Charles Robert Darwin Down [11 Dec 1877] Clinton Hart Merriam …
- … Bibliography Merriam, Clinton Hart. 1877. A review of the birds of Connecticut . New …
- … of the birds of Connecticut ( Merriam 1877 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. The original …
To E. H. Sieveking 11 December 1877
Summary
Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Sieveking |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11275 |
From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877
Summary
Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11277 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877 …
- … T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) Francis Darwin Down 12 Dec 1877 Thomas Frederick Cheeseman …
- … See letter from T. F. Cheeseman, 23 October 1877 . Cheeseman sent CD his paper ‘On the …
- … or swampweed). The letter from T. F. Cheeseman, 23 October 1877 , was published in …
- … Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4. Cheeseman lived in New Zealand. …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 12 th . 1877 Dear Sir, My father begs me to express to you …
From M. T. Masters [before 13 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his specimen of "self-containedness". Some of the bromeliads will flower under similar treatment, but MTM does not know whether they seed.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 13 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4888 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From M. T. Masters [before 13 December 1877] …
- … 65 Maxwell Tylden Masters Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 Dec 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from M. T. Masters, [13 December 1877] . CD had sent Masters a flowering branch and …
- … letter to M. T. Masters, [6–12 December 1877] ). Bromeliads (family Bromeliaceae) are …
- … his letter to Masters of [6–12 December 1877] , CD described how he had suspended the cut …
From R. F. Cooke 13 December 1877
Summary
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 499, DAR 210.11: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11278 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 13 December 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 13 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Climbing plants [2d ed. ] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877. …
- … letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] and n. 2. A copy of a single sheet advertising …
- … See letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] and n. 5. Cook’s statement that the edition …
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| Greaves, E. A. | (2) |
| Hadley, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
| Blair, R. A. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Masters, M. T. | (3) |
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
- … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
- … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
- … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
- … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
- … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
- … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
- … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ). Carlyle’s remarks were …
- … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
- … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
- … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
- … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
- … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
- … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
- … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
- … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …
1877 letters now online
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Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
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- … of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin& …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
- … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
- … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
- … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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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- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …
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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- … Letter 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …
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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- … activity at the site of a Roman villa, 15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …
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 …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
- … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
- … Letter from Emil Rade 1 [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
- … From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
- … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
- … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877. …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …
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…
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
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- … Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …
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…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
- … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
- … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
- … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
