From S. B. J. Skertchly 27 February 1878
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his memoir on the fenland [Geology of the fenland (1877)].
Outlines the results of his recent researches into the geological history of man, the development of Palaeolithic culture, the occurrence of Palaeolithic remains in the boulder-clays of eastern England, and their relation to glacial and inter-glacial periods.
| Author: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11379 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … memoir on the fenland [ Geology of the fenland (1877)]. Outlines the results of his recent …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Dawkins, William Boyd. 1877. On the mammal-fauna of the …
- … caves of Creswell Crags. [Read 11 April 1877. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological …
- … Society 33: 589–612. Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation to the …
- … s Geology of the fenland ( Skertchly 1877 ), part of the Geological Survey of Great …
- … to the antiquity of man 2d ed. ( Geikie 1877 , pp. 536–46). Skertchly updated his work on …
- … see Lartet and Christy 1875 and Dawkins 1877 ; for the controversy surrounding the …
- … Press. Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah. 1877. Memoirs of the geological survey. England …
- … in their letters to Nature , 21 June 1877, pp. 141–2. Both letters mentioned Andrew …
- … views. Further correspondence about the matter appeared in Nature , 28 June 1877, pp. …
- … 162–3, and 5 July 1877, p. 182; for more on the dispute, see O’Connor 2007 , pp. 63–5. …
- … were pre- or interglacial (see Geikie 1877 , p. 565); CD regarded Alfred Russel Wallace as …
- … C. Darwin and Wallace 1858). See Skertchly 1877 , p. 220. Périgord is a former province of …
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
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- … those Gray and CD described; see A. Gray 1877 and letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … Bibliography Cook, Joseph. 1877. Boston Monday lectures. Biology, with preludes on current …
- … with preludes on current events ( J. Cook 1877 ) appeared in the New Englander 37 (1878): …
- … evolution rather than CD’s (see J. Cook 1877 , pp. 1–32). For CD’s comment on the review, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Meehan, Thomas. 1875. Are insects any …
- … the Advancement of Science 24: 243–51. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. Movement in plants : The power of …
- … Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 November 1877 ). For a previous discussion between Gray and …
- … married Sara Sedgwick , an American, in 1877; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ) and Meehan’s earlier paper on the role of …
- … vol. 25, letter to Thomas Meehan, 5 July [1877] , and Correspondence vol. 23, letter to …
- … Müller, 26 October 1875 . In the summer of 1877, Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray , had …
To John Price 10 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].
Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11350 |
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- … on Rudolf Virchow’s book [ Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)]. …
- … University of Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The regius …
- … 25, letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 4. Rudolf Carl Virchow had given …
- … John Murray. 1868. Virchow, Rudolf. 1877. Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat: …
- … und Aerzte zu München am 22. September 1877. 2d edition. Berlin: Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey. …
- … of science in the modern state; Virchow 1877 ) to the Assembly of German Naturalists …
- … and Physicians at Munich on 22 September 1877. He argued that there was no room for …
From R. F. Cooke 26 February 1878
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on number of copies to be printed of Cross and self-fertilisation [2d ed.]. Now that it is revised, they will stereotype.
Type of Forms of flowers stands, awaiting CD’s corrections, before stereotyping and printing of more copies.
RC regrets delay in supply of Origin.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 500 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11376 |
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- … see also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 December 1877 and n. 1). …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation in December 1877; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to R. …
- … F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] . CD had agreed that Cross and self fertilisation 2d ed. …
- … ibid. , letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 . CD had asked for Forms of flowers to be …
- … 25, letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . When a second edition was produced in 1880, …
- … pp. v–xii). In his letter of 29 November 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), Cooke told CD …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
From Theodor von Heldreich 8 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Sends Greek translation of CD’s "Sketch of an infant".
Is working for Greek acceptance of Darwinism.
| Author: | Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11335 |
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- … It was made from the German translation in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76. Spyridon Miliarakis . …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … In his letter to Heldreich of 9 August 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), CD mentioned that …
- … αιδίου’ in Εστία ( Hestia , Hearth), 25 December 1877, pp. 817–25; a copy is in DAR 139.6. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February [1878]
Summary
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11362 |
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- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 February [1878] . In 1877, CD had mentioned that the underside of …
- … 25, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [20–4 August 1877] and n. 4). CD’s observations on …
- … raised from the seeds sent from Kew, made on 10 June [1877], are in DAR 68: 47. CD’s …
- … acacia like cultriformis’, starting on 9 June 1877, are in DAR 67: 37. He had asked about …
- … wattle) in his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 22 September 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). …
From Richard Randolph 19 and 20 February 1878
Summary
A Quaker essayist and poet who seeks to reconcile science and religion sends some samples of his work.
| Author: | Richard Randolph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 and 20 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11366 |
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- … Bibliography Randolph, Richard. 1877. Polarity in character: a study of the sex of mind. …
- … a study of the sex of mind’ ( Randolph 1877 ) appeared in the Journal of Speculative …
- … Philosophy . No copy of Randolph 1877 or any enclosures have been found in the Darwin …
- … poems written between 1872 and 1876 ( Randolph 1877 , pp. 422–31). The year 1876 was the …
From James Torbitt 24 February 1878
Summary
Wants CD to forward to Chancellor of Exchequer a letter which explains the progress he has made in his potato crossing. Wants to print a CD letter to arouse public interest in the work.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 52: E2, DAR 178: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11373 |
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- … vol. 25, letter to James Torbitt, 30 July 1877 . In 1876, CD had objected to Torbitt’s use …
- … 1876 ( Correspondence vol. 24) and 30 July 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). The third is …
- … and I destroyed them. In the spring of 1877, I again planted separately the surviving …
- … I had (summer 1876), and in the spring of 1877 I planted out 2,000 plants obtained from …
- … a sound variety;” and again on 30th July, 1877, he permits me to say “that my plan—namely, …
- … grown from a seed sown in the spring of 1877. Should the few hundred varieties offered …
To G. H. Darwin 3 February [1878]
Summary
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11345 |
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- … appendicitis; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to W. D. Fox, 2 December 1877 and n. 1. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Haughton, Samuel. 1877. Notes on physical geology. — no. III. …
- … geological periods. [Read 20 December 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
- … s paper on geological time ( Haughton 1877 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker . George probably gave …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11344 |
From Carl Kraus 10 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Sends birthday greetings.
Regrets CD has not lately published in Kosmos.
Requests photograph of CD’s family.
| Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11351 |
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- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel ). In 1877, a photograph album of German and Austrian …
- … vol. 25, letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 ); the album is at Down House. …
- … of an infant’ had appeared in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76. The full title of the journal was …
To A. S. Wilson 23 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.
Comments on ASW’s papers.
Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 361 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11372 |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [February 1878]
Summary
CD solicits JDH’s aid in obtaining Government funds for James Torbitt’s efforts to breed disease resistance in potatoes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 449–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11380 |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1878]
Summary
Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11364 |
To Gaston de Saporta 4 February [1878]
Summary
The Permian fossil sent by GdeS has stirred up the Kew botanists. Hooker suggests it was a Ceratopteris.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Conry 1972, p. 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11347 |
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- … Permian leaf with his letter of 16 December 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). William Turner …
To Martin Beckhard 10 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks him for works by Lazarus Geiger [probably Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit (1871)
and Der Ursprung der Sprache, 2d ed. (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Martin Adolf (Martin) Beckhard |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11349 |
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- … to Geiger’s work, see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Ernst Krause, 14 July 1877 . …
From Gaston de Saporta 16 February 1878
Summary
Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.
Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.
Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11363 |
From W. D. Fox 12 February [1878]
Summary
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11355 |
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- … married Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Theodora Fox …
From G. M. Asher 14 February 1878
Summary
Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.
| Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11357 |
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- … vol. 25, letter from G. M. Asher, 7 November 1877 , in which Asher said he had written for …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Beckhard, Martin | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Asher, G. M. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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…
