To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877]
Summary
As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Date: | [before 1 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11027 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877] …
- … Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … unstated [before 1 July 1877] Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas …
- … from his experiments? ’ ’In Espinas 1877 , p. 47, Espinas wrote that CD attributed the …
- … Bibliography Espinas, Alfred. 1877. Des sociétés animales: étude de psychologie comparée. …
- … this letter and the letter from Alfred Espinas, 1 July 1877 . There is an annotated copy …
- … étude de psychologie comparée ( Espinas 1877 ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … back of the book. In his notes on Espinas 1877 , CD wrote, ‘54 Actions performed without …
From Oscar Comettant 1 July 1877
Summary
Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.
| Author: | Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11029 |
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- … From Oscar Comettant 1 July 1877 …
- … DAR 161: 216 Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant Paris 1 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Neuve-des-Petits-Champs Paris, 1 juillet 1877 Monsieur Je viens, en qualité de collègue, …
- … 64, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs Paris, 1 July 1877 Sir I write to you in the capacity of a …
From Alfred Espinas 1 July 1877
Summary
On painful state of CD’s reception in France.
| Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11030 |
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- … From Alfred Espinas 1 July 1877 …
- … DAR 163: 34 Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas Dijon 1 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Espinas, Alfred. 1877. Des sociétés animales: étude de psychologie comparée. …
- … Dijon, 1 er juillet 1877. Monsieur et cher maitre, Vous avez dit quelque part qu’on peut …
- … Espinas taught philosophy at Dijon. In Espinas 1877 , p. 361, a copy of which he …
- … see letter to Alfred Espinas, [before 1 July 1877] ), he wrote that evolution was the sole …
- … fundamental law. Espinas 1877 ( Des sociétés animales ) was the doctoral thesis Espinas …
- … letter to Alfred Espinas, [before 1 July 1877] . Espinas translated Spencer’s Principles …
- … Dijon, 1 st July 1877. Sir and dear master, You said somewhere that one can be convinced …
From Thomas Meehan 1 July 1877
Summary
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Thomas Meehan 1 July 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 112 Thomas Meehan Ryde 1 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree …
- … the Advancement of Science 24: 243–51. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. …
- … St Clare, Ryde, I. of Wight July 1 st . 1877 Charles Darwin Esq re My Dear Sir, I beg to …
- … and self fertilisation (‘Darwin on the fertilization of flowers’; Meehan 1877 ), from …
- … the June 1877 issue of Penn Monthly , in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Meehan had …
- … but a precursor to extinction ( Meehan 1877 ). Gray reviewed Cross and self fertilisation …
From R. F. Cooke 2 July 1877
Summary
"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 489 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11031 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 2 July 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 2 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … See letter to R. F. Cooke, 30 June [1877] . CD had questioned whether his US publisher, D. …
From Arnold Dodel-Port 3 July 1877
Summary
Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11032 |
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From Hermann Hoffmann 4 July 1877
Summary
Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11035 |
From Max Schlesinger 4 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.
| Author: | Max Schlesinger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11034 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Max Schlesinger 4 July 1877 …
- … 177: 54 Max Schlesinger London, Upper Bedford Place, 25 4 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … of an infant’ , was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind . Schlesinger was the London …
- … CUL; the translation was published in Kölnische Zeitung , 2 July 1877 (erstes Blatt), [p. …
- … 3], and 3 July 1877 (erstes Blatt), [p. 3]. …
To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
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- … To ? 4 July [1877? ] …
- … s (dealers) (23 July 1963) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 4 July [1877? ] Unidentified …
- … to Southampton is associated with July is 1877, and in that year CD left Southampton on 4 …
- … II). The year is therefore conjectured as 1877, but it is possible that some other part of …
To Constantin James 5 July 1877
Summary
Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Constantin James |
| Date: | 5 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | James 1892, p. [V] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036F |
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- … To Constantin James 5 July 1877 …
- … James 1892, p. [V] Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July 1877 Constantin James …
- … Thanks him for his book [ Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter. …
- … Bibliography James, Constantin. 1877. Du Darwinisme ou l’homme-singe. Paris: E. Plon & …
- … Dow, Beckenham, Kent, 5 juillet 1877. M on cher M onsieur , En rentrant hier chez moi, j’ …
- … Dow, Beckenham, Kent, 5 July 1877. M y dear S ir , On returning home yesterday, I found …
- … Erasmus Darwin in Southampton on 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). James’s …
- … Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe ( James 1877 ), which blamed all the evils of the time on …
To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
| Date: | 5 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036 |
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- … To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877] …
- … DAR 146: 355 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July [1877] Thomas Meehan …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Thomas Meehan, 1 July 1877 . See …
- … letter from Thomas Meehan, 1 July 1877 ; Meehan enclosed his review of …
- … Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ). Forms of flowers was published on 9 July ( …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. …
From John Brigg 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
| Author: | John Brigg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11037 |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11039 |
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- … To Arnold Dodel-Port 6 July 1877 …
- … Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 July 1877 Arnold Dodel-Port …
- … letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 3 July 1877 . The plates were for a projected publication, …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. July 6. 1877 Dear Sir, I am much obliged for the two …
From William Preyer 6 July 1877
Summary
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11038 |
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- … From William Preyer 6 July 1877 …
- … DAR 174: 70 William Thierry (William) Preyer Jena 6 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … sketch of an infant’ was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind . Preyer published his …
- … Axel Thierry Preyer , born in November 1877 (Richter and Wagner 2003, p. 130), and made …
- … Jena July 6, 1877 Dear Sir, You would extremely oblige me by sending me a copy of your …
From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877
Summary
Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.
Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.
Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].
| Author: | Charles Louis Bernays |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11040 |
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- … From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877 …
- … DAR 160: 176 Charles Louis Bernays St Louis, Mo. 7 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … formed to deal with outbreaks of the Rocky Mountain locust) from 1877 until 1882 ( ANB ). …
- … in the US by D. Appleton and Company in 1877 ( Cross and self fertilisation US ed. ). …
- … 1869–77 ). CD’s copies of the reports from 1871 to 1877 are in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … The report for 1877 contains Riley’s compliments slip (see also letter to C. …
- … V. Riley, 19 May 1877 ). Riley was chief of the Department of the Interior’ …
- … St. Louis. Juli 7 th . 1877 Dear Sir After an interval, during which I was too deeply …
- … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Riley, Charles Valentine. 1869–77. Annual …
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
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- … To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877] …
- … 27 November 2018, lot 85) Charles Robert Darwin Down [7 July? 1877] Williams & Norgate …
- … the publisher for the society ( Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 24 (1877): 1). …
- … from Alphonse de Candolle, January 1877 ), and an article by Émile Mer ( Mer 1876 ). There …
To William Preyer 8 July 1877
Summary
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 8 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 268–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11042 |
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- … To William Preyer 8 July 1877 …
- … DAR 147: 268–9 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 July 1877 William Thierry (William) Preyer …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … In his letter of 6 July 1877 , Preyer asked for a copy of CD’s paper, ‘Biographical sketch …
- … July 8. 1877 My dear Sir I am very glad to hear of the subject which you are …
From Ernst Krause 9 July 1877
Summary
Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.
Notes divisions among German Darwinists.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11045 |
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- … From Ernst Krause 9 July 1877 …
- … DAR 169: 106 Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause Berlin 9 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … German, see Transcript. See letter from Ernst Krause, 11 March 1877 , and letter to …
- … Ernst Krause, 25 March 1877 . A German translation of CD’ …
- … sketch of an infant’ appeared in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76. On disagreements about Darwinism …
To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877]
Summary
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Date: | 9 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11044 |
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- … To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877] …
- … Collections and Preservation Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 July [1877] Lewis Henry Morgan …
- … 404–5. Morgan had sent CD a copy of his Ancient society ( Morgan 1877 ; see letter to L. …
- … H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 ). Morgan had visited Down on 9 June 1871 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient society, or, researches in the …
- … between this letter and the letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . See letter from L. …
- … H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . …
- … In his letter of 26 June 1877 , Morgan had criticised Herbert Spencer’s views on the …
- … in Popular Science Monthly ( Spencer 1877 ). CD made the same point in ‘Recollections’ , …
- … Williams and Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1877. On the evolution of the family. Popular …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11043 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877] …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. George Bentham . …
- … 1873–81: ff. 67–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Gardens, Kew; see n. 2, below). The year 1877 is the only one in which CD is recorded as …
- … following plants were sent to Down on 3 July 1877: Arachis hypogaea (peanut); Desmodium …
- … bulrush). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 . CD resumed his earlier work on …
- … bloom, the waxy or powdery coating on some flowers and fruits, in 1877; see letter to …
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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
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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…
