From Emile Alglave 21 June 1877
Summary
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
| Author: | Émile Alglave |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.11: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11010 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emile Alglave 21 June 1877 …
- … DAR 210.11: 36 Émile Alglave Paris 21 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Germer-Baillière ( Cosserat trans. 1878 ; see letter to Smith, Elder & Co , 7 March 1877). …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877 and was published in July (see letter to …
- … G. C. Robertson, 24 June [1877] ). The French translation appeared in …
- … de la France et de l’étranger , 14 July 1877, pp. 25–8. Alglave refers to the French …
From C. G. Semper 13 July 1877
Summary
Sends work on dorsal eyes of Onchidium ["Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work.
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11050 |
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- … From C. G. Semper 13 July 1877 …
- … DAR 177: 138 Carl Gottfried Semper Würzburg 13 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work. …
- … See letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 and n. 2, and letter to C. …
- … G. Semper, 30 April 1877 . The work was Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf …
- … Würzburg 13 th July 1877. Dear Sir It gives me the greatest pleasure that I am able to …
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Francis Galton 9 January [1877] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 9 Jan [1877] Francis Galton …
- … of heredity’ ( Galton 1877 ; see Pritchard 2007 , pp. 8–10, for more on George’s …
- … the letter from Francis Galton, 12 January 1877 , and by the address. CD was in London at …
- … Buckley Litchfield , from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See also n. …
- … 2, below. The Sunday following 9 January 1877 was 14 January. George Howard Darwin and CD …
- … to deliver at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 9 February 1877, ‘Typical laws …
From R. F. Cooke 29 November 1877
Summary
Answers CD’s query about number of copies of Origin recently printed. Order to print 2000, rather than 1000, was given after JM’s annual sales showed demand was keeping up.
Cross and self-fertilisation will be stereotyped after CD’s corrections have been made.
Printer will be asked to keep type of Forms of flowers standing, for the present.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 496 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 29 November 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 29 Nov 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 November 1877 , and letter to R. …
- … F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . …
- … On 16 March 1877, Cooke had written to CD that there were 500 copies of Origin in stock, …
- … were invited ( J. Murray 1908–9 , p. 540). See letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 . …
- … 50, Albemarle S t . | W. Nov. 29. 1877 My dear Sir Although I wrote to you in the summer …
To G. N. de Stoppelaar 17 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for membership of Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10931F |
To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877]
Summary
Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 22 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11011 |
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- … To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877] …
- … to G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 ). …
- … MS ADD 88/9–15/11) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 22 June [1877] George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … Biographical sketch of an infant’ (see letter from Max Schlesinger, 4 July 1877 ). CD’s …
- … article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877, but was not yet published ( see letter …
From J. F. McLennan 30 July 1877
Summary
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11082 |
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- … From J. F. McLennan 30 July 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 25 John Ferguson McLennan Norwood 30 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … also letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . Eleonora Anne McLennan . Henrietta Emma …
- … and Charles Black. McLennan, John Ferguson. 1877. Exogamy and endogamy. Fortnightly Review …
- … See letter from J. F. McLennan, 24 July 1877 . McLennan referred to what he took to be a …
- … also letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 and n. 8). Azara 1809 , 2: 92–4, discussed …
- … Library–CUL; see Marginalia 1: 26. In an article in Fortnightly Review , 1 June 1877 ( …
- … McLennan 1877 ), McLennan had criticised Herbert Spencer’s remarks on exogamy in his …
From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
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- … From Asa Gray 6 February 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 193 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 6 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … Cambridge Feb. 6, 1877 Dear Darwin Specimens in herb. glued down had to detach & present …
- … see letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 3). See also Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … see the letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 2. Gray had requested proof-sheets of …
To E. H. von Baumhauer 22 May 1877
Summary
Acknowledges election to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edouard Henri von Baumhauer |
| Date: | 22 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10970 |
To Edward Atkinson 27 October 1877
Summary
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Atkinson |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11211 |
To John Murray 30 November 1877
Summary
Thanks for accounts which make everything intelligible to him. Since he was glad to have Orchids published at one-half of profits for himself, he believes it would be very shabby to accept JM’s new offer of two-thirds profits. Thinks it would be fairer to both to change to JM’s usual practice with authors [i.e., annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all copies have been sold].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11262 |
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
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- … From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877 …
- … DAR 168: 59 Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield Bath 12 Mar 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Germany and the Netherlands [ Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his …
- … Nature , 22 February 1877, p. 356, reported that on the occasion of CD’s 69th birthday, he …
- … and lovers of science from Holland. CD was 68 on 12 February 1877. The German album was …
- … from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 , and the Dutch one was sent with the letter …
- … van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 . CD had entered his 69th year; both albums …
- … Belmont | Bath. March 12 th | 1877. — My dear Darwin, I cannot refrain from writing you a …
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 461–2 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Nov [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . CD discussed the movement of the cotyledons in Cycas …
- … Sedgwick . Hooker had met her sister Theodora on his 1877 visit to the US ( letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 ). Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton , the sister of Sara and …
- … Buckley Litchfield , had been taken ill in Switzerland in September 1877; see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 5. …
To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877]
Summary
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11246 |
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- … To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877] …
- … DAR 210.1: 64 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Nov [1877] George Howard Darwin …
- … of the earth; see G. H. Darwin 1878 , and letter from G. H. Darwin, [28 October 1877] . …
- … which was presented to him on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD made …
- … honorary LLD to CD from the Cambridge Chronicle , 24 November 1877, p. 4, in DAR 215: 30c. …
- … a meeting in Cambridge on 25 November 1877, at which it was resolved to form a committee …
- … Galton visited Down on Saturday 24 November 1877; she did not mention George’s coming that …
To C. F. Claus 9 March 1877
Summary
Warm thanks for CC’s letter. CD needed no word from CC to be convinced of his high opinion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 210–211) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10885 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 3 August 1877
Summary
Will be interested in reading AdeC’s paper on Smilax. The transition from hermaphroditic to unisexual condition is a perplexing problem.
CD agrees that there is much justice in AdeC’s criticism of his use of the terms "object", "end", and "purpose" but thinks "those who believe that organs have been gradually modified by natural selection for a special purpose, may I think use the above terms correctly though no conscious being has intervened".
CD and Francis are hard at work on the function of "bloom" but CD doubts that the experiments will tell them much.
Does AdeC have a decided opinion on whether plants with glaucous leaves are more frequent in hot or dry than in cold or wet countries?
Francis has been getting "striking" results from feeding meat to Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11092 |
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- … To Alphonse de Candolle 3 August 1877 …
- … Candolle (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Aug 1877 Alphonse de Candolle …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Aug 3. 1877 My dear Sir I must have the pleasure of …
- … See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 31 July 1877 . …
- … In his letter of 31 July 1877 , Candolle had informed CD that he would send a copy of the …
- … see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. Casimir de Candolle had studied the …
- … common or round-leaved sundew) on 11 June 1877 (see F. Darwin 1878a , p. 21). In his …
- … eds. 1878–96, 1: 26–8 (see also letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 31 July 1877 and n. 3). …
- … letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 31 July 1877 . Francis Darwin sent Candolle a copy of …
- … on Francis’s research, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 January [1877] and n. 6. For …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877
Summary
CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 442 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10978 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877 …
- … DAR 95: 442 Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 May 1877 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 31. 1877 My dear Hooker, I am very much obliged …
- … had sent seeds with his letter of 31 May 1877 . William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and John …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] . For Hooker’s list of plants with bloom ( …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 . The end of Hooker’s letter is written across …
To G. C. Robertson 27 April 1877
Summary
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10943 |
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- … To G. C. Robertson 27 April 1877 …
- … 15/11) Charles Robert Darwin London Down letterhead 27 Apr 1877 George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … de l’étranger 1: 5–23. Taine, Hippolyte. 1877. On the acquisition of language by children. …
- … of an infant’ ; it was published in the July 1877 issue of the journal Mind. A Quarterly …
- … of language by children’, had appeared in translation in the April 1877 issue of …
- … Mind ( Taine 1877 ). Taine’s original article had been published in the first issue of …
From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877
Summary
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 488 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11022 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 29 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to J. V. Carus of 17 June [1877] ). Forms of flowers US ed. was published by D. …
- … Forms of flowers was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). For CD’s presentation …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Forms of flowers US ed. : The different …
- … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works …
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877] …
- … 455–6 Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [26 Oct 1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 October [1877] , and by CD’s reference to staying at 6 Queen …
- … Anne Street (see n. 5, below). In 1877, 26 October was a Friday. The seeds sent by Richard …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 October [1877] and nn. 2 and 3). The movements of the …
- … 369–73. The issue of Nature for 25 October 1877 contained a biographical sketch of Hooker …
- … on the botany of the Rocky Mountains ( J. D. Hooker 1877 ). CD stayed at 6 Queen Anne …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin , from 26 to 29 October 1877; he had been working on cotyledons and …
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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
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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…
