To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Summary
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1878?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
To H. D. Garrison [1878]
Summary
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herod Dailey Garrison |
| Date: | [1878] |
| Classmark: | Felter 1902, p. 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306F |
From Ellen Harrison to Emma Darwin [January 1878]
Summary
On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.
| Author: | Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11304 |
To [Williams & Norgate] [1878 – November 1880]
Summary
Can the correspondent get some pamphlets written by [K. G. W. Stenzel?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | [1878 – Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864A |
To Édouard Heckel 1 January 1878
Summary
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306 |
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- … To Édouard Heckel 1 January 1878 …
- … corrections were made in Heckel trans. 1878, pp. 167 and 211. …
- … 2011, lot 37038) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Jan 1878 Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel …
- … of flowers into French (Heckel trans. 1878). Heckel tended to use the Linnean binomials …
- … de Bardfield and primevère élevée . (See Heckel trans. 1878, chapters 1 and 2. ) )The …
To Raphael Meldola 1 January [1878]
Summary
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11305 |
To Hermann Müller 1 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 438 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11307 |
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
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- … From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878] …
- … DAR 171: 121 Raphael Meldola London, John St, 21 2 Jan [1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … John Murray. 1871. Meldola, Raphael. 1878. Entomological notes bearing on evolution. …
- … and the letter to Raphael Meldola, 1 January [1878] . Meldola dated it 1877 in error. …
- … See letter to Raphael Meldola, 1 January [1878] and n. 2. The October 1877 issue of Kosmos …
- … known natural history publisher. Meldola 1878 . Meldola had previously discussed with CD …
To ? 2 January 1878
Summary
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308A |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
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- … To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878 …
- … Autographs (dealer) (no date) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Jan 1878 Ferdinand Julius Cohn …
- … Journal , 22 December 1877, pp. 879–81; 29 December 1877, pp. 913–15; 5 January 1878, pp. …
- … 1–2; 12 January 1878, pp. …
- … 45–7; 26 January 1878, pp. …
- … 119–20; 9 February 1878, pp. 179–83. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Jan 3. 1878. My dear Sir. I thank you sincerely for your most …
- … see British Medical Journal , 9 February 1878, p. 181). Splenic or splenetic fever is now …
From E. A. Greaves 3 January 1878
Summary
The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309F |
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- … From E. A. Greaves 3 January 1878 …
- … Elizabeth Anne Hadley/Elizabeth Anne Greaves Cheltenham 3 Jan 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Parade, | Cheltenham Jan y . 3 rd . 1878 Dear Sir, Thanks to Parker’s dilatoriness the …
- … a payment of £50 to Greaves on 2 January 1878 in his Account books–banking account (Down …
To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878
Summary
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878 …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Jan 1878 Raphael Meldola …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan 3. 1878 My dear Sir, I have many apologies to …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 1 January [1878] . CD had asked Meldola to return the October …
- … issue. In his letter to CD of 2 January [1878] , Meldola had recommended a discussion of …
- … the Entomological Society of London (see letter from Raphael Meldola, 2 January [1878] ). …
From William Farrer 4 January 1878
Summary
Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.
Would like references to works on breeding.
| Author: | William James (William) Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11311 |
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- … From William Farrer 4 January 1878 …
- … DAR 164: 106 William James (William) Farrer Burnley 4 Jan 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … miles north-east of Burnley in Lancashire. In 1878, it belonged to Farrer’s cousin, Edward …
- … Edgend | nr Burnley Jany 4. 1878 Sir, The enclosed is a leaf of the Australasian …
To Karl von Scherzer? 4 January 1878
Summary
Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11311F |
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- … To Karl von Scherzer? 4 January 1878 …
- … dealers) (11 October 2007) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Jan 1878 Karl von Scherzer …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan 4. 1878 My dear Sir, I shall be in London on the …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin , from 17 to 23 January 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Crown …
- … Prince Rudolph of Austria was staying in London in early January 1878 ( The Times , …
- … 11 January 1878, p. 10). Scherzer, the Austrian consul in London, and a member of the …
From Hyde Clarke 5 January 1878
Summary
Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.
| Author: | Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11312 |
To W. W. Baxter 6 January [1878]
Summary
Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11314 |
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- … To W. W. Baxter 6 January [1878] …
- … 6 February 1962) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 6 Jan [1878] William Walmisley Baxter …
- … the letter from W. W. Baxter, 7 January 1878 . CD had painted one side of the cotyledons …
- … also letter from Leonard Darwin, 7 January 1878 . Spermaceti ointment was used as a mild …
From W. W. Baxter 7 January 1878
Summary
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
| Author: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11315 |
From Leonard Darwin 7 January 1878
Summary
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11316 |
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- … From Leonard Darwin 7 January 1878 …
- … DAR 209.8: 153 Leonard Darwin Brompton Barracks, Chatham 7 Jan 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … he had applied to the shoots of plants; see letter to W. W. Baxter, 6 January [1878] . …
- … Brompton Barracks, | Chatham. Jan 7 th . 1878 Dear Father The following is the work on the …
From Leonard Darwin 8 January 1878
Summary
Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11317 |
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- … From Leonard Darwin 8 January 1878 …
- … DAR 186: 33 Leonard Darwin Brompton Barracks, Chatham 8 Jan 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from Leonard Darwin, 7 January 1878 and n. 1. See also Movement in plants , pp. …
- … Brompton Barracks, | Chatham. Jan 8 th . 1878 Dear Father Today I tested that lamp black …
To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878]
Summary
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11318 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Jan [1878] Raphael Meldola …
- … the Entomological Society of London on 6 February 1878 ( Transactions of the Entomological …
- … Society of London ( Proceedings ) (1878): ii–iii; see also letter …
- … to Fritz Müller, 12 January 1878 ). …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his …
- … scientific man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1878] ). Writing to Ernst Haeckel on …
- … plants.’ Movement in plants In the spring of 1878, Darwin started to focus on the …
- … come up arched’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 24 March [1878–80] ). While Darwin was studying the …
- … of apex’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [11 May 1878] ). Having found plants responsive to …
- … at my blunder’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 22 December [1878] ). Son abroad Darwin’s …
- … kind to him’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] ). While Francis was away, Darwin …
- … work, I scribble to you ( letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] ). Two weeks later he wrote: ‘I …
- … to discuss it with’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 20 [July 1878] ). It is unclear why the …
- … reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ): ‘The oats have only just begun to …
- … Francis wrote ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 17 July 1878] ), ‘a strong horizontal axis …
- … rather’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 3 August 1878] ). One day Francis observed that the …
- … out one’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ). Sachs’s confidence was apparently …
- … him,’ he reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [22 June 1878] ). ‘Sachs doesn’t consider that …
- … all evils’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [24 and 25 July 1878] ). Babies and animals …
- … he added a week later ( letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ). Darwin had of course observed …
- … have said a gee-gee’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). On 12 September , Darwin …
- … will always do so’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 August [1878] ). Darwin remarked that a monkey …
- … in your house!’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 2 September [1878] ). More remarkable cases of …
- … of a thieving wasp’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 21 June 1878 ). An inspiration In …
- … ( letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878 ). Despite his many botanical …
- … to me quite ridiculous’ ( letter to John Price, 2 April [1878] ). When a wealthy businessman tried …
- … ( letter from Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, 28 April 1878 ). ‘What a wonderful change in the …
- … The Swiss botanist Arnold Dodel-Port announced on 12 June 1878 the first issue of an atlas with …
- … come together’ ( letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 18 June 1878 ). In countries where …
- … are without you’ (letters from Carl Kraus, [31?] January 1878 and 10 February 1878 ). Darwin …
- … been school-boys’ ( letter to Karl von Scherzer, 1 April 1878 ). More critics Closer …
- … matter’ ( letter from H. N. Ridley, [before 28 November 1878] ). Darwin received a copy of the …
- … care of himself ’ ( letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 ). Darwin did not think the Oxford …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
Summary
Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
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Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5 April 1878 . Müller was a German naturalist …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
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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- … specimen, both sides of which are reproduced, 29 January 1878 S. B. J. Skertchly's …
Power of movement in plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … when he took his photographs. This one must be before August 1878, when it was reproduced as a …
- … copies in the Darwin archive say the photograph was taken in 1878. The latter date is accepted by …
- … Leonard wrote to his father from Brompton Barracks in April 1878 enclosing two photographs …
- … of the photograph at Down House that he took it in 1878. It was this photograph which …
- … date of creation undated; probably early 1878 computer-readable date c.1878-01-01 to c …
- … to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. Woodburytype reproduction of …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
Summary
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…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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…
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- … son Francis worked in this laboratory in the summers of 1878 and 1879, he encountered some of the …
- … Movement in plants , p. 179. In May 1878, Darwin had pointed out the importance of …
- … his experiments on the function of bloom. By December 1878, Darwin was thinking about the …
- … accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December 1878 ). The method would be expensive, so Darwin …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … experiments. Francis went to Germany in the summer of 1878 for more experience in physiological …
- … this to you’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [1 August 1878] ). The last years also saw Darwin …
- … and Earthworms , pp. 221–8). Darwin resumed contact in 1878. On receiving Darwin’s letter, …
- … at wormbs”’ ( letter from Mary Johnson, [after 22 July 1878] ). Edition complete …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Leonard Darwin to George Darwin, 8 February [1878] Darwin’s youngest son, Leonard (Lenny), …
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
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1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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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- … A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, Murray was ready to print the second …
4.30 'La Petite Lune', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction La Petite Lune was a sister paper of La Lune Rousse, and was published, edited and illustrated by André Gill, through 1878-9. It featured a series of caricatures titled ‘Les hommes illustrés’, to which this belongs. Gill again…
4.33 'Harper's Weekly', Bellew caricature
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< Back to Introduction In a page of comic drawings by Frank Bellew, ostensibly his ‘Sketches in the New York Aquarium’, yet another joke about Darwin’s simian connections makes an appearance. ‘The Chimpanzee’ sits on a fancy bed amid the straw…
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
