From Henry Allen Wedgwood 21 February 1847
Summary
Concerning the purchase of shares.
| Author: | Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1847 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1062 |
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- … Bibliography Hadfield, Charles. 1967. The canals of South Wales and the border. 2d ed. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Robert Chambers to David Milne 7 September 1847
Summary
Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.
| Author: | Robert Chambers |
| Addressee: | David Milne Home |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1115 |
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- … Bibliography Chambers, Robert. 1848. Ancient sea margins. Edinburgh. …
To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1119 |
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- … Bibliography ‘Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire’: Notes on the effects produced by the …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
Summary
Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
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- … Bibliography Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. London: T. & W. …
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
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- … Bibliography Woodward, Horace B. 1907. The history of the Geological Society of London. …
To J. D. Hooker [14 March 1847]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1071 |
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- … Bibliography DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney …
To Richard Owen [1847?]
Summary
Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1044 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To H. T. De la Beche 19 August [1847]
Summary
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1847] |
| Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111 |
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- … Bibliography Secord, James Andrew. 1986. Controversy in Victorian geology: the Cambrian– …
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
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- … Bibliography Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton. 1834. The last days of Pompeii. 3 …
To the Scotsman [after 20 September 1847]
Summary
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | The Scotsman |
| Date: | [after 20 Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: B1–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1121 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography ‘Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire’: Notes on the effects produced by the …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
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- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 5 May [1847]
Summary
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
| Date: | 5 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1569 |
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- … Bibliography Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard. 1851. Ueber die Processe der vulkanischen …
To Abraham Clapham [29 October 1847?]
Summary
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1847?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1137 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 6 March 1847]
Summary
Corrects a misunderstanding of his description of salt deposits [in South America, pp. 74–5]. The salt referred to was from Rio Negro, and was coarsely crystallised and free of other saline substances found in sea-salt. CD believes its lesser value in curing meat is owing to the absence of muriates of lime and magnesia and suggests that it might be worth while to add them to the Rio Negro salt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 6 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 10, 6 March 1847, pp. 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1069 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 25 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To J. D. Hooker [12 June 1847]
Summary
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 June 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1096 |
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- … Bibliography Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By …
To M. A. T. Whitby 14 October [1847]
Summary
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1128 |
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- … Bibliography Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By …
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Summary
On scheduling farewell meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]
Summary
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1130 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1847
Summary
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1097 |
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- … Bibliography Foundations : The foundations of the Origin of Species. Two essays written in …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (77) |
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| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, H. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (4) |
| Studer, Bernhard | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (80) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (24) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (4) |
| Studer, Bernhard | (4) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< 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…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
