From James Drummond 17 September 1860
Summary
Reports observations on the fertilisation of Goodeniaceae, and particularly Leschenaultia. [See 2992.]
Author: | James Drummond |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2920A |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From J. D. Hooker 8 June 1860
Summary
Glad to hear good news of Etty [Henrietta Darwin].
CD’s observations on Scaevola are capital. The indusium collects the pollen and is the homologue of the pollen-collecting hairs of Campanula. A boat-shaped organ forms a second indusium, the inside base of which forms the stigmatic surface. The latter later protrudes as horns, forming the stigma.
Describes W. H. Harvey’s scientific career and thinks his letter interesting. Agrees with Harvey that the primary agency of natural selection is as great a mystery as ever. [Response to 2823.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825A |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To J. D. Hooker 26 December [1860]
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Sends JDH note on adaptation of an Australian Compositae for dispersal in dry climate. Is it too trivial to publish? [Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3031 |
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- … Bibliography Pritzel, Georg August. 1851. Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ omnium gentium. …
- … 1851 was a frequently consulted bibliography of botanical books. Rafinesque 1836 . …
To W. H. Miller 1 December [1860]
Summary
Must prepare new edition of Origin.
Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Edward Cresy 14 October [1860]
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Discusses letter from A. W. v. Hofmann concerning solution of iodine in water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 14 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 314 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2950 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To J. D. Hooker 31 [August 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 [Aug 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2886 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From P. L. Sclater 11 February 1860
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Informs CD that Sylvicola aureola may be a distinct species but is a close ally of S. aestiva of N. and S. America and perhaps only a "climatic variety".
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 290, DAR 205.7: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2692 |
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- … Bibliography Journal of researches (1860): Journal of researches into the natural history …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To T. H. Huxley 1 November [1860]
Summary
THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.
CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.
Henrietta’s serious illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2972 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Daniel Oliver 21 [September 1860]
Summary
Lists of nitrogenous organic fluids that produce contraction in Drosera, and details of how to reproduce results.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 21 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 11 and part of 17 (EH 88205995, 88206001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2923 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England] 28 December [1860]
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Asks whether, during the past year, Richard Owen’s edition of John Hunter’s new work has been published [Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860), or Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology (Hunter 1861)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Donald R. Markey (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3035F |
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- … Bibliography Hunter, John. 1860. Memoranda on vegetation . London: Taylor and Francis. …
From Charles Lyell 24 November 1860
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CL has calculated that elevation and subsidence of certain formations in Sweden and Norway take place at the rate of 2 1/2 feet per century. He now proposes to estimate the age of a bed by including a conjecture that pauses occur in the oscillations in the ratio of 4 periods of stasis to one of movement. Applying this formula to Scotland, the last subsidence and re-elevation would be 590,000 years and the age of the beds with human implements would be 20,000 years.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 40–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2996A |
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- … Bibliography EB : The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2999 |
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- … Bibliography Meyen, Franz Julius Ferdinand. 1837. Ueber die Secretionsorgane der Pflanzen. …
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1860
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2852 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To John Lubbock 20 July [1860]
Summary
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 20 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2874 |
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- … Bibliography [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of Origin. ] Quarterly Review 108: 225– …
To Charles Lyell 27 and 28 April [1860]
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Thanks CL for loan of paper by J. S. Newberry ["Notes on the ancient vegetation of N. America", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18].
Mentions reviews of the Origin.
Discusses evolution of the domestic dog, especially with respect to the views of Owen, Pallas, and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Mentions W. B. Carpenter’s views on taxonomy.
Discusses hybridisation of plants and animals.
Comments on progress in human evolution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 and 28 Apr 1860 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.209) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2771 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Daniel Oliver 23 November 1860
Summary
Dr Hooker has given him CD’s memorandum on the fly-catcher.
Copies out extract from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine [On Apocynum androsæmifolium, 8 (1794): tab.]: 280 and gives a further reference in Erasmus Darwin’s The loves of plants [1789]. Suggests that they look at Apocynum.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2995A |
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- … Bibliography Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1806. Memorandum on a new vegetable muscipula. …
From A. W. von Hofmann to Edward Cresy 27 October 1860
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Is enclosing Alfred Swaine Taylor’s book On poisons (1848). Reports on his own experiment with the starch test in dissolving iodine in different measures of water.
Author: | August Wilhelm von Hofmann |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966A |
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- … Bibliography Taylor, Alfred Swaine. 1848. On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence …
To W. E. Darwin [30 July 1860]
Summary
Tells of Etty’s [Henrietta]’s illness and progress; their future plans.
Mentions some responses to the Origin; the naturalists are fighting over it in North America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2885 |
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- … Bibliography [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of Origin. ] Quarterly Review 108: 225– …
To Francis Galton 13 May [1860]
Summary
Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 May [1860] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2799 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Frederick Watkins 30 July [1860]
Summary
Though his book [Origin] has been abused and criticised as well as praised, its effect on good workers in science convinces him that in the main he is on the right road.
In reply to FW’s question, CD says his [CD’s] arguments are valid that all animals are descended from four or five primordial forms; analogy and weak reasons go to show they have descended from some single prototype.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Watkins |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2884 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
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Gray, Asa | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (83) |
Hooker, J. D. | (48) |
Lyell, Charles | (37) |
Gray, Asa | (24) |
Huxley, T. H. | (24) |
Darwin, C. R. | (405) |
Hooker, J. D. | (55) |
Lyell, Charles | (49) |
Gray, Asa | (28) |
Huxley, T. H. | (25) |
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
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< 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. …
4.59 '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. …
4.47 '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. …
4.31 '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 …