To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 4 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
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- … Bibliography ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles …
- … extreme interest & with amazement at your bibliography. Try & remember that it is possible …
- … Review and was responsible for the bibliography of phanerogamic botany that appeared …
From Daniel Oliver [28 January – 8 February 1864]
Summary
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398F |
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- … Bibliography ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Robert Goodwin Mumbray 18 January 1864
Summary
Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.
Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.
| Author: | Robert Goodwin Mumbray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 318–318/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4392 |
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- … Bibliography Bechstein, Johann Matthäus. 1789–95. Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte …
- … Roscoe, Sydney. 1953. Thomas Bewick. A bibliography raisonné of editions of the General …
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
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- … Bibliography Disraeli, Benjamin. 1864. Church policy: a speech delivered … at a meeting of …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Auguste Laugel 4 September [1864]
Summary
Thanks for a copy of AAL’s Problèmes de la nature 1864 (Problems of Nature; Laugel 1864).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antoine Auguste (Auguste) Laugel |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | Librairie du Manoir de Pron (dealers) (January 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4607F |
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- … Bibliography Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1864b. Les problèmes de la nature. Paris: Germer …
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
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- … Bibliography ‘Beagle’ diary : Charles Darwin’s Beagle diary. Edited by Richard Darwin …
From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864]
Summary
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13791 |
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- … Bibliography Schönemann, J. 1863. Charles Darwin, englischer Naturforscher. Unsere Zeit. …
To M. T. Masters 20 September [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4618 |
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- … Bibliography Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with …
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4409 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To J. D. Hooker 19 [April 1864]
Summary
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 [Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4468 |
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- … Bibliography Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1864. Examen du livre de M. Darwin sur l’origine …
To F. T. Buckland 11 December [1864]
Summary
Asks for comparison of otter-hounds’ feet with those of other dogs.
Changes in oysters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 7 (EH 88206059) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4713 |
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- … Bibliography Bompas, George C. 1885. Life of Frank Buckland . London: Smith, Elder & Co. …
To Ernst Haeckel 3 March [1864]
Summary
Has received EH’s Die Radiolarien. Drawings admirably executed. Had no idea such low animals could develop such beautiful structures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4419 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
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- … Bibliography Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with …
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 4 October 1864
Summary
Sends £10 for Down charities.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4626 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Daniel Oliver 16 December 1864
Summary
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4718 |
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- … Bibliography Oliver, Daniel. 1868–77. Flora of tropical Africa. 3 vols. London: L. Reeve …
To T. C. Eyton 29 December [1864?]
Summary
Asks TCE to verify whether otter-hounds have more skin between their toes than other hounds. Also interested in cases of infertile matings between normally fertile individuals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1864?] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4724 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To J. T. Moggridge 1[7] July [1864]
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 1[7] July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4563 |
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- … Bibliography Forms of flowers : The different forms of flowers on plants of the same …
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
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- … Bibliography Denney, Robert E. 1992. The civil war years: a day-by-day chronicle of the …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (119) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (13) |
| Scott, John | (13) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (179) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (11) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (298) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (73) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (21) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (18) |
| Scott, John | (17) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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 …
