From J. W. Spengel 10 May 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter referring to JWS’s bibliographical paper ["Darwinian bibliography", Z. Ethnol. 3 (1871): 56–67]. Will be glad to inform CD of any additions to the list and would be grateful for information on future publications.
| Author: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7751 |
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- … 727). The work appears in the second edition of Spengel’s bibliography ( Spengel 1872 ). …
- … s bibliographical paper ["Darwinian bibliography", Z. Ethnol. 3 (1871): 56–67]. Will be …
- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … The reference is to Spengel 1871 , a bibliography of works on Darwinian theory and other …
To Horace Darwin [15 December 1871]
Summary
Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8107 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To A. R. Wallace 13 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7579A |
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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 George Busk 16 October 1871
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [for Origin 6th ed.] on the defensive organs of the Polyzoa, with his comments.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 384 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8012 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From George Busk 16 March 1871
Summary
The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7591 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [after 9 March 1871]
Summary
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 9 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 60–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7562 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Daniel Oliver 15 November 1871
Summary
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8068 |
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- … Bibliography Earthworms : The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From G. H. Darwin [13 June 1871]
Summary
Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7818 |
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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 H. E. Litchfield [after 5] November 1871
Summary
CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [after 5] Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040 |
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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 George Busk 24 November 1871
Summary
Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8084 |
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- … Bibliography Busk, George. 1868. On the caves of Gibraltar in which human remains and …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From J. W. Spengel 4 November 1871
Summary
Sends CD additions to his bibliographical list [missing].
Reports observations indicating that chimpanzees show compassion.
| Author: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … Wright 1871b ). Spengel had sent CD a bibliography of works on Darwinian theory published …
From Henry Gillman 29 May 1871
Summary
Offers to send some of his botanical field notes.
Convinced that certain families and genera vary in certain directions. Cites Lobelia’s "inclination" to produce albinos and other cases.
Reports a plant that is abundant in localities unfitted for its full development.
Wild buffaloes will help a wounded calf.
Response to CD’s views among American naturalists.
| Author: | Henry Gillman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 73; DAR 165: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7777 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From St G. J. Mivart 26 January 1871
Summary
Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7458 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To R. F. Cooke 22 April [1871]
Summary
Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.
Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.
The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 285–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7705 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
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- … Bibliography Allan, Mea. 1967. The Hookers of Kew, 1785–1911. London: Michael Joseph. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Michael Foster 26 June [1871]
Summary
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 26 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7832 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Francis Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [before 4 January 1871]
Summary
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7426 |
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- … Bibliography Earthworms : The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
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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 George Rolleston 22 February 1871
Summary
Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7506 |
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- … Bibliography Braubach, Wilhelm. 1869. Religion, Moral & Philosophie der Darwin’sche …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From W. R. Grove [5–8 July 1871]
Summary
Mammae in human males.
The role of natural selection in the development of beards and manes of animals.
Hereditary pointing in setters.
| Author: | William Robert Grove |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5–8 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 190–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7854 |
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- … Bibliography Descent 2d ed. : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
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| Cooke, R. F. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (382) |
| Murray, John (b) | (15) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (14) |
| John Murray | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (670) |
| Murray, John (b) | (28) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (24) |
| John Murray | (23) |
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
Summary
< 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
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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 …
