To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8650F |
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- … for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar. …
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To W. B. Tegetmeier [before 5 April 1874]
Summary
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [before 5 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9389 |
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- … Bibliography Boddaert, Pieter. 1783. Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle, …
- … s Miscellanea . Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4 (1962–8): …
- … birds. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5 (1968–71): 37–40. …
From M. T. Masters 6 August 1874
Summary
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9591 |
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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. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 October 1874
Summary
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9669 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From F. C. Donders 12 July 1874
Summary
On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9545 |
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- … Bibliography Engelmann, Theodor Wilhelm. 1868. Über die Flimmerbewegung. Leipzig: Wilhelm …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To T. H. Huxley 29 January [1874]
Summary
Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9258 |
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- … Bibliography Melton, J. Gordon, ed. 1996. Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology. 4th …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Edward Frankland 17 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for the pure phosphate of lime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9415A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 27 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for his work. CD concludes the ferment of Drosera must differ from pepsin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9473 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To Edward Frankland 11 October 1874
Summary
Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To J. D. Hooker 27 December [1874]
Summary
Has not heard from Mivart. He is not so good a Christian as JDH and cannot forgive a man for malicious lying merely because he says he is sorry. Does not think Mivart will apologise. Still thinks the simple, most manly thing, is to write to Mivart directly and tell him what he thinks of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 360–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9785 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 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 Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From W. de W. Abney to Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
| Author: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Leonard Darwin to W. de W. Abney [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.
[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9202 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To Francis Darwin [17 September 1874]
Summary
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9218 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Edward Frankland 15 April 1874
Summary
Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].
| Author: | Edward Frankland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9411 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To Edward Frankland 22 April [1874]
Summary
Requests permission to call briefly to discuss Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9424A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To Carl du Prel 19 May 1874
Summary
Thanks him for copy of book [Der Kampf um’s Dasein am Himmel (1874)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Ludwig August Friedrich Maximilian Alfred (Carl) Du Prel, baron |
| Date: | 19 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9462 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 May [1874]
Summary
Sends CD provisional information that artificial gastric juice dissolves bone entirely and that gluten and fibrin are completely dissolved in hydrochloric, propionic, and butyric acids. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 118–19.]
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9470 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From L. C. Harrison [22 August 1874]
Summary
Sends specimens of Pinguicula with insects adhering. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 369.]
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 81–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9606 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To D. F. Nevill 3 September 1874
Summary
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624F |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
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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
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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
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
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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
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 …
