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From Asa Gray   31 May 1872

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Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 May 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8363

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  • … L. Brace, his book [ Botany for young people , pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own …
  • … a copy of part 2 of his Botany for young people ( How plants behave ; Gray 1872a ); there …
  • … 1: 347). The first part of Botany for young people , How plants grow , was published in …

From Arthur Mellersh   25 January 1872

Summary

Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.

Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.

Author:  Arthur Mellersh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8182

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  • … ago. Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction. …
  • … it will succeed in preventing the poor people from being “improved” off the face of the …

From A. B. Meyer   25 April 1872

Summary

Sends information on expression: head and hand movements of the Tagals of the Philippines, and of Malaysians.

Author:  Adolf Bernhard Meyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Apr 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 168
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8300

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  • … Meyer refers to the people native to Luzon, one of the Philippine Islands, and the …
  • … with the chin to the front. 2) All the peoples of the Indian archipelago make a different …
  • … attention to it. 2) All these eastern people of the Malay and Phil. Archipelago, make …

From W. W. Reade   7 September 1872

Summary

Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Sept 1872
Classmark:  DAR 176: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8514

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  • … are members of the Bantu language peoples, and lived in Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and …
  • … statement for purposes of quotation— The people in question are Bechuanas—a negro or …
  • … in streams— At p 470 he says of the same people “Unless it forces tears into their eyes …

From J. R. Martin   27 March 1872

Summary

CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.

Author:  John Royle Martin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Mar 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8254

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  • … the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so. …

From A. R. Wallace   31 August 1872

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Further reflections upon Bastian’s book [The beginnings of life (1872)].

ARW’s prospects for Directorship at Bethnal Green Museum.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Aug 1872
Classmark:  DAR 106: B113–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8498

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  • … had hard work to hammer your views into peoples’ heads at first,—& if Bastian’s theory is …
  • … with a general agreement in order to induce people to examine his new collection of facts. …
  • … in which case of course the S.  Kensington people will manage it. It is a considerable …

From Francis Galton   19 April 1872

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Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Apr 1872
Classmark:  DAR 105: A53–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8293

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  • … believe the truth of what they allege, that people who come as men of science are usually …
  • … entire absence of excitement or tension about people at a séance   Familiarity has bred …
  • … of the strange things witnessed, & the people find it as pleasant a way of passing an idle …

From A. F. Boardman   18 March 1872

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On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.

Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.

Author:  Alexander F. Boardman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Mar 1872
Classmark:  DAR 160: 232
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8245

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  • … they are not so intellectual as Eastern people. This is in accordance with the views which …
  • … of the land soil’ &c. It is perfectly notorious here that Western people are much taller …
  • … and heavier than eastern people and also that the soil in the west is much deeper and …

From Asa Gray   7 March 1872

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A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Mar 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8237

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  • … Cope school, that you may have heard of,—people who have got hold of what they call a …
  • … science upside down, you must expect that people will wish to see you. I am just getting …

From Mary Treat   13 December 1872

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Drosera filiformis captures only small insects [but see 8989].

Writes of her experiments with butterflies.

CD’s theory steadily gains ground in the U. S., despite Agassiz.

Author:  Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Dec 1872
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 23–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8676

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  • … had a series of discourses teaching the people your theory. Nothing brings out a crowd on …
  • … gaining ground among the masses and thinking people of this country, Prof. Agassiz to the …

From Francis Darwin   [before 30 June 1872]

Summary

A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 30 June 1872]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8365

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  • … will you ask Bessy to put it in my book when people have looked at it Yrs affec | F Darwin …

To Amy Ruck   [1 November 1872]

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Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:  [1 Nov 1872]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8590

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  • … Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin Some people like pasting an authors hand-writing at …

From Gerard Krefft   30 December 1872

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Has read CD’s latest book and will make observations for CD.

Reports on a monkey that throws things when "angry".

Explains how natives count to more than four; CD incorrect on this point.

Sends photographs of blacks.

Cicadas out in force.

Author:  Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Dec 1872
Classmark:  DAR 169: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8698

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  • … the first singing with such energy that people otherwise hard of hearing take notice of …
  • … all in consequence of the “ Locusts ” as people call them here. — Many rare Buprestidæ are …

From W. W. Reade   12 March 1872

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Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1872
Classmark:  DAR 176: 55
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8241

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  • … to refer to some groups of the Xhosa people of south-eastern Africa, while ‘Hottentot’ …
  • … was usually used to refer to peoples of south-western Africa (the Khoikhoi); for …

From Francis Galton   28 March 1872

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Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;

describes a séance at William Crookes’s.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1872
Classmark:  DAR 105: A46–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8256

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  • … comfortable, after dinner. Now different people have different power over the needle & …
  • … firm possession of Miss Fox. The other people present were his wife & her mother & all …

From M. D. Conway   24 December 1872

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Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.

Author:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Dec 1872
Classmark:  DAR 161: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8694

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  • … have been a natural development among any people fond of talking &c. , but whose freedom …
  • … evidence of shrugging among different peoples and concluded that it was ‘a gesture natural …

From F. P. Cobbe   25 December [1872]

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Sends story of a dog’s suicide.

Author:  Frances Power Cobbe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Dec [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 161: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8696

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  • … Piggott, J. R. 2004. Palace of the people: the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854–1936 . …

From Anton Dohrn   15 February 1872

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AD is sorry CD thinks publication of Descent a mistake. The excitement shows it was necessary for someone to speak plainly.

His great difficulties (Italian indolence, dishonesty, hatred) in establishing zoological station. Can at last start construction.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Feb 1872
Classmark:  DAR 162: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8214

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  • … quite unheard of for all of us northern people. The indolence, dishonesty, hatred even …
  • … are quite regular qualities with this people, and it wants one’s last resources of nervous …

From B. A. Renshaw   15 June 1872

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Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.

Author:  Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 June 1872
Classmark:  DAR 176: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8387

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  • … touring shows featuring unusual-looking people ( ANB ). Pico de Teide, Tenerife. William …

From R. F. Cooke   21 August 1872

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Has ordered printing of 2000 sets of illustrations [for Expression] for Murray’s and informed D. Appleton of price per thousand. Has answered letter from Eduard Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Has also arranged for index.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Aug 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 417
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8479

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  • … dear Sir I have desired the Heliotype people, to proceed with the printing off, of 2000  …
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People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • … List of people appearing in the  photograph album Darwin …

People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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  • … Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … Here is a list of people that appeared in the  photograph album Darwin received for his …

People

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This section is about Charles Darwin and his correspondents. It is divided into the following areas: Key correspondents The Beagle voyage networks Family and friends Darwin's scientific networks Readers and critics Publishers, artists…

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  • … This section is about Charles Darwin and his correspondents. It is divided into the following …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … see, the French scene deserves close attention. I think that people have been working – and doing …
  • … , but let’s say, ?the Institution of Science?) and people have also assumed that the science which …
  • … each of these dictionaries there is a huge coverage of what people felt important for the …
  • … distorting our appreciation at a very basic level: what were people talking about? Now, that …
  • … public press. Not only that, but he also produced, or had people writing for him, articles showing …
  • … more the French government moves to the right wing, the more people try to start saying that …
  • … officer of the Napoleonic army becomes a kind of person who people have to trust to put the country …
  • … to curb atheism, but even more worried [of] subversion and people not being friendly to the …
  • … professional structure, of the Anglican clergymen. I found people endorsing moderate forms of …
  • … of Noah’s ark. It is surprising the extent to which these people knew about Continental science. …
  • … I still believe up to the mid-1830s not many English people knew German. (The evidence of that is …
  • … academic climbing to a completely different mindset. But people always try to say how original they …
  • … more important. Let me give you one instance. For people like John Fleming , the Scottish …
  • … atheism implicit in Lamarck. By 1830 in England, a lot of people are really worried that Lamarckian …
  • … By 1834, the issue was almost academic within a lot of people, and William Whewell, in 1837, wrongly …
  • … at is that by the time in which Darwin sets to read these people – Lamarck, Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
  • … more [part of a] burning debate, [a] hot debate, on which people feel things are at stake. So I …
  • … that. I simply say that he’s tried to think, who are the people who said something [about evolution …
  • … who said something. And naturally so, because by 1860 these people were curiosities, whereas if you …
  • … a seat at the Academy of Sciences in botany, not in zoology. People felt challenged. The earliest …
  • … I think that is totally not true. But nevertheless, people who say that Lamarck cut no ice in France …
  • … Lamarck has not said what Darwin said, even though some people say, well, within Darwin there …
  • … everyone believed that throughout Europe; very few people doubted that. The question is to what an …
  • … thesis as broad as that – ?French science declined? - people are now finding a lot of counter …
  • … language. That is, that was not mainstream. Certainly, people who used Darwin in that way in France, …

Site index

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List of all letters in chronological order List of all people mentioned in letters List of all bibliographic references in letters List of correspondents   Links index    

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  • … of all letters in chronological order List of all people mentioned in letters …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … of those who lived on Cocos-Keeling – whether enslaved people, indentured servants, or wage …
  • … matters. Thus, the manuscript illustrates how ships, people, goods, books and even clay soil (as …
  • … with numbers in square brackets.   Key people mentioned in the manuscript …
  • … Borneo , and in 1820 he sailed Hare and a party of his ‘people’ (slaves or servants) to Cape of …
  • … 1827. He claimed to be surprised to find Hare and his people already in residence on the northern …
  • … for the settlement. Hare wanted solitude, and control of his people; he was not interested in …
  • … between Malay labourers  and a British citizen. About 50 people left the settlement after this …

Boat Memory

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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…

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  • … Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert …
  • … ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat …
  • … Boat Memory, a member of the Alakaluf tribe, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del …
  • … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and as interpreters for passing …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … according to their usual practice – they kill all the old people, and men who fall into their hands …
  • … – those Settlements were all originally made – or those people who have voluntarily gone to those …
  • … flocks – extorting first fruits and tithes from the poor people, whom they scarcely see, once in a …
  • … The democratic inclinations – to wit – of People whom I also represent as being Royalists par …
  • … was colonized – we have not as yet seen or heard of such people as “New South Welshmen” or “women” – …
  • … in the month of December, on board a Schooner, with these people and wrote to his brother – who was …
  • … round to Eastward of Madeira Island, and take him and these people from the Schooner lying there on …
  • … Salmond of the Bombay Marine) inquired concerning these people's condition “oh – they are my …
  • … documents were taken on board the ship and delivered to the people by the hands of two of the office …
  • … had formerly been.” The clerks said nothing – and the people not understanding the English writing – …
  • … subject. In reality – not more than five of these people had ever been legally purchased by …
  • … and fully understood by them. But most certainly they (these people) would not have listened in …
  • … Cape Colony Mr Hare purchased a farm-estate and set these people to work on it under an overseer or …
  • … – induced Mr H. to resolve on quitting and taking these people off with him – whilst he would be …
  • … of which that bay is situated) there to embark him and the people. In Hout Bay he kept her lying …
  • … Oporto, spoke the language – and liked the custom of the people) after passing the Cape – he changed …
  • … and put in to Croee for more – there two men of these people swam ashore in the night – and made …
  • … reasons “that he was carrying hither and thither those people – and treating them as slaves which …
  • … to run the risk again.” “Oh! Then land me and my people at once – I will send you on to Java with …
  • … Next morning he landed and found Mr Hare with a few of these people (whom he designated …
  • … and sent to Batavia for the Mary – to carry you and your people to somewhere else” – so now read …
  • … I have repeatedly impressed upon them that before seeing my people settled to my satisfaction in a …
  • … somewhere else before long] “to come and superintend the people there” – “well suppose he comes here …
  • … told him – would be the probable fate of himself and the people at the Andamans from the insalubrity …
  • … the furthest position from that occupied by Mr H and his people – greatly to the displeasure of Mr H …
  • … time suspected that it was. However very soon after Mr H’s people perceived that Mr Ross was settled …
  • … to Sunrise – N.B. – this was the main body of these people thus kept on the West Island – about …
  • … R’s – own knowledge of their not being slaves but free people who had ^been^ maneuvered out of their …
  • … – but he made no alteration in his treatment of the people – and disagreed with Mr Downie because …

Journal of researches

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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…

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  • … by Darwin for the ‘ the copies I presented to different people ’. Never having received a penny …
  • … told Lyell, adding that authors, ‘ who like you, educate people’s minds as well as teach them …

Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • … of natural history Charles Darwin). Most of the people in the album were faculty members of …
  • … botanist,  Julius Wiesner .  Missing people Some of Darwin's German colleagues …

Was Darwin an ecologist?

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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.

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  • … what we consider to be ecology, look into the past for people doing just that, and call it, if not …
  • … though, it is important. When we try to understand what people do, a grasp of what they think they …
  • … By Darwin’s time the term was associated particularly with people who made collections and …
  • … was not unusual. The existence of God had been for most people a basic assumption that provided an …
  • … in science; he studied the right books, knew the right people, learnt the right skills, and …
  • … underlying assumptions of earlier natural historians. Many people believed that the natural world …
  • … revised many times) is thrown into relief.   People Boole, Mary Everest. …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … had an idea which he knew was going to be shocking to many people, and it's pretty clear that …
  • … in which his ideas were going to have great value to other people. He thought he might have ideas …
  • … . We have things we can work out from letters that other people wrote to him, especially Emma. We …
  • … of the Origin of Species , only then, really, did people start asking him for his views. And …
  • … faith: why - the points I've made - easy or difficult; why people made it - the challenge of …
  • … I find it difficult to think of it as a real idea - that people really believed it - but I think we …
  • … very clear in his own writing and in his letters to other people: always questioning, always …
  • … say. The first thing is that he was quite clear with other people in the village, other gentry in …
  • … a social institution to be supported because it guided other people - he was a man of his time: he …
  • … a purely scientific observation, is presented by many people as a piece of autobiography. In …

Search tips

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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…

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  • … date. By keyword or exact phrase in the biographies of people mentioned in the letters, and …
  • … group identifiers (“flora” eg),  index terms such as people, institutions, and places, and some more …
  • … letters will be added as funds become available. People:  The site has brief biographical …
  • … else mentioned in the letters.  A keyword search in “People” will search these biographical entries. …
  • … letters referring to a particular person? To find people mentioned in the letters, search …

Interview with Tim Lewens

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Dr Tim Lewens is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and artifacts (2004), which examines the language and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of…

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  • … I think it’s aninteresting question about why it is that people call themselves Darwinians now. One …
  • … issues about God, issues that go to the very heart of what people have tended to think of as deep …
  • … of areas then it’s hardly surprising, I think, that some people are going to want to call themselves …
  • … that kind of all-encompassing aspect that, as I say, some people have viewed as certainly inherent …
  • … the idea of natural selection. One of the things that many people claim for the idea of natural …
  • … simple idea with extremely general application. And many people think that natural selection is …
  • … characterise natural selection in such a general way, then people begin to apply it to all kinds of …
  • … to have such an enormous significance and why, for some people, it is a kind of world view. It’s …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

Summary

Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
  • … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and interpreters for passing …
  • … with Elleparu and  Orundellico, met a select group of people, including FitzRoy’s relations, men …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Elleparu (York Minster)

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Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…

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  • … Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
  • … as an intermediary between the English and the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. He chose …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Exercise: Caricatures of Science

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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …

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  • … nineteenth century? 4. What do the images (and the people featured in them) tell us about …

Discussion Questions and Essay Questions

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There are a wide range of possibilities for opening discussion and essay writing on Darwin’s correspondence.  We have provided a set of sample discussion questions and essay questions, each of which focuses on a particular topic or correspondent in depth.…

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  • … so important for Darwin? How did Darwin encourage people he did not know to write to him? …
  • … knowledge does Darwin assume when he writes to different people? What sort of things could one …
  • … a potentially controversial topic? What reasons did people have for writing to Darwin? …

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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  • … Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people included, with their professional …
  • … The album included several women ( see a list of people in the album with biographical details ).  …
  • … ) Dutch correspondents Some of the people who contributed their photograph to …
  • … his son George to translate into English. Two other people whose portraits featured in the …
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