From George Gibbs 31 March 1867
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Finds that after 12 years among north-western Indians he can answer positively only one of CD’s queries about expression. They do blush from shame or anger.
| Author: | George Gibbs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5479 |
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- … 1867 Charles Darwin, Esq. Dear Sir, Professor Baird has shown me your circular, “Queries …
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Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … In which are described by his widow Jane the final days of Professor Asa Gray, Harvard Botanist. A …
- … nearly all reprinted in Silliman’s Journal, as a nut for [Professor] Agassiz to crack. …
- … will be abominable in your eyes. 67 My dear [Professor Agassiz]…. I hope that you …
- … to arrive at the truth. 68 My dear Professor Sedgwick… Darwin’s old tutor, …
- … treats me with profound contempt, says on this subject that Professor Asa Gray could, with the …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin …
- … from Harvard with a degree in Government. She was drawn to Professor Richardson’s class after …
- … Amalia originally took Professor Richardson’s course on a whim, interested in the …
- … of gender studies and evolutionary science led her to take Professor Richardson's "Sex, …
- … learn about the history of her field compelled her to take Professor Richardson’s course on Darwin, …
- … evolution, anthropology, and gender studies led her to take Professor Richardson’s course, and she …
- … and behavioral sciences. He has particularly enjoyed taking Professor Richardson’s “Sex, Gender, 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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- … 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of Zoölogy and comparative Anatomy …
- … C.H.D. (Christophorus Henrikus Didericus Professor physics at Utrecht University and Chief …
- … Bemmelen Dr J.M. van. (Jacob Maarten) Professor of Chemistry at Leijden University …
- … Boogaard Dr J.A. (Johannes Adrianus) Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Leijden …
- … 31 Bosscha Dr J. (Johannes) Professor of physics at the Delft Royal …
- … Burger C.P. (Not G) (Combertus Pieter) Professor, Director of the Leeuwarden High …
- … Dibbits Dr H.C. (Hendrik Cornelis) Professor of Chemistry at Utrecht University …
- … Donders Dr F.C. (Franciscus Cornelis) Professor of Physiology at Utrecht University …
- … 65 Engelmann Dr. Th.W. Professor of Medicine at Utrecht University …
- … Dr. J.C.G. (Johan Christiaan Gottlob) Ex-professor of Clinics at Leijden University …
- … 79 Grothe D. (Peter Dietrich) Professor at the Delft Polytechnical School …
- … 85 Harting Dr. P. (Pieter) Professor of Zoology and Comperative Anatomy at …
- … Dr. H. (Heinrich Daniel Johann Joachim) Professor of Clinics and internal Pathology at the …
- … Hoffmann Dr C.K. (Christiaan Karel) Professor of Zoology and Comparative …
- … Hoffmann Dr. J.J. (Johann Joseph) Titulary Professor of the Chinese Language.— …
- … 120 Koster Dr W. (Willem) Professor of Amsterdam at Utrecht University …
- … 137 Mees Dr. R.A. (Ruud) Professor of Physics at Groningen University. …
- … 151 Oudemans Dr. J.A.C. Professor of Astronomy at Utrecht University …
- … Dr. N.W.P. (Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter) Professor of Botany at Utrecht University. …
- … 187 Stokvis Dr. B.J. (Barend Joseph) Professor of Medicine at the Amsterdam …
- … Veth Dr. P.J. (Pieter Johannes) Professor, President of the Dutch Geographical …
- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) Professor of Anatomy 40 Leiden …
Vivisection: first sketch of the bill
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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …
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- … always that, in case of an application by any person being a Professor or Lecturer of or in …
- … the University or College in which the person applying is a Professor or Lecturer. Who …
- … the President of the College of Physicians, and also by a Professor of Physiology, Medicine, or …
- … thereof, provided only that a licence granted to any such professor or lecturer as is mentioned in …
- … 5.—It shall not be lawful for any professor, lecturer, or teacher of medicine, surgery, anatomy, …
- … from the date hereof. (Or, in the case of a Professor or Lecturer, under Section , “for …
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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- … 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy …
- … C.H.D. (Christophorus Henrikus Didericus Professor of Physics at Utrecht University and …
- … Bemmelen Dr J.M. van. (Jacob Maarten) Professor of Chemistry at Leijden University …
- … Boogaard Dr J.A. (Johannes Adrianus) Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Leijden …
- … 31 Bosscha Dr J. (Johannes) Professor of physics at the Delft Royal …
- … Burger C.P. (Not G) (Combertus Pieter) Professor, Director of the Leeuwarden High …
- … Gouda 5 March 1946 Rheden Son of professor C.P. Burger …
- … Dibbits Dr H.C. (Hendrik Cornelis) Professor of Chemistry at Utrecht University …
- … Donders Dr F.C. (Franciscus Cornelis) Professor of Physiology at Utrecht University …
- … 65 Engelmann Dr. Th.W. Professor of Medicine at Utrecht University …
- … Dr. J.C.G. (Johan Christiaan Gottlob) Ex-professor of Clinics at Leijden University …
- … 79 Grothe D. (Peter Dietrich) Professor at the Delft Polytechnical School …
- … 85 Harting Dr. P. (Pieter) Professor of Zoology and Comperative Anatomy at …
- … Dr. H. (Heinrich Daniel Johann Joachim) Professor of Clinics and Internal Pathology at the …
- … Hoffmann Dr C.K. (Christiaan Karel) Professor of Zoology and Comparative …
- … Hoffmann Dr. J.J. (Johann Joseph) Titulary Professor of the Chinese Language.— …
- … 120 Koster Dr W. (Willem) Professor of Amsterdam at Utrecht University …
- … 137 Mees Dr. R.A. (Ruud) Professor of Physics at Groningen University. …
- … 151 Oudemans Dr. J.A.C. Professor of Astronomy at Utrecht University …
- … Dr. N.W.P. (Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter) Professor of Botany at Utrecht University. …
- … 187 Stokvis Dr. B.J. (Barend Joseph) Professor of Medicine at the Amsterdam …
- … Veth Dr. P.J. (Pieter Johannes) Professor, President of the Dutch Geographical …
- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) Professor of Anatomy 40 Leiden …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … its history as well. Maura C. Flannery is Professor of Biology, retired, from St. …
- … visible. Tina Gianquitto is an associate professor of literature at the Colorado …
- … in the launch of epsilon. Frank James is Professor of the History of Science at the …
- … search engine is available. Marco Segala is Professor of history of philosophy at …
- … projects. Stephen P. Weldon is Associate Professor of History of Science at the …
4.11 'Fun' cartoon, 'A little lecture'
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< Back to Introduction ‘A little lecture by Professor D----n on the development of the horse’, a cartoon drawn by John Gordon Thomson for Fun magazine in July 1871, features ‘Professor’ Darwin addressing an audience of his ‘fellow monkeys’. His…
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
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< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
4.50 Cigar box lid design
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< Back to Introduction A brightly coloured chromolithograph with a portrait of Darwin was intended to decorate the inside of a cigar box lid. It comes from a book of sample designs carried by a cigar salesman, and can be dated to the late 1880s or…
1.16 Alphonse Legros, drypoint
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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros was highly esteemed by contemporaries for his engraved portraits of intellectuals and leading figures in the arts. These were collectors’ pieces which were sporadically published in sets from the 1860s onwards.…
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin wrote a rather reflective letter to his former professor and friend, John Stevens Henslow, …
- … and to ask whether Johannes Japetus Smith Streenstrup, professor of zoology there, would make his …
- … him to be wary of multiplying species; his botany professor John Stevens Henslow had alerted his …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at …
- … him, and began a life-long friendship with Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology, who introduced him …
- … 263 flowering plants. In 1822, Henslow was appointed Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge University …
- … He resigned the Chair of Mineralogy in 1827, but remained Professor of Botany until his death in …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … Still we think that if Messrs. D----n, B----t, B----d, and Professor H----y were to act on that …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
The Darwin and Gender Project
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The ‘Darwin and Gender’ research and education project, funded by a grant from the Parasol Foundation, ran from 2009 until 2013. Conducted in parallel with a major international research initiative in the history of evolutionary views of human nature, it…
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- … resources were created and trialled in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson, Assistant …
- … and a Twitter feed. Events included a public lecture by Professor Dame Gillian Beer on ‘Darwin and …
- … and Rebecca Woods at Harvard. Especial thanks also to Professor Sarah Richardson, and Dr Tina …
Science and Religion Interviews
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The importance of Darwin and the nineteenth century debates on science and religion for present day issues and concerns, such as intelligent design, are addressed in series of interviews with leading scientists, philosophers and historians.
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … of Darwin was the gift of Edward Poulton, who was Hope Professor of Zoology at Oxford. The insect …
- … letter to his daughter dated 27 November 1896, told her, ‘Professor Poulton writes begging me on his …
- … did not lack for influential supporters in Oxford. The Professor of Physiology John Burdon Sanderson …
- … science, flanking the entry to the museum court on the west. Professor Sir Henry Acland, who had …
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
Insectivorous Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…
