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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, Hooker, at the …
- … idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not until 25 …
- … abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April Darwin wrote …
- … 1867), and Darwin summarised them in Variation 2: 106–7, concluding, ‘it follows from Mr. Scott …
- … and professional seniority ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ); but Darwin’s feelings …
- … in healing this ugly breach’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ), Darwin seems to have …
- … of weather-forecasting ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 and nn. 2 and 5), and he may …
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.
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- … More Detecting Darwin activities 2 Learn about Darwin and the Beagle …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … in plants , pp. 112–13). He explained to Francis on 2 July : ‘I go on maundering about the …
- … tomorrow to Wurzburg,’ Darwin wrote to Thiselton-Dyer on 2 June , ‘& work by myself will be …
- … [before 17 July 1878] ), ‘a strong horizontal axis about 2 feet long which goes round by clockwork …
- … animal instinct and intelligence. ‘Frank’s son, nearly 2 years old (& we think much of his …
- … more expertly. ‘I conclude that a child—just under 2 years is inferior in intellect to a monkey.’ …
- … & a baby in your house!’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 2 September [1878] ). More …
- … seems to me quite ridiculous’ ( letter to John Price, 2 April [1878] ). When a wealthy businessman …
- … was ‘deeply gratified’, remarking to Skertchly on 2 March : ‘It is the greatest possible …
- … that such checks had been in action during the last 2 or 3 centuries, or even for a shorter time in …
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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- … the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2 nd 3 rd and Appendix Volumes of …
- … many Kentledge pigs – and almost as heavy – limited the 2 nd to 700 pages of easily readable type …
- … for commanding under it an H.C. Cruizer [ vf.147v p.2 ] of considerably greater tonnage – and …
- … making a quick passage to the Southward. In the 2 nd that the expression “sailed from …
- … in singing ^of^ jovial sea songs even on Wednesdays *[2] [ f.158r p.23 ] instead of the …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … pamphlet was published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle on 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2, under the title …
- … (see the letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [2 September 1863] (DAR 219.1: 77), and …
- … ( Spectator , 6 January 1877, p. 15, and Emma Darwin 2: 200–1). While Emma Darwin …
- … , pp. 44, 54–5, 78, and Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. D. Fox, 28 August [1837]). Later he …
- … the publication of Origin (Turner 1980, pp. 60–2, 124–128, Worster 1985, pp. 179–80, 184–7). …
- … seen a trap, and therefore I give a wood-cut of one. 2 The iron teeth shut …
- … in nineteenth-century England, see Turner 1980. 2 This sentence, and the woodcut of the …
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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- … which came to my mind as I read his book. 2. Darwin's influences …
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … some of these poems today, and? 2. The idea of writing about Darwin …
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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- … you for the flattering introduction. 2. The unusual role Darwin plays today …
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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- … surrounding evolutionary theories. 2. The situation in France …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … Paul. It’s a very great pleasure. 2. Victorian spiritualism and the …
Fool's experiments
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‘I love fools' experiments. I am always making them’, was one of the most interesting things the zoologist E. Ray Lankester ever heard Darwin say. ‘A great deal might be written as comment on that statement’, Lankester later recorded, but he limited…
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 3054: Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 2 Feb [1861] If the descent of languages was …
Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
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- … arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more …
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … ones. ( Alfred Russel Wallace to Charles Darwin, 2 July 1866 ) …
- … Principles of biology (Spencer 1864–7, 1: 444–5, 2: 48, et passim ). Wallace was so taken with …
- … (the copy is now in Cambridge University Library, Keynes.M.2.27). Shorthand for the survival and …
- … of the fittest in the last paragraph of Variation (2: 432), but although he altered the chapter …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … places’. So wrote Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 …
- … in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 and DAR 30.2: 112) but several later …
- … during the summer of 1836 (Sulloway 1982b, pp. 331–2, n. 13). Finally, there are two works that CD …
- … de Voisins, Jean Franc~ois d’. Traité de géognosie . 2 vols. Strasbourg, 1819. (Inscription in …
- … 1835). * Boitard, Pierre. Manuel d’entomologie. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2 …
- … Forster. London, 1772. ( Voyage , p. 178; DAR 34.2: 153). § British Association for …
- … travaux de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … With Notes . . . by Robert Jameson. London, 1813. (DAR 30.2: 154). Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … John. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa . 2 vols. London, 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; …
- … Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
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- … I conclude that a child—just under 2 years is inferior in intellect to a monkey . …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … old and new was published). Butler wrote to Darwin on 2 January 1880 for an explanation: …
- … me is to hide the enlarged root, at least at first, beneath 2½ inches of soil as a protection …
- … I should be greatly obliged’ ( letter from W. Z. Seddon, 2 February 1880) . Darwin sympathised …
- … leave an indelible trace’ ( letter from Jules Rouquette, 2 April 1880 ). Despite Darwin’s …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … to help him with his research (e.g. to Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January …
