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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 …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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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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 …
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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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There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1880 on this website. The full texts of the letters are not yet available online but are in volume 28 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin, published by Cambridge…
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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 ). …
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 …
Darwin's works in letters
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For the 162nd anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, we've added two new pages to our Works in letters section on Climbing plants and Forms of flowers. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin,…
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- … obtain for my works. ( letter to Ernst Dieffenbach, 2 October 1843 ) Darwin …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … identification is followed by a question mark. 2. The date Darwin rarely gave the year …
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
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … by Charles and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Etienne Page xiv, n., lines 2–5, delete ‘It is curious . . . in 1794’. 2 …
- … modification of species. Page xix, par. 1, line 2, insert after ‘and clearness.’: 5 …
- … a single parent-form. Page xix, par. 4, line 2, insert after ‘1860’: 6 …
- … ruminants Page 18, par. 2, line 15, insert after ‘England’: 8 …
- … will be given in a future work. Page 46, par. 2, lines 22–4, substitute for ‘but then . . …
- … with the conqueror. By the way, Page 99, par. 2, line 26, to page 100, par. 1, line 5, …
- … in certain definite directions. Page 162, par. 2, lines 6–7, insert after ‘deafness in’: …
- … (p. 32) Page 182, par. 2, line 15, insert after ‘full-grown animal.’: 20 …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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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, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … on some Marantaceous plant to make out meaning of 2 sets of differently coloured stamens.’ At …
- … and a mere mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly …
- … sold some 1700 Copies!!!’ After the initial publication on 2 July, two further printings were needed …
- … you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875). Back over old …
- … on her sister. He had described the case in Variation 2: 14–16, suggesting that such regrowth …
- … the eyes of one variety into another ( Variation 2d ed. 1: 420–4, 2: 360). Darwin had encouraged …
- … at its sensitiveness. If you blow gently at it from 1 or 2 feet distance, it absorbs moisture & …
- … meeting: ‘I did so enjoy my afternoon’, she wrote on 2 July , ‘and if it were not too much to ask …
1879 Letters now online
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In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a short biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin as an introduction to a translation of an essay by Ernst Krause on Erasmus’s scientific work. Darwin’s son…
