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Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … Letter 8593 - Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle, 2 November1872 Darwin writes to Alphonse …
- … Letter 8656 - Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 2 December 1872 Asa Gray writes to Darwin …
- … Why do you think he was drawn to this type of study? 2. What kind of experimental information …
- … cause, but the result is pretty for the plant every 11⁄2 or 2 hours sweeps a circle, (according to …
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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Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … Complete text of the letter from Jane Gray to Susan Loring, 28 October – 2 November 1868: …
Darwin’s student booklist
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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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- … Edinburgh.— Franklins Journal to the North. Pole. 2 Vol. 8 Vo. 1 Cochrane Travels …
- … & Poems 12 mo 10 Pennants Arctic Zoology 11 2 Vols 4to Several papers in the …
- … Philos Journal. 13 Bostocks Physiology 14 2 Vol 8 Vo. Cuviers theory of the …
- … & Granby 16 6 Vols 12. mo Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols 8 Vo Sewards memoirs of …
- … 1826 for younger sons. 17 Henry 1823. Volume 2 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. 18 …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
Correspondence with women
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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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- … mental powers of the two sexes” in Descent of man 2: 326–9 are complex, and further …
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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- … HRHP/LPM/UVW41). Letter from Karl Pearson to Hope Pinker, 2 Dec. 1906, about a further commission …
- … and A.C. Seward (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. …
- … Melbourne: Cassell, 1896). Letter from Poulton to Acland, 25 Nov. 1896, OUM archive, Box 2, 1896/1. …
- … University, Thomas Fowler, 12 May 1899, OUM archive, Box 2, 1899/2. Walter F.R. Weldon, The Human …
- … 118–120. Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin, 2 nd ed . , 2 vols (London: George …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … atrociously’, Darwin wrote to Alfred Russel Wallace on 2 February , ‘I meant to say exactly the …
Eliza Burt Gamble
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Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was an advocate of the Woman Movement, a mother, a writer, and a teacher from…
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- … transmit their superiority to their male offspring.” [2] As a result of this process, …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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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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- … Society, 1 December 1835. [ Shorter publications , pp. 2-15. F1.] —Geological notes made …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 210-12. —Observations of proofs …
- … R.N. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 446-9. [ Shorter publications …
- … Plata. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 542-4. [ Shorter publications …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 552-4. [ Shorter publications , pp. …
- … Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2 (1844-50): 17-18. [ Shorter publications , pp. …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … Wales was there & Gen. Sabine presented your father who made 2 of the best bows he cd muster. …
- … apparition of your face at R.S. Soirèe—which I dreamed of 2 nights running. Tyndall came up to me in …
- … of Principles of biology . ( Letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 July 1866. ) Darwin agreed that …
- … use of ‘awesomely long words’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 October [1866] ). He later expressed …
- … to sign a list of those in favour of prosecution on 2 November 1866. Spencer enclosed a letter by …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … has almost driven away grief.’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox, 2 July [1858] ). The death of a baby …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< 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…
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising 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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- … Leiden 13 june 1823 Rotterdam 2 june 1877 Zoeterwoude …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … no other place, could have been given to it’ (Kirby 1852, 2: 246). Darwin’s copy of Brougham …
- … Bees can make apparently true cylinders & spheres. (2) They never begin one cell at time always …
- … by the work of François Huber. In his copy of Huber 1814, 2: 143, he scribbled a note: ‘If the sides …
- … the latest controversies in his letter to Darwin of 2 August 1858 . The notion that the theory of …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
