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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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  • … of developments in natural science. 4. Darwin’s knowledge of early …
  • … Europe. Well, Cuvier’s dictionary fails: after volume 4, no-one buys it. Now, there may be complex …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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  • … the “Origin of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect …
  • … The British envoy in China, Robert Swinhoe, remarked on 4 August that Darwin’s queries had …
  • … who had also criticised Darwin’s theory in print, wrote on 4 March, ‘you force public attention to …
  • … ). Barber’s paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained unpublished …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • … behaviour of infants from his relatives with young families.[4] However, it was Darwin’s personal …
  • … marked line—opens mouth.,—closes eyes— 4  Six weeks & four days. smiled repeatedly, …
  • … . 5 weeks & 3 days. 7 lb  – 10 4 wks 7 – 9½ …
  • … nor does she so readily gives slaps.— 38  April 4 th ——42. Willy’s observation on dress …
  • … is larger than mine Annie.” Jan. 1852 Lizzy 4½ years old.[60] She has always had the oddest …
  • … Lizzy No I’m not a drop old Aug. 52 Franky 4 years old. with some nuts. F. (to Papa) I’ll …

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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  • … Groningen 01 january 1841 Holwerd 03-04-1890 Groningen …
  • … Burghal School   Leeuwarden 4 july 1833 Den Haag 17 may 1890 …
  • … High Burghal School.   Tilburg 4 december 1836 Werden am Ruhr …
  • … Shell collector painter 65 Utrecht 4 december 1812 Den Haag …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … development, exhibit arrested or retrograde development, (4) increasing specialisation in …
  • … its beak by retrograde ‘recurrent’ development.^4^ (When we consider that Bird & Mammal have …
  • … ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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  • … what actually occurred in nature ( see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and  Natural …

3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah

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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…

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  • … 98. British Museum (Natural History), Special Guide no. 4, Memorials of Charles Darwin , 2 nd …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … Cecil, to attend a séance ( letter from M. C. Stanley, 4 June 1872 ). There was increasing …
  • … habitual grounds of ill health ( letter from J. S. Craig, 4 November 1872 , and letter to J. S. …

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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  • … next considered sound. He explained to John Tyndall on 4 December: ‘The day before yesterday & …
  • … of himself at Belfast,’ Darwin wrote to Hooker on 3 or 4 March . ‘I have often called him “that …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … to find plants and seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 March 1879] ). He continued …
  • … the plant would be killed by frost ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Darwin agreed, ‘ It …

Darwin and working from home

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Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…

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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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  • … since 1908 ( British Library Add MS 37631 1824-1854  - # 4 : a satire of Narrative. Capt John …

Darwin on childhood

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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood.  Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…

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  • … about that period, in the field opposite our House.–– [4]   1817. 8½ old went to M …
  • … cases’ actually follows ‘yet she . . . day,’ (3.3––4) in the manuscript, but the passage has been …

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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  • … eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain.”[4] Gamble, on the other hand, suggested …
  • … [3]  Ibid., 252. [4]  Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection …

Biodiversity and its histories

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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…

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  • … and the value of diversity   Session 4: Biogeography and Evolution   Chair: Jim …

Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • …   4 II Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • … endure the thought of sitting again, and I have refused 3 or 4 Photographers lately.” …
  • … in  Culture and Organization , 2006, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 341-357. Prodger, Philip.  …

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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  • … 3, line 9, insert after ‘continued reproduction.’’: 4                    A well-known …
  • … from a single parent-form.    Page xix, par. 4, line 2, insert after ‘1860’: 6     …
  • … of which will be given in a future work.    Page 46, par. 2, lines 22–4, substitute for ‘but …
  • … are still in progress.    Page 80, par. 1, line 4, insert after ‘other cases.’: 13     …
  • …  English    Page 179, par. 1, line 4, insert after ‘barb-pigeon’: 19     …
  • … authority of Joh. Müller    Page 222, par. 1, line 4, insert after ‘organ, the’: 23   …

Insectivorous plants

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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…

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  • … given me a panic. I tried milk on 9 leaves thin Gelatine on 4 White of egg on 6 Saliva on 8 Urine on …
  • … borrowing different species of Drosera from Kew . After 4 or 5 weeks hard work, he reported …

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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  • … to be very nearly – if not quite – equal to [ f.148v p.4 ] each other in that respect. …
  • … detained us a whole week.” “At daylight on the 4 th January 1832 the Island of Porto Santo …
  • … near to their shores to be of any importance to shipping. *[4] But one might have occupied the …
  • … is a single low Island 5 or 6 miles long [about 2] and 3 or 4 miles broad [about 1 1/2] with …
  • … this and the Southern Islands [The Cocos] is about 3 or 4 [4 or 5] leagues wide. Through it the …
  • … be a circular group of low Islands extending from Lat 12˚ 4' S. to 12˚ 23 [an error of nine …
  • … beach of sand or white coral – a reef projects near a 1/4 of a mile from the N.W. n part of the …
  • … has been called Keeling's Isle by Mr Ross] in Lat 11˚ 49 3/4' S. Lon 97˚ 4' E.” …
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