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Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … only from fatigue and ill health ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 ). Health and …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … size. Haeckel sent a personal letter of congratulation on 9 February , expressing some …
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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- … of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 446-9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 32-5. F1645 …
- … 2 (1838): 552-4. [ Shorter publications , pp. 37-9. F1647.] —On the formation of mould. …
- … Society of London 2nd ser., pt. 3, 5 (1840): 505-9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 48-50. F1648 …
- … Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 9 (1839): 528-9. [ Shorter publications , …
- … and Agricultural Gazette , 14 September 1844, pp. 628-9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 176. …
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…
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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- … the years 1794–5’. Page xviii, par. 3, line 9, insert after ‘continued reproduction.’’: …
- … Page 19, par. 1, line 8, insert after ‘parent.’: 9 This conclusion, as …
- … England under a hen. Page 264, par. 1, lines 8–9, substitute for ‘and not’: 27 …
- … Japanese P. versicolor Page 275, par. 2, line 9, insert after ‘England.’: 34 …
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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- … (letters from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and 9 November 1872 ). Demand seemed likely to …
2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…
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- … centenary at Cambridge’, Times (22 June 1909), p. 9, and (24 June 1909), p. 10. J.W. Goodison, …
Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
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Thanks to all who took part in our online emotions experiment – over 18,000 of you! The formal stage of the experiment is now over, but it will be staying online as an activity, so if you don’t want to know the results, look away now. If you’d like to…
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…
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- … Letter 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … Letter 13607 – Darwin to Kennard, C. A., [9 January 1882] Darwin responds to Caroline …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Letter 13607 – Darwin to Kennard, C. A., [9 January 1882] Darwin responds to Caroline …
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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- … of bad weather at them – and – in [ f.151r p.9 ] their vicinity –) which I may safely say is …
- … lonely Islands also called Cocos – were discovered in 1608-9 by Captain William Keeling who was in …
- … the name of “New South Wales” to the Eastern Coast *[9] but altho’, some three or four …
- … found a good harbour, where he lay from the 5 th to the 9 th December 1825. He has given the …
- … place in as few words as possible is as follows – About 9 years ago i.e. from 1826 or 1827 counting …
- … of Sumbawa 7 th of Coepang (Timor) 8 th of Malacca 9 th of Java 10 th Javan-Chinese – …
- … of a voyage having been made by Captain Keeling in 1608-9 from England to the Moluccas and back – …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … . Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … to Darwin at the end of August, ‘I have between £8 & £9 to hand over to Mrs. Cameron for sale of …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … to send a copy of the pamphlet (see Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix III). However, Darwin himself …
- … was published in Punch , (see Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix VIII).) For his part, …
- … Rev. John Stevens Henslow (see Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix X). Hybridisation and …
- … of Jamieson’s letters to Lyell in Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix IX. Jobs for the boys …
Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
