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4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5

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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…

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  • … references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. 1883), centrespread. A Selection of …

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 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …

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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  • … CD. According to Keith Thompson (1975), the cabin measured 10 feet by 11 feet. The books in …
  • … round the world.  London, 1697. ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10;  ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). …
  • …  2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831]). DAR 196.2 †. * …

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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  • … Letter from William Darwin to his father Charles Darwin, 10 July [1878], in The Correspondence of …
  • … Box 1, HM 1874–1902. Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896–1897] from Burdon Sanderson to Tylor, …

2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal

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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…

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  • … computer-readable date 1890-01-01 to 1890- 10-31. 
 medium and material struck medal, …
  • … ‘The Royal Society’, Times , 1 December 1894, p. 10. The Royal Society, file ref. no. JBO/51, …
  • … Darwin centenary at Cambridge, Times (24 June 1909), p. 10. British Museum (Natural History), …
  • … Natural History Museum, London (London: Mansell, 1995), p. 10, no. 18: a bronze medallion of …

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…

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  • … not indolently take country house & do nothing— Could[10] I live in London like a prisoner? If I …
  • … del  ‘¶’. [9] ‘not’  interl . [10] ‘C’  over illeg . [11] ‘I’  over  ‘l’ …

4.43 'Illustrated London News' article

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< Back to Introduction In September 1887 the Illustrated London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this opportunity to offer his own thoughts on the ‘domestic tranquillity’ and ‘unassuming modesty’ of…

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  • … computer-readable date 1887-12-1 to 1887-12-10 
 medium and material wood engravings …
  • … second article, Illustrated London News, 91:2538 (10 Dec. 1887), pp.686-8. 
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6430_10256

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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1   25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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  • … see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and n. 10. f6 See Nilsson 1866–7. In …
  • … see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February [1868] and n. 10. f6 See Nilsson 1866–7. In …

3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos

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< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…

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  • … from Paintings by the World’s Great Artists , 10 vols (Philadelphia: William Finley, 1895), vol. 10

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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  • … It was soon after I began collecting stones, ie when 9 or 10 I distinctly recollect the desire I had …
  • … feeling of being delirious.–– —— 1819. July. (10 & ½ years old)  Went to sea at Plas …
  • … that ever passed from the mouth of man.–– Such is wit at 10 & ½ years old.–– The memory …

'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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  • … by the RSPCA awarded three competitors a total of £10 in recognition of the merit of their designs, …
  • … to be widespread: one estimate suggested that at least 10,000 animals were caught in steel traps in …

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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  • … p. 12. Christ’s College Magazine , no. 24 (1909–10), p. 15. ‘The Darwin centenary at Cambridge’, …

1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait

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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…

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  • … of his brother Erasmus was entered separately at £31 10 s .) and ‘Mrs. Darwin’, and this must be …
  • … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 4, nos. 10 and 11. Nora Barlow (ed.), Charles …

2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury

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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…

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  • … foundry, in only seven months. It was unveiled on 10 August  1897, at a ceremony attended by Joseph …
  • … Chronicle (18 June, 1897), p. 5; (25 June 1897), p. 10; (13 August 1897), pp. 5–7. ‘Proposed …

Bay of Islands, New Zealand

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In praise of missionaries

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  • … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …

Our poor dear dear child: To Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851]

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  Marsha Richmond shares her experiences of editing the very moving letters Darwin wrote to his wife Emma about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10.

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  • … death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10. …

Beagle voyage begins

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HMS Beagle sails

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  • … HMS Beagle sets sail from Plymouth with Darwin on board. What was supposed to be a two-year …

Divergence

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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…

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  • … of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]). …

Jane Gray

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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…

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  • … a few gentlemen’ (letter to Jane Gray from George Bentham, 10 March 1852. Archives of the Gray …

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.  They are a connecting thread that spans…

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  • … and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and …
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