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Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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  • … Lyell, 8 [September 1847] To Robert Chambers, 11 September 1847 To J.D. Hooker …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … perhaps what actually drew them together. 11. Darwin's support for the …

Darwin and vivisection

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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  • … Darwin’s son-in-law Richard Buckley Litchfield. On 11 April, Darwin learned that a bill based …
  • … the House of Lords (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). He was still unsure …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter of 11 January 1844 , Darwin revealed to Hooker …

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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  • …   11 IV Presentation list for ‘Two forms in …
  • … Journal of Horticulture 11 VI Darwin’s …
  • … and the origin of species 11 VIII The ‘squib …

Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers

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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…

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  • … Britannica , telling the author, Arabella Buckley, on 11 July that he regretted that there …
  • … entirely new will. Apart from providing for his family, on 11 September he instructed his …
  • … and plants, Darwin told the director, Archibald Geikie, on 11 November , ‘This leads me to make …

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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  • … in Waterland 13 july 1835 Didam 11 august 1882   …
  • … 08 june 1904 Nijmegen 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. …
  • … of South Holland   Den Haag 11 august 1824 Haarlem 24 …
  • … Burghal School.   Deventer 11 september 1854 Deventer …
  • … High Burghal School   Roermond 11 december 1851 Utrecht 1 …
  • … (Jan) Teacher   Nieuwendam 11 january 1857 Broek in …
  • … Burghal School.   Dordrecht 11 oktober 1842 Tiel 9 august …
  • … 25 january 1838 Culemborg 11 june 1903 Culemborg 168 …
  • … Arnhem 8 january 1842 Deventer 11 December 1923 Den Haag …
  • …   7 august 1834 Amsterdam 11 Feb Amsterdam 192 …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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  • … since the Origin appeared”‘ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 11 [April] 1880 ). While praising Origin …
  • … through natural selection’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 11 May 1880 ). Worthy causes In …
  • … family members. Emma’s brother Josiah Wedgwood III died on 11 March. Like Emma, he had married a …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 Jan 1844] Darwin begins with an assessment …
  • … Letter 3800 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., [11 Nov 1862] Scottish gardener John Scott notes …

'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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  • … September 1863] (DAR 219.1: 77), and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to W. D. Fox, [29 September …
  • … (Down House MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s. 6 d. for distributing the & …
  • … Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, and 28 May 1864, p. 14). However, …

Biogeography

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…

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  • … Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species , chapters 11 and 12 Papers Darwin, …
  • … Letter 1680 —Charles Darwin to JD Hooker, 11 May 1855 Darwin congratulates Hooker on his …
  • … to his theories of geographical distribution in Chapter 11 of On the Origin of Species ? What …

3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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  • … the nineteenth-century periodical press.   On 11 November 1871, Rejlander sent Darwin ‘a …
  • … London trip (DCP-LETT-7605). Rejlander’s letter to Darwin, 11 November 1871, saying he had sent ‘a …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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  • … Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 11 Nov 1859 Darwin writes to Sedgwick to tell …

3.4 William Darwin, photo 1

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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…

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  • … of him, which Darwin himself much preferred.   On 11 April 11 1861, Darwin wrote to the …
  • … of image William Darwin 
 date of creation 11 April 1861 
 computer-readable …
  • … (DCP-LETT-1619). Letter from Darwin to Asa Gray, 11 April [1861] (DCP-LETT-3115). Letters from …

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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  • … in Waterland 13 July 1835 Didam 11 August 1882     …
  • … in Deventer at the time and that is J.H. 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma …
  • … of South Holland   Den Haag 11 August 1824 Haarlem 24 …
  • … Burghal School.   Deventer 11 September 1854 Deventer …
  • … High Burghal School   Roermond 11 December 1851 Utrecht 1 …
  • … (Jan) Teacher   Nieuwendam 11 January 1857 Broek in …
  • … Burghal School.   Dordrecht 11 October 1842 Tiel 9 August …
  • … 25 January 1838 Culemborg 11 June 1903 Culemborg   …
  • … Arnhem 8 January 1842 Deventer 11 December 1923 Den Haag …
  • …   7 August 1834 Amsterdam 11 Feb Amsterdam …

Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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  • … Letter 1514 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H., 11 Apr [1853] Darwin offers to send zoologist T …

Insectivorous Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…

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  • … Letter 3853 - Charles Darwin to John Scott, 11 December 1862 This is a lengthy letter …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … Letter 3597 —Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 June [1862] Among bits of family news and …

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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  • … acid solutions to aid digestion ( Correspondence vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • … gave his list of plants to Hooker when he visited Kew on 11 February (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • …     Mormodes auraticum 11 21   …
  • … in pencil. CD misspelled Cyrtopodium punctatum. 11.  Mormodes aurantiaca 12.   …
  • …     Alloplectis chrysanthum 11   Gesneraceæ …
  • … 9.  Onagrae. 10.  Ampelidae. 11.  Alloplectus chrysanthus. 12.  Bulbophyllum …
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