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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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  • … On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He …
  • … live in London like a prisoner? If I were moderately rich, I[11] would live in London, with pretty …
  • … interl . [10] ‘C’  over illeg . [11] ‘I’  over  ‘l’. [12] The date is …
  • … Lyell that his cousin Emma Wedgwood had accepted him (on 11 November), he says, ‘I determined, when …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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  • … with his new beard (DCP-LETT-4511), and Gray’s reply, 11 July 1864 (DCP-LETT-4558). Darwin’s letter …
  • … the photograph (DCP-LETT-4525), and Hooker’s reply, [11 June 1864] (DCP-LETT-4529). Darwin’s letter …

3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…

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  • … Dec. [1860], DCP-LETT-3025. Letter from Darwin to Asa Gray, 11 April [1861], DCP-LETT-3115. Letter …
  • … 1862], DCP-LETT-3745. Letter from Ernst Haeckel to Darwin, 11 Jan. 1866, DCP-LETT-4973, and Darwin’s …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and 11 August [1860] ). As the months passed …

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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  • … carried out in different ways (letter from Jeffries Wyman, 11 January 1866 ). Concurrently …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 4928  - Henslow, G. to Darwin, [11 November 1865] J. S. Henslow’s son, George, …
  • … Letter 2461  - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …

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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  • … ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 April [1859] ) …

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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  • … be ‘a form of typhus fever’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1860 ). This hope was realised. By …
  • … of war. Darwin wrote, almost disbelievingly, to Gray on 11 December: ‘What a thing it is, that when …

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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  • … computer-readable date 1896-11-01 to 1897-07-31 
 medium and material bronze statue on a …
  • … Times (31 January 1894), p. 8, and ‘Court Circular’ (11 August 1897), p. 8. ‘A memorial statue of …
  • … in the series Public Sculpture of Britain , vol. 11 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010) …

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…

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  • … perhaps more complex emotions depicted in photographs 5 to 11, hardly any of the participants …
  • … 6 (crying from grief), 8 (suffering), 9 (deep grief) and 11 (hardness) where the proportion of …
  • … before making a decision.  They also looked at photograph 11 (hardness) for 9 seconds, possibly …

Abstract of Darwin’s theory

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There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…

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  • … whole internal organization—who never was capricious,— 11  who should go on selecting for one end …
  • … but who could’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 11 The manuscript includes a passage at this …

5935_4582

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From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … & scientific men’, Darwin wrote in reply on 11 January . ‘Search for the truth, & then …

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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  • … productive lands to retain for themselves any [ f.152r p.11 ] proportion at all approaching to …
  • … onwards (the night being clear but moonless) and at about 11 p.m. anchored the Ship Borneo drawing …
  • … except cocoanuts – and their extent is not more than 10 or 11 leagues. [8 leagues including the …
  • … 8˚ 1' W. of Java Head [in reality 8˚ 13'] and in Lat 11˚ 50' S. distant 14' …
  • … [which has been called Keeling's Isle by Mr Ross] in Lat 11˚ 49 3/4' S. Lon 97˚ 4' E. …
  • … extract from the fifth Edition of Horsburgh's Book *[11] – edited after its Editor had seen …
  • … – so likewise most surely – is – the Crown *[11] Copied from the previous Editions. …

3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

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  • … ornamental frame and published in The Examiner on 11 October 1879. There was even a wood …
  • … of a series of eminent men portrayed in The Examiner (11 Oct. 1879), facing p. 1312. Engraving …

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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  • … experiments on rabbits ( letter from Francis Galton, 11 December 1869 ). This was the beginning of …

4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…

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  • … references and bibliography Punch vol. 69 (11 December 1875), p. 242. Gardeners’ Chronicle …

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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  • … to Keith Thompson (1975), the cabin measured 10 feet by 11 feet. The books in the Poop Cabin …
  • … vols. London, 1829. (DAR 37.2: 798; Stoddart 1962, pp. 6, 8, 11). Encyclopædia Britannica. …
  • … Hope and the interjacent ports.  2 pts. London, 1809–11. (DAR 30.1: 2v.). ‡ Humboldt, …

Joseph Simms

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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…

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  • … ‘nearly as indistinguishable as sheep’ (Burrows 2008, p. 11). In 1912, Simms was involved in …

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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  • … some took books, some went to walk spite of the rain, & at 11, some went to church— I was a …
  • … some took books, some went to walk spite of the rain, & at 11, some went to church— I was a …
  • … Generally the walkers started for a long tramp at about 11 or ½ past, to get back to lunch at 1½—Mrs …
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