From E. A. Darwin [1 February 1825]
Summary
Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12 |
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To Thomas Campbell Eyton 12 [May 1861 – April 1863]
Summary
Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.
Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13804 |
Matches: 27 hits
- … To Thomas Campbell Eyton 12 [May 1861 – April 1863] …
- … Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 May …
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- … 1863 12 Apr 1863 Thomas Campbell Eyton …
- … Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. 12 th Dear Eyton I am particularly obliged to you for …
- … sonneratii . In Natural selection , p. 435 n. 12, CD wrote, ‘several years ago I myself …
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
| Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To ? 12 February [1870–82] …
- … Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin 12 Feb …
- … 1870 12 Feb …
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- … 1881 12 Feb 1882 Unidentified …
From E. A. Darwin 12 November [1860–8]
Summary
Sends the tithes.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1860-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From E. A. Darwin 12 November [1860–8] …
- … DAR 105: B11 Erasmus Alvey Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 12 Nov …
- … 1860 12 Nov …
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- … 1867 12 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 6. Queen Anne St 12 Nov Dear Charles. I send you the Tithes. Langton tells me he has …
[Pollock, Frederick.] 1879b. “Erasmus Darwin.” Pall Mall Gazette, 12 December 1879, p. 12.
To ? 12 July [1872–4]
Summary
Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 July [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406F |
From Joseph Dalton Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … p. 437. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September …
- … see Guy 1983 and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [1864] …
- … nn. 3 and 5; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February …
- … 4 November 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [ c. 23 …
- … not undertaken (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 16 September …
- … plants’ , p. 78. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [ …
- … conditions (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , letter from …
- … Journal for 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II) that he had finished the paper on …
- … Reader , pp. 708–9 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December …
- … is reproduced in Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix IV. Sabine had contracted influenza …
- … the Royal Society (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Elizabeth Juliana Sabine, 7 …
- … 1862–83, 1: 816–41). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December …
- … to the book (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April …
- … Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD reported having seen a foreign …
- … of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12) that he expected to hear of a paper on …
- … in June 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 21 June …
- … December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD had asked Daniel Oliver to check Botanische …
- … 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Hooker and CD had a long-running interest …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [ …
- … House MS); see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock, 19 November [1864] ). …
- … plant Nepenthes (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , …
- … of James Veitch (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] …
- … notes on the genus are in DAR 157.1: 111–12 and DAR 187: 1. At some point, CD appears to …
- … Melastomataceae). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26–7 April …
- … in September 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September …
From G. H. Lewes 12 November 1868
Summary
Disappointed that he missed CD. Hopes still to see him in the flesh.
Has CD seen August Weismann’s inaugural address [see 6297]?
| Author: | George Henry Lewes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6458 |
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- … From G. H. Lewes 12 November 1868 …
- … DAR 106: D11–12 George Henry Lewes …
- … London, Regents Park 12 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park. 12 Nov r 1868 My dear M r Darwin It was a …
- … the last German war’, that appeared in the 12 October 1791 issue of the Bee, or Literary …
To G. H. Darwin 12 [December 1874 or January 1875?]
Summary
Regrets the trouble GHD has had.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9221 |
To G. E. Dobson 12 April 1878
Summary
Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.
Does not recall bats at Galapagos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Edward Dobson |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11473 |
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- … To G. E. Dobson 12 April 1878 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Apr 1878 George Edward Dobson …
- … See letter from G. E. Dobson, 12 April 1878 . Dobson had asked CD about the presence of …
- … Islands (see letter from G. E. Dobson, 12 April 1878 ); he included the information in …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. April 12 th 1878 Dear D r . Dobson. The monstrosity of …
Allen, David Elliston. 1987. Changing attitudes to nature conservation: the botanical perspective. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 32: 203–12.
Ansted, David Thomas. 1863a. The Ionian islands in the year 1863. London: Wm. H. Allen.
[Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst A. von.] 1875c. Insektenfressende Pflanzen. Fremden-Blatt, 10 August 1875, pp. 11–12, and 11 August 1875, pp. 11–12.
Beckhard, Martin (1853–1942)
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- … index 1862–1948 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 December 2016) UK, naturalisation certificates …
- … declarations, 1870–1912 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 December 2016) United States Federal …
- … New York, New York, Manhattan 0516/15) (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 December 2016) U.S. …
- … passport applications, 1795–1925 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 December 2016) 26 …
From George Varenne Reed 12 January 1863
Summary
Sorry CD considers Horace Darwin unfit for school.
| Author: | George Varenne Reed |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3912 |
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- … From George Varenne Reed 12 January 1863 …
- … DAR 176: 78 George Varenne Reed Hayes Rectory 12 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Hayes Rectory | SE Jan 12. 1863 My dear M r Darwin I am much obliged to you for your …
- … best wishes | I remain | yours very sincerely | G V Reed G V R | Jan 12. /63 | £13〃2〃6 …
- … Easter 1864. The next payment to Reed was made on 16 August 1864 when he was paid £ 12 …
- … 12 s. for the period 19 April to 19 July 1864. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873] …
- … DAR 94: 251–2 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Jan [1873] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 9. CD refers to William Ewart Gladstone. …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 7. CD refers to Richard Strachey. …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Jan 12 th My dear Hooker I am glad to have seen Gladstone’s …
- … 1873). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 2. CD’s annotated copy of …
To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868]
Summary
Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse |
| Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 39-40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5962 |
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- … To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868] …
- … 96: 39-40 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [after 12 Mar 1868] Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse …
- … Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. …
- … this letter and the letter from Alfred Wrigley, 12 March 1868 . According to Emma Darwin’s …
- … left home on 29 April 1868. In his letter of 12 March 1868 , Wrigley had indicated that he …
- … had been ill for much of the period from 1862 to 1864 (see Correspondence vols. 10–12). …
To Francis Darwin 12 September [1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.
Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.
Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11690 |
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- … To Francis Darwin 12 September [1878] …
- … DAR 211: 45 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Sept [1878] Francis Darwin …
- … s son. See letter from Francis Darwin, [12 September 1878] and n. 2. Francis had sent …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Sept 12 th . My dear F. I have been very glad to hear …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin, [12 September 1878] . …
- … See letter from Francis Darwin, [12 September 1878] . See Origin 6th ed. , pp. 119–20 (‘A …
- … vol. 25, letter from W. E. Darwin, [12 or 19 July 1877] . See Movement in plants , p. 261. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 [April 1859]
Summary
CD agrees cultivated plants may begin to vary after some time and then may vary suddenly, but cautions JDH on lack of evidence. His explanation is that small variations are ignored until they accumulate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 [Apr 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2453 |
To ? 12 November 1874
Summary
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717F |
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … to accept the award in person (see Correspondence vol. 12). In early January Falconer had …
- … in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864 …
- … in Müller’s name ( see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; since …
- … to find employment in India (see Correspondence vol. 12), sent Darwin the results of his experiments …
- … to Darwin may be gathered from Darwin’s letter to him of 12 July [1865] . Huxley had evidently …
- … who also caught it, rapidly succumbed to it and died on 12 August. Hooker himself contracted …
- … collection of letters written by Darwin when he was 12 years old. Over half of the letters in the …
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 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August 1849] Darwin thanks Mary Whitby …
- … Letter 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B . to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick …
- … future. Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin …
- … Letter 7858 - Darwin to Wa llace, A. R., [12 July 1871] Darwin tells Wallace that …
- … Letter 3316 - Darwin to Nevill, D. F., [12 November 1861] Darwin requests the …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … Rolfe, 10 November [1858] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 …
- … 1864, he was sick almost daily (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox …
- … [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Darwin remarked that his vomiting usually …
- … feel a little alive’. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
- … (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 , and Colp 1977, pp. 43-6 …
- … nitrate, mineral acids and alkalies (see Colp 1977, pp. 12, 22, 37, 45-6, 65, 76, 78-80). Most …
- … peltatum (May apple) (see Correspondence vol. 12). A book of prescriptions used by the Darwin …
- … had checked his chronic vomiting ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … On co-adaptation: To J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1860] : on adaptation in Orchis pyramidalis …
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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St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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…
Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … Socy. has done in my time ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1875] ) In December …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … has done my stomach surprising good. GRAY: 12 My dear Mr Darwin, I rejoice in …
- … HOOKER 10 MAY 1848 5 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 12 OCTOBER 1849 6 C DARWIN …
- … 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 12 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 30 JUNE 1855 …
- … HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 12 OCTOBER 1857 60 A GRAY TO …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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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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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…
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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- … be defiant by everyone in the community. 12. The value of suffering …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (1) Agassiz, Alexander (12) Agassiz, Louis …
- … (1) Berkeley, M. J. (12) Berlin (1) …
- … (1) Gaudry, Albert (12) Geach, F. F. …
- … (3) Geikie, Archibald (12) Geikie, James …
- … (1) Grove, W. R. (12) Groves, Henry …
- … (3) Hooker, F. H. (12) Hooker, Hyacinth …
- … (2) Judd, J. W. (12) Jukes, J. B. (9 …
- … (2) Koch, Eduard (12) Koch, Heinrich …
- … (3) Layton, Charles (12) Le Couteur, John …
- … (1) Mackintosh, Daniel (12) Maclaren, Charles …
- … (1) McLennan, J. F. (12) McNeill, Archibald …
- … (1) Meehan, Thomas (12) Meitzen, August …
- … (9) Rolle, Friedrich (12) Rolleston, George …
- … (1) Whitley, C. T. (12) Whitney, W. D. …
- … (2) Zacharias, Otto (12) Zeuschner, E. L. …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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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- … without a corresponding sensation. D r . Holland[12] informs me children do not learn …
- … each scream approaches it.— 8 Between 11 & 12 weeks old in smiling. I observe he …
- … present when screaming from pain When one day under 12 weeks took hold of Catherines[20] …
- … the first time he used his right hand, was observed 12 weeks & one day whilst violently …
- … it is easy to see, are those of inspiration.— 12 April 20 th .— Took my finger to his …
- … April 4 14wks & 1 day. 11 – 12 May 16 …
- … habit he continued for some months Jan 12 th . He observed, & gave cry of recognition …
- … Anne, on seeing her often kissed self in glass Jan 12 th — observed image in eye.— …
- … Door. the only difference between our door N o 12 and N o 11 is in the slit for the Letter …
- … CD’s original pencil text as closely as possible. [12] Henry Holland. [13] CD wrote …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary, stayed at Upper Gower Street between 12 February and 16 March 1842. [43] …
