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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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  • … principle by name in a letter to Joseph Hooker in August 1857, but didn't explain what he …

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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  • … completed his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to …
  • … on variation under nature. Having learned in the summer of 1857 that his method for deriving …
  • … with an abstract of his views sent to Asa Gray in September 1857. The correspondence between Darwin, …

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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  • … has led to the supposition that the photograph was taken in 1857, but there are counter-indications …
  • … ‘Iconography’, pp. 144, 162 (with suggested date of 1857, and listing versions). 
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Second species sketch

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Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842

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  • … Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842 …

Hensleigh Wedgwood

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Hensleigh Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s brother and Charles’s cousin, was a philologist, barrister and original member of the Philological Society, which had been created in 1842. In 1857, while Wedgwood was preparing a dictionary of English etymology, he wrote…

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  • … the Philological Society, which had been created in 1842. In 1857, while Wedgwood was preparing a …

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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  • … Nat. Stud.  20 Leiden 1 January 1857 Leeuwarden 23 July 1904 …
  • … Phil.nat.stud 20 Leiden 2 October 1857 Amsterdam 24 August …
  • … Teacher   Nieuwendam 11 January 1857 Broek in Waterland   …

Julia Wedgwood

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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…

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  • … Bronte. She made a successful debut as a novelist in 1857 but turned away from fiction after her …

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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  • … on photography published in the Quarterly Review in 1857, had already suggested that such out of …
  • … ‘Photography’, Quarterly Review , 101 (April 1857), 2 parts, part 2, pp. 442–468. Darwin’s …

How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]

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Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…

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  • … against British rule in India, that took place between 1857 and 1859. But what novel had Darwin been …

John Lubbock

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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • … supporter, populariser, and strategist.  As early as 1857 Darwin wrote to thank Lubbock for saving …

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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  • … Gazette no. 21: 356-357. Darwin, Charles. 1857. "On the action of sea-water on the …

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…

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  • … became director of the Imperial Telegraph Office (1857) in Vienna and high official ( …

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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  • … allegorical compositions such as The two ways of life (1857), a photograph assembled from a …

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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  • … Phil. Nat. Stud.  20 Leiden 1-1-1857 Leeuwarden 23-07-1904 …
  • … Phil.nat.stud 20 Leiden 2 october 1857 Amsterdam 24 august …
  • … Teacher   Nieuwendam 11 january 1857 Broek in Waterland   …

Fritz Müller

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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…

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  • … Catarina Island in the new provincial lycée that opened in 1857, where he taught mathematics and …

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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  • … William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and Darwin …
  • … letter from Darwin to his son William in autumn 1857, remarking, ‘It seems very odd not having you …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • … at least four different exposures of Darwin between 1853 and 1857. They took this now well …

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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  • … doubts as has been commonly thought. Between 1838 and 1857, he told at least ten of his …

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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  • … at Moor Park, under Edward Wickstead Lane, between 1857 and 1859, and at Ilkley, under Edmund Smith, …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … in evolution, straightforward. This chap moves to London in 1857 and writes back in shock. He says, …
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