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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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- … of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove …
- … flat feet were indicative of small secretiveness (Simms 1873, p. 154). A ‘broad foot’ indicated …
- … destroy: the propensity to mar, deface, or destroy' (Simms 1873, p. 166). Unfortunately, …
- … and animals. London: John Murray. Simms, Joseph. 1873. Nature’s revelations of character, …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … Sunday afternoons, when they received visitors (23 March 1873; Emma described his visit in a letter …
- … younger daughter, Bessy, did call on a Saturday in October 1873 but the Leweses were away. As a …
- … this happened (Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [14 October 1873], DAR 258: 547b). Early the following …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
4.27 'Four founders of Darwinismus'
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< Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred Russel Wallace for a German publication, whose author had intended to show them as joint discoverers of natural selection. However, in 1873 he suffered a much…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … (letter to Down School Board, [after 29 November 1873] ). Ffinden fiercely resented Darwin for …
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.…
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- … Letter 8719 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 January 1873] Darwin asks naturalist Mary Treat …
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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- … Emma Darwin to Henrietta Darwin, [4 December 1873] Here Emma describes Darwin’s difficulties …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … from correspondents in response to the work, and by 1873 began preparing a second edition, which …
- … because Darwin never published on bloom. In August 1873, while on holiday in Southampton at the home …
- … by bloom, but his main preoccupation in the summer of 1873 was his experimental work on …
- … themselves from the injurious effects of water. By November 1873, he was already devising …
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 9005 - Charles Darwin to Mary Treat, 12 August 1873 Darwin writes to Treat to …
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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- … as a clerk of the Southern Railway Company, he retired in 1873, devoted himself to coleopterology …
- … and finally got a position at the Imperial Natural Cabinet (1873). Subsequently, Marenzeller became …
- … (Johann Nußbaumer, b. 1846) experience of colour hearing in 1873 that contributed to the …
- … Ober-Staatsrealschulen in Linz (1871), Vienna (1873) and Prostějov (1877). M. Pichler: …
- … at the Technical College and University of Vienna (Dr., 1873). Habilitation in palaeontology (1877) …
- … Institute in Vienna, he became trainee (1859), geologist (1873) and finally chief geologist (1877) …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 9157 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work 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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- … - Forster, L. M . to Darwin, H. E., [20 February 1873] Henrietta’s friend, Laura, …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
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< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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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4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
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…
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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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
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,…