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New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … was the only one available in the United States until 1873, when D. Appleton prepared a new edition …

4.7 'Vanity Fair', caricature

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< Back to Introduction A letter to Darwin from his publisher John Murray of 10 May 1871 informed him, ‘Your portrait is earnestly desired – by the Editor of Vanity Fair. I hope Mr Darwin may consent to follow the example of Murchison – Bismark [sic] …

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  • … (‘Men of the Day’, no. 57, ‘Old Bones’, 1 March 1873) (EH88202629). A printed caption has been added …

Evolutionary views of human nature

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From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major international research project 'Exploring Evolutionary Views of Human Nature through Darwin’s Correspondence'.   Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…

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  • … an evolutionary theory of human nature in the period 1870 to 1873. These were the crucial years that …

Thomas Rivers

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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…

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  • … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …

4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature

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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…

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  • … Sem was mentioned in the Hornet ’s pages on 12 April 1873 as one of a crowd of cartoonists vying …

William Darwin Fox

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Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…

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  • … the time. Fox became an Anglican clergyman, and from 1838 to 1873 was Rector of Delamere in Cheshire …

Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874

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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…

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  • … a copy of Thomas Belt’s  The Naturalist in Nicaragua  (1873). Darwin clearly assumed that Forel, a …

Hermann Müller

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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…

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  • … research along these lines led to the publication in 1873 of Müller’s seminal work on co-adaptation, …

4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1

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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …

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  • … sixpence, other national subjects to follow’. By  April 1873, Our National Church had, according …
  • … computer-readable date c. 1872-01-01 to 1873-12-31 
 medium and material lithograph with …

Suggested reading

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  Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…

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  • … of men of the day: Dr Garrett Anderson , (London, 1873), p. 30.   Modern …

3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah

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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…

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  • … no record of when he had taken it. It cannot be earlier than 1873, since the verandah at Down House …
  • … 1872, possibly 1880 
 computer-readable date c.1873-01-01 to 1880-12-31 
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition

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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…

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  • … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …

James Crichton-Browne

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James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth-century, but the letters he exchanged with Charles Darwin as the young and overworked superintendent of the largest mental asylum in England, are almost the…

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  • … links to behaviour in non-human animals.   In 1873 Crichton-Browne initiated a short …

Darwin, cats and cat shows

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One of the more unusual invitations Darwin received was to be a patron of the Crystal Palace cat show, the first nationwide cat show in Britain. The man who first came up with the idea for the show, Harrison Weir, was one of Darwin’s correspondents, as…

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  • … as one of the patrons for the fifth show held in September 1873.  Although whimsically cautioning …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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  • … handbook for the physiological laboratory (Klein et al. 1873), a two volume work designed for …

1.6 Ouless oil portrait

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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…

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  • … of a writer in the Popular Science Monthly in February 1873, as ‘the most eminent philosophic …

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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  • … for the physiological laboratory (Klein et al . 1873), which became a focus of criticism in the …

Full notes on editorial policy

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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…

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  • … editors of a distinct term for pollination in English was in 1873 ( Correspondence  vol. 21, …

Elleparu (York Minster)

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Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…

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  • … a far worse form of retribution for treachery: in 1873, his wife, Yokcushlu, reported that he had …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • … heavily on his son Francis, who had made the decision in 1873 to abandon his medical studies and …
  • … and the local vicar George Sketchley Ffinden resurfaced. In 1873, Charles and Emma Darwin and the …
  • … on the digestive properties of Nepenthes since 1873. ‘You are aware that Dr Hooker has worked …
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