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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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  • … under domestication , although it was not published until 1876 owing to floods at the printers. …
  • … writing Cross and self fertilisation , also published in 1876. In April, he was busy in London, …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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  • … , 1 January 1870, p. 75). The prize was still available in 1876, when the RSPCA made a further …

Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep

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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…

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  • … Correspondence vol. 24, letter to T. C. Eyton, 22 April 1876 ). ‘When I first read your note’, …
  • … business to raise different varieties on a large scale. In 1876, he had gone so far as to send …

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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  • … ’,  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine  52:309 (February, 1876), pp. 382 - 387. ‘ Carnivorous …

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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  • … another American journal, The Library Table in November 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June …
  • … The same image appeared in The Library Table (Nov. 1876), accompanying an article, ‘Darwin’, pp. …

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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  • … of Man’ in the Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy of 1876, a bearded man with a lofty brow and …
  • … signature, and this was re-used for the edition of 1876. William Darwin himself must have …
  • … by August Weber at Leipzig; also in 6 th edition (1876). Mary Cowling, The Artist as …

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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  • … of the Day in the Folger’s collection, dated February 1876, portrays Sem himself, together with a …

German poems presented to Darwin

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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…

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  • … Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a …

4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…

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  • … Germany, as did its printers. In fact, Puck started in 1876 as a German-language publication, …

4.52 'Wasp' caricature

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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…

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  • … labels for cigar boxes. He founded The Wasp magazine in 1876, but sold it to the representatives …

4.9 'Graphic', cartoon

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< Back to Introduction A cartoon which appeared in the Graphic in 1871 was unusual, in that it pictured a serious scientific challenge to Darwin’s theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of…

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  • … 577. On George Darwin’s paper read at the Royal Society in 1876, defending his father’s theories and …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … plants  (1875) and  Cross and self fertilisation  (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became …

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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  • … abroad, his teaching became the subject of controversy in 1876. Perhaps because of his high standing …
  • … plan had been praised in the pages of Nature , 27 April 1876, p. 531), he became a focus of the …

Darwin and ecological science

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The word ‘ecology’ did not exist until 1867, and was not used in an English publication until 1876; Darwin himself never used it, yet it was his work on the complex interactions of organisms and habitats that inspired the word’s creation and he is often…

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  • … until 1867, and was not used in an English publication until 1876; Darwin himself never used it, yet …

Amy Darwin dies

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Darwin's daughter-in-law, Amy, dies four days after the birth of her son, Bernard.  He was the Darwins' first grandchild.

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  • … Darwin's daughter-in-law, Amy, dies four days after the birth of her son, Bernard.  He was the …

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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  • … to the post of Lord Chancellor’s visitor in lunacy in 1876, retiring in 1922. The …

Darwin's works in letters

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For the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin, we've added a new page to our Works in letters section on Cross and self fertilisation. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin, Origin itself, the…

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  • … plants (1875) Cross and self fertilisation (1876) Forms of flowers (1877 …

All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin

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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…

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  • … books in the near future, Cross and self fertilisation (1876), and Forms of flowers (1877). …

Francis Darwin

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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences.  Francis completed…

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  • … a house in the village (Down Lodge).  After Amy's death in 1876, a few days after the birth of …

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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  • … own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
  • … methods, and Darwin had to break the news to the author in 1876 that his Royal Society ambitions had …
  • … In the event, the election was postponed until February 1876, and Lankester was duly elected.   …
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