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Abstract of Darwin’s theory

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There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…

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  • … There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent …
  • … and enclosure). It is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman, Darwin’s copyist and includes minor …
  • … which the fair copy for Gray was made. It was retained by Darwin (DAR 6). This version was …
  • … it has been transcribed here. The transcript does not record Darwin’s corrections and alterations …
  • … printed version is headed: “Abstract of a Letter from C. Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U …
  • … 2 The printed version reads: ‘astounded’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). 3 The printed …
  • … and even in some degree methodically, followed’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). 4 The …
  • … reads: ‘good for carpets, of another for cloth, &c.’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 10 …
  • … not judge by mere external appearances, but who could’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 11 …
  • … reads: ‘and should go on selecting for one object’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 13 The …
  • … reads: ‘in a few years, or at most a few centuries’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 17 At …
  • … of the earth would not hold the progeny of one pair’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 18 The …
  • … 20 The printed version reads: ‘far more’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 52). 21 The printed …
  • … follow to obtain food by struggling with other organisms’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 52). …
  • … natural selection to any profitable extent. The variety’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 52). 25 …

Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'

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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…

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  • … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice  writing …
  • … more for the sake of priority than anything else—Darwin was reluctant to squeeze his expansive …
  • … Natural selection . Determined as he was to publish, Darwin nevertheless still felt cautious …
  • … specialist in Madeiran entomology, Thomas Vernon Wollaston. Darwin also came to rely on the caustic …
  • … in London. Natural Selection Not all of Darwin’s manuscript on species has been …
  • … of pigeons, poultry, and other domesticated animals. As Darwin explained to Lyell, his studies, …
  • … can William Bernhard Tegetmeier continued to help Darwin acquire much of the material for …
  • … on domestic animals in India and elsewhere. William Darwin Fox supplied information about cats, dogs …
  • … mastiffs. The disparate facts were correlated and checked by Darwin, who adroitly used letters, …
  • … can.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 8 February [1857] ). Darwin also attempted to test ideas …
  • … garden species with their wild congeners. Many of Darwin’s conclusions about the variation of …
  • … these chapters are not extant. It seems likely that Darwin used the manuscript when compiling  The …
  • … or lost during the process. Before the publication of Darwin's correspondence from these years, …
  • … light on the role that these ideas were intended to play in Darwin’s formal exposition. …
  • … selection could not act without varieties to act upon, Darwin wanted to know where, how, and in what …
  • … Making the fullest possible use of his botanical friends, Darwin cross-examined them on different …
  • … and conditions of existence? One useful example that Darwin intended to include in his book was the …
  • … relatives. But a last-minute check with Hooker revealed that Darwin was mistaken: ‘You have shaved …
  • … was wrong ( letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1857] ). Darwin thought his results showed that …
  • … than relinquish the results achieved after so much effort, Darwin began the whole laborious project …
  • … Such perseverance is perhaps the key to this period in Darwin’s life. He brought the same quality of …
  • … This was the origin and function of sex in nature. Darwin had always been intrigued by the …
  • … must occasionally be cross-fertilised by other individuals. Darwin sought information on this …
  • … request led Huxley to make a note for future reference, ‘Darwin, an absolute & eternal …
  • … not give a categorical answer. Nor could the botanists that Darwin asked about plants whose flowers …
  • … George Bentham, and the Belfast botanist George Dickie. Darwin’s theoretical notions also encouraged …
  • … Science at home: the botanical experiments Darwin’s researches into the purpose and results …
  • … papilionaceous flowers would allow for cross-fertilisation. Darwin carried out his researches with …

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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  • … to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down …
  • … entered the public sphere. Thus a wood engraving of Leonard Darwin’s photograph featured in the …
  • … Alfred Russel Wallace’s article ‘The debt of science to Darwin’. Furthermore, Wallace’s article was …
  • … greenhouses and paths – as the essential context of Darwin’s hallowed endeavours: his ‘loving, …
  • … window in Leonard’s photograph, giving a stronger focus on Darwin’s dignified figure. However, the …
  • … to the frontispiece and in his catalogue of portraits of Darwin, Francis Darwin tentatively dated …
  • … Julius Bryant. However, John van Wyhe proposes 1878, as Emma Darwin’s diary records that Leonard …
  • … all attention directed to the subject’s characterful head. Darwin sits in his habitual pose – hands …
  • … as the main source for Boehm’s commemorative portrayal of Darwin in the marble statue installed in …
  • … University of Turin.  physical location Darwin archive, Cambridge University Library …
  • … Library 
 originator of image Leonard Darwin 
 date of creation not …
  • … Century Magazine , 25:3 (Jan. 1883), with a facsimile of Darwin’s signature, and signed by the …
  • … p. 19, no. 92; p. 23, no. 118. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a …
  • … Press, 2009), pp. 29-46 (p. 45). Browne, ‘Looking at Darwin: portraits and the making of an icon’, …

Darwin and the Beagle voyage

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In 1831, Darwin joined a voyage that he later referred to ‘as by far the most important event in my life’. Dive in to our 3D model of the Beagle and find out more about life on board and the adventures that he had.

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  • … Explore the ship that took Darwin around the world on his greatest adventure  In 1831, …
  • … find out more about life on board and the adventures that Darwin had.  ►  Explore …

Darwin’s student booklist

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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…

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  • … In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, …
  • … London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). However …
  • … of England. This list is difficult to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading  Granby  in a …
  • … The position of  Granby  on the list would suggest that Darwin was very busy reading in January …
  • … of chemistry in 1801. Other books illustrate Darwin’s wider scientific interests, and also …
  • … , which was edited by David Brewster; and Robert Grant took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian …
  • … university. There are several books of travel, and Darwin seems to have been particularly …
  • … arctic zoology. Two titles are closely connected with Darwin’s family.  Zoonomia  was …
  • … a week between March 1750 and March 1752. Both he and Dr Darwin had Lichfield connections, but the …
  • … Almack’s ,  Granby  and Brambletye House.  Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January …
  • … <Ni>tric Oxide?   (DAR 19: 3–4) Darwin’s student booklist - the text …
  • … Henry Chemistry 17  2 Vols 8 Vo Sewards memoirs of Darwin 18  1 Vol 8 Vo. Several …
  • … 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly annotated copy in the Darwin Library–CUL, bound with Abernethy …
  • … 14 Bostock 1824–7. Volume 1 is in the Darwin Library–Down. 15 Jameson trans. 1827. There …
  • … 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] ). The letter from …
  • … younger sons. 17 Henry 1823. Volume 2 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. 18 Seward …

3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo

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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father …
  • … is here an obvious relationship to Ouless’s painting of Darwin, and to the photographs taken by …
  • … with Leonard’s own personal recollections of his father. Darwin’s life, Leonard wrote, could not ‘be …
  • … but it reads like a commentary on his own photograph of Darwin. There seems to have been a two-way …
  • … descriptions of him. At the same time, photographs of Darwin taken by his family and friends have an …
  • … Magazine. Desmond and Moore, in their biography of Darwin, captioned it ‘about 1874’, while …
  • … (unspecified, and now absent) might refer to the portrait of Darwin, although a pencilled note on …
  • … Leonard himself sent to Anthony Rich, a great admirer of Darwin who insisted on bequeathing property …
  • … and illustrator, created a bold wood-engraved image of Darwin’s head and shoulders from Leonard’s …
  • … this was for a wood engraving to illustrate an obituary of Darwin by Dr Otto Zacharias in the …
  • … portrait photograph ‘on china from the negative by Leonard Darwin’, lent to the 1909 exhibition by …
  • … Library 
 originator of image Leonard Darwin 
 date of creation undated; …
  • … and bibliography DAR 186.34 (DCP-LETT-11484), Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing …
  • … Aug. 1881), illustrating Hibberd’s article, ‘Mr. Charles Darwin’, on pp. 477-8 (Lindley Library, …
  • … GALTON/1/1/3/7, ‘Photographs and drawing of Charles Darwin’, is signed by Darwin with the date ‘Feb. …
  • … Zeitung no. 2026 (29 April 1882), DAR 216.82. Darwin Centenary: The Portraits, Prints and …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of …
  • … hard to remember now that Origin was not the book that Darwin set out to write. He didn’t …
  • … everlasting origin, & I am sick of correcting.— Darwin found revision itself a …
  • … edition up to the 6 th (the final one published in Darwin’s lifetime) was prefaced by a long list …
  • … from Richard Owen that 'we do not want to know what Darwin believes & is convinced of, …
  • … Bordalejo, Introduction to the Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species ). Not all …
  • … US editions and the French and German translations, where Darwin was often closely involved in the …
  • … . Even the term 'natural selection' came under fire , and Darwin supplemented it by …
  • … different: a cheaper, consciously ‘popular’ edition. Darwin knew that this was the last one he would …
  • … English edition: printing had begun by 22 December 1859 ; Darwin returned the last proof sheets …
  • … German translation, July 1860 3d English edition: Darwin heard that it was needed in …
  • … on first day, & he wants another instantly… Darwin heard that a new edition was …
  • … to cram in the changes that mattered to him most. Darwin’s friends were still sending …
  • … proof sheets from September to November 1859, Lyell buried Darwin under a blizzard of letters (see …
  • … finished corrections to the proofs by 11 September Darwin was still trying to incorporate Lyell’s …
  • … the origin of domestic dogs , but the change that went to Darwin’s heart was the deletion of a …
  • … list of changes he had ready to send to the publisher , Darwin highlighted the addition of an …
  • … author Charles Kingsley, a chaplain to the queen, which Darwin seized on eagerly , getting …
  • … nd to 3 rd editions; US edition By June 1860 Darwin was at least open to the …
  • … had come on the market. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin had made to the second English …
  • … advanced version of the text available.  (Read more on Darwin's additions to the US edition …
  • … in the Everglades  delights  me If Lyell was Darwin’s key correspondent for the first …
  • … plant, the paint-root, without their hooves falling off. Darwin added the account to  Origin  3d …
  • … Wyman, like so many other correspondents introduced to Darwin in this way, was applied to repeatedly …
  • … of letters with the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey.   Darwin remained unconvinced by Watson’s …
  • … to Watson’s ideas in the US edition.  More fundamentally, Darwin was frustrated that Harvey, who had …
  • … in preparation at much the same time as the US edition and Darwin built up another list of changes …

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.  They are a connecting thread that spans…

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  • … No single set of letters was more important to Darwin than those exchanged with his closest friend, …
  • …  They are a connecting thread that spans forty years of Darwin’s mature working life from 1843 until …
  • … an admirer of the older man, was approached about working on Darwin’s collection of plants from the  …
  • … admitted into the small and select group of those with whom Darwin felt able to discuss his emerging …
  • … a murder”. When Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) sent Darwin a letter in 1858 outlining an almost …
  • … simultaneous publication of papers by both men, and secured Darwin’s claim to the theory of …
  • … Much of the most important experimental work conducted by Darwin after the publication of  Origin …
  • … father as director in 1865, was perfectly placed to provide Darwin with exotic species, and to help …
  • … correspondents. Hooker was a frequent visitor to Darwin at his home in Downe, Kent, and …
  • … Of the many hundreds of letters that passed between Darwin and Hooker all but a handful of those …
  • … “in remembrance of his lifelong friendship with Charles Darwin”. At some time between those two …
  • … University Library, in 1948, together with the bulk of the Darwin archive, following transfer of …
  • … of their relationship with the recipient.  The use Darwin made of the information in letters …
  • … editions. And letters written in pencil suggest Darwin was unwell – you can’t use an ink dip …
  • … Going public: On 28 June 1858, just a few days after Darwin received Alfred Russel Wallace‘s …

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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  • … and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. …
  • … father or an atheist. Here are some highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1873: …
  • … to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) In 1873, Darwin continued work on insectivorous …
  • … , published in 1875. Investigating the sundew's sensitivity, Darwin found that the glandular …
  • … to bend inward, so that the plant closed like a fist. Darwin was fascinated by this transmission of …
  • … 2 scientific secretaries work to do  ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) As …
  • … proposed that he give up his medical career and become Darwin's secretary. This was a useful …
  • … appeared anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April. Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
  • … to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ) Darwin wrote this to Thomas Henry Huxley, in the hope …
  • … poor health, and in financial trouble because of a law suit. Darwin, though not in the best of …
  • … Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ) Darwin was invited to reflect on his own …
  • … As well as mentioning the traits listed above, Darwin revealingly declared, 'Special talents, …

Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue

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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…

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  • … of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of …
  • … clusters may exemplify the proliferation of portrayals of Darwin, their subtle re-workings, and the …
  • … century’s most famous natural scientist, Charles Darwin, confronts us with a paradox. He was known, …
  • … or desire for fame. One obituarist noted in 1882 that Darwin ‘never aimed at cheap popular successes …
  • … not found at lectures, nor on platforms’. 1 In fact, Darwin never taught in a university or held …
  • … years after the publication of Origin of Species – Darwin’s closest friend, Joseph Hooker, told …
  • … ‘not pleasing’; and no paintings or sculptures of Darwin were as yet known to the public. Ten or …
  • … includes about a hundred and thirty original images of Darwin – paintings, drawings, etchings, …
  • … cigarette cards and the pictures on cigar boxes. 3 After Darwin’s death, commemorative statues …
  • … versions. There was a plethora of sculpted portrayals of Darwin among the historical figures that …
  • … likely to be an ongoing project.  It is clear that Darwin’s contemporaries and immediate …
  • … This featured a majority of the existing grand portraits of Darwin in various media, but also, more …
  • … cartoons ridiculing his ideas. 6 It was recognised that Darwin’s iconography was, above all, …
  • … writer remarked in 1901, it was made to seem as though Darwin ‘stood alone, severely isolated . . . …
  • … ‘without companions’. 7 Indeed, we can never see Darwin as he appeared to his contemporaries in …
  • … than biographical or social documents. This vision of Darwin as a thinker of unique status …
  • … which brought together diverse ‘men of eminence’, Darwin among them. As ‘cartes de visite’ they can …
  • … is a good collection in the National Portrait Gallery, and Darwin himself sent some of these cartes …
  • … social interactions, so in the control of representations, Darwin’s family and close associates …
  • … portraits of scientists through the centuries, chose Leonard Darwin’s photograph of his father to …
  • … . . of the great scientist’. 9 Even the caricatures of Darwin, irreverent as they were, enhanced …
  • … graphic jokes were happily collected and preserved by the Darwin clan through many generations.  …
  • … departments. Others are in the care of English Heritage at Darwin’s home, Down House in Kent, often …
  • … they drew on the knowledge and the collections of members of Darwin’s family circle. More recently, …
  • … data about them. Documentation of the many photographs of Darwin remains problematic, since few …
  • … The listings of known portraits in Freeman’s Darwin Companion and in the entry for Darwin in the …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew …
  • … species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, …
  • … of the first public presentation of documents relating to Darwin’s species theory together with …
  • … Down for a few weeks to the Isle of Wight. Although Darwin and Wallace’s papers were …
  • … . In reply, Hooker provided reassurance by suggesting that Darwin might be able to have 100 to 150 …
  • … the big book on large and small genera, and was able to tell Darwin ‘ you overrate the extent of my …
  • … than I now do. ’  Even with this endorsement, Darwin’s spirits remained low. ‘ We are too …
  • … on 18 July. Just two days later, he told his cousin William Darwin Fox ‘ After all, I am now …
  • … because Fox had been instrumental in persuading Darwin not to publish an abstract in 1856 , …
  • … & I shall have separate copies & will send you one . Darwin’s weariness in …
  • … the Isle of Wight, and having started work on his abstract, Darwin was in an altogether more …
  • … continued in August, while he was still away from Down. Darwin knew that these puzzles had to be …
  • … to hear your objections to my species speculations’, Darwin wrote to Henslow, ‘ The difficulties …
  • … full abstract of all my notions on this subject. ’ Darwin evidently continued to fret about the …
  • … published. ’ It was clear that the big book remained Darwin’s focus of attention for the full …
  • … skeletonising them and completing his ‘Pigeon M.S.’ ( Darwin's Journal ) ‘At last, thank God, …
  • … him to take any of the pure birds that were left. Although Darwin looked forward to the visit and …
  • … of talking for long ’. Despite his poor health, Darwin recommenced working on his abstract, telling …
  • … me weigh relative importance of the several elements. ’ Darwin continued to write until the end of …
  • … ’. By this point he had drafted six sections.  As Darwin completed his chapters, he actively …
  • … the flora of Australia in December 1858, he asked to borrow Darwin’s ‘ Chapter on transmigration of …
  • … in 1859, it was one of the first publications to draw on Darwin’s theory .   Darwin must have …
  • … with the joint publication of his species theory with Darwin’s by the Linnean Society. ‘I never felt …

Calendars to the correspondence of Charles Darwin

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In 1985, the Darwin Correspondence Project produced its first publication, A Calendar to the Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821–1882 (New York: Garland), which contained a detailed summary of every letter Darwin was then known to have sent or received.…

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  • … In 1985, the Darwin Correspondence Project produced its first publication,  A Calendar to the …
  • … Calendar  is still a standard reference work for Darwin scholars. In 1996 a separate …
  • … into the process of collecting and organising the wealth of Darwin correspondence.    …

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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  • … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
  • … into debt and had kept the matter secret for some months. Darwin was very stern in his advice: ‘I …
  • … fellow as I daresay I appear to you’ (letter to Francis Darwin,  18 October [1870] ). …
  • … had been employed as his father's secretary and assistant. Darwin had been concerned about his …
  • … run by Julius von Sachs in Wurzburg.  Francis Darwin was elected to the Royal Society in 1882 …
  • … his father had not been knighted, although in 1877 Charles Darwin was awarded an honorary degree …
  • … The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880). Perhaps Francis Darwin, whom the family regarded as a …

Darwin and women: a selection of letters

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A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video stream.   Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of…

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  • … University Press video stream .   Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's …
  • … number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends …
  • … and their relationships, social and professional, with Darwin. The letters included are by turns …
  • … servants, that set them in an accessible narrative context. Darwin's famous remarks on women& …
  • … the book's editor, Samantha Evans, in her blogs on ' Emma Darwin and women's higher …

Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

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  • … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
  • … and  Fossil Cirripedia  (1851, 1854). What led Darwin to engage in this work when he was …
  • … group. Light is shed on the close relationship between Darwin’s systematic descriptive work and the …
  • … often frustrating taxonomical maze. Throughout these years, Darwin was also struggling with a …
  • … explained in detail in letters to friends and relatives, Darwin felt sufficiently restored in health …
  • … Nevertheless, it is evident from his correspondence that Darwin’s two hours at the microscope did …
  • … Phillips, and Daniel Sharpe, demonstrating the extent of Darwin’s continued involvement in …
  • … and naturalists, most notably James Dwight Dana, Henry Darwin Rogers, and Bernhard Studer, and the …
  • … In the midst of all this activity, Hooker responds to Darwin’s particular queries and sends …
  • … British government in scientific research during the period. Darwin also contributed to these …
  • … scientific work of naval officers and travellers in general. Darwin was asked by the editor, Sir …
  • … to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). Letters between Darwin and Richard Owen, author of the …
  • … zoology between them. Owen included in his chapter notes by Darwin on the use of microscopes on …
  • … the leading questions and wide views spelt out by Darwin in the Admiralty  Manual  are also those …
  • … Inverness, in which he maintained that the terraces, which Darwin believed to be of marine origin, …
  • … of Glen Roy had produced a lake and the consequent beaches. Darwin carefully re-examined his own …
  • … editor of the  Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , Darwin asked for it to be destroyed. Only the …
  • … ). Other letters to colleagues at this time indicate that Darwin was beginning to feel that the Glen …
  • … 8 [September 1847] ). The second geological theory Darwin felt the need to defend had to do …
  • … that only a great rush of water could carry them up hills. Darwin’s response was to explain such …
  • … rocks and foliation in metamorphic rocks, on the other. Darwin maintained that cleavage was the …
  • … to convince other prominent geologists, among them Lyell, so Darwin was keenly interested in what …
  • … subject. The letters also reveal that Lyell sought Darwin’s advice in the preparation of new …
  • … Manual of elementary geology . In addition, Lyell asked for Darwin’s view of his major new theory …
  • … on slopes with dips of more than three or four degrees. Even Darwin, Lyellian though he was, had …

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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  • … 1867, and was not used in an English publication until 1876; Darwin himself never used it, yet it …
  • … of ecology’.    Between 2006 and Darwin's bicentenary in 2009, with support …
  • … during the life of the grant,  ‘Was Darwin an ecologist?’ , explores how the word …
  • … ‘Beauty and the seed’ explores a puzzle that Darwin never solved – why some plants produce seeds …
  • … it. ‘The evolution of honeycomb’ follows Darwin’s experiments and observations on hive …
  • … regularity of the wax cells in honeycomb. ‘Darwin and Down’ explores Darwin’s use of …

Visiting the Darwins

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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…'  In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister.  She described Charles…

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  • … As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…   Darwin often discouraged would-be …
  • … her sister, Susan Loring.  She described Charles and Emma Darwin, their daughter Henrietta, Down …
  • … on— Since a severe attack of illness, Mr. Darwin sits on an easy chair raised very high, …
  • … and grounds Tuesday I had a little walk with Mrs. Darwin round their grounds— The house …
  • … easy chairs of all shapes & kinds, from Mr. Darwin’s great throne, to “the latest instrument of …
  • … After breakfast there were prayers in the drawing-room, Mrs. Darwin leading the services— Then some …
  • … a little uncertain, & kept very quiet all day— Darwin’s Expression experiment (or the …
  • … the glass!— The experiment was one in which Darwin asked a succession of visitors  to …
  • … were being stimulated by electric probes. Henrietta Darwin The oldest daughter …
  • … for Bromley, where we again took Cabs for Down, where Mr. Darwin lives— It was so dark by the time …
  • … first Cab, & whilst waiting for the second to draw up, Mr. Darwin came out into the hall to …
  • … home face! We made quite a party for dinner—Mr. & Mrs. Darwin, she in black velvet, two …
  • … Tyndal, Wm. Hooker, a boy of 16 but looking only 14, Leonard Darwin— I can’t get used to being grand …
  • … dinner with lively talk— When the ladies retired, Mrs. Darwin’s sister, Miss Wedgewood, & niece, …
  • … of the Country, will allow— Later I got talking with Mrs. Darwin & Mrs. Kempson, & happened …
  • … After breakfast there were prayers in the drawing-room, Mrs. Darwin leading the services— Then some …
  • … charming talks now & then— It was a rare chance when Mr. Darwin, Dr. Hooker, Dr. Tyndal & Dr …
  • … that does not often come in one’s way— Mrs. Darwin’s brother came to breakfast, Mr. Wedgewood, whose …
  • … quick interest in so many things. As for Mr. Darwin, he is entirely fascinating— He is tall & …
  • … in recommending “My Lady Ludlow”— Mrs. Darwin is very lovable, with her sweet, placid manner …
  • … & Mrs. Kempson came to dine— In the afternoon Mrs. Darwin took me in the carriage to call on the …
  • … walks. Tuesday I had a little walk with Mrs. Darwin round their grounds— The house faces, …
  • … easy chairs of all shapes & kinds, from Mr. Darwin’s great throne, to “the latest instrument of …
  • … always in use— Since a severe attack of illness, Mr. Darwin sits on an easy chair raised very high, …
  • … at lunch or breakfast— The two young footmen then— Mr. Darwin came to lunch, but always breakfasted …

Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter

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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…

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  • … letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The …
  • … life but I trust happy The anguish felt by Darwin is painfully expressed in letters …
  • … speak of her again. Yet the family gradually recovered, Darwin’s monographs were printed, and Darwin
  • … to the cirripedes. Before turning to his species work, Darwin somewhat ruefully recorded in his …
  • … monographs by natural history societies, though welcomed by Darwin, did not run smoothly. …
  • … the  Correspondence  describes the major achievements of Darwin’s cirripede work as a whole and …
  • … societies, which were supported by subscriptions, was that Darwin’s volumes were not publicly …
  • … in Germany at the forefront of work in invertebrate zoology, Darwin began a correspondence with …
  • … provided the foundations for a relationship with Darwin that soon developed into a valued friendship …
  • … April 1854, when his cirripede study was drawing to a close, Darwin re-entered London scientific …
  • … with lots of claret is what I want Perhaps Darwin’s decision to take a more active …
  • … to substantiate it is manifest in the correspondence. Darwin’s friends and colleagues were …
  • … outspoken young naturalists like Huxley, reacted eagerly to Darwin’s suggestions, although not …
  • … for the geographical distribution of animals and plants. Darwin began a series of researches on the …
  • … with the effects of known changes in climate and geology. Darwin boldly rejected the popular idea of …
  • … Some of the most interesting letters in this volume set out Darwin’s practical researches and …
  • … Variation and extinction The other main focus of Darwin’s research centred on determining the …
  • … seeds and bees An interest in variation naturally led Darwin to study the works of plant …
  • … views concerning decreased fertility of hybrids, Darwin began in the spring of 1855 a series of …
  • … a subject to which he returned in later years. Darwin also undertook experiments relating to …
  • … study, like another on sensitive plants, was an attempt by Darwin to ‘break the constitution of …

Interview with Tim Lewens

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Dr Tim Lewens is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and artifacts (2004), which examines the language and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of…

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  • … and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of Darwin (2007), which considers the …
  • … belief, and the importance of a historical understanding of Darwin’s work.   …
  • … White: This is part of a series of interviews that the Darwin Correspondence Project at the …
  • … range of fields, and our aim is to discuss the importance of Darwin, historically and today, and to …
  • … for design in biology, and -just out – a wonderful book on Darwin and philosophy. Thanks very much …
  • … introduction. 2. The unusual role Darwin plays today Dr …
  • … the books which, frankly, are a bit of a harder read. So, Darwin’s study of variation, for example, …
  • … reason, I suppose, is basically the thought that, basically, Darwin got it right: in some sense or …
  • … I’d like to make. And another reason is that Darwin puzzles over so many of the conceptual …
  • … debates that we have right now. 3. Darwin’s reputation among scientists …
  • … in science. Do you think this has something to do with how Darwin’s reputation was forged in the …
  • … Einstein is as important for physics, I would say, as Darwin is for biology. There’s a …
  • … as deep philosophical questions. And so, if you think that Darwin’s basic views really do have …
  • … as I say, some people have viewed as certainly inherent in Darwin’s work. 4. …
  • … to that, if I can, is: what’s usually stripped out from Darwin’s own work now as in some ways being …
  • … 5. Does historical accuracy about Darwin matter? Dr White: Part of what we’re …
  • … - and in biology in particular – why should the historical Darwin matter at all? Dr Lewens: …
  • … contains the answer within it. I mean, the very fact that Darwin himself is used today by prominent …
  • … over what the real nature of Darwinism is, and the fact that Darwin is always invoked to try to …
  • … Darwinism, partly shows the importance of looking at what Darwin himself really said. You need to …
  • … as well as simply seeing whether or not the invocations of Darwin which real biologists these days …
  • … general view of life; a general philosophy – by looking at Darwin’s own claims more directly, as …

Darwin’s Networks

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Darwin wrote to around 2000 people all over the world to help him tackle some fundamental questions about life on earth. Discover how Darwin's ideas spread in North America and how he researched artificial selection practised by animal and plant…

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  • Darwin wrote to around 2000 people all over the world to help him tackle some …
  • … more about the natural world. Explore Darwin’s Networks to see how the correspondence …
  • …   How did Darwin's ideas reach North America? View the network .  …
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