Gaertner, Albin (1854–95)
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Harrison, M. J. (1846–1926)
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Hill, E. S. (1819–80)
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- … Campaigned for the rights of indigenous peoples. Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 1880, …
Ferretti, Gisberto (1845–86)
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Evans, Margaret (1831/2–1909)
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Oliver, James (1801–80)
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Beveridge, Peter (1829–85)
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- … various ethnological works on Aboriginal peoples. Brother of Andrew Beveridge. Aust. dict. …
Hagenbeck, Carl (1844–1913)
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- … expeditions to capture animals. Put on ‘people’s shows’ (circuses) from 1874. Founded a …
Barstow, J. S. (1823–81)
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Barstow, E. F. (1826–87)
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Galbraith, J. F. (1854–1934)
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Hartmann, Robert (1831/2–93)
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Adanson, Michel (1727–1806)
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- … Studied the flora, fauna, geography, and peoples of Senegal, 1748–54; published L’histoire …
Morgan, L. H. (1818–81)
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- … the Iroquois and other Native American peoples. Published League of the Ho-de’no-sau-nee, …
Walter, Charles (1831–1907)
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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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- … French physiologist Guillaume Benjamin Armand Duchenne of people whose facial muscles were being …
- … The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on acquaintance. She …
- … most cordial, simple manners— They were all very charming people, so unaffected & kind, so …
- … her— The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on …
- … opposite the window & the sun shone cheerfully in all day— People sewed, or wrote, or scattered …
- … good bye to our most delightful visit & these dear, charming people—”I will never forgive you,” …
- … me, that we should be in advance of them!— As for Sauquoit people they are decidedly shabby— Not a …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … As with Darwin’s study of poultry and pigeons, many other people were drawn into his researches. …
- … He writes as one who has given his theory to the world for people to make of it what they will. ‘You …
- … W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people to accept his work. It was now his …
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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- … sat for his portrait numerous times throughout his life. The people standing behind the camera …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … to Darwin for—among other things—they were the first people he turned to when he wished to discuss …
Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … then, that Darwin reached his insight while thinking about people. As part of a broader interest in …
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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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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- … on vivisection were having on ‘sensible & independant people (eg my brother & the …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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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- … arguments & facts on both sides. I have a number of people helping me in every way, & …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … Torbitt’s plan was to distribute potatoes ‘gratis to the people’ through the Post Office, ‘until the …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … not interfere with the success of his book in Germany: ‘People are anxious to find a safe refuge in …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … where brothels were at every corner held by respectable people and licensed by the state’ ( letter …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … brother Erasmus exclaimed, ‘M rs Cameron there are six people in this house all in love with you’ …
