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International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  • … International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands IISH Amsterdam …

From F. B. Sanborn   12 January 1882

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Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot

and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Author:  Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13615

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  • … truly, | F.  B.  Sanborn | General Secretary of the American Social Science Association. …
  • … his diary were printed in Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 8–10. His four daughters …
  • … Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they …
  • … development. Boston: Education Department of the American Social Science Association. …
  • … American Social Science Association, | Boston, January 12 , 188 2 . Charles Darwin, Esq. | …
  • … The letter is written on American Social Science Association notepaper, which lists the …
  • … as an honorary member of the American Social Science Association at the general meeting …
  • … on 6 September 1881 (see Journal of Social Science 14 (1881): 34). The enclosures have not …
  • … secretary of the education department (see Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 6–8). CD’ …
  • … of an infant’ , was reprinted in Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 33–40, together with …
  • … of the child; Preyer 1882 ; Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 44–8). For her studies of …

Sanborn, F. B. (1831–1917)

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  • … Franklin Benjamin Sanborn 1831–1917 American journalist, philanthropist, social reformer. …
  • … A founder of the American Social Science Association. DAB Bibliography DAB : Dictionary of …
  • … University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95. American Social Science Association America …
  • … American journalist philanthropist social reformer 30 …

To J. D. Hooker   14 November [1855]

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Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.

Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1781

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  • … Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not …
  • … plants near their extreme limits are social? What puzzles there are in all such cases! I …
  • … much interested on my old puzzle about Social Plants: Decandolle by the facts, which he …
  • … more puzzling in my eyes. The case of social plants is of no direct importance whatever to …
  • … namely whether introduced plants are ever social in their new country not being so in …
  • … species, & not to anything inherent in the social species itself. Would M r Bentham be so …
  • … sort of Sow Thistle are wonderfully social, are they in their parent country? The Fennel I …
  • … the beds of the Impatiens in Surrey sound as if this was “social”: how is it in America? — …
  • … Is the Sweet Briar social in Tasmania. Do you not think that these cases would throw …
  • … light on “sociability”? But why on earth are not Tropical plants social? How comes it …
  • … répandues’) and those that were abundant or social (‘sociales’) in Candolle 1855 , 1: 457– …
  • … thistle as examples of plants that are ‘social’ in their adopted country but not in their …
  • … difference between very common plants & social plants’. ‘Even the brushwood is a fruit- …
  • … the impression that tropical plants were less ‘social’ or abundant than those of temperate …

Westrum, Ron. 1978. Science and social intelligence about anomalies: the case of meteorites. Social Studies of Science 8: 461–93.

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  • … Westrum, Ron. 1978. Science and social intelligence about anomalies: the case of …
  • … meteorites. Social Studies of Science 8: 461–93. ejournals 24 …

Benton, Ted. 2002. Social Darwinism and socialist Darwinism in Germany: 1860 to 1900. In Historical materialism and social evolution, edited by Paul Blackledge and Graeme Kirkpatrick. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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  • … Benton, Ted. 2002. Social Darwinism and socialist Darwinism in Germany: 1860 to 1900. …
  • … In Historical materialism and social evolution , edited by Paul Blackledge and Graeme …

Ruskin, John (1819–1900)

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  • … John Ruskin 1819–1900 Author, artist, and social reformer. Concentrated …
  • … on writing and lecturing on economic and social issues between 1855 and 1870. First Slade …
  • … University Press. 2004. 12,27,28,29 Oxford University Oxford Author artist social reformer …

From Asa Gray   23 September 1856

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Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.

Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.

Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Sept 1856
Classmark:  DAR 165: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1959

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  • … variable’ pencil ; ‘(C)’ brown crayon ; ‘Social in America’ brown crayon ; ‘& not in …
  • … Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World. Distribution of U. S. …
  • … as to whether there are any plants social here, which are not so in the old world,—is, …
  • … natural selection’, includes a discussion of social plants ( Natural selection , pp.  203– …
  • … 3.3] double scored brown crayon 3.3 social] underl brown crayon 4.2 and may … Engelmann. …
  • … 4.3] scored brown crayon 4.2 social] underl brown crayon 6.5 And hardly … plant. 6.6] …
  • … vulgaris may be said to have become a truly social plant, in neglected fields and copses, …
  • … the road- sides, and is one of our most social plants. But this plant is doubtless a …
  • … pastures, &c. —and may fairly be called a social plant. In Germany it is not so found, …

To F. B. Sanborn   22 January 1882

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Accepts election as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association [see 13615].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Date:  22 Jan 1882
Classmark:  B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13637

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  • … as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association [see 13615 ]. …
  • … Accepts election as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association] …

Allen, David Elliston. 1976. The naturalist in Britain: a social history. London: Allen Lane.

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  • … David Elliston. 1976. The naturalist in Britain: a social history. London: Allen Lane. …

From G. A. Gaskell   13 November 1878

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Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".

Author:  George Arthur Gaskell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 165: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11744

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  • … indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest". …
  • … Survival. Third— The Moral Law, Social Selection or the Birth of the Fittest. These three …
  • … I gather that you fear much reduced social pressure would result in indolence. I submit …
  • … protected so long as they conform to the social mandate, not to continue their race. They …
  • … of Descent included discussions of the development of the moral sense, social instincts, …
  • … and social virtues, the rate of increase of human populations, and the role of natural …
  • … 609–11). For CD’s conclusions on the social instincts, see Descent 1: 97–8. The falling …
  • … a child is, perhaps, the most important social action that two private persons can engage …
  • … in themselves immoral, or of immoral tendency, because social instinct is against them. …
  • … But social instinct has, as you justly point out, been developed in favour of the general …
  • … out of consideration in any speculation on social tendencies. I need but refer to France, …

Clark, Linda L. 1984. Social Darwinism in France. [Birmingham], Alabama: University of Alabama Press.

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  • … Clark, Linda L. 1984. Social Darwinism in France. [Birmingham], Alabama: University of …

Offer, John. 2010. Herbert Spencer and social theory. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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  • … Offer, John. 2010. Herbert Spencer and social theory . Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave …

Bonham-Carter, Victor. 1960. In a liberal tradition: a social biography 1700–1950. London: Constable.

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  • … Victor. 1960. In a liberal tradition: a social biography 1700–1950. London: Constable. NF3 …

Ram Mohan Roy (1774–1833)

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  • … Mohan Roy 1774–1833 Indian religious and social reformer. In England as the agent of the …
  • … Press. 1910–11. 1 Emperor of Delhi England Delhi Indian religious and social reformer …

To Hugo Thiel   25 February 1869

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Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugo Thiel
Date:  25 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 148: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6634

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  • … Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions. …
  • … Thiel goes on to analyse aspects of human social development from a Darwinian standpoint. …
  • … in observing that you apply to moral and social questions analogous views to those which I …

To John Morley   14 April [1871]

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Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].

Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.

Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date:  14 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 410
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7685

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  • … are deeply laid in the very conditions of social existence’, an observation he uses to …
  • … to lay the basis of conscience in the social feelings’. Frances Power Cobbe , however, in …
  • … his great authority with respect to the social instincts, but the sentence which I quote …
  • … as he says so very little about the social instincts. When I speak of intellectual …
  • … instincts, without having retrograded in his social instincts; and I do not think that …
  • … evidence that man ever existed as a non-social animal. I must add that I have been very …
  • … sense and the benefits of a developing social instinct in early humanity (p.  11). In [ …

International encyclopedia of the social sciences. Edited by David L. Sills. Assistant editor, V. N. Ponomarev. 19 vols. New York: Macmillan. [1968–91.]

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  • … International encyclopedia of the social sciences . Edited by David L. Sills. Assistant …

Timiryazev, Kliment Arkadievich. 1871. Spektralny analiz khlorofilla. St Petersburg: Press of the Society for Social Benefit.

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  • … St Petersburg: Press of the Society for Social Benefit. http://books.e-heritage.ru/ …

Kean, Hilda. 1998. Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800. London: Reaktion Books.

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  • … Hilda. 1998. Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800 . London: …
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Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … Times  rebuked Darwin for undermining the foundations of social order, namely ‘those elementary …
  • … attributed to natural selection what was properly due to ‘Social Selection’. Moral progress, he held …
  • … arose in humans through a conflict between enduring social feelings and more fleeting desires and …