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Summary
Hybrid fish.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13860 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
"but most of them [verily?] Christened by myself they may be indulged with a"
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library-Eschwege 1832) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13861 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
[Fragmentary strip.] Discusses pigeons, Australia, Regents Park.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - Volz 1852) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13862 |
To [?] [?]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (18 December 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864G |
To ? [?]
Summary
[Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know nothing of your private".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Eric Korn (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864H |
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| Unidentified | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Unidentified | (5) |
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … 1832. 6 s . [Dugés 1832] Azara Voyages [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds [Azara 1801]— Again— …
- … in Spain [Dillon 1780]: Livingston on Sheep [Livingston 1809]. Communicat to Board of …
- … Patagonia [Falkner 1774] Azara’s Voyage [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds of Paraguay [Azara 1801 …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … 65 skimmed Lamarck II Vol Philos. Zoology [Lamarck 1809]— references at end of each Chap. …
- … 25. Cowpers Life & several volumes of letters [Hayley ed. 1809] 30 th Notices on the …
- … *119: 9v.; 119: 1a; 128: 26, 27 ——. 1809. Voyages dans l’Amérique méridionale … …
- … . London. 119: 22b Hayley, William, ed. 1809. The life and letters of W[illiam] …
- … Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1809. Philosophie zoologique; ou, exposition …
- … Neva . London. 119: 2a Livingston, Robert R. 1809. Essay on sheep; their varieties, …
- … London. 119: 14a Sebright, John Saunders. 1809. The art of improving the breeds of …
- … of Wellington … in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 . Compiled by J. Gurwood. …
- … for promoting useful knowledge . Philadelphia. 1771–1809. New series, 1818–. 119: 20a …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … on the plinth reads ‘CHARLES DARWIN Born at Shrewsbury 1809 buried in Westminster Abbey 1882/ …
Charles Darwin born
Summary
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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- … Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring …
George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … School, Cumbria and Richmond School in Yorkshire. In 1809 he became a student at Trinity …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … and the discussion of religion. Born on 12 February 1809, Charles Darwin was the son of two …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … and the discussion of religion. Born on 12 February 1809, Charles Darwin was the son of two …
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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- … naturalist published his Philosophie Zoologique in 1809, and his Introduction to Hist. Nat. des …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … and the birthdate on the front cover is 1808 instead of 1809. The album was intended to commemorate …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
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- … mirabilis: a year of centenaries: celebrities born in 1809’. In the top tier, Darwin (‘the greatest …
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…
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- … granite. Inscribed on the front of the pedestal, ‘DARWIN 1809 1882’; on the right edge of the bronze …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … between sedentary ‘Annelides’ and ‘Conchifera’ (1809), but Georges Cuvier, not admitting …
2.27 William Couper bust, New York
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 1809 1859 1909’. The installation …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … In complaining of this to Lyell, he described Lamarck’s 1809 publication as a ‘wretched book’ from …
