To Emma Wedgwood [26 January 1839]
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He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-493 |
From Thomas Evans Blackwell 26 January 1839
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A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.
| Author: | Thomas Evans Blackwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494 |
| letter | (2) |
| Blackwell, T. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blackwell, T. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
2.11 Christian Lehr, plaster bust
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< Back to Introduction A plaster bust of Darwin by the German artist Christian Wilhelm Jacob Lehr the younger, dating from 1883, has found its way to a historic zoological library in the Netherlands. This is the Artis Bibliotheek, Natura Artis…
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- … of Leipzig, which is now in the Darwin archive (DAR 225: 126). On the basis of the photograph alone, …
Devonport, Plymouth
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Waiting to set off
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- … Darwin writes about the fitting out of the Beagle and the final preparations before setting …
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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- … and bibliography Fun magazine (25 March 1871), p. 126. Alvin Sullivan (ed.), British …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new heated greenhouse, and on …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … Natural History Society and Field Club (August 1880), p. 126. Bristol Mercury and Daily Post …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … I cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria: I must make 126 additional crosses!! ’ …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 7 july 1917 Haarlem 126 Lit R.R. (Roelof Rijkland) …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 126 Lit R.R. (Roelof Rijkland) Teacher …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 126 (1834): 365–88. ( Red notebook , p. …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
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…
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- … Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [6 September 1879] (DAR 219.1: 126)). Darwin’s commitment to …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.’—(pp. 126, 127.) ‘In order to make it clear how, …
