To P. L. Sclater 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2695 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 February [1860]
Summary
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.
R. I. Murchison very civil.
CD counts Lyell among the converted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2696 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites [14 February 1860]
Summary
Questions how natural selection can explain why some cells remain simple and others are modified into highly complex structures.
Reports on the spread in Ceylon of a recently introduced plant.
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2697 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.
Comments on HGB’s review.
Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2698 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … < Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was …
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
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- … small Bible from Gray’s desk. JANE GRAY: 214 Every tree is known by his own …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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- … On natural selection (DAR 10.2; Natural selection , pp. 214--74) …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … his omission was ‘unintentional’ ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 214). 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … to the analogy with plants in Living Cirripedia (1851): 214: ‘Although the existence of …
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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- … plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another …
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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- … 214 Witte H. …
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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- … 214 Witte H. …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
