To Daniel Oliver 20 [January 1863]
Summary
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3776 |
To Hugh Falconer 20 [January 1863]
Summary
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3928 |
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 20 January [1863]
Summary
Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry
and his research on Primula and Linum.
Suggests breeding experiments.
Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.
Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3929 |
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| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
1.20 Leopold Flameng etching, after Collier
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< Back to Introduction Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in 1882, requests for permission to reproduce it flooded in, from book and print publishers. Collier himself often felt, with some…
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- … < Back to Introduction Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put …
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…
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
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
17 Spring Gardens, London
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Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
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- … Darwin is living in London persuading Fitzroy to accept him on the voyage and preparing clothing, …
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … at the museum of the Zoological Society of London, earning £120 per year. In 1838, Waterhouse …
2.4 Wedgwood plaque
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< Back to Introduction Soon after Darwin’s death, a Wedgwood plaque in green jasper with a profile portrait of him was presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge, by his son George Darwin, who was himself a Cambridge don. It was set into the panelling…
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- … Joyful Years (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2014), pp. 120, 122. Van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 114. …
1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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- … (London: Michael Joseph, 1997), pp. 22–23, 55, 107, 120, 129, 140–141, 155, 175–176. Janet Browne, …
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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- … 13 oktober 1879 Groningen 120 Koster Dr W. (Willem) …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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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- … 120 Koster Dr W. (Willem) Professor of Amsterdam at …
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 120 (1830): 399–414. ( Red notebook , …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Tropic of Capricorn and from N.E. n Australia to about 120˚ to 110˚ West Longitude in …
