From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863
Summary
Wants to know when he may visit CD.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062 |
From Joseph Wolstenholme to William Erasmus Darwin [27 March 1863?]
Summary
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
| Author: | Joseph Wolstenholme |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1863?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062F |
From Daniel Oliver [27 March 1863]
Summary
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4328 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 27 March [1863]
Summary
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4437 |
| letter | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Wolstenholme, Joseph | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
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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Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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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- … under certain regulations.’ ( Narrative Appendix, p. 327). The books were kept in the poop …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
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- … by the Beagle’s voyage’ ( Narrative 2: Appendix, p. 327). It is unclear what Stebbing did …
Eliza Burt Gamble
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Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was an advocate of the Woman Movement, a mother, a writer, and a teacher from…
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- … to Sex , Vol. II (London: John Murray, 1871), 328, 327, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin …
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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- … Belles-Lettres et Arts, rédigée a Genève 110: 32–7. *128: 167 Anon. 1835. Thoughts …
