From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 1 January 186[8]
Summary
HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Jan 186[8] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077F |
From George Brown [before 1868]
Summary
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
| Author: | George Thomas (George) Brown |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1868] |
| Classmark: | Variation 1: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313F |
From Richard Barwell [1868?]
Summary
Crying and the action of the orbicularis.
| Author: | Richard Barwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 52a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5749 |
From Osbert Salvin [1868?]
Summary
Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.
| Author: | Osbert Salvin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 172–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5758 |
From Hermann Müller January [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5770 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [1868–70?]
Summary
Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1868–70?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: 164–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7040 |
| letter | (6) |
| Barwell, Richard | (1) |
| Brown, George | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Barwell, Richard | (1) |
| Brown, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (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
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … Rigby Eastlake, ‘Photography’, Quarterly Review , 101 (April 1857), 2 parts, part 2, pp. 442–468. …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010), pp. 92, 101. …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … collections of the period, for example in albums 40 and 101 in the National Portrait Gallery. An …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< 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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- … ‘Annus mirabilis’, The Graphic (23 Jan. 1909), p. 101. A.C. Seward (ed.), Darwin and Modern …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … virtue yet attained by ‘man’ (see Descent , pp. 75-7, 101). In his autobiographical memoir, he …
Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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- … Letters about preparing for an unrealised, research trip to the Canary Islands before Darwin was …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
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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'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … Classed account books (Down House MS)). In Descent 1: 101, he argued that sympathy for animals …
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…
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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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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- … 18 october 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F.J.J. …
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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- … October 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F …
