From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
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Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
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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
4.7 'Vanity Fair', caricature
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< Back to Introduction A letter to Darwin from his publisher John Murray of 10 May 1871 informed him, ‘Your portrait is earnestly desired – by the Editor of Vanity Fair. I hope Mr Darwin may consent to follow the example of Murchison – Bismark [sic] …
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- … bibliography Vanity Fair , no. 152 (30 Sept. 1871), p. 107. Letter from John Murray to Darwin, …
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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- … Collections Review , 2 (London: English Heritage, 1999), p. 107. Browne, Charles Darwin: The …
Darwin & the Geological Society
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The science of geology in the early nineteenth century was a relatively new enterprise forged from the merging of several distinct traditions of inquiry, from mineralogy and the very practical business of mining, to theories of the earth’s origin and the…
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- … The science of geology in the early nineteenth century was a relatively new enterprise forged from …
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 …
4.6 Thomas Nast, cartoon
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< Back to Introduction This satire by the famous American political cartoonist Thomas Nast appeared among the advertisements on the back page of an issue of Harper’s Weekly, published in New York in August 1871. Nast worked for this journal through…
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- … Library accession or collection number LOU.A 107 copyright holder British …
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…
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
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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- … Priest (London: Michael Joseph, 1997), pp. 22–23, 55, 107, 120, 129, 140–141, 155, 175–176. Janet …
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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- … Leeuwarden 1920 107 Julius Dr. V.A. (Victor …
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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- … 107 Julius Dr. V.A. (Victor August) Lecturer on Physics …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … of the original sentence appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 107. 16. pp. 160–1. This passage …
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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- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
