To ? 25 February [1871]
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Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7513 |
From William Ogle 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
He believes he has observed a predominance of the right side over the left in monkeys and man. If so, this is another support of their relatedness.
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7514 |
From C. L. Bernays 25 February 1871
Summary
Older settlers in U. S. are taller and thinner than recent immigrants.
| Author: | Charles Louis Bernays |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7515 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [25 February 1871]
Summary
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 390) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516F |
| letter | (4) |
| Bernays, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bernays, C. L. | (1) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
2.25 Henry Pegram statue, Birmingham
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin as one of the ‘great men of history’, there is a striking statue of him on the façade of the University of Birmingham. When the former Mason Science College developed into a…
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
Hunt for new letters: last chance!
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Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although we already know of more than 15,000 letters that Darwin exchanged with nearly 2000 correspondents around the world, letters continue to come to light in both…
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Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ‘ Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming …
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 …
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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Death of Annie Darwin
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The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma, heavily pregnant, has to stay behind at Down.
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Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
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Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
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- … We have lost the joy of the Household Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, …
Charles Darwin born
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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Darwin on childhood
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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Horace Darwin born
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Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born
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Henrietta Emma Darwin
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Henrietta “Etty” Darwin (1843–1927) was the eldest of Charles Darwin’s daughters to reach adulthood. She married Richard Buckley Litchfield in 1871. She was a valued editor to her father as well as companion and correspondent to both of her parents.…
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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George Darwin born
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The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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