From G. B. Thornbery 27 March 1873
Summary
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
| Author: | Gregory Beddome Thornbery |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 316 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8827 |
From N. D. Doedes 27 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
| Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8828 |
From A. G. Butler 27 March 1873
Summary
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829 |
| letter | (3) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Doedes, N. D. | (1) |
| Thornbery, G. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Doedes, N. D. | (1) |
| Thornbery, G. B. | (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 …
