From Thomas Belt [before 18] January 1877
Summary
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
| Author: | Thomas Belt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18] Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10761 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1877
Summary
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 74–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10802 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 January 1877
Summary
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10803 |
To Thomas Belt 18 January 1877
Summary
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10804 |
| letter | (4) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Belt, Thomas | (2) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … < Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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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
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
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- … literature on p. xi. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 118. …
3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 19, no. 92; p. 23, no. 118. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: …
17 Spring Gardens, London
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Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
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- … Darwin is living in London persuading Fitzroy to accept him on the voyage and preparing clothing, …
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 …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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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- … staining some of his pigeons magenta ( Descent 2: 118). Although the details of the experiment …
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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- … 1827 1920 118 Kollins A. …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (1) Galton, Francis (118) Galton, Violetta …
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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- … 1920 118 Kollins A. ' …
