From R. F. Cooke 12 April 1877
Summary
JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 487 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10927 |
From John Scott 12 April 1877
Summary
Comments on various species of Lagerstroemia.
In the series of opium poppy intercrosses made at CD’s suggestion, JS has learned that the reason they failed to intercross was the absence of insects at the period of their flowering.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 207–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10928 |
| letter | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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- … < Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … 1880–1918 (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pp. 4–12. Article on Legros by Timothy Wilcox in …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … or ‘groundless.’ Mr. Darwin’s own words are (p. 412): ‘The object of this article is to point out …
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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- … in Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1. 48. p. 412. This sentence also appears in Origin 4th …
