To John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.
Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7524 |
To John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7525 |
From J. J. Aubertin 1 March 1871
Summary
Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;
reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7526 |
From John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7527 |
From T. H. Farrer 1 March 1871
Summary
Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7528 |
From H. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin [March 1871]
Summary
Possible quotations about shame for CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605G |
To John Murray [1 March 1871]
Summary
Discusses new edition of Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 437 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9237 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Tyndall, John | (3) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
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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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … engraving in The Graphic , XI:278 (27 March 1875), p. 301, reprinted in the same journal (29 …
Port Lewis, Mauritius
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First coral lagoons
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- … Describes his work on coral formation and the Beagle 's visit to the low lagoons of the Keeling …
The geology of the Beagle voyage
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The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to understand the changing relation between the levels of land and sea. As he studied the shores of South America, and discovered shells inland at thousands of feet…
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- … The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
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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- … No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this; for the whole theory was …
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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- … further additions, also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36. p. 315. This sentence …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … I naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish …
