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Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … (1839), he embarked on a detailed study of his first child William in early stages of development. …
- … physiologists such as Johannes Müller, Claude Bernard, and William Carpenter, as well as theorists …
- … new network of correspondents. One of his first contacts was William Bowman, an eminent ophthalmic …
- … at the same time to the glands?” ( letter to William Bowman, 30 March [1868] ). Bowman was …
- … table of answers to expression questions, March-November 1868, DAR 186: 27, Cambridge University …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
- … in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
- … Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
- … Bowker's answers not found Bowman, William …
- … Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
- … Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
- … Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
- … Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
- … Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
- … Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
- … Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
- … Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
- … Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
- … Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
- … Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
- … Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
- … Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
- … Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … selection in relation to sex . He wrote to his indexer, William Sweetland Dallas, on 27 January …
- … book since the publication of Variation in February 1868, but many of the topics, such as the …
- … 19 February 1871 ). The African explorer and writer William Winwood Reade thought the publication …
- … (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). The geologist William Boyd Dawkins remarked on Darwin’s …
- … of hair arrived from several correspondents, including William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who remarked …
- … the family and commented upon by his wife and children. William offered his assessment of John …
- … Günther, George Busk, T. H. Huxley, Osbert Salvin, and William Henry Flower all provided Darwin with …
- … anatomists and eye specialists Frans Cornelis Donders, William Bowman, and Erasmus Wilson, to …
- … or ‘absurd & trifling’ questions ( letter to William Bowman, [before 26] January [1871] ). He …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
- … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
- … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
- … 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a recent …
- … 23rd 1887]: Emma Darwin tells her eldest son, William, that her third eldest son, Francis, …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6083 - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
- … 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin updates her son, William, on family news. Henrietta has …
- … W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William for checking the proofs of a new, …
- … to Clarke, W. B., [25 October 1861] Darwin asks William Clarke to pass on information on …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6066 - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
- … related subjects. Letter 6081 - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] …
