To John Fiske 9 November 1871
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Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8260) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8058 |
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- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [Leith Hill Place, Surrey] Nov 9. 1871 My dear Sir I am greatly …
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Leith
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What to take
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- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
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- … the Darwins set off on a round of visits to relatives at Leith Hill and Abinger in Surrey, and then …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … exhibition, ‘in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place’; i.e. Sophy Wedgwood, daughter …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … world of sea creatures he could observe on the beach at Leith. His first paper, in March 1827, …
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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- … of fieldwork undertaken in the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Montague Street in London in March, visited the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place in June, stayed with …
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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- … yards of ground were marked out near the Wedgwoods’ home, Leith Hill Place in Surrey, and CD’s niece …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … William and his wife Sara, and visits to the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place, and the Farrers at …
