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Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
Funding
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The Darwin Correspondence Project has been made possible by generous funding from the following institutions: • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation [[{"fid":"475","view_mode":"default","type":"media"…
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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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- … Ertl, Emil (1) Espinas, Alfred (3) …
- … Groves, Henry (3) Grugeon, Alfred (2) …
- … Hannay, J. B. (3) Hanson, Alfred (1) …
- … Josef (1) Krakauer, Alfred (1) Kratz …
- … Morton, J. C. (1) Moschkau, Alfred (6) …
- … Newport, George (2) Newton, Alfred (35) …
- … Tyler, D. F. (1) Tylor, Alfred (3) …
- … Wright, Thomas (2) Wrigley, Alfred (8) …
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … with profile heads of John Couch Adams, Joseph Lister, and Alfred Russel Wallace were inserted in a …
4.43 'Illustrated London News' article
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< Back to Introduction In September 1887 the Illustrated London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this opportunity to offer his own thoughts on the ‘domestic tranquillity’ and ‘unassuming modesty’ of…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … in the phenomenon of protective mimicry among insects. Alfred Russel Wallace, in a letter to his …
- … proposal was adopted, and thus the figures of Darwin and Newton flank the archway leading through …
- … 25 Nov. 1896, OUM archive, Box 2, 1896/1. Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, …
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
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- … expresses his Christian belief and Darwin discovers that Alfred Wallace has developed his own …
- … The contents of the package (an essay from New Guinea from Alfred Russel Wallace) throws Darwin into …
- … intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. / Let each man hope and believe …
- … were laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, near to those of Newton. [A setting of Proverbs, Chapter 13, …
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: the last word
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The Darwin Correspondence Project has now disbanded, having completed its work with the publication of volume 30.
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- … Trust and joined by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Isaac …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … members of the University, with the ornithologist Professor Alfred Newton (one of the first converts …
2.25 Henry Pegram statue, Birmingham
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin as one of the ‘great men of history’, there is a striking statue of him on the façade of the University of Birmingham. When the former Mason Science College developed into a…
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- … originator of image Henry Alfred Pegram date of creation c.1901–1907 …
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…
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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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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- … letters in August, on one occasion penning just two lines to Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘I am so giddy I …
- … `’the age of Darwin’’, as we now speak of the age of Newton’ ( letter from Napoleon de la Fleurière …
