From Alfred Newton 1 April 1879
Summary
Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11965 |
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- … has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work …
- … Bibliography Allen, J. A. 1909. Biographical memoir of Elliott Coues 1842–1899. National …
- … Fourth installment of ornithological bibliography: being a list of faunal publications …
- … Coues to travel to England to complete his work on an ornithological bibliography. The …
- … first part of Coues’s universal bibliography of ornithology (‘List of faunal publications …
- … published four more instalments of his bibliography between 1878 and 1880, but much of his …
- … materials for a general Ornithological Bibliography’ but it is quite evident that he will …
- … cordially support it. The specimen of his bibliography that I enclose shews how thorough …
To Elliott Coues [after 2 April 1879]
Summary
Memorial in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elliott Coues |
| Date: | [after 2 Apr 1879] |
| Classmark: | Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 4: 176–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970F |
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- … in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology. …
- … Bibliography ANB : American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. …
- … planned as a part of a larger projected bibliography of ornithology (see Coues 1878 , p. …
- … 567). Two further instalments of the bibliography covering North American ornithology were …
- … manner so as to include a complete Bibliography of Ornithology, this branch of science …
- … thoroughly conversant with the art of Bibliography. In addition to these requirements, in …
To T. L. Brunton 25 April 1879
Summary
Asks for information about influence of Dr Erasmus Darwin on English medicine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12013 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Erasmus. 1794–6. Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. 2 vols. …
From W. D. Fox to G. H. Darwin 15 April [1879]
Summary
Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 175–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11995 |
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- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
From T. L. Brunton 26 April [1879]
Summary
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12014 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Erasmus. 1794–6. Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. 2 vols. …
To Ernst Krause 2 April 1879
Summary
CD agrees entirely with EK’s proposal. Has collected a good deal of material. Useless to hunt for correspondence between Dr Darwin and Samuel Johnson. They met only once and hated one another. Dr Darwin is said to have taken Henry Brooke, who published a poem entitled "Universal beauty", as a model.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11969 |
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- … Bibliography Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated …
From E. A. Wheler 17 April 1879
Summary
Relates more family history and anecdotes concerning Dr Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12000 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
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- … in the US Army in order to complete his bibliography of ornithology; Newton had sent it to …
To Reginald Darwin 10 April [1879]
Summary
Research for Erasmus Darwin. CD has always thought there is one "golden rule" for biographers: "not to insert anything which … would interest only the members of the Family".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11986 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Erasmus, ed. 1780. Experiments establishing a criterion between …
To Ernst Haeckel 29 April 1879
Summary
Admires EH’s Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Virchow’s conduct is shameful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/47 [A 9901]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12017 |
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- … Bibliography Haeckel, Ernst. 1878b. Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre: eine Entgegnung …
From W. D. Fox to G. H. Darwin 21 April [1879]
Summary
Has no letters or papers [of Erasmus Darwin].
Suggests CD cite some of Erasmus Darwin’s poems to answer the charge of atheism [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 44].
Recounts a story of a remarkable cure by Dr Darwin, showing his sagacity and daring.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 177–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12006 |
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- … Bibliography Cottle, Joseph. 1847. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert …
From W. E. Darwin 29 April [1879]
Summary
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 73); DAR 177: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12017F |
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- … Bibliography Cradock, Joseph. [1774? ] Village memoirs: in a series of letters between a …
From Reginald Darwin 18 April 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
| Author: | Reginald Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11987 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis Sacheverell. 1927. Travels in Spain and the East, 1808–1810 . …
To Fanny Kellogg 13 April 1879
Summary
Sends thanks for "communicating the curious case of a habitual gesture, like that which I have treated as inherited. I may add that since I write, the action has been transmitted to another generation. Your case shall be sent to Mr Galton, who gave me the information".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Fanny Kellogg |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (28 May 1981); Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (28 April 2021, lot 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11992 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To Reginald Darwin 16 April 1879
Summary
Sends letters from RD’s father to R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11997 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis Sacheverell. 1927. Travels in Spain and the East, 1808–1810 . …
From E. A. Wheler 18 April 1879
Summary
Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12002 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To G. H. Darwin 19 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks him for his efforts. CD cared most about the letter to Thomas Okes [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 14–15]. "Cannot think who the calumnious article cd have been about [in?] 1802."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12004 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To E. A. Wheler 19 April 1879
Summary
Thanks his cousin for lending two letters [to be used in Ernst Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin, their grandfather].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | Chiswick Auctions (dealers) (10 October 2018, lot 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12004A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To Reginald Darwin 4 April 1879
Summary
Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.
Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11977 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To T. L. Brunton 28 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12015 |
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- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
| letter | (44) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Darwin, V. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Galton, E. A. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (3) |
| Coues, Elliott | (1) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Galton, E. A. | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Kellogg, Fanny | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (7) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, V. H. | (4) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
Summary
The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
Matches: 1 hits
- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
Summary
< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
Summary
< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
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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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
