To J. D. Hooker 21 [May 1856]
Summary
Huxley’s "vehement" [Royal Institution?] Lectures make it difficult to propose him for Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [May 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1876 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1876 …
Richardson, Benjamin Ward. 1876. Abstract report to ‘Nature’ on experimentation on animals for the advance of practical medicine. Nature, 15 June 1876, pp. 149–52; 22 June 1876, pp. 170–2; 29 June 1876, pp. 197–9; 20 July 1876, pp. 250–2; 3 August 1876, pp. 289–91; 17 August 1876, pp. 339–41; 31 August 1876, pp. 369–72.
Matches: 8 hits
- … Richardson, Benjamin Ward. 1876. Abstract report to ‘Nature’ on experimentation on animals …
- … for the advance of practical medicine. Nature , 15 June 1876, pp. …
- … 149–52; 22 June 1876, pp. …
- … 170–2; 29 June 1876, pp. …
- … 197–9; 20 July 1876, pp. …
- … 250–2; 3 August 1876, pp. …
- … 289–91; 17 August 1876, pp. …
- … 339–41; 31 August 1876, pp. 369–72. Online or CP340:1.b.95 24 …
To Georg von Seidlitz 13 October 1876
Summary
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Seidlitz 1876 . …
- … To Georg von Seidlitz 13 October 1876 …
- … München Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Oct 1876 Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz …
- … CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876]. …
- … Bibliography Seidlitz, Georg. 1876. Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie . Leipzig: W. …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Oct. 13 th 1876 Dear Sir I am much obliged to you for your …
To G. J. Romanes [15 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [15 June 1876 or later] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To G. J. Romanes [15 June 1876 or later] …
- … Mss.B.D25.495) Charles Robert Darwin unstated [15 June 1876 or later] George John Romanes …
- … report (see n. 7, below). See letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 June [1876] , and letter from G. …
- … J. Romanes, 11 June [1876] . Romanes had worked on medusae ( G. …
- … J. Romanes 1875 , 1876, …
- … and 1876–7). Francis Darwin’s research was published in F. Darwin 1877b . On the quadrifid …
- … 1875. Richardson, Benjamin Ward. 1876. Abstract report to ‘Nature’ on experimentation on …
- … animals for the advance of practical medicine. Nature , 15 June 1876, pp. …
- … 149–52; 22 June 1876, pp. …
- … 170–2; 29 June 1876, pp. …
- … 197–9; 20 July 1876, pp. …
- … 250–2; 3 August 1876, pp. …
- … 289–91; 17 August 1876, pp. …
- … 339–41; 31 August 1876, pp. 369–72. …
- … The first part of Richardson’s report ( B. W. Richardson 1876 ) appeared in Nature …
- … on 15 June 1876. It was an abstract of his experience of the value of experimentation on …
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To James Torbitt 6 April 1876 …
- … Down , 6th April, 1876. You may publish what I have said. …
- … Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr 1876 James Torbitt …
- … text of the letter to Torbitt of 4 April 1876 is also on the sheet, although the text in …
- … See letter from James Torbitt, 6 April 1876 and n. 1. …
- … CD’s words in his letter of 4 April 1876 were paraphrased in the …
- … Daily Telegraph , 18 April 1876, p. 5; …
- … see letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 and n. 7. …
- … text of this telegram, the telegram from James Torbitt , 6 April 1876, and the letter from …
- … James Torbitt, 7 April 1876 , are from a printed sheet headed ‘Authorized …
- … formerly inserted into a copy of Torbitt 1876 at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland …
- … Bibliography Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation of the …
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Summary
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876] …
- … DAR 104: 49–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [18 Apr 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [ Botany (1876)]. …
- … and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] . The seeds of teasel ( Dipsacus ) were …
- … probably sent for Francis Darwin , who was working on it by late May 1876 (see letter from …
- … Francis Darwin, [31 May 1876] . CD had submitted Lawson Tait’s paper on the tropical …
- … series of Macmillan and Co. , had been published in March 1876 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 16 March 1876, p. …
- … 218); two further editions appeared in 1876, after which it was reprinted several times. …
- … Street, London, from 27 April to 3 May 1876 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)); he had intended …
- … fell ill while she was staying at Down (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] ). …
- … see letter to Lawson Tait, 24 April 1876 ). Evidently Michael Foster was the physiological …
- … s paper, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 . George Howard Darwin arrived …
- … back from a trip to Malta on 28 March 1876; Hooker visited Down on 15 April ( Emma Darwin’ …
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876] …
- … 274.1: 36 Francis Darwin Pantlludw, Machynlleth [after 8 Oct 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] ). CD stayed at William Erasmus Darwin’s house …
- … 2d ed. were expected soon (see letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] and n. 5). …
- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1876. On the leaf-arrangement of the crowberry ( Empetrum …
- … nigrum ). Abstract. Communicated by Charles Darwin. [Received 8 May 1876. ] Proceedings …
- … of the Royal Society of London 25 (1876–7): 158–60. …
- … Gibelli, Giuseppe. 1876. Di una singolare struttura delle foglie delle Empetracee. Nuovo …
- … the letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] . CD had recommended two articles in the …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 8 October [1876] and nn. 1 and 3). Francis was experimenting …
- … see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2). Absorption, circulation, and …
- … catching pitchers of Nepenthes and Sarracenia appeared in Nature , 5 October 1876, p. 518. …
- … in Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano ( Gibelli 1876 ). CD had communicated ‘On the …
- … Empetrum nigrum )’ by Hubert Airy ( Airy 1876 ) to the Royal Society of London ( …
- … see letter from Hubert Airy, 2 May 1876 ). CD had referred to Mary Anne Ruck …
To G. J. Romanes 29 May [1876]
Summary
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 29 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10516 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To G. J. Romanes 29 May [1876] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.493) Charles Robert Darwin Hopedene 29 May [1876] George John Romanes …
- … Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance. Asks …
- … Society during its first fifty years, 1876–1926 . London: Cambridge University Press. …
- … letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c. 19 March 1876]). CD forwarded a copy of Die Perigenesis …
- … 23: 87–103. Romanes, George John. 1876–7. An account of some new species, varieties, …
- … and monstrous forms of medusæ. [Read 6 April 1876 and 18 January 1877. ] …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) 12 (1876): 524–31; 13 (1878): 190–4. Sharpey-Schafer, …
- … see n. 2, above. See letter from Francis Darwin, 27 May 1876 and n. 6. …
- … The Physiological Society had been formed in March 1876; at a meeting …
- … on 5 May 1876, it was decided that CD would be elected …
- … honorary member of the society on 26 May 1876 ( Sharpey-Schafer 1927 , pp. 7 and 13). CD …
- … Haeckel 1876a ) sent to him by Haeckel (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 May 1876 ). See …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 May 1876 and n. 7. George Douglas , the earl of Moreton, had …
- … known as telegony. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 May 1876 and n. 6. CD stayed …
- … Hensleigh Wedgwood , from 24 May to 7 June 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II). Romanes was …
- … monstrous forms of medusae ( G. J. Romanes 1876–7 ). For Romanes’s pangenesis experiments, …
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Summary
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876 …
- … 210.2: 52 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge 1 May 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Evans, John. 1876. The anniversary address of …
- … the president. [Read 18 February 1876. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of …
- … London 32, Proceedings, pp. 53–121. Sidgwick, Henry. 1876. The theory of evolution and its …
- … on the earth’s axis of rotation (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 25 April 1876 and n. 2). …
- … to the Royal Society of London in November 1876 ( G. H. Darwin 1876b ). John Evans had …
- … a large effect on the position of the earth’s axis of rotation ( J. Evans 1876 , p. 108). …
- … H. Darwin, 27 April [1876] . Francis Maitland Balfour . …
- … CD and Emma were in London from 27 April to 3 May 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … Emma had been unwell from 20 to 22 April 1876, and was ‘poorly’ …
- … again on 2 May 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Leonard Darwin arrived in Down from Malta on 8 May 1876 (see second letter to G. …
- … H. Darwin, 27 April [1876] and n. 4). There is no evidence in Emma Darwin’ s diary (DAR …
- … J. Evans 1876 , p. 108. Henrietta Emma Litchfield’s letter has not been …
- … she had regained her health after being ill from 17 to 21 April 1876 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] and n. 2). For CD’s …
- … evolution and its application to practice’ ( Sidgwick 1876 ), see the second letter to G. …
From James Torbitt 22 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From James Torbitt 22 April 1876 …
- … DAR 178: 135 James Torbitt Belfast 22 Apr 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 . See …
- … letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 and n. 3. …
- … Belfast 22 April 1876 Charles Darwin Esqr. | Down Beckenham Kent. My dear Sir, I am sorry, …
- … and others]. 1802–1967. Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation …
- … In his letter to Torbitt of 21 April 1876 , CD said he was too unwell to perform potato- …
- … future. See letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 and n. 2. Robertson, Brooman and Co. , …
- … s business in England (see Torbitt’s advertisement in The Times , 22 February 1876, p. …
- … 1, and Post Office London directory 1876). Torbitt refers to …
- … his Treatise on the cultivation of the potato ( Torbitt 1876 ), and the letter to …
- … James Torbitt, 4 April 1876 , which CD gave his permission to publish ( …
- … see telegram to James Torbitt , 6 April 1876). …
- … The title page of Torbitt 1876 states that Torbitt sent it to members of the House of …
- … of Bedford; the note has not been found. See letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 . See …
From Louis Grenier 20 May 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.
| Author: | Louis Grenier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10511 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … From Louis Grenier 20 May 1876 …
- … DAR 165: 226 Louis Grenier Tenay 20 May 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fraustadt, Alexander. 1876. Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von …
- … R. Nischkowsky. [Reprinted in: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 2 (1876–7): 27–64. ] …
- … Grenier, Louis. 1876. Analyse de l’ouvrage de M. Ch. …
- … plantes insectivores. [Read 10 February 1876. ] Annales de la Société botanique de Lyon …
- … John van Voorst. Planchon, Jules Emile. 1876. Les plantes carnivores. Revue des deux …
- … Tenny le 20 Mai 1876 Mon cher Monsieur J’ai bien reçu votre lettre du 26 Dec bre . , et …
- … Fraustadt’s dissertation in March (see letter to F. J. Cohn, 31 March 1876 ). Grenier …
- … referred to Fraustadt’s work in Grenier 1876 , p. 114. …
- … has not been identified. In Grenier 1876 , p. 114, Grenier mentioned CD’s reservations …
- … Tenny 20 May 1876 My dear Sir I have duly received your letter of 26 December and thank …
- … meeting of the Lyon botanical society of 10 February 1876, and his lecture was scheduled …
- … to be delivered on 13 July 1876, but was postponed to the following meeting on 27 July. …
- … Both appear to be included in Grenier 1876 , which was published …
- … in 1877 (see Grenier 1876 , p. 114, where Grenier refers to CD’s response to his letter, …
- … plants was published by Jules Emile Planchon in Revue des deux mondes , 1 February 1876 ( …
- … Planchon 1876 ). In 1875, Auguste Bellynck had published Les plantes carnivores , a …
- … muscipula (Venus fly trap; Fraustadt 1876 ). Ferdinand Julius Cohn had sent CD a copy of …
To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489A |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876] …
- … DAR 271.4: 5 Charles Robert Darwin [1 May 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection 1876 , p. 22). James Sully had published a …
- … 1874 ); his article on Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was published in Mind in January 1876 ( …
- … Sully 1876 ). …
- … of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. …
- … been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the …
- … Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43] and Sensation and intuition ( …
- … with minutes of evidence and appendix; 1876 (C.1397, C.1397-1) XLI.277, 689. House of …
- … of Animals Liable to Vivisection. 1876. Statement of the Society for the Protection of …
- … CD visited Lewes and Evans on 30 April 1876. Francis Darwin’s article ‘On the structure of …
- … Darwin 1876a ) had been published in April 1876; his letter on the use of pycrotoxine (now …
- … London: Henry S. King & Co. Sully, James. 1876. Physiological psychology in Germany. Mind …
- … vivisection experiments in Nature , 16 March 1876, pp. 384–5. In the latter, Francis wrote …
To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876]
Summary
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1876] |
| Classmark: | Stuart Opotowsky (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10436 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876] …
- … plants’ ( Bennett 1875 ). See letter from F. J. Cohn, 28 March 1876 and n. 1. …
- … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Mar [1876] Ferdinand Julius Cohn …
- … paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5]. …
- … carnivorous plants. [Read 1 December 1875. ] Monthly Microscopical Journal 15 (1876): 1–5. …
- … Fraustadt, Alexander. 1876. Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von Dionaea muscipula Ell. ( …
- … R. Nischkowsky. [Reprinted in: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 2 (1876–7): 27–64. ] …
- … in the Monthly Microscopical Journal Jan 1. 1876 on certain absorptive glands which he …
- … Letter from F. J. Cohn, 28 March 1876 . CD’s annotated copy of Alexander …
- … muscipula (the Venus fly trap; Fraustadt 1876 ) contains the plates, which must have been …
- … separately by Cohn. In his letter of 28 March 1876 , Cohn said that he and Fraustadt were …
To Gustav Jäger 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Gustav Jäger 23 October 1876 …
- … Bibliography Jäger, Gustav. 1876. Zoologische Briefe. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller. …
- … Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin 23 Oct 1876 Down Gustav Jäger …
- … Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876). …
- … Jäger’s Zoologische Briefe ( Jäger 1876 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Oct. 23. 1876 Dear Sir I owe to your kindness or to that of your …
From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876]
Summary
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876] …
- … 275: 65) William Erasmus Darwin Basset [Southampton] 30 Nov [1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … there is an entry for £53 on 5 November 1876, ‘Deposit on Purchase of 4 acres & cottage’, …
- … 24, letter to W. E. Darwin, 29 September [1876] . Henrietta Emma Litchfield , William’s …
- … Darwin to Leonard Darwin, [5? ] December [1876] (DAR 239.23: 1.54), which quotes from this …
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, [before 30 November 1876] and n. 3. William had made notes of his …
- … See Correspondence vol. 24, letter to James Geikie, 16 November 1876 , and letter to W. …
- … s axis of rotation. [Read 23 November 1876. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
- … of the Royal Astronomical Society 37 (1876–7): 77–89. Record of the Royal Society of …
- … letter from G. H. Darwin, [27? November 1876] . Emma Darwin ’s notes would probably have …
- … land that CD agreed to purchase in November 1876. In CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), …
- … E. Darwin, [after 20 November 1876] . George Howard Darwin’s paper ‘On the influence of …
- … changes on the earth’s axis of rotation’ ( G. H. Darwin 1876 ) was read at the Royal …
- … Society of London on 23 November 1876. He was elected a fellow of the society in 1879 ( …
- … the Royal Society of London ). In the December 1876 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal …
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876 …
- … D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 George John Romanes Dunskaith 1 June 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876]. Physiologists will think vivisection bill …
- … Dunskaith, Nigg, Ross-shire, N.B. : June 1, 1876. Many thanks for your long and kind …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, 29 May [1876] . CD sent a copy of Ernst Haeckel’s Die …
- … Collection–CUL. In his letter of 29 May [1876] , CD had written that he had gone to …
- … Romanes had also worked on medusae (see G. J. Romanes 1875 , G. J. Romanes 1876 , and G. …
- … J. Romanes 1876–7 ). See G. …
- … J. Romanes 1876 , p. 171. Romanes was investigating whether the nerve tissue of medusae …
- … 1875. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 166 (1876): 269–313. …
- … Romanes, George John. 1876–7. An account of some new species, varieties, …
- … and monstrous forms of medusæ. [Read 6 April 1876 and 18 January 1877. ] …
- … Journal of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) 12 (1876): 524–31; 13 (1878): 190–4. …
- … Romanes, George John. 1876. The physiology of the nervous …
- … system of medusae. [Read 28 April 1876. ] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great …
- … Society during its first fifty years, 1876–1926 . London: Cambridge University Press. …
- … had been ill ( letter to C. S. Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 ). A bill to regulate vivisection …
- … introduced into the House of Lords on 15 May 1876 ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates 3d ser. …
- … its inaugural dinner took place on 26 May 1876 (see Sharpey-Schafer 1927 , p. 15). William …
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 31 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks for Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876).
Will send a copy of Cross and self fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10659F |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 31 October [1876] …
- … of Vienna (151.273-3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Oct [1876] Anton Kerner von Marilaun …
- … der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876). Will send a copy of Cross and self …
- … in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Kerner, …
- … Anton. 1876. Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste. In Festschrift der K. …
- … fertilisation was published on 10 November 1876 ( Correspondence vol. 24, Appendix II). …
- … See also this volume, Supplement, letter to Anton Kerner von Marilaun, 20 November 1876 . …
- … is established by the reference to Kerner 1876 (see n. 2, below). There is an annotated …
- … protective measures of flowers against uninvited guests; Kerner 1876 ) in DAR 139: 15.1. …
- … In Nature , 26 October 1876, p. 584, a paper …
- … as appearing in Naturforscher , August 1876, under the translated title ‘On the natural …
- … animal destroyers’. In fact, a summary of Kerner‘s book ( Kerner 1876 ) was published in …
- … Der Naturforscher , 5 August 1876, pp. 301–4. CD’s bookseller was Williams & Norgate , but …
From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876]
Summary
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10584 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876] …
- … testimony at Slade’s trial ( The Times , 30 October 1876, p. 11). …
- … 1896, p. 45 George John Romanes Dunskaith [after 23 Sept 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Green, and Co. Romanes, George John. 1876–7. An account of some new species, varieties, …
- … see letter from G. J. Romanes, 1 June 1876 and n. 10). He spent part of the year at …
- … and monstrous forms of medusæ. [Read 6 April 1876 and 18 January 1877. ] …
- … Journal of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) 12 (1876): 524–31; 13 (1878): 190–4. …
- … him in the further pursuit of these experiments’ ( The Times , 23 September 1876, p. 9). …
- … Wallace attended séances at Slade’s house in August and October 1876. He wrote in defense …
- … of Slade in a letter in The Times , 19 September 1876, p. 4, and gave …
- … Society on 18 January 1877 ( G. J. Romanes 1876–7 ), and a longer paper on their locomotor …
- … see letter from G. J. Romanes, 11 June [1876] ). Edwin Ray Lankester attended several …
- … In a letter to The Times , 16 September 1876, p. 7, Lankester claimed that Slade’s hands …
- … Slade for conspiracy to obtain money by false pretences ( The Times , 3 October 1876, p. …
- … 9, and 11 October 1876, p. 12). Slade was convicted under …
- … with hard labour ( The Times , 1 November 1876, p. 9); however, he appealed against the …
- … s letter appeared in The Times , 21 September 1876, p. 3. In another letter, he explained …
To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
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Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10440 |
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- … To James Torbitt 4 April 1876 …
- … DAR 148: 92 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Apr 1876 James Torbitt …
- … what is an individual? ’, contained in the letter to James Torbitt, 26 January 1876 . …
- … results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is …
- … Down, April 4, 1876. Dear Sir I thank you for your very obliging letter and present of the …
- … See letter from James Torbitt, 1 April 1876 . Torbitt …
- … his pamphlet on potato blight, Torbitt 1876 , which was accompanied by a packet of seeds. …
- … over successive generations was the best way to improve yields ( Torbitt 1876 , pp. 3–4). …
- … See letter from James Torbitt, 1 April 1876 and n. 2. Torbitt wanted to publish CD’s reply …
- … Bibliography Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation of the …
From James Torbitt 7 April 1876
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Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10443 |
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- … From James Torbitt 7 April 1876 …
- … Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin James Torbitt Down 7 Apr 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … text of the letter to Torbitt of 4 April 1876 is also on the sheet, although the text in …
- … Bibliography Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation of the …
- … B elfast 7th April, 1876. Charles Darwin, Esq. , | Down, Beckenham, Kent. D ear S ir ,— …
- … Letter to James Torbitt, 4 April 1876 . …
- … Telegram to James Torbitt , 6 April 1876. See …
- … letter to James Torbitt, 4 April 1876 and n. 2. …
- … In his letter of 4 April 1876 , CD had refused Torbitt permission to publish …
- … his letter to Torbitt of 26 January 1876 , because he could not remember what he had said. …
- … text of this letter, the telegram from James Torbitt , 6 April 1876, and the telegram to …
- … James Torbitt , 6 April 1876, are from a printed sheet headed ‘Authorized …
- … formerly inserted into a copy of Torbitt 1876 at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland …
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Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
- … has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, happily …
- … life. But the calm was not to last, and the second half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief …
- … in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the second edition …
- … Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1876 ). When Smith, Elder and Company …
- … observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) Darwin focused instead on the …
- … ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids was less a …
- … with his new research in mind: ‘During this autumn of 1876 I shall publish on the “Effects of Cross …
- … pamphlet, Darwin confounded (C. O’Shaughnessy 1876), which, he informed Darwin, ‘completely …
- … and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). Combatting enemies... …
- … disguised his views as to the bestiality of man’ (Mivart 1876, p. 144). Not only was the comment …
- … in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had long been a …
- … a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s …
- … in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle& …
- … issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission report was published …
- … The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John …
- … The 'insect eating theory' Throughout 1876, Darwin continued to receive responses …
- … published later that year and a German translation in 1876. ‘What is more to be wondered at—Nature …
- … an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 ). Others questioned whether insects …
- … eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 ). William Dallinger from Liverpool …
- … to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). Pangenesis v. perigenesis …
- … second edition of Variation was published in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date …
- … ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March 1876] ). A less welcome reaction came from an ardent …
- … previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September 1876] ). ...all sorts of …
- … later told Muller ( letter to Fritz Müller, [9 February 1876] ). Likewise, when Johann von Fischer …
- … ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before 15 September 1876] ). Hubert Airy’s latest paper on leaf …
- … of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). Darwin recognised scientific skill …
- … Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles, 16 …
- … it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 ). Darwin beat an angry retreat. He …
- … untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ). Darwin also had cause to …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project …
- … the self-fertilised’ ( To G. H. Darwin, 8 January [1876] ). George explained the difficulties of …
- … equal value.’ ( From G. H. Darwin, [after 8 January 1876] ). It was his cousin, the statistician …
- … introduction to the book ( To Francis Galton, 13 January [1876] ). Joseph Henry …
- … on yet another experimental aspect of his work. In February 1876, he wrote to the agricultural …
- … in a state of nature’ ( To J. H. Gilbert, 16 February 1876 ). Darwin wanted to try to remove all …
- … soil to remove nutrients ( From J. H. Gilbert, 4 March 1876 ). In June 1876, Darwin had supposedly …
- … samples differed ( To Edward Frankland, [before 6 June 1876] ). The project proved to be too …
- … am convinced that the book is of value’ By August 1876, the book had gone to press and …
- … shall ever do on this subject’ ( To Asa Gray, 9 August 1876 ). As Darwin began correcting …
- … I would suggest 1,500’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 16 September 1876 ). In the meantime, a happy event, the …
- … it too much for you’ ( To Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). Francis must have found some …
- … slightly modified’ ( To Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). Darwin continued to send work, …
- … & very useful’ ( To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876] ). At the end of September …
- … early in November’ ( To J. V. Carus, 27 September 1876 ). The title had now changed from that …
- … alone worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote …
- … Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). Gray was impatient for a copy …
- … had not yet been released ( From Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). Darwin sent the sheets, apologised …
- … that of almost anyone else’ ( To Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray reassured him, ‘I have as yet …
- … faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The book was published on 10 …
- … 6 or 700 would sell.’ ( To John Murray, 15 November 1876 ). In fact, Murray sold 1100 copies of …
- … for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). After reading the book, Hildebrand …
- … for further work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). Alphonse de Candolle noted the …
- … experiments ( From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876 ). One critical review came from Alfred …
- … yet been produced’ ( From A. R. Wallace, 13 December 1876 ). No reply to this letter has been …
Darwin's 1876 letters online
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Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. To mark the 211th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we have released online the transcripts and footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters written before…
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- … footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters …
- … was devoted to the means of crossing. The year 1876 started energetically, with Darwin …
- … of Variation under domestication appeared early in 1876. Reprints of Origin, Climbing plants …
- … in January 1877; Darwin had been working on it since May 1876. Work was probably a welcome …
- … letters written or conjectured to have been written before 1876, which have been discovered or …
- … to a span of years, but that were probably written before 1876. Many of these are from a recently …
From Argus pheasant to Mivart: To A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876
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This letter has almost everything you might want from a Darwin letter, and merits a correspondingly, magnificently complete set of notes provided by the Correspondence Project. First, the letter is to that other doyen of natural selection, Alfred Russel…
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- … records Darwin's views on the first volume of Wallace's 1876 book The geographical …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … Emma to a Sunday afternoon at the Leweses’ on 30 April 1876 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … hurrah, 2795 games. (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ) And an entry in Jane …
4.28 'English celebrities' montage
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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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 10439 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [3 April 1876] Mary Treat describes a field trip …
- … 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B . to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick asks …
- … Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis, …
- … Letter 10517 - Darwin t o Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis …
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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3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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- … Mark , published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured …
- … and continued collecting wild plants in the spring of 1876. The resulting observations would …
- … his observations. On 7 September 1876, Francis welcomed his son Bernard into the …
- … on the nature and function of aggregation. Francis’ 1876 paper on aggregation sought explicitly to …
- … protoplasm, rather than condensations of cell-sap (F. Darwin 1876, p. 312). Cohn’s comments on …
- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. Darwin, F. 1876. The Process of Aggregation in the …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … religious sect’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 June [1876] ). Experimenters and a portion of the …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
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- … Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis Darwin, 29 May 1876 Darwin writes to Francis to …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Letter 10523 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 June 1876] Darwin praises Treat’s work and …
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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- … THE OLDER ONE GETS THE MORE THERE IS TO DO: 1868-1876 In which the friends consider the …
- … 20 JULY 1857 45 A GRAY, PREFACE TO DARWINIANA, 1876 46 THE NICENE CREED, …
- … TO A GRAY, 22 MAY 1860 91 A GRAY, DARWINIANA, 1876 92 A GRAY, REVIEW OF …
- … TO JD HOOKER 1870 183 C DARWIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1876 184 A GRAY, PREFACE, …
- … GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST 1876 194 FROM A GRAY 25 …
- … JUNE 1874 203 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to Paris in 1889. …
- … and was sent back to Europe as a military attaché. Since 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the …
- … Kautschuk- und Leder-Industrie. 2 nd issue. Wien: Manz 1876. N.N.: GM Josef Edler von …
- … society Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … 10546 – Darwin to Editor of The Times , [23 June 1876] Darwin forwards to The …
Essays & reviews by Asa Gray
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Asa Gray wrote a series of reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. These gave publicity to Darwin’s theories, and they also contained extended reflections on the possible implications of these theories…
