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Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil
  • and dedicated: ‘Dem Reformator der Naturgeschichte Charles Darwin’ (to the reformer of natural
  • of zoology students at Jena. On receiving the album, Darwin wrote to Haeckel: The album
  • have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 )     …
  • the right, and click on an entry to jump to the page. Darwins age was miscalculated by the
  • his 69th birthday, the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this
  • On reading about the album in the journal Nature , one of Darwin's oldest friends Leonard
  • first laid before the scientific world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) …
  • in. The comparative anatomist exchanged over 90 letters with Darwin and was Darwin's most vocal
  • Haeckel was not satisfied with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what
  • physicians, and philosophers some were known personally to Darwin through correspondence. Ludwig
  • … , Oskar Schmidt , and Fritz Schultze had all sent Darwin their works. Carl du Prel had
  • on his lectures on the theories of descent and selection. Darwin later praised the drawings in the
  • with his wife Carolina. Eduard Koch took over as Darwin's German publisher in 1867 and
  • …  sent his observations on orchids and the oxslip for Darwin's work on Forms of flowers .  …
  • Kosmos , a German journal of natural history founded in Darwin's and Haeckel's honour, …
  • Caspari and Gustav Jäger . Krause wrote an essay on Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, …
  • worth to give you ( Letter from JVCarus, 22 March 1877The professor of
  • scientific work. ( Letter from CGSemper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website.  The full texts
  • 27 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin , published by Cambridge
  • to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an
  • the sensitivity of the tips. Despite this breakthrough, when Darwin first mentioned the book to his
  • 1879 ). He was also unsatisfied with his account of Erasmus Darwin, declaring, ‘My little biography
  • a holiday in the Lake District in August did little to raise Darwins spirits. ‘I wish that my
  • W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26] July [1879] ). From July, Darwin had an additional worry: the
  • that his grandfather had felt the same way. In 1792, Erasmus Darwin had written: ‘The worst thing I
  • contained a warmer note and the promise of future happiness: Darwin learned he was to be visited by
  • Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). Seventy years old Darwins seventieth birthday on 12
  • the veteran of Modern Zoology’, but it was in Germany that Darwin was most fêted. A German
  • … ). The masters of Greiz College in Thuringia venerated Darwin asthe deep thinker’, while
  • Virchows attempt to discredit evolutionary theory in 1877, assured him that his views were now
  • Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin along and serene evening of life’. This
  • editor of the journal Kosmos , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal
  • on the theory of development in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel. Kosmos was, as
  • and particularly the theory of natural selection in 1877) had previously told Krause, ‘He is a very
  • itvery dull,—almost too dull to publish’, while Leonard Darwin considered that insufficient
  • … ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard Darwin, [before 12 July] 1879
  • Darwin found the innvery comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there
  • of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin recorded that Darwin found

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of
  • portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that Darwin undertook throughout his lifetime
  • was jokingly lamenting his role as an intermediary for Darwin and his correspondents from around the
  • of friends and relatives was not a pursuit unique to Darwin (the exchange of photographic images was
  • reinforced his experimental and scientific network. Darwins Portraits Darwin sat for
  • famous photographers to studio portraitists looking to sell Darwins image to the masses. Between
  • in nineteenth-century photography. Darwins first photo-chemical experience
  • This particular daguerreotype is unique in terms of Darwins collection of photographsit is the
  • exchanged, but rather was an object of display placed on a Darwin family mantlepiece. The image
  • Tommy. The man behind the camera was Darwins younger son, Leonard Darwin, who, six years later, …
  • ImageCharles Darwin on his horseTommy’, 1868, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:116, ©Cambridge University
  • and Fry return to make his  carte , he asked his son, Leonard, to produce a more private image. …
  • was also made as a memento for both Darwin and for Leonard. Leonard was soon to depart on his long
  • a postmans bag. ImageCharles Darwin, 1878, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:119, ©Cambridge
  • but well-kept garden. It was on this new veranda that Leonard took another portrait of his father, …
  • of  woodburytype  prints of famous Victorians made in 1877, which they printed and sold under the
  • sale in London photo shops. ImageCharles Darwin, 1877, Lock & Whitfield, NPG x5939, © …

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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  • Re: DesignAdaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and othersby Craig
  • as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of the Darwin Correspondence Project to be identified
  • correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring
  • Actor 1Asa Gray Actor 2Charles Darwin Actor 3In the dress of a modern day
  • Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of John Stuart Mill, Emma Darwin, Horace Darwinand acts as a sort
  • the play unfolds and acting as a go-between between Gray and Darwin, and between the audience and
  • this, he sends out copies of his Review of the Life of Darwin. At this time in his life, Asa
  • friends in England, copies of hisReview of the Life of Darwin’… pencilling the address so that it
  • Joseph D Hooker GRAY:   3   Charles Darwinmade his home on the border of the little
  • are kept in check by a constitutional weakness. DARWIN: A plain but comfortable brick
  • by every blessing except that of vigorous healthDARWIN4   My confounded stomach
  • pursuits and the simplicity of his character. DARWIN:   5   I am allowed to work now
  • own house, where he was the most charming of hosts. DARWIN:   6   My life goes on
  • being a part of [an unpublished] manuscript. Darwin settles down to write. His tone is
  • THE CONCURRENCE OF BOTANISTS: 1855 In which Darwin initiates a long-running correspondence
  • gossip about difficult colleagues (Agassiz). Gray realizes Darwin is not revealing all of his
  • man, more formally attired and lighter on his feet than Darwin. He has many more demands on his time
  • catches his attention. He opens the letter. DARWIN8   April 25 th 1855. My
  • filled up the paper you sent me as well as I could. DARWIN10   My dear Dr Gray. I
  • is condensed in that little sheet of note-paper! DARWIN11   My dear HookerWhat
  • surprising good. GRAY:   12   My dear Mr Darwin, I rejoice in furnishing facts to
  • of the sort to the advancement of scienceDARWIN13   I hopebefore [the] end of
  • reasonably expectYours most sincerely Asa Gray. DARWIN16   My dear GrayYour
  • Journal, as a nut for [Professor] Agassiz to crack. Darwin and Gray share a joke at the
  • In which Gray, while continuing to provide stamps for Leonard Darwins collection, fails to be
  • 1868 or 1869 190  C DARWIN TO A GRAY 8 MARCH 1877 191 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH, …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • … List of people appearing in the  photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in …
  • … and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date …
  • … Leiden 13 June 1823 Rotterdam 2 June 1877 Zoeterwoude …
  • … Died just a few months after the album was sent to Charles Darwin at the age of 53 …
  • … Geologist, Economist an Darwinist. Corresponded with Darwin and translated The descent of Man in …
  • … 112 Kerkwijk L.C. van (Leonard Constantijn) Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal …
  • … 5 October 1808 Wildenborch 4 June 1877 Klein Dochteren …
  • … 212 Dudok de Wit L.C. (Leonard Corneille)     Amsterdam …

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…

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  • heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old
  • to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwins work for the boundary between animals
  • studies of animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwins early observations of infants, …
  • of evolution and creation. Many letters flowed between Darwin and his children, as he took delight
  • Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension
  • with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. …
  • Charles Harrison Tindal, sent a cache of letters from two of Darwins grandfathers clerical friends
  • divines to see a pigs body opened is very amusing’, Darwin replied, ‘& that about my
  • registry offices, and produced a twenty-page history of the Darwin family reaching back to the
  • the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwins sons George and Leonard also
  • and conciliate a few whose ancestors had not featured in Darwins Life . ‘In an endeavour to
  • think I must pay a round of visits.’ One cousin, Reginald Darwin, warmed to George: ‘he had been
  • an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, 22 July
  • whose essay on Erasmuss scientific work complemented Darwins biographical piece. Krauses essay
  • Kosmos in February 1879, an issue produced in honour of Darwins birthday. Krause enlarged and
  • superficial and inaccurate piece of work’, although Darwin advised him not toexpend much powder
  • in the last sentence. When Butler read Erasmus Darwin , he noted the reference to his work, and
  • the position I have taken as regards D r Erasmus Darwin in my book Evolution old & New, and
  • the genus given by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 201). ‘I

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … list of people that appeared in the  photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 …
  • … Title and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date of birth …
  • … Leiden 13 june 1823 Rotterdam 2 june 1877 Zoeterwoude …
  • … 112 Kerkwijk L.C. van (Leonard Constantijn) Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal …
  • … 5 october 1808 Wildenborch 4 june 1877 Klein Dochteren …
  • … 212 Dudok de Wit L.C. (Leonard Corneille)     Amsterdam …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • Charles Darwins observations on the development of his children,[1began the
  • sketch of an infant’, published in  Mind  in 1877.[2The full text of the notebook is available
  • lunatics, the blind, and animals. And as early as 1839 Darwin had begun to collect information on
  • the expression of emotions. As the following transcript of Darwins notes reveals, he closely
  • William Erasmus, the stages of his development suggesting to Darwin those expressions which are
  • The tone of the manuscript reflects an aspect of Darwins character clearly perceived by Emma during
  • … “What does that prove”.’[6For in these notes, Darwins deep scientific curiosity transcends his
  • that on occasion he refers to William asit’. Darwin possessed the ability to dissociate
  • memories.[8Yet, though the dissociation was essential for Darwins scientific goal, the notes here
  • the record breaks off until January 1852, by which time the Darwin family had increased by five: …
  • the onset of frowning, smiling, etc., as was the focus of Darwins attention on William and Anne, …
  • of logical thought and language. On 20 May 1854, Darwin again took over the notebook and, …
  • all the notes until July 1856, when the observations ceased. Darwins later entries, like Emmas, …
  • Transcription: 1 [9W. Erasmus. Darwin born. Dec. 27 th . 1839.—[10During first week. …
  • written in pencil by CD and subsequently overwritten by Emma Darwin. The transcription throughout
  • … [15] ‘Annie . . . fortnightwas written by Emma Darwin on the verso of page 3 and opposite the
  • The name and address of a Mrs Locke are noted in Emma Darwins 1843 diary. [16The following
  • pencil) by Emma Darwin must have been added on 19 January 1877, when Francis Darwins son Bernard
  • and family memoirs and reminiscences. [61Leonard Darwin, born 1850. [62Francis
  • of her childhood, Henrietta Litchfield remembered Leonard Darwin saying this to their maid Jane and
  • CUL). [71Horace Darwin, born 1851. [72Leonard Darwins nickname. [73Miss

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • Editions Plants always held an important place in Darwins theorising about species, and
  • his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close friend
  • way to continuous writing and revision, activities that Darwin found less gratifying: ‘I am slaving
  • bad.’ The process was compounded by the fact that Darwin was also revising another manuscript
  • coloured stamens.’ At intervals during the year, Darwin was diverted from the onerous task of
  • zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and early May, Darwin was occupied with a heated
  • chapter of the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwins son George, in an anonymous
  • on 12 January , breaking off all future communication. Darwin had been supported during the affair
  • Society of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwins friends had to find ways of
  • pp. 1617). ‘How grandly you have defended me’, Darwin wrote on 6 January , ‘You have also
  • in public. ‘Without cutting him direct’, he advised Darwin on 7 January , ‘I should avoid him, …
  • … & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered taking up
  • … , ‘I feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwins ire was not fully spent, however, …
  • in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. Darwin raised the matter at the end of the
  • to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a memorial
  • Hensleigh and Frances Wedgwood. She had corresponded with Darwin about the evolution of the moral
  • could not sign the paper sent me by Miss Cobbe.’ Darwin found Cobbes memorial inflammatory
  • memorial had been read in the House of Lords (see ' Darwin and vivisection ').   …
  • medical educators, and other interested parties. Darwin was summoned to testify on 3 November. It
  • … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. 183). Darwin learned of Kleins testimony
  • agree to any law, which should send him to the treadmill.’ Darwin had become acquainted with Klein
  • am astounded & disgusted at what you say about Klein,’ Darwin replied to Huxley on 1 November
  • the man.’   Poisons, plants, and print-runs Darwins keen interest in the progress of
  • leading physiologists. Indeed, some of the experiments that Darwin performed on plants, such as the
  • were involved in the launch of Kosmos in April 1877. From Haeckel, Darwin received a copy of a
  • was great’, Henrietta Emma Litchfield wrote to her brother Leonard on 14 September, ‘& special