From G. H. Darwin [24 October 1874 or later]
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Discusses the conduction of heat in crystals and fibrous bodies.
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
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| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9211 |
From J. D. Hooker [1874?]
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
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| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9212 |
From [T. H. Maxwell] to G. H. Darwin [22 January 1874]
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Gives title, Stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings, Macmillan, 1859.
M. Hern[?], of thermodynamics fame, has recently published a memoir.
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | APSQQQQ |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9252F |
From John Wright to George Cupples 18 February 1874
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
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| Classmark: | DAR 90: 107–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9301 |
From G. W. Hickman to G. Cupples 19 February 1874
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 111–113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9303 |
To J. S. B. Sanderson [after 12 May 1874]
| Author: | unknown |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | 12 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9457 |
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< 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…
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…
Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … you have communicated to the learned societies but which is unknown and inaccessible to us unless …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … specimens from Germany: ‘As my name will probably be unknown to you, I may mention, as a proof that …
- … father confessor. ( Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 .) Darwin’s fame continued …
- … world, the sorrowful utterance of an insignificant and unknown woman, but let it be like a little …
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…
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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…
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
