To Ernst Haeckel 23 June [1870]
Summary
Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].
Mentions his own book [Descent].
Visit by Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 23 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7241 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Albert von Kölliker visited CD with Albert Günther on 15 April 1870 ( letter from Albert …
- … Günther 12 April 1870 ; letter from J. V. Carus, 16 April [1870] ). …
- … 1870 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD refers to his manuscript for Descent . He referred to the second edition of Haeckel’s Natürliche Schopfungsgeschichte in Descent 1: 4. In Descent 1: 4, CD wrote that if Haeckel’s Natürliche Schopfungsgeschichte ( Haeckel 1868 ) had appeared before his essay had been written, he would probably not have completed it, and that all his conclusions had been confirmed by Haeckel. Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( Haeckel 1866 ) has not been translated into English to date. See also Correspondence vol. 16, letter …
From J. J. Weir 4 July 1870
Summary
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter from J. J. Weir, 27 June 1870 and letter to J. J. …
- … Weir, 27 June 1870 and letter to J. J. …
- … J. Weir, 27 June 1870 . Weir had suffered blood poisoning (see letter from J. J. Weir, …
- … Weir, 29 June [1870] . See letter from J. J. …
- … 1870] . Weir’s brother was Harrison Weir. His gardener has not been identified. See letter …
To W. W. Reade 30 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7255 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … CD sent the manuscript of Descent to the printers in August 1870 ( letter to John …
- … this letter and the letter from W. W. Reade, 4 June 1870 . See letter from W. W. …
- … Reade, [ c. 8 or 9 April 1870]. See letter from W. W. Reade, 4 June 1870 . …
- … in Expression , pp. 143–4. See letter from W. W. Reade, 4 June 1870 and n. 7. …
- … sketch-book in 1873 ( Reade 1873 ). See letter from W. W. Reade, 4 June 1870 and n. 4. …
- … 1870] and n. 7, and 4 June 1870 and n. 14. The letter in which CD asked Reade about …
- … 1870] ). Expression was published in November 1872 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (DAR 158)). See letters …
To J. V. Carus 18 August 1870
Summary
Has just sent MS of Descent to printers. Recognises that [because of Franco-Prussian War] the publisher will have given up idea of a German translation.
Though the war is a misfortune for science, CD rejoices at the wonderful success of Germany; has met no one who does not share this feeling.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 60–61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7305 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … been sent to the printers, William Clowes & Sons , on 9 August 1870 (see letter from John …
- … Murray, 6 August [1870] , and letter to Mr …
- … Dorrell, 9 August 1870 ; see also letter to J. J. Moulinié, 18 …
- … to J. J. Moulinié, 18 August 1870 . See letter to Mr Dorrell, 9 August 1870 , and n. 2. …
- … 1870 ( Wawro 2003 , p. 65). The publishing firm E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung, headed by Eduard Koch , published the German translation of Descent in 1871 (Carus trans. 1871). See also letter …
To William Ogle 13 April [1871]
Summary
Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7679 |
From John Murray 10 October [1870]
Summary
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7339 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … see letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 , and letter from John Murray, 28 September [ …
- … a translation of Descent in a letter of 13 September 1870 (National Library of Scotland, …
- … this letter and the letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] . Murray had written to …
- … proof-sheets of Descent , see the letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] and n. …
- … 7; see also the letter to John Murray, 29 September [1870] . CD wrote Descent 2: 345 n. …
- … William Clowes & Sons . See letter to John Murray, 26 September 1870 . CD had promised the …
- … of the woodcuts (see letter to John Murray, 29 September [1870] and n. 3). Hendrik …
To J. D. Hooker [13 June 1870?]
Summary
Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7210 |
To William Ogle 17 November [1870]
Summary
Thanks WO for information on platysma, which he did not know could be brought into voluntary action. Is coming to believe it has nothing to do with expression.
On the relation between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants, CD suggests WO send his paper to J. Wyman and propose he investigate whether white as well as black pigs will eat paint-root.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 4 (EH 88205902) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7373 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 303. See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 , and letter to James Crichton- …
- … the platysma myoides muscle in his letter of 9 November 1870 . Some of what Ogle wrote …
- … now missing portion of his letter of [10–17 November 1870] . See Expression , pp. 298– …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 . CD had …
- … 4, and letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 . CD had given information from Jeffries …
- … Browne, 8 June 1869 . See letter from William Ogle, [before 9 November 1870] and n. …
- … Expression. , p. 299). See letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 and n. 5. CD refers …
- … 1870 . CD refers to Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne , and photographs in Duchenne 1862 . There is an annotated copy of Duchenne 1862 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 209–10). See also Correspondence vol. 17, letter …
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … n. 5). CD sent the manuscript of Descent to the printers in August 1870 ( letter to John …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). …
- … Villas | Folkestone Aug 2 1870 My dear M r Darwin Your letter was forwarded to me here. I …
- … 1870] ). ‘Sal volatile’ is ammonium carbonate, often used as a smelling salt or internally as an antacid. CD took this on the advice of a former doctor of his, William Jenner (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
From F. E. Abbot 1 November 1871
Summary
For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;
pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.
Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8043 |
To Francis Galton [27 April 1870?]
Summary
Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [27 Apr 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A16v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7176 |
To H. E. Darwin [March] 1870
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [Mar] 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7123 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] , and letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
- … the letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] , and the letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … 1870] (DAR 219.9: 82), in which Emma asks Henrietta to write when she receives a manuscript. This manuscript was presumably that of the chapter or chapters of Descent following those on the mental powers of humans and animals. CD had asked Henrietta, who was travelling in France and Italy, to read the manuscript of Descent ; see letter …
To John Lubbock 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7286 |
From William Ogle [10–17 November 1870]
Summary
Relates instances of rabbits suffering from a condition which affects only the patches of white on their fur.
Will make observations on the platysma for CD.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10–17 Nov 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7365 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Ogle, 9 November 1870 See letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 and n. …
- … pp. 298–303. Variation. Jeffries Wyman . See letter to William Ogle, 17 November [1870] . …
- … 17 November [1870] . Letter to William …
- … relationship between this letter and the letters to William Ogle , 9 November 1870 and …
- … 3. See letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 , and Ogle 1870a , p. 283 n. 1. The …
From T. H. Farrer 5 June 1870
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7219 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870]
Summary
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [8 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7124 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Descent at least since she left England in January 1870 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … E. Darwin, [18 January 1870] (DAR 219.9: 69)). With this letter CD had presumably sent …
- … 8 February 1870] (DAR 219.9: 72), in which Emma says she is enclosing a letter from CD. …
- … France and Italy (see letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] and n. 10). She had also …
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
To H. H. Vivian 11 May [1870]
Summary
Thanks for HHV’s interest in the census [CD’s plan to add questions on consanguineous marriage to the census] on which CD hopes to persuade Sir J. Lubbock to speak.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 May [1870] |
Classmark: | Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 12: A0444 S12450012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7183 |
To Frederick Bates 19 June [1868?]
Summary
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
Date: | 19 June [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787A |
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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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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
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…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
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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- … Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 …
Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … Earthworms featured in the news announcement in May 2014 that a citizen science project had …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by …
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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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
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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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
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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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings In Descent of Man , Darwin argued that human …