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List of correspondents

Summary

Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

Matches: 20 hits

  • … (12) Agassiz, Louis (10) Agent for Mr Allen …
  • … Arruda Furtado, Francisco d’ (10) Ashburner, Lionel (1) …
  • … (1) Babbage, Charles (10) Babington, C. C. …
  • … (1) Covington, Syms (10) Cowper-Temple, W. F. …
  • … (9) Errera, L. A. (10) Erskine, H. N. B. …
  • … (13) Forbes, Edward (10) Forbes, J. D. …
  • … François de Chaumont, F. S. B. (10) Fraser, George (3) …
  • … (1) Gosse, P. H. (10) Goubert, E. M. J. M. P. …
  • … (1) Harcourt, E. W. V. (10) Hardwicke’s …
  • … (1) Leighton, W. A. (10) Leng, H. H. …
  • … (60) Litchfield, R. B. (10) Literary Fund …
  • … Meitzen, August (1) Meldola, Raphael (74) …
  • … (1) Miller, W. H. (10) Milne Home, David …
  • … (7) Reeks, Henry (10) Reeks, Trenham …
  • … (5) Reuter, Adolf (10) Reviewer (1) …
  • … (1) Stanley, M. C. (10) Stanley, Thomas …
  • … (14) Wedgwood, F. J. (10) Wedgwood, F. M. …
  • … (72) Weismann, August (10) Weisz, Béla …
  • … (4) Westwood, J. O. (10) Wetherell, N. T. …
  • … (1) Wollaston, T. V. (10) Wolstenholme, Joseph …

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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  • … interesting to the public’ ( letter to Reginald Darwin, 10 April [1879] ). However, even members …
  • … he disagreed with Henrietta, or that Krause had written on 10 July to say that he had derived …
  • … & experiment’ ( letter from J. F. Moulton, 10 December 1879 ). In reply to Darwin’s response …
  • … mimicry) that Darwin said was quite new to him ( letter to Raphael Meldola, 6 June [1879] ). In …
  • … Leopold Würtenberger fared better. When he wrote on 10 January to ask whether Darwin could find him …

2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

Summary

< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … in the famous BAAS meeting of 1860. After Hooker had spoken, Raphael Meldola and the anthropologist …
  • … Letter from William Darwin to his father Charles Darwin, 10 July [1878], in The Correspondence of …
  • … Box 1, HM 1874–1902. Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896–1897] from Burdon Sanderson to Tylor, …