To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
From T. W. Woodbury 17 March 1863
Summary
Bee species of different sizes build cells the same size.
| Author: | Thomas White Woodbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4049 |
To T. W. Woodbury [after 17 March 1863]
Summary
Thanks for the artificial comb.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
| Date: | [after 17 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | International Bee Research Association, Eva Crane Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4050 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [17–24 March 1863]
Summary
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [17–24 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4069 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (2) |
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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4.52 'Wasp' caricature
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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…
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- … 8:302 (12 May 1882), pp. 291, 299; 8:303 (19 May 1882), p. 317; 8:310 (7 July 1882), p. 419. These …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003), pp. 26, 291–2, 317. Browne, ‘Looking at Darwin: portraits and the …
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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- … genius…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 316 – 317. 4) “Difference in the Mental Powers …
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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- … between the child and the man” ( Descent 2: 317). Darwin believed, however, that although women …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James. …
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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- … 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] Moores …
