From Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
| Author: | Sigmund Fuchs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1877–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10336 |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
| Date: | [1877–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
From Adolphe de Stillfried [1877?]
Summary
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
| Author: | Adolphe de Stillfried |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 257 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10744 |
To [E. M. Dicey?] [1877]
Summary
Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
| Date: | [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10746 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [early 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Summary
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
| Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Summary
Would like Price’s address.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From Arthur Mellersh 1 January 1877
Summary
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
| Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
To the Post Office Savings Bank 1 January [1877?]
Summary
Asks to have some funds of the Down Friendly Society transferred.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12967 |
From Marcellin de Bonnal [1877]
Summary
Asks CD why some living forms have evolved and others have not.
| Author: | Antoine-Marcellin (Marcellin) de Bonnal |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13779 |
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bonnal, Marcellin de | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Fuchs, Sigmund | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
| Fuchs, Sigmund | (1) |
| Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Bonnal, Marcellin de | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
| Fuchs, Sigmund | (2) |
| Hyatt, Alpheus | (1) |
| Mellersh, Arthur | (1) |
| Post Office Savings Bank | (1) |
| Stillfried, Adolphe de | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
Summary
< 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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- … Rigby Eastlake, ‘Photography’, Quarterly Review , 101 (April 1857), 2 parts, part 2, pp. 442–468. …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010), pp. 92, 101. …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … collections of the period, for example in albums 40 and 101 in the National Portrait Gallery. An …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
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- … ‘Annus mirabilis’, The Graphic (23 Jan. 1909), p. 101. A.C. Seward (ed.), Darwin and Modern …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
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…
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- … virtue yet attained by ‘man’ (see Descent , pp. 75-7, 101). In his autobiographical memoir, he …
Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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- … Letters about preparing for an unrealised, research trip to the Canary Islands before Darwin was …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … Classed account books (Down House MS)). In Descent 1: 101, he argued that sympathy for animals …
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…
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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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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- … 18 october 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F.J.J. …
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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- … October 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F …
