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List of correspondents

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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,…

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  • Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • Abbot, F. E. (17) Abernethy, J. W. (1) …
  • dei Lincei (1) Acland, C. L. (1) …
  • Maurice (3) Albrecht, R. F. (3) …
  • Alice (2) Alison, R. E. (2) Allen, …
  • Allen, Grant (13) Allen, J. A. (b) (1) …
  • Allen, Thomas (2) Allman, G. J. (4) …
  • James (1) Anderson, James (c) (3) …
  • Ansell, G. F. (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) …
  • … (2) Arruda Furtado, Francisco d’ (10) …
  • Athenæum (11) Atkin, J. R. (1) …
  • Baker, A. F. (1) Bakewell, R. H. (1) …
  • K. S. (1) Barr, J. G. R. (1) …
  • J. H. (2) Bartlett, A. D. (15) …
  • Brooks, W. C. (1) Brown, D. J. (1) …
  • Dudley (1) Campbell, G. D. (3) Canby
  • … & Galpin (1) Caton, J. D. (9) …
  • Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
  • Hagenauer, F. A. (1) Hague, J. D. (5) …

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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  • … list of people that appeared in the  photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 …
  • … (Theodorus Elias) Lecturer in the Mathematics at the Hague High Burghal School   …
  • … 57 Dirksen H.J.  Lecturer at the Hague High Burghal School   …
  • … Dr. Eduart Lecturer on Natural History at the Hague High Burghal School   …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

Summary

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.…

Matches: 7 hits

  • … List of people appearing in the  photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in …
  • … Died just a few months after the album was sent to Charles Darwin at the age of 53 …
  • … (Theodorus Elias) Lecturer in Mathematics at the Hague High Burghal School   …
  • … 57 Dirksen H.J.  Lecturer at the Hague High Burghal School   …
  • … Dr. Eduart Lecturer on Natural History at the Hague High Burghal School   …
  • … Geologist, Economist an Darwinist. Corresponded with Darwin and translated The descent of Man in …
  • … 132 Maitland R.T. (Robert Thomas) Director of the Hague Royal Zoological …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost
  • … (1875) and  Cross and self fertilisation  (1876). Darwins son Francis became increasingly
  • career to become his fathers scientific secretary. Darwin had always relied on assistance from
  • Franciss decision. A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response
  • the previous year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, …
  • some of which were incorporated in a later edition. Darwin also contributed to discussions in the
  • Francis Galtons work on inherited talent, which prompted Darwin to reflect on the traits and
  • Station at Naples. Plants that eat and feel? Darwin had resumed experiments on the
  • to observe, which I ought to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ).  …
  • and alkaloids, and even electrical stimulation. On sending Darwin a specimen of the carnivorous  …
  • wicked will on itroot leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). …
  • without instruction or previously acquired knowledge” (A. R. Wallace 1870, p. 204). Moggridge
  • could be transmitted to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February 1873 ). …
  • forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James Duncan Hague, who had observed a column of the
  • friendbut he is a deal too sharp” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 April 1873] ). A group
  • forced him to take periodic breaks from work ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1873] ). They
  • new facts which I have to compare & judge of” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 December [1873] ). …
  • believes whether or not they are sound” ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 November 1873 ). But no
  • intellect; but man can do his duty” ( letter to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 ). Darwins
  • exact accordance with natural selection” ( letter from M. D. Conway, 10 September [1873] ). …
  • unorthodoxy, troubling and potentially undermining (J. R. Moore 1985, pp. 4712). A courted
  • a personification of Natural Filosofy” ( letter from J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, 18 March 1873