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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. …
'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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- … 29 September [1863], and 8 December [1863]). Emma sent a copy to the Bromley Record , which …
- … ( Bromley Record , 1 September 1863, p. 168). In addition, a version of the pamphlet was published …
- … The Darwins’ 'Appeal' appears to have been inspired by a series of letters published in …
- … William Howitt, drew attention to the scale of trapping on a game-preserving estate in North Wales, …
- … distributed the 'Appeal' to their own acquaintances, and to 'a good many persons …
- … Fox, [29 September 1863]). Several responses suggested that a prize should be offered for a humane …
- … account book (Down House MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s. 6 d. for …
- … however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, intensely interested …
- … Committee' (p. 32). Sufficient funds were raised to fund a £50 prize for the design of a trap …
- … through his regular columns in the Field newspaper, was a prominent supporter of the campaign. …
- … an optimistic start, the competition failed to produce a design that was portable, cheap, and …
- … and prominently linked Charles Darwin"s name to the offer of a prize for a humane trap ( …
- … of the steel trap was defended by other game preservers as a practical necessity, and some …
- … p. 75). Under these circumstances, Emma was prompted to make a further public appeal against the use …
- … the suffering of animals is recorded in his autobiography, a sensitivity he attributed to the …
- … took pains to prevent cruelty to domestic animals, reporting a neighbouring farmer to the RSPCA in …
- … game-birds (Carr 1981, pp. 475–6, Mackenzie 1988, p. 18, Allen 1994, p. 127.). The transformation …
- … of wild birds by sportsmen (Sheail 1976, pp. 22–7, Allen 1994, p. 177), and which some scholars have …
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< 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…
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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- … races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual …
- … in effect separate species), and the fixity of racial types. A leading factor in disputes about …
- … the dispute between monogenists and polygenists would ‘die a silent and unobserved death’ when …
- … white supremacist contemporaries, he nonetheless clung to a single scale of civilisation on which …
- … Gaika as an authoritative observer in Expression . He had a number of women correspondents who …
- … and James Moore. 2009. Darwin's sacred cause . London: Allen Lane. Dubow, Saul. 1995. …
- … British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of Darwin: race, …
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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- … the transcript) and the non-scientific on the right (labelled ‘b’). He continued this separation of …
- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon Suites …
- … to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … 1839–41]— in Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm …
- … Domestic Improvement ] Loudons. Journal of Nat Hist Z & B [ Magazine of Natural History …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature …
- … Playfair 1824] Hume’s Essay [?Hume 1741–2] J. Taylor Art of Dying [J. Taylor 1651] …
- … Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s …
- … of Birds from distant countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc …
- … 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. …
- … 1766]. good Bas. Montagu’s Select from old Divines [B. Montagu 1805] [DAR 119: 10a] …
- … th Kings & Lay’s Missionary Voyage [King and Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell …
- … Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen. 4 vols. Leipzig. [Darwin …
- … Bernier, François. 1826. Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656–1668 . Translated by Irving …
- … Bethune, John. 1840. Poems by the late John Bethune; with a sketch of the author’s life by his …
- … eds.] 119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838. A treatise on sheep; with the best means …
- … Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. 1824. Canine pathology; or, a full description of the diseases of …
- … ——. 1840. An encyclopædia of rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical, …
- … 1844. Algeria, past and present. Containing a description of the country … with a review of …
- … Artaud. 2 vols. Metz. 128: 24 ——. 1807. A short system of comparative anatomy . …
- … 1794–6. Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds . 2 …
- … 5 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Thompson, Allen. 1839. Generation. In vol. 2, pp. …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … homeland by Robert FitzRoy several years earlier as part of a missionary enterprise. Darwin was …
- … In his private notebooks, he modeled evolution after a tree of life or coral that was " …
- … toward increased complexity and variety, he suggested, was a bi-product of the abundance of life; …
- … the dispute between monogenists and polygenists will "die a silent and unobserved death" …
- … moral powers. The "grade of civilization", he wrote, "seems a most important element …
- … shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery.— What a proud thing for England, if she is the …
- … be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the Negros …
- … have remained unaltered for say 5000 years—is not this a very strong argument for the Polygenist? …
- … questionnaire on expression in the Cape Colony, and received a set of replies from the South African …
- … ... is almost purely an appeal to the emotions, & the longer a Kafir has been on a Mission …
- … of Species , Darwin discussed his views on progress in a letter to Charles Lyell, insisting that …
- … ...implies no necessary tendency to progression. A monad, if no deviation in its structure …
- … Silurian age to present day. I grant there will generally be a tendency to advance in complexity of …
- … very simple conditions it would be slight & slow. How could a complex organisation profit a …
- … I rather hail Wallace’s suggestion that there may be a Supreme Will & Power which may not …
- … error but certainly with profound conviction, I am a teleologist. I believe that the rational …
- … Primary Charles Darwin, Notebooks, B 18-29; E 95-7 [ available at Darwinonline ] …
- … Desmond and James Moore, Darwin's Sacred Cause . London: Allen Lane, 2009. Mary …
