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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,…

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  • … William (2) Aitken, Thomas (1) …
  • … Allen, John (1) Allen, Thomas (2) …
  • … Bell, Robert (b) (2) Bell, Thomas (2) …
  • … Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas (1) …
  • … Blow, T. B. (1) Blunt, Thomas (2) …
  • … Brace, C. L. (5) Bradfield, Thomas (2) …
  • … Brewer, T. M. (1) Bridges, Thomas (b) (2) …
  • … British Museum (1) Brittain, Thomas (2) …
  • … Burgers, T. F. (2) Burgess, Thomas (3) …
  • … Anthony (2) Carlyle, Thomas (1) …
  • … Church, G. (1) Churton, Thomas (1) …
  • … Colvile, J. W. (1) Comber, Thomas (1) …
  • … Auguste (2) Davidson, Thomas (6) …
  • … Druce, G. C. (1) Druitt, Thomas (3) …
  • … [–] von (1) Glover, Thomas (1) …
  • … Grece, C. J. (2) Green, Thomas (1) …
  • … Grey, George (3) Grey, Thomas de (1) …
  • … Gurney, J. H. (1) Guthrie, Thomas (1) …
  • … Howell, W. G. (1) Howie, Thomas (1) …
  • … Hutton, Robert (2) Hutton, Thomas (1) …
  • … William (1) Laxton, Thomas (3) …
  • … Masters, William (3) Maston, Thomas (1) …
  • … Frigyes (1) Meehan, Thomas (12) …
  • … Society (5) Palmer, Thomas (1) …
  • … Rimpau, Wilhelm (3) Rivers, Thomas (31) …
  • … Salt, G. M. (3) Salt, Thomas (15) …
  • … Scudder, S. H. (1) Seare, Thomas (1) …
  • … T. A. B. (1) Spring Rice, Thomas (2) …
  • … Stanley, M. C. (10) Stanley, Thomas (1) …

Casting about: Darwin on worms

Summary

Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…

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  • … that this negative evidence was also valuable to Darwin. Thomas Henry Farrer , permanent …
  • … when Lucy reported her results she referred to having used a blunt wire . After a while, looking …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to pass on a questionnaire to …
  • … his niece, Lucy, to probe wormholes on steep slopes with blunt knitting needles. Letter …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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  • … also continued: Darwin’s own works expanded on it, Thomas Henry Huxley gave lectures about it, and …
  • … matters were still greatly valued by those who were. Thomas Francis Jamieson, whose work on the so …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

Summary

'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … good wishes Mivart enclosed a copy of an article replying to Thomas Henry Huxley’s scathing review …
  • … to dinner the following week together with the sculptor Thomas Woolner.  The difficulty of getting …
  • … the previous year, was now asked to try `with straight blunt knitting needle’ ( letter to L. C. …
  • … 23 December 1872, CD note ), and he exclaimed to Thomas Huxley that he would like a society formed, …
  • … a letter that rivals Darwin’s own in wit and warmth, and Thomas Huxley proudly signed himself, `One …
  • … sought out old schoolfriends such as the ornithologist Thomas Campbell Eyton. Admiral Sulivan sent …