To Arnold Dodel 23 December 1874
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Thanks AD-P for sending his work, not yet received, on evolution [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9775 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel, Arnold. 1875. Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte nach dem gegenwärtigen …
From Arnold Dodel 13 December 1874
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Describes his university lectures on evolution and their publication in a book [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9756 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel, Arnold. 1875. Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte nach dem gegenwärtigen …
From Arnold Dodel-Port 18 June 1878
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Comments on positive response to publication [of Atlas]. CD’s approval will help make an English edition possible. Rejects suggestion that CD should subscribe.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11558 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
From Arnold Dodel 6 July 1875
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Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.
Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.
Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".
Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.
Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10045 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Arnold Dodel-Port 20 February 1877
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Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10856 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel-Port, Arnold. 1877. Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und …
To Arnold Dodel 27 December 1874
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Thanks AD-P for the copy of his work [see 9756].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9786 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel, Arnold. 1875. Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte nach dem gegenwärtigen …
To Arnold Dodel-Port 12 February 1879
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Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11877 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel-Port, Arnold and Dodel-Port, Carolina. 1878[–83]. Anatomisch- …
From Arnold Dodel-Port 3 July 1877
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Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11032 |
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- … Bibliography Cohn, Ferdinand Julius. 1856. Beobachtungen über den Bau und die …
To Arnold Dodel-Port 15 June 1878
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Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 15 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11554 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel-Port, Arnold and Dodel-Port, Carolina. 1880–3. Handbook to … …
From Arnold Dodel-Port 12 June 1878
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Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11552 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port 8 December 1880
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Have received Movement in plants. It will interest not only botanists but zoologists and biologists.
Ten years ago AD-P encountered great opposition when he started teaching Darwinism at Zurich. Now all except old Oswald Heer call themselves Darwinists.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port; Carolina Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12898 |
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- … Bibliography Dodel-Port, Arnold and Dodel-Port, Carolina. 1878[–83]. Anatomisch- …
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Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
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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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
