From Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 3 January 1865
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Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4737 |
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- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey, 25 October …
- … Medal’. In his letter of 3 November 186[4] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Falconer wrote: ‘ …
- … written to CD in his letter of 2 December 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12) about the ‘small …
- … In the letter to William Sharpey, 25 October 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Falconer …
- … letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, 29 December 1864 , Royal Society, Misc. Mss. 19, no. 41). The address contained the remark that Origin had not been included among the grounds of the Copley award. A controversy arose over whether Sabine’s address had misrepresented the views of the Council (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
To Hugh Falconer 14 November [1862]
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Comments on HF’s paper on Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds. Paper "dreadfully severe" on Owen.
"I am worse than ever in bearing any excitement."
Glad HF attacked Australian Mastodon. Never did believe in him.
Mentions Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3806 |
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- … CD a copy of Falconer 1862 with his letter of 12 November [1862] ; it was published in …
- … by the relationship to the letter from Hugh Falconer, 12 November [1862] . Falconer …
- … See letter from Hugh Falconer, 12 November [1862] . Falconer had regretted not seeing CD …
- … see n. 8, above). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 [November 1862] and n. 12. …
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Summary
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 1845-7 or 1857-64 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2305 |
From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Summary
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
From Hugh Falconer to E. A. Darwin 5 January [1865]
Summary
HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4739 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
To Hugh Falconer [25–6 August 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.
Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.
Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [25–6 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4277 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Summary
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (5) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
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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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'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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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
