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3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … in 1878. The latter date is accepted by Geoffrey Belknap and John van Wyhe, but, as explained above, …
- … Hibberd’s article, ‘Mr. Charles Darwin’, on pp. 477-8 (Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society) …
- … A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1915), vol. 2, p. 259. …
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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- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
- … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
- … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
- … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
- … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
- … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
- … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
- … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
- … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
- … Colburn, Henry (3) Colby, John (3) …
- … Colgate, Robert (1) Collier, John (2) …
- … Craig, J. S. (2) Crawfurd, John (3) …
- … Crick, W. D. (11) Crier, John (1) …
- … Davis, J. E. (1) Davy, John (6) …
- … Denny, Henry (13) Denny, John (6) …
- … Downie, Mr (1) Downing, John (3) …
- … Evans, E. G. (2) Evans, John (b) (3) …
- … Farn, A. B. (1) Farr, John (2) Farr, …
- … Fisher, J. F. (2) Fiske, John (14) …
- … Richard (1) Fordyce, John (2) Forel, …
- … Fox, H. S. (3) Fox, John & Sons (1) …
- … Gaertner, Albin (2) Gage, John (1) …
- … Gibbs, George (1) Gibbs, John (2) …
- … Lincecum, Gideon (2) Lindley, John (13) …
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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- … White’s regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindley’s introduction to the Nat System …
- … p. 29 [L. A. Necker 1823] read Lindleys Horticulture [Lindley 1840]— Chapter on Races …
- … Synonym of every plant & country— Recommended by Lindley— price about 36s.— Wiegmann. …
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … 1768] quoted in several places worth reading NB. Lindley says he will lend me Books out of …
- … Brazil [Gardner 1846] in Geolog Soc. 43 Lindley’s Vegetable Kingdom [Lindley 1846]. Hooker …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … says is victorious & decisive 72 Octob. 9 th Lindley’s Theory of Hort. [Lindley …
- … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor …
- … 1848] Madam Malguet [Torrens] 1848] —— Lives of John & Alex. Belthune [?Bethune 1840 and …
- … Ireland [Thompson 1849–56]. Vol. I. II & 3 May. St. John’s Tour in Sutherlandshire [Saint …
- … [Mauduyt 1851] Read Pamphlet in some periodical. (Lindley has) on transformation of Aegilops …
- … 171] Pagets Travels in Hungary & Transylvania [John Paget 1839]— account of Dogs like …
- … 1851?) must positively be read 96 Look over Lindley Vegetable Kingdom [Lindley 1846] …
- … Empire [Huc 1855] Feb 16 th Pagets Hungary [John Paget 1839] —— Bechsteins …
- … 23] 1858 Life of Montaigne by B. St. John [B. Saint John 1858].— Miss …
- … have reissued both parts in 1844. 39 John Lindley served as assistant secretary to …
- … list at the back of the notebook. 84 John Lindley described plant breeding …
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…
Orchids
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Why Orchids? Darwin wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…
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- … Darwin was ready to pitch this new study to his publisher, John Murray; after mentioning his …
- … had approached Lady Dorothy Nevill at the suggestion of John Lindley, the horticultural editor of …
- … instead of intensely admiring beautiful orchids. ’ Lindley provided Darwin with the name of another …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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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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- … to build a hothouse as well. He was persuaded to do so by John Horwood, the gardener of his …
- … with plants.— According to John Claudius Loudon’s Encyclopedia of gardening …
- … apparently refers to the catalogues of a local nurseryman, John Cattell of Westerham, with whom he …
- … a list that Darwin apparently drew up from the catalogue of John Cattell, from whom he had bought …
- … or orders listed. Corrected spellings are taken from Lindley 1853, Index Kewensis , the Gray …
- … London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, nurseryman …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Mentors Darwin's close relationship with John Stevens Henslow, the professor of botany …
- … he mentored. The first is between Darwin and his neighbour, John Lubbock and the second is between …
- … Letter 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he …
- … Letter 1720 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 19 [July 1855] Darwin congratulates Lubbock on …
- … Letter 1979 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 27 Oct [1856] Darwin provides detailed …
- … expert William Bernard Tegetmeier and the Scottish gardener John Scott, illustrate how the rigid …
- … him to publish in his journal. The debate about John Scott Letter 3800 — …
- … Letter 3805 — Darwin, C. R. to Scott, John, 12 Nov [1862] Darwin thanks Scott for bringing …
- … in the anthers. Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott …
- … to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332 ] and …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … presented in Origin . Having learned from his publisher John Murray in November 1860 that a new …
- … out for praise in 1861. He had been disappointed to learn of John Frederick William Herschel’s …
- … Moreover, Darwin found an important philosophical ally in John Stuart Mill. Through Henry Fawcett, a …
- … recommended that Bates offer the manuscript to the publisher John Murray with a view to obtaining …
- … consolation to his friend Hooker whose father-in-law, John Stevens Henslow, died after a brief …
- … to contribute to Leonard Jenyns’s Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (see Correspondence …
- … ). Later in the year, he went even further, writing to John Lindley on 17 October: ‘Orchids have …
- … volume that would reach a wider public. Having approached John Murray with some hesitation, and …
- … Erasmus. Late in May, Darwin’s young friend and neighbour, John Lubbock, a partner with his father …
- … any suitable south-coast introductions for William. Through John Bonham Carter, Darwin arranged for …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
- … Antoine de. A voyage round the world. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1772. ( …
- … Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert …
- … etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John. Travels in the interior of …
- … 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John. The narrative of the Honourable …
- … Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s …
- … 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. Meteorological essays and …
- … and western coasts of Australia. Fleming, John. The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. …
- … atlas. London, 1814. (DAR 30.1: 30v.). Forster, John Reinhold. Observations made during a …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages …
- … 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ Henslow, John Stevens. Geological description of …
- … essay on the kingdom of New Spain. Translated by John Black. 2 vols. New York, 1811. (Inscription, …
- … de. A voyage to South America . . . Translated by John Adams. 2 vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. …
- … (see Jones, T.)). Darwin Library–CUL †. * Mawe, John. Travels in the gold and diamond …
- … 3 vols. London, 1820. (DAR 32.1: 51v.). Michell, John. Conjectures concerning the cause . . …
- … notebook, p. 80). Darwin Library–CUL †. Miers, John. Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . …
- … 28 August 1834). Darwin Library–CUL †. Milton, John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , …
- … 1834’). Darwin Library–CUL ††. * Murray, Lindley. An English grammar. 2 vols. 5th ed. …
- … 1831’). Darwin Library–CUL †. § Narborough, John. An account of several late voyages. 2 …
- … Darwin Library–CUL, 4th ed., 1837. ‡ Playfair, John. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory …
- … 1821. (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin Library–CUL. Thompson, John Vaughan. Zoological researches and …
- … world in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 , in Hawkesworth, John An account of the voyages . . . …
- … , p. 20e). Hall, Basil. See below, Playfair, John. Humboldt, Alexander von. Tableaux …
- … refers to the author as ‘L. Jackson’). Playfair, John. Account of the structure of the table …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … of favoured races in the struggle for life . London: John Murray. Darwin, Charles. 1862. …
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing . London: John Murray. Darwin, Charles. 1865. …
- … Charles. 1875. Insectivorous plants . London: John Murray. Galetti, M. 2002. Seed …
- … American Entomologist 37: pp. 206-210 Lindley, John. 1853. The vegetable kingdom; or, the …
- … evils which it occasions. 6th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Nilsson, L. A. 1998. …
