From Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther to S. P. Woodward 14 June 1861
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 14 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3605 |
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- … Bibliography Gesner, Konrad. 1558. De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Vol. 4 of …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From S. P. Woodward 5 June 1863
Summary
Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4204 |
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- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To S. P. Woodward 3 March [1851]
Summary
Cirripede fossil specimens returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 Mar [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1392 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To S. P. Woodward 21 March [1850]
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Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]
Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 21 Mar [1850] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1314 |
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- … Bibliography Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. …
To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851]
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Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13807 |
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- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
To S. P. Woodward 6 May 1854
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CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 May 1854 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1570 |
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- … Bibliography British Museum (Natural History). 1910. Memorials of Charles Darwin: a …
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
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SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
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- … Bibliography DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney …
From S. P. Woodward 2 May 1856
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Proportion of molluscan species to genera in various periods. The difficulty of determining species increases with the number of species per genus. Identifying species within a genus is most difficult in that period in which the genus shows its greatest development.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1864 |
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- … Bibliography Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm. 1845–8. Physikalischer Atlas. 2 vols. Gotha. …
To S. P. Woodward 15 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 15 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1875 |
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- … Bibliography Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a …
To S. P. Woodward 9 June [1851]
Summary
Asks for reference to article by Kölliker, ["Some observations on the structure of two new species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 June [1851] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1435 |
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- … Bibliography Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von. 1851. Some observations upon the structure of …
To S. P. Woodward 10 July 1848
Summary
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 10 July 1848 |
Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189A |
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- … Bibliography Stearn, William T. 1981. The Natural History Museum at South Kensington: a …
To S. P. Woodward 9 [July 1860]
Summary
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2630 |
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- … Bibliography Buch, Christian Leopold von. 1825. Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen …
From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
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- … Bibliography Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a …
To S. P. Woodward 27 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."
Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 27 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1879 |
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- … Bibliography Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a …
To S. P. Woodward 29 [September 1843]
Summary
Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 29 [Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-697 |
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- … Bibliography Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. …
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
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- … Bibliography British Museum (Natural History). 1904–6. The history of the collections …
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
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- … Bibliography Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf. 1859–70. Catalogue of …
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
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- … Bibliography Forbes, Edward. 1856. Map of the distribution of marine life, illustrated …
To S. P. Woodward 3 June [1856]
Summary
Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].
Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 June [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1886 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From S. P. Woodward [15 July 1856]
Summary
Lists Lusitanian shells with wide ranges beyond that geographical province.
Antiquity and elevation of land mass is more important than latitude for the distribution of shells.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1928 |
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- … Bibliography Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part …
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Günther, Albert | (1) |
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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 …
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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. …
4.48 '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. …
4.47 '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. …
4.31 '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 …