From Chauncey Wright 29 August 1872
Summary
Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8493 |
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- … Bibliography Alter, Stephen G. 2005. William Dwight Whitney and the science of language . …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872]
Summary
Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].
Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 6 Sept [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8512 |
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- … Bibliography Descent 2d ed. : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By …
To Chauncey Wright 13 March 1875
Summary
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 13 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9886 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Chauncey Wright 9 September 1872
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Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8515 |
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- … Bibliography Houzeau, Jean-Charles. 1872. Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux …
To Chauncey Wright 31 August [1872]
Summary
CD thanks CW for long, interesting letter; hopes the ideas will be worked into an essay some day.
Suggests dates for a proposed visit and gives instructions for reaching Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 31 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8497 |
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From Chauncey Wright 11 October 1871
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Thanks CD for copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
His memoir on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415] will soon be printed.
Has met CD’s sons.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8002 |
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- … Bibliography Nägeli, Carl Wilhelm von. 1858–68. Beiträge zur Wissenschaftlichen Botanik. 4 …
To Chauncey Wright 28 October 1871
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Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.
Grateful for kindness to sons in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 28 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8033 |
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To Chauncey Wright 13 and 14 July [1871]
Summary
Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;
discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 13 and 14 July 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7865 |
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To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Chauncey Wright 3 June [1872]
Summary
CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.
On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 3 June [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8367 |
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- … Bibliography Alter, Stephen G. 2005. William Dwight Whitney and the science of language . …
To Chauncey Wright 21 September 1874 and 29 January 1875
Summary
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9650 |
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From Chauncey Wright 3 April 1872
Summary
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8273 |
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To Chauncey Wright 6 April 1872
Summary
Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 6 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8277 |
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To Chauncey Wright [11 or 21] April [1872]
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Sends details of Alexander Dickson’s paper ‘On some abnormal cones of Pinus Pinaster’ (Dickson 1871).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | [11 or 21] Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | Joseph M. Maddalena (dealer) (Catalog 16: Spring 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8297F |
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- … Bibliography Dickson, Alexander. 1871. On some abnormal cones of Pinus pinaster . [Read 1 …
From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872
Summary
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8351 |
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- … Bibliography Cope, Edward Drinker. 1868. On the origin of genera. Proceedings of the …
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
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Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
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From Chauncey Wright 24 February 1875
Summary
Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9871 |
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From Chauncey Wright 2 September 1872
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8507 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1916. Memoir of Sir George Darwin. In Scientific papers , by …
To Chauncey Wright 12 September 1871
Summary
CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.
Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7933 |
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From Chauncey Wright 3 September 1874
Summary
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624 |
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- … Bibliography Barhydt, Jerome A. 1892. Crayon portraiture: complete instructions for making …
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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. …
4.47 '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 …