To J. S. Henslow [24 January 1840]
Summary
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-552 |
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- … Bibliography Notebook C. See de Beer 1960; de Beer and Rowlands 1961; de Beer, Rowlands, …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To the President and Council of the Geological Society of London 24 March 1840
Summary
Regrets that state of his health forces him to resign as one of the Secretaries of the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/5/8 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-561 |
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- … Bibliography Woodward, Horace B. 1907. The history of the Geological Society of London. …
To G. R. Gray [20 November – 11 December 1840]
Summary
Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
| Date: | [20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-581 |
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- … Bibliography Birds : Pt 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By John Gould. …
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 26 May [1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
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- … Bibliography Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. …
To J. M. Herbert [after 5 June 1840]
Summary
Writes to find whether the date of the event [JMH’s marriage?] has been fixed.
Has been unwell and does not yet feel up to work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [after 5 June 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-571 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
Frances Allen to G. N. Smith 19 August [1840]
Summary
Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Allen |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1840] |
| Classmark: | Tenby Museum |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-577 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To T. C. Eyton [6 January 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell.
Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.
CD has become a father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | [6 Jan 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-549 |
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- … Bibliography Birds : Pt 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By John Gould. …
From J. S. Henslow 21 November 1840
Summary
Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-582 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From B. J. Sulivan 12 May 1840
Summary
Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-566 |
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- … Bibliography Close, Charles Frederick. 1905. Text book of topographical and geographical …
To Leonard Jenyns [27 February 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558 |
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- … Bibliography Birds : Pt 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By John Gould. …
To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
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- … Bibliography Colp, Ralph, Jr. 1977. To be an invalid: the illness of Charles Darwin. …
From J. S. Henslow 2 November 1840
Summary
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-579 |
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- … Bibliography Henslow, John Stevens. 1860. On the supposed germination of mummy wheat. …
From J. G. Malcolmson 2 January 1840
Summary
Discusses CD’s Glen Roy paper; would like to see the theory put beyond dispute. Tells of Mr Stables’ observations on the parallel roads. Discusses geological features of Scotland which he is sure are marine in origin.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 31; Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1840) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1147 |
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- … Bibliography Anderson, John. 1841. On the geology of Fifeshire. Prize Essays and …
From Susan and Catherine Darwin [22 July 1840]
Summary
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 July 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-575 |
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- … Bibliography Smellie, William. 1790–9. The philosophy of natural history. 2 vols. …
To John Phillips [November 1840]
Summary
Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | [Nov 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-578 |
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- … Bibliography Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. …
To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Basil Hall |
| Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
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- … Bibliography Krusenstern, Adam Johann von. 1824–7. Recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: …
From Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker 30 March 1840
Summary
CD has asked CM whether he can supply William Kemp’s address, and CM passes the enquiry to TW.
| Author: | Charles Maclaren |
| Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Maclaren, Charles. 1839. A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians, …
To W. C. Redfield [22 December 1840]
Summary
Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William C. Redfield |
| Date: | [22 Dec 1840] |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41(z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-585 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Bruce, James. 1813. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years …
To David Milne 20 [February 1840]
Summary
About earthquakes: the shock of February 1835 in Chile; possible connection between shocks occurring coincidentally in different parts of the world, and between earthquakes and the weather; DM’s collection of accounts of earthquakes in Scotland.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Milne Home |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence Post-1650 MS 0112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-560 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Bischof, Carl Gustav Christoph. 1839. On the natural history of volcanos and …
To John Gould [after 1 December 1840]
Summary
Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Gould |
| Date: | [after 1 Dec 1840] |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-578F |
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- … Bibliography Gould, John. 1840–8. The birds of Australia. 7 vols. London: the author. …
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| Allen, Frances | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Maclaren, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Geological Society of London | (2) |
| Hall, Basil | (2) |
| Redfield, W. C. | (2) |
| Smith, G. N. | (2) |
| Allen, Frances | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (2) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
| Gray, G. R. | (1) |
| Hall, Basil | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Maclaren, Charles | (1) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (2) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Redfield, W. C. | (3) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Sr | (2) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Smith, G. N. | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Walker, Thomas | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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 …
