To J. D. Hooker 29 August [1872]
Summary
Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 227–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8491 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
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 John Scott 12 August 1872
Summary
Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.
His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8465F |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From R. F. Cooke 9 August 1872
Summary
Agrees on price for supplying Appleton with Expression electrotypes and stereotypes. Difficulties with heliotypes [for illustrations of Expression].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 413 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From Francis Galton 11 August 1872
Summary
The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8465 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From R. F. Cooke 14 August 1872
Summary
Sends a set of plates [for Expression]. Price of the book must be 12s instead of 10s 6d, or 14s instead of 12s.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 415 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8469 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From R. F. Cooke 26 August 1872
Summary
Defers to CD and has ordered 2000 sets of impressions from heliotype plates [for Expression] for Murray’s and 3000 sets for Appleton. Also has directed printer to send Appleton a set of stereotype plates of the work and the woodcuts.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 419 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8487 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From K. M. Giuntsburg 20 August 1872
Summary
Sends a paper in which he has applied CD’s theory of natural selection to the explanation of the mortality rate of new-born infants ["Die Kindersterblickeit", J. Kinderkrankheiten (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Günzbourg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8478 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To J. V. Carus 3 August [1872]
Summary
Has sent sheets of Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 86–87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8446 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To A. R. Wallace 3 August [1872]
Summary
Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8447 |
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- … Bibliography Bree, Charles Robert. 1872. An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of …
To R. F. Cooke 10 August [1872]
Summary
CD suggests fair way for the Heliotype Company to charge for new negatives and copies of plates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 257) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8463 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From Charles Layton 13 August 1872
Summary
Is satisfied with CD’s arrangement with Murray for Appleton’s to pay $50 [pounds or dollars!?] for stereo plates and clichés of 21 woodblocks for CD’s new book [Expression, see 8217]. Has ordered 5000 sets of plate impressions from Robert Cooke at Murray’s.
| Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8466 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From R. F. Cooke 16 August 1872
Summary
Cost of plates [for Expression] is very high and will make "a terrible hole in the profits".
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 416 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8473 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To R. F. Cooke 23 August 1872
Summary
CD has given translation right [for Expression] to Dutch publisher Joh. Ijkema.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 269–70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8482 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From R. F. Cooke 23 August 1872
Summary
Cost of impression of the heliotype plates [for Expression] is so high that he asks CD to consider having a set photographed onto wood and then engraved. Index [for Expression] is in hand.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 418 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8483 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To Anton Dohrn 24 August [1872]
Summary
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To Hubert Airy 24 August 1872
Summary
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486A |
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- … Bibliography Chauvin, Michael. 2004. Hōkūloa: the British 1874 transit of Venus expedition …
From R. F. Cooke 6 August 1872
Summary
Sends Murray’s cheque for £315 for the last issue of Descent.
Details regarding foreign editions of Expression.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 412 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8452 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To R. F. Cooke 7 August 1872
Summary
On arrangements for paying for stereotyped plates for Expression. D. Appleton will be told not to publish "an hour before" Murray.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 255–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8455 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From R. F. Cooke 21 August 1872
Summary
Has ordered printing of 2000 sets of illustrations [for Expression] for Murray’s and informed D. Appleton of price per thousand. Has answered letter from Eduard Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Has also arranged for index.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 417 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8479 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
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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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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 …
