To R. F. Cooke 7 December [1872]
Summary
Comments on additional printing of Expression. Complains about poor quality of plates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8663 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Expression 2d ed. : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Hubert Airy 3 December 1872
Summary
Discusses works lent him by CD: Candolle, Kerner, Braun, Sachs, and CD’s own notes on relative positions of leaves. Plans paper on subject for Royal Society.
Just appointed medical inspector under local government board.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8657 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. Communicated by Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Frédéric Baudry 4 December 1872
Summary
Sends anecdotes relating to Expression;
criticises CD’s use of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s views on language.
Complains about J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent.
| Author: | Frédéric Baudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 95, 95/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8543 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Alter, Stephen G. 1999. Darwinism and the linguistic image: language, race, …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].
Thinks EH is working much too hard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8688 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From S. J. Housley 20 December 1872
Summary
Describes the pointed right ear of his son.
| Author: | Samuel John Housley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8689 |
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- … Bibliography Bree, Charles Robert. 1872. An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of …
From Alexander Agassiz 9 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for Expression.
Has lost a year’s work in the fire that has devastated Boston.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, pp. 120–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8667 |
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- … Bibliography Agassiz, Alexander. 1872–4. Revision of the Echini . 4 parts and an atlas of …
From Dora Roberts 17 December [1872 or later]
Summary
Describes a case of maternal instinct, in which a hen protected kittens.
| Author: | Dora Roberts |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8683 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
From Asa Gray 2 December 1872
Summary
CD’s finding the nervous system of Dionaea is wonderful.
Coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.
Thanks CD for the new book [Expression].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8656 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From J. V. Carus 10 December 1872
Summary
Asks whether CD has any changes to make in a new German edition of Variation, which is to be published next year.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8670 |
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- … Bibliography Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By …
From Mary Treat 13 December 1872
Summary
Drosera filiformis captures only small insects [but see 8989].
Writes of her experiments with butterflies.
CD’s theory steadily gains ground in the U. S., despite Agassiz.
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8676 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1872]
Summary
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8675 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From F. P. Cobbe 25 December [1872]
Summary
Sends story of a dog’s suicide.
| Author: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8696 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Piggott, J. R. 2004. Palace of the people: the Crystal Palace at Sydenham …
To Paolo Mantegazza 28 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".
Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.
Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.
Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8696A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From F. C. Donders 24 December 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Expression.
Agrees to observe expression in children born blind.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8695 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Gerard Krefft 30 December 1872
Summary
Has read CD’s latest book and will make observations for CD.
Reports on a monkey that throws things when "angry".
Explains how natives count to more than four; CD incorrect on this point.
Sends photographs of blacks.
Cicadas out in force.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8698 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Aust. dict. biog. : Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas …
From E. A. Darwin 11 December [1872]
Summary
Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8671 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From A. Smither 19 December 1872
Summary
Considers that the erection of hair and feathers in fear may serve a real defensive purpose, which he details.
| Author: | A Smither |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8686 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
To D. H. Tuke 22 December 1872
Summary
Comments on DHT’s Influence of the mind upon the body [1872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Hack Tuke |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Boston College Libraries, John J. Burns Library (Authors Collection (MS 1986–087) Box 4, Folder 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8691 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Expression 2d ed. : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Summary
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Bell, Charles. 1844. The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected …
| letter | (44) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Althaus, Julius | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hyatt, Alpheus | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Althaus, Julius | (1) |
| Baudry, Frédéric | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Davis, Mary | (1) |
| Dickson, James | (1) |
| Donders, F. C. | (2) |
| Furnivall, F. J. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Henry, H. | (1) |
| Hoernes, Rudolf | (1) |
| Housley, S. J. | (1) |
| Hyatt, Alpheus | (3) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
| Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de | (1) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (2) |
| Maynard, C. J. | (1) |
| Munby, A. J. | (1) |
| Nussbaumer, F. A. | (1) |
| Roberts, Dora | (1) |
| Russell, Thomas | (1) |
| Smither, A. | (1) |
| Topham, John | (1) |
| Treat, Mary | (1) |
| Tuke, D. H. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| 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
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
Summary
< 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 …
Matches: 1 hits
- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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 …
