From Asa Gray 7 March 1872
Summary
A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8237 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Georg von Seidlitz 1 April 1872
Summary
Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8266F |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … CD refers to a thirty-page bibliography of works dealing with Darwinian theory (‘ …
From A. B. Meyer 25 April 1872
Summary
Sends information on expression: head and hand movements of the Tagals of the Philippines, and of Malaysians.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8300 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
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 |
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- … 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 …
To W. W. Baxter 17 September [1872?]
Summary
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8523 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Arthur Mellersh 2 February 1872
Summary
Exchange of photographs among CD, AM, and Philip G. King.
| Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8196 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From J. M. Herbert 23 November 1872
Summary
Thanks for copy of Expression.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8644 |
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- … Bibliography Butler, Samuel. 1903. The way of all flesh. London: Grant Richards. ODNB : …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
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 R. H. Blair 9 November 1872
Summary
Thanks for copy [of Expression].
Has now read Charles Bell’s book [Anatomy and philosophy of expression, 3d ed. (1844)].
Reports instance of person, blind from birth, frowning, when supposedly the blind cannot control the muscle required.
| Author: | Robert Hugh Blair |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8615 |
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- … Bibliography Bell, Charles. 1865. The anatomy and philosophy of expression: as connected …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From D. T. Smith 19 November 1872
Summary
Has sent printed reports on his lectures relating to the descent of man [missing].
Discusses his theories on heredity and on the "soul" as the governor of mental and physical development.
| Author: | David Thomas Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8634 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To H. B. Wheatley [after 30 September 1872]
Summary
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Benjamin Wheatley |
| Date: | [after 30 Sept 1872] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8539F |
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- … Bibliography Beale, Lionel Smith. 1870. Bioplasm: an introduction to the study of …
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 …
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 |
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- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. Communicated by Charles …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To A. G. Carlier 16 April [1872]
Summary
Thanks AGC for some notes and his book [Darwinism refuted by researches in psychology (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antoine Guillaume Carlier |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (Papers of Edmond William Wace Carlier US47/234) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8288 |
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- … Bibliography Carlier, Antoine Guillaume. [1872. ] Darwinism refuted by researches in …
To W. H. Edwards 23 April [1872]
Summary
Thanks for part nine of WHE’s [Butterflies of North America (1868–72)].
Comments on trimorphism in Papilio ajax.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Edwards |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8299 |
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- … Bibliography Edwards, William Henry. 1868–72. The butterflies of North America. …
From Alfred Tylor 8 June 1872
Summary
AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".
| Author: | Alfred Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8376 |
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- … Bibliography Belgrand, François-Eugène. 1869. La Seine. I, Le bassin parisien aux âges …
- … no paper on water flow is listed in the bibliography attached to his obituary ( Geological …
From J. D. Hooker 30 April [1872]
Summary
Does not know Dr Mahoney.
Thanks CD for offer of photographs.
His mother’s health is no worse.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7729A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Allan, Mea. 1967. The Hookers of Kew, 1785–1911. London: Michael Joseph. …
From J. D. Hooker [5 February 1872?]
Summary
Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 105–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8200 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Francis. 1916. Memoir of Sir George Darwin. In Scientific papers , by …
From W. W. Reade 14 March 1872
Summary
Plans for visit to CD.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8242 |
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- … Bibliography Reade, William Winwood. 1872. The martyrdom of man. London: Trübner & Co. …
To F. E. Abbot 2 July 1872
Summary
Renews subscription to Index.
Was interested in FEA’s lecture on "The God of science" [Index 24 Feb 1872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 2 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8401 |
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- … Bibliography Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1898. Cheerful yesterdays. Cambridge, Mass. : …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (213) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (21) |
| John Murray | (21) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
| Reade, W. W. | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (301) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (14) |
| John Murray | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Murray, John (b) | (9) |
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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 …
