From Edward Blyth 31 August 1868
Summary
EB is moving to Wiltshire for a week.
Tells CD of animals acquired, or about to be acquired, by the Zoological Garden.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6336 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 31 August 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 215 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 31 Aug 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Johnstone, J. 1868. Notes on elephants. [ …
- … Read 6 May 1868. ] Proceedings …
- … of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1868): 127–9. …
- … 27 March 1863 and n. 3). Blyth refers to Johnstone 1868 , in the Proceedings of the …
- … Asiatic Society of Bengal for May 1868. CD cited this paper in Descent 1: 268. Blyth …
- … the black rhinoceros) on 11 September 1868. The vendor was Carl Hagenbeck , and the …
- … of the Zoological Society of London (1868): 529. ) The king of Italy was Victor Emmanuel …
- … hoolock ) was presented to the Zoological Society on 14 August 1868 ( Proceedings of the …
- … Zoological Society of London (1868): 526). …
From Edward Blyth 3 August 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6301 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 3 August 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 219 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 3 Aug 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Baptist Mission Press. Chapman, James. 1868. Travels in the interior of South Africa: …
- … 59–88, 280–92; 3 (1867): 73–97, 360–71; 4 (1868): 204–15, 321–35. Variation 2d ed. : The …
- … CD’s letter to Blyth of 22 July 1868 has not been found, but must have been in …
- … answer to Blyth’s letter to CD of 20 July 1868. The Darwins stayed at Freshwater …
- … on the Isle of Wight from 17 July to 20 August 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 20 July 1868 . Blyth refers to Robert Swinhoe and Pavo …
- … a variety of P. cristatus ). See letter from J. J. Weir, 23 March 1868 and n. 6. …
- … of Gallus in Land and Water , 19 September 1868, p. 145. The Blackmore Museum was …
- … In Land and Water , 1 August 1868, p. 27, Thomas Black , president of the Acclimatisation …
- … engraving are in Land and Water , 31 October 1868, p. 233. CD added a reference to it in …
- … s Travels in the interior of South Africa ( Chapman 1868 ) anonymously in his Journal of …
- … Travel and Natural History 1 (1868–9): 201–25; he suggested that the wild Gallus bankiva …
From Edward Blyth 6 February 1868
Summary
Discusses the origin and characters of sheep breeds, particularly the merino.
Reports observations on reversion to wild type in canary mules
and lists some animals that show a unique development restricted to one side of their bodies.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5845 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 6 February 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 212 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 6 Feb 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 4 January 1868 and nn. 3 and 4. The newspaper extract has …
- … See also letter from C. S. Bate, 24 May 1868 . George Howard Darwin had achieved second …
- … examination of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge ( Cambridge University calendar 1868). …
- … London: John Murray. 1871. Falconer, Hugh. 1868. Palæontological memoirs and notes of the …
- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
- … in North America, is described in Falconer 1868 , 1: 45, 49, 55–68. Cachelot is the French …
From Edward Blyth 3 May 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6158 |
From Edward Blyth 24 August 1868
Summary
Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A34–5, DAR 160: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6329 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 24 August 1868 …
- … 5, DAR 160: 220 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 24 Aug 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s letter to Blyth of 4 August 1868 has not been found. …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 3 August 1868 and n. 5. Abraham Dee Bartlett read a paper …
- … Association for the Advancement of Science at Norwich on 22 August 1868 ( The Times , …
- … 22 August 1868, p. 4). CD was interested in whether the horns appeared earlier or later …
- … see letter to W. W. Reade, 21 May [1868] ). CD cited Blyth for this information in …
- … Gardens, Regent’s Park, London, on 25 May 1868; a koodoo ( Strepsiceros kudu , now …
- … strepsiceros , the greater kudu) was purchased on 16 July 1868 ( Proceedings of the …
- … Zoological Society of London (1868): 644, 648). Gazella subgutturosa is the goitered …
From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5750 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868] …
- … DAR 160: 210 Edward Blyth unstated [after 3 Feb 1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to Blanford 1867 . In his letter of 4 January 1868 , Blyth mentioned having two wild male …
- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
- … 1867 , which was published on 3 February 1868. Blyth refers to John Scott and Scott 1867 , …
From Edward Blyth 8 September 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6358 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 8 September 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 216 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 8 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Blyth, arrived on Saturday 12 September 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Z.G. : the …
- … also letter from Edward Blyth, 31 August 1868 and n. 4. Philip Lutley Sclater was the …
From Edward Blyth 20 July 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6281 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 20 July 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 218 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 20 July 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Yours very truly, | E. Blyth Ibis, July, 1868, p. 353. 1.1 The following … Cochin China— …
- … Robert Swinhoe printed in Ibis n.s. 4 (1868): 353–4. On ‘ Pavo nigripennis ’, the japan …
- … the letter from J. J. Weir, 23 March 1868 , n. 6. Hainan is an island off the south- …
From Edward Blyth 17 September 1868
Summary
Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6372 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 17 September 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 221 Edward Blyth unstated 17 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Edda , see Snorri Sturluson 1987 . In January 1868, George Howard Darwin was second in the …
- … wrangler’ ( Cambridge University calendar 1868). The Gentleman’s Magazine was started in …
- … 12 September and Sunday 13 September 1868, and may not have left until Monday morning ( …
From Edward Blyth 1 October 1868
Summary
Gives CD a reference to one of his papers ["Remarks on the modes of variation of nearly affined species or races of birds", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 19 (1850): 221–9]
and discusses moulting in birds.
Quotes instance of an action by an elephant that apparently displays considerable intelligence.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6406 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Edward Blyth 2 July 1868
Summary
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6263 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Edward Blyth 11 February 1868
Summary
Corrects some facts and gives further information on some points for the 2d ed. of Variation.
Specific distinctions among animals.
Cercopithecus of Africa contrasted with the Cebus of South America.
Notes on domestic fowls and their ancestors.
Slow growth of wild animals compared with domestic varieties.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B169a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5861 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 11 February 1868 …
- … DAR 80: B169a–c Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 11 Feb 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 6.1 P.S. … sire. 6.22] ‘Blyth Feb. 12. 1868. ’ added ink 6.8 Perdix … glance, 6.11] …
- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
- … Variation was published in February 1868, incorporating a few additions and corrections. …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 6 February 1868 and nn. 10 and 14. CD later stated that …
- … London, are mentioned in J. E. Gray 1868 , p. 30. Bos gaurus is now B. frontalis …
- … taxonomy of the pig (see J. E. Gray 1868 , p. 36). CD had mentioned P. penicillatus in …
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1868
Summary
Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6383 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 21 September 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 222 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 21 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
- … crest of feathers. In his letter of 3 August 1868 , Edward Blyth had told CD of a living …
From Edward Blyth 4 January 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5776 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 4 January 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 211 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 4 Jan 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … back characteristic of the wild canary, in Land and Water , 22 February 1868, p. 81. …
- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
From Edward Blyth 5 April 1868
Summary
Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.
Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6094 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 5 April 1868 …
- … DAR 160: 213 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 5 Apr 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in humans in his letter of 4 April [1868] . Blyth refers to Abraham Dee Bartlett and to a …
- … see letter to Roland Trimen, [21 March 1868] ). Blyth refers to the Hunterian Museum of …
- … 80). See letter to Edward Blyth, 4 April [1868] . Blyth refers to Bucorvus abyssinicus , …
From Edward Blyth 20 November 1868
Summary
Describes his tour of the Netherlands. Reports on some of the specimens he saw on his trip.
Discusses the coloration of hair in aged monkey
and sexual differences in bird species.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 149, DAR 84.1: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6469 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 20 November 1868 …
- … DAR 84.1: 137 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 20 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from David Forbes, 26 March 1868 and n. 2, and Descent 2: 320 n. 9. The …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Walters, Michael. 2003. A concise history of …
From Edward Blyth 18 May 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries regarding sexual differences in gibbons’ voices, chameleon behaviour, and the occurrence of spurs in pheasants and peahens. Discusses sexual differences in structure and habit within certain bird species.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 148, DAR 84.1: 107–8, 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6180 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 18 May 1868 …
- … 107–8, 111 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 18 May 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 18 May 1868] . Blyth refers to Hylobates syndactylus , a …
- … was presented to the Zoological Society of London on 2 May 1868 ( Proceedings of the …
- … Zoological Society of London (1868): 642). Euphorbia jacquiniiflora is a synonym of …
From Edward Blyth 4 October 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 100–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6409 |
From Edward Blyth [3 April 1868]
Summary
Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089 |
From Edward Blyth [before 25 March 1868]
Summary
Detailed notes on secondary sexual differences in various species of birds and mammals.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 154–5, DAR 84.1: 131–3, DAR 48: A77, DAR 84.2: 187v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6048 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth [before 25 March 1868] …
- … 48: A77, DAR 84.2: 187v Edward Blyth unstated [before 25 Mar 1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Yarrell, William. 1845. A history of …
- … relationship between this memorandum and the letters to Edward Blyth , 25 March [1868] and …
- … 4 April [1868] . Felinae is a subfamily of the family Felidae and includes all but the big …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 27 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
- … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
- … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
- … and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ). My book is horribly …
- … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
- … look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, replying on …
- … fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such worries were laid to …
- … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
- … not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace commiserated: ‘I am …
- … to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John …
- … a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am bothered with …
- … Yorkshire, wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the …
- … Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to …
- … breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal’, and offered …
- … changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 June 1868 ). ‘It was …
- … clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection …
- … ratios was scanty, and he spent much of the first half of 1868 collecting facts on this question, …
- … may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868] ). From the beginning, Darwin had …
- … males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). Yet a number of Darwin’s …
- … the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 March 1868 . Wallace maintained that males …
- … entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, …
- … in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
- … odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] ). Francis sought additional advice …
- … to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I had a long work with Crotch to …
- … in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward …
- … of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect my stomach …
- … of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 30 hits
- … for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
- … in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
- … Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
- … Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
- … Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
- … Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
- … Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
- … Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
- … Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
- … Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
- … Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
- … Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
- … Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
- … Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
- … Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
- … Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
- … Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] London, …
- … Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 Hayes, Bromley, Kent, …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Suède) 25 Okt. 1868. …
- … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
- … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
- … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
- … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
- … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Sweden) 25 Oct. 1868 …
- … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
- … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
- … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
- … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
- … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
Matches: 7 hits
- … to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
- … produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
- … their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ). By this time he had already …
- … (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
- … quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
- … taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
- … he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin …
- … to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was by John Robertson ( …
- … 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 February 1868, pp. 217–18. f3 CD had discussed …
- … CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. 8–10. …
5873_1488
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
Matches: 1 hits
- … From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates, 23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 10 hits
- … Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
- … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
- … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6083 - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6066 - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
- … Letter 6081 - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 Darwin thought it would be only a ‘ short …
- … writing it up as a separate publication in early February 1868 , wading through a ‘ mass of …
- … Variation was finally off his hands at the beginning of 1868, the volume of his correspondence …
- … are more than 260 surviving letters from February and March 1868 alone, two or three times the usual …
- … the details of the experiment were discussed in March 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of …
- … & sexual selection’ Darwin wrote to Wallace in September 1868, but although he had ‘ oscillated …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
William Winwood Reade
Summary
On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
- … on the German translation of Variation (Carus trans. 1868). The French translation proved …
- … the French edition of Variation (Moulinié trans. 1868), and CD now extended his permission for …
- … Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December 1868 ). Innes had a tendency to tease …
- … he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June [1868] ). Among the reasons justifying his …
- … the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So embroiled in this process …
- … the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Darwin wrote of the next …
Darwin's life in letters
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For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…
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- … letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working life …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 February 1868] Zoologist Edward Blyth sends …
- … Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 February 1868] American naturalist Asa Gray …
- … Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [23 March 1868] Haeckel informs Darwin …
- … Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …
- … Letter 6126 - Binstead, C. H. to Darwin, [17 April 1868] Charles Binstead, “an …
- … Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a case of a …
- … Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] John Innes reports that he has …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 May [1868] Darwin writes to Gray about his review …
- … 6223 — Horsman, S. J. H. to Darwin, C. R., 2 June [1868] Horsman attempts to convince Darwin …
- … Letter 6241 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 13 June 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down writes …
- … Letter 6486 — Darwin, C. R. to Innes, J. B., 1 Dec 1868 Darwin writes to J. B. Innes, vicar …
- … Letter 6492 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down provides …
- … Letter 6501 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down is …
Species and varieties
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
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- … selection ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 323–6). However, by 1868, in The variation of animals and …
- … discussion of the issue with Alfred Wallace in the spring of 1868. Wallace had sent a concise …
- … natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). Darwin turned to his son George, a …
- … as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Ultimately, Darwin’s view was …
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Mar 1868 Wallace writes to Darwin with a …
- … Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., [21 Mar 1868] Darwin lets Wallace know he has …
- … Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 24 Mar [1868] Wallace returns George Darwin’s …
- … Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 27 Mar [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace saying …
- … Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 6 Apr [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace on the …
- … Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 8 [Apr] 1868 Wallace says if Darwin is not …