From V. O. Kovalevsky 2 April 1867
Summary
On whether to make woodcuts for Variation in Russia or use Murray’s stereotypes. He has similar advance publication agreements with Carl Vogt, E. A. Rossmässler and Theodor Billroth.
The Russian version of Origin is translated from Bronn’s German edition.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5452 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky 2 April 1867 …
- … Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) St Petersburg 2 Apr 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … trans. 1868–9). In his letter of 15 March 1867 , Kovalevsky had asked CD to write to …
- … found (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 24 April [1867] ). See also CD’s annotation. …
- … calendar dates. Kovalevsky refers to his letter to CD of 15 March 1867 and CD’s letter …
- … to him of 26 March [1867]. Kovalevsky refers to his planned translation of Variation (V. …
- … trans. 1868–9). In his letter of 26 March [1867] , CD had advised Kovalevsky to negotiate …
- … S Petersburg March 21/2 Ap. 1867 Sir I am very grateful for the very kind answer You gave …
- … of Origin in his letter of 26 March [1867] . The first Russian translation of Origin was …
- … his letter to John Murray, 10 April [1867] . No letter concerning Kovalevsky’s position …
- … 1863 in 1864; of Rossmässler 1863 in 1867; and of Billroth 1863 in 1866 ( Davitashvili …
- … to his translation; see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 , and letter to V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 26 March [1867] . CD had asked whether there had …
From V. O. Kovalevsky [after 24? May 1867]
Summary
Repeats details of his previous letter [5537] as he was unsure whether CD received it.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24? May 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5538 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky [after 24? May 1867] …
- … Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) unstated [after 24? May 1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … et al. 1864–9). See letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867 and n. 5. See letters …
- … to V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] and …
- … 16 May [1867] . …
- … the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 . Kovalevsky would probably have waited at …
- … to reach him from Down; see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867 . Kovalevsky …
- … had written to CD on 15 May 1867 to say that he had received proof-sheets of Variation and …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 May 1867
Summary
The proofs CD sent seem to have been lost in the post. Asks him to send another set by ordinary letter post.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5536 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 May 1867 …
- … Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) St Petersburg 14 May 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from V. O. Kovalevsky, 24 April [1867] ). St Petersburg is at the mouth of the Neva; the …
- … See letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] . Kovalevsky refers to the proof-sheets of …
- … English books (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 24 April [1867] ). See letter to V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] . Kovalevsky had offered to send CD a bearskin (see letter …
- … S Petersburg 2/14 May 1867. Dear Sir It is with the fullest acknowledgment of my …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 24 April [1867]
Summary
Agrees to use Murray’s stereotypes.
Offers to send rug made from a black Russian bear he shot.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5513 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky 24 April [1867] …
- … Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) St Petersburg 24 Apr [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Row, London. CD’s annotation is a note for his letter to Kovalevsky of 2 May [1867] . …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 April 1867 . Kovalevsky gives both the Julian (12 April) …
- … April) calendar dates. In his letter of 2 April 1867 , Kovalevsky had asked permission to …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 May 1867
Summary
Lost proofs have arrived.
Proposes to append the woodcuts of dog and cat varieties from Brehm [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)], which he has also translated, to the Russian edition of Variation.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5537 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 May 1867 …
- … Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) unstated 15 May 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … into Russian. See letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] , and letter from V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867 . Kovalevsky gives both the Julian (3 May) and Gregorian (15 …
- … very faithfully | W. Kowalewsky May 3/15 1867. P.S. I am also the editor of the large …
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 15 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to translate Variation into Russian. The translation will be guided by his brother Alexander, a follower of Darwin,
whose articles on the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates he forwards.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5443 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 15 March 1867 …
- … Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) St Petersburg 15 Mar 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from Trübner & Co, 26 February 1867 ). CD’s reply to Trübner has not been found. No …
- … S Petersbourg 3/15 March 1867 Sir M r . Truebner transmitted me the answer you had the …
- … of Küstenland province, Austria, in 1867 ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). Kovalevsky …
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 26 February 1868
Summary
His translation and printing of Variation will be completed in two months.
His work on a relief committee for Russia’s agricultural distress has forced him to travel 1000 miles in the last week.
Plans to visit CD in July.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5938 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to be lost (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867 ). …
- … Russian translation of Variation in May 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] ). René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur , devised a temperature …
- … Darwin . He had visited CD at Down in August 1867 ( Correspondence vol. 15, Appendix II); …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 September [1870]
Summary
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7317 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … a paper by his brother on this subject in 1867 ( A. O. Kovalevsky 1866 ; Correspondence …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867) . CD cited the paper and described this ‘ …
- … vol. 15, letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867] and letter from V. O. …
- … Kovalevsky, [after 24? May 1867] ). The reference is to Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky’s …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 13 September 1869
Summary
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6890 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Kovalevsky visited CD at Down in August 1867, not 1866 as Kovalevsky writes in this …
- … of his brother’s embryological papers in 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from …
- … V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 and n. 6). Emma Darwin , Henrietta Emma Darwin , and …
- … 9) was published in seven parts between 1867 and 1869 and also issued in book form (see …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 22 December 1868
Summary
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6510 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 15, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Kovalevsky refers to Emma, Henrietta …
- … of Variation , which appeared in parts from 1867 to 1869 and in two volumes in 1868 and …
- … Freeman 1977 ). Kovalevsky had visited CD in the summer of 1867 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … Karl Ernst von Baer left St Petersburg in 1867 and spent the remainder of his life in the …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 30 December 1881
Summary
New Year’s greetings.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13588 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 10 May 1871
Summary
Paris is in the hands of "brigands and socialists", but one grows accustomed to sporadic bombardment,
and VOK is peacefully studying invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Reports on Paul Gervais’ successful cross between a Triton and an axolotl.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7752 |
From Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky [January–March 1869]
Summary
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan–Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 January 1874
Summary
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … A. O. i V. O. Kovalevskie. Perepiska 1867–1873gg. Moscow: Nauka (science). Insectivorous …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 17 May 1873
Summary
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8914 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … A. O. i V. O. Kovalevskie. Perepiska 1867–1873gg. Moscow: Nauka (science). Kovalevsky, …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 January [1882]
Summary
Trying to get some Darwinians into the Institut de France.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13624 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Kirillovna Semenova , whom he married in 1867, and their children were Vera , Vladimir , …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
Matches: 30 hits
- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
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: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
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…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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…
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- … Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
A tale of two bees
Summary
Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
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…
Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Controversy
Summary
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…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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Religion
Summary
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…
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …
