From Charles John Andersson [6 April 1856]
Summary
European men choose partners for different reasons. Savages select more for bodily attraction than facial beauty.
| Author: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1850 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1850 …
From the Ray Society [4–6 November 1850]
Summary
In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.
| Author: | Ray Society |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–6 Nov 1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From the Ray Society [4–6 November 1850] …
- … and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) Ray Society [4–6 Nov 1850] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Dated on the basis of the council meeting of 4 November 1850 and on CD’s reply …
- … to Edwin Lankester , 7 November [1850]. See …
- … letter to Edwin Lankester, 27 October [1850] . The letter has not been found. …
From J. D. Hooker 6 and 7 April 1850
Summary
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 and 7 Apr 1850 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 6 and 7 April 1850 …
- … Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Calcutta 6 Apr 1850 7 …
- … Apr 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … set out on this expedition on 1 May 1850. Lack of time prevented the exploration of the …
- … note: Hooker in Letter. Ap. 6 th . — 1850. — Says in Sikkim the floras of tropical, …
- … to Nepal in 1848 ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 178). He visited England in 1850–1. Hooker …
- … Govt. House Calcutta April 6. 1850 My dear Darwin Here at last I take up my pen to write …
- … I forget HC. Bot Gardens. April 7 th . 1850 Dear Darwin Here I am staying with Falconer! …
- … joined Hooker in Darjeeling in February 1850, prior to their expedition to the Khasia …
From Charles Pickering 9 January 1850
Summary
Lists plants of Metia or Aurora Island collected during visit in Sept 1839. Flora same as that of neighbouring Tahiti.
| Author: | Charles Pickering |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1289 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Charles Pickering 9 January 1850 …
- … DAR 205.4: 99 Charles Pickering Boston Mass. 9 Jan 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … either accidentally, or for the purposes of cultivation. C. P. Boston, Jan. 9 th . 1850. …
- … the list. CD referred to this letter in letter to J. D. Dana, 24 February [1850] . …
From J. D. Dana [before 29 December 1850]
Summary
Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Dec 1850] |
| Classmark: | Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Dana [before 29 December 1850] …
- … Cirripedia (1851): 15 n. James Dwight Dana [before 29 Dec 1850] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Baird, William. 1850. The natural history of the British Entomostraca. …
- … the letter to J. D. Dana, 29 December [1850] , in which larval antennae are discussed. In …
- … crustaceans in the order Cladocera. In Baird 1850 , p. 62, their antennae are considered …
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Summary
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … out of the series L Darwin Top of letter : ‘1850— 78 . 854 ’ pencil End of letter : Year …
- … 1832 130,313 — 1836 108,579 1 . 969= 1 . 97 1850 82,203 4 . 759 1853 71,019 0 . 81
✓ 1860✓ … - … of 1853 The an-decrease percent from 1850 to 1860 is 2 . 01—much more in accordance …
- … that for 1858— is the date right. —4 . 6 1836 —1 . 97 1850 —2 . 01 1860 —2 . 06 1866 —2 . …
- … fell by 11,184 in the three years between 1850 and 1853 and by 3,935 in the seven years …
- … 2d ed. , p. 186, he omitted the figure for 1850. The census dates given by Coan were …
From the Ray Society [after 7 October 1850]
Summary
"Resolved that the Secretary be requested to ask Mr. Darwin if he would agree to the publication of his work [Living Cirripedia] in parts."
| Author: | Ray Society |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Oct 1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1361 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From the Ray Society [after 7 October 1850] …
- … General Library MSS RAY) Ray Society unstated [after 7 Oct 1850] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Society council meeting held on 7 October 1850. The text given here has been taken from …
- … see letter to Edwin Lankester, [18–22 October 1850] . According to the minute book, CD had …
From Emma Darwin [22–3 April 1851]
Summary
Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22–3 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1410 |
From William Masters 3 April 1850
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.
| Author: | William Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1318 |
From Abraham Clapham 8 March 1850
Summary
Results of crosses in Phlox.
| Author: | Abraham Clapham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1309 |
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … vols. Leiden. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien. 1850–7. Conspectus generum avium. 2 vols. Leiden. …
- … London: John Van Voorst. Gould, John. 1850–83. The birds of Asia. 7 vols. London. Gray, …
- … supplement was completed in 1869. J. Gould 1850–83 . By January 1856, seven parts of this …
- … 9, pt 1: 620–4. Chesney, Francis Rawdon. 1850. The expedition for the survey of the rivers …
- … 17, pt 2: 3–13, 681–96. Hutton, Thomas. 1850. The chronology of creation; or, geology and …
- … but has ablack capped head. Bonaparte 1850–7 , 1: 514–15, describes Chrysomitris …
- … Hutton 1846 , pp. 162–8. In Chesney 1850 , 1: 582–4, Francis Rawdon Chesney described …
- … is figured as the frontispiece of Hutton 1850 . This work is in the Darwin Library–CUL and …
- … al . 1827–35, 8, facing p. 232. J. Gould 1850–83 , 7: pl. 28, which figures ‘ Pucrasia …
- … the authorised version’ (p. 173). Chesney 1850 , 1: 82. Aldrovandi 1599–1603. CD recorded …
- … c . 22 March 1856] and n. 2. Chesney 1850 , 1: 731–2: ‘Description of the bird called … “ …
- … 1779 , 1: 229–30. All these references are to the first volume of Chesney 1850 . The last …
- … reference to Cervus elaphus is in Chesney 1850 , 1, appendix 3, p. 728. The seven volumes …
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850 …
- … 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Silchar 26 Nov 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Gardens. It had first flowered at Kew in 1850. Specifically applied to the Mediterranean …
- … the report of that meeting, published in 1850, or had read CD’s brief account of his …
From J. S. Bowerbank 1 August 1864
Summary
Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.
| Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 4, letter to J. de C. Sowerby, [12 or 19 August 1850] , and letter to J. …
- … S. Bowerbank, 10 September [1850] ). The illustrations are in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , …
- … see Correspondence vol. 4, letters to J. S. Bowerbank, 19 January [1850] and [ …
- … 8 March 1850] ). Bowerbank is cited as a source of Pollicipes specimens from the Chalk and …
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 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 7 February 1856
Summary
Has heard CD is much interested in questions relating to varieties and species. Mentions a case of a seminal variety of Colletia spinosa, described by John Lindley, which appears identical with another wild species of Colletia from S. America. Hopes CD will one day "enlighten us very much" on "the laws of species". There are many different views on the limits of species; M. F. Dunal made 50 species of Solanum which George Bentham considers are all varieties of S. nigrum.
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 374, DAR 205.4: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1830 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … pommier et sa culture. Paris. Lindley, John. 1850. Memorandum concerning a remarkable case …
- … Bunbury refers to Lindley 1850 . Colletia spinosa is a synonym of C. spinosissima , rosea. …
- … an account of the Colletia ( Lindley 1850 , p. 29). Colletia spinosissima is a synonym of …
- … admitted into books as species’ ( Lindley 1850 , p. 32). [W. J. Hooker] 1830a, pp. 152– …
- … plant had been raised from seed ( Lindley 1850 , p. 29). CD had told Bunbury as early as …
From Dorothy Frances Nevill [before 22 January 1862]
Summary
Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.
Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.
Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3402 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1873
Summary
Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.
Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9102 |
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850]. …
- … Wilkes, U.S.N. London. Pickering, Charles. 1850. The races of man; and their geographical …
- … several editions. CD owned a copy of Pickering 1850 , which is in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … The passage referred to occurs in Pickering 1850 , p. 314, where Charles Pickering stated …
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1867
Summary
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 135–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5372 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. April 1851]
Summary
Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382 |
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Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … Covington still assisted Darwin in his work: in 1850 he sent a box of barnacles to London , some …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... 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 …
What is an experiment?
Summary
Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He made the point more …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … occasions in his correspondence with Hooker. On 13 June [1850] , for example, Darwin wrote: …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … state of indecision’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] ) as he and Emma tried to choose …
Scientific Practice
Summary
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…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … when he first wrote out his species essay in full. In 1850, he had written to Hooker ( …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 26 hits
- … Memoirs of Plumer Ward by Hon Phipps [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] …
- … & will lend me— Pickering Races of Man [Pickering 1850]. (has a good chapter). …
- … Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] Burnetts Hist. of own time …
- … Miss. Fennimore Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans …
- … Dana’s Geology. U.S. Expedition [J. D. Dana 1849] 1850 March Forbes Cystideæ & …
- … [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov. Memoirs of Pal. Soc [ …
- … 12. Sedgwicks Discourse on Study of Univers [Sedgwick 1850] 28 Steenstrup on …
- … Feb. 3 d . Hutchinson on Dog-breaking [Hutchinson 1850] 27. Chambers. Sanatory Reform [Anon …
- … 5. Collin’s Autobiography [?Collins 1848]. good 1850 . Jan 15 th Lives of …
- … March 16 th . Newman Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] excellent —— Lord Cloncurry Memoirs …
- … 1846] May 20 G. Cumming S. African Hunter [Cumming 1850] goodish July 1 st . …
- … Sept 12 th . B. Franklins life by Sparks [Sparks ed. 1850] very good Oct 3 Martineau …
- … Podrome de Paleantologie stratigraphique [Orbigny 1850–2] 24 fr: 3. vols. The Vegetation of …
- … Danicorum Mammalium Domesticorum by Prof. Benddz [Bendz 1850]— Plates very expensive Coll. of …
- … Anat. der Wirbellosen Thiere. 1848 [K. T. E. von Siebold 1850].— [DAR *128: 180] …
- … Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read …
- … to aid me on skeletons Knox Races of Mankind [R. Knox 1850] a curious Book. (Blyth). in …
- … of the Horticultural Society of London ]. Vol I. to V. (1850) VI & VII May 27 th . …
- … [Agassiz 1835] —— 30 Bairds Entomostraca [Baird 1850] May 22 d . Madras Journal of …
- … 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D r . Coombe [Combe 1850]. good Feb. 6. Letters of Ray …
- … Histoire du Pommier, Poirier, Pêcher [Duval 1852, 1849, 1850] —— 27 th . Hist. Nat. Gen. de …
- … Sept. 4. Nunn’s Shipwreck in the Favorite [Nunn 1850] —— 16 Pepys Diary. Vol 1. 2. 3 d …
- … Facultes Interieurs des animaux invertebres [Macquart 1850]. —— 8 th Gosse Naturalist …
- … 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. Johnston 1850]. March 28 th Sebastian …
- … [DAR 128: 13] Aug. 20 Weber der Taubenfreund 1850 [Weber 1850] Sept. 1 st . Puvis …
- … [Veith 1856].— 3 d Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R. Knox 1850] 7. Willughby by Ray …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Darwin and the Church
Summary
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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- … (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January [1850] and n. 6; and letter to J. B. Innes, …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … 1853 . Preparing for publication Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray …
- … I have not yet thought’, Darwin told Bowerbank in January 1850, ‘ your mentioning the Palæont. Soc. …
- … was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the end, Darwin was …
- … many parcels I have no doubt they wd aid me’. By April 1850, he reported to Steenstrup that he had ‘ …
- … and after requiring late changes by Sowerby in September 1850, told him, ‘ I hope to God I have now …
- … the first fossil volume approached completion in September 1850, Darwin had reported on his progress …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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Scientific Networks
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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,…
Barnacles
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Letter 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, 23 Nov 1850 In this letter, Darwin thanks his …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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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- … myself on you’ ( letter to Wilhelm Dunker, 3 March [1850] ). In the mid-1850s, Darwin was …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
Leonard Darwin born
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The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born
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- … The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
