To G. H. Darwin 13 [July 1878]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11603 |
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- … had taken George three to four hours ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1878 ). …
- … between this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1878 . CD had asked George …
- … G. H. Darwin, 10 [July 1878] , and letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1878 ). There are …
- … made by George; see enclosure to letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1878 . Making …
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
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- … letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 October 1875 . The letter from William Stanley Jevons to …
- … not been found, but see the letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 October 1875 . CD probably refers …
- … book ( Down House MS). See letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 October 1875 and n. 2. Otto …
- … G. H. Darwin 1875a ). See letter from G. H. Darwin, 12 October 1875 and n. 12. CD refers …
To G. H. Darwin 12 July 1879
Summary
CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.
Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 87; unknown |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12149 |
To G. H. Darwin [21 April 1874]
Summary
GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.
Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [21 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9423 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
To G. H. Darwin 14 [July 1878]
Summary
Writes to say that the point on which he thought GHD’s drawings were mistaken proves to be an error in his own observation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 14 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11606 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 [July 1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 [July 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12137 |
To George Howard Darwin 27 May [1867]
Summary
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5553 |
To G. H. Darwin 10 [July 1878]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 10 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11597 |
To G. H. Darwin 22 October [1874]
Summary
Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.
Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9693 |
To G. H. Darwin [11 May 1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [11 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12049 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877]
Summary
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11251 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 October [1874]
Summary
Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.
Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9687 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 September [1881]
Summary
Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1.: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13322 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12033 |
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- … letter from Reginald Darwin, 7 April 1879 . Cambridge University Library was known as the public library; in this context, ‘public’ was used in the sense of ‘Belonging to ... the whole university (as distinguished from the colleges or other constituents)’ ( OED ). Andrew Duncan had published a memoir of Henry Raeburn , in which he made clear that Raeburn had not painted a portrait of Erasmus Darwin’s eldest son, Charles Darwin (1758–78) , but had made a trinket in which he set a lock of Charles’s hair ( Duncan 1824 , pp. 10–12). …
To G. H. Darwin 6 [October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 6 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13319 |
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- … 12 October 1881, are in DAR 52: F73–83. William Erasmus Darwin . The news of the outbreak of scarlet fever had been sent in a telegram from Bernard Darwin ’s maternal grandmother, Mary Anne Ruck ; in the end only Francis Darwin made the trip to see the Ruck family and Bernard Darwin remained at Down ( letter …
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, G. H. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, G. H. | (18) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
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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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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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,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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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…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …