To Henry Holland 6 November [1864]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s travels, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] , nn. …
- … Medal in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ). …
- … Spencer 1860–2 ; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] …
- … and the letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). The Royal …
To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [19 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5333 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . William had …
- … some time (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 …
- … annotations, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . For …
- … vol. 12). For CD’s interest in Rhamnus (buckthorn), see ibid. , letter from H. E. …
- … letters from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [20 May 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 February [1864]
Summary
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5389 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … months of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] and …
- … Covent Garden (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February …
- … of crossed fowls (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February …
- … nn. 5 and 7). In his letter of 1 February 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Tegetmeier had …
- … the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD refers …
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … pp. 205–6). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 and …
- … Botany ); see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , and …
- … s first letter on climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the …
- … in this volume as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . …
- … Müller 1865b , p. 344, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
- … paper (see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … in Catasetum , see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , …
- … is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
- … pp. 135–40). The section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865 in which he discussed …
- … of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. …
- … 1, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet …
- … 344–9 ( see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
- … 1865] and n. 1; see also the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). …
- … 2d ed. , p. 36 n. (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … plants’ , pp. 21–2 (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … Oliver, 17 February [1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865 is incomplete. The …
- … August [1865] when he wrote his own letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1858 in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Daniel Oliver, [1 April 1864] ). …
- … of the war (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] and n. …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and …
- … affected. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). CD …
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 1 September 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] ). See …
- … and n. 6, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] , and …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] , Correspondence vol. …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix III. CD refers to Variation (see letter to John Murray, …
- … the letters from Asa Gray , 16 February 1864 and 11 July 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
- … 12. Gray acknowledged receiving a copy of ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ in his letter …
- … 12 June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) ( ‘Climbing plants’ ). CD had an author’s offprint separately printed by Taylor and Francis, and it was also published commercially in August 1865 by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and by Williams and Norgate (see Publishers’ Circular , 1 August 1865, p. 391, and Freeman 1977 , pp. 116–18). CD apparently began sending out copies of the paper to correspondents in early June (see letter …
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … seeds produced (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 ); CD …
- … of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863. In his letter of [after 12] April [1863] , Scott had thanked …
- … between 6 and 13 May 1863. In his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott mentioned …
- … the encouraging remarks in his letter to Scott of 12 April [1863] . CD refers to Scott’s …
- … experiments on self-pollination (see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] and n. 17). …
- … the ovule through the micropyle (see letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] and n. …
- … 3, and letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). …
- … pollinated Gongora truncata in his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863]. Scott and CD …
- … 1: 402–3, 2: 133–5. In his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott stated that he …
- … Oncidium and Maxillaria (see letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] ); the paper …
- … numerous inquiries (see letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] ). See letter to …
- … In his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott expressed a wish to make further …
To Ernst Haeckel 30 December [1863] – 3 January [1864]
Summary
Will be proud to receive EH’s Die Radiolarien [1862].
Health continues very weak.
[P.S. 3 Jan] Has sent EH another letter by mistake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 30 Dec [1863] – 3 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1026/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4361 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … company (see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock 19 November [1864] ). CD …
- … highly (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Roland Trimen, 13 May 1864 ). …
- … Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] and [17 July 1865] , and the letter from T. H. Huxley, …
- … 12 January 1867 (Sullivan ed. 1984, p. 349). CD had sent Huxley his manuscript of his hypothesis of pangenesis, asking him whether it was suitable for inclusion in Variation (see letter …
To Smith, Elder and Company 10 March [1863]
Summary
Receipt for cheque enclosed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 10 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.11-15 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.11-12, letter ff.13-14, address envelope f.15)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4034 |
To A. R. Wallace [c. 10 April 1864]
Summary
Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.
Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [c. 10 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378F |
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … principles ( Spencer 1860–2 ). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from A. R. …
- … instalments, see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 …
- … 1860] and n. 5, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 July [1864] and …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] , and letter from …
- … 2 January 1864 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and 3 November [ …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 March [1874] , Calendar no. 9372). CD did not change later editions of Origin. See also O’Brien 1970 , and Burkhardt 1974 , pp. 43–5. The reference is to Variation ; CD had been revising the early chapters since mid-November 1864, and was currently working on the chapters on domestic animals (see CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, …
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … secretion’ (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [ …
- … William Jenner (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and …
- … s advice (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from William Jenner , 15 October 1864 and …
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12). CD reported …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). CD began taking iron in 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recording ‘began iron’ on 12 …
To George Fraser 14 April [1871]
Summary
Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
Date: | 14 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7684 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the observations he recorded in his letter of 12 April 1871 in Nature , 20 April 1871 ( …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 . …
- … See letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 . …
- … 1871 in Descent 2d ed. ; see letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 and n. 14. See …
To H. G. H. Norman [after 30 November 1866]
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert George Henry Norman |
Date: | [after 30 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5287A |
To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … from Ogden Nicholas Rood with his own letter of 12 May 1874 ; no letter from Gray dated 4 …
- … World , 28 April 1874, p. 7, with his letter of 12 May 1874 ; the copy has not been …
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . Gray had enclosed a …
- … the second enclosure to the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . CD had discussed vestigial …
- … by his initials only in the second part. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and nn. …
- … 2 and 3. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and n. 4. CD was particularly interested …
- … has not been identified; see also annotations to letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . For …
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1863] ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [ …
- … feel more alert ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] and [27 January 1864] ( Correspondence vols. 11 and 12). …
- … 1865 and n. 12). See ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 115–18. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 …
- … 12). CD had raised seedling Lathyrus nissolia in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To James Torbitt [1]4 December 1878
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | [1]4 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11772 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … James Torbitt, 1 March 1878 ). See letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 and n. 3. …
- … for example, ibid. , pp. 74–5). In his letter of 12 December 1878 , Torbitt had asked CD …
- … between this letter and the letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . The day on the …
- … disease-resistant varieties of potato; see letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . …
- … See letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . In Cross and self fertilisation , CD had …
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
Summary
< 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …