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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Thomas (15) Bemmelen, A. A. van (2) …
- … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
- … Bok, E. W. (1) Bolhuis, Jan van (1) …
- … J. S. (66) Burg, C. L. van der (2) …
- … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
- … Hartnack, Edmund (1) Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus …
- … V. Masson et fils (1) Van Dyck, W. T. (2) …
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.…
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- … List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in …
- … 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy …
- … 6 Asperen P. van Apothecary Velp …
- … 9 Buys Ballot C.H.D. (Christophorus Henrikus Didericus Professor of Physics …
- … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
- … Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen but there is only one van Beemen who …
- … 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. C. L. van (Coert Lambertus) Burgomaster …
- … 17 Valkema Blouw H.A.J. (Hermanus Albertus Jacobus) Phil. nat. doct, …
- … 25 Bohnensieg G.C.W. (Georg Carel Wilhelm) Military …
- … Died just a few months after the album was sent to Charles Darwin at the age of 53 …
- … 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan Anthonij) Bailiff to H.R.H …
- … 43 Burger C.P. (Not G) (Combertus Pieter) …
- … 44 Burger H. (Huibert) (C.P. zn) Phil.nat.stud Leiden …
- … 5 March 1946 Rheden Son of professor C.P. Burger 45 …
- … 52 Cornelis C.J. Surgeon Rotterdam …
- … 82 Haan R.E. de Director of the Winterswijk High Burghal School …
- … 87 Hartogh Heijs H.A. Technologist Assen 17 …
- … Later in life his name became Hartogh Heijs van de Lier. His brother became …
- … Geologist, Economist an Darwinist. Corresponded with Darwin and translated The descent of Man in …
- … 126 Lit R.R. (Roelof Rijkland) Teacher Amsterdam …
- … 132 Maitland R.T. (Robert Thomas) Director of the Hague Royal Zoological …
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. …
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- … list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 …
- … Apeldoorn 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of …
- … 6 Asperen P. van Apothecary Velp …
- … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
- … 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. C. L. van (Coert Lambertus) Burgomaster …
- … Lemmer 12 Bemmelen A.A. van (Adriaan Anthony) Director …
- … 13 Bemmelen Dr J.M. van. (Jacob Maarten) Professor of Chemistry at Leijden …
- … 17 Valkema Blouw H.A.J. (Hermanus Albertus Jacobus) Phil. nat. doct, …
- … Doetinchem 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan …
- … 41 Burg Dr E. A. van der (Eduard Alexander) Lecturer …
- … december 1896 Kampen 87 Hartogh Heijs H.A. …
- … Delft 88 Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen Dr H. …
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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- … evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost …
- … (1875) and Cross and self fertilisation (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became increasingly …
- … career to become his father’s scientific secretary. Darwin had always relied on assistance from …
- … Francis’s decision. A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response …
- … the previous year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, …
- … some of which were incorporated in a later edition. Darwin also contributed to discussions in the …
- … Francis Galton’s work on inherited talent, which prompted Darwin to reflect on the traits and …
- … Station at Naples. Plants that eat and feel? Darwin had resumed experiments on the …
- … 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of Darwin’s study of insectivorous plants, a …
- … and alkaloids, and even electrical stimulation. On sending Darwin a specimen of the carnivorous …
- … ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the glandular hairs on the …
- … to bend inward, so that the plant closed like a fist. Darwin was fascinated by this transmission of …
- … plants , p. 63). The plants secreted a viscid fluid, which Darwin suspected attracted insects by …
- … ., p. 17). Through a series of painstaking experiments, Darwin determined that the secretions …
- … botanist Mary Treat, who performed experiments suggested by Darwin on the North American species …
- … . He began to perform experiments modelled on those of Darwin, feeding the plant egg and raw meat, …
- … guide to animal experimentation that Klein had co-authored. Darwin contacted two of the Handbook …
- … London, and director of the Brown Institution. Darwin sent an abstract of his preliminary …
- … muscle and nerve tissue of animals. Burdon Sanderson visited Darwin at Down in July and was drawn …
- … To test whether the plants had a nerve-like structure, Darwin suggested electrical experiments on …
- … coil. He was so impressed by the results that he sent Darwin the news by telegraph in September, and …
- … without instruction or previously acquired knowledge” (A. R. Wallace 1870, p. 204). Moggridge …
- … believes whether or not they are sound” ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 November 1873 ). But no …
- … unorthodoxy, troubling and potentially undermining (J. R. Moore 1985, pp. 471–2). A courted …
- … of Origin . A Dutch translation of Expression (Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen trans. 1873) …
- … a personification of Natural Filosofy” ( letter from J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, 18 March 1873 …
