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Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
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- … Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged …
- … Hooker’s throat . The final tally was 82 plants when Newton asked for the foot back to …
- … Photograph of Hinrich Nitsche's ear, enclosed with the letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April …
- … from a Geestemünde butchers. Darwin sent the specimen to William Henry Flower at the Royal …
- … was bombed during the Second World War. William Henry Flower's description of …
Who we were
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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…
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- … the public. She also keeps the office running, transcribes letter texts, researches obscure …
- … for numerous digital humanities projects, including the Newton Project and Enlightening …
- … has an MPhil in HPS from Cambridge and has worked for the Newton Project Canada. She originally …
- … Jean Macqueen Nancy Mautner Anna K. Mayer William Montgomery Eleanor Moore …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … to the fear displayed by monkeys. He writes about this in a letter in 1881 to William Graham : …
- … press one’s heterodoxy onto others. And you refer to a letter from Joseph Hooker to Darwin in 1865 …
- … the very philosopher who invented the word scientist, William Whewell , made it perfectly clear …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … < Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, …
- … decided to opt for a portrait in oils rather than a bust. William Richmond (son of George Richmond, …
- … of Fine Art at Oxford in this same year. In a letter of 18 June 1879, Darwin told Thiselton …
- … University of Cambridge originator of image William Blake Richmond date of …
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
- … of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
- … book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
- … as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
- … The index of Variation had been entrusted to William Sweetland Dallas, a naturalist with long …
- … would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
- … of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
- … if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
- … reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from the Isle of Wight on the formation …
- … would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
- … ignorant article… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] …
- … ‘he is a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] …
- … wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. …
- … proved very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from George Cupples, who was encouraged …
- … with the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous …
- … of science On 27 February , Darwin sent a letter of thanks to the naturalist and …
- … he later added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). …
- … provided by the poultry expert and editor of the Field , William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who …
- … to various classes, a dim ray of light may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868 …
- … as well as of ‘victorious males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). …
- … of females was remarked upon by other entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 …
- … and Coleoptera on 9 September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday …
- … for as sure as life he wd find the odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] …
- … George Robert Crotch, writing to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I …
- … box of preparations to papa … I will write a less beetley letter soon.’ Other relations …
- … present had taken no particular interest in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 …
- … to Emma Darwin, 9 February [1868] ). Darwin’s eldest son, William, met on occasion with a …
- … to August Weismann, 22 October 1868 ). To the physiologist William Preyer Darwin wrote on 31 …
- … science, including Adam Sedgwick, John Stevens Henslow, and William Jackson Hooker. ‘I … am …
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … then Calcutta. There are letters to the pigeon-breeder, William Tegetmeier and the nurseryman …
- … Charles and his wife Emma, and several of their children: William, George, Henrietta , Francis …
- … 3 pails of water thrown over me on rising William Darwin Fox , Charles’s cousin and …
- … George Waterhouse Edward Blyth J. V. Carus William Kemp Alfred Newton …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … selection in relation to sex . He wrote to his indexer, William Sweetland Dallas, on 27 January …
- … do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ) …
- … to her liking, ‘to keep in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). …
- … and had forsaken his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 …
- … they believe to be the truth, whether pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). …
- … and Oldham … They club together to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). …
- … one’s n th . ancestor lived between tide-marks!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 February 1871 ). …
- … habits, furnished with a tail and pointed ears” (letter from Asa Gray, 14 April 1871) …
- … ‘will-power’ and the heavy use of their arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 …
- … in order to make it darker than the hair on his head ( letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 25 …
- … together with an image of an orang-utan foetus ( letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April 1871 ). …
- … of himself, adding that it made a ‘very poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871] …
- … each night, returning to its allotted space each morning ( letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 …
- … without having a high aesthetic appreciation of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 …
- … endowment of spiritual life’ at some time in the past ( letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April …
- … to the white’. Darwin thanked Innes for his ‘pleasant letter’, but asserted his antipathy to human …
- … myself a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). …
- … ‘whereas the baboon is as the Creator made it’ ( letter from George Morrish, 18 March 1871 ). …
- … could also redeem the wayward author of Descent ( letter from a child of God, [after 24 …
- … with the most deep and tender religious feeling’ ( letter from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 ). The …
- … the family and commented upon by his wife and children. William offered his assessment of John …
- … Günther, George Busk, T. H. Huxley, Osbert Salvin, and William Henry Flower all provided Darwin with …
- … anatomists and eye specialists Frans Cornelis Donders, William Bowman, and Erasmus Wilson, to …
- … or ‘absurd & trifling’ questions ( letter to William Bowman, [before 26] January [1871] ). He …
- … `’the age of Darwin’’, as we now speak of the age of Newton’ ( letter from Napoleon de la Fleurière …
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … at Oxford. The insect specimens acquired by Revd Frederick William Hope, who endowed the chair in …
- … mimicry among insects. Alfred Russel Wallace, in a letter to his daughter dated 27 November 1896, …
- … proposal was adopted, and thus the figures of Darwin and Newton flank the archway leading through …
- … was rejected by the Darwin family. Darwin’s son William had been deputed to appraise the quality of …
- … they were ‘quite common place without being vulgar’. A letter in the Hope Pinker collection of …
- … in Caen limestone references and bibliography Letter from William Darwin to his father …
- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press}, vol. 26. Undated letter from ‘Waller’ to Hope Pinker, …
- … of letters, Royal Academy archive, HRHP/LPM/UVW31). Undated letter from H.E. Luxmoore of Eton …
- … Hart, 1894). Edward B. Poulton’s correspondence with William Flower, Director of the Natural History …
- … Selection (London, Paris, Melbourne: Cassell, 1896). Letter from Poulton to Acland, 25 Nov. 1896, …
- … 2, 1897 ), proof copy, OUM archive, Box 1, HM 1874–1902. Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896 …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray …
- … Hind’s Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt …
- … 7 Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph …
- … In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogle’s translation of Aristotle …
- … Notebooks ). 19 According to the DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both …
- … is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alison’s article which was …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … listing the volumes in the Naturalist’s Library edited by William Jardine, a forty-volume series on …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … 66 The bibliography provides the titles of the works by William Shakespeare that CD recorded …
- … CD’s collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See …
- … edited by Robert Bentley Todd, was issued in parts. William Pulteney Alison’s article first …
- … crayon and the ‘O’ in pencil. It is not clear which of William Jackson Hooker’s journals is meant …
- … and London. [Other eds.] *119: 15 Alison, William Pulteney. 1847. Instinct. In vol. 3, pp …
- … influence on the progress of civilisation . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 119: 22a …
- … written by himself . Translated by John Leyden and William Erskine. 2 vols. London. *119: 14 …
- … ed. (1864) in Darwin Library.] *128: 165 Baird, William. 1850. The natural history of …
- … Ray Society. [Darwin Library.] 128: 4 Baly, William and Kirkes, William Senhouse. 1848. …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
- … anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
- … corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
- … who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
- … abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
- … thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
- … how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
- … in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
- … patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
- … Darwin turned to the physician and eye-specialist William Ogle, requesting him to observe the muscle …
- … muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
- … expression, including four lengthy letters from the explorer William Winwood Reade, who had led an …
- … to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
- … . . Could you make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] …
- … or crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] …
- … Lucy Wedgwood, who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). …
- … is the inclination to finish my note on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). …
- … the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His …
- … (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
- … towards each other, though in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). …
- … version of the theory of descent by natural selection in a letter to Darwin, prompting much anxiety …
- … But who is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). …
- … me to be able to say that I never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). …
- … Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad you noticed the …
- … of consanguineous marriages. He enlisted the support of William Farr, a specialist in medical …
- … receive friends and visit family. He confided to his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘I never pass 6 …
- … at Ightam Mote, in Kent, and nearly a fortnight with his son William in Southampton, and making a …
- … man’. ‘I can most truly say’, he wrote to his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘that I have written …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … to 1836 voyage, committed suicide at the end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the …
- … The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
- … having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
- … his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
- … may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
- … always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
- … for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
- … gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
- … added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
- … of anything, & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] …
- … better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] …
- … he was ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
- … there are a number of letters to and from the poultry expert William Bernhard Tegetmeier concerning …
- … others very forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] …
- … my book will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In …
- … however, ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was …
- … might be more willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865 …
- … & I loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ) …
- … you will be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; …
- … needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June …
- … in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864 …
- … 1865 that he had just finished hearing it read aloud ( letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). …
- … with strong literary inclinations who wrote to Darwin: ‘Newton’s ocean of wonder on whose shore he …
- … contracted a throat infection, and Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker, who also caught it, …
- … All the children living away from home made frequent visits. William was working as a banker in …
- … triumphs . In non-fiction, they had read or were reading William Lecky’s History of the rise and …
- … Researches into the early history of mankind , and William Gifford Palgrave’s Narrative of a year …
- … in Mentone, sending orchid specimens, from Frederick William Farrar, writing on language, and from …
- … atmosphere. However, Darwin wrote poignantly to his son William on 30 November [1861]: ‘Mamma is in …
