From Benjamin Clarke 12 March 1867
Summary
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
| Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 157/1, 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5439 |
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- … D r . Gray of the British Museum & other Zoologists will favour me with their opinions of …
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the life and career of Edward Blyth, zoologist. Archives of Natural History 22: 91–5. …
From Francis Walker 9 December 1867
Summary
The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A48–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5718 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Walker, Francis. 1868–70. Notes on Aphides. Zoologist 2d ser. 3 (1868): 1048–53, 1118–23, …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 33–45. Stone, S. 1860. Vespidæ in 1860. Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
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| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Clarke, Benjamin | (1) |
| Walker, Francis | (1) |
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … wonderfully good. ' Among the names of geologists, zoologists, physicians, and …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … has occasioned much doubt and difference of opinion among zoologists’. How and why did …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
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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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our zoologists and palaeontologists may …
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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- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …
