From Charles Nordhoff 27 February 1872
Summary
Reports the case of a cockerel raised in isolation from other cocks which repeatedly attempted, but failed, to crow properly.
Also discusses behaviour in horses; one male will "look after" 20–25 females.
| Author: | Charles Nordhoff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8225 |
From Dora Roberts 17 December [1872 or later]
Summary
Describes a case of maternal instinct, in which a hen protected kittens.
| Author: | Dora Roberts |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8683 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … With regard to the almost human scream of a horse in agony having heard it once I can …
- … never forget it In a crowd in London the horse fell & got under the wheel of a carriage …
- … how it is done— Top of letter : ‘Keep | Horse—screaming | Maternal Instinct misled’ pencil …
- … her master’s hand. This description of a horse screaming was added to Expression 2d ed. , …
To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1872]
Summary
Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 231–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8569 |
From James Murie 31 March 1872
Summary
Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.
| Author: | James Murie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 322 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8264 |
From Alfred Espinas March 1872
Summary
AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.
| Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8231 |
From H. A. Head 18 September 1872
Summary
Impressions of Duluth and the natural history of its environs.
| Author: | Henry A. Head |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8526 |
From Henry Huxley 17 and 20 January 1872
Summary
His father has gone to Egypt.
Tells of visit to circus.
| Author: | Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 and 20 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8162 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … we saw Cinderella acted and there was a nice horse whose name was [ Dueroco ] and he went …
From William Bowman 31 July 1872
Summary
Arranges to bring F. C. Donders to visit Down.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8439 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cross to Orpington and hire a fly (a horse-drawn carriage used as a cab) from Orpington to …
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1872]
Summary
Is much vexed about Drosera.
Land-level changes and volcanic activity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 31–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8552 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Parslow , could assist him in finding a horse to buy. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 30 March 1872
Summary
Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.
May come to England.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8262 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … on Anchitherium aurelianense , a fossil horse ( Kovalevsky 1872 ). CD’s copy is in the …
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1872
Summary
Miscellaneous personal matters.
What does CD think of Robert Mallet’s earthquake theory? Would it not account for strata dipping at base of range of mountains?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 121–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8547 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … informed me that Parslow often knew of a horse to be bought— Would you let me ask him or …
From B. J. Sulivan 20 June 1872
Summary
Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.
Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8393 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … would have had him at Falklands in Phelomel days even without horses or trees to aid. BJS. …
From F. P. Cobbe 28 November [1872]
Summary
More stories about dog behaviour.
| Author: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8653 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … such freaks of dogs & in the shying of horses; & is very nearly akin to human superstition …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 8 August [1872]
Summary
Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8459 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … his research on Anchitherium , a member of the horse family (see Correspondence vol. 19, …
From L. H. Jeitteles 3 November 1872
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
| Author: | Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8594 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … daim, the rabbit and perhaps also on the horse are, as I think, partially new. And as for …
From W. W. Reade 20 May 1872
Summary
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the betting ring with the freedom of a horse-couper or fishwife. ’ Reade published his …
From Asa Gray 6 October 1872
Summary
Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.
AG’s recent tour of the U. S.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8545 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … she slept well in the car births. Some horse back work in getting to and into Yosemite …
From Fulvio Martinelli 21 May 1872
Summary
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
| Author: | Fulvio Martinelli |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8343 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of such a conduct! An italian adage says that to a horse given in present the mouth is not …
From Ernst Haeckel 12 October 1872
Summary
Much experiment and observation needed before spontaneous generation will be empirically advanced, but philosophically the matter is clear.
Thinks Ludwig Rütimeyer has attacked EH to satisfy pious opinion in Basel.
Will soon be finished with his monograph Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8556 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … angered by the swift progress of a fast horse. I would, moreover, not have told the truth …
From Hubert Airy 24 July 1872
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments on his MS on phyllotaxy.
The initial variation required by his theory would be a slight twist of the bud-axis; believes the frequent twisting of stems and branches renders such a variation possible.
Admits he placed too much emphasis on the importance of frost. He should have spoken more generally of "vicissitudes of climate".
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8426 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … founded on bud-axes. The stem of the horse-chestnut is generally twisted to the right ( …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Espinas, Alfred | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Head, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, Henry | (1) |
| Jeitteles, L. H. | (1) |
| Martinelli, Fulvio | (1) |
| Murie, James | (1) |
| Nordhoff, Charles | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Roberts, Dora | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 3 hits
- … a neighbouring farmer to the RSPCA in 1852 for working horses with sore necks (see letter from Emma …
- … It is a common observation that cases of brutality to horses, asses, and other large quadrupeds, are …
- … treatment of cattle, 1822, prohibited the ill-treatment of horses, asses, sheep, and cattle, …
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Matches: 1 hits
- … a Century and all Seasons" reprinted in Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes. In an …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
Summary
< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin himself was very solicitous over the treatment of horses. His erstwhile friend, Frances Power …
- … living in Down village in 1852 on a charge of cruelty to his horses, securing a conviction and fine …
- … he wrote a warning letter to another local farmer, whose horses’ necks were ‘badly galled’, saying …
- … letter to a local farmer, c.1866, about the state of his horses, DAR-LETT-4963. Emma Darwin’s diary …
5873_1488
Summary
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … might be effected in man, as are now seen in our horses, dogs, and cabbages? ’ We …
The expression of emotions
Summary
Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…
Matches: 1 hits
- … illustrators to produce drawings and engravings of monkeys, horses, dogs, and cats. He acquired …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
Summary
The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
Matches: 1 hits
- … asses of the Tartarian deserts cannot equal in numbers the horses of the more luxuriant prairies and …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lucy, provides observations on the expression of emotion in horses and babies. She also reports …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// Exotic Moths …
- … last series on Nat: Hist: [Waterton 1844] tailess horses. Read “Bronn’s Geschicte der Natur.” …
- … of Rural & Domestic Improvement ] Col: Ham: Smith on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841] …
- … Catalogue. Ungulates Grey [J. E. Gray 1843–52]. Much on Horses & Hybrids [DAR *128: 157 …
- … 8a, 11a ——. 1841. The natural history of horses. Vol. 12 in Jardine, William, ed., …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on your Farm, you may not be aware that the necks of your horses are badly galled … Darwin …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
Summary
—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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … of the mammoth, of a rhinoceros now extinct, and along with horses and cattle unlike any now …
- … though they be, were the remote progenitors of our own horses and cattle. In all candor we must at …
- … of the world now offers more suitable conditions for wild horses and cattle than the pampas and …
- … and megatherium, at the dawn of the present period, wild-horses—certainly very much like the …
- … is a heavy blow and great discouragement to dogs, horses, elephants, and monkeys. Thus stripped of …
Frank Chance
Summary
The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Pallas states, that in Siberia domestic cattle and horses become lighter-coloured during the winter; …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Matches: 4 hits
- … ‘To assert that we could not breed our cart and race horses, long and short horned cattle, and …
- … of the rate of increase of slow-breeding cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in …
- … most curious instance of this; for here neither cattle, nor horses, nor dogs, have ever run wild, …
- … in Paraguay, the flies would decrease—then cattle and horses would become feral, and this would …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … information on the proportion of the sexes in sheep, cattle, horses, and dogs, and circulating …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … An unidentified correspondent offered facts on Clydesdale horses, Chillingham cattle, Leicester …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
Summary
The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on most of the common domesticated animals, among them horses, rabbits, pigeons, and poultry. As he …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the hope of finding more cases of striping in dray and cart horses, of inheritance in fowls, of the …
