From Hermann Brehmer 4 May 1876
Summary
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
| Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 287–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not …
- … selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his …
- … as e.g. the inhabitants of the higher mountains, of Iceland etc fall ill with phthisis …
- … they discontinue their previous—high fat—diet. Mountain dwellers, e.g. the inhabitants of …
- … called free, immune zones in the higher mountains do not fall ill with phthisis there. It …
- … as for example the inhabitants of the high mountains and of Iceland, fall ill of Phthisis …
- … life. Also strangers who are sent to the mountains free from consumption do not fall ill …
- … from Phth
〈 isis〉 & go back〈 〉 him〈 th〉 eir mountains they〈 〉 not a〈 〉 〈 〉 〈 p〉 … - … sent to the so-called free, immune mountain regions were cured from phthisis there. On the …
- … from phthisis, they return to their immune mountain-home, they are again healthier, the …
- … ago, to draw attention to this effect of the mountain climate on phthisis, and here in …
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10480 |
From Horace Pearce 16 November 1876
Summary
Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Horace Pearce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10675 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … is the genus of butterworts. Cader Idris is a mountain in Wales. Insectivorous plants was …
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
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- … black berries— sure to grow high up on mountains of Wales. C. D. (I cannot understand how …
From J. V. Carus 19 March 1876
Summary
Insectivorous plants is out
and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.
He is now at work on the geological writings.
Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".
Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10419 |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
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- … in a little churchyard amongst the mountains. It is a terrible affair. Pray give our very …
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 26 July 1876
Summary
Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata
and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: B50–4; DAR 160: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10566 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Summary
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
To Axel Blytt 28 March 1876
Summary
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10433 |
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- … Alpine plants continued to survive on mountain tops in the temperate zones ( E. Forbes …
From Robert Bell 28 March 1876
Summary
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
| Author: | Robert Bell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10432 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Christian God, has not been found. The Cariboo mountains gold rush established the town of …
From W. H. Flower 27 September 1876
Summary
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10620 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … See) is a large caldera lake in the Eifel mountain range, part of the east Eifel volcanic …
To Asa Gray 27 November 1876
Summary
Thanks for a correction. Hopes AG now has all the sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (114) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10688 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of Dr Parry’s collection in the Rocky Mountains’ ( A. Gray 1862c ), and ‘Structure and …
From Hermann Brehmer 17 April 1876
Summary
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 285–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10454 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in a little church-yard amongst the mountains, & I do not know when he will return, but I …
From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of circumstance. On Alp and glacier; in mountain huts; by the sea margin, among the fair …
From Hermann Müller 16 February 1876
Summary
Observations on hive- and humble-bees. Perforating habits differ in different individuals of the same species.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10396 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Ortler ( Ortles in Italian) is the highest mountain in the Ortles Alps in northern Italy ( …
From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Discusses geographical implications of inbreeding. Can the length of time an insular flora has been isolated be estimated by its weakness due to inbreeding?
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10724 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … on islands, especially on small ones without mountains, with the descendants of the same …
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Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … he wrote to Darwin about a local girl living in a mountain town on the island of Tenerife. …
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and off-hand, and acts on the spur of the moment.’ The ‘mountain of Firmness’ over his ears makes …
Monte Sarmiento
Summary
Peaks in Tierra del Fuego
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- … Fitzroy sends mountain heights in Tierra del Fuego. …
Frances Power Cobbe
Summary
Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
Matches: 1 hits
- … referred to her in a letter to Darwin as a 'disenchanting mountain of flesh'. Cobbe, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … volcanic phenomena in South America; and on the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, as the …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
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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- … at the same low tide, resembles a miniature volcanic mountain range extruded by the rock itself, 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…
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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- … version of the print was published, and is now raised to the mountain top, the highest point in the …
Darwin on childhood
Summary
On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … admirer was old Peter Hailes the bricklayer, & the tree the Mountain Ash on the lawn. All …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain formation, and the elevation of …
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…
Interview with Emily Ballou
Summary
Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- 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…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … migrated through the tropical regions near the equator along mountain ranges – these would have …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[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…
