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From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]

Summary

JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[18 Apr 1876]
Classmark:	DAR 104: 49–50
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10282

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… From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876] …
… DAR 104: 49–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [18 Apr 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
… JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [ Botany (1876)]. …
… and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] . The seeds of teasel ( Dipsacus ) were …
… probably sent for Francis Darwin , who was working on it by late May 1876 (see letter from …
… Francis Darwin, [31 May 1876] . CD had submitted Lawson Tait’s paper on the tropical …
… series of Macmillan and Co. , had been published in March 1876 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
… 16 March 1876, p. …
… 218); two further editions appeared in 1876, after which it was reprinted several times. …
… Street, London, from 27 April to 3 May 1876 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)); he had intended …
… fell ill while she was staying at Down (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] ). …
… see letter to Lawson Tait, 24 April 1876 ). Evidently Michael Foster was the physiological …
… s paper, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 . George Howard Darwin arrived …
… back from a trip to Malta on 28 March 1876; Hooker visited Down on 15 April ( Emma Darwin’ …

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

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… To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876] …
… DAR 95: 419–20 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Sept [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… for the Advancement of Science at Glasgow had appeared in Nature , 7 September 1876, pp. …
… 393–417, and 14 September 1876, pp. 425–41. …
… Further reports appeared in issues for 21 September 1876, pp. …
… 451–63, and 28 September 1876, pp. 476–92. Hooker’s second wife was Hyacinth Hooker . …
… this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 September 1876 . See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 13 September 1876 . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 11 September [1876] ; CD had evidently expected that Hooker would still be at …
… which was held from 6 to 13 September 1876 ( Report of the 46th meeting of the British …
… to a son, Bernard Darwin , on 7 September 1876 ( ODNB ). Reports on the meeting of the …

To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]

Summary

Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	17 Oct [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 423–4
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10644

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… To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876] …
… his wife Hyacinth visited Down House on 2 December 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
… DAR 95: 423–4 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 17 Oct [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 October 1876 . CD had asked William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
… Orchids 2d ed. (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 September 1876 and nn. 1 and 3). See …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 October 1876 and n. 1. The …
… By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
… see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2). The results were published in F. …
… see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). George Howard Darwin was evidently …
… see letter to George King, 19 September 1876 and n. 1). CD stayed at William Erasmus …
… see letter to Andrew Clark, [late June 1876] ). Frances Darwin had been in Wales with his …

From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]

Summary

JDH again expresses his condolences.

The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.

Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?

Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[24 Sept 1876]
Classmark:	DAR 104: 62–5
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10605

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… From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876] …
… DAR 104: 62–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker The Doune [24 Sept 1876] Charles Robert Darwin …
… W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Tait, Peter Guthrie. 1876. Lectures on some recent advances in …
… relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 September [1876] . …
… The Sunday following 17 September 1876 was 24 September. See letters to J. …
… D. Hooker, 11 September [1876] and …
… 17 September [1876] . Hooker’s first wife, Frances Harriet Hooker , had died suddenly on …
… lake (see letter to John Tyndall, 5 June [1876] and n. 2). Brian Houghton Hodgson and …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 September [1876] . Francis Darwin had been living at Down …
… the six home counties 1874). Amy died at their home on 11 September 1876 ( letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 11 September [1876] ). Hooker …
… had married Hyacinth Jardine on 22 August 1876 ( ODNB ). Emma Darwin’s letter to Hooker …
… an evening lecture, ‘Force’, on 8 September 1876 at the annual meeting of the British …
… was printed in Nature , 21 September 1876, pp. 459–63, and the full text was printed in …
… advances in physical science ( P. G. Tait 1876 , pp. 338–63). Although John Tyndall was …
… Association for the Advancement of Science (1876), Transactions of the sections, p. 114). …

From J. D. Hooker 26 April 1876

Summary

Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	26 Apr 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 56
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10476

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… From J. D. Hooker 26 April 1876 …
… DAR 104: 56 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 26 Apr 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Andrews, Thomas. 1876. The Bakerian lecture: On the gaseous state of matter. …
… German; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1876] and n. 2. ‘Work your wicked will’: an …
… CD was in London from 27 April until 3 May 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta …
… visiting Down, was ill from 17 to 21 April 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), delaying …
… the Darwins’ visit to London; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1876] and n. 2. …
… In his letter to Hooker of 25 April [1876] , CD had promised to send Hooker the second …
… Lecture, ‘On the gaseous state of matter’ ( Andrews 1876 ), at the Royal Society of …
… London on Thursday 27 April 1876. …

To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]

Summary

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	19 Apr [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 406
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10457

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… To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876] …
… DAR 95: 406 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Apr [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… sent teasel ( Dipsacus ) seeds; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [18 April 1876] and n. 2. …
… the letter to C. S. Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
… Down on 8 April and was ill with pain and fever from 17 to 21 April 1876. The Darwins had …
… intended to go to London on 20 April 1876 (see letter to G. …
… J. Romanes, 14 April 1876 ). They stayed with CD’s …
… Darwin , from Thursday 27 April until 3 May 1876 (CD’s ‘ Journal’ (Appendix II)). Hooker …

To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]

Summary

McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	9 Apr [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 404–5
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10445

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… To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876] …
… DAR 95: 404–5 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Apr [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 and n. 3. He had failed to be elected in …
… between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 . Letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 . …
… In his letter of 8 April 1876 , Hooker had asked CD for a few lines in support of Robert …
… see letter to H. T. Stainton, 11 February [1876] and n. 1 . This was Alfred Henry Garrod’s …
… first nomination; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 and n. 2. See letter …
… from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 . Harriet Anne Hooker was Hooker’s daughter. Robert …

From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876

Summary

JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	13 Sept 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 60–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10597

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… From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876 …
… DAR 104: 60–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Helensburgh 13 Sept 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… to Hooker with details of Amy’s death ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1876] ). …
… Hooker had married Hyacinth Jardine on 22 August 1876 ( ODNB ). Francis Darwin’ …
… s wife, Amy , had died on 11 September 1876, having given birth on 7 September to Bernard …
… was reported in The Times , 13 September 1876, p. 1. Hooker’s first wife, Frances Harriet …
… Hooker had visited Down on 15 April 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)) and probably saw …
… the Hooker family doctor, who died suddenly in Geneva on 7 September 1876 ( The Times , …
… 12 September 1876, p. 9). Sabina Douglas Clavering Smith lived at Jordanhill house, …

From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876

Summary

JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].

Return of Challenger.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	14 Nov 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 69–70
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10671

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… From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876 …
… DAR 104: 69–70 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 14 Nov 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Address to the Royal Society [ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62]. Return of Challenger . …
… By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1876. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national …
… the Beagle voyage. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1876] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 26 April 1876 . John and Ellen Frances Lubbock lived at High Elms, Down, Kent. …
… visited the Darwins on Saturday 2 December 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George …

To J. D. Hooker 10 August 1876

Summary

Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.

CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	10 Aug 1876
Classmark:	DAR 95: 415–16
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10576

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… To J. D. Hooker 10 August 1876 …
… baby then (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] and n. 1). …
… DAR 95: 415–16 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Aug 1876 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 8 August [1876] and n. 2). Orpington was the nearest railway …
… married Hyacinth Jardine on 22 August 1876 ( ODNB ). Asa Gray’s collection of essays, …
… for the Advancement of Science in September 1876. His wife, Amy, was expecting their first …

From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876

Summary

JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.

Preparing new editions of botany text-books.

His marriage is set for August.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	4 July 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 59
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10556

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… From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876 …
… DAR 104: 59 Joseph Dalton Hooker Heathfield Sussex 4 July 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… and Jardine were married on 22 August 1876 ( ODNB ); the British Association for the …
… meeting at Glasgow from 6 to 13 September 1876. Harriet Anne Hooker was Hooker’s daughter. …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] . Francis Darwin had been studying the glands …
… series of Macmillan and Co. , had been published in March 1876 ( Publishers’ circular , …
… 16 March 1876, p. …
… 218); two further editions appeared in 1876, after which it was reprinted several times. …

To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876

Summary

Plants received from JDH.

Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	11 Dec 1876
Classmark:	DAR 95: 427–8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10710

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… To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876 …
… DAR 95: 427–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Dec 1876 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 11. 1876 My dear Hooker, I thank you very much for …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 . Hooker had sent flowers of Cinchona …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 and n. 2. Fritz Müller had mentioned a …
… Naturalist 7 (1873): 422–3; see letter to Asa Gray, 20 December 1876 and n. 2. See letter …
… from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 and n. 4. …
… Society Council minutes for 26 October 1876; they contained a letter from Albert Günther …

To J. D. Hooker 21 June [1876]

Summary

CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	21 June [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 408–12
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10542

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… To J. D. Hooker 21 June [1876] …
… DAR 95: 408–12 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 June [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 . See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 . Hooker had been asked to suggest an inscription for Charles …
… chemist. See letter to Lawson Tait, 5 May 1876 . CD had communicated a paper by Tait on …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 and n. 2. The inscription used for the memorial …
… rejected. See letter from Hubert Airy, 2 May 1876 and n. 8; he called the instrument a …
… from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 6 June 1876 and n. 1). Francis had discovered protoplasmic …
… see letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). He thought that the filaments might …
… Katherine Murray Lyell. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 . C. Lyell 1830–3 . …

From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876

Summary

Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	11 Apr 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 55
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10446

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… From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876 …
… DAR 104: 55 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 11 Apr 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… London ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April [1876] and n. 3. Harriet Anne Hooker ; see …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 and n. 4. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker . …
… s second wife Georgina Brook Henslow died in 1876. The ‘little boy’ was probably George …
… of the Royal Society of London on 1 June 1876: William de Wiveleslie Abney , Henry Edward …

From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876

Summary

Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	8 Apr 1876
Classmark:	DAR 104: 53–4
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10444

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… From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876 …
… DAR 104: 53–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 8 Apr 1876 Charles Robert Darwin …
… 14 January 1874 . See also letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 April 1876 and n. 3. Harriet Anne …
… Hooker . The Royal Society conversazione took place on 5 April 1876; it was reported …
… in Nature , 13 April 1876, pp. 473–4. …
… letter to H. T. Stainton, 11 February [1876] and n. 1. Alfred Henry Garrod was a zoologist …

To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1876]

Summary

Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	22 June [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 413–14
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10543

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… To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1876] …
… DAR 95: 413–14 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 June [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 and n. 2. This quotation from C. Lyell 1830–3 , …
… the letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 . The enclosures are Katherine Murray Lyell’s …
… for CD’s views on them (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 June 1876 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). C. Lyell 1830–3 . …

To J. D. Hooker 15 December 1876

Summary

JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	15 Dec 1876
Classmark:	DAR 95: 429
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10721

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… To J. D. Hooker 15 December 1876 …
… DAR 95: 429 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Dec 1876 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… 117, CD wrote that they did not. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 December 1876 and n. 1. …
… Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 15. 1876 My dear Hooker, You have rejoiced my …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 December 1876 and n. 3. Gray’s observations were in …

To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1876]

Summary

CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	25 Apr [1876]
Classmark:	DAR 95: 407
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10471

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… To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1876] …
… DAR 95: 407 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Apr [1876] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… letter to Smith, Elder & Co. , 22 April 1876 . CD wanted copies of Volcanic islands and …
… Carus ; see letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876 . The publisher of these works, Smith, …
… to bring out second editions; see letter to Smith, Elder & Co. , 22 April 1876 and n. 3. …

To J. D. Hooker 29 January 1876

Summary

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	29 Jan 1876
Classmark:	DAR 95: 403
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10374

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… To J. D. Hooker 29 January 1876 …
… DAR 95: 403 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 Jan 1876 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… the Linnean Society meeting on 2 February 1876 to support a second, successful, attempt to …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 and n. 1. John Tyndall had become engaged …
… Charlotte Hamilton; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 and n. 4. See letter …
… from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 and n. 2. CD had asked Hooker for comments on a …

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Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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… I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
… has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, happily …
… life. But the calm was not to last, and the second half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief …
… in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the second edition …
… Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1876 ). When Smith, Elder and Company …
… observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) Darwin focused instead on the …
… ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids was less a …
… with his new research in mind: ‘During this autumn of 1876 I shall publish on the “Effects of Cross …
… pamphlet, Darwin confounded (C. O’Shaughnessy 1876), which, he informed Darwin, ‘completely …
… and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). Combatting enemies... …
… disguised his views as to the bestiality of man’ (Mivart 1876, p. 144). Not only was the comment …
… in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had long been a …
… a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s …
… in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle& …
… issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission report was published …
… The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John …
… The 'insect eating theory' Throughout 1876, Darwin continued to receive responses …
… published later that year and a German translation in 1876. ‘What is more to be wondered at—Nature …
… an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 ). Others questioned whether insects …
… eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 ). William Dallinger from Liverpool …
… to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). Pangenesis v. perigenesis …
… second edition of Variation was published in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date …
… ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March 1876] ). A less welcome reaction came from an ardent …
… previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September 1876] ). ...all sorts of …
… later told Muller ( letter to Fritz Müller, [9 February 1876] ). Likewise, when Johann von Fischer …
… ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before 15 September 1876] ). Hubert Airy’s latest paper on leaf …
… of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). Darwin recognised scientific skill …
… Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles, 16 …
… it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 ). Darwin beat an angry retreat. He …
… untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ). Darwin also had cause to …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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… in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project …
… the self-fertilised’ ( To G. H. Darwin, 8 January [1876] ). George explained the difficulties of …
… equal value.’ ( From G. H. Darwin, [after 8 January 1876] ). It was his cousin, the statistician …
… introduction to the book ( To Francis Galton, 13 January [1876] ). Joseph Henry …
… on yet another experimental aspect of his work. In February 1876, he wrote to the agricultural …
… in a state of nature’ ( To J. H. Gilbert, 16 February 1876 ). Darwin wanted to try to remove all …
… soil to remove nutrients ( From J. H. Gilbert, 4 March 1876 ). In June 1876, Darwin had supposedly …
… samples differed ( To Edward Frankland, [before 6 June 1876] ). The project proved to be too …
… am convinced that the book is of value’ By August 1876, the book had gone to press and …
… shall ever do on this subject’ ( To Asa Gray, 9 August 1876 ). As Darwin began correcting …
… I would suggest 1,500’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 16 September 1876 ). In the meantime, a happy event, the …
… it too much for you’ ( To Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). Francis must have found some …
… slightly modified’ ( To Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). Darwin continued to send work, …
… & very useful’ ( To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876] ). At the end of September …
… early in November’ ( To J. V. Carus, 27 September 1876 ). The title had now changed from that …
… alone worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote …
… Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). Gray was impatient for a copy …
… had not yet been released ( From Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). Darwin sent the sheets, apologised …
… that of almost anyone else’ ( To Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray reassured him, ‘I have as yet …
… faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The book was published on 10 …
… 6 or 700 would sell.’ ( To John Murray, 15 November 1876 ). In fact, Murray sold 1100 copies of …
… for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). After reading the book, Hildebrand …
… for further work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). Alphonse de Candolle noted the …
… experiments ( From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876 ). One critical review came from Alfred …
… yet been produced’ ( From A. R. Wallace, 13 December 1876 ). No reply to this letter has been …

Darwin's 1876 letters online

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Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. To mark the 211th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we have released online the transcripts and footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters written before…

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… footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters …
… was devoted to the means of crossing. The year 1876 started energetically, with Darwin …
… of Variation under domestication appeared early in 1876. Reprints of Origin, Climbing plants …
… in January 1877; Darwin had been working on it since May 1876. Work was probably a welcome …
… letters written or conjectured to have been written before 1876, which have been discovered or …
… to a span of years, but that were probably written before 1876. Many of these are from a recently …

From Argus pheasant to Mivart: To A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876

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This letter has almost everything you might want from a Darwin letter, and merits a correspondingly, magnificently complete set of notes provided by the Correspondence Project. First, the letter is to that other doyen of natural selection, Alfred Russel…

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… records Darwin's views on the first volume of Wallace's 1876 book The geographical …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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… Emma to a Sunday afternoon at the Leweses’ on 30 April 1876 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Jane Gray

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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…

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… hurrah, 2795 games. (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ) And an entry in Jane …

4.28 'English celebrities' montage

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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…

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… English Celebrities, 19 th Century (1876) . Fiction writers and …
… of image unknown   date of creation 1876   computer-readable date 1876-01-01 …
… th Century , Part 1 (London: Hughes and Edmonds, 1876), given to the NPG by Mrs Granville …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B. to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick responds …
… Letter 10415 - Darwin to Herrick, S. M. B., [6 March 1876] Darwin responds to a …
… Letter 10508 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [15 May 1876] Mary Treat thanks Darwin for …

Women’s scientific participation

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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…

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… Letter 10439 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [3 April 1876] Mary Treat describes a field trip …
… 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B . to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick asks …
… Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis, …
… Letter 10517 - Darwin t o Francis, F., [29 May 1876] Darwin gives his son, Francis …

3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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… with different titling, in The Garden in January 1876. Rejlander’s photograph was re-interpreted …
… also appeared in Neue Illustrierte Zeitung (1 October 1876); L’Univers Illustré (29 April …
… Wood engraving in a supplement to The Garden (1 Jan. 1876), serving as frontispiece to an …

3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'

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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…

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… Mark , published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to …

Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores

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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…

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… in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured …
… and continued collecting wild plants in the spring of 1876. The resulting observations would …
… his observations. On 7 September 1876, Francis welcomed his son Bernard into the …
… on the nature and function of aggregation. Francis’ 1876 paper on aggregation sought explicitly to …
… protoplasm, rather than condensations of cell-sap (F. Darwin 1876, p. 312). Cohn’s comments on …
… by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. Darwin, F. 1876. The Process of Aggregation in the …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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… religious sect’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 June [1876] ). Experimenters and a portion of the …

Power of movement in plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…

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… Letter 10517 - Darwin to Francis Darwin, 29 May 1876 Darwin writes to Francis to …

Darwin as mentor

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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…

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… Letter 10523 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 June 1876] Darwin praises Treat’s work and …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… THE OLDER ONE GETS THE MORE THERE IS TO DO: 1868-1876 In which the friends consider the …
… 20 JULY 1857 45 A GRAY, PREFACE TO DARWINIANA, 1876 46 THE NICENE CREED, …
… TO A GRAY, 22 MAY 1860 91 A GRAY, DARWINIANA, 1876 92 A GRAY, REVIEW OF …
… TO JD HOOKER 1870 183 C DARWIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1876 184 A GRAY, PREFACE, …
… GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST 1876 194 FROM A GRAY 25 …
… JUNE 1874 203 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 …

People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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… Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to Paris in 1889. …
… and was sent back to Europe as a military attaché. Since 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the …
… Kautschuk- und Leder-Industrie. 2 nd issue. Wien: Manz 1876. N.N.: GM Josef Edler von …
… society Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: …

Darwin in public and private

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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…

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… 10546 – Darwin to Editor of The Times , [23 June 1876] Darwin forwards to The …

Essays & reviews by Asa Gray

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Asa Gray wrote a series of reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. These gave publicity to Darwin’s theories, and they also contained extended reflections on the possible implications of these theories…

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… collection of Gray’s reviews was published in book form in 1876 under the title Darwiniana . This …
… to obtain. Seven of these reviews, written between 1860 and 1876, which bear especially on the topic …

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