To ? 21 August [1862]
Summary
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693F |
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
Matches: 2 hits
- … the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 8 (1884). A portrait photograph ‘on …
- … Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. …
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: 5 hits
- … I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, …
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
- … enemies of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching …
- … cry (letters to W. E. Darwin, [15 March 1868] and 8 April [1868] ). Such facts proved …
- … omnipotent and omniscient Creator’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] ). Others were concerned …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 2 hits
- … Books are to be taken, or returned in morning before ½ past 8. Books are never on any account …
- … Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
Matches: 14 hits
- … just as he had earlier analysed his own childhood memories.[8] Yet, though the dissociation was …
- … by five: George Howard, born 9 July 1845; Elizabeth, born 8 July 1847; Francis, born 16 August 1848; …
- … movement which causes hiccough.— 2 At his 8 th day he frowned much. & I believe …
- … also just at the same period or a few days earlier— Nov. 8[16] When seven weeks old, his eyes …
- … taking breath after each scream approaches it.— 8 Between 11 & 12 weeks old in …
- … when doing something disagreeable. say 50–60 days old 7 or 8 weeks old Continues occasionally …
- … Feb. 17 7 wks & 3 days 8 – 5 6 wks 8 – 4 …
- … Oct 28 — 1 st – 6 – 8 …
- … lb 8–”½oz …
- … in his mouth. He did this some little time before.— 8 th . Made a melancholy face, by …
- … that, I am certain, there was no mistake.— Decemb. 8 th .— Doddy has learnt to put out his …
- … have happened even only twice or thrice together Jan. 8 th . After Anne had been away for …
- … sure there was no error in this— 26v. [38] Jan 8 th — Doddy kissed Anne, on seeing her …
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
