From John Thomas Austen 27 May 1863
Summary
Has written to G. Dennen to ask him for an explanation regarding his behaviour in a financial transaction involving the savings bank of which JTA and CD are trustees.
| Author: | John Thomas Austen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4188 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From A. C. Ramsay 6 May 1863
Summary
Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].
Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].
Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.
Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4143 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: …
To George Snow 8 May 1863
Summary
Has pleasure in giving GS a testimonial for the office of surveyor for the Bromley District.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Snow |
| Date: | 8 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (30 April – 2 May 2019, Lot 207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4147F |
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- … Bibliography Post Office directory of the six home counties : Post Office directory of the …
From John Edward Gray 12 May 1863
Summary
Cites instance in which different varieties of same species of plant flourished side by side under same conditions.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4156 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 18 May 1863
Summary
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4170 |
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- … Bibliography DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney …
From Osbert Salvin 12 May 1863
Summary
Has just returned from collecting in Central America and is planning to go to the Galapagos to gather specimens in all branches of natural history.
| Author: | Osbert Salvin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4155 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney …
To Edward Cresy 13 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 13 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4164 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To W. H. Flower 12 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks WHF for photographs [of niata ox skull]. Will tell Quatrefages de Bréau about the cast. May have the photographs copied for woodcuts to illustrate his book on variation under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 12 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158 |
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- … Bibliography Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By …
To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 5 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography [Chambers, Robert. ] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. …
From W. D. Fox [16–22 May 1863]
Summary
A "quiz" on CD has appeared in the Illustrated Times [2 May 1863, p. 317].
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16–22 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4178 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Browne, Janet. 1990. Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern. In The …
From William Alexander Wooler 5 May 1863
Summary
Encloses plants derived from a cowslip–polyanthus cross.
| Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4141 |
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- … Bibliography Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. …
To J. D. Hooker 23 May [1863]
Summary
Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4180 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. D. Fox 29 May [1863]
Summary
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4193 |
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- … Bibliography Medical directory : The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, …
To John Scott 31 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for abstract of orchid sterility paper from Edinburgh Courant. His case of individual sterility will be of highest use to CD. Criticises JS’s writing. Points out weaknesses in the organisation of his argument and the use of inflated, imprecise language.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 31 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4197 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography ‘Beagle’ diary : Charles Darwin’s Beagle diary. Edited by Richard Darwin …
To George Maw 12 May [1863]
Summary
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 12 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4157 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography ‘Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire’: Notes on the effects produced by the …
From L. E. Becker 23–4 May [1863]
Summary
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23–4 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4182 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Charles Lyell 9 May 1863
Summary
Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149F |
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- … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1863a. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Becker, L. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (65) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Scott, John | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (3) |
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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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
Summary
The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
Summary
< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
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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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
