From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865
Summary
Has heard from Huxley that CD has been ill.
Progress on his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] has been slow.
Has been named "ordentlicher Professor". Has 150 listeners in his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy [of "Climbing plants"].
Sends his book [Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen, 1. Heft: Die Familie der Rüsselquallen (Geryonidae) (1865)] and two articles.
Calls attention to a new rhizopod from Nice.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934 |
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- … known letter to CD is dated 26 October 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12); however, CD …
- … s wife, Anna Sethe , had died on 16 February 1864; Haeckel discussed her death and its …
- … significance for his scientific work in his letters to CD of 9 [July 1864], 10 …
- … August 1864, and …
- … 26 October 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
- … as Haeckel 1866 . In his letter of 9 [July 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Haeckel had …
- … ibid. , letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 . CD’s annotated copy of Haeckel 1866 …
- … vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ). On the reception of CD’s theory in …
From B. D. Walsh 12 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s paper on "Climbing plants".
Mentions Asa Gray’s complimentary notice in Silliman’s Journal [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82].
His difficulty in understanding how males of Daphnia or any other genus can produce eggs. If there is no impregnation, how can there be sexual organs? Why call one form male and another female?
He has sent CD his paper on "the new Potato Bug".
Will soon send "On Phytophagi Species & Unity of Coloration". [phytophagic!?]
Complaints about practices of the English Post Office.
His current research and description of the rationale of his experiments.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Riley bequest of 1948) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934A |
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- … see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 ). …
- … 15: 106–15. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864–5. On phytophagic varieties and phytophagic …
- … CD an article on dimorphism in Cynips in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
- … B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 May 1864 , and letters to B. …
- … D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] and …
- … 4 December [1864] ). Walsh argued that the gall insect Cynips quercus aciculata , hitherto …
- … Entomological Society of Philadelphia ( Walsh 1864–5 ). CD’s heavily annotated copy is in …
From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865
Summary
Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.
Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.
| Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4933 |
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- … 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] , and this volume, letter from Henry Denny, …
- … 12, letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 7). See letter to F. W. Farrar, 2 …
- … anonymous articles that appeared in the 1864 and 1865 volumes of the Anthropological …
- … language’ ( Anthropological Review 2 (1864): 24–30), included a discussion of criticisms …
- … and Anthropological Societies of London in 1864. Farrar rejected the alleged universality …
From James Shaw 20 November 1865
Summary
Praises CD’s theory.
Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.
Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939 |
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- … Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1864. …
- … Opening address, 1864–5 session. [ …
- … Read 5 December 1864. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1862–6): 264–92. …
- … same criticism in his address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 December 1864 ( G. …
- … D. Campbell 1864 ). For a discussion of Campbell’s address and CD’s response, see the …
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
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- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] Winsor, …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1864] , and letters from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 29 November 1864 and …
- … 2 December 1864 . In ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 22, CD had reported that, according to Thomas …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 November 1864 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] . On branch-climbers, see letter from Fritz Müller , [12 and …
To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
Summary
Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1865]
Summary
Kew affairs.
H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.
Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 43–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330 |
From Hermann Kindt 24 November 1865
Summary
Thanks for the three Erasmus Darwin letters. Two have been returned to Eliza Meteyard. HK has kept the one about the French gentleman for publication [Autographic Mirror 4 (1866) no. 70].
| Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4941 |
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- … Mirror ( L’Autograph Cosmopolite ). 1 (1864), no. 88–89. The letter, dated 31 January …
To James Shaw 30 November 1865
Summary
Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.
Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4943 |
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- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 10, and Burkhardt 1974 , pp. …
From George Henslow 6 November 1865
Summary
Pleased CD confirms his observations on Salvia.
Spring action of Medicago stamens described.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4931 |
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- … 12, letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 25 June [1864] and n. 9. The carina is the structure …
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| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (2) |
| Shaw, James | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the …
- … Darwin corresponded little during the first three months of 1864, dictating nearly all his letters …
- … had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin exclaimed to his close friend, …
- … letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the Copley being open to all …
- … five years earlier. His primary botanical preoccupation in 1864 was climbing plants. He had become …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The …
- … produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
- … & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver …
- … light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his …
- … . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was continuing to study …
- … addition to his work on climbing plants, Darwin engaged in 1864 in botanical observations and …
- … were produced. Continuing from these earlier studies, in 1864 he conducted crossing experiments …
- … in causing sterility both within and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results (see …
- … Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing had interested him so …
- … species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to …
- … flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
- … Forms of flowers . The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin …
- … minute and painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work …
- … letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his excitement when he …
- … for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed …
- … to inspire the research of others as well; he influenced the 1864 publication of a paper by another …
- … publish his new material on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper …
- … continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again …
- … on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising Scott’s skills …
- … paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker’s series of …
- … over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). Hooker warned Darwin: ‘Do pray …
- … careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited and …
- … hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his reply of 25 April [1864] …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … of a fashionable spinal ice treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr …
- … gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why was Darwin’s so ill? …
- … vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach …
- … vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick almost daily (see …
- … Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
- … in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness …
- … 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . Treatments and medications …
- … doses of chalk, magnesia, and other antacids in March 1864 (see Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242, and n. …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … an important focus for his experiments. By the spring of 1864, he was thinking of expansion, telling …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 ). The plan was quickly set in motion, and …
- … the work, while William Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new …
- … was replaced after Darwin’s death, and one section of the 1864 greenhouse was subsequently …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). In view of the importance of Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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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…
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , 14 April [1864] Ernst Haeckel's …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
- … Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
- … Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [20 April 1864] Hooker discusses the scientific …
- … Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [26 or 27 April 1864] Hooker once again discusses …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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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…
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- … for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Annual Report, 1864, p. 32; Animal World , 1 February …
- … with the RSPCA; however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, …
- … the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, …
- … Darwin 2: 200). Although the RSPCA considered in 1864 that many game preservers had …
- … were 'awakening to its barbarity' (RSPCA Annual Report 1864, p. 32), the use of the steel …
- … payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 …
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…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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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- … and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a). In the July 1864 issue of Natural History Review …
- … address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
- … Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from …
- … 3. Letters from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 22 February 1864 and 24 February 1864 (British …
- … 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], in (British Library, Add. MSS 49640) …
- … and gentlemen in the formation of the X Club, 1851–1864. Isis 89: 410–44. Bynum, William …
- … History Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n …
- … revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1864. Presidential address. Report of the …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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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…
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- … & succeeding in India. John Scott to Darwin, 1864. I was astounded at …
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 …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott thanks Darwin for his …
- … Letter 4468 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his …
- … Letter 4469 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 20 Apr 1864 Hooker again refuses to help Scott, …
- … Letter 4471 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew …
- … Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott …
- … Letter 4441 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 30 Mar 1864 Becker sends Darwin a copy of her …
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
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … a period of severe illness, which improved by March 1864 under the care of the physician William …
- … his brain or heart to be ‘primarily affected’. In March 1864, Darwin began to consult Jenner, who …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], letter from William Jenner to …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … daughter reveal (J. D. Hooker to Darwin, 16 September 1864 ). In addition to his fears for …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly supported his candidacy, …
- … to CD’s theory of transmutation, in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
- … ), and wrote up his results on his voyage to India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness …
- … in learned societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke …
- … this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. …
- … among the prints that William posted to his father in May 1864, since the photograph subsequently …
- … simply inscribed by hand on the back in pencil ‘C. Darwin 1864’ – the accuracy of the dating …
- … Erasmus Darwin date of creation April 1864 computer-readable date 1864-04 …
- … William Darwin’s letter to his father [19 May 1864] sending prints of his recent photograph (DCP …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin sat for his eldest …
- … photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and emotional toll on Darwin, …
- … and the Botany Libraries (left) and Charles Darwin, 1864, William Darwin, Dar 225:113, …
- … took the first portrait with his ‘venerable beard’ in 1864. Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
