To John Lubbock 11 June [1865]
Summary
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 7 (EH 88206456) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4858 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To John Lubbock 11 June [1865] …
- … 7 (EH 88206456) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 June [1865] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and …
- … Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. June 11 My dear Lubbock The latter half of your book has …
- … in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 512–13). Chapters 11 to 13 (pp. 335–472) in …
- … are titled ‘Modern savages’. Chapters 11 and 12 described the culture and technological …
To Frederic William Farrar 11 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4913 |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … much obliged for your last letter of Nov. 11. , for your letters always give me pleasure. …
- … Letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 . …
- … In his letter of 11 November 1865 , Haeckel wrote that completion of his book Generelle …
- … died on 16 February 1864 (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 13). …
- … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 7. On Haeckel’s support for CD’s …
- … of species during the glacial period in chapter 11 of Origin , claiming that it testified …
- … 1865c , and Haeckel 1865d . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. …
- … 9 and 11. Haeckel 1864 and Haeckel 1865b . Haeckel 1864 described new species of ‘ …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865 …
- … DAR 166: 40 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 11 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Jena 11. November 1865. Mein hochverehrter theurer Herr! Nach längerer Zeit des Schweigens …
- … Jena 11 November 1865. Most esteemed, dear Sir! After a long period of silence, I hope I …
To [Robertson Munro?] 3 February [1865 or 1866?]
Summary
Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.
Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robertson Munro |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1865-6] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4763 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … sources. See also Correspondence vol. 11, enclosure to letter to John Scott, 6 March …
- … cross-fertilisation of Passifloras. [Read 11 June 1868. ] Transactions of the Botanical …
- … in 1863 and 1864, see Correspondence vols. 11 and 12. Scott’s paper on sterility in …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Appendix VI). On …
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 1863 (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Asa Gray , 26 June [1863] and …
- … 31 March [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] and …
- … from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 and n. 11. CD mentioned Auguste Laugel in his letter to …
- … letters from Asa Gray , 16 February 1864 and 11 July 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD …
- … and letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n. 14). CD evidently did not obtain seeds of dimorphic …
- … 12 [April 1862] , Correspondence vol. 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and n. 11). All the surviving seedlings produced by …
- … Lyell 1863a , see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . …
- … in the second chapter ( C. Lyell 1863a , p. 11), Lyell had written: Mr. John Lubbock …
- … See Correspondence vols. 8, 9, 10, and 11; see also Rupke 1994 , pp. 270–86, and L. …
- … one myself! ’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [ …
- … had given for inserting the note on page 11 of C. Lyell 1863c (see letter from Charles …
- … Lyell 1863a ). See Correspondence vol. 11 and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
From John Scott 21 July 1865
Summary
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B120a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4876 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … you long ago in answer to yours of March 11 th . but I have always deferred doing so in …
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Forms of flowers : The different forms of …
- … Edinburgh. See Correspondence vols. 10, 11, and 12. James McNab was curator of the Royal …
- … regular duties (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from John Scott , 22 May 1863 and [ …
- … in India ( EB ). In his letter to Scott of 11 March 1865 , CD had forwarded Hooker’s and …
- … on dimorphism (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] …
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … was written before CD wrote a letter to Scott on 11 March 1865 that is also missing (see …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , Correspondence vol. …
- … 11, letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and 21 May [1863] , and …
- … 1865] ). CD’s reply to Scott, written on 11 March 1865, has not been found (see letter …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Correspondence …
- … vol. 11, letters to John Scott , 31 May [1863] and 1 and 3 August [1863] ). In February …
From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … of what induced me to put in the note at page 11 which you point to as irreconcilable with …
- … seen your paper. The next sentence (Lyell p 11. Lubbock p 491) relates to the duration of …
- … particularly, in the face of the note to p. 11. of your work, they would almost inevitably …
- … by Sir Charles Lyell , in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the Danish …
- … refers is as follows ( C. Lyell 1863c , p. 11): Mr. John Lubbock published, after these …
- … 1866 ). Lyell claimed, in the note on page 11 of Lyell 1863c , that Lubbock had written …
- … inadvertence of my statement” in the note at p 11. no reader will imagine that this was …
From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
Summary
Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Forms of flowers : The different forms of …
- … jusqu’ici dans cet ordre d’insectes. 11 vols. in 12. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de …
- … Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 11 (1859): Article 6. Le Conte, John Lawrence. …
- … Arts , pp. 279–84; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 . The …
- … Library–Down, respectively (see Marginalia 1: 11–13), and an annotated copy of Walsh 1864c …
- … Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 9–11). The essay was reprinted as a separate book in …
- … T. V. Wollaston, 2 March [1855] and nn. 11 and 12, and Wollaston 1856 , pp. 81–7, 186– …
From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865
Summary
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4900 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … photograph of CD in his letter of 21 July [ – 7? August] 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
- … in November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January …
- … J. von Haast 1861 ; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …
- … bearing deposits (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Julius von Haast , 5 March …
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 May 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … had died in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September …
- … Chapter 7 of the ninth edition became chapter 11 of the tenth edition (see C. Lyell 1867– …
- … Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 810–11). Hooker refers to John Lubbock’s Prehistoric …
- … Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863c , pp. 11–16), ‘extracting whole sentences verbatim, or …
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1863 ( Brace 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to C. L. Brace, 24 June [1863] …
- … the United States (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and …
- … 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] , n. …
- … 3, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 and nn. 8 and 9). …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from Fritz Müller , 12 August 1865 and n. 11, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , …
- … from John Scott (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August …
- … early in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. …
- … April and May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from W. E. Darwin, 8 May [1863] …
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
| letter | (120) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (73) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (119) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| Müller, Fritz | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
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…
Matches: 16 hits
- … on the topic. Lyell also added the following note on page 11: *Mr. John Lubbock published …
- … 2 have struck out Galton & Prestwich at p. 11 who will be surprisd [ sic ] to …
- … had done ‘an injustice’ to Falconer and Prestwich. 11 In the same review Lubbock expressed …
- … he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock …
- … The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the …
- … of the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with …
- … of the preface of C. Lyell 1863c and reworded the note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier …
- … Lyell revised both the preface and the note on page 11 of the third edition of Antiquity of man …
- … versions of the end of the preface and of the note on page 11 are included below. Preface, C …
- … as well as of the subsequent issues.” Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (original version) …
- … made by him in company with Mr. Busk. Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (revised version) …
- … in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence vol. 11, pp. xv–xvii). For a comparison of …
- … 1984, pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] …
- … Bartholomew 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … 18 April [1863 ]. 10. Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March …
- … (rough draft of letter from T. H. Huxley to Charles Lyell, 11 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 7 hits
- … German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of …
- … & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn …
- … letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition …
- … we shall immediately see)’. Page xiv, n., line 11, delete ‘in the years 1794–5’. …
- … substitute for ‘but then . . . kinds of flowers.’: 11 In just some of …
- … sentence also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 20. 11. p. 56. This whole paragraph was …
- … in Origin 4th ed., p. 449. 47. p. 409–11. This passage also appears, with slight …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 8 hits
- … backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel …
- … review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … Correspondence vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To Darwin’s relief, …
- … the moment of being hatched ( letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874] ; Spalding 1872a). …
- … & that must be enough for me’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). Plants that eat . …
- … cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). His research …
- … Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted …
- … the photograph he sent highly ( letter from D. F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] ). At the …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 7 hits
- … gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether …
- … on Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … of Natural History’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). She had had assistance …
- … for a second edition ( letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ), Darwin asked him to use …
- … see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). Yet Darwin was now …
- … interest. He told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1862] ): ‘This is a nice, but …
- … from one parent’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). really good …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 8 hits
- … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
- … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
- … 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. W., London, …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 11 hits
- … regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, …
- … by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he …
- … bottom of seas, lakes, and rivers ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Quarrels at …
- … Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix III), and of the Société des …
- … unsuccessful ( see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of …
- … [9 May 1863] , and memorandum from G. H. Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]) . As he struggled …
- … to drive the quietest man mad’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Hooker and Gray agreed …
- … tropical plants than before (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). He was fascinated with …
- … pistils mature at different times ( see letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). The fertility of …
- … ‘Crossing & Sterility’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). When Darwin finished, by …
- … animal suffering caused by them (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IX). Francis Darwin later …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
Summary
The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Matches: 4 hits
- … man in his most "primitive wildness" ( letter to Henslow, 11 April 1833 ). They …
- … Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April 1833 "The Fuegians are in a more …
- … 98). Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] "the …
- … Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] I suppose that you do not …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 4 hits
- … St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening …
- … Mivart not to acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate …
- … attacks on Darwin became notorious, had written on 11 May expressing concern that his recently, …
- … well informed: `The die is cast’, he wrote excitedly on 11 May , when the matter was first raised …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … the popularity of his book, writing to Robert Cooke on 11 April , ‘though I believe it is of …
- … for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October , Darwin described how the …
- … Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the …
- … visits from distinguished persons. Gladstone came to Down on 11 March. ‘I expected a stern, …
- … not been a difficulty to me,’ he replied to Romanes on 11 June , ‘as I have never believed in a …
- … that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). Moorsom replied …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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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- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles …
- … who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at the time of her death, would …
- … you are one of the best of all’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). …
- … do I cannot conceive’, Darwin wrote anxiously to Hooker on 11 September. By the time Darwin …
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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- … in that little sheet of note-paper! DARWIN: 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably …
- … 1 OCTOBER 1846 7 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8 C DARWIN TO A …
- … 10 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 24 AUGUST 1855 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 …
- … 22 NOVEMBER 1856 29 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 APRIL 1861 30 A GRAY TO C …
- … A GRAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 1858 58 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO …
- … HOOKER, 18 OCTOBER 1859 63 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 64 JD …
- … 13 NOVEMBER 1859 66 C DARWIN TO R OWEN, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 67 C DARWIN …
- … 17 FEBRUARY 1861 111 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 DECEMBER 1861 112 C DARWIN …
- … DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 MAY 1864 159 FROM A GRAY 11 JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN …
- … TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 DECEMBER 1874 205 TO A …
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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- … Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives …
- … continue his observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] …
- … two letters to the Athenæum ( Correspondence vol. 11). Darwin’s anxiety about the matter was …
- … and the question of human origins ( Correspondence vol. 11). Wallace, however, traced a possible …
Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Darwin and Religion
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When Darwin published On the Origin of Species, was there a clear cut division between those who supported science and those who supported God? Find out how Darwin’s letters reveal a complex reaction from all sides and a desire from Darwin to keep his…
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- … Pupils explore the reaction to Darwin’s findings as evidenced through his letters. Activities …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
