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3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah
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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…
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- … ses photographies montrent plutôt sa conformation de tête, d’un philosophe de l’antiquité.’ …
- … his father’s air of sadness at that time. In a letter to Hooker of 15 June 1881, echoed in another …
- … references and bibliography letters from Darwin to Hooker, 15 June 1881 (DCP-LETT-13207) and to B …
- … the Darwin Correspondence Project’, accessed March 2020. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, pp. 179-81. …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph Dalton Hooker: ‘I hope this next summer to finish my …
- … my species-work’ ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November 1845] ). …
- … Of special interest are the nine letters from Joseph Dalton Hooker written during his expedition in …
- … and frequently dangerous travels through the mountains. Hooker writes of the complicated geology of …
- … of the Sikkim Himalaya. In the midst of all this activity, Hooker responds to Darwin’s particular …
- … other. Geology, and geological controversy Hooker’s letters illuminate the role of the …
- … Herschel, to write the chapter on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). …
- … and reproduced in Correspondence vol. 3, facing p. 320. At the end of his detailed description …
- … that such a monograph was a ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), was …
- … are clearly expressed in his letters; he also pointed out to Hooker that it was his species theory …
- … of the sexes from an ancestral hermaphrodite in his Notebook D ( Notebooks ) and had subsequently …
- … or pistils ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November 1840 ). The sexual …
- … this importance comes through in his happy protestations to Hooker: ‘But I can hardly explain what I …
- … you say, my species theory is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). Once …
- … to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] . As Darwin wrote to J. D. Hooker, who had warned him …
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…
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- … H. E. Litchfield to G. H. Darwin, [19 April 1882] (DAR 245: 320)). It was left to Emma to convey the …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … 4 [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v. …
- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … Brown 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read …
- … on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. …
- … Teneriffe. in Pers. Narr. [A. von Humboldt 1814–29] D r Royle on Himmalaya types [Royle …
- … reference to authors about E. Indian Islands 8 consult D r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] …
- … sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d’Hist. Nat. [Virey 1835] read …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … Crawford Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] …
- … [Temminck 1813–15] read Temminck has written Coup d’œil sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et …
- … to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … on generation. 1828 [Girou de Buzareingues 1828a]. quoted by D r Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … He is Horticulturist in France. Michaux, according to Hooker has written on topography of N. …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature …
- … Playfair 1824] Hume’s Essay [?Hume 1741–2] J. Taylor Art of Dying [J. Taylor 1651] …
- … ]. many very useful papers for me:— not in Hort. Soc. Hooker? Rogets Bridgewater Treatise …
- … —— Mauritius & C. of Good Hope Hooker recommends order [Backhouse …
- … Decandolles Veg: Organ: } recommended by Hooker . [A. P. de …
- … C. Watson 1845]— gives up permanent species (alluded to by Hooker) Foreign & British Med. …
- … 43 Lindley’s Vegetable Kingdom [Lindley 1846]. Hooker says very good for my purpose …
- … Phytologist [ Phytologist ] must be read . Hooker. read Fortune’s Travels in China …
- … Indian Journal [Griffith 1847], strongly recommended by Hooker— Analysis & theory of the …
- … Reproduzione [Gallesio 1816]. abstracted 18 th Hooker’s Bot. Misc. [ Botanical Miscellany …
- … and the review was by Fleming (see Notebooks , p. 320, n. 12). 56 The copyist …
