From E. A. Darwin 22 [March 1867]
Summary
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5342 |
To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 22 March 1867
Summary
Agrees to publish German edition of Variation.
Discusses publication of third German ed. of Origin.
Thanks CD for portrait.
| Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5454 |
From Alexander Shaw to E. A. Darwin 22 March 1867
Summary
At the request of his sister, Marion Bell, he sends a copy of his essay on the nervous system. It contains a view of the development of the animal kingdom in illustration of Charles Bell’s classification of the nerves. Human powers are held to be more dependent upon the structure of the mouth than that of the hand.
| Author: | Alexander Shaw |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5454A |
From Henrietta Anne Huxley to Emma Darwin 22 March [1867]
Summary
Observed expression in her baby for CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6039 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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- … Cartoons (San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2014), pp. 11-15, 322. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), p. 176, no. 322, plaster cast of Boehm’s model. Entry …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … examples Darwin refers to in the book ( Variation 2d, 2: 322 n. 24). By this stage Lawson Tait …
