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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of Greiz College in Thuringia …
  • … and Farrer had corresponded on scientific topics since 1868 and after Farrer’s second marriage to …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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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…

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3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos

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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of …
  • … photographs of Darwin which Cameron took in the summer of 1868. However, he seems to have arrived at …
  • … been pleased with her. Darwin wrote to Hooker in August 1868,  ‘How about Photographs? Can you …
  • … Cameron 
 date of creation July – August 1868 
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  • … 2, pp. 442–468. Darwin’s letters to Hooker, 17 [Aug. 1868] and 23 Aug. [1868] (DCP-LETT-6321 and …