From W. R. Greg 2 March [1871?]
Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7532 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … refers to Jules François Simon and Simon 1867 , p. 55. L’ouvrier de huit ans : the eight- …
- … to 1.066 imperial feet. For the numbers of those disqualified, see Simon 1867 , pp. 56–7. …
- … Bibliography Cochut, André. 1867. Le problème de l’armée: réorganisation de la force …
- … Shoe String Press. Simon, Jules François. 1867. L’ouvrier de huit ans. Paris: Librairie …
- … I find that Jules Simon, in his book (1867 ‘L’Ouvrier de Huit Ans’,—gives the following as …
- … of military forces in France ( Cochut 1867 , p. 655 n. ), noted that the minimum height …
To Theodor Piderit 2 August [1871]
Summary
Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.
Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Theodor Piderit |
Date: | 2 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Ostwestfalen-Lippe (D 72 Piderit, Theodor Nr. 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7893 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … for book he is sending [ Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)]. …
- … Darwin Library–CUL with CD’s copy of Piderit 1867 . See Expression , pp. 7–8. The Darwins …
- … System der Mimik und Physiognomik ( Piderit 1867 ). There is a heavily annotated copy in …
- … Garland Publishing. 1990. Piderit, Theodor. 1867. Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und …
To T. H. Huxley 9 October [1871]
Summary
Asks whether THH has written on affinities of Eocene cetacean Zeuglodon. Wants to cite it in 6th ed. of Origin as in some slight degree an intermediate form, but does not know how far he may venture.
Has had more evidence of profound impression of Mivart’s book [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7995 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Shoe String Press. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1867. On the classification of birds; and on the …
- … certain of the cranial bones observable in that class. [Read 11 April 1867. ] Proceedings …
- … of the Zoological Society of London (1867): 415–72. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species …
- … classification of birds ( T. H. Huxley 1867 ) in his unbound journals (Darwin Library– …
From W. W. Reade 25 September 1871
Summary
Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].
Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7968 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See Origin , 6th ed. , p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867]. …
- … Bibliography Baker, Samuel White. 1867. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword …
- … his Nile tributaries of Abyssinia ( Baker 1867 ); see also letter from W. W. Reade, 20 …
- … sentinels in herds of giraffes in Baker 1867 , p. 188. He stated that they avoided high …
From Robert Swinhoe 14 March 1871
Summary
Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7580 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and Carinatae (see T. H. Huxley 1867 ). In Origin 6th ed. , p. 302, CD added, ‘Even the …
- … Berlin: Georg Reimer. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1867. On the classification of birds; and on …
- … certain of the cranial bones observable in that class. [Read 11 April 1867. ] Proceedings …
- … of the Zoological Society of London (1867): 415–72. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1873. Critiques …
To James Crichton-Browne 28 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.
Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7635 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Vogt and a case of blushing reported in Vogt 1867 , pp. 20–1. CD referred to this case in …
- … and n. 3. CD’s annotated copy of Vogt 1867 , given to him by the author, is in the Darwin …
- … vol. 15, letter from Carl Vogt, 17 April 1867 . See Correspondence vol. 18, letter from …
- … Garland Publishing. 1990. Vogt, Carl. 1867. Mémoire sur les microcéphales ou hommes- …
From E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7419 |
To J. R. Martin 15 September 1871
Summary
Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Royle Martin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.403) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7943 |
To C. L. Balch 29 May 1871
Summary
Thanks for informing him that the New York Liberal Club has elected him a member. Responds to request to give advice to beginners in biology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Leland Balch |
Date: | 29 May 1871 |
Classmark: | Milwaukee Sentinel, 10 July 1871, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7778F |
From St G. J. Mivart 24 January 1871
Summary
Is sorry CD found Genesis of species unfairly critical. Assures CD of his just intentions and offers to alter certain words and phrases in a new edition. Emphasises his high regard for CD but fears his views are leading to religious decay.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7454 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 August 1871]
Summary
In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [31 Aug 1871] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 9 September 1871, p. 1166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7927 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [July] 1871
Summary
Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.
Sexual preference of a blue turbit.
CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [July] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7822 |
From J. V. Carus 20 November 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 117–118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8077 |
From Michele Lessona 5 August 1871
Summary
On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].
Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].
Author: | Michele Lessona |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7901 |
From F. T. Köppen 25 April 1871
Summary
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7716 |
From J. T. Moggridge [before 22] June 1871
Summary
At Wallace’s suggestion he offers CD his observations on the seed-gathering habits of ants. Suggests their role in seed dispersal.
At work on the last part of his book [Contributions to the flora of Mentone (1867–71)].
Has found that Ophrys insectifera can reproduce asexually.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22] June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7788 |
From A. R. Wallace 27 January 1871
Summary
Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.
Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.
On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7460 |
From F. W. Farrar 21 February [1871]
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7504 |
From W. Baranoff and Heinrich Koch 27 October 1871
Summary
Correspondents are giving public lectures on Descent. Would like CD to supply a statement of his religious views for inclusion.
Author: | W. Baranoff; Heinrich Koch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8032 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Reade, W. W. | (3) |
Boardman, A. F. | (2) |
Busk, George | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (3) |
Balch, C. L. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (61) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
Reade, W. W. | (3) |
Story, Nevil | (3) |
Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (3) |
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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
Matches: 30 hits
- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
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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: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
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Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
Matches: 6 hits
- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
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A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
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John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
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Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
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…
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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
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Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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A tale of two bees
Summary
Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Scientific Networks
Summary
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 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Scientific Practice
Summary
Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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Controversy
Summary
The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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Race, Civilization, and Progress
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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,…
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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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Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Dramatisation script
Summary
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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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …