To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
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- … To Nature 3 August [1872] …
- … 279 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Aug [1872] Nature …
- … Nature , 8 August 1872, p. …
- … to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [ Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong …
- … of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [ Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [ Exposition of …
- … of Descent in a letter in Nature , 1 August 1872, p. 260. For CD’s views on Bree, see …
- … appeared in Nature , 25 July 1872, pp. 237–9. According to Bree, CD had placed the origin …
- … Nature. Alfred Russel Wallace’s review of Charles Robert Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr. Darwin ( Bree 1872 ) …
From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872
Summary
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B111–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8450 |
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- … Wallace refers to CD’s letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] (see letter to A. R. …
- … August [1872] ). Charles Robert Bree’s letter appeared in Nature , 1 August 1872, p. 260. …
- … book ( Bree 1872 ) was published in Nature , 25 July 1872, pp. 237–9. Wallace’s review of …
- … of life ( H. C. Bastian 1872 ) appeared in Nature , 8 and 15 August 1872, pp. 284–7 and …
- … Sussex. August 4th. 1872 Dear Darwin I have sent your letter to “Nature”, as I think it …
- … Charlton. 1872. The beginnings of life: being some account of the nature, modes of origin …
- … Nature [see 8448 ]. Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] …
To A. R. Wallace 3 August [1872]
Summary
Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8447 |
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- … this letter and the letter to Nature , 3 August [1872]. Charles Robert Bree had defended …
- … against Wallace’s criticism (see letter to Nature , 3 August 1872 and nn. 2 and 3). …
- … CD’s letter appeared in Nature , 8 August 1872, p. 279. …
- … 1872 My dear Wallace I hate controversy, chiefly perhaps because I do it badly; but as D r Bree accuses you of “blundering”, I have thought myself bound to send the enclosed letter to Nature; …
From Anton Dohrn 21 August 1872
Summary
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8481 |
From A. S. Packard Jr 1 August 1872
Summary
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
| Author: | Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8445 |
From A. R. Wallace 31 August 1872
Summary
Further reflections upon Bastian’s book [The beginnings of life (1872)].
ARW’s prospects for Directorship at Bethnal Green Museum.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8498 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
From Chauncey Wright 29 August 1872
Summary
Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8493 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 8 August [1872]
Summary
Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8459 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Packard, A. S., Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'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…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Evolutionary views of human nature
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From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major international research project 'Exploring Evolutionary Views of Human Nature through Darwin’s Correspondence'. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…
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- … From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Human Nature
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The early 1870s were a turning point in the global debate about human evolution, with deep implications for science, colonial expansion, industrial progress, religious belief, and ethical and philosophical debate. Darwin’s correspondence from this period…
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- … The early 1870s were a turning point in the global debate about human evolution, with deep …
Women’s scientific participation
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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…
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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Language: key letters
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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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- … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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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…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … This term is the plain expression of the facts,—Nat. selection is a metaphorical …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … < Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in …
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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A tale of two bees
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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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- … In the unseasonably warm weather of March 2012, one of the Darwin Correspondence Project editors …
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…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
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Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
