To J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes [22?] March 1873
Summary
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
| Date: | [22?] Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 139.12: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8807 |
From Johannes Huber 22 March 1873
Summary
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
| Author: | Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8820 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huber, Johannes | (1) |
| Costerus, J. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Doedes, N. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Costerus, J. C. | (1) |
| Doedes, N. D. | (1) |
| Huber, Johannes | (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 …
