To A. R. Wallace 13 January [1873]
Summary
Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8735 |
From A. R. Wallace 14 January 1873
Summary
Is not surprised CD dissents from his criticisms [of Expression?]. Holds to his own interpretation of the expression of astonishment.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8736 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 January 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.
Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8737 |
From Ernst Meitzen 17 January 1873
Summary
Sends his book [Bhawani (1872)], which is a poem in praise of evolutionary theory and showing its roots in ancient India.
| Author: | August (Ernst) Meitzen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8738 |
From James Paget 17 January 1873
Summary
Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 56–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8739 |
From H. P. Lee 17 January 1873
Summary
Describes shaken index finger in Japan and blushing among Chinese servants.
| Author: | Henry Pincke Lee |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Expression 2d ed., pp. 291 n. 40, 335 n. 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8739F |
To James Paget 18 January [1873]
Summary
JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8740 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1873]
Summary
The evidence of tameness of Alpine butterflies [see 8672] seems good and the fact is surprising to CD for they can hardly have acquired this in their short life-time.
The question whether butterflies are attracted to bright colours independently of the supposed presence of nectar is still unanswered.
CD has great difficulty in believing that any temporary condition of parents can affect the offspring.
Pangenesis is much reviled, but CD must still look at generation from this point of view, which makes him averse to believing that an emotion has any effect on the offspring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8741 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1873
Summary
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8742 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January 1873
Summary
On EH’s Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 52/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8743 |
To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873]
Summary
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | [before 21 Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8744 |
From Hubert Airy 21 January 1873
Summary
Has sent phyllotaxy paper to G. G. Stokes with the letter from CD to show credentials.
Will not have time to read new Sachs edition CD offered.
Thanks for CD’s sponsorship of paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1873): 176–9].
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8745 |
From J. V. Carus 21 January 1873
Summary
On a correction JVC thinks should be made in Variation on vertebrae of ducks.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8746 |
To J. D. Baldwin 21 January [1873]
Summary
Discusses JDB’s views on the spread of human-like creatures across the world, and the development of language.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Denison Baldwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | Steven S. Raab (dealer) (September 2001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8746F |
To G. H. Darwin 22 January 1873
Summary
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8747 |
To J. V. Carus 23 January 1873
Summary
Acknowledges correction in text of Variation . "You are a most conscientious editor & are as careful as I am apt to be careless."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 100–101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8748 |
From R. F. Cooke 24 January 1873
Summary
Popular Edition [6th] of Origin has sold out 3000 copies. Asks CD whether he has found any errors that should be corrected.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8749 |
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
From J. V. Carus 29 January 1873
Summary
A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?
JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8751 |
To John Chapman 1 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Chapman |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8751F |
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| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (569) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (56) |
| Darwin, Francis | (23) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (23) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (16) |
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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- … and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved …
- … A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response to The expression of the …
- … to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of …
- … leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the …
- … copy of the Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873), a detailed guide to animal …
- … Darwin’s other main focus of botanical investigation in 1873 was cross- and self-fertilisation, work …
- … & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August 1873 ). Darwin worried, however, that …
- … when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the family …
- … their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin …
- … will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ). Erasmus, who had studied medicine …
- … work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
- … 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to you on the …
- … anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April ([Baynes] 1873). Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
- … before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] ). Readers' lives …
- … letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 February 1873 ). The surgeon Francis Stephen …
- … ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 February [1873] ). Some readers proposed alternative …
- … that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish physician William Main …
- … with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The zoologist Henry Reeks suspected …
- … and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). Robert Swinhoe wrote from Ning …
- … a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 ). One of the leading …
- … the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). Crichton-Browne was trying …
- … the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 ). Instinct In …
- … to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February 1873 ). Darwin soon became …
- … shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 February 1873] ). Huggins’s letter prompted replies from …
- … to Nature ( letter to Nature , [before 13 March 1873] ) about a horse who had pulled a mail …
- … with his finger ( letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873] ). Moggridge suggested the …
- … fellow species” ( letter to Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). Character and genius …
- … as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ). Continuing the line of research he …
- … money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among character traits, he listed …
- … honest & industrious” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Supporting science, …
- … father ( enclosure to letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ). In April, Darwin also …
All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin
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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…
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- … of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. We have also …
- … Here are some highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1873: I do not think any …
- … in Drosera. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) In 1873, Darwin continued …
- … work to do ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) As well as working on …
- … of them sold! ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ) Expression of the …
- … brother. ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ) Darwin wrote this to Thomas …
- … and marvellous ( Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ) Darwin was invited to …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was very interested in hay fever. On 14 June [1873] he wrote to Blackley to thank him for …
- … Aestivus (hay-fever or hay-asthma). And on 5 July 1873 Darwin wrote again, saying: ‘The …
- … in every direction. (Letter to C. H. Blackley, 5 July [1873] ) Blackley wrote back …
- … regions of the atmosphere. Blackley wrote on 7 July 1873 that his high altitude experiments had …
- … remained elusive. He wrote to Darwin on 11 July 1873 : The problem of cure has still …
Cross and self fertilisation
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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…
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- … 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of …
- … system to follow ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also working on experiments with …
- … with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the …
- … Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to his German …
- … when it will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from …
- … my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, in turn, had found Müller’s …
- … them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although Darwin had completed a …
- … must turn to the vegetable kingdom’ In June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that …
- … to avoid crossing ( From Federico Delpino, 18 June 1873 ). Darwin was intrigued. ‘I am very glad …
- … Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwin’s suspicion that sweet peas …
- … his crossing experiments through the early summer, by August 1873, Darwin decided to shift focus …
- … effects of Interbreeding’ ( To J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin wrote a …
- … conditions of life’ ( To Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Just as the free-swimming barnacle …
- … of their parents’ ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to …
Your letter eternalized before us: From N. D. Doedes, 27 March 1873
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Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch student fans of Darwin and the photographs they exchanged with each other.
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- … Geoff Belknap looks at his favourite set of letters between two Dutch …
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
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- … Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … including photography, anthropometry, and fingerprinting. In 1873, he proposed founding a society to …
- … difficult to judge on these latter heads” ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his contemporaries, …
- … particular inherited talents, except for business ( 28 May 1873 ). Galton grew increasingly …
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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- … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
- … had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, when he realised the difficulty a …
- … vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble …
- … of human evolution and inheritance himself. In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary …
- … the use of the Down schoolroom as a winter reading room in 1873 (see Correspondence , vol. 21, …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] ). In 1873, Hooker had begun a series of …
- … vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted several weeks in …
- … Moulinié, who had died after a period of ill health in 1873. Edmond Barbier corrected defects in …
- … was a copy of Joseph Simms’s book on physiognomy (Simms 1873), which contained Darwin’s portrait to …
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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- … Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, [1873] Ellen Lubbock, wife of naturalist …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat reports in detail on her …
- … Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary Treat provides a detailed …
- … 9156 - Wallace, A. R . to Darwin, [19 November 1873] Wallace reassures Darwin that …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work of …
- … Letter 8719 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 January 1873] Darwin gives Mary Treat close …
- … 9157 - Darwin to Da rwin, G. H., [20 November 1873] Darwin offers the work 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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- … 8962: Darwin, C. R. to Max Müller, Friedrich, 3 July 1873 In the 1870s, Darwin corresponded …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … work” (letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … in different species of Gasteria , 7 December 1873 F. F. Hallett's rough sketch …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
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- … Science and the Churches , is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate …
- … not to have progressed beyond its first issue of December 1873. A detached and damaged copy of The …
- … (pseudonym) date of creation 30 November 1873 computer-readable date 1873-11 …
- … references and bibliography The Gauntlet 1 (Dec. 1873). Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley Papers: …
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 …
- … on at least two occasions during the construction (1872–1873). Most of the money for the building …
- … saloon where Darwin’s bust was to be placed in 1873, together with a bust of Karl Ernst von Baer, …
- … image Adolf von Hildebrand date of creation 1873 computer-readable date …
- … ‘The Zoological Station at Naples’, Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to …
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
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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- … Weale, J.P.M. [Jan 1873] Bedford, Cape of Good Hope, …
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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- … Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 August 1873] Darwin thanks Treat for sending over …
