From M. D. Conway 10 September [1873]
Summary
Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9049 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … a large farm She said that finding an old horse quite broken down she ordered that he …
- … In the same pasture there was a young horse that her daughters rode and were fond of. …
- … A week after the old horse had been so pensioned, her son walked over to the pasture to …
- … of trees in the pasture under whose shade the horses were accustomed to shelter themselves …
- … the sun. The young man wondered at not seeing the horses in this shade; and he presently …
- … discovered at a little distance the old horse lying down dying, …
- … and the young horse standing beside him on the side of the …
- … sun, so that his shadow protected the dying horse. …
- … The youth approached, the young horse went off, but going off a …
- … little way and watching he saw the horse return and plant himself in the same position. …
- … repeatedly tried, and invariably the young horse went back and stood in the burning sun …
- … the other. One morning the youth found the young horse again in the shade of the trees. …
- … The old horse was dead. Even supposing the position on the sunny side to have been …
To Nature [before 13 March 1873]
Summary
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 13 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 13 March 1873, p. 360 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in this direction. I had purchased this horse several years before from a gentleman in my …
- … though far from probable, that the horse may have been born in the Isle of Wight. Even if …
- … the coachman began to pull up the other horses, every public-house on the road, for she …
- … mention another trifling fact: I sent a riding-horse by railway from Kent viâ Yarmouth, to …
- … the first day that I rode eastward, my horse, when I turned to go home, was very unwilling …
- … of his home in Kent. I had ridden this horse daily for several years, and he had never …
From C. F. Martins 23 June 1873
Summary
CM and Henri Sicard have given what CM thinks is the first zoology course in France based on descent of species.
In Rome he was struck by ancient Greek statues of mythical figures which use the idea of environmental influence. Ascribes these ideas to both CD and Lamarck.
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8947 |
From W. F. Collier 22 February 1873
Summary
Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.
| Author: | Collier, W. F. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8782 |
From W. F. Collier 7 March 1873
Summary
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
| Author: | Collier, W. F. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8801 |
From Gerard Krefft [c. 1 November 1873?]
Summary
Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 1 Nov 1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8834 |
From Stanley Haynes [1873?]
Summary
Notes headed "Observations on the expression of the emotions".
| Author: | Stanley Haynes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8708 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … P. 45. Donkeys nibble each other more than horses do. P. 67. Healthy contractibilty of …
- … 81 Expectation has decided influence on horses: e.g. when they are about to be saddled or …
- … known a young almost unbroken cavalry horse, ridden for the first time with a scabbard, …
- … In Expression , p. 45, CD described horses nibbling at each other instead of scratching. …
From Francis Darwin [before 26 June 1873]
Summary
Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 June 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9092F |
From William Pengelly 17 March 1873
Summary
CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.
| Author: | William Pengelly |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | Pengelly ed. 1897, pp. 229–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8813 |
From T. H. Huxley 26 April 1873
Summary
Concern for Lady Lyell;
will clear away work and set off for holiday in June.
Sends Critiques and addresses.
A life of J. D. Forbes [by J. C. Shairp, P. J. Tait, and A. A. Reilly (1873)] suggests that THH and Tyndall conspired to keep JDF from getting the Copley Medal. THH feels obliged to correct this.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 223–24a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8882 |
From Frank Chance 31 July – 7 August 1873
Summary
Gives some observations on ponies’ becoming white in winter;
on skin pigmentation and the effects of heat;
on the bristling of the hair in man.
| Author: | Frank Chance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July – 7 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: 2–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8993 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1873
Summary
Sends plant specimens.
He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,
he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 176–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9116 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … making excellent drawings & working like a horse at it. — We have independently found the …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 17 May 1873
Summary
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8914 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … mammals with an odd number of toes such as horses and rhinoceroses) than to elephants, as …
From Virginius Dabney 18 October 1873
Summary
Feeding habits of the tobacco worm; it eats only five plants, all very different, but of same botanical family.
| Author: | Virginius Dabney |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9099 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … tomato— likewise of this order. IV. The Horse-Nettle Night-shade (S. Carolinense) of the …
From Hubert Airy 26 [September–November 1873]
Summary
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Sept-Nov] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9073 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the whorled type: thus: maple
〈 〉 horse chestnut , and many other〈 s〉 , in w〈 hich〉 the …
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen [before 18 January 1873]
Summary
Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: B44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8712 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … seen in the disgust of our Dutch people for horse-meat. p. 266 The rubbing of the thumb …
| letter | (16) |
| Collier, W. F. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Collier, W. F. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 3 hits
- … a neighbouring farmer to the RSPCA in 1852 for working horses with sore necks (see letter from Emma …
- … It is a common observation that cases of brutality to horses, asses, and other large quadrupeds, are …
- … treatment of cattle, 1822, prohibited the ill-treatment of horses, asses, sheep, and cattle, …
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Matches: 1 hits
- … a Century and all Seasons" reprinted in Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes. In an …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
Summary
< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin himself was very solicitous over the treatment of horses. His erstwhile friend, Frances Power …
- … living in Down village in 1852 on a charge of cruelty to his horses, securing a conviction and fine …
- … he wrote a warning letter to another local farmer, whose horses’ necks were ‘badly galled’, saying …
- … letter to a local farmer, c.1866, about the state of his horses, DAR-LETT-4963. Emma Darwin’s diary …
5873_1488
Summary
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … might be effected in man, as are now seen in our horses, dogs, and cabbages? ’ We …
The expression of emotions
Summary
Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…
Matches: 1 hits
- … illustrators to produce drawings and engravings of monkeys, horses, dogs, and cats. He acquired …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
Summary
The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
Matches: 1 hits
- … asses of the Tartarian deserts cannot equal in numbers the horses of the more luxuriant prairies and …
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: 1 hits
- … Lucy, provides observations on the expression of emotion in horses and babies. She also reports …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// Exotic Moths …
- … last series on Nat: Hist: [Waterton 1844] tailess horses. Read “Bronn’s Geschicte der Natur.” …
- … of Rural & Domestic Improvement ] Col: Ham: Smith on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841] …
- … Catalogue. Ungulates Grey [J. E. Gray 1843–52]. Much on Horses & Hybrids [DAR *128: 157 …
- … 8a, 11a ——. 1841. The natural history of horses. Vol. 12 in Jardine, William, ed., …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on your Farm, you may not be aware that the necks of your horses are badly galled … Darwin …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
Summary
—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
Matches: 5 hits
- … of the mammoth, of a rhinoceros now extinct, and along with horses and cattle unlike any now …
- … though they be, were the remote progenitors of our own horses and cattle. In all candor we must at …
- … of the world now offers more suitable conditions for wild horses and cattle than the pampas and …
- … and megatherium, at the dawn of the present period, wild-horses—certainly very much like the …
- … is a heavy blow and great discouragement to dogs, horses, elephants, and monkeys. Thus stripped of …
Frank Chance
Summary
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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Pallas states, that in Siberia domestic cattle and horses become lighter-coloured during the winter; …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Matches: 4 hits
- … ‘To assert that we could not breed our cart and race horses, long and short horned cattle, and …
- … of the rate of increase of slow-breeding cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in …
- … most curious instance of this; for here neither cattle, nor horses, nor dogs, have ever run wild, …
- … in Paraguay, the flies would decrease—then cattle and horses would become feral, and this would …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … information on the proportion of the sexes in sheep, cattle, horses, and dogs, and circulating …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … An unidentified correspondent offered facts on Clydesdale horses, Chillingham cattle, Leicester …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
Summary
The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on most of the common domesticated animals, among them horses, rabbits, pigeons, and poultry. As he …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the hope of finding more cases of striping in dray and cart horses, of inheritance in fowls, of the …
