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Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … later, would take his camera across the globe to observe the 1874 transit of Venus. Tommy, …
- … Perfilieff , a member of the Tolstoy family in March of 1874, Darwin included the line “I have the …
- … newly-produced carte . Image: Charles Darwin, 1874, Elliot and Fry, Dar 257:11, …
- … ©Cambridge University Library Between 1874 and 1878 Darwin was very busy – too busy, …
- … Men of Mark included individuals such as Astronomer Royal, George Biddle Airy, and friend and close …
- … Darwin’s Pictures: Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874 . New Haven, USA: Yale University Press, …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … 1809]— references at end of each Chap. June 1. King & FitzRoy’s Voyages [King 1839 and …
- … 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard II ; King Henry IV ] …
- … Lear [Shakespeare: Julius Caesar ; Coriolanus ; King Lear ] Sept. 26 Shelleys Essays …
- … March 24 th Kings & Lay’s Missionary Voyage [King and Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss …
- … by Erasmus.— Read Private Life of an Eastern King [Knighton] 1855] read The Hon ble …
- … Notes to Jardine & Jesses Selbourne [E. Jesse ed. 1849] George’s Copy Aug. St. Hilaire. …
- … L. Ossoy [Walpole 1848] 1 st vol. —— History George III [Walpole 1845]. 1. vol. —— …
- … [W. Nott 1854] (good) Sept Private life of an E. King [Knighton] 1855]. (good) Dec 13 …
- … May 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851. Letters …
- … design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.] 119: 5a …
- … etc. 2 vols. London. *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860. Gatherings of a naturalist in …
- … Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826. Catalogue des plantes …
- … ou peu connues . Paris. *128: 159 Berkeley, George. 1784. The works of George Berkeley …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or …
- … sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III . 3 pts. London. 119: 21b …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 3a Browne, William George. 1799. Travels in Africa, Egypt and …
- … and London. 119: 9a Bubb, afterwards Dodington, George. 1784. The diary of the late …
- … atlases. Paris. *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835. Rienzi, …
- … and reason. Edinburgh. *119: 11v. Busk, George. 1852–4. Catalogue of marine …
- … of England from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV. 7 vols. London. *119: …
- … into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, in 1840–1, including …
- … and the happy end and conclusion thereof by the King’s blessed restoration . 3 vols. Oxford …
- … Sir James Brooke . 2 vols. London. *128: 180 King, Charles William and Lay, George …
- … upon Christendom . 2 vols. New York. 119: 13b King, Phillip Parker. 1839. Narrative of …
- … 1826–30, under the command of Captain P. Parker King .) London. 119: 5a [Kingsley, …
- … William]. 1855. The private life of an eastern king . 2d ed. London. *128: 172; 128: 11 …
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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- … Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read …
- … the Theory of Natural Selection”, two of Darwin’s sons (George and Leonard) who had distinguished …
- … and terminology, and sought help from his mathematician son George, who shared Galton’s more …
- … English men of science: their nature and nurture (Galton 1874), Darwin insisted that he had no …
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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- … more criticisms’, he wrote to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. …
- … relay a message to the organiser, Airy’s own father, Sir George ( letter to Hubert Airy, 24 August …
- … Ruck, the sister of an old schoolfriend; he married Amy in 1874. Francis, still a medical student …
- … a recent photograph of the former midshipman Philip Gidley King made him feel his age. 'I’, …
