To Otto Zacharias [before 3 January 1876]
Summary
In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | [before 3 January 1876] |
| Classmark: | Zacharias 1876, pp. 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330F |
From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
| Author: | Nemo |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
To ? [1876?]
Summary
Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer [1876]
Summary
Cancelled: part of 11847
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10340 |
To William Robinson 4 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robinson |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346 |
From J. H. Gilbert 6 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.
| Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346F |
From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Summary
Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
To William Robinson 10 January [1876?]
Summary
Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robinson |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1876?] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10350 |
From Charles O’Shaughnessy 10 January 1876
Summary
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
| Author: | Charles O’Shaughnessy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10351 |
From W. H. Dallinger 10 January 1876
Summary
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
| Author: | William Henry Dallinger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10352 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 10 January 1876
Summary
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
To W. H. Dallinger [after 10 January 1876]
Summary
CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.
The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Dallinger |
| Date: | [after 10 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10354 |
From T. W. Clarke 12 January 1876
Summary
Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.
| Author: | Thomas William Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10355 |
From Ernst Haeckel 13 January 1876
Summary
Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10356 |
To Francis Galton 13 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357 |
From S. L. Lovén [14 January 1876]
Summary
Has sent his paper on Echinoidea [see 10373] as a token of his veneration. He tried to address the confusion in knowledge about the different parts of the exoskeleton of the Echinodermata by tracing certain relations of homology not previously noticed. Much more work is required.
| Author: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Utgående brev, vol. B1:5, nr 26, s 331-333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357A |
To Ernst Haeckel 15 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks EH for Arabische Korallen [1876].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 36 [9889]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10358 |
From T. B. Blow 15 January 1876
Summary
Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.
| Author: | Thomas Bates Blow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10359 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Masters, M. T. | (2) |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Blow, T. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Robinson, William (b) | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (4) |
| Dallinger, W. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Darwin The Collector
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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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Detecting Darwin
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Who was Charles Darwin? What is he famous for? Why is he still important?
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- … Pupils act as Darwin detectives, exploring clues about Darwin’s life and work. No prior knowledge …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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…
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … December 1875 computer-readable date 1875-12-01 to 1875-12-10 medium and …
Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
Summary
Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
1 Belgrave Street, London
Summary
Marriages and gossip
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German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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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Darwin And Evolution
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What is evolution? What did Darwin discover and how did he come to his conclusions?
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … Lena much excited about the Mission which was just over. 1 Whilst it is fresh in my mind I …
Darwin's Fantastical Voyage
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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.
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- … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …
