From J. I. Rogers 12 October 1876
Summary
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
| Author: | John Innes Rogers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10640 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Gustav Jäger 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651F |
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- … Bibliography Jäger, Gustav. 1876. Zoologische Briefe. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller. …
To Georg von Seidlitz 13 October 1876
Summary
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643F |
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- … Bibliography Seidlitz, Georg. 1876. Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie . Leipzig: W. …
To M. T. Masters 10 October [1876]
Summary
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 347 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10637 |
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- … Bibliography Maule, Alexander James. 1876. The potato: what is it? The probable cause of …
To James Geikie 26 October 1876
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Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 330 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10655 |
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- … Bibliography Agassiz, Louis. 1838. On the erratic blocks of the Jura. Edinburgh New …
From Asa Gray 12 October 1876
Summary
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10639 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To J. V. Carus 25 October 1876
Summary
Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.
Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10654 |
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- … Bibliography Climbing plants 2d ed. : The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d …
To Asa Gray 28 October 1876
Summary
Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10656 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Otto Zacharias 5 October [1876]
Summary
The sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation will be sent to OZ as they become ready.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10632 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To J. V. Carus 18 October [1876]
Summary
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10645 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To J. D. Hooker 25 October [1876]
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Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 425–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10653 |
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- … Bibliography Forms of flowers : The different forms of flowers on plants of the same …
From M. D. Conway 12 October [1876]
Summary
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13785 |
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- … Bibliography Conway, Moncure Daniel. 1904. Autobiography: memories and experiences of …
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To J. V. Carus [early October 1876]
Summary
Tells JVC that to the title on the first page [of Cross and self-fertilisation] is to be added "in the vegetable kingdom".
Guesses that Orchids [2d ed.] will be 20 or 30 pages longer than the old edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | [early Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 66–67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10627 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
To William Clowes & Sons 7 October [1876]
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Approves the type for Orchids [2d ed.]. The printer should advise Murray that it will be 300 pages.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections (Charles Darwin / Evolution Collection Mss 28 Correspondence Box 4: 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10634 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
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- … Bibliography Airy, Hubert. 1876. On the leaf-arrangement of the crowberry ( Empetrum …
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Summary
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
| Author: | George Cross |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 270 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10650 |
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- … Bibliography Allen, David Elliston. 1994. The naturalist in Britain: a social history. 2d …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Cross, George | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Henslow, George | (2) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Geikie, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Henslow, George | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
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 …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
