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 John Murray 15 November 1876
Summary
Is satisfied with sales of his books.
Did not expect Orchids to sell more than 600 or 700 copies.
Only bad item is Expression, which astonishes him, since it sells well in Germany.
Asks size of printing of Cross and self-fertilisation; thinks 1500 would be ample.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 306–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10672 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 6 May 1876
Summary
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
| Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10499 |
From W. H. Patterson 24 April 1876
Summary
Observations on expression and variation in cats.
| Author: | William Hugh Patterson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10469 |
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 B. J. Edwards & Co. 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
| Author: | B. J. Edwards & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10398 |
From J. V. Carus 20 November 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for [2d English edition of] Volcanic islands and South America [1876].
Is at work on Cross and self-fertilisation. Asks about some doubtful points.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10681 |
From J. G. Fenwick 17 March 1876
Summary
Recounts family trait of excessive orderliness
and the behaviour of his dog.
| Author: | John George Fenwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10418 |
From H. N. Moseley 3 November 1876
Summary
Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10661 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
From Henry Wilson 28 November 1876
Summary
Sends photograph of man with peculiar facial features, whom HW treated at St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital.
| Author: | Henry Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10691 |
From Francis Galton 1 December 1876
Summary
Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10694 |
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 |
To Gaston de Saporta 10 September 1876
Summary
Hopes GdeS will publish on subjects discussed in his letter [10587]. CD had noted similar persistence of variation in fossil shells.
Calls his attention to Nägeli’s work on Hieracium.
Expresses skepticism about O. Heer’s view that dicotyledonous plants developed suddenly. Believes they must have developed slowly in some part of the globe completely isolated from other regions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10591 |
From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1876
Summary
Sends cheque for Descent [2d ed., 1875 issue].
Has sent corrections to printer for Climbing plants
and Origin. Has ordered to print: 1250 copies of Origin,
500 of Climbing plants,
and 1000 of Naturalist’s voyage [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 483 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10407 |
To William Bowman 1 June [1876]
Summary
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10521 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Summary
Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
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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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John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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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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Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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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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St George Jackson Mivart
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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,…
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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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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…
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John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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Earthworms
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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…
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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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Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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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…
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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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