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 …
From Heinrich Goldschmidt and E. v. Portheim 23 April 1876
Summary
Two student adherents of his theory correct an error in Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Heinrich Jacob (Heinrich) Goldschmidt; Eduard Porges von Portheim |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10467 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Thomas Seare 18 September 1876
Summary
Describes example of instinctive behaviour in new-born leveret.
Cites experiment in which rabbit breathed vapour of nitrite of amyl.
Suggests that change in terrestrial atmosphere is responsible for evolution from scales to fur or feathers.
| Author: | Thomas Seare |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10607 |
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- … Bibliography OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From F. E. Abbot to W. E. Darwin 19 January 1876
Summary
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.7: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362G |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From C. F. Martins 5 July 1876
Summary
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10557 |
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- … 1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not …
- … Bibliography Balfour, Thomas Alexander Goldie. 1875. Account of some experiments on Dionæa …
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537F |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
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 P. A. Hanaford 19 September 1876
Summary
Pleased to hear of Peter Henderson’s intended experiment [on Drosera, see 10588]. Asks that she tell Mr Henderson that he believes good derived from animal diet will be shown only by production of larger number of seeds and more luxuriant growth in the ensuing year. Wishes to hear the results.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Nantucket Historical Association Research Library (MS 38, Phebe Ann Hanaford Papers, 1848–1949, Folder 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10610A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Horace Pearce 16 November 1876
Summary
Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Horace Pearce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10675 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
To Lawson Tait 5 May 1876
Summary
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 5 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10497 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm. 1861. Beiträge zur Lehre von der Verdauung. …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
From Lawson Tait 25 April [1876]
Summary
Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10473 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de and Candolle, Alphonse de. 1824–73. Prodromus …
- … Hooker had done so in his extensive bibliography in A. P. de Candolle and Candolle 1824– …
To J. V. Carus 23 November 1876
Summary
Tells JVC what changes have been made in the new edition of his geological book [Volcanic islands and South America].
Does not know why he doubted about the Atlantic dust paper – now thinks it worth translating.
Glad JVC has not found Cross and self-fertilisation as intolerably dull as CD feared. Answers his queries about Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 150–151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10686 |
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- … Bibliography Cross and self fertilisation : The effects of cross and self fertilisation in …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876]
Summary
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517 |
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- … Bibliography Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 22 April 1876
Summary
Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Carneri, Bartholomaeus. 1876. Gefühl, Bewußtsein, Wille: eine psychologische …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Seidlitz, Georg. 1876. Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie . Leipzig: W. …
To Ernst Haeckel 12 August 1876
Summary
Glad EH is coming to England.
Will be visiting eldest son in Southampton in September [but visit apparently delayed until 7 Oct, see "Journal"].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 39 [9892]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10577 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Krauße, Erika. 1987. Ernst Haeckel. 2d edition. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. …
From Emma Darwin to Ernst Haeckel 22 September [1876]
Summary
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10614 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Krauße, Erika. 1987. Ernst Haeckel. 2d edition. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. …
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| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
| Torbitt, James | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (180) |
| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (10) |
| Carus, J. V. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (376) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (24) |
| Darwin, Francis | (23) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (15) |
| Carus, J. V. | (13) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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. …
4.47 '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. …
4.59 '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. …
4.31 '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 …
