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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,…

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  • … (1) Caird, James (9) Caldcleugh, Alexander …
  • … (3) Canestrini, Giovanni (9) Canfield, C. A. …
  • … (1) Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John …
  • … (6) Claus, C. F. (9) Clendon, George, Jr …
  • … (1) Conway, M. D. (9) Conybeare, J. C. …
  • … (3) Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family …
  • … (1) Darwin, C. M. C. (9) Darwin, C. R. …
  • … (1) Darwin, Elizabeth (9) Darwin, Emma …
  • … (2) Ernst, Adolf (9) Errera, L. A. …
  • … (1) Galton, E. A. (9) Galton, E. S. …
  • … Meitzen, August (1) Meldola, Raphael (74) …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). He was also unsatisfied …
  • … which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). The botanist and …
  • … ). Darwin welcomed Krause’s suggestion, but warned him on 9 June not to ‘expend much powder & …
  • … (Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [27 August 1879] (DAR 219.9: 201)). Celebrity and honours …
  • … mimicry) that Darwin said was quite new to him ( letter to Raphael Meldola, 6 June [1879] ). In …

2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … in the famous BAAS meeting of 1860. After Hooker had spoken, Raphael Meldola and the anthropologist …
  • … Richard Hope Pinker 
 date of creation 1898-9 
 computer-readable date 1898-01 …
  • … statue at Oxford’, Times (15 June 1899), pp. 7 and 9. ‘Unveiling the Darwin statue at the Museum …