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Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • … of  woodburytype  prints of famous Victorians made in 1877, which they printed and sold under the …
  • … sale in London photo shops. Image: Charles Darwin, 1877, Lock & Whitfield, NPG x5939, © …

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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  • … Virchow’s attempt to discredit evolutionary theory in 1877, assured him that his views were now …
  • … editor of the journal Kosmos , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal …
  • … adding a prologue, while his brother Erasmus proposed that George Darwin, Darwin’s son and a keen …
  • … and particularly the theory of natural selection in 1877) had previously told Krause, ‘He is a very …
  • … Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little consolation that George Darwin wrote on 13 July to say …
  • … ‘Journal’). Nor did Darwin mention it when he told George Romanes on 14 September that he had …
  • … of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin recorded that Darwin found …