Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
1.9 Rajon, etching after Ouless
Summary
< Back to Introduction This large and impressive etching by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon reproduces Ouless’s oil portrait of Darwin of 1875, probably on the basis of an agreement between painter and engraver. The ‘over-hardness’ of effect…
Matches: 4 hits
- … This large and impressive etching by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon reproduces Ouless’s oil …
- … from in his studio, and he returned it to the Darwins in 1877, when he visited Down to show them a …
- … Museum, Cambridge originator of image Paul Adolphe Rajon date of creation c. …
- … fine ‘proof’ impression of Rajon’s etching was lent by George Darwin – perhaps the one shown to the …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Matches: 5 hits
- … admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to …
- … and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date …
- … Leiden 13 June 1823 Rotterdam 2 June 1877 Zoeterwoude …
- … 135 Matthes J.G (Jan George). A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological …
- … 5 October 1808 Wildenborch 4 June 1877 Klein Dochteren …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Matches: 5 hits
- … album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the …
- … Title and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date of birth …
- … Leiden 13 june 1823 Rotterdam 2 june 1877 Zoeterwoude …
- … 135 Matthes J.G (Jan George). A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological …
- … 5 october 1808 Wildenborch 4 june 1877 Klein Dochteren …
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
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…
Matches: 8 hits
- … of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’), and later in his 1877 book, The different forms of flowers on …
- … family to collect specimens and make observations. His son George, who later studied mathematics at …
- … insects; his correspondence with Gray, Philip Henry Gosse, George Chichester Oxenden, Friedrich …
- … in the second edition of Orchids , published in 1877. These publications were partly inspired by …
- … brother Erasmus sent notice of an article by the philosopher Paul Janet, who discussed Origin , …
- … support for Darwin’s theory and his work on hybridity that George Bentham expressed in his …
- … of supporters on the Council, including Hugh Falconer and George Busk, who had nominated him, the …
- … ill. In Darwin’s absence, the Copley Medal was received by George Busk and deposited with Darwin’s …
