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German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
- … ever has been or could possibly be conferred on me ( Letter to Otto Zacharias, [24 February 1877] …
- … The album from the Netherlands was more democratic with a range of people, including several women, …
- … as scientific and medical professionals. In his thank you letter for the Dutch album, Darwin said: …
- … the field of science, & remember their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 …
- … home, Down House , in Kent. They are made available through a collaboration with English Heritage …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … the present has given me & my family lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March …
- … red velvet with silver embossing. The frontispiece contains a mistake about Darwin’s age: it states …
- … album are also included. Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people …
- … professionals. The album included several women ( see a list of people in the album with …
- … Society) was chosen to co-ordinate the initiative, and a letter was circulated to potential …
- … the president and secretary of the society, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen and Huibert Johannes Veth: …
- … and esteem, not for any value it can have for you, but as a proof, which we are persuaded cannot but …
- … have also fallen on fertile soil in the Netherlands. ( Letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. …
- … were known to Darwin through earlier correspondence. As a students, Jan Constantijn Costerus and his …
- … of Natural Filosofy ’. Darwin welcomed the letter, replying: It is the highest …
- … to interest other students, especially the younger ones. ( Letter to J. C. Costerus and N. D. …
- … friends so prized Darwin’s reply that they sent him a photograph of the two of them with Darwin’s …
- … Hoek followed up with another work describing Balanus (a genus of acorn barnacles), Darwin …
- … sees them for some are about 2 feet across!— ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) …
- … of Descent and Expression , Hermanus Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen, went further and sent …
- … where published ( Letter to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwin’s botany was …
- … by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The …
- … He returned to his alma mater in November to hear a Latin oration composed specially for the …
- … the fertility of individual flowers and plants across a range of common species, such as the …
- … pleases me.’. Darwin dedicated the book to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. He …
- … measure: ‘it might then be highly beneficial to [a plant] that the same flower or the same …
- … I believe it is of value, it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His …
- … waxy coating on the leaves and fruit was, like dimorphism, a well-known botanical characteristic …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August …
- … … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October …
- … the production. Darwin thanked the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : …
