From George Rolleston 9 May 1877
Summary
Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10956 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … in Bull. de la Soc. d’anthrop. ”, 2 d series, v. III, p. 112–117. 6 February 1868). …
- … Olmo, in Bull. de la Soc. d’anthrop. ”, 2 e série, t. III, p. 112–117. 6 février 1868). …
- … the society by Professor Cocchi, in January 1868. M. Mortillet, in presenting this cast, …
- … less than 75 (or 78) per cent of the length (front to back) ( Chambers ). Mortillet 1868 . …
- … Hamy 1868 . …
- … 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874. Hamy, Ernest-Théodore. 1868. Étude sur le crâne de …
- … l’Olmo. [Read 6 February 1868. ] Bulletins de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris 2d ser. …
- … M. le professeur Cocchi, au mois de Janvier 1868. M. Mortillet, en présentant ce moule, …
From Oswald Heer 29 July 1877
Summary
Comments on Forms of flowers.
Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.
Notes work on Ginkgo.
| Author: | Oswald Heer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11078 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Trichopitys , and Czekanowskia ( Heer 1868–83 , 4: 48–9 (‘Contributions on the Jurassic …
- … London: John Murray. 1877. Heer, Oswald. 1868–83. Flora fossilis arctica. Die fossile …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 10 ( …
- … voyages of Arctic exploration. See Heer 1868–83 , vol. 2, ‘Die Miocene Flora und Fauna …
- … is now merged with Cupressaceae. In Heer 1868–83 , 5: 20 (‘Die Miocene Flora des Grinnell- …
To Oswald Heer 28 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for work on Fossil arctic flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Landesarchiv des Kantons Glarus, Switzerland (Bestand Oswald Heer (1809–83) LAGL PA 22.A 1:14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10872F |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1877
Summary
Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.
Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10780 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of a conspicuous caterpillar in April 1868 ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 20 April 1868 ); CD included a description of it in Descent 1: 416. Bates had …
- … he had bred (see Correspondence vol. 16, letters from John Hellins , 20 April 1868 and …
- … 16 December 1868 ). CD included the information in Descent 1: 313. William Buckler was, in …
From C. G. Semper 26 April 1877
Summary
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10942 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … malacological volumes of Semper et al. 1868–1916 (for more on the subdivisions of Bergh’s …
- … work within Semper et al. 1868–1916 and dates of their publication, see Winckworth 1946 ). …
- … John Murray. 1872. Semper, Carl, et al. 1868–1916. Reisen im Archipel Philippinen. Zweiter …
- … part: scientific results; Semper et al. 1868–1916 ), which was published in 1870. Semper …
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
To A. R. Wallace 31 August 1877
Summary
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11121 |
To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
To Karl von Scherzer 14 May [1877]
Summary
Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.
Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 14 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10961 |
To J. V. Carus 26 March 1877
Summary
Had found out his error [use of "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" in Cross and self-fertilisation] some timeago.
Is now writing on cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all his old materials on plants. JVC will then have a rest from his labours of translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10914 |
From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877
Summary
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10990 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 September 1877
Summary
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11129 |
To Thomas Belt 18 January 1877
Summary
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10804 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1877
Summary
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Railway ; the branch opened on 3 March 1868 and it went to London via New Cross ( Cox …
From F. W. Pim 15 January 1877
Summary
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
| Author: | Frederic William Pim |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10791 |
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- … the River Vartry in Ashford, county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1868 (see Taylor 2008 , p. 346). …
To G. J. Romanes 11 June [1877]
Summary
Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.
Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 11 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10996 |
To John Price 17 May 1877
Summary
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 17 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10964 |
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- … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
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| Bemmelen, A. A. van | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Price, John | (2) |
| Agricultural Gazette | (1) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Heer, Oswald | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
- … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
- … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
- … and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ). My book is horribly …
- … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
- … look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, replying on …
- … fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such worries were laid to …
- … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
- … not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace commiserated: ‘I am …
- … to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John …
- … a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am bothered with …
- … Yorkshire, wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the …
- … Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to …
- … breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal’, and offered …
- … changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 June 1868 ). ‘It was …
- … clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection …
- … ratios was scanty, and he spent much of the first half of 1868 collecting facts on this question, …
- … may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868] ). From the beginning, Darwin had …
- … males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). Yet a number of Darwin’s …
- … the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 March 1868 . Wallace maintained that males …
- … entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, …
- … in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
- … odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] ). Francis sought additional advice …
- … to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I had a long work with Crotch to …
- … in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward …
- … of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect my stomach …
- … of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 30 hits
- … for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
- … in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
- … Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
- … Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
- … Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
- … Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
- … Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
- … Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
- … Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
- … Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
- … Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
- … Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
- … Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
- … Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
- … Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
- … Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
- … Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
- … Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
- … Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
- … Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] London, …
- … Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 Hayes, Bromley, Kent, …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Suède) 25 Okt. 1868. …
- … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
- … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
- … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
- … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
- … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Sweden) 25 Oct. 1868 …
- … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
- … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
- … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
- … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
- … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
- … produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
- … their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ). By this time he had already …
- … (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
- … quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
- … taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
- … he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin …
- … to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was by John Robertson ( …
- … 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 February 1868, pp. 217–18. f3 CD had discussed …
- … CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. 8–10. …
5873_1488
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
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- … From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates, 23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
- … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
- … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6083 - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
- … Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
- … Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
- … Letter 6066 - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
- … Letter 6081 - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 Darwin thought it would be only a ‘ short …
- … writing it up as a separate publication in early February 1868 , wading through a ‘ mass of …
- … Variation was finally off his hands at the beginning of 1868, the volume of his correspondence …
- … are more than 260 surviving letters from February and March 1868 alone, two or three times the usual …
- … the details of the experiment were discussed in March 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of …
- … & sexual selection’ Darwin wrote to Wallace in September 1868, but although he had ‘ oscillated …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
William Winwood Reade
Summary
On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
- … on the German translation of Variation (Carus trans. 1868). The French translation proved …
- … the French edition of Variation (Moulinié trans. 1868), and CD now extended his permission for …
- … Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December 1868 ). Innes had a tendency to tease …
- … he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June [1868] ). Among the reasons justifying his …
- … the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So embroiled in this process …
- … the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Darwin wrote of the next …
Darwin's life in letters
Summary
For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…
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- … letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working life …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 February 1868] Zoologist Edward Blyth sends …
- … Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 February 1868] American naturalist Asa Gray …
- … Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [23 March 1868] Haeckel informs Darwin …
- … Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …
- … Letter 6126 - Binstead, C. H. to Darwin, [17 April 1868] Charles Binstead, “an …
- … Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a case of a …
- … Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] John Innes reports that he has …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 May [1868] Darwin writes to Gray about his review …
- … 6223 — Horsman, S. J. H. to Darwin, C. R., 2 June [1868] Horsman attempts to convince Darwin …
- … Letter 6241 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 13 June 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down writes …
- … Letter 6486 — Darwin, C. R. to Innes, J. B., 1 Dec 1868 Darwin writes to J. B. Innes, vicar …
- … Letter 6492 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down provides …
- … Letter 6501 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down is …
Species and varieties
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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…
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- … selection ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 323–6). However, by 1868, in The variation of animals and …
- … discussion of the issue with Alfred Wallace in the spring of 1868. Wallace had sent a concise …
- … natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). Darwin turned to his son George, a …
- … as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Ultimately, Darwin’s view was …
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Mar 1868 Wallace writes to Darwin with a …
- … Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., [21 Mar 1868] Darwin lets Wallace know he has …
- … Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 24 Mar [1868] Wallace returns George Darwin’s …
- … Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 27 Mar [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace saying …
- … Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 6 Apr [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace on the …
- … Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 8 [Apr] 1868 Wallace says if Darwin is not …
