To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Summary
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 …
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Summary
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
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- … Bibliography Arnold, Matthew. 1869. Culture and anarchy: an essay in political and social …
To W. P. Garrison 16 October 1879
Summary
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12260A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Douglass, Frederick. 1879. Speech on the death of William Lloyd Garrison. 2 …
To R. F. Cooke 4 October [1879]
Summary
Final arrangements for publishing Erasmus Darwin. If he were publishing on commission he would have printed only 1000 copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 362–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12247 |
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- … Bibliography Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, …
To Asa Gray 24 October 1879
Summary
Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.
Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12269 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Gray, Asa. 1858a. Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and …
From Ernst Krause 2 October 1879
Summary
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12243 |
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- … Bibliography Darwin, Erasmus. 1794–6. Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. 2 vols. …
To E. S. Morse 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12265 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Morse, Edward Sylvester. 1879. Shell mounds of Omori. Memoirs of the Science …
To C. G. Semper 2 October 1879
Summary
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245 |
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- … Bibliography Moseley, Henry Nottidge. 1879. Notes by a naturalist on the ‘Challenger’, …
From W. P. Garrison 4 October 1879
Summary
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
| Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12248 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Darwin, Charles. 1880. What Mr. Darwin saw in his voyage round the world in …
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October 1879
Summary
The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12255 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Wright, C. H. 1911. Flora of the Falkland Islands. [Read 19 January 1911. ] …
From G. M. Asher 26 October 1879
Summary
Asks CD to examine his idea that human and animal sociology are related, as each is based on the principle of mutual concession (derived from Schopenhauer’s law of compassion). If CD approves, he should write a note and forward it and GMA’s letter to Macmillan’s Magazine.
| Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12272 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Cross, Stephen. 2013. Schopenhauer’s encounter with Indian thought: …
To Harvard University Library? 2 October [1879]
Summary
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Harvard University Library |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | Boston Public Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12244 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1879. Catalogue of scientific serials of all …
To Casimir de Candolle 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12266 |
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- … Bibliography Candolle, Casimir de. 1879. Anatomie comparée des feuilles chez quelques …
To ? 23 October 1879
Summary
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Ronald T. Raines (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Nash, Wallis. 1882. Two years in Oregon . New York: D. Appleton and Company. …
To C.-F. Reinwald 29 October 1879
Summary
Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12276 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Krause, Ernst. 1880. Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der …
From Gustaf Retzius 3 October 1879
Summary
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
| Author: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12246 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Retzius, Gustaf. 1881–4. Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere: morphologisch- …
To George Sim 22 October 1879
Summary
Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sim |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Aberdeen City Libraries, Local Studies (George Sim papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Leichtenstern, Otto Michael Ludwig. 1878. Ueber das Vorkommen und die …
From A. S. Packard 30 October 1879
Summary
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
| Author: | Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12277 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die …
From Daniel Mackintosh 14 October 1879
Summary
DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.
| Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12257 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Hall, James. 1812. On the revolutions of the earth’s surface. [Read 16 March …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 October 1879
Summary
Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.3: 335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12281 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bibliography Sachs, Julius. 1875a. Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological . …
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| Mackintosh, Daniel | (3) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
Summary
The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
Summary
< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
Summary
< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
