From W. P. Garrison 9 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".
| Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12302 |
To Karl von Scherzer 26 December 1879
Summary
What a foolish idea seems to prevail in Germany on the connection between Socialism and Evolution through Natural Selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | LL 3: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12370F |
From Robert Tachau 9 May 1879
Summary
Are modifications in human form and intellect due solely to natural selection or do altered external conditions also play a role?
| Author: | Robert Tachau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12044 |
From George Henslow 8 February 1879
Summary
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11864 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 February 1879
Summary
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11855 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 17 April 1879
Summary
Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.
A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.
Second edition of Descent selling out.
CD’s botanical books are losing money.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11998 |
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- … John Murray in 1875. A third French edition of Descent , translated by Barbier from Murray’s 1879 issue of the augmented second English edition, was published in 1881 ( Barbier trans. 1881 ). Expression had been translated into French by Samuel Pozzi and René Benoît , and published in 1877 ( …
- … 1877. L’expression des émotions chez l’homme et les animaux. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. (French translation of Expression. ) Paris: C. Reinwald et C ie . Variation 2d ed. : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
To George Henslow 11 February 1879
Summary
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henslow |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - G. Henslow 1888) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11870 |
From Paul Aussant-Carà 13 June 1879
Summary
Expresses great admiration for CD and requests a picture of him with his signature.
| Author: | Paul (Paolo) Aussant-Carà |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12106 |
From Wilhelm Pfeffer 22 April 1879
Summary
In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
| Author: | Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12008 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1879]
Summary
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 July [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 485–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12167 |
From Ernst Krause 10 July 1879
Summary
Has received printed sheets from CD. Hopes CD does not intend to delete anything. EK comments on value of his own sketch for Erasmus Darwin.
Hopes CD can excuse article he wrote in response to a review of Grant Allen’s book [The colour-sense (1879)].
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12143 |
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John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Cross and self fertilisation
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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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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species , published in 1877, …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … < Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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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…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … By John Schaefer, Harvard University* Charles Darwin’s enthusiasm for carnivorous …
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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- … On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
Darwin's 1876 letters online
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Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. To mark the 211th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we have released online the transcripts and footnotes of over 460 letters written to and from him in 1876 and a supplement of 180 letters written before…
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- … Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. To mark the 211th anniversary of Darwin's birth, …
How old is the earth?
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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…
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- … One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of …
