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2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of …
- … of a long association between the two men, prompted by Dohrn’s ‘deep Veneration’, as he put it, for …
- … on scientific matters over a period of some fifteen years (c.1867–1882), and Dohrn was invited to …
- … to keep them alive for scrutiny over an extended period. Dohrn hoped it would be the first of many …
- … for the Advancement of Science, and Darwin himself bailed Dohrn out financially on at least two …
- … the reservation of work spaces in the laboratories. However, Dohrn never forgot Darwin’s ‘generous …
- … that was taking shape in Naples in the mid-1870s – for Dohrn knew that Darwin’s public support gave …
- … been introduced to Darwin’s ideas by Haeckel in Jena, Dohrn intended his Stazione to be a place …
- … but the building was not simply a functional structure. As Dohrn explained to a friend, there were …
- … the bust of Darwin on the basis of a photograph which Dohrn had asked Darwin to send. Wrapped in a …
- … two great scientists and the Mediterranean sea-life which, Dohrn believed, provided the best …
- … physical location Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples accession or collection number …
- … bust references and bibliography Dohrn’s letter to Darwin, 30 Nov. 1867: DCP …
- … Darwin’s supportive reply, 24 Aug. [1872]: DCP-LETT-8486. Anton Dohrn, ‘The foundation of zoological …
- … Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to Dohrn, 15 Nov. 1873, explaining plans …
- … for the Stazione: DCP-LETT-9412. Darwin’s follow-up letter to Dohrn, enclosing his personal …
- … Müller, The Naples Zoological Station at the Time of Anton Dohrn , exhibition catalogue (Naples, …
- … 1987), pp. 39–64. Theodor Heuss, ed. Christiane Groeben, Anton Dohrn, A Life for Science (Berlin …
- … Groeben: the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn’, History and Philosophy of the …
- … Marées (Naples: publications of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 2008), pp. 93–104. …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … suppose abuse is as good as praise for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] …
- … books, Descent and Expression . In the same letter, Darwin revealed the conclusion to his …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … variation of animals and plants under domestication . In a letter to his son William dated 27 …
- … of his brother’s embryological papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although …
- … . Indeed, he told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … tell me, at what rate your work will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This …
- … & sent to him, he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). …
- … fit person’ to introduce the work to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). …
- … Vogt should translate my book in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). …
- … varieties at the eye, which resulted in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 …
- … seems to me, if true, a wonderful physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
- … it will be a somewhat important step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). …
- … if you attack it & me with unparalleled ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] …
- … own discretion; anyhow most ought to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). …
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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- … & I am sick of correcting’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868 …
- … Well it is a beginning, & that is something’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] ). …
- … made any blunders, as is very likely to be the case’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). …
- … Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
- … than I now see is possible or probable’ (see also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January [1869] , …
- … is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
- … tropical species using Croll’s theory. In the same letter to Croll, Darwin had expressed …
- … a very long period before the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] …
- … data to go by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). …
- … I d have been less deferential towards [Thomson]’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 19 March [1869] ). …
- … completed revisions of the ‘everlasting old Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ), he was …
- … him however in his researches I would willingly do so’ ( letter from Robert Elliot to George …
- … with his noisy courting of the female in the garden ( letter from Frederick Smith, 8 October 1869 …
- … doubted her ability to recognise the different varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February …
- … weary of everlasting males & females, cocks & hens.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November …
- … with much more of the same description’ ( enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 ). …
- … in an additional & proximate cause in regard to Man’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 …
- … orang-utan, and the bird of paradise (Wallace 1869a; letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 March [1869] ) …
- … does himself an injustice & never demands justice’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). …
- … geological structures of the South American cordillera ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 May 1869 ), …
- … of the same species that Darwin had investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February …
- … role of earthworms in the formation of the soil ( letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 May [1869] …
- … on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), as well as on the German translation …
- … Spiridion Brusina, 29 April 1869 ). The German zoologist Anton Dohrn solicited Darwin’s support for …
- … remains an important institution to this day ( letter from Anton Dohrn, 30 December 1869 ). …
- … a hermit I am able to work some hours daily’ ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 4 January 1870 ). Darwin’s …
