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List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … Belt, Thomas (15) Bemmelen, A. A. van (2) …
  • … Bok, E. W. (1) Bolhuis, Jan van (1) …
  • … J. S. (66) Burg, C. L. van der (2) …
  • … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
  • … Edmund (1) Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus (14) …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … list of people that appeared in the  photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 …
  • … Apeldoorn 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of …
  • …   6 Asperen P. van Apothecary   Velp …
  • … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
  • … 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. C. L. van (Coert  Lambertus) Burgomaster …
  • … 15 may 1882  Lemmer 12 Bemmelen A.A. van (Adriaan …
  • … 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan Anthonij) Bailiff to H.R.H …
  • … Rotterdam 62 Eeghen A.W. van (Anne Willem) Treasurer to …
  • … 159 Riemsdijk Dr. A.D. van (Adriaan Daniël)      Utrecht …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

Summary

List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • … List of people appearing in the  photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in …
  • … 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy …
  • …   6 Asperen P. van Apothecary   Velp …
  • … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
  • … Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen but there is only one van Beemen who …
  • … 12 Bemmelen A.A. van (Adriaan Anthony) Director of the Rotterdam Zoological …
  • … Died just a few months after the album was sent to Charles Darwin at the age of 53 …
  • … 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan Anthonij) Bailiff to H.R.H …
  • … 62 Eeghen A.W. van (Anne Willem) Treasurer to the Amsterdam Royal Zoological …
  • … Geologist, Economist an Darwinist. Corresponded with Darwin and translated The descent of Man in …
  • … 159 Riemsdijk Dr. A.D. van (Adriaan Daniël)      Utrecht …

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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  • Ever since the publication of Expression , Darwins research had centred firmly on botany. The
  • spent completing Forms of flowers , his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the
  • of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwins botany was
  • assisted his fathers research on movement and bloom, and Darwin in turn encouraged his sons own
  • by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The
  • from Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. Closer to home, Darwin received an honorary Doctorate of
  • sites for possible earthworm activity. Now in his 69th year, Darwin remained remarkably productive, …
  • no controversy. In his autobiographical reflections, Darwin remarked: ‘no little discovery of
  • 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
  • to you.’ Drawing his separate publications together into a larger whole enabled Darwin to advance
  • 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
  • one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
  • but I think the great honour of its being printed in the R. Soc. Transactions, (sh d . the
  • larger aim was announced in the subtitle: Zeitschrift für einheitliche Weltanschauung auf Grund
  • the production. Darwin thanked the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : …
  • … ‘but found him as soft & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker
  • I hope it may remain for centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham
  • of Siebolds study of medical monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An
  • any recognition by any public bodies of England & that y r . own University w d . like to be
  • at the Senate House yesterday, with a suspended monkey &c; but I believe the cheering was more