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Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … , and Fritz Schultze had all sent Darwin their works. Carl du Prel had even tried to apply …
- … produced works on the moral implications of Darwinism. Carl Vogt had corresponded about atavism …
- … why. One of Darwin's ' most enthusiastic followers ', Carl Friedrich Claus, had …
- … ) The professor of zoology at Würzburg, Carl Gottfried Semper, who had disputed Darwin …
- … ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an agricultural scientist from …
- … kindly incorporate it in the German album ( Letter from Carl Kraus , 10 February 1878 ) …
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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- … Jean Jacques Moulinié, had been personally recommended by Carl Vogt and had translated Vogt’s own …
- … Darwin had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. …
- … ). This hint of uncertainty caused Darwin to respond to Vogt somewhat ambiguously, as he wrote, …
- … sent to him, he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … out between 1867 and 1869. For example, when writing to Carl Vogt – a geologist and zoologist …
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,…
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…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … of Ethnology" (1865) [ available at archive.org ] Carl Vogt, Lectures on Man (1864 …
