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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … and ‘highness’ in particular groups, and, finally, (5) that embryology, by revealing homological …
- … realised, the question of sexuality and its evolution.^1^5^ Darwin viewed his discovery of …
- … Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), Darwin again discussed this issue, …
- … Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( Correspondence vol. 5), in which Darwin advised Bate on the art …
- … . Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 …
- … to reptiles, and the hair and body of a mammal. ^5^ In his species essay of 1844, for …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … for the future, is that addressed to his wife Emma, dated 5 July 1844 , just after Darwin had …
A tale of two bees
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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … standing. (letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] , Correspondence , vol. 20) …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … his ‘clerical brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ). Ernst Haeckel boasted of …
- … of all times and all circumstances’ (8 April 1871, p. 5). Darwin condemned the author of the review …
- … ( letter from H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin, [5 November 1871] ). Her husband …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … Fitton, [c. 28 June 1842] To Charles Lyell, [5 and 7 October 1842] To William …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … actually destructive of the faith. 5. Darwinism among liberal Anglicans …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … was no different in kind from that exhibited by animals.[5] The tone of the manuscript …
- … earliest days.— such as[13] 3B Long before 5 weeks old. it was curious to observe …
- … & a little noise of pleasure very like a laugh. 5 Nine weeks old— During the last …
- … lbs oz Feb 3 rd . 5 weeks & 3 days. 7 lb – 10 …
- … Feb. 17 7 wks & 3 days 8 – 5 6 wks 8 – 4 …
- … balance himself when seated hardly at all yet.— just over 5 months 20v. June. 5 th —10 …
- … behind, in same manner as in looking glass.— Octob. 5 th . Knows the word “fire” & …
- … did the first day she had her hair in curls. May 5 t . When Willy was at Maer, & I had …
- … an hour. She does not like to be interrupted 43 5 yrs old “Oh Franky[62] you had better …
- … in the room—”I’ll let you alone”— Lizzy 5½. I –get what the –ginning is –splain it to me— How …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … of a meeting at the Entomological Society of London on 5 April. Since the notes he promised to send …
- … Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 5: 17–18 is reproduced here: …
- … isolated cylindrical cells (letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 5 June [1858] ). Tegetmeier suggested …
- … below. In August 1858, Waterhouse’s remarks at the 5 April meeting of the Entomological …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Treat, 20 December 1871 Letter to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. …
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. …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin sends a manuscript copy of …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … geological changes. As he told Hooker in a letter of 5 June [1855] , ‘it shocks my philosophy to …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … it was a concern to him personally. 5. What was Darwin’s impact on the French …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … [2–3 August 1862] , and letter from W. E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 ). Botany is a new …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … book on earthworms, published in October, was a boost. His 5-year-old grandson Bernard, who lived at …
- … the least conscious of it’ ( letter to Alexander Agassiz, 5 May 1881 ). His scientific friends, …
- … not only botanical matters but also news about Francis’s 5-year-old son, Bernard. Just ten days …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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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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- … Burghal School. Deventer 05 June 1844 Rotterdam 12 …
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…
