From Rudolf Suchsland 16 March 1866
Summary
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5035 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Fridrikhom Rolle. [Translation of Rolle 1863. ] Moscow: A. I. Glazunov. Vladimirskii, M. …
- … Fridrikhom Rolle. [Translation of Rolle 1863. ] With a supplementary biography of Darwin …
- … Bronn trans. 1860 and Bronn trans. 1863); they included an afterword in which Bronn …
- … In his letter to the Athenæum of 18 April [1863], CD mentioned Bronn as an opponent of his …
- … of Chicago Press. Rolle, Friedrich. 1863. Chs. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten …
- … Friedrich Rolle’s Ch. Darwin’s Lehre ( Rolle 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to …
- … the work in his letter to Friedrich Rolle, 30 January [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
- … s annotated copies of the four parts of Rolle 1863 are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
- … CUL. Following the publication of Rolle 1863 , Rolle gave an account of the response to …
- … propagate CD’s theory in his letter to CD of 26 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
- … Ch. Darwin’s Lehre ( Rolle 1863 ) was published in two Russian translations ( Vladimirskii …
To William Turner 5 June [1866]
Summary
Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 5 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5113 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97]. …
- … cells (see Variation 2: 370 and Turner 1863 , pp. 5–6). On CD’s use of cell theory in his …
- … of Medicine 24: 375–411. Turner, William. 1863. The present aspect of the doctrine of …
- … Signed author’s offprints of Turner 1863 , 1864b, and 1866b are in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … s paper on cellular pathology ( Turner 1863 ) as supportive of the view that all cells …
- … of Surgeons of Edinburgh. [Read 27 February 1863. ] Edinburgh Medical Journal 8: 873–97. …
From Friedrich Rolle 28 January 1866
Summary
Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.
Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.
Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.
Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4986 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Collier Macmillan. Weinland, David Friedrich. 1863. Was wir gewollt haben. Der zoologische …
- … London: John Murray. 1859. Rolle, Friedrich. 1863. Chs. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung …
- … chapter titles of Rolle’s books ( Rolle 1863 , p. 155; Rolle 1866 , p. 104). While the …
- … 11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 and n. 4). Jäger was an organiser and …
- … had financial problems from its outset in 1863 and closed in September 1866 ( Weinreich …
- … of CD ( Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 and n. …
- … 12). In December 1863, Weinland moved from Frankfurt to his parents’ estate in …
- … zoological gardens in Germany ( Weinland 1863 ). Weinland founded Der Thiergarten in 1864. …
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 22 December 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for previous communications. Asks him to send a paper relating to flowers to be read at first meeting of her ladies’ literary and scientific society.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5316 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … source of pride and pleasure. In the summer of 1863 I ventured to send you some flowers of …
- … corresponded in the spring and summer of 1863, but only one of CD’s letters to Becker has …
- … 11, letter to L. E. Becker, 2 August [1863] ). Becker’s observations on the flowers of …
- … vol. 11, letter from L. E. Becker, 28 May [1863] ; see also Becker’s later paper on the …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … 11, letter from L. E. Becker, 31 July [1863] ). Crimson flax, Linum grandiflorum , was …
From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866]
Summary
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Author: | Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 and 7? Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968 |
To J. V. Carus 10 November 1866
Summary
Expresses gratification that JVC is to undertake new translation and revision of German edition of the Origin.
Has heard many complaints about Bronn’s translation. JVC would be justified in omitting Bronn’s appendix.
Suggests additions and changes, including reference to C. W. v. Nägeli’s Entstehung und Begriff [1865], though he disagrees with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5273 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Origin (Bronn trans. 1860 and Bronn trans. 1863), see the letter from Rudolf Suchsland, …
- … Bronn trans. 1860 and Bronn trans. 1863); Carus had suggested separating this epilogue …
- … the second German edition (Bronn trans. 1863, pp. 1–10). CD expanded the sketch again in …
- … some of his objections (see Bronn trans. 1863, pp. 149–50, and Bronn and Carus trans. …
- … to the note on page 274 of Bronn trans. 1863. The note is appended to the sentence, ‘On …
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … transport of seeds by birds and winds ( J. D. Hooker 1863 , pp. 180–1). CD’s lightly …
- … annotated copy of J. D. Hooker 1863 is among the unbound journals in the Darwin …
- … mountains (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n. …
- … 11, and [24 May 1863] and n. 8). For earlier discussions of the problem of the survival …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] and nn. 15–18, and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] . See also the section on ‘Dispersal during the glacial …
From J. V. Carus 15 November 1866
Summary
JVC proposes to correct Bronn’s mistakes [in his translation of Origin], but will not add his own notes.
Asks CD to write a note on Nägeli’s pamphlet [Entstehung und Begriff] for the revised edition.
Also requests biographical information for an encyclopedia article he has been asked to write.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5279 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … prepared the first and second German editions of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860 and 1863). See …
- … Bronn trans. 1863, p. 41. Canis familiaris var. vertagus is described in Linnaeus 1858– …
- … the translation of ‘terrier’, see Bronn trans. 1863, p. 27, and Bronn and Carus trans. …
- … Origin 3d ed. , p. 76, and Bronn trans. 1863, p. 88, where Bronn uses ‘Zuckererbsen’ ( …
- … October 1866 and n. 2). In Bronn trans. 1863, p. 32 n. , Bronn writes, ‘ the laugher , …
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 107–10. The reference is probably to Rütimeyer 1863 . CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin …
- … Publishing. 1990. Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Pferde und …
- … des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel in 1863. See Correspondence vol. 11. CD was elected …
- … Prussian Academy of Sciences ), Berlin, in 1863. See Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix …
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 3 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed. , Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. …
- … fifth volume of Reeve and Walford eds. 1863–7, Portraits of men of eminence. A photograph …
- … and 1866), two German (Bronn trans. 1860 and 1863), one Italian (Canestrini and Salimbeni …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … p. 115). See also Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Asa Gray , 26 May 1863 and …
- … 21 July 1863 . For a discussion of Owen’s views on evolution, see Rupke 1994 , pp. 220– …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Hugh Falconer , 5 [and 6] January [1863] and …
- … 20 [January 1863] . In Origin 4th ed. , p. 367, CD noted the discovery of Archaeopteryx …
To Fritz Müller 23 May 1866
Summary
Thanks for information on orchids
and facts on coastal flora and fauna.
Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.
Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 May 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5097 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and to Müller’s paper on prawns, F. Müller 1863 (translated into English as F. Müller …
- … is ‘Garnelen’). No reference to F. Müller 1863 has been found in any of Rütimeyer’s …
- … London: Ray Society. 1851. Müller, Fritz. 1863. Die Verwandlung der Garneelen. Archiv für …
- … 11, letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [January 1863] ). See also Forms of flowers , p. 257 n. …
From Robert Swinhoe 28 March 1866
Summary
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5041 |
To James Shaw 11 February [1866]
Summary
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 11 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii; |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004 |
From George Henslow 7 April 1866
Summary
Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.
Enjoyed visit.
His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5048 |
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Sabine to John Phillips, 12 November 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix IV. …
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
From Rudolf Suchsland 2 April 1866
Summary
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5045 |
From John Lubbock 1 July [1866]
Summary
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5138 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Lubbock, 23 [February 1863] and n. 5. …
From J. E. Gray 13 April 1866
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5056 |
letter | (91) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Henslow, George | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (4) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (90) |
Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Henslow, George | (5) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 28 hits
- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
- … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
- … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
- … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
- … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
- … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
- … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
- … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
- … his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 20 …
- … reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). Darwin was delighted by …
- … fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did Darwin …
- … attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … Athenæum in response ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). He later expressed …
- … a good letter (!)’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). At the same time Darwin admitted …
- … on Foraminifera ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] , and Appendix VII). The reviewer, …
- … origin of matter.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] ). Owen’s endorsement of Lamarck …
- … nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). poor miserable devil of a …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 24 hits
- … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted …
- … experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in …
- … mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was …
- … a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). Even before work on the …
- … plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues …
- … to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his …
- … have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list …
- … a school-boy’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew …
- … like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other …
- … on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous …
- … each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin’s aesthetic appreciation of …
- … which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants …
- … worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwin’s hothouse became an …
- … foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the …
- … book gives an entry under ‘Science’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought …
- … not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with …
- … this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list …
- … (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is headed ‘Stove …
- … to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed …
- … from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants …
- … at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, …
- … p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. 9. Catasetum …
- … with premises at Clapton, London. After Low’s death in 1863 the firm was conducted by his son, …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 17 hits
- … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
- … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
- … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
- … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
- … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
- … note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
- … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
- … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
- … evidence appealed to. 53 Harley Street: November 1863 Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
- … in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had …
- … 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
- … of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyell’s unwillingness to commit …
- … vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. See Correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–.: Falconer, Hugh. 1863. Letter. Athenaeum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459 …
- … 13 (1858–63): i–x; 14 (1858–63): 1–34, 129–88; 15 (1863–66): 245–321. Lubbock, John. 1861. …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape-origin of man as tested by the …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 13 hits
- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested …
- … the distribution of the pamphlet in August and September 1863 (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to …
- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863], and letter from Emma Darwin to J. …
- … from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [2 September 1863] (DAR 219.1: 77), and Correspondence …
- … (see CD's Classed account book (Down House MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s …
- … and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). There is no surviving record of …
- … alternatives (see letter from E. L. Darwin, 7 September 1863, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, …
- … to the RSPCA, payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in …
- … 1858], and this volume, letter to J. B. Innes, 1 September [1863]). The 'Appeal' …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). The …
- … Jr (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 and n. 1). 3 This …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). …
- … Bromley ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1863). 8 The closing words, …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin, [16 July 1863] Hildebrand writes to …
- … Letter 4235 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [8 July 1863] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a …
- … Letter 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a …
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … 4233 - Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, [29 June - 7 July 1863] Tegetmeier updates Darwin …
- … 3896 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H, [before 25 February 1863] Darwin offers the results of …
- … Letter 4010 - Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, [25 February 1863] Huxley praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin secretly passes on …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
Matches: 1 hits
- … help him with his research (e.g. to Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
- … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
- … JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161 TO ASA GRAY 13 …
- … 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165 A Gray TO C Darwin …
- … APRIL 1866 173 C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO …
- … STAY 1881 192 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 August 1863] Darwin tells Gray about his recent …
- … Letter 3901 - Darwin to Falconer, H., [5 & 6 January 1863] Darwin gives feedback on …
- … Letter 4000 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [20 February 1863] Darwin praises Dana’s latest work …
- … Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 & 28 May 1863] Darwin praises Scott’s …
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…
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- … in severity in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter to Hooker in April of 1861, …
- … 1849 ( Correspondence vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick …
- … pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11), …
- … Wells, under James Smith Ayerst, in September and October 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … in invisible ink on the germ' ( to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). Years before he …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … derivation of Species … Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. Permit me again to …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … species in the world’. To J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] : describing the light-sensing …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … of tendrils, as described in the following excerpt from an 1863 letter he wrote to the English …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy …
- … medical practitioner Darwin contacted around this time. In 1863, Darwin experienced a period of …
- … joints (see, for example, Holland 1855, p. 233, and Garrod 1863, pp. 263-4). The diagnosis of …
- … George Busk, 28 April 1865). In November and December 1863, Darwin had consulted the stomach …
- … vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …
2.3 Wedgwood medallions
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< Back to Introduction Despite Darwin’s closeness to the Wedgwood family, he was studiously uninterested in the productions of his maternal grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I, the immensely successful ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January…
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- … ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January 1863, Darwin described himself and his wife …
- … scientists for the museum at Kew, and in the spring of 1863 he borrowed from the Darwin family a …
- … above, Hooker had actually been in touch with Woolner since 1863. However, it was apparently William …
- … museum. Letters from Joseph Hooker to Darwin, 6 Jan. 1863 (DCP-LETT-3902) and [24 March 1863] (DCP …
John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…