From A. R. Wallace 22 October [1867]
Summary
Response to CD’s comments on "Creation by law" [see 5637].
The limits of variation discussed.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B46–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5656 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 22 October [1867] …
- … DAR 106: B46–7 Alfred Russel Wallace Hurstpierpoint 22 Oct [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law. London: …
- … Strahan. [Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming. ] 1867. The origin of species. North British …
- … between this letter and the letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] . In …
- … his letter of 12 and 13 October [1867] , CD had praised Wallace’s article in the Quarterly …
- … 1867c ) defending CD’s theory against criticisms made in G. D. Campbell 1867 and [ …
- … Jenkin] 1867 . In his anonymous article in the North British Review , Henry Charles …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). The reference is to Descent. Earlier, CD …
- … agent in forming the human races (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] ). …
- … for patenting machines (see [Jenkin] 1867 , pp. 310–12, and A. R. Wallace 1867c , p. …
- … over long periods of time ( [Jenkin] 1867 , pp. 285–6). Wallace countered that the …
- … 486–7). See letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 12. See letter to …
- … A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 13. The ‘new Natural …
- … Natural History (see letter from Andrew Murray, 12 August 1867 and n. 1). See letter to …
- … A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 16. Wallace refers to the Journal of the …
- … at 12 St James’s Square ( Post Office London directory 1867; see letter to A. R. …
- … Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 20). Wallace refers to Charles Lyell , Thomas …
From A. R. Wallace [19 June 1867]
Summary
CD is invited to see ARW’s collections at Bayswater.
ARW has written an answer to the Duke of Argyll and North British Review criticisms.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5634 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace [19 June 1867] …
- … 2 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 [19 June 1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Creation by law’, appeared in the October 1867 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Science ( …
- … Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law. London: …
- … Strahan. [Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming. ] 1867. The origin of species. North British …
- … 5, below). CD was in London from 17 to 24 June 1867 (see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … In 1867, the first Wednesday after 17 June was 19 June. Wallace refers to the gardens of …
- … Douglas Campbell and to G. D. Campbell 1867 (for more on Campbell’s criticisms, see …
- … the letter from Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 , and the letter to …
- … Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). The unsigned …
- … article in the North British Review for June 1867 was [ …
- … Jenkin] 1867 (see letter from …
- … Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 and n. 2). …
From A. R. Wallace 1 October [1867]
Summary
Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.
Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B43–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5637 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 1 October [1867] …
- … Alfred Russel Wallace London, Westbourne Grove, 76 1/2 1 Oct [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to Wallace (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and nn. 14 and 20). …
- … in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" …
- … Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law. London: Alexander Strahan. …
- … was in London from 18 to 24 September 1867 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Wallace refers …
- … was held in Dundee from 4 to 11 September 1867 ( Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of …
- … Xanthopan morgani ; see A. R. Wallace 1867 , p. 477; see also Kritsky 1991 ). Wallace …
- … 1977 ). Wallace’s son was born on 22 June 1867 ( Raby 2001 , p. 194). Wallace’s brother, …
- … Press. [Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming. ] 1867. The origin of species. North British …
- … published The reign of law , a book critical of CD’s transmutation theory, in 1867 ( G. …
- … D. Campbell 1867 ); the North British Review had published an anonymous article by Henry …
- … Charles Fleeming Jenkin , also critical of CD’s theory, in June 1867 ( [ …
- … Jenkin] 1867 ). Wallace responded to these criticisms in his article ‘Creation by law’ in …
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867] …
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, 9 January 1867 , and CD’s annotation to the letter from …
- … A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] ). …
- … Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 11 Mar [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the letter to A. R. Wallace, 7 March [1867] . The list of queries about expression that …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 7 March [1867] and n. 2. For a version of the questions …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867) ; in Bates 1861 , pp. 508–9, Bates noted …
- … Man’ in his letter to Wallace of 7 March [1867] . Variation was published in 1868; CD had …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] and n. 16). Expression was published in …
- … 7. See letter from H. W. Bates, 11 March 1867 and n. 9. Wallace refers to the mullein …
- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and n. 3. No comment by Wallace on this …
From A. R. Wallace 2 March [1867]
Summary
Pleased that CD approves his idea about caterpillars.
Thinks CD is right about selection in butterflies, but still believes protective adaptation has kept down colours of females.
Cannot yet see action of natural selection in forming the races of man.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5968 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 2 March [1867] …
- … A98 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 2 Mar [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] . CD touched on the roles of beauty and …
- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] . For Wallace’s hypothesis on caterpillar …
- … experiment for testing it, see his letter of 24 February [1867] . CD praised Wallace’ …
- … s idea in his letter of 26 February [1867] . …
- … In his letter of 26 February [1867] CD had argued that sexual selection accounted for …
- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and n. 6 for Wallace’s thoughts on sexual …
- … See letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] and n. 5. Wallace maintained this view …
- … in his letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] . Wallace’s references are to Charles …
- … his nephew Charles Brooke as his heir in 1867 ( ODNB ). Charles Brooke succeeded him in …
From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867]
Summary
Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5416 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867] …
- … 21 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 24 Feb [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from J. P. M. Weale, 9 January 1867 and n. 7). In Descent 1: 416–17, CD …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867 . Henry Walter Bates had advised CD to pose …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867) . In Descent 1: 416, CD paraphrased Wallace’s …
- … statement made by Wallace at the 4 March 1867 meeting of the Entomological Society of …
- … there is no further extant correspondence in 1867 regarding these experiments, John Jenner …
- … Weir conducted them in the summers of 1867 and 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 16, letters …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867 and n. 5. CD had asked Wallace how he would …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867) . Wallace refers to Gonepteryx rhamni ( …
- … of the Entomological Society of 4 March 1867 of Wallace’s asking for the experiments with …
From A. R. Wallace 1 May 1867
Summary
Never imagined that the facts about sexual selection could be new to CD. Thought fact that brightly coloured females build concealed nests and almost all those in which sexes differ remarkably build exposed nests might be new to him. Some problems remain. Sends his notes for CD to use if he wants.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5522 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 1 May 1867 …
- … 36–7 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 1 May 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to A. R. Wallace, 29 April [1867] and n. 5. Wallace published two papers on …
- … See letter from A. R. Wallace, 26 April [1867] , and letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 29 April [1867] . Wallace had suggested that the dull colouring of many female …
- … 9, St. Mark’s Crescent May 1 st . 1867 Dear Darwin I was afraid you had rather …
- … published in the Westminster Review in July 1867. The need for protection of birds sitting …
From A. R. Wallace 26 April [1867]
Summary
Describes his view on colour [of plumage] of males and females – i.e., that absence of brilliant colour in either sex is due to need for protection in incubation, rather than to sexual selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 32–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5515 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 26 April [1867] …
- … 5 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 26 Apr [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 May 1867 . Wallace refers to his paper ‘Mimicry and …
- … published in the Westminster Review in July 1867 ([A. R. Wallace] 1867a). CD discussed [ …
- … London: John Murray. 1871. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern …
- … note for his letter to Wallace of 29 April [1867] . In Descent 2: 187, CD wrote: ‘When the …
- … Lyell’s Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 , 2: 356), where Lyell recounted an …
From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1869
Summary
Dedication of Malay Archipelago to CD.
Comments on scientific papers.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B73–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6561 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … p. 203). Wallace’s review of C. Lyell 1867–8 appeared in the April 1869 issue of the …
- … Disraeli had passed the Reform Act in 1867 ( Mitchell et al. 1988 ). See n. 8, above. …
- … s Magazine 78: 353–62. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes …
- … Garland Publishing Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1867. Siluria: a history of the oldest rocks …
- … Lyell’s Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 ) appeared in the Guardian , 30 December …
- … Impey Murchison’s Siluria ( Murchison 1867 ), ‘Sir Roderick Murchison and modern schools …
From A. R. Wallace 8 [April] 1868
Summary
If CD is not convinced by his notes on sterility, ARW has little doubt that he is wrong. In fact he was only half-convinced by his own arguments.
Modifies his first proposition [a species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to free inter-crossing the variations never increase] and further discusses the subject.
Encloses Berthold Seemann’s notes on flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a "hard nut" for geographical distribution [but see ARW’s Island life (1880), p. 323].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [Apr] 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B57-8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6104 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the …
- … 7 (1865–8): 143–235. Mann, Horace. 1867. Enumeration of Hawaiian plants. Cambridge, …
- … in Journal of Botany 5 (1867): 314 (the journal was edited by Seemann). Wallace later …
- … 21 March 1868] ). Wallace refers to Lyell 1867–8 , 2: 402–32. For earlier remarks by CD …
- … Mann 1866 ). The article was reprinted as a book ( Mann 1867 ), a notice of which appeared …
From A. R. Wallace 18 April [1869]
Summary
Expands upon their differences in regard to man and the question of the existence of forces not yet recognised by science.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6703 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Summary
Accepts invitation.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
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- … first son, Herbert Spencer Wallace , was born in June 1867 ( Raby 2001 , p. 194). …
From A. R. Wallace 18 September [1868]
Summary
Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A14–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6375 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 November 1873
Summary
Discussion of his possible assistance on editorial work for revised edition of Descent.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B118–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9151 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 February 1868
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries on polygamy in birds and orang.
Discusses sexual selection and secondary characters; colours and sexual preference.
Expresses his admiration for Pangenesis; it is superior to Herbert Spencer’s theory.
ARW differs somewhat with CD’s chapter on causes of variability [ch. 22 in Variation]. Thinks several of CD’s arguments are unsound.
Briefly discusses how natural selection might aid in producing sterility between allied species.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B70–2, DAR 86: A10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5922 |
From A. R. Wallace 27 January 1871
Summary
Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.
Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.
On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7460 |
From A. R. Wallace 10 March 1869
Summary
Weir’s paper on relation of protection to colour of caterpillars [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6; (1870): 337–9] confirms ARW’s hypothesis.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6651 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 March [1868]
Summary
Returns George Darwin’s criticisms of his notes on sterility and sends further notes in reply. Since there are degrees of sterility between varieties, "is it not probable that natural selection can accumulate these variations?" Varieties that are adapted to new conditions could then survive and form new species without being isolated.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B61–2, B158–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6045 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1991, pp. 372–437. Wallace spent much of 1867 and 1868 writing A. R. Wallace 1869 ( …
From A. R. Wallace 18 September 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4894 |
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- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works …
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| Wallace, A. R. | (28) |
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
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 …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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…
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- … Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
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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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
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…
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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,…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …
