Herzenstein, Ulrich. 1867. Zur Physiologie der Thränensecretion. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1867): 651–67.
Murray, Andrew. 1867. Dr. Hooker on insular floras. Gardeners’ Chronicle (1867): 152, 181–2.
British pharmacopœia (1867). London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1867.
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 3 February 1867?]
Summary
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B122–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5335 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 3 February 1867? ] …
- … 105: B122–3 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated [before 3 Feb 1867? ] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … mentioned in the letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 , and the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] . …
- … s diary (DAR 242) records that Henrietta went to London on 4 February 1867, and CD and …
- … Emma on 13 February 1867; CD and Emma may have intended to visit earlier with Henrietta. …
To J. D. Hooker [23 January 1867]
Summary
Would like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel’s photograph, but JDH should give CD’s address to FAWM.
Thanks for letter and glad Frances Harriet Hooker goes on well.
Do not send St Helena earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1867] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … D. Hooker, 20 January 1867 ). …
- … To J. D. Hooker [23 January 1867] …
- … 4 December 2019, lot 51) Charles Robert Darwin [Down] [23 Jan 1867] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … 15, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 January 1867 . Frances Harriet Hooker had recently given …
- … vol. 15, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 January [1867] and n. 8, and letter from J. …
To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To [? ] 22 [March? 1867] …
- … Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [Mar? 1867] Unidentified …
- … letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 26 March [1867] ), which would have included the section on …
- … of Variation having begun before March 1867, and the fact that the discussion of dogs …
- … in the first chapter (see n. 2, below). In 1867, the 22nd fell on a Friday in February, …
- … first proof-sheets of Variation on 1 March 1867 (CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 15, …
To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Mar [1867] Henry Walter Bates …
- … this letter and the letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 . See letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 29 March 1867 . See letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 29 March 1867 . Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR …
- … Tollet visited Down House from 7 to 21 March 1867. Georgina’s father, George Tollet , had …
- … or odour. See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 29 March 1867 and n. 3. See letter …
- … from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 and n. 9. For CD’s earlier praise of The naturalist on …
- … see letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 and n. 7). CD had praised Bates’s paper on …
- … the letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and nn. 5 and 6. This case had been …
To J. P. M. Weale 23 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information on expression.
Poor progress of civilisation in South Africa. CD’s doubts and fears about democracy.
JPMW’s views on glaciation in S. Africa will discredit him unless supported by clearest evidence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5795 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). Information …
- … portion of his letter of [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). Weale’s wife was …
- … professor of botany at Oxford since 1834, had died in 1867. Weale had sent replies to CD’s …
- … was in a missing portion of his letter of [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). …
- … Roland Trimen visited CD at Down on 28 and 29 December 1867 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … 15, letter to Roland Trimen, 24 December [1867] ). Weale’s request for a photograph …
- … portion of his letter of [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). CD probably sent a …
- … Murray. 1859. Weale, James Philip Mansel. 1867. Notes on the structure and fertilization …
- … at Bedford, South Africa. [Read 7 March 1867. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … emotions in his letter of [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15); see also ibid. , …
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, 7 July 1867 . Weale had criticised missionary teaching in …
- … from J. P. M. Weale, [10 December 1867] ). For CD’s views on missionary work, based on …
- … 508, and Browne 1995 , pp. 330–1. The 1867 Reform Act gave the vote to every male adult …
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). Thomas Henry …
- … to the Linnean Society of London ( Weale 1867 ; see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to …
- … J. P. M. Weale, 22 February [1867] ). The photographs have not been found in the Darwin …
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). Darwin later …
- … portion of his letter of [10 December 1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). CD refers to Louis …
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867]
Summary
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5696 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867] …
- … DAR 94: 37–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Nov [1867] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 . See also CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence …
- … had expressed his wish to visit Down in December 1867 while Thomas Woolner was making CD’s …
- … bust (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 ). See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 and n. 14. Cast: i.e. copy. John Smith was curator at the …
- … since July (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 ). See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 and n. 16. Sium helenianum attains between eight and twelve …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 November 1867 . In his undated notes on movement in bramble …
From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Sept 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5631 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867] …
- … DAR 102: 179 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [20 Sept 1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 August 1867 ). Hooker refers to Eliot 1859 . CD evidently …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 July [1867] and n. 3). …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [14 September 1867] , and by the dates of CD’s visit to London (see …
- … 2, below). The Friday following 14 September 1867 was 20 September. According to CD’s ‘ …
- … was in London from 18 to 24 September 1867. Hooker’s mother, Maria Hooker , had suffered …
To J. V. Carus 14 November [1867]
Summary
Sends revision of vol. 1 [of Variation]. Advance sale at auction sold 1200 copies, to CD’s great surprise. Publication delayed by index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 52–53) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5678 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. V. Carus 14 November [1867] …
- … Darwin, Charles, Bl. 52–53) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Nov [1867] Julius Victor Carus …
- … V. Carus, 11 November 1867 and n. 4. The word ‘gean’ is of Romance origin ( OED ). …
- … See letter from J. V. Carus, 11 November 1867 and n. 3. …
- … letter from J. V. Carus, 11 November 1867 . CD refers to the first volume of Variation. …
- … see letter to J. V. Carus, 16 September 1867 ). CD refers to the new director of the …
- … letter from J. V. Carus, 11 November 1867 and n. 5. The index was being compiled by …
- … letter from W. S. Dallas, 10 November 1867 ). Variation was published in January 1868 ( …
- … 1250 copies of Variation sold at John Murray’s autumn sale in 1867. See letter from J. …
From Ernst Haeckel 12 May 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for new edition of Origin [4th ed. (1866)].
Comments on CD’s criticism of the harsh tone of Generelle Morphologie. Thinks he may have harmed himself but not the cause. Believes a radical reform of the science necessary, and since most scientists take a prejudiced view of the matter, a vigorous attack is essential.
Describes his travels in Canaries, Spain, and France.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5533 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … From Ernst Haeckel 12 May 1867 …
- … DAR 166: 44 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 12 May 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 . Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
- … University Press. 1910–11. Haeckel, Ernst. 1867. Eine zoologischen Excursion nach den …
- … Jena 12. Mai 1867 Mein theurer, hochverehrter Freund! Erst vor wenigen Tagen von meiner …
- … Jena 12. May 1867 My dear, most admired friend! Having only been back from my travels a …
- … had spent from November 1866 to March 1867 travelling and doing research on Tenerife and …
- … Morocco, Portugal, and the Spanish mainland (see Haeckel 1867 ). Haeckel also refers …
- … to the letter from CD of 12 April [1867] , and the fourth edition of Origin. Haeckel’s …
- … 14). His lectures given in the winter of 1867 to 1868 were published as Haeckel 1868 (see …
- … his travels to CD with his letter of 28 June 1867 ; this report has not been found in the …
- … CUL. A report was also published on 12 September 1867 in the Jenaische Zeitschrift …
- … Medicin und Naturwissenschaft ( Haeckel 1867 ). The highest point of the Pico de Teide on …
- … 1959–60. Haeckel wrote to Huxley on 12 May 1867 (Uschmann and Jahn 1959–60, pp. 11–12; …
- … refers to the letter from CD of 8 January 1867 . Haeckel had visited CD at Down House in …
- … 40. See letter to Ernst Haeckel, 12 April [1867] and n. 6. Carl Gegenbaur. Haeckel gave …
From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867
Summary
Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.
| Author: | W. H. S Gibbons |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5394 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867 …
- … DAR 165: 36 W. H. S Gibbons East Grinstead 7 Feb 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … very faithfully | W H K Gibbons The Old Lodge | East Grinstead | Sussex | Feb 7 th 1867 …
- … In G. D. Campbell 1867 , p. 428, Campbell wrote: ‘if the methods and conditions of …
- … be more powerful than it is’; the words Gibbons quotes are not in G. D. Campbell 1867 . …
- … Kegan Paul. Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law. London: Alexander Strahan. …
- … 80). CD had not yet read G. D. Campbell 1867 , but had read some of the earlier writings …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] ). Thomas Henry Huxley had recently mentioned …
- … that Campbell criticised both him and CD in G. D. Campbell 1867 (see letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] and n. 16). …
From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867]
Summary
Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Sept 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5627 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867] …
- … DAR 102: 178 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [14 Sept 1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Association at Dundee from 4 to 11 September 1867 ( Report of the thirty-seventh meeting …
- … of Science meeting at Dundee, which ended on 11 September 1867 (see nn. 3 and 4, …
- … below). The Saturday following 11 September 1867 was 14 September. CD had received several …
- … Brazil (see letter to Fritz Müller, 15 August [1867] ). The following plants were recorded …
- … being received from CD at Kew on 7 September 1867: Angræcum eburneum Cymbidium ensifolium …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 August 1867 ). Hooker refers to Frances Harriet Hooker , …
To Cassell, Petter, & Galpin 24 August [1867]
Summary
Letter recommending V. O. Kovalevsky to a publisher.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Cassell, Petter, & Galpin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5615 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … O. Kovalevsky, 16 May [1867] ). …
- … To Cassell, Petter, & Galpin 24 August [1867] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.333) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Aug [1867] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 ). Kovalevsky left the financial arrangements …
- … to demand payment (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 , and letter to V. …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867]
Summary
Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].
The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 24 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5575 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 June [1867] Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир …
- … the letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 3 June [1867] . Kovalevsky had suggested using woodcuts …
- … translation of Variation (see letters from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 and [after 24? …
- … May 1867] ). CD had mentioned …
- … in his letter to Kovalevsky of 3 June [1867] that he did not have a copy and did not know …
- … See also letter from H. J. Meyer, 30 July 1867 . Kovalevsky had offered to send CD a …
- … bearskin (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 24 April [1867] ). In a …
- … to Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood dated ‘Summer 1867’, Henrietta Emma Darwin wrote: Did I tell …
To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867] …
- … Library, Department of Rare Books Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Feb [1867] Edward Blyth …
- … letter and the letter from Edward Blyth, 19 February 1867 . For Blyth’s remarks on the …
- … see the letter from Edward Blyth, 19 February 1867 . For CD’s intended publication …
- … on humans, see the letter to William Turner, 11 February [1867] and the letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 22 February [1867] and n. 12. For Blyth’s comments on …
- … the letter from Edward Blyth, 19 February 1867 and nn. 11 and 12. In Lectures on man ( …
- … 1: 824). In his letter of 19 February 1867 , Blyth sent comments on the fourth edition of …
- … at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s home in London from 13 to 21 February 1867 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] , n. 21); before falling ill, he had hoped to walk …
- … Zoological Gardens, Regent Park (see letters to Edward Blyth , [18 February 1867] and [ …
- … 19 February 1867] ). CD also referred to …
- … in his letter to Blyth of [18 February 1867] . They were galley proofs of a portion of …
- … and some gulls and terns in the 16 February 1867 issue of Land and Water , p. 84; the …
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867 …
- … DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 19 Nov 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Illustrations of the genus Carex , pt 4 (1867)], is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [ Genera …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] . Charles Lyell . CD had asked Hooker’s …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] and n. 3). The humble Uriah Heep in Charles …
- … had recently been published ( Fouqué 1867 ). Hooker refers to the Genera plantarum ( …
- … in Bentham 1883 . CD’s annotations are for his letter to Hooker of 25 November [1867] . …
- … 4.5 Oliver … advice. 9.3] ‘Nov. 19 th 1867— Laws of Variation’ added ink 5.1 I shall … …
- … Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte. 1867. Sintram and his companions. A northern …
- … had been adopted at the international botanical congress held in Paris in August 1867 ( …
- … Candolle 1867 ). The English translation, Laws of botanical …
- … botanical congress held at Paris in August, 1867 , was published in 1868 by L. Reeve & …
- … n. 1. Hooker visited Down on 21 December 1867 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Leonard …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 ). The umbellifer endemic to St Helena is …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 March 1867 ). Wright later described several Seychelles …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] and nn. 8 and 9. Friedrich Heinrich Karl …
To Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip [before 1 December 1867]
Summary
Sends, as corroboration of earlier articles on hedgehogs carrying fruit on their spines, a passage from a letter from R. Swinhoe [5598] describing hedgehogs carrying strawberries to their holes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip |
| Date: | [before 1 Dec 1867] |
| Classmark: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5702 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip [before 1 December 1867] …
- … Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 280 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … unstated [before 1 Dec 1867] Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip …
- … of publication of the letter, 1 December 1867 ( Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3: 280). See …
- … in the August and September issues ( Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 184–5, 213). The …
- … the letter from Robert Swinhoe, 5 August 1867 , with slight modifications. Mr Gisbert: …
- … this account in a letter dated August 5, 1867, from Mr. Swinhoe at Amoy: —“Mr. Gisbert, …
To Philip Lutley Sclater 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.338) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5713 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Philip Lutley Sclater 9 December [1867] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.338) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Dec [1867] Philip Lutley Sclater …
- … Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6]. …
- … Observer with the letter of 30 November 1867 from its editor, Henry James Slack . …
- … published in the November issue ( Sclater 1867 ); there is a lightly annotated copy in the …
- … London from 28 November until 7 December 1867 (CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 15, …
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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…
Matches: 30 hits
- … 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…
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- … 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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
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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
Summary
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
Summary
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 …
