From William Boyd Dawkins 22 August 1867
Summary
On the breeding out of horns in Galloway cattle.
Has a finely graded series linking the dentition of the rhinoceros with that of the Palaeotherium of the Eocene.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5614 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From William Boyd Dawkins 22 August 1867 …
- … DAR 162: 117 William Boyd Dawkins Upminster 22 Aug 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … The reference is to Dawkins 1867 , p. 177 n. , in which Dawkins …
- … the earl of Selkirk ( Dunbar James Douglas ) dated 6 March 1867. The paper was the second …
- … fossil British oxen ( Dawkins 1866 and 1867); Dawkins evidently sent both parts to CD ( …
- … letter to W. B. Dawkins, 26 August [1867] ). The paper has not been found in the Darwin …
- … Upminster, Romford 22. August. 1867. My dear Sir, Along with this I have taken the …
From J. D. Hooker [to W. E. Darwin?] [13 April? 1867]
Summary
Sends Oliver’s list of references on Adoxa.
Baby now out of trouble.
Pleased with Paris exhibition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Apr? 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5493 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [to W. E. Darwin? ] [13 April? 1867] …
- … DAR 186: 48 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [13 Apr? 1867] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … Brown at 14 Wardour Street ( Post Office London directory 1867). See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 and n. 2. …
- … letter from Hooker to CD on 13 April 1867 containing similar information, and because of …
- … baby and the Paris exhibition to those in the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 . …
- … In 1867, 13 April was a Saturday. There are some annotations about Adoxa , possibly by …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 and n. 4. John Philip and David Elers …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 June [1867]
Summary
Sends a sheet of proofs. Will hold four others until he hears from VOK, because of expensive postage. Thinks illustrating Russian translation [of Variation] with woodcuts from A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben, 4 vols. (1864–7)] is an excellent idea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 3 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5562 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 June [1867] …
- … Leffler Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 June [1867] Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 . Kovalevsky had asked CD to send the sheets …
- … paid ( letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 ). CD refers to Brehm et al. 1864–9 ( …
- … see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 ). …
From William Angus Knight 20 August 1867
Summary
Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee.
| Author: | William Angus Knight |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5610 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From William Angus Knight 20 August 1867 …
- … DAR 169: 40 William Angus Knight Dundee 20 Aug 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Science held its annual meeting for 1867 in Dundee from 4 to 11 September ( Report of …
- … of Science; held at Dundee in September 1867 , p. lxxiii). CD did not attend the meeting. …
- … Dundee August 20 th . 1867 Dear Sir, I understand you are to visit Dundee during the …
To Ernst Haeckel 12 April [1867]
Summary
Struck by singular clarity of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Remarks on various authors seem too severe. Severity leads the reader to take the side of the attacked person.
Making slow progress in correcting Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1–52/13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5500 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Ernst Haeckel 12 April [1867] …
- … 1–52/13) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Apr [1867] Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
- … Carus and Fritz Müller (see letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 , and letter to J. …
- … V. Carus, 11 April [1867] and n. 7). Thomas Henry Huxley and Haeckel corresponded with …
- … 2 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer. Haeckel, Ernst. 1867. Eine zoologischen Excursion nach den …
- … II)). Haeckel had spent from November 1866 to March 1867 travelling and doing research on …
- … Tenerife and Lanzarote (see Haeckel 1867 ; see also letter from …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 12 May 1867 ). CD had received a copy of Haeckel’s …
- … see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 8 January 1867 ). There is an annotated copy in the Darwin …
To Fritz Müller 22 February [1867]
Summary
Observations on orchid self-sterility.
Wants information on characters that may have originated through sexual selection in lower animals.
Encloses queries on expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5410 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Fritz Müller 22 February [1867] …
- … 10 no 13) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Feb [1867] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … Ekman ed. 1998. Müller’s replies, written on 5 October 1867 and sent to CD, have not been …
- … see letter from Fritz Müller, [8 October 1867] , n. 2. See also Expression , pp. 268–9. …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1867 . See Correspondence vol 14, letter from …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1867 and nn. 1, 5, and 8–10. CD may be recalling …
- … by Müller only once (see letter from Fritz Müller, 1 April 1867 ). CD also asked this …
- … of correspondents at the end of February 1867. CD had earlier sent similar queries on …
- … letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 January 1867 and n. 3). For more on CD’s queries about …
- … in his letter to Müller of 7 February [1867] . See n. 2, above. CD discussed self- …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1867 and nn. 15 and 16. CD had received letters …
- … n. See letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1867 and nn. 17–19. CD had briefly discussed …
- … see letter to William Turner, 11 February [1867] ). Ultimately, he published Expression …
From Henry Holland 21 December [1867]
Summary
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5736 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Henry Holland 21 December [1867] …
- … 166: 247 Henry Holland, 1st baronet London, Brook St 21 Dec [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the University of Cambridge by Robert Mackenzie Beverley ( [Beverley] 1867 ; see letter to …
- … Charles Kingsley, 13 December [1867] and n. 6). …
- … Beverley, Robert Mackenzie. ] 1867. The Darwinian theory of the transmutation of species …
- … at Tatton Park, Cheshire (Hurst and Carter 1867); there is a copy in the Darwin Pamphlet …
From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5494 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867 …
- … DAR 173: 33 Daniel Oliver Kew 8 Apr 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1867] . Joseph Dalton Hooker was a juror for seeds …
- … of forest trees at the Paris exhibition ( Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 April 1867, p. 348). …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1867] . Backhouse published his Monograph of the …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1867] ). John Gilbert Baker was an assistant in the …
To H. J. Slack 2 December [1867]
Summary
Explains that he has made it a rule not to write for periodicals, however eminent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry James Slack |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Bruun Rasmussen (dealers) (March 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To H. J. Slack 2 December [1867] …
- … Rasmussen (dealers) (March 2016) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Dec [1867] Henry James Slack …
- … 15, letter from H. J. Slack, 30 November 1867) . In the event, CD never contributed an …
- … letter from H. J. Slack, 30 November 1867 ( Correspondence vol. 15). See Correspondence …
- … 15, letter from H. J. Slack, 30 November 1867 . Slack had asked CD to contribute to the …
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Summary
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867? ] …
- … DAR 102: 197 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [23 Dec 1867? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 26 [and 27] March 1867 ). CD sometimes had plant specimens sent …
- … Down. Hooker visited Down on Saturday 21 December 1867 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 21 December 1867 records, ‘D r Hooker W m . ’; ‘W m ’ could …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 ). Hooker also referred to W. E. Darwin as ‘ …
To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867
Summary
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5432 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867 …
- … DAR 144: 41 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Mar 1867 Frederic William Farrar …
- … some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal …
- … public school education. [Read 8 February 1867. ] ]Proceedings of the Royal Institution …
- … Down March 5, 1867 My dear Sir I am very much obliged for your kind present of your …
- … in public school education’ ( Farrar 1867 ). CD’s copy has not been found. Although he was …
- … of abstruse grammatical rules ( Farrar 1867 ). Root and branch men: those supporting a …
From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867
Summary
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
| Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867 …
- … DAR 171: 7 Daniel Mackintosh Winchester 1 Dec 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. …
- … from Daniel Mackintosh, 8 December [1867] and n. 2. CD had written about denudation in …
- … Sussex Street, | Winchester, 1 st Dec. 1867. Sir, Having some idea of the extent to which …
- … London: Longmans, Green, & Co. Hull, Edward. 1867. Mr Whitaker on ‘subaerial denudation’. …
- … Magazine 4: 567–9. Kinahan, George Henry. 1867. On cliffs and escarpments. Geological …
- … the Geological Magazine during 1866 and 1867. These authors emphasised the importance of …
- … Mackintosh’s papers, see E. Hull 1867 . Kinahan emphasised the similar appearances of …
- … subaerial agencies, including ice ( Kinahan 1867 ). See, for example, Mackintosh 1867a , …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867] …
- … DAR 94: 5–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Jan [1867] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] ). Emma Darwin wrote the postscript, …
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] . CD refers to Frances Harriet Hooker and …
- … statement in his letter of [12 January 1867] . The second of the four parts of Hooker’s …
- … 1866a ) appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 12 January 1867, p. 27. See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 January [1867] , n. 1. Alexander von Humboldt wrote that he had seen …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] . In his letter to Hooker of 7 January [ …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 January [1867] . Humboldt remarked that Lanzarote and …
From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867
Summary
Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.
| Author: | Thomas Woolner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5707 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867 …
- … DAR 181: 160 Thomas Woolner London, Welbeck St, 29 6 Dec 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … it was erected in Wrexham church in 1867 ( Woolner 1917 , pp. 242, 339). The enclosure …
- … of CD, who expected him to start work at Down on Monday 9 December 1867 ( letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 25 November [1867] ). See also letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 December 1867 . …
- … On 11 December 1867, Hooker wrote to Woolner inviting him to Kew to recover from …
From John Edward Gray 21 November 1867
Summary
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5692 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From John Edward Gray 21 November 1867 …
- … DAR 165: 212 John Edward Gray British Museum 21 Nov 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … skins and skeletons. Has been arranging sponges [ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558]. …
- … Brit. Mus 21 Nov 1867 My Dear Darwin Thanks for sending the skins & skeletons of the …
- … of London. Gray’s paper ( J. E. Gray 1867 ) is a review of the classification of sponges …
Henslow, George. 1867. Natural theology, considered in reference to its present position. [Read 20 November 1867.] Educational Times 11: 267–72.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1867. On insular floras: a lecture. Journal of Botany 5 (1867): 23–31.
Hurst, Henry Alexander and Carter, George. 1867. On plants appearing in successive years on land prepared for plantations, in Cheshire. [Read 2 December 1867.] Proceedings of the Literary and Philosoophical Society of Manchester 7 (1867–8): 62–6.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1867. On the classification of birds; and on the taxonomic value of the modifications of certain of the cranial bones observable in that class. [Read 11 April 1867.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1867): 415–72.
Nägeli, Carl Wilhelm von. 1867. Die Piloselliformia. [Read 4 May 1867.] Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1: 450–78.
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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…
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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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 …
