From John Brodie Innes 28 January 1870
Summary
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7087 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Innes, 7 December 1868 and 14 December 1868 , and letter from Lachlan McLean to J. …
- … Forres Cattle Show on 7 December 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 16, letters from J. B. …
- … 1868 ). . On the history of Wombwell’s Menagerie, which had three branches, see Bostock 1927 . Ardclach is a hamlet eleven miles south-south-west of Forres. Probably William Lawson , farmer, of Fanellan, about one mile west of Beaufort Castle on the Beauly river, thirteen miles west of Inverness. Lochindorb Castle is south of Forres. Blervie castle is five miles south-east of Forres. Innes glued the clipping to the top of his letter. …
To Frederick Bates 26 June [1870?]
Summary
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 26 June [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245A |
From Fritz Müller 29 March 1870
Summary
His observations on mimicry in butterflies
and self-sterility in plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7150 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 [July 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7218 |
To Hermann Settegast 29 September 1870
Summary
Thanks HS for a copy of his book [? Die Thierzucht (1868)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7330 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 16, letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 4 March 1868 , and Correspondence vol. …
- … letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 29 March 1869 . Quatrefages discussed Variation in Quatrefages 1868– …
- … letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. 3 vols. London: John Murray. 1887–8. Quatrefages, Armand de. 1868– …
From W. W. Reade 4 June 1870
Summary
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7216 |
To [Henry Hussey Vivian?] [April or May 1870?]
Summary
Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [Apr or May 1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7257 |
From F. P. Cobbe 28 March [1870?]
Summary
Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.
| Author: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7149 |
To Ernst Haeckel 23 June [1870]
Summary
Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].
Mentions his own book [Descent].
Visit by Kölliker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 23 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7241 |
From George Cupples 20 June 1870
Summary
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7237 |
To John Murray 26 September 1870
Summary
Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7327 |
To J. J. Weir 17 March [1870]
Summary
CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7138 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … had sold out (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to John Murray, 9 February [1868] ). …
- … letter has interested me profoundly . In Haste. | Very sincerely your’s | Ch Darwin PS. Since publishing I have heard of additional cases—very good one in regard to Westphalian pigs crossed by English boar, & all subsequent offspring affected given in Illust: landwirth: Zeitung 1868 …
- … 1868, p. 143 (see Variation 2d ed. , 1: 436 n. 152). This journal was published in Leipzig: a copy may have been sent by Hermann Müller , who lived in Westphalia. No copy of the newspaper or article has been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL, and CD did not describe the case in the second edition of Variation , although he gave the reference above. The letter …
From H. H. Vivian 10 May 1870
Summary
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
| Author: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7182 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale [25 May 1870]
Summary
Behaviour of ants.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7201 |
From Arthur Gardiner Butler 19 July 1870
Summary
Supplies names of moths and references.
Describes his breeding experiments with butterflies to test effects of reduced light.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7284 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [5 May 1870]
Summary
Expression in horses.
Crying in babies.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7179 |
From George Cupples 29 April 1870
Summary
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7177 |
To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
| letter | (47) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Reade, W. W. | (3) |
| Cupples, George | (2) |
| Beneden, Édouard van | (1) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Bates, Frederick | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Reade, W. W. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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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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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
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- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Cross and self fertilisation
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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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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
Matches: 1 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 …
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
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- … My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is …
5873_1488
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
Matches: 1 hits
- … From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
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…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ‘ Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
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…
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- … Disagreement & Respect | Conduct of Debate | Darwin & Wallace The best-known …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
