To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877]
Summary
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 457–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11195 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 457–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Oct [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 . Hooker had reported his late arrival …
- … America owing to storms in his letter of 19 October 1877 . A severe gale had struck the …
- … British Isles on the night of the 14 and 15 October 1877 ( The Times , …
- … 16 October 1877, p. 4). …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 ; Hooker spent a week with Gray in Cambridge, …
- … letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 October [1877] and n. 4). William Turner Thiselton-Dyer , …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 and n. 5). John Smith was the curator of …
- … Francis Darwin and CD spent the last part of 1877 working on heliotropism and spontaneous …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 and n. 3. William Erasmus Darwin and Sara …
- … see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 October [1877] and n. 5). Richard Buckley Litchfield had …
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Summary
CD regrets not being able to see JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877] …
- … 95: 439 Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 21 Apr [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the Royal Society of London 26 (1877): 163). The Royal Society annual …
- … conversazione took place at Burlington House on Wednesday 25 April 1877 ( Nature , …
- … 3 May 1877, p. 16); the card CD refers to was probably an invitation to the event. …
- … n. 3, below). Casimir de Candolle had arrived in England in January 1877 (see letter from …
- … Alphonse de Candolle, January 1877 ). The enclosure has not been found. …
- … CD visited London from 20 to 28 April 1877, staying first with his daughter and son-in- …
- … Royal Society of London on Thursday 26 April 1877 was chaired by Hooker ( Proceedings of …
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877]
Summary
CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".
Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 435–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10874 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 435–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Mar [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 January [1877] . Henry Nottidge Moseley ; see letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] and n. 7. …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . Francis Darwin had delivered his paper on the teasel ( …
- … at the Royal Society of London on 1 March 1877. CD alludes to Francis’s wife, Amy, who had …
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 459–60 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Nov [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Hooker . Hooker visited the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah in 1877 ( ODNB ). …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 October 1877] . Earlier in the year, William Turner Thiselton- …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 ). CD mentioned Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of N. …
- … E. Litchfield, [13 September 1877] (DAR 219.9: 155); Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 227). According …
- … E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, [21 October 1877] (DAR 210.5: 22)). Theodora was Sara’s sister. …
- … ill with appendicitis in Switzerland in September 1877 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 461–2 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Nov [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . CD discussed the movement of the cotyledons in Cycas …
- … Sedgwick . Hooker had met her sister Theodora on his 1877 visit to the US ( letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 ). Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton , the sister of Sara and …
- … Buckley Litchfield , had been taken ill in Switzerland in September 1877; see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 5. …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877
Summary
CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 442 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10978 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877 …
- … DAR 95: 442 Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 May 1877 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 31. 1877 My dear Hooker, I am very much obliged …
- … had sent seeds with his letter of 31 May 1877 . William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and John …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] . For Hooker’s list of plants with bloom ( …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 . The end of Hooker’s letter is written across …
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877] …
- … 455–6 Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [26 Oct 1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 October [1877] , and by CD’s reference to staying at 6 Queen …
- … Anne Street (see n. 5, below). In 1877, 26 October was a Friday. The seeds sent by Richard …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 October [1877] and nn. 2 and 3). The movements of the …
- … 369–73. The issue of Nature for 25 October 1877 contained a biographical sketch of Hooker …
- … on the botany of the Rocky Mountains ( J. D. Hooker 1877 ). CD stayed at 6 Queen Anne …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin , from 26 to 29 October 1877; he had been working on cotyledons and …
To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877]
Summary
CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.
Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 437–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10906 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 437–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Mar [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 March 1877 . CD had asked Daniel Oliver to examine …
- … it; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 March 1877 . Friedrich Hildebrand had published the …
- … been found, but see the letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 19 March 1877 . Hooker’s note …
- … appeared in Gardener’s Chronicle , 17 March 1877, p. 343. He sent CD dried flowers of …
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 430–1 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Jan [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to print the full paper (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 ). The full paper was …
- … in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1877b ). …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 January 1877 . Hooker had delivered the president’s …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 January 1877 . Much of the material from CD’s earlier …
- … Forms of flowers , which was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Francis Darwin had …
- … s paper to the society and it was read on 1 March 1877; an abstract of it was published in …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1877]
Summary
Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 465 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11257 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877]
Summary
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 463 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11253 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 463 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Nov [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 November 1877 . Richard Irwin Lynch was foreman of the …
- … not been found. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 2, and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 November 1877 . Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of N. prostrata ) is water …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [20–4 August 1877] and n. 2. DAR 95: 464 is a printed copy …
To J. D. Hooker 16 June [1877]
Summary
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 443–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11002 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 16 June [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 443–4 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 16 June [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 . The emperor of Brazil was Pedro II. CD was at William Erasmus …
- … Pedro II’s interest in science see, for example, Nature , 28 June 1877, p. 173. Hooker was …
- … States; he departed for New York on 28 June 1877 (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 205–17). The …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1844 – March 1882]
Summary
Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816A |
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- … Dec 1877 22 Jan 1878 22 Feb 1878 22 Mar 1878 22 Apr 1878 22 May 1878 22 June 1878 22 July …
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1877]
Summary
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10972 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1877] …
- … Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … bloom, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. Francis Darwin . The list is …
- … Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 13 June to 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … Hooker travelled across the United States in July and August 1877; he departed for New …
- … York on 28 June 1877 (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 205– 17). Hyacinth Hooker . This is the …
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
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To J. D. Hooker 28 [February 1878]
Summary
CD solicits JDH’s aid in obtaining Government funds for James Torbitt’s efforts to breed disease resistance in potatoes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 449–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11380 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 July 1875
Summary
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 389 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10091 |
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- … List of the Linnean Society of London , 1877). William Turner Thiselton-Dyer , Daniel …
To J. D. Hooker 17 December [1878]
Summary
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 479–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11798 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1878]
Summary
CD and Frank think they have proved that function of plant sleep is to protect leaves from injury by chilling radiation. Requests plants for experiment to determine whether underside of leaf is hardier than upper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 469–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11443 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 October [1876]
Summary
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 425–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10653 |
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- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
- … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
- … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
- … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
- … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
- … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
- … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
- … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ). Carlyle’s remarks were …
- … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
- … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
- … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
- … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
- … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
- … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
- … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
- … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …
1877 letters now online
Summary
Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
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- … of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin& …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
- … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
- … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
- … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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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- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …
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 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …
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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- … activity at the site of a Roman villa, 15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
- … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
- … Letter from Emil Rade 1 [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
- … From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
- … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
- … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877. …
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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- … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
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Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
- … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
