To R. I. Lynch 14 September 1877
Summary
Thanks RIL for notes.
Asks about movement of Euphorbia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11139 |
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- … To R. I. Lynch 14 September 1877 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Sept 1877 Richard Irwin Lynch …
- … plume) was sent to CD on 18 September 1877; his experimental notes are in DAR 209.14: 22– …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Sep 14. 1877 Dear Sir, I am much obliged for your …
- … See letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 14 September 1877] ; see also letter to R. …
- … I. Lynch, 23 August [1877] , and letter from R. …
- … I. Lynch, [28 August 1877] . Lynch, foreman of the propagating department at Kew Gardens, …
- … intervals throughout the day on 14 September [1877], are in DAR 209.1: 22; he continued to …
- … from R. I. Lynch, [before 14 September 1877] . Earlier in the year, Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to sleep ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). William Turner Thiselton- Dyer was …
From R. I. Lynch [September 1877 or later]
Summary
Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1877 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.9: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385 |
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- … From R. I. Lynch [September 1877 or later] …
- … DAR 209.9: 110 Richard Irwin Lynch unstated [Sept 1877 or later] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in Cassia , see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … vol. 25, letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). CD received a specimen of …
- … campechianum , logwood) from Kew in 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 July 1877 ). He discussed the nocturnal movement of its leaves in …
To R. I. Lynch 23 August [1877]
Summary
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11110 |
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- … To R. I. Lynch 23 August [1877] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Aug [1877] Richard Irwin Lynch …
- … and the letter from R. I. Lynch, [28 August 1877] . Erythrina crista-galli is the cockspur …
- … CD had been sent ‘Erythrinas’ on 16 July 1877; the species sent were not named, but were …
- … stayed at Abinger Hall from 20 to 25 August 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Lynch had …
- … from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877]). CD discussed Hedysarum gyrans in Movement in …
To R. I. Lynch 23 October [1877]
Summary
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11199 |
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- … To R. I. Lynch 23 October [1877] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Oct [1877] Richard Irwin Lynch …
- … letter and the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [21 October 1877] . See letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, [21 October 1877] and n. 5. CD had requested seeds from the Royal …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 October [1877] ). He recorded the movements of the cotyledons …
From R. I. Lynch 25 July 1877
Summary
List of plants sent.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11070 |
From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877]
Summary
Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi leaves.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11117 |
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- … From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877] …
- … DAR 209.14: 184 Richard Irwin Lynch unstated [before 28 July 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Lynch, Richard Irwin. 1877. Note on the blimbing ( Averrhoa bilimbi , …
- … Linn. ). [Read 21 June 1877. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 16: 231–2. …
- … the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 July [1877] . Averrhoa bilimbi is the bilimbi or …
- … the movements of the leaves ( Lynch 1877 ). Desmodium gyrans is a synonym of Codariocalyx …
From R. I. Lynch [before 14 September 1877]
Summary
Notes the movements of leaves of Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora in response to light intensity.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11415 |
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- … From R. I. Lynch [before 14 September 1877] …
- … DAR 209.14: 30–1 Richard Irwin Lynch unstated [before 14 Sept 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 . In Movement in plants , p. 388, CD credited …
- … slept by hanging vertically downwards. See letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 . …
From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877]
Summary
Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11118 |
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- … From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877] …
- … DAR 209.14: 185 Richard Irwin Lynch unstated [before 28 July 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] . The first letter contains more information on …
- … in his first letter of [before 28 July 1877] . The rachis is the axis of a pinnate leaf. …
From R. I. Lynch [28 August 1877]
Summary
Observations on movements of leaves of Erythrina crista-galli in green-house and out of doors.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11116 |
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| Lynch, R. I. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
| 1877 | (9) |
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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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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- … Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …
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 Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
- … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
- … 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…
