From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
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- … From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 124 Raphael Meldola Atlas Works, Hackney 20 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on the colours of animals and plants [ Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71]. …
- … Macmillan’s Magazine ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ). Wallace had sent CD a copy of his September …
- … article (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 , and letter from A. …
- … R. Wallace, 3 September 1877 ); Wallace had long criticised CD’s theory of sexual …
- … to colour and ornamentation (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 23 July 1877 and n. 2). …
- … 1802–1967. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1877. The colours of animals and plants. Macmillan’s …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1. The address 21 John Street, Bedford …
To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877]
Summary
Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.
Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11197 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct [1877] Raphael Meldola …
- … Bibliography Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1877. The colours of animals and plants. Macmillan’s …
- … Wallace’s paper criticising sexual selection ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ; see letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 ). …
- … the letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 . CD had offered to lend Meldola a paper …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1). Meldola wished to write to August …
- … letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 and n. 2). CD’s annotated copies of Weismann …
To Raphael Meldola 25 November 1880
Summary
References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12854 |
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- … and Ernst Haeckel ); see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Ernst Krause, 11 March 1877 . …
- … Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)]. …
- … Fritz. 1877a. Beobachtungen an brasilianischen Schmetterlingen. Kosmos 1 (1877): 388– …
- … 95; 2 (1877–8): 38–42, 218–24. …
- … to aid you in any way. No I of F. Muller’s paper is in the August no for 1877 No II— is …
- … in the October number 1877. Both these articles, I remember thinking excellent. I am not …
- … on Brazilian butterflies ( F. Müller 1877 ) appeared. Meldola thought that CD was one of …
- … for his permission to translate F. Müller 1877 , but CD had backed the journal only by …
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
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- … on sexual selection in butterflies [ Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24]. Is forwarding material on …
- … stridulans ", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD. …
- … Meldola, 1 January [1878] . Meldola dated it 1877 in error. See letter to Raphael Meldola, …
- … 1 January [1878] and n. 2. The October 1877 issue of Kosmos contained the second part of …
- … Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 September 1877 . James Wood-Mason’ …
- … s note on stridulation in Mygale stridulans ( Wood-Mason 1877 ) appeared in …
- … the December 1877 issue of Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ; the …
- … Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wood-Mason, James. 1877. Note on Mygale …
- … stridulans . [Read 5 September 1877. ] Transactions …
- … of the Entomological Society of London (1877): 281–2. …
- … 1876) in his letter to CD of 20 October [1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25). The translation …
To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877 …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Sept 1877 Raphael Meldola …
- … letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 September 1877 and n. 1. Meldola had proposed publishing …
- … the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 September 1877 . …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Sep 14. 1877 Dear Sir, I have some doubts whether …
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Sept [1877] Raphael Meldola …
- … mimic snakes ( ibid. , p. 107). See also letter to August Weismann, 12 January 1877 . …
- … between this letter and the letter to Raphael Meldola, 22 September [1877] . See …
- … letter from Raphael Meldola, 21 September 1877 and n. 1. Meldola published extracts from …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 22 September [1877] . CD had offered to lend Meldola a paper by …
From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
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- … From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 123 Raphael Meldola London, John St, 21 21 Sept 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … at the meeting of the Entomological Society on 5 September 1877 ( Proceedings of the …
- … Entomological Society of London (1877): xviii). …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 14 September 1877 and n. 1. The enclosed copy made by Meldola …
- … Entomological Society held on 3 October 1877, Meldola exhibited specimens of Lepidoptera …
- … of the Entomological Society of London (1877): xxiv). Colias edusa is a synonym of Colias …
To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.
Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]
and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11148 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Sept [1877] Raphael Meldola …
- … See letters from Raphael Meldola , 13 September 1877 and n. …
- … 1, and 21 September 1877 . Meldola had proposed publishing extracts from a letter written …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 14 September 1877 . CD’s copy of Müller’s paper on mimicry in …
- … part of which was published in September 1877. CD’s annotated copy of August Weismann’s …
To Raphael Meldola 19 October [1877]
Summary
Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11189 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877]
Summary
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11217 |
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- … To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Oct [1877] Raphael Meldola …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 22 October [1877] . Meldola was probably returning CD’s volumes …
- … see letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 and n. 2). The proof-drawing has not been …
From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877
Summary
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11135 |
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- … From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 122 Raphael Meldola Entomological Society 13 Sept 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Street, | Cavendish Square. W. Sept. 13 th . 1877 Dear Sir, When collecting notes on the …
- … Entomological Society of London on 3 October 1877, there is no record that he read Müller’ …
- … of the Entomological Society of London (1877): xxii–xxv). Extracts from Müller’s letter …
From Raphael Meldola 24 November 1880
Summary
Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12850 |
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- … 3.7] underl red crayon End of letter : ‘I August. | II October 1877’ blue ink …
- … Fritz. 1877a. Beobachtungen an brasilianischen Schmetterlingen. Kosmos 1 (1877): 388– …
- … 95; 2 (1877–8): 38–42, 218–24. Travis, Anthony S. 2010. Raphael Meldola and the …
- … 1879] . CD had lent Meldola the October 1877 issue of Kosmos containing part two of ‘ …
- … on Brazilian butterflies; F. Müller 1877 ); see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from …
- … from his work address; he worked from 1877 to 1885 at the Atlas Works, where he developed …
- … good enough to lend me ‘Kosmos’ for Dec. 1877 containing a paper by Fritz Müller which …
From Raphael Meldola 6 February 1879
Summary
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11861 |
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- … on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [ Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8]. …
- … Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Scudder 1877 ). Alfred Russel Wallace’s ‘Animals and their …
- … Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 285–92. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1877. Antigeny, or sexual dimorphism …
- … in butterflies. [Read 14 March 1877. ] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and …
To Raphael Meldola 7 February 1879
Summary
Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.
Has seen Scudder’s article.
A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11862 |
To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878
Summary
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309 |
From Raphael Meldola 1 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.
Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11733 |
To Raphael Meldola 1 January [1878]
Summary
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11305 |
From Raphael Meldola 30 October 1878
Summary
Plans to produce a translation of Weismann’s Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie [1875–6] and would welcome a preface from CD.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11730 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 January 1878
Summary
Returns Kosmos.
Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11332 |
To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878]
Summary
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11318 |
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- … Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25) to the Entomological …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (11) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
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
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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....
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... 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
Summary
< 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…
