To Fritz Müller 9 May 1877
Summary
Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10954 |
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- … To Fritz Müller 9 May 1877 …
- … MS 10 no 41) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 May 1877 Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 25 March 1877 . In Forms of flowers , pp. 183–7, CD …
- … Henry Leggett (see letter from W. H. Leggett, 15 January 1877 and n. 1, and letter to W. …
- … H. Leggett, 22 January 1877 and n. 3). CD referred extensively …
- … of flowers , which was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Müller described the …
- … cleistogamic flowers in his letter of 25 March 1877 ; CD noted it in Forms of flowers , p. …
- … Francis Darwin ; see letter from Fritz Müller, 25 March 1877 and n. 5. Müller had reported …
- … see letter from Fritz Müller, 25 March 1877 and n. 7). In Narrative 3: 147, CD had …
From Fritz Müller 25 March 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for new [2d] edition of Orchids.
Mentions some observations on dimorphic plants.
Reports on a third species of Pontederia [see Forms of flowers, p. 185].
Describes some unusual grasses.
Reports rumours from southern Brazil concerning the existence of a gigantic subterranean animal.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10911 |
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- … From Fritz Müller 25 March 1877 …
- … Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Santa Catharina, Brazil 25 Mar 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
- … 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. West, David A. 2003. Fritz Müller. A …
- … Itajahy), S a Catharina | Brazil, March 25. 1877. My dear Sir I have just finished reading …
- … s second expedition (February to March 1877) to the grasslands (campos) of the central …
- … needlegrasses. In a letter to Nature , 1 March 1877, p. 374, Francis Darwin described the …
- … Die Grannen von Aristida’ ( Kosmos 1 (1877): 353–4), Müller described the hygroscopic awns …
From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
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- … From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877 …
- … Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 Johann …
- … Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Santa Catharina, Brazil 19 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Blumenau, Sa. Catharina, Brazil 19. October 1877. Verehrter Herr! Obwohl ich Ihnen kaum …
- … Sa. Catharina, Brazil 19. October 1877. Dear Sir! Although I have hardly anything to tell …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Hazen, Tracy Elliot. 1917. The trimorphism …
- … see letter from W. H. Leggett, 15 January 1877 ). In a later paper, Müller described the …
- … of the letter was transcribed from the copy that appeared in Nature , 29 November 1877, p. …
- … 78 (see letter to Nature , 21 November [1877]). In the German version of this letter, the …
- … this trip was published in Flora , 21 May 1877, pp. 239–40; Müller mentioned finding the …
To Fritz Müller 14 May 1877
Summary
Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.
Worm-castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 14 May 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10960 |
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- … To Fritz Müller 14 May 1877 …
- … 10 no 42) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 May 1877 Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. May 14. 1877 My dear Sir, I wrote to you a few days …
- … See letter to Fritz Müller, 9 May 1877 . CD had begun studying bloom (the epicuticular …
From Fritz Müller [27 November 1877]
Summary
Sends proboscis of a Sphinx-moth that is 22 cms long.
Discusses eleven species of butterfly which visit Lantana, a plant which blooms only for three days and whose flowers are yellow on the first day, orange on the second, and purple on the third. Most species only visit the flowers when they are yellow.
Describes and draws the odiferous organs of a Sphinx-moth.
Describes a secondary sexual character of several species of Callidryas and other Pierinæ: the costal margin of the anterior wing is sharply serrated in the males, while it is smooth in the females.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1878): (Proceedings) ii–iii |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11255F |
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- … From Fritz Müller [27 November 1877] …
- … Theodor (Fritz) Müller Santa Caterina, Brazil [27 Nov 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from Fritz Müller, 19 October 1877 and n. 8). Heliconius apseudes is a synonym …
- … 176–7 (see letter from Fritz Müller, 19 October 1877 and n. 7). Ribes aureum is the golden …
To Fritz Müller 11 December 1876
Summary
FM’s new position in Rio.
CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.
Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10709 |
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- … 25, Appendix IV). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( Publishers’ circular , …
- … 1 February 1877, p. …
- … 93), and Forms of flowers in July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). CD cited Müller frequently in all …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
To Fritz Müller 12 January 1878
Summary
CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.
Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11319 |
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- … the same question in his letter of 14 May 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), having himself …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Movement in plants : The power of movement …
- … 25, letter from Fritz Müller, [27 November 1877] . The surviving version of this letter is …
- … of Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25) to the society on …
- … 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 , and this volume, letter from Raphael …
To Fritz Müller 13 November 1877
Summary
Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11233 |
To Fritz Müller 24 July 1878
Summary
Thanks for seeds
and information about earthworms.
Is working hard at movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 24 July 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11626 |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
To Fritz Müller 12 April 1881
Summary
Earthworm book with printer.
Has sent FM’s observations on paraheliotropism to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9].
Plants with differently coloured anthers.
Intends gathering together his notes on "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13113 |
To Fritz Müller 19 December 1881
Summary
Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.
FM’s article on Crotalaria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13564 |
From Fritz Müller 29 March 1870
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7150 |
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- … of the United States vol. 5, published 1877. Cambridge, Mass. : n.p. Correspondence : The …
To Fritz Müller 23 May 1866
Summary
Thanks for information on orchids
and facts on coastal flora and fauna.
Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.
Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 May 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5097 |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
From Fritz Müller 17 July 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for sending F. H. G. Hildebrand’s book on fertilisation [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)]
and J. D. Hooker’s "Lecture on insular floras".
Describes work on Rubiaceae, Oxalis,
and on crossing orchids. Lists crosses made.
As for CD’s query concerning sexual differences among invertebrates, he gives the case of the local amphipod, Brachyscellus diversilor. Male differs in shape of antennae and coloration.
Also mentions local fish in sea near Sta Catharina which emits melodic tone to attract females.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5583A |
To Fritz Müller 7 February [1867]
Summary
CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.
Orchid self-sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 7 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5393 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Variation : The variation of animals and …
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
From Fritz Müller 1 December 1866
Summary
Gives observations on orchid ovules ripening long after blooming.
Infertility with own pollen sometimes does and sometimes does not indicate dimorphism; gives observations on Ximenia, Eschscholtzia and Oncidium flexuosum.
Describes some striking seeds eaten by birds,
and some new dimorphic species.
Variation in Thillia.
Confirms CD’s suspicion that the lancet-fish [Amphioxus] lives in competition with invertebrates: it shares its habitat with a similar-looking Ophelia, which is quite unlike other annelids, just as the lancet-fish is unlike other fishes.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 99–102. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5292A |
From Fritz Müller 5 April 1878
Summary
Observations on a sensitive Mimosa.
Comments on structure and positioning of "odoriferous organs" of moths and butterflies,
and feeding habits of butterfly larvae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11463 |
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- … Müller (see Francis’s letter to Nature , 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1, communicating information …
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Müller, Fritz | (22) |
Müller, Fritz | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
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
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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…