From C.-F. Reinwald 9 May 1877
Summary
French translation of Insectivorous plants published.
Climbing plants has not sold well.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10955 |
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- … From C. -F. Reinwald 9 May 1877 …
- … F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 . …
- … DAR 176: 106 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 9 May 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Paris le 9 Mai 1877 Monsieur Charles Darwin | Down Cher Monsieur J’ai l’honneur de vous …
- … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 15 February 1877 ; the French translation of Insectivorous …
- … made by Edmond Barbier (Barbier trans. 1877). Zwinger has not been identified. The payment …
- … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 . Les mouvements et les habitudes des plantes …
- … of Climbing plants (R. Gordon trans. 1877). Édouard Marie Heckel was translating …
- … Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877) into French. See letter from C. - …
- … F. Reinwald, 21 February 1877 and nn. 4 and 5. …
- … revue et corrigée’ (revised and corrected), was published in 1877 (Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
- … 1877). See also letter from C. - …
- … Paris 9 May 1877 Mr Charles Darwin | Down Dear Sir I have the honour of informing you that …
From C.-F. Reinwald 13 October 1877
Summary
Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11183 |
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- … From C. -F. Reinwald 13 October 1877 …
- … DAR 176: 107 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 13 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … corrected, of Expression (Pozzi and Benoît trans. 1877) had been …
- … published in 1877. CD’s publisher, John Murray , usually allowed foreign publishers the …
- … Paris 13 Oct. 1877 Cher Monsieur Nous avons eu l’honneur de recevoir votre aimable lettre …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877). Edmond Barbier’s French translation …
- … of Insectivorous plants (Barbier trans. 1877) had been …
- … published in May 1877 (see letter from C. - …
- … F. Reinwald, 9 May 1877 ). …
- … In May 1877, a constitutional crisis arose in France when the republicans and royalists in …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Fortescue, William. 2000. The Third Republic …
- … Paris 13 Oct. 1877 Dear Sir We have had the honour of receiving your kind letter of 7 …
- … Republic was scheduled for 14 and 28 October 1877 ( Fortescue 2000 , p. 34). The French …
- … of Climbing plants (R. Gordon trans. 1877) and a second French edition, revised and …
From C.-F. Reinwald 15 February 1877
Summary
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10846 |
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- … From C. -F. Reinwald 15 February 1877 …
- … DAR 176: 104 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 15 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Insectivorous plants was made by Edmond Barbier ; it was published in 1877 (Barbier trans. …
- … 1877). Richard Gordon’s …
- … French translation of Climbing plants was published in 1877 (R. …
- … Gordon trans. 1877). …
- … Paris. Febr. 15 th . 1877 To Charles Darwin Esq. | Down, Beckenham | Kent Cher Monsieur …
- … Marie Heckel’s French translation of Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877) was …
- … published in 1877. See Correspondence vol. 24, letter from E. M. …
- … Paris. Febr. 15 th . 1877 To Charles Darwin Esq. | Down, Beckenham | Kent Dear Sir …
From C.-F. Reinwald 21 February 1877
Summary
Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.
Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10858 |
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- … From C. -F. Reinwald 21 February 1877 …
- … DAR 176: 105 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 21 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … A second edition, revised and corrected, was published in 1877 (Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
- … 1877). No new English edition of Expression appeared in CD’s lifetime. The second edition …
- … Rue des Saints-Pères | Paris 21 février 1877. To Charles Darwin, Esq. Down, | Beckenham, …
- … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 15 February 1877 . The French translation of Cross and self …
- … was made by Édouard Heckel (Heckel trans. 1877). Cross and self fertilisation contained …
- … Rue des Saints-Pères | Paris 21 February 1877. To Charles Darwin, Esq. Down, | Beckenham, …
From C.-F. Reinwald 17 April 1879
Summary
Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.
A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.
Second edition of Descent selling out.
CD’s botanical books are losing money.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11998 |
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- … 1877 , Heckel trans. 1878 ). …
- … Cie. Pozzi, Samuel and Benoît, René, trans. 1877. L’expression des émotions chez l’homme …
- … French by Samuel Pozzi and René Benoît , and published in 1877 ( Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
- … 1877 ). Cross and self fertilisation and Forms of …
- … into French by Édouard Heckel and published in 1877 and 1878 respectively ( Heckel trans. …
- … Libraire-Éditeur. Heckel, Édouard, trans. 1877. Des effets de la fécondation croisée et de …
From C.-F. Reinwald 8 October 1878
Summary
Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.
Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.
Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11720 |
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- … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 ; the other letters have not been found. CD …
- … in his letter to Édouard Heckel, 20 November 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). Reinwald had …
- … French translation of Cross and self fertilisation was published in 1877 (Heckel trans. …
- … 1877); that of Expression had been published in …
- … 1874, with a second edition appearing in 1877 (Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
- … 1874 and 1877). The most recent French edition of Origin was Barbier trans. 1876. The next …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From C.-F. Reinwald 16 June 1880
Summary
Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12636 |
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- … Bibliography Barbier, Edmond, trans. 1877. Les plantes insectivores. By Charles Darwin. ( …
- … Climbing plants 2d ed. ( Gordon trans. 1877 ), Insectivorous plants ( Barbier trans. …
- … 1877 ), Cross and self fertilisation ( Heckel …
- … trans. 1877 ), and Forms of flowers ( Heckel trans. 1878 ). CD recorded the receipt of £40 …
- … on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Gordon, …
- … Richard, trans. 1877. Les mouvements et les habitudes des plantes grimpantes . By Charles …
- … Paris: C. Reinwald. Heckel, Édouard, trans. 1877. Des effets de la fécondation croisée et …
To C.-F. Reinwald 26 December 1875
Summary
Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10326 |
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- … 1875 . Edmond Barbier translated Insectivorous plants into French (Barbier trans. 1877). …
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
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....
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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…
