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From W. E. Darwin   [15 January 1877]

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Thanks for the copy of Orchids.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Jan 1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10794F

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  • … From W. E. Darwin   [15 January 1877] …
  • … DAR 275: 66) William Erasmus Darwin Southampton [15 Jan 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … nn. 3 and 6, below). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1877, p. 93). William’s name is on CD’s presentation list for the volume (see …
  • … CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been reprinted in …
  • … Maxse . CD visited London from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
  • … William visited Down on 27 January 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7 ( …
  • … see letter from Allen Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. …
  • … M. Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
  • … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. …
  • … W. Pim, 15 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
  • … Chronicle , 13 January 1877, p. …
  • … 52, 20 January 1877, p. …
  • … 83, and 3 February 1877, pp. 148–9). …
  • … George Gordon to William, dated 14 January 1877, is in DAR 210.7: 6. Gordon discussed his …
  • … In his letter to William of 14 January 1877 (DAR 210.7: 6), Gordon wrote that he thought …

From W. E. Darwin   [12 or 19 July 1877]

Summary

Discusses an experiment.

His dogs appear to have rabies.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 or 19] July 1877
Classmark:  DAR 210.5: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10743

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  • … From W.  E.  Darwin   [12 or 19 July 1877] …
  • … DAR 210.5: 14 William Erasmus Darwin unstated [12 July 1877] [19 …
  • … July 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … them from water damage (see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2). Mrs C. : …
  • … from Sara Darwin to Emma Darwin, [3 December 1877] (DAR 210.5: 23)). Dick was William’s …
  • … In a letter to Emma Darwin of [24 July 1877] (DAR 210.5: 15, dated by a postmark), William …
  • … stayed with William until Wednesday 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). There were …

From W. E. Darwin   5 October [1877]

Summary

Thanks CD for present of £300.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.5: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11169

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  • … From W.  E.  Darwin   5 October [1877] …
  • … DAR 210.5: 21 William Erasmus Darwin Bassett 5 Oct [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). The letters from the …
  • … Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). The horse-dealer has not …
  • … the letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1877] . CD’s marriage present to William and his …
  • … Sara Sedgwick (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1877] and n. 2) was a cheque for …
  • … 300 guineas (£315; CD’s Classed accounts (Down House MS), 3 October 1877). CD and Emma had …
  • … in Southampton from 13 June to 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). William had …

From W. E. Darwin   [24 August 1877]

Summary

Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Aug 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10753

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  • … From W.  E.  Darwin   [24 August 1877] …
  • … DAR 162: 85 William Erasmus Darwin Bassett [24 Aug 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, 20 [August 1877] . …
  • … The Friday following 20 August 1877 was 24 August. See letter to W. …
  • … E. Darwin, 20 [August 1877] and nn. 2 and 3. CD was interested in the movement of leaves …

To W. E. Darwin   20 [August 1877]

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Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  20 [Aug 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 139
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10755

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  • … To W.  E.  Darwin   20 [August 1877] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 139 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [Aug 1877] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … on Robinia mentioning William and dated August 1877 (see n. 2, below). CD was studying the …
  • … black locust); the notes, dated 15–16 June 1877, are in DAR 209.12: 13. CD continued to …
  • … continuing observations by William in notes dated 5–17 August 1877 (DAR 209.12: 163–4). …
  • … In a note dated 20 August 1877, written at Abinger, Surrey, CD mentioned William’s earlier …
  • … CD visited Abinger from 20 to 25 August 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD evidently …

To W. E. Darwin   3 October [1877]

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Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  3 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11165

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  • … To W.  E.  Darwin   3 October [1877] …
  • … DAR 92: A43 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Oct [1877] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … at the end of September (see letter to Sara Sedgwick, 29 September [1877] ). William …
  • … and Sara were married on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD’s gift …
  • … was 300 guineas (£315; CD’s Classed accounts (Down House MS), 3 October 1877). …

From W. E. Darwin   4 April 1877

Summary

Arrangements about a purchase of land.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1877
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10923F

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  • … From W. E. Darwin   4 April 1877
  • … Papers (DAR 275: 61) William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 4 Apr 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … a letter from William Darwin Fox of 3 April [1877] . Fox had replied to a query from CD on …
  • … Pulmonaria (the genus of lungworts; see letter from W. D. Fox, 3 April [1877] and n. 2). …
  • … CD recorded a payment of £477 on 5 April 1877 with the notation ‘W. E. Darwin for Beesby …

From W. E. Darwin   [25 March? 1877]

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Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 Mar? 1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10922F

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  • … From W. E. Darwin   [25 March? 1877] …
  • … Papers (DAR 275: 67) William Erasmus Darwin Sandown [25 Mar? 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … between this letter, the letter from W. D. Fox, 3 April [1877] , and the letter from W. …
  • … E. Darwin, 4 April 1877 . …
  • … The Sunday following 25 March 1877 was 1 April, and would have been when William planned …

To W. E. Darwin   24 October [1877]

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Returns [unspecified] enclosure.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  24 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11205

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  • … To W.  E.  Darwin   24 October [1877] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 149 Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Oct [1877] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … fiancée, stayed at Down House from 13 to 24 October 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

From W. E. Darwin   [24 April 1877?]

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Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Apr 1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10343

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  • … From W.  E.  Darwin   [24 April 1877? ] …
  • … DAR 109: A44, A71–6 William Erasmus Darwin Bassett [24 Apr 1877? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … is, between November 1876 and June 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II) and Correspondence …
  • … to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] ). In 1877, the last Tuesday in April was 24 April. See …

From W. E. Darwin   24 October 1877

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Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Oct 1877
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 62)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11204F

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  • … From W. E. Darwin   24 October 1877
  • … Papers (DAR 275: 62) William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 24 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …

From W. E. Darwin   6 April [1880]

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Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr [1880]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12564G

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  • … Parliamentary Research Services. Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation …
  • … Isbister & Co. Gilbert, Grove Karl. 1877. Report on the geology of the Henry Mountains . …
  • … the Henry Mountains, Utah ( G. K. Gilbert 1877 ; see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 5 [April  …
  • … the author of The great ice age ( Geikie 1877 ). ‘Shepherd’s crowns’ was an old name for …

To W. E. Darwin   [after 20 November 1876]

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Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [after 20 Nov 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 148
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10486

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  • … Bibliography Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of …
  • … Geikie had sent CD his Great ice age ( J. Geikie 1877 ). Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly . …

From W. E. Darwin   30 November [1876]

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Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Nov [1876]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11260F

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  • … of 4 acres & cottage’, followed by £477 on 5 April 1877, ‘Remainder of Purchase’. See also …
  • … of the Royal Society of London 167 (1877): 271–312. Darwin, George Howard. 1876c. On an …

To W. E. Darwin   18 June 1880

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Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  18 June 1880
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 160
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12639

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  • … 1872 and CD had visited on 22 June 1877 ( Earthworms , pp. 193–7); see also Correspondence …
  • … 25, letter to Francis Darwin, [10 June 1877] . William’s notes on furrows on a slope at …

From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin   26 October [1877]

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  26 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11209F

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  • … From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin   26 October [1877] …
  • … Erasmus Darwin Bank [Southampton] 26 Oct [1877] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Darwin, W. E. …

To W. E. Darwin   5 [April 1880]

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Discusses a book

and the "splendid news about the elections".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  5 [Apr 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12564

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  • … Research Services. Gilbert, Grove Karl. 1877. Report on the geology of the Henry …
  • … the Henry Mountains, Utah ( G. K. Gilbert 1877 ). Gilbert devoted a chapter of this work …

To W. E. Darwin   23 [November 1880]

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Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.

Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  23 [Nov 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 153: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12848

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  • … worm burrows, see Earthworms , pp. 81–2. In 1877, CD and William had made observations of …
  • … 25, letter from W. E. Darwin, [24 August 1877] . CD had written that he might need William …

From W. E. Darwin   20 August 1880

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Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Aug 1880
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12694F

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  • … James had met William Erasmus Darwin in 1877 ( E. Taylor 1990 , p. 10). CD stayed at …

From W. E. Darwin   8 May [1866]

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Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 May [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 76: B52, 66–72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3144

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  • … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
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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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  • … him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary …
  • … a celebratory speech at the award ceremony on 17 November 1877. The capital ‘O’ of the first line of …
  • … date of creation late November 1877 
 computer-readable date c.1877-11-18 to 1877-11-30  …

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…

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  • …   In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
  • … conferred on me ( Letter to Otto Zacharias, [24 February 1877] ) The two albums …
  • … sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 )  View the Dutch album …

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.…

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  • … admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to …
  • … and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date …
  • … Leiden 13 June 1823 Rotterdam 2 June 1877 Zoeterwoude …
  • … 5 October 1808 Wildenborch 4 June 1877 Klein Dochteren …

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…

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  • … Letter 10746 – Darwin to Dicey, E. M., [1877] Darwin gives his opinion on the …
  • … Letter 11267f – Darwin, S. to Darwin, [3 December 1877] Darwin’s daughter-in-law …

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…

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  • …   ‘Very curious results’ In May 1877, Darwin asked one of his most trusted …
  • … of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ I do not believe I sh d . …
  • … those of Gray, who had written an article on the subject in 1877 (A. Gray 1877e). Gray had reported …

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…

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  • … of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma …
  • … bibliography ‘University News’, Observer (18 Nov. 1877), p. 6. ‘Mr. Darwin at Cambridge’, …
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