To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877]
Summary
Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 . …
- … To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877] …
- … DAR 210.1: 59 Charles Robert Darwin Down [3 June 1877] George Howard Darwin …
- … between this letter, the letter from J. M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 , and the letter to …
- … Edward Atkinson, 9 June 1877 . …
- … In 1877, the Sunday before 9 June was 3 June. CD refers to the honorary LLD degree (doctor …
- … from the University of Cambridge (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 May 1877 and letter to …
- … Edward Atkinson, 9 June 1877 ). The Greek passage appears in the letter from J. …
From Lawson Tait 13 June [1877]
Summary
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Lawson Tait 13 June [1877] …
- … DAR 178: 39 Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait unstated 13 June [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877]. …
- … Bibliography Tait, Lawson. 1877. Diseases of women . London: Williams and Norgate. …
- … is established by the reference to L. Tait 1877 (see n. 2, below). Tait remarked on the …
- … evolution of sexual instincts in L. Tait 1877 , p. 48; the index also includes references …
- … pangenesis (p. 232). See also letter from Lawson Tait, 15 January 1877 and nn. 1 and 2. …
To G. J. Romanes 11 June [1877]
Summary
Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.
Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 11 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10996 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To G. J. Romanes 11 June [1877] …
- … Mss.B.D25.516) Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place 11 June [1877] George John Romanes …
- … See letter from Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes, 2 January [1877] and n. 6. …
- … Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [ Physiological aesthetics (1877)]. …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … the letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 . Romanes had written notes on the problem of …
- … to letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 and n. 8. In Origin , pp. 34–40, CD discussed …
- … work of Herbert Spencer ( Nature , 7 June 1877, p. 100 n. ). For previous correspondence …
- … to letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 ). On the tendency of intermediate forms to …
- … Romanes’s review of Grant Allen’s Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ) appeared in …
- … Nature , 7 June 1877, pp. 98–100. CD had been reading the …
- … see letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 May [1877] ). In his review, Romanes remarked that Allen …
From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877 …
- … Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) Francis Darwin Down 7 June 1877 George John Romanes …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. June 7. 1877 My dear Romanes, My father is going off …
- … away from Down from 8 June to 4 July 1877, visiting family at Leith Hill Place, Surrey, …
- … vol. 25, letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 , and enclosure; Romanes did not publish …
- … to the editor of Nature published on 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. Francis’s letter was dated 21 …
- … when Romanes visited Down on 30 May 1877 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The discussion …
- … Romanes and CD had recently read ( Allen 1877 ; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 ). Francis alludes to the English Civil War, conceived as a …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 15 (1877): 398–409. Variation 2d ed. : The variation of …
- … sloths in this paper). In his letter of 6 June 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), Romanes had …
- … 2: 134–5 and n. 20. See Correspondence vol. 25, letter to G. J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . …
- … In his letter of 6 June 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), Romanes had suggested that Francis …
To L. H. Morgan 9 June 1877
Summary
Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Date: | 9 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10992 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To L. H. Morgan 9 June 1877 …
- … Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877]. …
- … Bibliography Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient society, or, researches in the lines of …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place Down letterhead 9 June 1877 Lewis Henry Morgan …
- … Leith Hill Place, Surrey. ] June 9 th . 1877 My dear Sir Pray accept my cordial thanks for …
- … barbarism to civilization ( Morgan 1877 ), has not been found in the Darwin Library–CUL or …
From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877
Summary
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10990 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877 …
- … Frédéric Martins Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier 7 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from …
- … botanique de France 24 (1877): 127). A longer version was published the previous year in …
- … de | Montpellier. Montpellier, le 7 Juin 1877. Cher et illustre Maitre, Je suis hereux d’ …
- … de | Montpellier. Montpellier, 7 June 1877. Dear and illustrious Master, I am happy to …
- … to Edmond Barbier’s translation of Insectivorous plants (Barbier trans. 1877). The …
- … French edition was published in May 1877 (see letter from C. - …
- … F. Reinwald, 9 May 1877 ). The review of Insectivorous …
- … published in Feuilleton du temps , 22 May 1877, pp. 1–2; a clipping is in DAR 139.18: 14. …
- … to France in 1871 ( EB ). Martins’s paper was read at the 19 March 1877 meeting of the …
- … Académie des sciences (Martins 1877), one of five academies of the Institut de France, …
- … also given at the Société botanique de France on 23 March 1877 ( Bulletin de la Société …
From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877]
Summary
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11004 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877] …
- … D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 George John Romanes unstated 16 June [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has …
- … s review of Grant Allen’s Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ; see letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] and n. 7). …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … between this letter and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . See letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . CD had commented on Romanes’s notes on the effect of …
- … 1859 . See letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 and enclosure. On CD’s and Alfred Russel …
From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877
Summary
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 241 Lewis Henry Morgan Rochester, N.Y. 26 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Rochester, New York. June 26 th . 1877 My Dear Sir, It gave me great pleasure to receive …
- … See letter to L. H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 . Morgan had visited CD at Down on 9 June 1871 ( …
- … Spencer 1876–96 ) was published in January 1877, although it carried a publication …
- … date of 1876 ( Publishers’ Circular (1877): 17). The two-part article ‘On the evolution of …
- … Smithsonian Institution. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient society, or, researches in the …
- … Williams and Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1877. On the evolution of the family. Popular …
- … of kinship through females, see Morgan 1877 , pp. 511–16. For more on McLennan’s ethnology …
- … issues of Popular Science Monthly ( Spencer 1877 ); the journal was published in New York …
- … by D. Appleton & Co . Morgan 1877 ; CD had received a copy of the book (see letter to L. …
- … H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 and n. 1). On the reception of Spencer in America, see Lightman …
- … gens, phratry, tribe, and confederacy ( Morgan 1877 , pp. 62–3). A gens or ‘gentile’ was a …
- … and Tibetan forms of polyandry, see Morgan 1877 , pp. 516–17. On familial structure in the …
- … Spencer 1876–96 , 1: 698, and Spencer 1877 , p. 129. For more on the Veddas (or Wanniyala- …
- … sisters from the marriage relation ( Morgan 1877 , pp. 384, 424–28); the Punaluan family, …
- … Spencer 1876–96 , 1: 698, and Spencer 1877 , p. 129). Spencer discussed John Ferguson …
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
| Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 25 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877 …
- … Cato Hoek Netherlands Zoological Society Station 25 June 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson …
- … Netherlands Zoological Society. June 25 1877. To Sir C. Wyville Thompson. F.R.S. etc. …
- … 6: 195–9. Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1877. Ueber Pycnogoniden. Niederländisches Archiv …
- … Duncan was published in Nature , 14 June 1877, pp. 118–19. Thomson had been criticised by …
- … letter from P. L. Sclater, 2 June 1877 ). Pycnogonida is a class of marine arthropods ( …
- … North-Atlantic Expedition in 1876 ( Sars 1877 ; see Christiansen 1993 , p. 146). George …
- … species of Pycnogonida in Hodge 1864 . Hoek 1877 . Hoek sent a copy of this letter to CD, …
- … letter from Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek [ c. 24 June 1877], and letter from C. …
- … W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ). …
- … 3 (1876–7): 235–54. Sars, Georg Ossian. 1877. Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et …
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877 …
- … DAR 274.1: 2 Francis Darwin 11 June 1877 Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Francis Darwin, [10 June 1877] ; there was evidently another letter to …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 May [1877] and n. 3. Henry Lettington was the gardener at …
- … See letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 . Bernard Darwin . Atty: Arthur …
- … He married Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy in 1877 ( BMD ( Marriage index )). Jim or Jemmy were …
- … Down June 11. 1877 My dear Father I have got yr messages & will do them all square— There …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 July [1877] and n. 10). Francis’s letter on the nectar- …
- … aquilinum , southern bracken fern), was published in Nature , 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. …
- … See also letter from Francis Darwin, [before 21 May 1877] and n. 3, and F. Darwin 1876d . …
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877] …
- … DAR 274.1: 3 Francis Darwin [Down] [14 June? 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … For CD’s interest in scrofula, see the letter to Agricultural Gazette , 22 March 1877. …
- … Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3] February 1877 (DAR 219.9: 144)). See n. 1, above. …
- … fifth tooth was ‘nearly through’ on 23 July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1920b , p. 6), so this letter …
- … their absence (see letter from Francis Darwin, 11 June 1877 ). A report of an inquest on a …
- … death from starvation and scrofulous disease appeared in The Times , 14 June 1877, p. …
- … 13. In 1877, 14 June was a Thursday; apparently Francis did go to Southampton on or around …
- … P. P. C. Hoek in a letter of [ c . 24 June 1877]. The letter and Francis’s reply have not …
From P. L. Sclater 2 June 1877
Summary
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
| Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10981 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From P. L. Sclater 2 June 1877 …
- … 177: 76 Philip Lutley Sclater London, Elvaston Place, 44 2 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … others; it was reprinted in Nature , 14 June 1877, pp. 117–19. Victor Brooke had visited …
- … CD at Down on 26 May (see letter to W. H. Flower, 19 May [1877] ). …
- … Place. | Queens Gate. S.W. June 2 nd . 1877 My dear M r Darwin I believe Flower has spoken …
- … Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 20 (1877): 79–80; the debate over Thomson’s decision …
- … had arisen in ibid . 4th ser. 19 (1877): 429–30, 506–9. The memorial defending Thomson’s …
From William Roberts 30 June 1877
Summary
He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.
| Author: | William Roberts |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11025 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From William Roberts 30 June 1877 …
- … DAR 176: 185 William Roberts Manchester 30 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that …
- … similarities between the two bacilli ( Roberts 1877 , pp. 35–8). Roberts cited cases of …
- … Bacillus anthracis had evolved as a sport of Bacillus subtilis ( Roberts 1877 , pp. 38–9). …
- … 2 (1876–7): 277–310. Roberts, William. 1877. On spontaneous generation and the doctrine of …
- … medicine. A copy of the paper ( Roberts 1877 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
To G. C. Robertson 24 June [1877]
Summary
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 24 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11013 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To G. C. Robertson 24 June [1877] …
- … DAR 147: 326 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 24 June [1877] George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … an infant’ was in a missing portion of the letter from Emile Alglave, 21 June 1877 . CD’s …
- … article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877, but was not yet published (see letter to …
- … G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 ). The translation appeared in Revue …
- … de la France et de l’étranger , 14 July 1877, pp. 25– 8. CD stayed at William Erasmus …
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1877]
Summary
Forms of flowers will soon be published and is not a long book.
Does not suppose he will publish any more books, "though perhaps a few more papers". He "cannot endure being idle, but Heaven knows whether I am capable of any more good work".
Erratum JVC sent was due to a printer’s error after he had seen last proofs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 17 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 166–167) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11005 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. V. Carus 17 June [1877] …
- … Charles, Bl. 166–167) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 17 June [1877] Julius Victor Carus …
- … mistake in Orchids 2d ed. , p. 58 (see letter from J. V. Carus, 13 June 1877 and n. 1). …
- … 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. …
- … the letter from J. V. Carus, 13 June 1877 . CD stayed at William Erasmus Darwin’s house …
- … at the Zoological Station in Naples (see letter from J. V. Carus, 13 June 1877 and n. 4. …
- … Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ); it was 352 pages long, …
From Emile Alglave 21 June 1877
Summary
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
| Author: | Émile Alglave |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.11: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11010 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emile Alglave 21 June 1877 …
- … DAR 210.11: 36 Émile Alglave Paris 21 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Germer-Baillière ( Cosserat trans. 1878 ; see letter to Smith, Elder & Co , 7 March 1877). …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877 and was published in July (see letter to …
- … G. C. Robertson, 24 June [1877] ). The French translation appeared in …
- … de la France et de l’étranger , 14 July 1877, pp. 25–8. Alglave refers to the French …
To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877]
Summary
Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 22 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11011 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877] …
- … to G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 ). …
- … MS ADD 88/9–15/11) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 22 June [1877] George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … Biographical sketch of an infant’ (see letter from Max Schlesinger, 4 July 1877 ). CD’s …
- … article had been submitted to Mind in April 1877, but was not yet published ( see letter …
From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877
Summary
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 488 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11022 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 29 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to J. V. Carus of 17 June [1877] ). Forms of flowers US ed. was published by D. …
- … Forms of flowers was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). For CD’s presentation …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Forms of flowers US ed. : The different …
- … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works …
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 27 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.
| Author: | Frederic Harrison |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 1916 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … at Frederick Harrison’s home in Surrey was published in The Times , 25 June 1877, p. 8. …
- … From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 27 June [1877] …
- … DAR 251: 1916 Frederic Harrison 27 June [1877] George Howard Darwin …
- … wrote a letter to The Times , 25 June 1877, p. 10, advertising the subscription for …
- … see letter from Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin, 13 June [1877] and n. 2). An entry in …
- … Down House MS) records a payment of £5 on 25 June 1877 for Jules Michelet’s memorial. …
To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [10 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10995 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877] …
- … DAR 211: 20 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [10 June 1877] Francis Darwin …
- … 1872] ). CD visited Beaulieu on 22 June 1877 ( Earthworms , p. 195). Bernard Darwin . …
- … to Beaulieu abbey (see n. 5, below). In 1877, 10 June was a Sunday. CD stayed at Leith …
- … Wedgwood , and her family, from 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD had …
- … Bassett, Southampton, from 13 June to 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). William …
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| Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Atkinson, Edward | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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…
Matches: 28 hits
- … , 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…
