To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877]
Summary
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27–8 May [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10973 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877] …
- … Mss.B.D25.546) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27–8 May [1877] George John Romanes …
- … Comments on book by Grant Allen [ Physiological aesthetics (1877)]. Invites him to visit …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). This letter was …
- … vol. 25, letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 3. The council of the Royal Society …
- … sylvestris ). (Abstract. ) [Read 1 March 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of …
- … George John. 1877b. Evolution of nerves and nervous systems. Nature , 19 July 1877, pp. …
- … 231–3, 2 August 1877, pp. …
- … 269–71, 9 August 1877, pp. 289–93. …
- … DAR 242)). Physiological aesthetics ( Allen 1877 ). See Correspondence vol. 25, letter …
- … to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 1. …
- … Romanes visited on Wednesday 30 May 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in …
- … Nature , 19 July, 2 and 9 August 1877 ( …
- … Romanes 1877 ). See Correspondence vol. 25, letter …
- … to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 5. CD was away from home from 6 or 8 June until 4 …
To G. J. Romanes 23 May 1877
Summary
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 23 May 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10971 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 23 May 1877 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.513) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 May 1877 George John Romanes …
- … by Grant Allen [ Physiological aesthetics (1877)]. Comments on dispute over spontaneous …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … s Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down ( …
- … of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view’ ( Tyndall 1877 ) on …
- … 17 May 1877 at the Royal Society of London . Tyndall had been repeating Henry Charlton …
- … J. Romanes, 4 January 1877 and n. 2, and letter from G. …
- … J. Romanes, [after 8 January 1877] ). Romanes was carrying out experiments on graft …
- … from G. J. Romanes, [after 8 January 1877] and n. 5). Romanes had begun investigating …
- … Harvard University Press. Tyndall, John. 1877. Further researches on the deportment and …
- … a physical point of view. [Read 17 May 1877. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
- … results to the Royal Society on 18 January 1877 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of …
- … London 25: 503–6). In February 1877, after hearing of Thomas Henry Huxley’s favourable …
- … sylvestris ) at the Royal Society on 1 March 1877; an abstract was published in the …
- … Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877. It was published in three parts in Nature ( …
- … Romanes 1877b ). CD had lunch with Romanes in London on 8 January 1877 (see letter to G. …
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 |
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- … 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 |
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- … 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 G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 9 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11096 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.518) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Aug [1877] George John Romanes …
- … Bibliography Cramer, Carl. 1877. Ueber die Insektenfressenden Pflanzen . Zurich: Schmidt. …
- … the letter from G. J. Romanes, 11 August 1877 . An abstract of a lecture by Romanes, ‘ …
- … at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in …
- … Nature , 19 July, 2 and 9 August 1877 ( G. J. Romanes 1877b ). CD refers to the first two …
- … Journal of Microscopical Science , April 1877 ( F. Darwin 1877b ). Dipsacus sylvestris is …
- … Munk that the digestive process in such plants was pathological ( Cramer 1877 , pp. 33–4). …
- … Two copies of Cramer 1877 are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; in one copy, CD …
- … plants , p. 366. Romanes’s letter, printed in Nature , 26 July 1877, p. 248, referred to a …
- … that had appeared in Nature , 19 July 1877, p. 227. The letter was signed E. Lawless and …
- … CD and Francis Darwin , see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. See letter …
- … from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 . Francis’s paper ‘On the protrusion of protoplasmic …
To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877] …
- … American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 Dec 1877] [2 …
- … Dec 1877] George John Romanes …
- … Bibliography Jäger, Gustav. 1877. Physiologische Briefe. Ueber Vererbung. Kosmos 1: 17–25, …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. J. Romanes, 2 December 1877 . …
- … In 1877, 2 December was a Sunday. Romanes sent CD a copy of his lecture to the …
- … letters’ on inheritance in Kosmos ( Jäger 1877 ); CD probably refers to the second of …
- … see letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 and n. 6). ‘It’s dogged as does it’ is the …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
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- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877] …
- … Mss.B.D25.503) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 2 Jan [1877] George John Romanes …
- … Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [ Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752]. …
- … Darwin Library–CUL. CD and Romanes had lunch together on 8 January 1877 (see letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 4 January 1877 ). …
- … the Royal Society was dated 8 January 1877 (Royal Society archives, GB 117, EC/1879/18). …
- … Buckley Litchfield , from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Appendix II)). Members of …
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.504) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Jan 1877 George John Romanes …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan. 4. 1877 Dear Romanes, From what you say I will …
- … Darwin to G. J. Romanes, 2 January [1877] and n. 2. The ‘Certificate of a candidate for …
- … London . The Monday following 4 January 1877 was 8 January. The Darwins stayed in London …
- … and Richard Buckley Litchfield , from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
To G. J. Romanes 10 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 10 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.519) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11099 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 10 August [1877] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.519) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Aug [1877] George John Romanes …
- … this letter and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] . See letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 2. CD had commented on the first two parts of Romanes’ …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 3. CD described the inflection of …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
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- … From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877 …
- … Mss.B.D25.527) Charles Robert Darwin Francis Darwin Down 5 Dec 1877 George John Romanes …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Dec 5. 1877 My dear Romanes, One line to say that my …
- … See letter from G. J. Romanes, 2 December 1877 and n. 5. Henry Lettington was …
- … The part of Romanes’s letter of 2 December 1877 in which he commented on using the title ‘ …
- … LLD at Cambridge University on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis …
To G. J. Romanes 5 June 1877
Summary
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 June 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10983 |
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Darwin, Francis | (3) |
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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…