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From Raphael Meldola   2 January [1878]

Summary

Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].

Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11308

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  • … on sexual selection in butterflies [ Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24]. Is forwarding material on …
  • … stridulans ", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD. …
  • … Meldola, 1 January [1878] . Meldola dated it 1877 in error. See letter to Raphael Meldola, …
  • … 1 January [1878] and n. 2. The October 1877 issue of Kosmos contained the second part of …
  • … Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 September 1877 . James Wood-Mason’ …
  • … s note on stridulation in Mygale stridulans ( Wood-Mason 1877 ) appeared in …
  • … the December 1877 issue of Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ; the …
  • … Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wood-Mason, James. 1877. Note on Mygale …
  • … stridulans . [Read 5 September 1877. ] Transactions …
  • … of the Entomological Society of London (1877): 281–2. …
  • … 1876) in his letter to CD of 20 October [1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25). The translation …

From W. C. Williamson   19 January 1878

Summary

Insectivorous plants.

Author:  William Crawford Williamson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 181: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11326

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  • … plant from the Carboniferous; Lesquereux 1877 , p. 172). Gaston de Saporta described a …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Lesquereux, Leo. 1877. Land plants, recently discovered in the …
  • … Silurian rocks of the United States. [Read 19 October 1877. ] Proceedings …
  • … of the American Philosophical Society 17 (1877–8): 163–73. Williamson, William Crawford. …
  • … In 1877, Williamson had sent CD specimens showing that in its early stages, Drosera …
  • … leaved sundew; Correspondence vol. 25, letters to W. C. Williamson, 22 October [1877] and …
  • … 24 October [1877] , and letter from W. …
  • … C. Williamson, 23 October 1877 ). Francis Darwin’s paper ‘Experiments on the nutrition of …
  • … Williamson, 20 September 1878 . In Lesquereux 1877 , Leo Lesquereux described a number of …

To F. J. Cohn   3 January 1878

Summary

Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  3 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11310

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  • … Bibliography Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1877–8. Lectures on the infective processes …
  • … of disease. British Medical Journal , 22 December 1877, pp. …
  • … 879–81; 29 December 1877, pp. 913–15; 5 January 1878, pp. 1–2; 12 January 1878, pp. 45–7; …
  • … 25, letter from F. J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 . Cohn had sent CD the third and last issue …
  • … preserving and photographing bacteria; Koch 1877 ). It is not known when John Scott Burdon …
  • … and assisted with an experiment in October 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter from F. …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Koch, Robert. 1877. Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren …
  • … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 ), and he reproduced figures from some of Koch’s photographs …
  • … processes of disease’ ( Burdon Sanderson 1877–8 ; for the figures, see British Medical …
  • … anthrax. In his letter of 31 December 1877 , Cohn had critiqued Francis Darwin’s paper ‘On …

To Asa Gray   21 [and 22] January 1878

Summary

Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].

Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.

Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.

Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?

Observations on heliotropism.

Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  21 and 22 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11330

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  • … 18 September 1863, pp. 281–2. Cook, Joseph. 1877. Boston Monday lectures. Biology, with …
  • … vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . See A. Gray 1878a , pp. 67–8, and Forms …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Hildebrand, Friedrich. 1864. Experimente …
  • … und seine Wirkung auf die Naturzüchtung der Blumen. Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 11–25, 128–140. …
  • … Darwin married Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). For CD’ …
  • … vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 10 June 1877 . Thomas Meehan’s comments were in fact …
  • … of the Torrey Botanical Club , December 1877, p. 189. There is a lightly annotated copy of …
  • … Cook’s lectures on biology ( J. Cook 1877 ) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL ([A. …
  • … a friend, appeared in The Times , 17 January 1877, p. 5, having originally appeared in the …
  • … 25, letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] and n. 5). See letter to Hermann Müller, 1 …
  • … than two months travelling together in the United States in 1877; see Correspondence vol. …
  • … 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . CD stayed with his brother, Erasmus, from 17 …

To Adolf Ernst   16 January 1878

Summary

Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  16 Jan 1878
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11321

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  • … sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)]. Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are …
  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 [June 1874] and n. 7), and began again in 1877 ( Correspondence vol. …
  • … 25, letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 ). CD never published on bloom, but Francis Darwin …
  • … Botany ) 22 (1885–6): 99–116. Ernst, Adolf. 1877. Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de …
  • … la flora y fauna de Venezuela ( Ernst 1877 ), but it has not been found in the Darwin …

From G. H. Darwin   28 January 1878

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Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11336

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  • … geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Haughton, Samuel. 1877. Notes on physical geology. — no. III. …
  • … geological periods. [Read 20 December 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … to the duration of certain geological periods’ ( Haughton 1877 ), was read at the Royal …
  • … Society of London on 20 December 1877. Haughton thought the upheaval of Europe and Asia …

To Fritz Müller   12 January 1878

Summary

CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.

Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  12 Jan 1878
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11319

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  • … the same question in his letter of 14 May 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), having himself …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Movement in plants : The power of movement …
  • … 25, letter from Fritz Müller, [27 November 1877] . The surviving version of this letter is …
  • … of Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25) to the society on …
  • … 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 , and this volume, letter from Raphael …

To Hermann Müller   1 January [1878]

Summary

Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].

Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:  1 Jan [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 438
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11307

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  • … Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers , Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286]. Thinks …
  • … article was very important [ Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der …
  • … reviewed Forms of flowers in the December 1877 issue of Kosmos ( H. Müller 1877b ). CD’s …

To Gaston de Saporta   31 January 1878

Summary

Has sent GdeS’s drawing to Hooker. He, Oliver, and Thiselton-Dyer have been perplexed by it.

L. Lesquereux’s discoveries in the Cincinnati Lower Silurian beds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:  31 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11341

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  • … and William Crawford Williamson ; see Lesquereux 1877 and letter from W. C. Williamson, 19 …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Lesquereux, Leo. 1877. Land plants, recently discovered in the …
  • … Silurian rocks of the United States. [Read 19 October 1877. ] Proceedings …
  • … of the American Philosophical Society 17 (1877–8): 163–73. …
  • … letter from Gaston de Saporta, 16 December 1877 and n. 26, and this volume, letter to W. …

From Hyde Clarke   5 January 1878

Summary

Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Author:  Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 161: 162
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11312

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  • … Missionary House. Matthews, Washington. 1877. Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa …
  • … work’ ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Hyde Clarke, 27 December 1877 , and letter to …
  • … Hyde Clarke, [29 December 1877] ). The prix Volney is awarded by the Institut de France …
  • … philology of the Hidatsa Indians ( Matthews 1877 ) was published under the auspices of the …
  • … an honorary LLD by Cambridge University in 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 25, Appendix II). …

From W. W. Baxter   7 January 1878

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Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.

Author:  William Walmisley Baxter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 209.8: 150
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11315

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  • … experimenting. See British pharmacopœia (1877) , p. 353. Olein and margarin were terms for …
  • … Bibliography British pharmacopœia (1877). Third reprint of the 1867 edition, with …
  • … 1874. London: General Medical Council. 1877. Dussauce, Hippolyte. 1869. A general treatise …

From E. A. Greaves   3 January 1878

Summary

The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11309F

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  • … pamphlet ( see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from E. A. Greaves, 14 December 1877 ). …
  • … 25, letter from E. A. Greaves, 14 December 1877 ). The portrait is reproduced on p. 254. …
  • … E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin, 31 December 1877 ). The portrait had belonged to Susanna …

From Carl Kraus   [31?] January 1878

Summary

Sends birthday greetings and respects.

Author:  Carl (Charles) Kraus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31?] Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 169: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11342

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  • … in relation to general science), on 18 September 1877 at the annual assembly of German …
  • … naturalists and physicians in Munich ( Haeckel 1877 ). There is a copy in …
  • … Westfalens und das Darwin-Album von 1877. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für …
  • … the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In 1877, German and Austrian scientists had sent CD an …
  • … letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 , and ibid. , Appendix V); the album is …

To ?   2 January 1878

Summary

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  2 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11308A

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  • … Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25, Appendix II). The …
  • … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …

To Raphael Meldola   3 January 1878

Summary

Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.

Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  3 Jan 1878
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11309

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  • … 1878] . CD had asked Meldola to return the October 1877 issue of Kosmos , and offered …
  • … to send him the December 1877 issue. In his letter to CD of 2 January [1878] , Meldola had …

From Eugenio Montero Ríos and Jacinto Mesía   16 January 1878

Summary

CD elected an honorary professor of the Institucion Libre de Enseñanza.

Author:  Eugenio María (Eugenio) Montero Ríos; Jacinto Mesía
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 230: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11321A

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  • … por unanimidad en sesion de 29 de Noviember de 1877 nombrarle “Profesor honorario”. Y en …
  • … over agreed unanimously in its 29 November 1877 session to name him ‘honorary professor’. …

From John Evans   28 January 1878

Summary

Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.

Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].

Author:  John Evans
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 163: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11337

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  • … time: tertiary mammals; Gaudry 1878 ) at the end of December 1877 ( Correspondence vol. …
  • … 25, letter to Albert Gaudry, 28 December 1877 ). …

To Raphael Meldola   1 January [1878]

Summary

Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  1 Jan [1878]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11305

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  • … letter to Raphael Meldola, 22 October [1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25). The article was …
  • … annotated. See Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Raphael Meldola, 22 October [1877] . …

From Raphael Meldola   26 January 1878

Summary

Returns Kosmos.

Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 171: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11332

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  • … of Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] (see Correspondence vol. 25) to the …
  • … letter from Fritz Müller, [27 November 1877] ). For Alfred Russel Wallace’s observation on …

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   29 January 1878

Summary

Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11339

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  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Miller, Philip. 1771. The abridgement of the …
  • … was thought to be C. pulverulenta from Kew in 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter to W. …
  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 July [1877] ). Cotyledon orbicularis : presumably C. orbiculata ( …
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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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