From Francis Darwin 4 July 1879
Summary
Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.
FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.3: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12134 |
From Francis Darwin [c. 25 February 1879]
Summary
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883F |
From James Torbitt 30 April 1879
Summary
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12020 |
To G. H. Darwin [31 July 1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to send name and address of tailor from whom he got the [LL.D.] gown to W. B. Richmond.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [31 July 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12206 |
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- … to CD by the University of Cambridge in 1877 (see letter to John Fiske, 10 June 1879 , n. …
From Newman Marks 15 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for signing a memorial.
Author: | Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12321 |
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- … received an honorary LLD (doctor of laws) from Cambridge in 1877 (Freeman 1878, p. 49). …
To A. S. Wilson 5 March 1879
Summary
Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 5 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11917 |
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- … see the letter from J. C. Morton, 19 March 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). In the event, …
From W. P. Garrison 9 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".
Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12302 |
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- … 1871; their most recent correspondence was in 1877 (see Correspondence vols. 19 and 25). …
From W. T. Winn 16 May 1879
Summary
Sends newspaper cutting referring to CD.
Author: | William Thomas Winn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12056 |
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- … newspaper published in Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, from 1877 until at least 1879 (https:// …
From J. W. Judd 9 December 1879
Summary
Sorry he was out when CD came to visit.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12347 |
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- … in 1872, and the geological department in 1877. Laboratory work had been impossible for …
To Grant Allen [before 21 February 1879]
Summary
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | [before 21 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11891 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1879]
Summary
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 485–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12167 |
From James Torbitt 15 November 1879
Summary
Encloses latest report on his new potatoes. Believes the plants should be grown from seed every fourth year to preserve yield and disease-resistance.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E4; DAR 178: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12322 |
From Adam Fitch 20 December 1879
Summary
Questions CD on the possibility of selecting disease-resisting potatoes to produce ultimately a disease-resistant variety.
Author: | Adam Fitch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12367 |
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- … 18 November 1862 , and Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Adam Fitch, 20 July 1877 . …
To G. J. Romanes 23 July 1879
Summary
Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.
Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.
Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 23 July 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12168 |
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- … Read 6 April 1876 and 18 January 1877. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) 12 ( …
From Michele Lessona 28 December 1879
Summary
The Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded CD a 12000 franc prize for his work during the past four years.
Author: | Michele Lessona |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12373 |
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- … fertilisation (1876), Forms of flowers (1877). See letter from Ercole Ricotti, 29 December …
To Casimir de Candolle 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12266 |
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- … de la Société de physique et d’histoire naturelle de Genève 26 (1877–9): 427–80. …
From James Torbitt 4 November 1879
Summary
Success of his experiments; report on recent work.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E3; DAR 178: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12292 |
To Karl Alberts [after 9 February 1879]
Summary
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Alberts |
Date: | [after 9 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 95v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11867 |
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- … an extensive list of CD’s publications from 1837 to 1877 ( Preyer 1879 , pp. 346–9). …
From F. B. White 11 June 1879
Author: | Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12103 |
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- … on the German model during the 1860s. In 1877, the college council decided to divide the …
From T. H. Farrer 2 November 1879
Summary
Concerning the settlement for Horace Darwin and Ida.
Will give CD’s potato papers to Lord Sandon.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12287 |
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- … scientific instruments in Cambridge since 1877; he founded the Cambridge Scientific …
letter | (75) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Torbitt, James | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
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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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…