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To Raphael Meldola   25 November 1880

Summary

References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12854

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  • … and Ernst Haeckel ); see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Ernst Krause, 11 March 1877 . …
  • … Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)]. …
  • … Fritz. 1877a. Beobachtungen an brasilianischen Schmetterlingen. Kosmos 1 (1877): 388– …
  • … 95; 2 (1877–8): 38–42, 218–24. …
  • … to aid you in any way. No I of F.  Muller’s paper is in the August no for 1877 No II— is …
  • … in the October number 1877. Both these articles, I remember thinking excellent. I am not …
  • … on Brazilian butterflies ( F. Müller 1877 ) appeared. Meldola thought that CD was one of …
  • … for his permission to translate F. Müller 1877 , but CD had backed the journal only by …

From Raphael Meldola   24 November 1880

Summary

Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12850

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  • … 3.7] underl red crayon End of letter : ‘I August. | II October 1877’ blue ink …
  • … Fritz. 1877a. Beobachtungen an brasilianischen Schmetterlingen. Kosmos 1 (1877): 388– …
  • … 95; 2 (1877–8): 38–42, 218–24. Travis, Anthony S. 2010. Raphael Meldola and the …
  • … 1879] . CD had lent Meldola the October 1877 issue of Kosmos containing part two of ‘ …
  • … on Brazilian butterflies; F. Müller 1877 ); see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from …
  • … from his work address; he worked from 1877 to 1885 at the Atlas Works, where he developed …
  • … good enough to lend me ‘Kosmos’ for Dec.  1877 containing a paper by Fritz Müller which …

To George Bentham   16 February 1880

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CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  16 Feb 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12485

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  • … eels to be skinned alive’ ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Asa Gray, 8 March 1877 ). …

From C.-F. Reinwald   16 June 1880

Summary

Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 June 1880
Classmark:  DAR 176: 110
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12636

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  • … Bibliography Barbier, Edmond, trans. 1877. Les plantes insectivores. By Charles Darwin. ( …
  • … Climbing plants 2d ed. ( Gordon trans. 1877 ), Insectivorous plants ( Barbier trans. …
  • 1877 ), Cross and self fertilisation ( Heckel …
  • … trans. 1877 ), and Forms of flowers ( Heckel trans. 1878 ). CD recorded the receipt of £40 …
  • … on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Gordon, …
  • … Richard, trans. 1877. Les mouvements et les habitudes des plantes grimpantes . By Charles …
  • … Paris: C. Reinwald. Heckel, Édouard, trans. 1877. Des effets de la fécondation croisée et …

From W. E. Darwin   6 April [1880]

Summary

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

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

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

To James Geikie   27 November 1880

Summary

Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:  27 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 144: 333
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12869

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  • … Bibliography Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of …
  • … of his The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man was published in 1877 ( …
  • … Geikie 1877 ). In his letter of 22 July 1880 , Geikie thanked CD for his permission to …

To T. H. Farrer   1 October 1880

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Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  1 Oct 1880
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12732

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  • … a ‘worm journal’ from 25 August to 23 September 1877 to record earthworm activity at the …
  • … 25, letter from T. H. Farrer, 23 September 1877 ). CD published Farrer’s observations in …
  • … made on 25 September and 13 October 1877. The excavation of the Roman villa had revealed …
  • … lime rubbish’ in his letter of 23 September 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). CD reported in …

From Charles Layton   24 September 1880

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Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Aug 1880 and a cheque for the balance due to CD.

Author:  Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 159: 106, 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12725

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  • … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Descent 2d US ed. : The descent of man, …
  • … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Insectivorous plants US ed. By Charles …
  • … revised. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Origin 3d US ed. : On the origin of …

From Frederick McDermott   23 November 1880

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Wishes to read CD’s books; will not do so without an assurance of CD’s faith in the New Testament.

Author:  Frederick McDermott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 201: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12845

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  • … Bibliography Kingsley, Frances, ed. 1877. Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of …
  • … enthusiasm for CD’s work (see Kingsley ed. 1877 , 2: 135–6, 171–3, 247–50). See also …

From S. T. Preston   5 August 1880

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Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].

Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.

Author:  Samuel Tolver Preston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Aug 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12678

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  • … Science and man’ was delivered at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on 1 October 1877 ( …
  • … Tyndall 1877 ). For ‘Responsibility and physical causation’, see Preston 1880a , pp. 457– …
  • … Physical Causation (which I developed myself in 1877) may perhaps contain some novelty—the …
  • … re-published, Fortnightly Review Nov.  1877). I am inclined to the opinion that the paper …

From G. J. Romanes   10 December 1880

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Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Dec 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12904

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  • … system of the medusæ. [Read 11 January 1877. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
  • … locomotor system of medusae ( G. J. Romanes 1877 , pp. 683–4), Romanes had measured the …

From Florence Dixie   29 November [1880]

Summary

Sends CD a copy of her book [Across Patagonia (1880)],

together with a privately printed "tragedy" written at the age of 14.

Author:  Florence Caroline (Florence) Douglas; Florence Caroline (Florence) Dixie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 184
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12875

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  • … Florence [Florence Caroline Dixie]. 1877. Abel avenged: a dramatic tragedy. London: E. …
  • … of Abel avenged: a dramatic tragedy ( Douglas 1877 ), published under Dixie’s maiden name, …

From R. F. Cooke   3 March 1880

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Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.

Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 503
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12506

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  • … vol. 25, letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 ). A second edition of 1250 copies was …
  • … Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). CD had asked for the …

To [William Newton]   17 April 1880

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Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].

Sorry about Lloyd’s health.

Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Newton
Date:  17 Apr 1880
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12580

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  • … p. 1). CD had sent Lloyd £10 on 1 May 1877 (CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS)). …
  • … vol. 25, letter to [Francis Lloyd], 1 May [1877] ). Newton had written an introduction to …

To W. E. Darwin   18 June 1880

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

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

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

To Hyacinth Hooker   8 January 1880

Summary

Thanks for gift of bananas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:  8 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12411F

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  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Hyacinth Hooker, [18 November 1877] . …

From C. C. Graham   28 March 1880

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Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.

Author:  Christopher Columbus Graham
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 201: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12551

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  • … Graham 1869 ) with his letter of 30 January 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). No letter from …

From Thomas Meehan   28 April 1880

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There has been talk in American papers of CD’s admitting he was wrong about hybrid sterility. TM has presented CD’s views in the New York Independent.

Author:  Thomas Meehan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Apr 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12594

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  • … aid ( see, for example, Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Thomas Meehan, 1 July 1877 ). …

From J. D. Hooker   29 November 1880

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Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 104: 146–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12873

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  • … hairs of the common teasel’ ( F. Darwin 1877 ), to the Royal Society. Daniel Oliver was …
  • … sylvestris ). (Abstract. ) [Read 1 March 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of …

From A. S. Wilson   17 February 1880

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On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

Author:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 181: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12490

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  • … Bibliography Voronin, Mikhail Stepanovich. 1877. Plasmodiophora brassicae organizm, …
  • … known by the name ‘club-root’; Voronin 1877 ). Turnip is Brassica rapa subsp. rapa ; swede …
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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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