To G. C. Robertson 22 May 1877
Summary
CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 22 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10968 |
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- … To G. C. Robertson 22 May 1877 …
- … MS ADD 88/9–15/11) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 May 1877 George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … See letter to G. C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 and n. 1. ‘ …
- … Biographical sketch of an infant’ was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind . …
From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11159 |
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- … From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877] …
- … Sara Sedgwick/Sara Darwin London, Elgin Crescent, 23 [30 Sept 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to Sara Sedgwick, 29 September [1877] . …
- … In 1877, 30 September was a Sunday. …
- … In his letter to Sedgwick of 29 September [1877] , CD had expressed his pleasure at her …
- … letter to Sara Sedgwick, 29 September [1877] ; William Darwin was anxious that Sedgwick …
To W. E. Gladstone 25 October [1877]
Summary
Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.
CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11207 |
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- … To W. E. Gladstone 25 October [1877] …
- … Add MS 44455: 210) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Oct [1877] William Ewart Gladstone …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 . Gladstone had accepted CD’s offer to send …
- … of an infant’ . See letter to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 , and letter from W. …
- … E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 . …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 July 1877
Summary
Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11071 |
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- … From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 July 1877 …
- … DAR 178: 99 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Kew 25 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … pp. 368–9. See letter to H. N. Ellacombe, 30 July [1877] . Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer . …
- … See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] . Oxalis enneaphylla is scurvy-grass …
- … a second one, were sent on 16 July 1877. There is no record of an earlier Haematoxylon …
- … Royal Gardens Kew July 25. 1877 Dear M r Darwin On the recp t . of your letter I looked …
From J. W. Judd 24 April 1877
Summary
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940 |
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- … From J. W. Judd 24 April 1877 …
- … DAR 168: 83 John Wesley Judd Royal School of Mines 24 Apr 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the formal election took place on 7 June 1877, those recommended by the council were …
- … Mines | Jermyn Street. S.W. 24 th . April 1877. My dear Sir, I greatly regret that I was …
- … CD visited London from 20 to 28 April 1877, staying first with his daughter and son-in- …
- … 1875 ); Judd’s nomination was resuspended in 1877. The council of the Royal Society had …
- … for election at their meeting of 19 April 1877, and evidently informed the successful …
To J. M. F. Ludlow 20 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 20 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11064 |
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- … To J. M. F. Ludlow 20 July [1877] …
- … DAR 202: 52 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 July [1877] John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow …
- … or clerk), witnessed by CD, and dated 20 July 1877, are in the National Archives (TNA FS …
- … between this letter and the letter to Down Friendly Club, 19 February 1877 . See …
- … to Down Friendly Club, 19 February 1877 . Ludlow was the chief registrar of Friendly …
- … the club. See also letter to J. B. Innes, 25 February [1877] , and letter to ? , [ …
- … before 22 May 1877? ] . The documents, signed …
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 430–1 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Jan [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to print the full paper (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 ). The full paper was …
- … in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1877b ). …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 January 1877 . Hooker had delivered the president’s …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 January 1877 . Much of the material from CD’s earlier …
- … Forms of flowers , which was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Francis Darwin had …
- … s paper to the society and it was read on 1 March 1877; an abstract of it was published in …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
From E. S. Morse 18 May 1877
Summary
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
| Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10966 |
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- … From E. S. Morse 18 May 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 245 Edward Sylvester Morse Salem, Mass. 18 May 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … is in the New York Herald , 14 January 1877, p. 6. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of …
- … pp. 159–60). See letter to E. S. Morse, 23 April 1877 and nn. 1 and 4. Morse and Hyatt …
- … Morse studied coastal brachiopods in Japan from 1877 to 1880 ( ANB ). Morse gave his four …
- … in New York on 6, 13, 20, and 27 January 1877, and three lectures on evolution and ‘The …
- … in Cincinnati on 16, 20, and 22 February 1877 ( New York Herald , 16 November 1876, p. …
- … 10; Cincinnati Daily Star , 10 February 1877, p. 1). A report …
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
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- … From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877 …
- … DAR 161: 205 Ferdinand Julius Cohn Breslau 31 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 2 (1876–7): 277–310. Koch, Robert. 1877. Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und …
- … and photographing of bacteria; R. Koch 1877 ) included three plates made directly from …
- … Stadtgraben 26. den 31 ten . December 1877 My dear Sir The approaching new-year remembers …
- … 1853 (see letter to F. J. Cohn, 8 August 1877 and n. 3). Agaricus is a genus of mushrooms …
- … Cohn 1877b ), delivered on 21 September 1877 at the meeting of German naturalists and …
- … Naturforscher und Aertze . In August 1877, Cohn had repeated some of Francis Darwin’s …
- … Francis’s observations, to Nature (see letters from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 and [10? ] …
- … August 1877 , and letter to …
- … Nature , 15 August [1877]). When mercury thiocyanate (Hg (SCN) 2 ) powder is ignited it …
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877
Summary
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11190 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877 …
- … DAR 104: 95–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 19 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Hooker’s daughter Harriet Anne on 23 June 1877; they had only one week of honeymoon before …
- … letter to Sara Sedgwick, 29 September [1877] ). Probably Sara Sedgwick’s sister Theodora. …
- … times in 1868 and 1869 (see letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 and nn. 3 and 4). …
- … with Asa Gray in July and August 1877, studying North American plant distribution (L. …
- … acute appendicitis while travelling in Switzerland in September 1877 (see letter to H. …
- … E. Litchfield, 4 October [1877] and n. 2); Hooker may have learned of Litchfield’s illness …
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
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- … From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877 …
- … DAR 166: 70 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 9 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Westfalens und das Darwin-Album von 1877. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für …
- … Jena 9 Februar 1877 Hochverehrter Freund! Zu Ihrem bevorstehenden 69sten Geburtstage sende …
- … see Transcript. CD was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. The photograph album was sent …
- … letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 and n. 3). Otto Zacharias had sent CD a …
- … Jena 9 February 1877 Highly esteemed friend! I send my most cordial greetings and my …
- … Theorie ( Haeckel 1870–7 ) was published in 1877; all the parts are in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … of the single-volume edition ( Haeckel 1877 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. Trieste and …
From Karl Beger [12 February 1877]
Summary
Intends to name his son after CD.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10824 |
To J. V. Carus 19 February 1877
Summary
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10852 |
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- … To J. V. Carus 19 February 1877 …
- … Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb 1877 Julius Victor Carus …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Feb 19. 1877 My dear Sir, Will you be so good as to correct the …
- … see letter from J. V. Carus, 20 January 1877 ). For CD’s corrections to Cross and self …
- … fertilisation 2d ed. , see the letter to J. V. Carus, 4 March 1877 and n. 2. …
From O. Dill 26 February 1877
Summary
Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.
| Author: | O. Dill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1877
Summary
Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 80–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10898 |
To W. H. Flower 2 May [1877]
Summary
‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 2 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10949 |
To Giovanni Canestrini 26 August [1877]
Summary
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Date: | 26 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection), subsequently offered for sale by Marsha Malinowski (dealer), New York (https://marshamalinowski.com/press/, accessed 18 December 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11113 |
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- … To Giovanni Canestrini 26 August [1877] …
- … new work [ La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian. …
- … Bibliography Canestrini, Giovanni. 1877. La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta ne’ suoi …
- … accessed 18 December 2020) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Aug [1877] Giovanni Canestrini …
- … of Darwin and his followers; Canestrini 1877 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11043 |
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- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877] …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. George Bentham . …
- … 1873–81: ff. 67–8) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Gardens, Kew; see n. 2, below). The year 1877 is the only one in which CD is recorded as …
- … following plants were sent to Down on 3 July 1877: Arachis hypogaea (peanut); Desmodium …
- … bulrush). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 . CD resumed his earlier work on …
- … bloom, the waxy or powdery coating on some flowers and fruits, in 1877; see letter to …
To R. F. Cooke 30 June [1877]
Summary
Has not heard from Appleton about an American edition [of Forms of flowers]. Asks how many copies Murray is printing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 302–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11024 |
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- … To R. F. Cooke 30 June [1877] …
- … ff. 302–3) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 30 June [1877] Robert Francis Cooke John Murray …
- … Forms of flowers has been found; see, however, the letter from R. F. Cooke, 2 July 1877 . …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … between this letter and the letter from R. F. Cooke, 29 June 1877 . Letter from R. …
- … F. Cooke, 29 June 1877 . CD was at William Erasmus Darwin’ …
- … Bassett, Southampton, from 13 June to 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). He was …
From A. H. Sayce 27 July 1877
Summary
Having read CD’s article in Mind ["Biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], AHS questions CD about the child’s first attempts at speech, hoping to throw light on the origin of language.
| Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11074 |
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- … From A. H. Sayce 27 July 1877 …
- … 177: 45 Archibald Henry Sayce Queen’s College, Oxford 27 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … 1880 , 2: 311–14). Taine’s article was reprinted in Mind in April 1877 (see letter to G. …
- … C. Robertson, 27 April 1877 and n. 2). …
- … Queen’s Coll. | Oxford. July 27 th 1877. Dear Sir, I hope you will forgive a stranger like …
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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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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…
