From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877
Summary
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11247 |
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- … From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877 …
- … 62 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge 22 Nov 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 2. On the construction of the Wren …
- … The secular acceleration of the mean motion of the moon; Weiler 1877–8 ), was summarised …
- … at the 25 October 1877 meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna by Karl …
- … Paddington, London, on Thursday 29 November 1877 ( London, England, Church of England …
- … James Geikie’s letter of 20 November 1877, thanking George for a copy of his paper ‘On the …
- … Royal Society. 1940. Weiler, August. 1877–8. Die säkulare Beschleunigung der mittleren …
- … des Mondes. Astronomische Nachrichten 90 (1877): 369–82, 91 (1878): 1–12, 17–29, 33–48. …
- … Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 14 (1877): 220–2). Pierre Simon Laplace , John …
- … See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 3. The physicist William Thomson ( …
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
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- … To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.504) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Jan 1877 George John Romanes …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan. 4. 1877 Dear Romanes, From what you say I will …
- … Darwin to G. J. Romanes, 2 January [1877] and n. 2. The ‘Certificate of a candidate for …
- … London . The Monday following 4 January 1877 was 8 January. The Darwins stayed in London …
- … and Richard Buckley Litchfield , from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
From R. F. Cooke 5 October 1877
Summary
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 491 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11170 |
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- … From R. F. Cooke 5 October 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 5 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to Hjalmar Linnström, 7 October 1877 ); the sums refer to the costs for the …
- … and seven heliotypes. Forms of flowers was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
From W. E. Darwin [24 August 1877]
Summary
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10753 |
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- … From W. E. Darwin [24 August 1877] …
- … DAR 162: 85 William Erasmus Darwin Bassett [24 Aug 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, 20 [August 1877] . …
- … The Friday following 20 August 1877 was 24 August. See letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, 20 [August 1877] and nn. 2 and 3. CD was interested in the movement of leaves …
To W. M. Moorsom 11 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11134 |
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- … To W. M. Moorsom 11 September [1877] …
- … DAR 146: 385 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1877] Warren Maude Moorsom …
- … this letter and the letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 . See letter from W. …
- … M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 . Moorsom was a supporter of the temperance movement. …
- … eating a particular fruit (see letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 and n. 2). …
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Summary
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
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- … To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877] …
- … DAR 210.6: 139 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [Aug 1877] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … on Robinia mentioning William and dated August 1877 (see n. 2, below). CD was studying the …
- … black locust); the notes, dated 15–16 June 1877, are in DAR 209.12: 13. CD continued to …
- … continuing observations by William in notes dated 5–17 August 1877 (DAR 209.12: 163–4). …
- … In a note dated 20 August 1877, written at Abinger, Surrey, CD mentioned William’s earlier …
- … CD visited Abinger from 20 to 25 August 1877 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD evidently …
From G. M. Tracy 11 January 1877
Summary
Observations on and explanations of the scarcity of fruit and berries (especially holly berries) evident that year.
| Author: | George Murton Tracy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10779 |
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- … From G. M. Tracy 11 January 1877 …
- … DAR 178: 174 George Murton Tracy Edenbridge 11 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877]. The letter was …
- … reprinted in full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7; a clipping of it is in DAR 132: …
- … letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle of 3 January [1877], CD had remarked that holly-trees would …
- … Redlands | Edenbridge Kent Jan ry . 11 th . 1877 Sir Having observed in “The Times” of …
From F. J. Cohn 5 August 1877
Summary
Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.
Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11093 |
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- … From F. J. Cohn 5 August 1877 …
- … DAR 161: 203 Ferdinand Julius Cohn Breslau 5 Aug 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Untersuchungen über Drosophyllum lusitanicum Lk. , was submitted on 24 September 1877 ( …
- … Penzig 1877 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Montgomery, Edmund. 1866. On the formation …
- … 7): 314–18. Penzig, Albert Julius Otto. 1877. Untersuchungen über Drosophyllum lusitanicum …
- … Dissertation. [Submitted 24 September 1877. ] Breslau: University of Breslau. Royer, …
- … Journal of Microscopical Science , April 1877 ( F. Darwin 1877b ). Dipsacus sylvestris is …
- … K. Universität Breslau. | Breslau den 5 August 1877 My dear Sir As from an inexhaustible …
- … fullonum . In his letter to Cohn of 26 July 1877 , CD had advised Cohn on the best method …
From William Preyer 6 July 1877
Summary
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11038 |
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- … From William Preyer 6 July 1877 …
- … DAR 174: 70 William Thierry (William) Preyer Jena 6 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … sketch of an infant’ was published in the July 1877 issue of Mind . Preyer published his …
- … Axel Thierry Preyer , born in November 1877 (Richter and Wagner 2003, p. 130), and made …
- … Jena July 6, 1877 Dear Sir, You would extremely oblige me by sending me a copy of your …
From Alfred Espinas 1 July 1877
Summary
On painful state of CD’s reception in France.
| Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11030 |
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- … From Alfred Espinas 1 July 1877 …
- … DAR 163: 34 Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas Dijon 1 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Espinas, Alfred. 1877. Des sociétés animales: étude de psychologie comparée. …
- … Dijon, 1 er juillet 1877. Monsieur et cher maitre, Vous avez dit quelque part qu’on peut …
- … Espinas taught philosophy at Dijon. In Espinas 1877 , p. 361, a copy of which he …
- … see letter to Alfred Espinas, [before 1 July 1877] ), he wrote that evolution was the sole …
- … fundamental law. Espinas 1877 ( Des sociétés animales ) was the doctoral thesis Espinas …
- … letter to Alfred Espinas, [before 1 July 1877] . Espinas translated Spencer’s Principles …
- … Dijon, 1 st July 1877. Sir and dear master, You said somewhere that one can be convinced …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877
Summary
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11171 |
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- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 101–2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Oct 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Oct 7. 1877 My dear Dyer, One line to thank you much …
- … to W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 27 September [1877] ). CD had asked for a plant of Averrhoa …
- … tree) instead (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] , and letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 ). Francis and CD had studied movement in Averrhoa bilimbi …
- … over the summer (see letter to R. I. Lynch, 23 August [1877] ). Thiselton-Dyer …
- … married Harriet Anne Hooker on 23 June 1877. They had only one week of honeymoon before …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11102 |
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- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877 …
- … 1873–81: ff. 85–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Aug 1877 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … the Chelsea branch of the firm (see letter to Veitch & Sons, [before 11 August 1877] ). …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Aug 11. 1877 My dear Dyer The plants have arrived in a …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 August 1877 and n. 1. CD had asked for more plants for his …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] ). CD’s notes on his experiments with …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 August 1877 . John Smith , curator of the herbarium at …
To W. C. Williamson 24 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11206 |
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- … To W. C. Williamson 24 October [1877] …
- … 14 March 1973) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Oct [1877] William Crawford Williamson …
- … the letter from W. C. Williamson, 23 October 1877 . Williamson had sent CD specimens of …
- … in transit (see letter to W. C. Williamson, 22 October [1877] , and letter from W. …
- … C. Williamson, 23 October 1877 ). Drosera rotundifolia is the common or round-leaved …
To Albert Gaudry 28 December 1877
Summary
Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11293 |
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- … To Albert Gaudry 28 December 1877 …
- … b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Dec 1877 Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry …
- … Bibliography Gaudry, Albert. 1877. Les ruminants et leurs parents. La Revue scientifique …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Dec 28 . 1877 Dear Sir, I thank you sincerely for your never- …
- … parents’ (Ruminants and their parents; Gaudry 1877 ), appeared in La Revue scientifique de …
- … France et de l’étranger , 15 December 1877; CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
To Emil Rade 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emil Rade |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10849 |
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- … To Emil Rade 16 February 1877 …
- … DAR 202: 78 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Feb 1877 Emil Rade …
- … See letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 . Rade sent additional photographs …
- … from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 and n. 5). For a transcription and translation …
- … Feb 16 th 1877 Sir, Your magnificent album has just arrived, and I cannot find words to …
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
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- … From Asa Gray 6 March 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 194 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 6 Mar 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … fertilisation [ Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough. Has heard of …
- … Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 by John Murray ( …
- … Publishers’ Circular , 1 February 1877, p. 93). CD praised Gray’s abstract of Cross and …
- … eviscerated it’ in his letter of 18 February [1877] . Benjamin Silliman Jr was one of the …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
To Lawson Tait 15 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 15 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001 |
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- … To Lawson Tait 15 June [1877] …
- … DAR 221.5: 39 Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 15 June [1877] Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait …
- … University Press. 1985–. Tait, Lawson. 1877. Diseases of women . London: Williams and …
- … The year is established by the reference to L. Tait 1877 (see n. 2, below). …
- … See letter from Lawson Tait, 13 June [1877] and n. 2. …
- … In his recent book ( L. Tait 1877 ), Tait had acknowledged the importance of CD’s work on …
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1877. Darwin on fertilisation. Nature, 15 February 1877, pp. 329–32.
Müller, Fritz. 1877a. Beobachtungen an brasilianischen Schmetterlingen. Kosmos 1 (1877): 388–95; 2 (1877–8): 38–42, 218–24.
Penzig, Albert Julius Otto. 1877. Untersuchungen über Drosophyllum lusitanicum Lk.: Inaugural-Dissertation. [Submitted 24 September 1877.] Breslau: University of Breslau.
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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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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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- … 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…
