To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877]
Summary
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Date: | 9 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11044 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877] …
- … Collections and Preservation Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 July [1877] Lewis Henry Morgan …
- … 404–5. Morgan had sent CD a copy of his Ancient society ( Morgan 1877 ; see letter to L. …
- … H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 ). Morgan had visited Down on 9 June 1871 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient society, or, researches in the …
- … between this letter and the letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . See letter from L. …
- … H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . …
- … In his letter of 26 June 1877 , Morgan had criticised Herbert Spencer’s views on the …
- … in Popular Science Monthly ( Spencer 1877 ). CD made the same point in ‘Recollections’ , …
- … Williams and Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1877. On the evolution of the family. Popular …
From R. F. Cooke 5 January 1877
Summary
Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.
1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 484 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10771 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From R. F. Cooke 5 January 1877 …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 5 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 1 February 1877, p. 93). Orchids 2d US ed. …
- … was published by D. Appleton & Co . on 3 March 1877 ( Publishers’ Weekly , …
- … 3 March 1877, p. 288). On John Murray’s annual November sale dinner, at which major …
- … a discount, see J. Murray 1908–9 , p. 540. The 1877 reprint of Descent 2d ed. had ‘Twelfth …
- … edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d US ed. : The various contrivances …
- … insects . By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. …
- … he was in London from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). He evidently …
- … and about the reprint of Descent 2d ed. The 1877 reprint of Descent 2d ed. contained a …
From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877
Summary
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 241 Lewis Henry Morgan Rochester, N.Y. 26 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Rochester, New York. June 26 th . 1877 My Dear Sir, It gave me great pleasure to receive …
- … See letter to L. H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 . Morgan had visited CD at Down on 9 June 1871 ( …
- … Spencer 1876–96 ) was published in January 1877, although it carried a publication …
- … date of 1876 ( Publishers’ Circular (1877): 17). The two-part article ‘On the evolution of …
- … Smithsonian Institution. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient society, or, researches in the …
- … Williams and Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1877. On the evolution of the family. Popular …
- … of kinship through females, see Morgan 1877 , pp. 511–16. For more on McLennan’s ethnology …
- … issues of Popular Science Monthly ( Spencer 1877 ); the journal was published in New York …
- … by D. Appleton & Co . Morgan 1877 ; CD had received a copy of the book (see letter to L. …
- … H. Morgan, 9 June 1877 and n. 1). On the reception of Spencer in America, see Lightman …
- … gens, phratry, tribe, and confederacy ( Morgan 1877 , pp. 62–3). A gens or ‘gentile’ was a …
- … and Tibetan forms of polyandry, see Morgan 1877 , pp. 516–17. On familial structure in the …
- … Spencer 1876–96 , 1: 698, and Spencer 1877 , p. 129. For more on the Veddas (or Wanniyala- …
- … sisters from the marriage relation ( Morgan 1877 , pp. 384, 424–28); the Punaluan family, …
- … Spencer 1876–96 , 1: 698, and Spencer 1877 , p. 129). Spencer discussed John Ferguson …
From C.-F. Reinwald 15 February 1877
Summary
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10846 |
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- … From C. -F. Reinwald 15 February 1877 …
- … DAR 176: 104 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 15 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Insectivorous plants was made by Edmond Barbier ; it was published in 1877 (Barbier trans. …
- … 1877). Richard Gordon’s …
- … French translation of Climbing plants was published in 1877 (R. …
- … Gordon trans. 1877). …
- … Paris. Febr. 15 th . 1877 To Charles Darwin Esq. | Down, Beckenham | Kent Cher Monsieur …
- … Marie Heckel’s French translation of Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877) was …
- … published in 1877. See Correspondence vol. 24, letter from E. M. …
- … Paris. Febr. 15 th . 1877 To Charles Darwin Esq. | Down, Beckenham | Kent Dear Sir …
To C. G. Semper 18 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Date: | 18 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11061 |
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- … To C. G. Semper 18 July 1877 …
- … Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)]. …
- … Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 July 1877 Carl Gottfried Semper …
- … See letter from C. G. Semper, 13 July 1877 . Semper had sent CD his Über Sehorgane von …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. ) July 18 th . 1877 My dear Sir I received safely this morning …
From W. E. Gladstone 23 October 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
| Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11202 |
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- … From W. E. Gladstone 23 October 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 50 William Ewart Gladstone Kilruddery 23 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … German translation of his ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’ ( Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76). …
- … Gladstone 1858 and Gladstone 1877 . Coollatin, near Shillelagh, county Wicklow, was the …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … University Press. Gladstone, William Ewart. 1877. The colour-sense. Nineteenth Century 2: …
- … Ireland from 17 October to 12 November 1877, during which time he stayed with Brabazon ( …
- … See letter to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 . CD had offered to send copies of Kosmos …
Moore, F. 1877. The Lepidopterous fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [Read 19 June 1877.] Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London (1877):580–632.
Romanes, George John. 1877b. Evolution of nerves and nervous systems. Nature, 19 July 1877, pp. 231–3, 2 August 1877, pp. 269–71, 9 August 1877, pp. 289–93.
Weale, James Philip Mansel. 1877. On the variation of rhopalocerous forms in South Africa. [Read 4 July 1877.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1877): 265–75.
Galton, Francis. 1877b. Typical laws of heredity. Nature, 5 April 1877, pp. 492–5; 12 April 1877, pp. 512–14; 19 April 1877, pp. 532–3.
Henslow, George. 1877b. The fertilisation of plants. [Review of Cross and self fertilisation.] Gardeners’ Chronicle, 13 January 1877, p. 42; 3 February 1877, p. 139; 17 February 1877, pp. 203–4.
Wood-Mason, James. 1877. Note on Mygale stridulans. [Read 5 September 1877.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1877): 281–2.
Lesquereux, Leo. 1877. Land plants, recently discovered in the Silurian rocks of the United States. [Read 19 October 1877.] Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17 (1877–8): 163–73.
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
| Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 25 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
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- … From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877 …
- … Cato Hoek Netherlands Zoological Society Station 25 June 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson …
- … Netherlands Zoological Society. June 25 1877. To Sir C. Wyville Thompson. F.R.S. etc. …
- … 6: 195–9. Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1877. Ueber Pycnogoniden. Niederländisches Archiv …
- … Duncan was published in Nature , 14 June 1877, pp. 118–19. Thomson had been criticised by …
- … letter from P. L. Sclater, 2 June 1877 ). Pycnogonida is a class of marine arthropods ( …
- … North-Atlantic Expedition in 1876 ( Sars 1877 ; see Christiansen 1993 , p. 146). George …
- … species of Pycnogonida in Hodge 1864 . Hoek 1877 . Hoek sent a copy of this letter to CD, …
- … letter from Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek [ c. 24 June 1877], and letter from C. …
- … W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ). …
- … 3 (1876–7): 235–54. Sars, Georg Ossian. 1877. Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et …
To Ludwig Noiré 8 August 1877
Summary
CD sends his thanks for LN’s book [Der Ursprung der Sprache] and for the obliging words on the title page.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ludwig Noiré |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11095F |
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- … To Ludwig Noiré 8 August 1877 …
- … Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Aug 1877 Ludwig Noiré …
- … Bibliography Noiré, Ludwig. 1877. Der Ursprung der Sprache. Mainz: Victor von Zabern. …
- … Station | Orpington. S. E.R. ) Augt 8 th 1877 Dear Sir I am very much obliged to you for …
- … Sprache (The origin of language; Noiré 1877 ); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. An …
- … in the Science of Mind is dedicated. | Mayence o /Rh. Aug 3 1877 | Prof. D r . Noiré. ’ …
To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877]
Summary
Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) Moleschott |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Laage 1980, p. 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267A |
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- … To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877] …
- … 1980, p. 106 Charles Robert Darwin Down [2 Dec 1877] Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) …
- … Bibliography Moleschott, Jacob. 1877. Der Kreislauf des Lebens . Vol. 1. 5th edition. …
- … Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877). …
- … Kreislauf des Lebens (The cycle of life; Moleschott 1877 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877
Summary
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11103 |
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- … From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877 …
- … E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 George John Romanes Dunskaith 11 Aug 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93. ] Did not know …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] . CD had queried Romanes’s analogy between …
- … see letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 3). In a letter to Nature , Romanes …
- … as Mr Lawless (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 4). See letter …
- … Dunskaith, Ross-shire: August 11, 1877. I was very pleased to get your long and genial …
- … over the ambulacra (see T. H. Huxley 1877 , p. 574). Romanes may refer to Grant Allen , …
- … from G. J. Romanes, [after 8 January 1877] and n. 5. Romanes was performing a number of …
- … to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 5. Ferdinand Julius Cohn had confirmed Francis …
- … letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 6). Francis had observed the presence of …
- … see letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] ) and nn. 7 and 8). Aurelia aurita (moon …
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
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- … From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877? ] …
- … Dalton Hooker and a paper by him (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 October 1877] and n. 4). …
- … DAR 274.1: 45 Francis Darwin [28 Oct 1877? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD was in London from 26 to 29 October 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The proofs …
- … castor-oil plant), along with other plants, from Kew on 3 July 1877 ( letter to W. T. …
- … Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] and n. 2). Nutation is the term used to describe the …
- … a copper rod in London around 24 October 1877 (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
- … Litchfield, [ c. 25 October 1877] (DAR 219.9: 167). Evidently, the iron rod proved …
- … letter from Leonard Darwin, 28 November 1877 and n. 2), probably in order to distinguish …
From A. W. Malm 21 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for Origin, 6th ed.
| Author: | August Wilhelm Malm |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11285 |
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- … From A. W. Malm 21 December 1877 …
- … 171: 34 August Wilhelm Malm Nat. Hist. Mus. , Göteborg 21 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … paper) 1–28. Malm, August Wilhelm. 1877. Göteborgs och Bohusläns fauna, ryggradsdjuren . …
- … Translation from Swedish of Malm 1877, pp. 26–49. ] Archiv für Naturgeschichte 44: 129–61. …
- … seu Biblia hodierna; both dated 30 Januar 1877. My Fauna Bahusid is just printed, and I …
- … See letter from A. W. Malm, 26 January 1877 and n. 3. Malm had asked CD where CD had …
- … with much respect | and kind regards, — | Jan. 30th. 1877. —’ CD’s copy of Göteborgs …
- … Gothenburg and Bohuslän fauna, vertebrates; Malm 1877 ) is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … Malm refers to CD’s theory (see Malm 1877 , pp. 13–14). CD’s son George Howard Darwin had …
- … published a section of Malm’s book ( Malm 1877 , pp. 26–49) in German translation as ‘Die …
- … from the original Swedish version ( Malm 1877 , pp. 31–44; see also Malm 1878 , pp. 136– …
To James Croll 9 August 1877
Summary
Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Croll |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 356 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11097 |
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- … To James Croll 9 August 1877 …
- … DAR 143: 356 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Aug 1877 James Croll …
- … Bibliography Croll, James. 1877. On the probable origin and age of the sun. Quarterly …
- … on the earth’s axis of rotation ( Croll 1877 , p. 324; see also G. H. Darwin 1876b ). …
- … Down, Beckenham, | Kent Aug. 9, 1877. My dear Sir, I am much obliged for your essay which …
- … probable origin and age of the sun’ ( Croll 1877 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
- … required for aerial denudation (see Croll 1877 , pp. 313–14). Croll had theorised that the …
- … heat for fifty million years ( Croll 1877 , p. 319). In his paper, Croll had referred to …
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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…
