To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 28 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11076 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Kew on 26 July ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 [July 1877] ). …
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 July [1877] …
- … 1873–81: f. 79) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … Bibliography Lynch, Richard Irwin. 1877. Note on the blimbing ( Averrhoa bilimbi , …
- … Linn. ). [Read 21 June 1877. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 16: 231–2. …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 . Richard Irwin Lynch was foreman of the …
- … of Averrhoa bilimbi , see the first letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] , …
- … Lynch 1877 , and Movement in plants , p. 330. CD had received plants from …
To Josef Kořenský 2 April 1877
Summary
"Charles Darwin Down, Kent April 2d. 1877; With Mr Darwin’s compliments. – "
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josef Kořenský |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Museum of Czech Literature/Památník národního písemnictví (fond Varia Literární archiv) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922 |
From A. R. Wallace 3 September 1877
Summary
Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B136–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11125 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 3 September 1877 …
- … DAR 106: B136–7 Alfred Russel Wallace Ventnor 3 Sept 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 . Wallace moved to a rented house, Rosehill, …
- … Press. 1985–. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1877. The colours of animals and plants. Macmillan’s …
- … Letter to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 . In his paper on the development of colour in …
- … animals and plants ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ) Wallace concluded, in opposition to CD’s views, …
- … their disagreement, see the letter from A. R. Wallace, 23 July 1877 and n. 2. See letter …
- … Road | Ventnor, I. of Wight. Sept r 3rd. 1877 My dear Darwin Many thanks for your …
- … to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 . In the published …
- … of his paper, which came out in September 1877, Wallace characterised CD’s theory as ‘ …
- … brilliantly-coloured males’ ( A. R. Wallace 1877 , p. 400). When the paper was republished …
To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11096 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.518) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Aug [1877] George John Romanes …
- … Bibliography Cramer, Carl. 1877. Ueber die Insektenfressenden Pflanzen . Zurich: Schmidt. …
- … the letter from G. J. Romanes, 11 August 1877 . An abstract of a lecture by Romanes, ‘ …
- … at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in …
- … Nature , 19 July, 2 and 9 August 1877 ( G. J. Romanes 1877b ). CD refers to the first two …
- … Journal of Microscopical Science , April 1877 ( F. Darwin 1877b ). Dipsacus sylvestris is …
- … Munk that the digestive process in such plants was pathological ( Cramer 1877 , pp. 33–4). …
- … Two copies of Cramer 1877 are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; in one copy, CD …
- … plants , p. 366. Romanes’s letter, printed in Nature , 26 July 1877, p. 248, referred to a …
- … that had appeared in Nature , 19 July 1877, p. 227. The letter was signed E. Lawless and …
- … CD and Francis Darwin , see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. See letter …
- … from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 . Francis’s paper ‘On the protrusion of protoplasmic …
To Ernst Haeckel 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10847 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Ernst Haeckel 16 February 1877 …
- … 52/43 [9896]) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Feb 1877 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
- … and Austrian scientists, see the letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 . See …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1877 and n. 5. …
- … CD his Studien zur Gastraea-Theorie ( Haeckel 1877 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library– …
- … Down. See letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877 . See …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1877 and n. 6. …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Feb. 16— 1877 My dear Häckel The album has just arrived quite …
To Constantin James 5 July 1877
Summary
Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Constantin James |
| Date: | 5 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | James 1892, p. [V] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Constantin James 5 July 1877 …
- … James 1892, p. [V] Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July 1877 Constantin James …
- … Thanks him for his book [ Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter. …
- … Bibliography James, Constantin. 1877. Du Darwinisme ou l’homme-singe. Paris: E. Plon & …
- … Dow, Beckenham, Kent, 5 juillet 1877. M on cher M onsieur , En rentrant hier chez moi, j’ …
- … Dow, Beckenham, Kent, 5 July 1877. M y dear S ir , On returning home yesterday, I found …
- … Erasmus Darwin in Southampton on 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). James’s …
- … Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe ( James 1877 ), which blamed all the evils of the time on …
To J. V. Carus 26 March 1877
Summary
Had found out his error [use of "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" in Cross and self-fertilisation] some timeago.
Is now writing on cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all his old materials on plants. JVC will then have a rest from his labours of translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10914 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. V. Carus 26 March 1877 …
- … Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Mar 1877 Julius Victor Carus …
- … at Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station in Naples from February 1877; see letter from J. …
- … V. Carus, 20 January 1877 . …
- … cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Mar 26. 1877 My dear Sir, Many thanks for your never- …
- … See letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 and n. 2. CD reworked material from ‘ …
- … flowers , which was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Carus translated Forms of …
- … German (Carus trans. 1877e). See letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 and n. 3. Carus …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
To Édouard Heckel 20 November 1877
Summary
Thinks EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent.
Would like him to do Forms of flowers, but Reinwald is afraid to have it translated in the present political state of France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11242 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Édouard Heckel 20 November 1877 …
- … Maurice de MacMahon ; civil war seemed a possibility ( Annual register (1877): 153–66). …
- … 2011, lot 37038) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Nov 1877 Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel …
- … EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent. Would like him to do …
- … Cross and self fertilisation into French (Heckel trans. 1877). See letter from C. - …
- … F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 and n. 4. Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald did publish Heckel’s …
- … Heckel trans. 1878). Throughout November 1877, France was in the throes of a political …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877
Summary
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10990 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877 …
- … Frédéric Martins Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier 7 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from …
- … botanique de France 24 (1877): 127). A longer version was published the previous year in …
- … de | Montpellier. Montpellier, le 7 Juin 1877. Cher et illustre Maitre, Je suis hereux d’ …
- … de | Montpellier. Montpellier, 7 June 1877. Dear and illustrious Master, I am happy to …
- … to Edmond Barbier’s translation of Insectivorous plants (Barbier trans. 1877). The …
- … French edition was published in May 1877 (see letter from C. - …
- … F. Reinwald, 9 May 1877 ). The review of Insectivorous …
- … published in Feuilleton du temps , 22 May 1877, pp. 1–2; a clipping is in DAR 139.18: 14. …
- … to France in 1871 ( EB ). Martins’s paper was read at the 19 March 1877 meeting of the …
- … Académie des sciences (Martins 1877), one of five academies of the Institut de France, …
- … also given at the Société botanique de France on 23 March 1877 ( Bulletin de la Société …
From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877
Summary
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11234 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877 …
- … DAR 104: 99–100 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 13 Nov 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … London: Michael Joseph. Marsh, Othniel Charles. 1877. Address. Proceedings of the American …
- … of vertebrate life in America ( Marsh 1877 ). Hooker cited it favourably in his address to …
- … J. D. Hooker 1877a , pp. 441–2). See Marsh 1877 , pp. 230, 251–4; his argument applied to …
- … visited the Rocky Mountains in the United States earlier in 1877 ( Allan 1967 , p. 232). …
- … at the University of Cambridge on Saturday 17 November 1877. Hooker gave his presidential …
- … the Royal Society of London on 30 November 1877 ( J. D. Hooker 1877a ). As director of the …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 8 November [1877] , CD mentioned that some seeds of Mimosa …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 2. The friend has not been identified. …
- … accessed 31 October 2016). On 30 August 1877, at the annual meeting of the American …
To Alphonse de Candolle 10 October 1877
Summary
AdeC’s two letters on bloom will be very useful; his remarks on evaporation and absorption seem very just. CD has made few experiments as yet. The investigation has been tedious and difficult.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11176 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Alphonse de Candolle 10 October 1877 …
- … Candolle (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Oct 1877 Alphonse de Candolle …
- … See letters from Alphonse de Candolle , 14 August 1877 and …
- … 8 October 1877 . Francis Darwin and CD were working …
- … together on bloom on plants; see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. …
- … See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 8 October 1877 . …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Oct 10. 1877 My dear Sir, I thank you cordially for …
To T. H. Farrer 27 August [1877]
Summary
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11114 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … H. Farrer, 23 September 1877 ). …
- … To T. H. Farrer 27 August [1877] …
- … 299/26) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Aug [1877] Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st …
- … this letter and the letter from T. H. Farrer, 26 August 1877 . See letter from T. …
- … H. Farrer, 26 August 1877 and n. 1. Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Farrer was Farrer’ …
- … was her mother. In his letter of 26 August 1877 , Farrer had mentioned that he could not …
- … the following week; he was away from 27 August to 5 September 1877 (see letter from T. …
To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877] …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 805 …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down [6–12 Dec 1877] Maxwell Tylden Masters …
- … letter from M. T. Masters, [13 December 1877] . When Masters published this part of CD’ …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, pp. 805–6), he added the species name of the …
- … specimen to be identified (see letters from M. T. Masters, [before 13 December 1877] and [ …
- … 13 December 1877] ). Cotyledon is a genus in the family Crassulaceae; Echeveria was …
- … in Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 807, and was made from the specimen that CD …
From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877]
Summary
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11004 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877] …
- … D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 George John Romanes unstated 16 June [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has …
- … s review of Grant Allen’s Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ; see letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] and n. 7). …
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
- … between this letter and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . See letter to G. …
- … J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . CD had commented on Romanes’s notes on the effect of …
- … 1859 . See letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 and enclosure. On CD’s and Alfred Russel …
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 124 Raphael Meldola Atlas Works, Hackney 20 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on the colours of animals and plants [ Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71]. …
- … Macmillan’s Magazine ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ). Wallace had sent CD a copy of his September …
- … article (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 , and letter from A. …
- … R. Wallace, 3 September 1877 ); Wallace had long criticised CD’s theory of sexual …
- … to colour and ornamentation (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 23 July 1877 and n. 2). …
- … 1802–1967. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1877. The colours of animals and plants. Macmillan’s …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1. The address 21 John Street, Bedford …
To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
| Date: | 5 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877] …
- … DAR 146: 355 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July [1877] Thomas Meehan …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Thomas Meehan, 1 July 1877 . See …
- … letter from Thomas Meehan, 1 July 1877 ; Meehan enclosed his review of …
- … Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ). Forms of flowers was published on 9 July ( …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. …
To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877]
Summary
As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Date: | [before 1 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11027 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877] …
- … Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … unstated [before 1 July 1877] Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas …
- … from his experiments? ’ ’In Espinas 1877 , p. 47, Espinas wrote that CD attributed the …
- … Bibliography Espinas, Alfred. 1877. Des sociétés animales: étude de psychologie comparée. …
- … this letter and the letter from Alfred Espinas, 1 July 1877 . There is an annotated copy …
- … étude de psychologie comparée ( Espinas 1877 ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … back of the book. In his notes on Espinas 1877 , CD wrote, ‘54 Actions performed without …
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Summary
CD regrets not being able to see JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877] …
- … 95: 439 Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 21 Apr [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the Royal Society of London 26 (1877): 163). The Royal Society annual …
- … conversazione took place at Burlington House on Wednesday 25 April 1877 ( Nature , …
- … 3 May 1877, p. 16); the card CD refers to was probably an invitation to the event. …
- … n. 3, below). Casimir de Candolle had arrived in England in January 1877 (see letter from …
- … Alphonse de Candolle, January 1877 ). The enclosure has not been found. …
- … CD visited London from 20 to 28 April 1877, staying first with his daughter and son-in- …
- … Royal Society of London on Thursday 26 April 1877 was chaired by Hooker ( Proceedings of …
From L. E. Becker 16 January 1877
Summary
Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10792 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From L. E. Becker 16 January 1877 …
- … DAR 160: 120 Lydia Ernestine Becker Manchester 16 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … cut from the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , 15 January 1877, p. 7. …
- … to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877] (a reprinted version appeared in the Manchester …
- … Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , 12 January 1877, p. 3). …
- … s Row, Albert Square, Manchester. Jan y 16—1877 With Miss Becker’s compliments. HOLLY …
- … spring accounts for it. —Yours. &c. , | W. E. BURCHAM. Failsworth, January 13th, 1877. …
To G. C. Robertson 13 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 13 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11052 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To G. C. Robertson 13 July [1877] …
- … DAR 147: 327 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 July [1877] George Croom Robertson …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … the editor of Mind . Emile Alglave. See letter to G. C. Robertson, 24 June [1877] . See …
- … letter from Ernst Krause, 9 July 1877 . Robertson himself had forwarded such a request to …
- … CD; see letter to G. C. Robertson, 22 June [1877] , and letter from …
- … Max Schlesinger, 4 July 1877 . …
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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…
Matches: 28 hits
- … , 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…
