From J. E. Taylor 25 June 1878
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his book [Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes and colours (1878)].
| Author: | John Ellor Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11566 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. E. Taylor 25 June 1878 …
- … DAR 202: 124 John Ellor Taylor Ipswich Museum 25 June 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Sends CD a copy of his book [ Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes and colours (1878)]. …
- … A copy of Taylor 1878 is in the Darwin Library–Down; CD’s works are discussed throughout …
To A. F. Gray 21 May [1878]
Summary
Thanks AFG for his interesting communication. Has sent it to Nature for publication [see 11497].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Fairfield Gray |
| Date: | 21 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11521 |
From Anthony Rich 29 December 1878
Summary
He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.12: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11810 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Anthony Rich 29 December 1878 …
- … DAR 210.12: 9 Anthony Rich Heene 29 Dec 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Cantab. ). Thomas Henry Huxley visited Rich on 27 and 28 December 1878 (see letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 28 December 1878 ). …
- … Chappell Croft | Heene, Worthing Dec r . 29. 1878 My dear M r . Darwin, Now we are old …
- … to visit in the spring (see letter from Anthony Rich, 25 December 1878 , and letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 29 December 1878 ). George Howard Darwin visited Rich on 8 and 9 January 1879 ( …
To James Torbitt 4 March 1878
Summary
No use in thinking about Royal Agricultural Society. William Carruthers, botanist of Society, thinks attempt hopeless. T. H. Farrer and James Caird are thinking of application to Government. Makes suggestions about experiments [on potatoes].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11399 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To James Torbitt 4 March 1878 …
- … 99 Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 4 Down letterhead 4 Mar 1878 James Torbitt …
- … Down, Monday, Mar. 4, 1878 Dear Sir I have nothing good to report. Mr. Caird called upon …
- … letter from T. H. Farrer, 28 February 1878 ). William Carruthers’s objections to Torbitt’s …
- … from James Caird to T. H. Farrer, 2 March 1878 ; Carruthers’s memorandum has not been …
- … See letter from James Caird to T. H. Farrer, 2 March 1878 and n. 4. Joseph Dalton Hooker . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 March 1878 . See letter to T. …
- … H. Farrer, 2 March 1878 . CD had pledged £100 to enable Torbitt …
- … season (see letter to James Torbitt, 1 March 1878 ). In April 1876, Torbitt had sent CD a …
From W. M. Hacon 20 December 1878
Summary
Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11800 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From W. M. Hacon 20 December 1878 …
- … 166: 18 William Mackmurdo Hacon London, Fenchurch St, 18 20 Dec 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Street, | London. | E.C. 20 th Dec r . 1878 My dear Sir I have received your letter of …
- … CD’s letter has not been found; he sent Rich’s letters of 7 December 1878 and …
- … 10 December 1878 . CD had made a second codicil to his will in March (see …
- … letter from W. M. Hacon, 19 March 1878 ). In …
- … his letter to Rich of 12 December 1878 , CD mentioned that he expected to leave his will …
To Raphael Meldola 12 June [1878]
Summary
Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 12 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11551 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Raphael Meldola 12 June [1878] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 June [1878] Raphael Meldola …
- … on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)]. …
- … 27 (1876): 51–112; 28 (1877): 93–254; 30 (suppl. 1878): 123–65; 33 (1880): 55–270. …
- … the letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 June 1878 . CD had received August Weismann’s third …
- … Weismann’s other essays, see the letter from Raphael Meldola, 2 January [1878] and n. 3. …
To Francis Darwin 5 [June 1878]
Summary
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [June 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11303 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 5 [June 1878] …
- … DAR 211: 22 Charles Robert Darwin unstated 5 [June 1878] Francis Darwin …
- … observe the viscid threads in seeds sent by Cohn; see letter to F. J. Cohn, 5 June 1878 . …
- … and the letter to F. J. Cohn, 5 June 1878 . CD enclosed a letter from Ferdinand Julius …
- … found; see letter to F. J. Cohn, 5 June 1878 . In 1861, CD had published his observations …
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878]
Summary
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878] …
- … Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Mar [1878] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … vol. 26, letter from James Caird to T. H. Farrer, 2 March 1878 ). See Correspondence vol. …
- … 26, letter from James Torbitt, 6 March 1878 . CD had enclosed a cheque for £100 to enable …
- … could not be obtained. See Correspondence vol. 26, letter to T. H. Farrer, 13 March 1878 . …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 March 1878 ( Correspondence vol. 26). The enclosure has …
- … vol. 26, letter to T. H. Farrer, 7 March 1878 and enclosure). CD had been working with …
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878 …
- … DAR 104: 103–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 2 Mar 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to obtain a grant from the government (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1878] ). …
- … in his letter to Hooker of 28 [February 1878] . Hooker had visited Down from 9 to 12 …
- … H. E. Litchfield to Ida Farrer, 4 February 1878 (DAR 258: 1635); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … of blight-resistant potatoes (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 28 [February 1878] and [ …
- … 1 March 1878] ). On the introduction of Liberian coffee to British colonies in Ceylon (Sri …
From Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 28 April 1878
Summary
Sends the first part [of Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)], which explains the coral reefs of the Triassic in terms of CD’s theory and discusses the imperfection of the geological record.
| Author: | Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11487 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 28 April 1878 …
- … von Mojsvár Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna 28 Apr 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)], which explains the coral reefs of the …
- … fossil record, see Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 1878–9 , pp. 7–9. Mojsisovics von Mojsvár was …
- … Reichsanstalt. Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, Edmund. 1878–9. Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol …
- … Rasumoffskygasse 3. | Vienna, April 28 th . | 1878. Dear Sir! I have taken the liberty, to …
- … Tyrol and Veneto; Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 1878–9 ) was being published in parts. There are …
From Francis Darwin [before 17 July 1878]
Summary
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11613 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [before 17 July 1878] …
- … 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52 Francis Darwin Würzburg [before 17 July 1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … makers ( letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ). Francis wrote the comment at the top …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] . Francis had recently sent CD a …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). Oxalis latifolia (broadleaf wood sorrel), O. …
- … way ( letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). In Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 98, CD …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [22 June 1878] ). Francis had observed that a Porlieria twig …
- … see letter from Francis Darwin, [29 June] 1878 and n. 3). He later noticed morphological …
- … see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] and n. 3). CD found the difference in …
- … letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] ). CD had reported his success in testing the …
- … radicles ( letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] and n. 3). CD had suggested giving his …
From B. J. Sulivan [14–20] April [1878]
Summary
Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14–20] Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11459 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From B. J. Sulivan [14–20] April [1878] …
- … 177: 304 Bartholomew James Sulivan Bournemouth [14–20] Apr [1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … was Philip Walpole Hamond ; he died in Gibraltar before November 1878 (see letter from B. …
- … J. Sulivan, 3 November 1878 ). Henry Norton Sulivan …
- … had married Grace Mary Griffin on 9 April 1878 ( England, select marriages, 1538–1973 ( …
- … and the letter to B. J. Sulivan, 22 April 1878 . The date range is established by the …
- … American Missionary Magazine , 1 February 1878, pp. 32–3, had listed orphans in need of …
- … wife Loocoīliceepa ( ibid . , 1 February 1878, p. 32, 1 October 1879, p. 223). They were …
- … stationed in Gibraltar ( Navy list 1878). He had married Janetta Tucker , daughter of …
From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878]
Summary
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878] …
- … DAR 274.1: 48 Francis Darwin - [after 14 July 1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] . CD wished to give his typewriter …
- … see letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] and n. 11). Francis had initially asked CD …
- … could order a machine for himself (see letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). …
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1878
Summary
Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 350 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11582 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1878 …
- … DAR 166: 350 Thomas Henry Huxley South Kensington 2 July 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … University, visited Europe in the summer of 1878; Marsh had first met Huxley in 1862 ( …
- … after a dangerous bout of diphtheria (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 8 June 1878 ). …
- … July 2. 1878 South Kensington My dear Darwin My friend Marsh of Yale is over here & wants …
To G. J. Romanes 16 June [1878]
Summary
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 16 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11555 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To G. J. Romanes 16 June [1878] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.537) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 June [1878] George John Romanes …
- … to test CD’s hypothesis of pangenesis (see letters to G. J. Romanes, 9 April [1878] and n. …
- … 4, and 13 May [1878] ). CD was conducting experiments on the movement of the common pea ( …
- … and the letter from G. J. Romanes, 18 June 1878 . No earlier exchange of letters about the …
- … the Advancement of Science in Dublin on 16 August 1878 ( Report of the 48th meeting of the …
- … Association for the Advancement of Science (1878): lxxv; G. J. Romanes 1878b ). Francis …
To Asa Gray 17 February [1878]
Summary
Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11364 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Asa Gray 17 February [1878] …
- … Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Feb [1878] Asa Gray …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 3 February 1878 . See …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 3 February 1878 . Hyacinth Hooker stayed at Down with her baby, …
- … E. Litchfield to Ida Farrer, 4 February 1878 ; DAR 258: 1635). According to Emma Darwin’ …
- … diary (DAR 242), Joseph Dalton Hooker visited Down on 9 February 1878 and he and his wife …
- … left together on 12 February 1878. CD had written to Gray about …
- … flax) in his letter of 21 [and 22] January 1878 . Thomas Meehan had written in a letter …
From A. F. Gray 8 May [1878]
Summary
Found a live mussel attached to a blue-winged teal’s foot. Had the bird not been shot, the mussel might have been transported miles.
| Author: | Arthur Fairfield Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 May 1878, p. 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11497 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From A. F. Gray 8 May [1878] …
- … Nature , 30 May 1878, p. 121 Arthur Fairfield …
- … Gray Danversport, Mass. 8 May [1878] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by CD (see letter to A. F. Gray, 21 May [1878] ). In Origin , p. 385, CD described an …
- … made of it for publication in Nature , 30 May 1878, p. 121; this image is reproduced here. …
- … See also letter to Nature , [21? May 1878]. The shell, together with the duck’s foot, is …
From B. J. Sulivan 10 May 1878
Summary
Scheme for Jemmy Button’s grandson has fallen through, as he has already been "adopted".
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11501 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From B. J. Sulivan 10 May 1878 …
- … DAR 177: 305 Bartholomew James Sulivan Bournemouth 10 May 1878 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Sulivan for ‘J. Button grandson’ on 22 April 1878 has been crossed out, probably by CD on …
- … Account books–cash account (Down House MS)). See letter to B. J. Sulivan, 22 April 1878 . …
- … See letter from B. J. Sulivan, [14–20] April [1878] , and letter to B. …
- … J. Sulivan, 22 April 1878 . Jemmy Button, whose Yahgan name was Orundellico, had been …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1878]
Summary
Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 148–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11682 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1878] …
- … 1873–81: 148–9) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Aug [1878] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 August [1878] . CD had returned the plant as he was afraid of …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 August [1878] . CD had received Oxalis carnosa (a synonym of …
- … O. magellanica , fleshy sorrel) from Kew in February 1878 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 February 1878 and n. 2). …
- … this species was sent to CD on 4 September 1878 ( Outwards book , p. 470, Archives, Royal …
To R. A. Blair 14 April 1878
Summary
Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.
Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reuben Almond Blair |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11475 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To R. A. Blair 14 April 1878 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.535) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Apr 1878 Reuben Almond Blair …
- … suffered the original injury ( letter from W. H. Flower, 12 April 1878 ). Letter from W. …
- … H. Flower, 12 April 1878 . Blair’s first letter has not been found, but for CD’s reply to …
- … letter to W. H. Flower, 25 February 1878 ). CD enclosed Flower’s conclusions ( letter from …
- … W. H. Flower, 12 April 1878 ) with this letter. In the file with this letter in the …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Ap. 14. 1878 Dear Sir, You will think that I have …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
Matches: 29 hits
- … is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his …
- … scientific man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1878] ). Writing to Ernst Haeckel on …
- … plants.’ Movement in plants In the spring of 1878, Darwin started to focus on the …
- … come up arched’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 24 March [1878–80] ). While Darwin was studying the …
- … of apex’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [11 May 1878] ). Having found plants responsive to …
- … at my blunder’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 22 December [1878] ). Son abroad Darwin’s …
- … kind to him’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June [1878] ). While Francis was away, Darwin …
- … work, I scribble to you ( letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] ). Two weeks later he wrote: ‘I …
- … to discuss it with’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 20 [July 1878] ). It is unclear why the …
- … reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ): ‘The oats have only just begun to …
- … Francis wrote ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 17 July 1878] ), ‘a strong horizontal axis …
- … rather’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 3 August 1878] ). One day Francis observed that the …
- … out one’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July 1878] ). Sachs’s confidence was apparently …
- … him,’ he reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [22 June 1878] ). ‘Sachs doesn’t consider that …
- … all evils’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [24 and 25 July 1878] ). Babies and animals …
- … he added a week later ( letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ). Darwin had of course observed …
- … have said a gee-gee’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). On 12 September , Darwin …
- … will always do so’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 August [1878] ). Darwin remarked that a monkey …
- … in your house!’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 2 September [1878] ). More remarkable cases of …
- … of a thieving wasp’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 21 June 1878 ). An inspiration In …
- … ( letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878 ). Despite his many botanical …
- … to me quite ridiculous’ ( letter to John Price, 2 April [1878] ). When a wealthy businessman tried …
- … ( letter from Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, 28 April 1878 ). ‘What a wonderful change in the …
- … The Swiss botanist Arnold Dodel-Port announced on 12 June 1878 the first issue of an atlas with …
- … come together’ ( letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 18 June 1878 ). In countries where …
- … are without you’ (letters from Carl Kraus, [31?] January 1878 and 10 February 1878 ). Darwin …
- … been school-boys’ ( letter to Karl von Scherzer, 1 April 1878 ). More critics Closer …
- … matter’ ( letter from H. N. Ridley, [before 28 November 1878] ). Darwin received a copy of the …
- … care of himself ’ ( letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 ). Darwin did not think the Oxford …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
Summary
Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5 April 1878 . Müller was a German naturalist …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … specimen, both sides of which are reproduced, 29 January 1878 S. B. J. Skertchly's …
Power of movement in plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … when he took his photographs. This one must be before August 1878, when it was reproduced as a …
- … copies in the Darwin archive say the photograph was taken in 1878. The latter date is accepted by …
- … Leonard wrote to his father from Brompton Barracks in April 1878 enclosing two photographs …
- … of the photograph at Down House that he took it in 1878. It was this photograph which …
- … date of creation undated; probably early 1878 computer-readable date c.1878-01-01 to c …
- … to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. Woodburytype reproduction of …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
Summary
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…
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … son Francis worked in this laboratory in the summers of 1878 and 1879, he encountered some of the …
- … Movement in plants , p. 179. In May 1878, Darwin had pointed out the importance of …
- … his experiments on the function of bloom. By December 1878, Darwin was thinking about the …
- … accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December 1878 ). The method would be expensive, so Darwin …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … experiments. Francis went to Germany in the summer of 1878 for more experience in physiological …
- … this to you’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [1 August 1878] ). The last years also saw Darwin …
- … and Earthworms , pp. 221–8). Darwin resumed contact in 1878. On receiving Darwin’s letter, …
- … at wormbs”’ ( letter from Mary Johnson, [after 22 July 1878] ). Edition complete …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Leonard Darwin to George Darwin, 8 February [1878] Darwin’s youngest son, Leonard (Lenny), …
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
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1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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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- … A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, Murray was ready to print the second …
4.30 'La Petite Lune', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction La Petite Lune was a sister paper of La Lune Rousse, and was published, edited and illustrated by André Gill, through 1878-9. It featured a series of caricatures titled ‘Les hommes illustrés’, to which this belongs. Gill again…
4.33 'Harper's Weekly', Bellew caricature
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< Back to Introduction In a page of comic drawings by Frank Bellew, ostensibly his ‘Sketches in the New York Aquarium’, yet another joke about Darwin’s simian connections makes an appearance. ‘The Chimpanzee’ sits on a fancy bed amid the straw…
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
