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Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … than a small group of curious letters written to his 'Dear Friend' in 1821 (published in …
Durham College
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Appointment at Durham
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- … A Cambridge friend sends news of his appointment at the newly-formed college in Durham. …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … University Library. It is inscribed: 'J. S. Henslow to his friend C. Darwin on his departure …
Variation under domestication
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A fascination with domestication Throughout his working life, Darwin retained an interest in the history, techniques, practices, and processes of domestication. Artificial selection, as practiced by plant and…
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- … Livestock Journal and Fancier’s Gazette , and his close friend Asa Gray , head of the botany …
A beginning, & that is something: To J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869]
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Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker after finishing corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869.
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- … Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker after finishing …
3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … to the American botanist Asa Gray, who had become a valued friend, thanking Gray for his photograph …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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Darwin on human evolution
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'I hear that Ladies think it delightful reading, but that it does not do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale.' For the first time online you can now read the full texts of nearly 800 letters Darwin wrote and received during 1871,…
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- … 5000 more copies were published during the year. Darwin's friend Joseph Dalton Hooker commented …
Leonard Jenyns
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When Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage there was no-one available to describe the fish that he had collected. At Darwin’s request Jenyns, a friend from Cambridge days, took on the challenge. It was not an easy one: at that time Jenyns had only worked…
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- … When Captain FitzRoy approached his friend George Peacock, then a Fellow of Trinity College, to …
Barmouth, Wales
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'Mad about geology'
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- … Letters exchanged with a Shrewsbury and Cambridge friend about Darwin's geological field trip …
2.9 Legros medallion, plaster model
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< Back to Introduction This plaster model for Legros’s bronze medallion of Darwin has an interesting provenance. It originally belonged to William Ernest Henley, the poet, journal editor and art critic, who was a close friend and associate of Legros.…
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2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … was not a public commission. It was Darwin’s close friend Joseph Hooker who raised the idea of an …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
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Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
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Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … viewed with suspicion. They were first championed as the friend of gardeners and farmers by the …
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately …
22 Cecil Street, London
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Helping a Cambridge friend
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- … A Cambridge friend tells of his financial problems and Darwin assists him. …
Frances Power Cobbe
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Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
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- … and energy, 'a source of endless enjoyment'. Darwin's friend Joseph Dalton Hooker …
