To Asa Gray 8 July [1872]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s book, How plants behave [see 8363].
Is correcting proofs of Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8402 |
From John Tyndall 23 February [1871]
Summary
Has devised a respirator for firemen by moistening cotton wool with glycerine and adding charcoal. JT suggests the nose with its hairs and mucus is a respirator that would give protection against diseases caused by floating particles. The presence of hair and mucus is thus explained by CD’s theory.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7508 |
Leifchild, John Roby. 1872. The higher ministry of nature viewed in the light of modern science, and as an aid to advanced Christian philosophy. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Ferrier, David. 1872. The constant occurrence of Sarcina ventriculi (Goodsir) in the blood of man and the lower animals: with remarks on the nature of sarcinous vomiting. British Medical Journal, 27 January 1872, pp. 98–9.
From Anton Dohrn 21 August 1872
Summary
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8481 |
Hirn, Gustave-Adolphe. 1872. Mémoire sur les conditions d’équilibre et sur la nature probable des anneaux de Saturne. Paris: Gaulthier-Villars.
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 October 1871]
Summary
On Huxley’s article for Contemporary Review [see 7977] confuting Mivart. It has cheered him,
for he is very low about his mother’s state.
Is also in detestable position with "my lord and master", A. S. Ayrton. JDH has denounced him to the [First] Lord of the Treasury [W. E. Gladstone] for his conduct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Oct 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 80–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7981 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 October [1869]
Summary
Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6930 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1872
Summary
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8136 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 January [1873]
Summary
Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.
Asks for a Drosophyllum.
Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,
Greg’s Enigmas,
and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 243–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8726 |
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- … On Hooker’s dispute with Ayrton, see Nature , 11 July 1872, pp. 211–16; L. Huxley ed. …
- … nature: Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Greg, William Rathbone. 1872. …
- … Nature , 2 January 1873, p. 168, recorded that the Académie royale de Belgique had elected Hooker an associate member ‘as their contribution to the Kew controversies’ (see n. 6, above). Daniel Oliver . CD’s annotated copy of Candolle 1873 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; he had received it from Alphonse de Candolle in 1872 ( …
From John Ball 31 January [1872]
Summary
Expands on a letter to Nature concerning the probability of the survival of a new variety in a given species. Differs with [F. Jenkin’s] argument, to which CD had agreed to a greater extent than JB feels it deserved.
| Author: | John Ball |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 196–201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8190 |
Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1872. The beginnings of life: being some account of the nature, modes of origin and transformations of lower organisms. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1871
Summary
Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8046 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1873
Summary
Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.
Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.
Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].
Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.
JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.
Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 140–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8727 |
Douglas, A. J. (1839–98)
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- … and human nature . London: Strahan & Co. , Publishers, 1872. Cupples, George, Mrs. …
- … 1872. Cupples, Anne Jane. A Book about House Work. A convenient manual for mistresses and maids, etc. London: Simpkin, 1877. Cupples, Anne Jane. Terrapin Island; or, Adventures with the “Gleam." Edinburgh; London: Gall & Inglis, [1876]. Cupples, George, Mrs. Tappy’s chicks: and other links between nature …
From A. S. Packard Jr 1 August 1872
Summary
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
| Author: | Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8445 |
From Roland Trimen 13 April 1872
Summary
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8285 |
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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Evolutionary views of human nature
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From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major international research project 'Exploring Evolutionary Views of Human Nature through Darwin’s Correspondence'. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…
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- … From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Human Nature
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The early 1870s were a turning point in the global debate about human evolution, with deep implications for science, colonial expansion, industrial progress, religious belief, and ethical and philosophical debate. Darwin’s correspondence from this period…
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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
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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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … This term is the plain expression of the facts,—Nat. selection is a metaphorical …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … < Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in …
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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A tale of two bees
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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … In the unseasonably warm weather of March 2012, one of the Darwin Correspondence Project editors …
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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New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
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Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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