To Rudolph Heine 16 March [1865]
Summary
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rudolph Heine |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786F |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [29 March – 7 April 1865]
Summary
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 62, 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4803 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 28 March [1865] , and letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March …
- … improvement in his eye in his letter of [7 April 1865] . The enclosure to this letter may …
- … this letter and the letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 28 March [1865] and [7 April 1865] . …
- … had been reading and correcting (see letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] and …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … returned to Scott (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] , letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 16 [March 1865] , and letter from John …
- … Rungbee Jany. 20 th . 1865. Sir, I trust my letter of the 21 st . December—the date of my …
- … and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January 1865] ). Scott sent CD a draft of …
- … of Darjeeling (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January 1865] , Cinchona cultivation in …
- … calculations, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] and n. 6. CD’s letter …
- … copy to Benjamin Dann Walsh ( letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 ). The item from the …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). Gray wrote a review of the paper in the January 1865 …
- … 1865 ). After a suggestion from CD in 1862, Scott began work on Verbascum to test the experiments on hybrid sterility performed by Karl Friedrich von Gärtner (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [December 1862]
Summary
CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.
Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3877 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … the manuscript with his comments until 1865 (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April …
- … MS). Tegetmeier apparently did not return the list until 1865 (see letter to W. B. …
- … carried out the crosses between 1863 and 1865 (see letters from W. B. Tegetmeier, …
- … Tegetmeier, 6 March [1865] , Calendar no. 4779, and letter from W. …
- … 1865, Tegetmeier carried out a series of crosses between varieties of pigeon designed to test the fertility of their hybrids; he tested the products of three generations without finding ‘any trace of sterility’ (see letters …
- … 1865 , Calendar no. 4785). This reference has not been found in CD’s Experiment book (DAR 157a), but see n. 7, below. CD sent £5 5 s. to cover the cost of the experiments in his letter …
- … 1865, Calendar no. 4785). CD reported Tegetmeier’s results in Variation 1: 192. See n. 8, below. The enclosure has not been found; it was evidently a list of the crosses between different pigeon varieties carried out by CD and others (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1865, Calendar no. 4785). He published an account of the experiments in Tegetmeier 1867 , p. 224; CD reported Tegetmeier’s observations in Variation 1: 242. The reference is to crossing experiments that CD carried out in 1859 and 1860 with a male Spanish fowl provided by Tegetmeier (see Correspondence vol. 7, letters …
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … and 2 June [1865] , and letter from John …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 4). No record of a …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 4. CD refers to …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letters to John Murray , 31 March [1865] , 4 April [1865] , …
- … exchanged several letters regarding woodcuts for illustrations in Variation in 1865; see …
- … 1865 . The ten woodcuts of pigeons and poultry for Variation were being made from drawings by Luke Wells, under the supervision of William Bernhard Tegetmeier (see letter …
To F. M. Wedgwood 5 March [1860–9]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1860–9] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … July 1865 , and letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). …
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letters from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 , 24 …
- … letter 1868. Pholas is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs. CD was in South America between 1832 and 1835 ( Correspondence vol. 1). CD referred to blind cave animals in Origin , pp. 137–9. He was gathering more information in 1860, and expanded his discussion in the third edition ( Origin 3d ed. , pp. 154–7; see also Correspondence vol. 8). Frances visited the United States in 1859 (see n. 1, above) and 1865 ( …
To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865]
Summary
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4959 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … fellow of the Linnean Society ( DNB ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 December 1865 . …
- … Hooker, [23] December 1865 and 24 December 1865 . See letter to J. D. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 7, and letters from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 5, and letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 . Hooker’s next recorded visit to Down …
- … Copley Medal in 1866. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 December 1865 and nn. 9 and 10. …
- … London in November (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). For a list of the …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1865]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.
WBT’s excellent article on crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4798 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … CD’s publisher. See letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] . Tegetmeier had offered to …
- … from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 . See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March …
- … was reading and correcting (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] ). …
- … has not been identified. See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 5. …
- … had been taken (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 7). The editor …
- … refers to Luke Wells (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 ). John Murray was …
To A. R. Wallace 22 September [1865]
Summary
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4896 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … transmutation (see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). The second French edition …
- … letter and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 18 September 1865 . See letter from A. R. …
- … Wallace, 18 September 1865 . In his letter to CD of 2 January 1864 , Wallace mentioned …
- … books to Asa Gray (see letter to Asa Gray 15 August [1865] ). Lubbock 1865 . CD probably …
- … August 1865 and had not personally corresponded with CD since then (see letter from F. …
- … Lecky 1865 , both of which had been recommended by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letters from …
- … Freeman 1977 ). See also letter from C. A. Royer, [April–June 1865] and n. 4. CD’s copy …
- … and botany ( Reader , 16 September 1865, p. 325). See letter from F. H. Hooker, 6 …
- … 1856c; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n. 12). CD’s seven …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 4, for CD’s enthusiastic response to the summary of Wallace 1864d ). CD refers to Tylor 1865 …
From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865
Summary
Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.
Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.
| Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4933 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … For CD’s favourable view of Farrar 1865 , see letter to F. W. …
- … May 1864] , and this volume, letter from Henry Denny, 23 January 1865 , n. 3. CD did not …
- … Farrar, 2 November [1865] . See letter to F. W. …
- … 1864 and n. 7). See letter to F. W. Farrar, 2 November [1865] and n. 7. Thomas Henry …
- … pp. 121–3). See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , n. 8. Some of Farrar’s …
- … 10, Appendix VI). See letter to F. W. Farrar, 11 October [1865] and n. 3. Farrar may …
- … 1865] and n. 6. For CD’s views on the origin and classification of human races, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … 1914 , 1: 74). John William Lubbock died on 20 June 1865 (see letter from John Lubbock, …
- … Natural History Review ( [Bentham] 1865 ); see letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] …
- … Dod’s parliamentary companion 1865). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] …
- … 1863] , and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] ). Hooker’s …
- … Jackson Hooker , was seriously ill (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] ). …
- … Frances Lubbock (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 13). Lubbock was …
- … and Laugel 1866 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1865] , n. 2. CD refers to …
- … 1865 ). CD had expressed his admiration for Lyell’s work in this genre on several occasions (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … letter to ? , 25 [April 1860? ] . There is an annotated copy of Laugel 1860 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Laugel described his 1864 trip to the northern states of the USA in Laugel 1865 ; …
- … 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, Laugel had sent CD a copy of his review of Origin in Revue des Deux Mondes ( Laugel 1860 ). See Correspondence vol. 8, letter …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1858] . CD refers to compilers of text-books or of works aiming to provide an overview of a subject. CD was presumably thinking of Charles Lyell , who was working on the tenth edition of Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 ), and whose Elements of geology had reached a sixth edition in January 1865 ( …
From J. D. Hooker [26 January 1865]
Summary
John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4754 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, [20 January 1865] , and the letter from F. H. Hooker, [27 January …
- … January was 26 January. See letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 1. Hooker had …
- … 19 September 1864] ). See also letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 7. Dover’s …
- … Hooker was not able to visit Down. See letter from F. H. Hooker, [27 January 1865] . …
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Summary
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
| Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Murray, 31 March [1865] , letter to J. D. …
- … to the manuscript of Royer trans. 1866 between April and June 1865 (see letter to John …
- … Hooker, 10 [April 1865] , and letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [6 June 1865] …
- … 1862] . In a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [6 June 1865] , in DAR 219.9: 27, …
To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Max Ernst Wichura and to Wichura 1865 ; see letter to M. E. Wichura, 3 February [1865] . …
- … the letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 . Letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 . …
- … in Origin , pp. 135–6. See letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and nn. 34 and 37. …
- … Down House between 4 and 6 March 1865. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] . …
- … Agassiz 1857–62 and 1863 (see letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and nn. 25–7). CD …
- … and to Bates 1861 . See letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and nn. 33–5. CD refers …
- … 55–6 and 187. See also letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 14. Walsh 1864b ; …
- … them in Walsh 1864b (see also letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865) . CD refers to his …
- … Walsh 1864a ). See also letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 20. CD refers …
- … of Lythrum salicaria ’ (see letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865) . CD refers to his …
- … Lythrum salicaria ’ (see letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 13). CD refers …
- … 1862 and 1863). See letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and nn. 15 and 17. CD added …
- … included gemmation (see letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 17). CD alludes …
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 5 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 13). In his letter of 27 September 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), Haast had asked CD to …
- … this letter and the letter to Julius von Haast, 26 December [1865] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … certificate (see ibid. , letter to Julius von Haast, 26 December [1865] ), remarking that …
- … Society council in a letter to J. D. Hooker, [31 December 1865] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … Hector (see ibid. , letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 ). CD agreed to sign …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). CD is listed as …
From A. R. Wallace 18 September 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4894 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … your paper in Linn Trans’ pencil End of letter : ‘British Assoc Birmingham 1865’ pencil …
- … notes for his reply to this letter. See letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] . …
- … in finishing Variation , see the letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] and n. 1. CD’s …
- … on Variation (see, for example, letter from A. R. Wallace, 31 January 1865 and n. 5). …
To Henry Denny 23 March [1865]
Summary
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2435 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Henry Denny, 28 January [1865] . …
- … See letter to Henry Denny, 28 January [1865] . The letter from Denny has not been found. …
- … Denny, 30 October 1844 ). See also letter to Henry Denny, 17 January [1865] and nn. …
- … 2 and 5, and letter from Henry Denny, 23 January 1865 . CD’s conclusion that C. aperea …
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … has not been found. In his letter to CD of 2 December 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), …
- … 10 February [1866] . In his letter of 2 December 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), Henslow …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] and n. 16. Henslow’s summary …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter from George Henslow, 1 November 1865 and n. 9. ‘Climbing …
- … a patient of Henry Bence Jones in 1865; see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. …
- … 1865] and n. 14. On CD’s continuing treatment by Jones during the early part of 1866, see the letter …
To T. H. Huxley [17 July 1865]
Summary
Has read Buffon; whole pages are like his own. But CD is not converted to non-belief. There is a fundamental distinction between Pangenesis and Buffon. Fears he may not resist publishing it, but will be cautious.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [17 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 221) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4872 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … that CD had been reading around this time (see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). …
- … See letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 . …
- … this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 . The Monday after 16 July …
- … of pangenesis (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] and n. 3). In Variation 2: …
- … the theory of organic molecules. See letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 and n. 3. …
- … of pangenesis, see the letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and n. 7. For CD’s …
- … letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 July 1863 and n. 14) and a second English edition was published in 1864 ( English catalogue of books , vol. 2), but no third edition appeared in 1865. …
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … butler. For CD’s health in early 1865, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [March 1865] …
- … Appendix II). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] and n. 17. Joseph …
- … JL’s MS at printer’s [ Prehistoric times (1865)]. Apologises for failure to post letter. …
- … letter from John Lubbock, 10 January 1864 and n. 4. There is an annotated copy of Lubbock 1865 …
- … 1865 , which had been in preparation since the end of 1863, was published in May ( Publishers’ Circular 28: 264, 284). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … letter from John Lubbock, 2 September 1864 and n. 1). High Elms, the home of John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father, was about a mile and a half from Down House. John William Lubbock died on 20 June 1865, …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]
Summary
Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]
Summary
Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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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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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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Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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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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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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