International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- … International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands IISH Amsterdam …
From F. B. Sanborn 12 January 1882
Summary
Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot
and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].
| Author: | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13615 |
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- … truly, | F. B. Sanborn | General Secretary of the American Social Science Association. …
- … his diary were printed in Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 8–10. His four daughters …
- … Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they …
- … development. Boston: Education Department of the American Social Science Association. …
- … American Social Science Association, | Boston, January 12 , 188 2 . Charles Darwin, Esq. | …
- … The letter is written on American Social Science Association notepaper, which lists the …
- … as an honorary member of the American Social Science Association at the general meeting …
- … on 6 September 1881 (see Journal of Social Science 14 (1881): 34). The enclosures have not …
- … secretary of the education department (see Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 6–8). CD’ …
- … of an infant’ , was reprinted in Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 33–40, together with …
- … of the child; Preyer 1882 ; Journal of Social Science 15 (1881): 44–8). For her studies of …
Sanborn, F. B. (1831–1917)
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- … Franklin Benjamin Sanborn 1831–1917 American journalist, philanthropist, social reformer. …
- … A founder of the American Social Science Association. DAB Bibliography DAB : Dictionary of …
- … University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95. American Social Science Association America …
- … American journalist philanthropist social reformer 30 …
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
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- … Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not …
- … plants near their extreme limits are social? What puzzles there are in all such cases! I …
- … much interested on my old puzzle about Social Plants: Decandolle by the facts, which he …
- … more puzzling in my eyes. The case of social plants is of no direct importance whatever to …
- … namely whether introduced plants are ever social in their new country not being so in …
- … species, & not to anything inherent in the social species itself. Would M r Bentham be so …
- … sort of Sow Thistle are wonderfully social, are they in their parent country? The Fennel I …
- … the beds of the Impatiens in Surrey sound as if this was “social”: how is it in America? — …
- … Is the Sweet Briar social in Tasmania. Do you not think that these cases would throw …
- … light on “sociability”? But why on earth are not Tropical plants social? How comes it …
- … répandues’) and those that were abundant or social (‘sociales’) in Candolle 1855 , 1: 457– …
- … thistle as examples of plants that are ‘social’ in their adopted country but not in their …
- … difference between very common plants & social plants’. ‘Even the brushwood is a fruit- …
- … the impression that tropical plants were less ‘social’ or abundant than those of temperate …
Westrum, Ron. 1978. Science and social intelligence about anomalies: the case of meteorites. Social Studies of Science 8: 461–93.
Benton, Ted. 2002. Social Darwinism and socialist Darwinism in Germany: 1860 to 1900. In Historical materialism and social evolution, edited by Paul Blackledge and Graeme Kirkpatrick. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
From Asa Gray 23 September 1856
Summary
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1959 |
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- … variable’ pencil ; ‘(C)’ brown crayon ; ‘Social in America’ brown crayon ; ‘& not in …
- … Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World. Distribution of U. S. …
- … as to whether there are any plants social here, which are not so in the old world,—is, …
- … natural selection’, includes a discussion of social plants ( Natural selection , pp. 203– …
- … 3.3] double scored brown crayon 3.3 social] underl brown crayon 4.2 and may … Engelmann. …
- … 4.3] scored brown crayon 4.2 social] underl brown crayon 6.5 And hardly … plant. 6.6] …
- … vulgaris may be said to have become a truly social plant, in neglected fields and copses, …
- … the road- sides, and is one of our most social plants. But this plant is doubtless a …
- … pastures, &c. —and may fairly be called a social plant. In Germany it is not so found, …
To F. B. Sanborn 22 January 1882
Summary
Accepts election as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association [see 13615].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13637 |
Allen, David Elliston. 1976. The naturalist in Britain: a social history. London: Allen Lane.
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- … David Elliston. 1976. The naturalist in Britain: a social history. London: Allen Lane. …
From G. A. Gaskell 13 November 1878
Summary
Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".
| Author: | George Arthur Gaskell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744 |
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- … indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest". …
- … Survival. Third— The Moral Law, Social Selection or the Birth of the Fittest. These three …
- … I gather that you fear much reduced social pressure would result in indolence. I submit …
- … protected so long as they conform to the social mandate, not to continue their race. They …
- … of Descent included discussions of the development of the moral sense, social instincts, …
- … and social virtues, the rate of increase of human populations, and the role of natural …
- … 609–11). For CD’s conclusions on the social instincts, see Descent 1: 97–8. The falling …
- … a child is, perhaps, the most important social action that two private persons can engage …
- … in themselves immoral, or of immoral tendency, because social instinct is against them. …
- … But social instinct has, as you justly point out, been developed in favour of the general …
- … out of consideration in any speculation on social tendencies. I need but refer to France, …
Clark, Linda L. 1984. Social Darwinism in France. [Birmingham], Alabama: University of Alabama Press.
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- … Clark, Linda L. 1984. Social Darwinism in France. [Birmingham], Alabama: University of …
Offer, John. 2010. Herbert Spencer and social theory. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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- … Offer, John. 2010. Herbert Spencer and social theory . Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave …
Bonham-Carter, Victor. 1960. In a liberal tradition: a social biography 1700–1950. London: Constable.
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- … Victor. 1960. In a liberal tradition: a social biography 1700–1950. London: Constable. NF3 …
To Hugo Thiel 25 February 1869
Summary
Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo Thiel |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6634 |
To John Morley 14 April [1871]
Summary
Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].
Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.
Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 410 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7685 |
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- … are deeply laid in the very conditions of social existence’, an observation he uses to …
- … to lay the basis of conscience in the social feelings’. Frances Power Cobbe , however, in …
- … his great authority with respect to the social instincts, but the sentence which I quote …
- … as he says so very little about the social instincts. When I speak of intellectual …
- … instincts, without having retrograded in his social instincts; and I do not think that …
- … evidence that man ever existed as a non-social animal. I must add that I have been very …
- … sense and the benefits of a developing social instinct in early humanity (p. 11). In [ …
International encyclopedia of the social sciences. Edited by David L. Sills. Assistant editor, V. N. Ponomarev. 19 vols. New York: Macmillan. [1968–91.]
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- … International encyclopedia of the social sciences . Edited by David L. Sills. Assistant …
Timiryazev, Kliment Arkadievich. 1871. Spektralny analiz khlorofilla. St Petersburg: Press of the Society for Social Benefit.
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- … St Petersburg: Press of the Society for Social Benefit. http://books.e-heritage.ru/ …
Kean, Hilda. 1998. Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800. London: Reaktion Books.
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- … Hilda. 1998. Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800 . London: …
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