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People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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  • … In: Neue Freie Presse 14068 (26 th  October), 1903. p. 7. N.N.: † Oskar Berggruen. In: …
  • … Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 7. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der …

3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah

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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…

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  • … Archives des Sciences de la Bibliothèque Universelle , 7 (May 1882). Francis Darwin (ed.), The …

4.52 'Wasp' caricature

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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…

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  • … May 1882), pp. 291, 299; 8:303 (19 May 1882), p. 317; 8:310 (7 July 1882), p. 419. These are …

2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge

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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…

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  • … Colleges , Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, vol. 7, 1985, p. 11, no. 19. Marsha Richmond, …

Correspondence with women

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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories.  Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…

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  • … We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the …

4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon

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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…

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  • … are the episodes in his supposed domestic routine. ‘Rises 7 a.m.; Breakfast 8 a.m.; Darwin on the …

Darwin's bad days

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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:

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  • … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …

Mary Treat

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Mary Treat was a naturalist from New Jersey who made significant contributions to the fields of entomolgy and botany. Over the period 1871–1876, she exchanged fifteen letters with Darwin - more than any other woman naturalist.

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  • … Mary Treat was a naturalist from New Jersey who made significant contributions to the fields of …

Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species

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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…

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  • … natural selection (DAR 10.2; Natural selection , pp. 214--74) 7

4.55 Harry Furniss caricature

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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…

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  • … of Darwin in three-quarter view dating from c.1866-7 (reproduced in the Illustrated London News …
  • … ‘Boz’ lecture, in Times (27 Feb. 1905), p. 7. ‘Mr Furniss on “The Humours of Parliament”’, …

1.7 Ouless replica

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< Back to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica of the portrait that had been commissioned from him by the Darwin family in 1875. This replica is signed and dated at lower left ‘W. W. Ouless 1883…

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  • … Colleges , Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, vol. 7 (Cambridge: 1985), p. 11, no. 17. …

Instinct and the Evolution of Mind

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…

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  • … of Species . 1859. London: John Murray. (See: Chapter 7 “Instinct”) Manuscripts …

4.8 'Vanity Fair', preliminary study

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< Back to Introduction This black and white impression of the lithographic portrait of Darwin attributed to James Tissot is hand-coloured in watercolour and touched with pencil, as a study for the final version published in Vanity Fair in September…

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  • … Colleges (Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, vol. 7) (Cambridge: 1985), catalogue no.16, p. 10 …

2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College

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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…

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  • … Colleges, Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, vol. 7, 1985, p. 11, no. 18. John van Wyhe, …

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…

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  • … in 1881 (see Darwin’s letters to Wallace, 17 June 1876 and 7 January 1881, and the letter from A. R. …
  • … was the “great General” (letter to Charles Kingsley, 7 May 1869). In later years when Darwin …

2.3 Wedgwood medallions

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< Back to Introduction Despite Darwin’s closeness to the Wedgwood family, he was studiously uninterested in the productions of his maternal grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I, the immensely successful ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January…

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  • … computer-readable date c.1869-01-01 to 1869-07-31 
 medium and material white on green …

Darwin in public and private

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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…

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  • …   Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that woman should reach the same …

The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin

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Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851.   Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…

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  • … book of mine, in which all colours are arranged & named.— 7 Her health failed in a …
  • … Elizabeth Darwin was six years younger than Anne. 7 Syme 1821, now in the Darwin Library …

Lydia Becker

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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …

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  • … Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the  …

Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue

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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…

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  • … no peers’. He was supposedly ‘without companions’. 7 Indeed, we can never see Darwin as he …
  • … ‘Germany’, a report in the Times (29 April 1882), p. 7, mentions a ‘wax figure of the late Mr. …
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