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Bay of Islands, New Zealand
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In praise of missionaries
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- … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …
Our poor dear dear child: To Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851]
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Marsha Richmond shares her experiences of editing the very moving letters Darwin wrote to his wife Emma about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10.
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- … death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10. …
4.26 Christmas card caricature, monkeys
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< Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the only thing of its kind. A sale catalogue of 2009, Charles Robert Darwin . . . One Hundred and Two Items, included the front leaf of a greetings card inscribed in…
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- … Crooks – Lunatics: patrick@rarevols.co.uk , 2009, lot 10. Online at https://www.rarevols.co …
Thomas Burgess
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As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…
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- … Santa Cruz in Argentina, which took place from 18 April to 10 May 1834, and reminded Darwin that …
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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- … Humours of Parliament”’, Times (1 May 1891), p. 10, and advertisement for Furniss’s show, …
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … ‘Literary and other notes’, Times (13 May, 1882), p. 10. Darwin Memorial Fund: Report of the …
1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2
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< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…
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- … Laurence, Esq., Painter, deceased (12 June 1884), p. 10, nos. 221–8. Francis Darwin (ed.), The …
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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- … Society, vol. 7) (Cambridge: 1985), catalogue no.16, p. 10, plate IX. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. …
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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- … struggle for existence as bearing on natural selection (DAR 10.1; Natural selection , pp. 173- …
- … March 1857 On natural selection (DAR 10.2; Natural selection , pp. 214--74) …
- … selection , pp. 388--462) 10 9 March 1858 …
- … June 1858 [Correcting chapter 6] (DAR 10.2: 26a--nn; Natural selection , pp …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
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- … (Mary and Charles Waring), and Anne died at the age of 10. Charles and Emma also cared for their …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … it up to date with scientific advances. By Origin ’s 10 th birthday, he was prepared to …
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 …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … of Lythrum salicaria ’, was sent to the Society on 10 June 1864 and read six days later at the …
Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
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Thanks to all who took part in our online emotions experiment – over 18,000 of you! The formal stage of the experiment is now over, but it will be staying online as an activity, so if you don’t want to know the results, look away now. If you’d like to…
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- … total. With photographs 5 (agony, torture and fright) and 10 (fright with agony) there is a broad …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … volume of the geology of the voyage, wrote: ‘Now it is 10 years since my return to England. How much …
Boat Memory
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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … implicated in shortening his existence’ ( Narrative 2: 10). References: Chapman …
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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- … late Mr. Darwin’, Illustrated London News , 91:2538 (10 Dec. 1887), pp. 686–8. Darwin Centenary …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … a submarine undulatory surface. Philosophical Magazine 10 (1855):96-8. [ Shorter publications …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
