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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…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … garden. Letter 2864 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [12 July 1860] Darwin describes …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … as an Icon.” in Culture and Organization , 2006, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 341-357. Prodger, …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … require a ‘small volume’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October [1858] ). Begun while he was in …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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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…
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Letter 1022 —Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [12 Nov 1846] One month later, he writes to Hooker …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
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- … Letter 12152 - Francis Darwin to Darwin, 12 July 1879 Francis writes to his father …
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…
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- … & Lect. Pamph. 9 8 Vo. H K Whites Letters & Poems 12 mo 10 Pennants …
- … 15 1 Vol. 8 Vo Almack & Granby 16 6 Vols 12. mo Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols …
- … essays in Rambler 19 Brambletye House 20 3 Vos 12 mo Clarkes travels 21 5 …
- … and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. 12 mo: duodecimo. 11 Pennant 1784 …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Insectivorous Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…
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- … Letter 9005 - Charles Darwin to Mary Treat, 12 August 1873 Darwin writes to Treat to …
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…
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … and the third edition in April 1861. Page 12, par. 1, line 18, substitute for ‘animals’: …
- … and violet species. Page 52, par. 1, line 12, insert after ‘varieties.’: 12 …
- … humble-bee have bitten. Page 151, par. 1, line 12, insert after ‘appreciable by us.’: 16 …
- … extensively rewritten in Origin 4th ed., p. 47. 12. pp. 61–2. 13. p. 89. This …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … with blue eyes’ were ‘invariably deaf’ ( Origin , p. 12; see also p. 144). Moreover, although he …
- … eyes are generally deaf’ ( Origin 3d ed. , p. 12). He had refined it yet further by the 4 th …
- … and those with long beaks large feet ’ ( Origin p. 12). While he had first-hand knowledge …
- … alone have a good chance of living." ( Origin 3d ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more …
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…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … and if none be so – before the publication [ f.152v p.12 ] of my new work – I shall then give …
- … information. Seeing however, that I was in Sydney from the 12 th to the 30 th inclusive of …
- … this planet” – V. “Until the 12 th everyone was actively occupied – Our …
- … which are given in the plan *[3] V. Until the 12 th everyone was actively employed – …
- … to be a circular group of low Islands extending from Lat 12˚ 4' S. to 12˚ 23 [an error of nine …
- … Colonial laws of Java under the British Government.” *[12] “If so (said Captain S.) upon what …
- … South Latitude. Hence the fact being that it is in 12˚&c. The guess that I have made respecting …
- … *[11] Copied from the previous Editions. *[12] That Government enacted – that all …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, …
4.7 'Vanity Fair', caricature
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< Back to Introduction A letter to Darwin from his publisher John Murray of 10 May 1871 informed him, ‘Your portrait is earnestly desired – by the Editor of Vanity Fair. I hope Mr Darwin may consent to follow the example of Murchison – Bismark [sic] …
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- … 10 May 1871 (DCP-LETT-7750). Letter from Darwin to Murray, 12 May [1871] (DCP-LETT-7755). Francis …
