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1.14 William Richmond, oil

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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…

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  • … saw the painting at the Grosvenor Gallery’s exhibition in 1880, it was a ‘sustained and complete …
  • … 1879-80 
 computer-readable date 1879-06-19 to 1880-04-30 
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  • … ‘The Grosvenor Gallery (First Notice)’, Times (1 May 1880), p. 8. ‘The Grosvenor Gallery’, …

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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  • … Letter 12389 - Johnson, M. to Darwin, [January 1880] Mary Johnson tells Darwin about a …

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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  • … in London in 1873 and was invited to Down in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy appeared in …
  • … DCP-LETT-12098 (10 June 1879) and DCP-LETT-12606 (14 May [1880]). John Spencer Clark, The Life and …

3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah

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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…

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  • … inscription on the back of DAR 225.1, which dated it to ‘c.1880’, and this suggestion has been …
  • … date of creation not established; after 1872, possibly 1880 
 computer-readable date c …

4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature

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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…

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  • … on the basis of the allusions in their inscriptions to c.1880-1, i.e. some years later than the …
  • … date of creation unknown; probably mid-1870s to c. 1880 
 medium and material pencil and …

4.36 Sem, Chistmas card

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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…

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  • … along with booklets and stationery goods in the years around 1880. In 1875 the firm had been Thomas …
  • … date of creation unknown; probably late 1870s or c.1880-1 
 computer-readable date c …

1.9 Rajon, etching after Ouless

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< Back to Introduction This large and impressive etching by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon reproduces Ouless’s oil portrait of Darwin of 1875, probably on the basis of an agreement between painter and engraver. The ‘over-hardness’ of effect…

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  • … 1878, and another was exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1880. Henri Beraldi, in Les Graveurs du …

2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool

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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…

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  • … proprietor (he owned the Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 until 1892, when he sold it to William …

A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867

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In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…

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  • … side of the correspondence, which continued until November 1880. Although Darwin was unaware of it …

Darwn's letters from 1878 online

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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…

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  • … and specimens. His work on plant movement was published in 1880; Francis published some of their …

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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  • … to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic …
  • … Alphonse de Candolle, who visited Down in the autumn of 1880. Candolle, like some other visitors, …
  • … Darwin and is now in the Darwin archive, was dated ‘c.1880’, and this date was also tentatively …
  • … firm of Elliott and Fry 
 date of creation c.1880-1881 
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3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo

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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…

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  • … Darwin’, is signed by Darwin with the date ‘Feb. 22 d 1880’, but this was when the photograph was …

Darwin's works in letters

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For the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin, we've added a new page to our Works in letters section on Cross and self fertilisation. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin, Origin itself, the…

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  • … of Erasmus Darwin (1879) Movement in Plants (1880)   …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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  • … 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 (CD’s Classed account books (Down …

Hunt for new letters: last chance!

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Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although we already know of more than 15,000 letters that Darwin exchanged with nearly 2000 correspondents around the world, letters continue to come to light in both…

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  • … editors established that the letter was written by Darwin in 1880 to a pharmacist in Chicago, Herod …

George Robert Waterhouse

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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…

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  • … He remained at the British Museum until his retirement in 1880, but his early skills in architecture …

3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1

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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…

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  • … but without explanation; John van Wyhe prefers a date of c.1880. The frontal photograph was used …
  • … the last stage of his life, and tentatively dated it ‘(?1880)’, probably on the advice of Francis …
  • … firm of Elliott and Fry 
 date of creation c.1880-1881 
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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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  • … Gymnasium  in Graz (1851) and Olomouc (1856). From 1858 to 1880, he taught natural history in the  …
  • … 1873). Habilitation in palaeontology (1877) and geology (1880) at the Technical College in Vienna, …

Francis Darwin

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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences.  Francis completed…

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  • … this topic together ( The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880). Perhaps Francis Darwin, whom the …

Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers

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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…

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  • … his accusations in Unconscious memory in November 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in …
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