The J.C. Simpson Collection of Darwiniana, McGill University
An introduction by John van Wyhe
James Crawford Simpson (1876-1944) was a Canadian biologist who studied at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1896 to 1907. He then spent five months at the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth in the UK. During that summer he was awarded an '1851 Research Fellowship' at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. (The New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford was awarded such a Fellowship in 1895.) Emmanuel welcomed overseas students and was just down Regent Street from Christ's College where, over the next two years, Simpson developed a close friendship with the zoologist and Fellow of Christ's, Arthur Everett Shipley (1861-1927), from 1910 Master of Christ's. Shipley was also secretary to Cambridge's Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate which gave him a leadership role over the university laboratories and museums. Much of that time Simpson lived in lodgings at 39 Clarendon Street just behind Emmanuel and Parkers Piece and this address is found on some of the papers in this collection. According to Marie Sanderson's Griffith Taylor: Antarctic scientist and pioneer geographer (1988) Simpson gained a reputation as rebel against some of the rules in Cambridge, such as wearing gowns out of College, to be out after 10pm and informal rules such as first years must not wear a bowler hat, dark trousers or shake hands with a man twice in term.
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J. C. Simpson in his Second World War uniform.
(McGill University Archives)
Photograph of the Darwin centenary garden party held at Christ's College on 23 June 1909.
(From the Shipley album in the Old Library of Christ's College)
Photograph of the Darwin centenary exhibition at Christ's College.
(From the Shipley album in the Old Library of Christ's College)
As the 1909 centenary of Charles Darwin's birth approached, Shipley and Simpson became the leading players in organizing Cambridge commemoration events, especially the extraordinary exhibition of documents, artefacts and artworks at Christ's College and various social events. Together they wrote to members of the Darwin family and others who might have items to lend to the exhibition. Shipley and Simpson co-edited the catalogue of the exhibition: Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. (Text)
See T. D. A. Cockerell's account of the 1909 events: The Darwin celebration at Cambridge. The Popular Science Monthly 76 (January): 23-31. F3515
Shipley oversaw the creation of a magnificent album of press cuttings, invitations, menus, speeches, photographs and other memorabilia of the 1909 celebrations which is now in the Old Library at Christ's. But Shipley gave Simpson a large collection of his own more extensive Darwin centenary correspondence. Simpson's collection may indeed surpass that of Christ's College itself and it is a superb and important archive with information found nowhere else.
The collection contains letters from all of Darwin's sons, William, George, Francis, Leonard and Horace as well as the little known daughter Elizabeth or 'Bessie', then living at Traverston, West Road, Cambridge. There is a letter from Darwin's friend J. D. Hooker and a postcard from Ernst Haeckel, a note from A. R. Wallace which makes a very casual reference to his 1858 Ternate essay manuscript, a photograph of Darwin that once belonged to him, a manuscript draft leaf of Darwin's Insectivorous plants (1875) and personal cheques signed by Darwin and Emma Darwin. There is a letter to Shipley from the geographer and travel writer F. H. H. Guillemard offering a photograph of Darwin that the Darwin family had not seen before. It was displayed in the exhibition and is still in the Old Library in Christ's today. See an introduction here.
In all the collection here consists of over 180 items across 430 beautiful colour images courtesy of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. With thanks to Dr Mary Hague-Yearl and the staff at the Osler Library for extremely helpful assistance and permission to reproduce their images in Darwin Online. Many thanks also to Christine Chua for corrections and improvements to the catalogue and even transcribing the items in the collection, making its contents searchable for everyone.
Identifier: |
Name(s): |
Title: |
Date |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110 |
Simpson J. C. |
2pp list of Darwiniana. Presented to the Osler Library by Dr. J.C. Simpson, 30 September 1941 |
1909-1941 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.1] |
Simpson J. C. |
Darwin Wallace Medal, Linnean Society, 1908 |
1908 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.2] |
Wallace A. R. to S. C. Cockerell |
note re 8 letters from Darwin, about the MS. of 1858 paper |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.8] |
Darwin C. R., Mr Pearson |
Cheque to 'Mr Pearson' 1875 for £9 10s. 6d. |
1869.06.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.9] |
Darwin Emma, A. Sales |
Cheque to 'Mr A. Sales & Co' 1876 for £7 15s. 3d. |
1876.02.02 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.13] |
Darwin C. R., W. E. Darwin, Darwin Leonard |
photo of Darwin: L. Darwin 1878a.2. endorsed by W. E. Darwin |
1878-1909 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.14] |
Darwin C. R., Darwin G. H. |
Draft of Insectivorous plants, folio 38. |
1874-1909 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.15] |
Shipley A. E. to Montfort Horace |
I am writing to Cambridge to have what you wish done |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.16] |
Darwin W. E. to Simpson J. C. |
I shall be in about 5 oclock tomorrow |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.17] |
Lubbock John to Shipley A. E. |
I should be glad to know if the precious Vol: of Darwin's letters I sent you some time ago arrived safely. |
1909.05.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.18] |
Baldwin J. Mark to Secretaries Committee Darwin Celebration |
Proposal for a special Darwin Number in Psychological Review. |
1909.05.28 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.19] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
I have received from Mr W.E. Darwin an order for a replica of the bronze miniature that I made for you |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.20] |
Montford H. to Christ's College |
Mr Shipley has sent to the college orders to someone to pack and dispatch |
1909.07.02 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.21] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
I am sending on Monday 31st by passenger train the cases containing |
1909.05.27 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.22] |
Darwin Francis to Shipley A. E. |
Rothenstein has been at work on a medallion in high relief of my fathers head |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.23] |
Williamson to Shipley A. E. |
Yes, I think that I shall be all right & hope to be with you Thursday June 3 for 2 nights |
1909.05.17 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.24] |
Murray John to Shipley A. E. |
I cannot recall any portrait of Darwin which I offered to lend. |
1909.06.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.25] |
Cockerell S. C. to Simpson J. C. |
Many thanks for the catalogue of the Darwin exhibition which you have been so good as to send me. |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.26] |
Darwin Elizabeth to Shipley A. E. |
I hear from my sister Mrs Litchfield |
1909.04.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.27] |
Chapman H. A. E. to Shipley? |
Darwin's autographs. |
1909.07.03 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.28] |
Darwin Francis to Shipley A. E. |
After sending off the proof |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.29] |
National Portrait Gallery to Simpson J. C. |
You will find all the portraits of Erasmus Darwin and Charles Darwin |
1909.06.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.30] |
Darwin G. H. to Shipley A. E. |
Written to Miss Wedgwood Leith Hill Place |
1908.12.19 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.31] |
Darwin Horace to Shipley A. E. |
sorry for delay— 2 cases of influenza in the house |
1909.02.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.32] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
I forgot Monday as Bank Holiday |
1909.05.28 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.33] |
Darwin G. H. to Shipley A. E. |
I have a recollection that you carried off all the diplomas |
1909.06.03 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.34] |
Darwin Leonard to Shipley A. E. |
Kindly let me know what answers I should give to |
1909.05.25 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.35] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
Please drop the Mr |
1909.02.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.36] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
In the list sent today |
1909.05.18 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.37] |
C. E. Holland, Chief Constable, Cambridge to Shipley A. E. |
Darwin Exhibition. Acknowledgement of receipt of letter of 10th inst. |
1909.06.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.38] |
Darwin Horace to Shipley A. E. |
I am getting 3 enlargements made of the enclosed photographs |
1909.05.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.39] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Please send Harmer the Nos. he wants. Also a Cat. & a Mag. gratis. |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.40] |
Wedgwood K. E. S. to Shipley A. E. |
I have received your letter respecting the Exhibition of Portrait &ccc of Charles Darwin |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.41] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Can you see to enclosed? I returned Wed. |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.42] |
Spafford W. A. to Shipley A. E. |
I should be glad to send the monkey |
1909.06.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.43] |
Sun Insurance Office to Shipley A. E. |
Insurance of exhibits, Darwin Exhibition (Fire). |
1909.05.18 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.44] |
Anon. |
Review of Darwin and Modern Science. Athenaeum (12 June 1909): 704. |
1909.06.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.45] |
Cranbourn Art Gallery to Shipley A. E. |
re lending the Collier portrait at the Linnean Society |
1909.05.26 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.46] |
Wood P. W.? to Seward A. C. |
sending list of Darwiniana |
1909.04.08 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.47] |
Kosmos: Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde Stuttgart to the Registrar, Cambridge University |
offering Darwin festival issue |
1909.02.06 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.48] |
Anon. |
University intelligence: The Darwin centenary. The Times |
1909.07.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.49] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Poulton wishes Darwin's Diptera to go back by hand |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.50] |
Seward A. C. |
Printed letter offering ticket to banquet for delegates of Darwin celebration |
1909.05.05 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.51] |
Kosmos: Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde Stuttgart to Shipley A. E. |
By the same mail we send you two mounted copies of our Darwin Portrait for the exhibition |
1909.05.18 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.52] |
Prain David to Shipley A. E. |
Royal Gardens Kew Director. Offer of Darwin's seals for exhibition. |
1908.12.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.53] |
Prain David to Shipley A. E. |
inform him that the volume of letters from Darwin to Henslow has been safely received. |
1909.07.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.54] |
Prain David to Shipley A. E. |
sending for the Darwin Exhibition the volume of letters from Charles Darwin to Prof. J.S. Henslow |
1909.05.29 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.55] |
J. B. Daydon to Shipley A. E. |
Council are willing to lend the Collier portrait |
1909.02.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.56] |
J. B. Daydon to Shipley A. E. |
I have received your letter of yesterday |
1909.02.10 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.57] |
J. B. Daydon to Shipley A. E. |
insurance of Darwin's portrait by Collier, was £500 |
1909.02.17 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.58] |
J. B. Daydon to Shipley A. E. |
Mucklows have brought back Collier's portrait of Darwin, which is once more on our walls. |
1909.07.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.59] |
J. B. Daydon to Simpson J. C. |
I am glad to hear that the Collier portrait of Darwin has safely arrived. |
1909.05.28 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.60] |
Simpson J. C.? To Linnean Society |
Collier portrait of Darwin so kindly lent for exhibition by the Council of the Linnean Society reached here safely this afternoon |
1909.05.27 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.61] |
Daydon J. B. to Shipley A. E. |
The portrait is at the present moment with Messrs Haines |
1909.05.17 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.62] |
Daydon J. B. to Shipley A. E. |
Your circular letter dated "December 1908" addressed to the President, |
1909.01.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.63] |
Sun Fire Insurance to Shipley A. E. |
Insurance for £5000 on the following property Darwin Exhibition |
1909.06.00 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.64] |
A. J. Mucklow & Sons to Simpson J. C. |
Just received case- thanking you for letter. |
1909.07.02 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.65] |
Hughes T. McKenny to Shipley A. E. |
I have a portrait of Charles Darwin in crayon by Saml Lawrence |
1909.01.14 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.66] |
Harmer Sidney F. to Shipley A. E. |
Would you be so kind as to lend us two of your pictures for our Darwin Exhibition |
1909.06.29 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.67] |
Chief Constable, Cambridge to Shipley A. E. |
I shall be pleased to send a plain clothes Constable until Johnson is available |
1909.06.10 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.68] |
Sulivan H. N. to Shipley A. E. |
lending an artwork [by O. W. Brierley] river Santa Cruz engraved in Narrative of the Beagle vol. 2, facing p. 351, but with ship's boats included. |
1909.05.27 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.69] |
Sulivan H. N. to Darwin Leonard |
I am glad to see that there is to be a celebration of your honoured Father's centenary at Cambridge. |
1909.05.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.70] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Poulton wants C.D. diptera, etc. taken back by hand |
1909.07.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.71] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
I shall not be able to send off the bust etc today, I will do so to-morrow. |
1909.06.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.72] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
I received from Emmanual College a statement |
1909.06.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.73] |
Murray John to Shipley A. E. |
I send today by registered post my volume of Darwin's Letters |
1909.06.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.74] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
With regard to my exhibits at Christ College |
1909.04.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.75] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
The Large Statue to arrive on the 16th next month |
1909.04.18 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.76] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
I hadn't got so far as to claim or ask for a permanent location for my model of Darwin. |
1909.02.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.77] |
Murray John to Shipley A. E. |
I shall be happy to lend you for the Darwin Centenary celebration my bound volume of Darwin's letters to my father |
1908.12.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.78] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
thank you for most encouraging reply to my proposals respecting miniatures of the Darwin Statue |
1908.12.24 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.79] |
Montford H. to Porter's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge |
telegram: [w]ont send the Darwin statuette |
1909.01.00 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.80] |
Harmer Sidney F. to Simpson J. C. |
I am rather concerned to find that I am probably too late to prevent |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.81] |
Darwin Ida to Simpson J. C. |
We have gone through the pictures & we find 3 are missing |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.82] |
Darwin Nora (later Barlow) to Simpson J. C. |
My sister brought the pictures down to Christ's College this morning |
1909.06.05 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.83] |
Darwin Nora (later Barlow) to Simpson J. C. |
I hope the framer has sent you the three enlargements of Down |
1909.06.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.84] |
G.W. Smith, Simpson J. C., Darwin Horace, Darwin Nora |
3 enlarged photographs of Downe for J. C. Simpson from Horace Darwin [see McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.38]] |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.85] |
Wedgwood K. E. S. to Simpson J. C. |
a little portrait that I have of my uncle Charles Darwin- as a child [by Sharples] |
1909.06.06 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.86] |
Anon. |
[Caricature re Expression] Valentines, political and social. Fun. |
1873.02.15 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.87] |
Dalziel Edward |
That troubles our monkey again. Fun. |
1872.11.16 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.88] |
Anon. |
An illustration of Darwinism. Punch |
1877.12.15 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.89] |
Anon. |
Piety and parallel. Punch |
1872.11.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.90] |
Anon. |
Darwinism and dogma. Punch |
1878.08.31 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.91] |
Anon. |
Darwin, not dogberry. Punch |
1872.12.14 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.92] |
Anon. |
[poem] The emotions. Fun |
1872.11.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.93] |
Anon. |
[hippo] Emotional! Fun |
1872.11.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.94] |
E. & E. Emanuel to Shipley A. E. |
at the disposal of the Committee a colored mezzotint engd portrait of "Dr Erasmus Darwin" |
1909.06.04 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.95] |
Gardiner J. Stanley to Simpson J. C. |
[unrelated to Darwin centenary] |
1909.11.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.96] |
Mason A. J. |
[Printed instructions for reception by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge] Darwin Reception |
1909.06.00 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.97] |
Shipley A. E. |
cutting: Canada and science. The Daily News |
1909.06.15 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.98] |
Harmer Sidney F. to Simpson J. C. |
We have never received the pictures Mr Horace Darwin promised to lend us |
1909.07.19 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.99] |
Shipley A. E. |
cutting: Forthcoming books. Oxford Chronicle |
1909.06.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.100] |
Guillemard F. H. H. to Shipley A. E. |
re the photograph Maull & Polyblank 1855.1. |
1909.05.29 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.101] |
Bateson Caroline Beatrice to Simpson J. C. |
It will give us much pleasure if you will excuse a short visitation as lunch with us tomorrow |
1909.06.05 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.102] |
Beddows H. T. to Shipley A. E. |
Sending list of Darwin related items at Shrewsbury School |
1908.12.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.103] |
Chapman H. A. to Shipley A. E. |
memo: Recd from Mr. A. E. Shipley a volume of autograph letters of Charles Darwin Lord Avebury's [Lubbock] |
1909.04.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.104] |
Geological Society of London, Garwood, E. J., to Shipley A. E. |
The Council regret that the Society have nothing of any interest to contribute |
1909.01.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.105] |
Anon. |
The Darwin Centenary, 1909. Christ's College Garden, Wednesday, June 23. Programme of Music. |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.106] |
Rothenstein W. to Shipley A. E. |
sends Portrait medallion of Charles Darwin with sketch |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.107] |
Vernon J. H. for Pullen Sydney to Shipley A. E. |
(art decorator) In reference too materials used at the New Gallery, I enclose you Patterns |
1909.04.19 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.108] |
Shipley A. E. |
Printed call for objects for Darwin exhibition |
[1908.12.00] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.109] |
[Shipley A. E.] |
Printed form letter requesting items for Darwin exhibition |
[1908.12.00 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.110] |
Darwin Francis (Rhodes) to Shipley A. E. |
I don't think I have anything which would add to the attraction of the Darwin Celebration |
1908.12.21 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.111] |
Darwin G. H. to Shipley A. E. |
The following is a preliminary list |
[1908].12.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.113] |
Darwin Elizabeth (Bessy) to Shipley A. E. |
Some small pictures of Down framed. By Alfred Parsons [photographs] |
[1908.12] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.114] |
Shipley A. E. |
cutting: A Darwin Exhibition. Pall Mall Gazette |
1909.06.16 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.115] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
Encloses a list of items to lend to Darwin exhibition |
[1909].01.14 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.116] |
Lubbock Harold to Shipley A. E. |
I will try and find something for the Exhibition when I get to High Elms |
[1909].03.20 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.117] |
Darwin Leonard to Shipley A. E. |
I now tell you that the picture I am lending, and the ruler and paper cutter are at Traverston |
1909.05.15 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.118] |
Darwin Leonard to Shipley A. E. |
you might care to have is a watercolour by A. Goodwin of Downe |
1909.01.02 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.119] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
I forgot to mention when you were here my Father's autograph notebook on his children |
[1909].05.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.120] |
Fenton W. A. to Shipley A. E. |
request for catalogue in connection with Darwin Exhibition for Public Free Library. |
1909.06.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.121] |
Montford H. to Shipley A. E. |
nearly completed a miniature copy of my Statue of Darwin erected in Shrewsbury |
1909.01.25 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.122] |
Poulton E. B. to Shipley A. E. |
I bring up the few flies collected by Darwin in Tasmania & Australia |
1909.06.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.123] |
Shipley A. E. |
cutting: Darwin centenary preparations. Pall Mall Gazette |
1909.06.16 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.124] |
Schiaminossi, Raffaelo |
Etching: Potiphar's Wife Acuses Joseph. After Lucas van Leyden |
[1512] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.125] |
Wedgwood K. E. S. to Shipley A. E. |
reluctant to risk the journey for the small chalk drawing of Mr. Darwin as a child [Sharples] |
1909.01.26 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.126] |
Peile John to Simpson J. C. |
I have read the Catalogue of the Darwin Exhibition |
1909.06.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.127] |
Anon. Poulton |
cutting: University intelligence. Oxford, Feb., .12. Professor Poulton on "Darwinism" |
1909.02.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.128] |
Ignotus |
cutting: Charles Darwin at Cambridge. The Times |
1909.02.13 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.129] |
Roberts G. H. |
A choice Darwinian story humbug [The Times?] |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.130] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C. |
Harmer asking me to lend some of the things at Xts to him for the Nat History show. |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.131] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
I have got Metchnikoff's Manuscript |
1909.06.24 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.132] |
Hill Arthur to Shipley A. E. |
Darwin seals are inserted in the thick cover of the volume of the letters |
1909.01.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.133] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
I mentioned the portrait of Dr Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury |
[1909].02.21 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.134] |
Darwin Ida to Simpson J. C. |
I find I must go out tomorrow afternoon |
1909.06.29 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.135] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C. |
Harmer wants the following for the N. H. Mus & I am willing to lend them |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.136] |
University Museum of Zoology to Simpson J. C. |
I have sorted out the following Darwin specimens |
1909.06.06 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.137] |
Darwin Ida to Simpson J. C. |
pictures & diagrams have just arrived quite safely |
1909.07.01 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.138] |
Darwin W. E. to Shipley A. E. |
Please come just when it suits you. I am off to Southampton now |
[1909].06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.139] |
Wedgwood K. E. S. to Shipley A. E. |
The photographs were posted to you this morning |
[1909].06.10 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.140] |
Darwin W. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Many thanks for the Envelope. My brother clings to the Patch Key |
[1909].07.07 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.141] |
Shipley A. E. to Simpson J. C. |
Seward says he gave me the letter from the man who has the Darwin monkey |
[1909].05.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.142] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C. |
The portrait labelled Mme Sismondi, is Mrs Jos Wedgwood born Eliz Allen |
1909.06.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.144] |
Seward A. C. to Simpson J. C. |
I have not got the early Portrait: it is I think, with Mr. J.W. Clark at Scrope House |
1909.06.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.145] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C. |
P.S Add to index One of CD's brown-paper portfolios, showing the method of classifying his notes |
1909.06.14 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.146] |
Anon. |
Invitation to garden party at Christ's College |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.147] |
Hoby Charles |
Programme of music to be performed by the band of H.M. Royal Marines [at garden party of Christ's College] |
[1909.06.23] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.148] |
Darwin family |
Invitation by Darwin family to garden party at Trinity College, Cambridge |
1909.06.24 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.149] |
Hughes M. T. to Simpson J. C. |
We took our [Lawrence] portrait of Charles Darwin to Christ's yesterday. |
1909.06.10 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.150] |
Seward A. C. to Simpson J. C. |
I shall be grateful if you will act as a Steward at the Banquet on Wednesday, June 23 |
1909.06.11 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.151] |
Darwin G. H. to Simpson J. C. |
"The honorary degree was Nov. 17. 1877" |
1909.06.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.152] |
Timiziazeff C. to Seward A. C. |
As I am bringing two adresses (both very short!) and three diploma's |
[1909.06.03] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.153] |
Darwin Francis to Shipley A. E. |
I have got a box of things together, and the chair & tableware ready to go |
1909.06.03 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.154] |
Anon. |
The Darwin Commemoration (communicated). The Spectator. |
1909.06.26 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.155] |
Anon. |
[List of Delegates] Centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the publication of Origin of Species To be celebrated at Cambridge, June 22, 23, 24, 1909. |
1909 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.156] |
Anon. |
The illustrated sporting and dramatic news (17 April 1909): 229-230, 237-238. |
1909.04.17 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.157] |
Anon. |
The Bookman. Darwin centenary number |
1909.02.00 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.158] |
Anon. |
Darwin Commemoration: Cambridge University. Banquet 23 June 1909. Plan of tables. (signed by J. C. Simpson) |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.159] |
Anon. |
Darwin Commemoration: Cambridge University. Banquet 23 June 1909. Plan of tables. |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.160] |
Anon. |
cover sheet to following Darwin celebration items |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.161] |
Anon. |
Table plan [for dinner in Darwin's rooms] |
[1909.02.12] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.162] |
Anon. |
Menu for dinner in Darwin's rooms, Christ's College, Cambridge |
1909.02.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.163] |
Anon. |
Darwin Commemoration dinner, printed seating plan |
1909.06.23 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.164] |
Anon. |
Envelope: Shipley's dinner Feb 12th 1909 |
1909.02.12 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.165] |
Cox J |
University of Cambridge. Local lectures Summer meeting, 1908. Syllabus of a course of three lectures on radium and radio-activity by J. Cox |
1908 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.166] |
Darwin Francis & Darwin W. E. |
4pp list of items to display at Darwin exhibition |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.167] |
Darwin G. H. to Shipley A. E. |
Both my wife & I like the oil best |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.168] |
Darwin G. H. |
Preliminary list of things that cd be lent by G.H.D |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.169] |
Darwin W. E. |
[List of items to lend to the Darwin exhibition] |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.170] |
[Simpson J. C.] |
Envelope once containing Darwin items given to J. C. Simpson in 1909 |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.172] |
Harmer Sidney F. to Simpson J. C. |
requests 1st edns of Geological observations, Origin, Climbing plants, Earthworms |
1909.06.29 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.174] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C. |
offering "a scrap of my father's MS of 1847" |
1909.07.09 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.175] |
Anon. |
label: Darwin-Wallace bronze medal, Linn. Soc., 1908 |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.176] |
Adams Frank to Simpson J. C. |
photo postcard of the Old Study at Down House. |
[1929 or after] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.177] |
Lubbock John to Shipley A. E. |
Does not have any special replies from Darwin worth exhibiting |
1909.01.22 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.178] |
Marr John E. to Shipley A. E. |
enclosing photo of monkey at Darwin's honorary degree, 1877 |
1909.01.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.179] |
Anon. |
carte de visite of monkey at Darwin's honorary degree, 1877 |
[1877] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.180] |
Maull & Polyblank, Darwin C. R., Darwin W. E., Simpson J. C. |
Photograph of Darwin: Maull & Polyblank 1857.9. "given to J.C. Simpson by WE Darwin July 2. 1909". |
1857-1909 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.181] |
Anon. |
Biographical offprint? with engraving "The illustrious Charles von Linnaeus" reprinted in biographical dictionaries. |
1796 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.183] |
Hooker J. D. to Shipley A. E. |
offering to lend aneroid barometer for the Darwin exhibition which hung over the chimney piece in Darwin's study |
1908.12.31 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.184] |
Darwin W. E. to Simpson J. C. |
does not have photo of Darwin in wicker chair but offers L. Darwin 1878a photo |
[1909].07.02 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.185] |
Simpson J. C. |
note: "This photograph of Charles Darwin by his son Major Darwin....This copy belonged to Charles Darwin himself". |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.186] |
Darwin Francis to Simpson J. C., Haeckel Ernst |
"I am glad that you are pleased to have the bit of MS [of Darwin 1847, copy in CUL-DAR205.9.232] I enclose" a postcard from Ernst Haeckel |
[1909] |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.187] |
Haeckel Ernst to Francis Darwin |
postcard: Besten Dank für die sehr willkommene Gabe der 2 „Essays" (1842 und 1844) |
1909.06.30 |
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.188] |
Anon., Darwin C. R. |
Unidentified MSS on Erasmus Darwin I with lengthy quotations from Darwin's Erasmus Darwin (1879) |
[undated] |
See also:
Wyhe, John van. 1909: The first Darwin centenary. (Extract from Charles Darwin in Cambridge: The most joyful years, 2014. (paperback Kindle)
Shipley & Simpson. 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. Text Image
Shipley, A. E. [1909]. Charles Darwin. [Cambridge, Privately Printed]. Text Image
Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos, pp. 118-147. Image
Darwin Centenary Number. Christ's College Magazine. vol. XXIII, Easter Term, 1909. Text Image PDF
Richmond, M. 2006. The 1909 Darwin Celebration: Reexamining evolution in the light of Mendel, mutation, and meiosis. Isis, 97: 447-84.