F876    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1872. Queries about expression. In Freeman, R. B. & Gautrey, P. J. eds., Charles Darwin's Queries about expression. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (historical series) 4 (1972): 205-219, 1 plate.   Text   Image   PDF

Murray, London. . The long version of Darwin's Origin of species. Edited by Professor R. C. Stauffer Cambridge University Press [In the press]. DARWIN, EMMA. 1904. Emma Darwin wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letter Edited by H. E. Litchfield, 2 vols, Privately printed at the University Press, Cambridge. 1915. Emma Darwin. A century of family letters. 1792 1896. Edited by Henrietta E. Litchfield. 2 vols, John Murray, London. FREEMAN, R. B. 1965. The works of Charles Darwin. An

F876    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1872. Queries about expression. In Freeman, R. B. & Gautrey, P. J. eds., Charles Darwin's Queries about expression. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (historical series) 4 (1972): 205-219, 1 plate.   Text   Image   PDF

1868 (Emma Darwin, 1904, Vol. II, page 216; 1915, Vol. II, pages 187 88). This letter is probably in reply to an undated note from Huxley a part of which has been printed in Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. I, page 306. This note is stated to belong * The Dyak word for the orang-outang, more usually anglicized as mias. [page] 217 QUERIES ABOUT EXPRESSIO

F1582    Book contribution:     Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book]   Text

* Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters. Letter from Charles to Emma, November 30, 1838, Vol. 2. [page] 371 The Notebooks on Man, Mind and Materialis

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Darwin's uncle, Josiah Wedgwood, and of Darwin's wife, his cousin Emma Wedgwood.) Apparently, before he had the questions printed up, Darwin drafted an earlier list, which we reproduce below. While this manuscript is undated, it is logical to suppose that Darwin would not have used a handwritten version if he had the printed one available. There are many differences between the two sets of questions. The questions in the printed list are very general, fully written out, and carefully explained as

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202. Ibid., pp. 29 30: No faculty we possess [as the carrier-pigeon] helps us to any analogy by which to enable us to form any notion of such a power. It is intuition it is inspiration it is something we do not possess, and cannot conceive of. . . . It is one of those wonders with which the works of God abound. . . . 203. Emma, Darwin's wife. 204. V. E., i.e., Vide Notebook E. Darwin inadvertently entered on p. 125 of Notebook E the following: Uncovering the canine teeth or sneering, has no

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for the Government of the Athenaeum with an Alphabetical List of the Members, etc., London, III, 1834 1839. Perhaps Darwin has reference to Prof. Charles C. Babington, botanist. 58. Boz, i.e., Charles Dickens. 59. According to Dr. Sydney Smith (personal communication), in the early 1830s the FitzWilliam Pictures hung in the Free School (Perse) Hall, Cambridge. 60. Probably Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (1778 1856), Darwin's mother's sister, and sister of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer, the father of Emma

F1582    Book contribution:     Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book]   Text

flappered across pool to bed of flags I was astonished having looked round saw at considerable distance a very large hawk which are /so/ rare here, that probably few had ever before seen one, yet all flew to bed of flags. Hernes are common, not unlike in size in the air at a distance. How can such an instinct arise?? ((It would appear that an instinct long remains if no steps are taken to eradicate it.)) ((Emma says her tame rabbits were not frightened at a dog. )) The instinct against man is

F1582    Book contribution:     Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book]   Text

. 15. The expression Ira brevis furor est (Rage is a brief insanity) occurs also on page 445 in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Consciousness, Part 2, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 43:437 452 (Anonymous), 1838. See also n. 53 and n. 122. 16. Probably Market Drayton, 18 miles northeast of Shrewsbury, on the road to Maer. Ternhill, 3 miles southwest of Market Drayton. 17. Pet dog of the Wedgwoods. Also mentioned in Henrietta Litchfield: Emma Darwin. A Century of Family Letters (Cambridge

F1582    Book contribution:     Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book]   Text

. Litchfield, op. cit., Vol. 1, p. 163. Lord Clive was born near Market Drayton. 181. Darwin married Emma Wedgwood, January 29, 1839, i.e., about the time these pages were written. 182. Brougham, Henry Lord, Dissertations on Subjects of Science Connected with Natural Theology: Being the Concluding Volume of the New Edition of Paley's Work, 2 vols., Knight London, 1839, Vol. 1, p. 196: Now connecting the two together [i.e., a particular action with a sign], whatever be the manner in which the sign is made

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their gardener. He was then sent to Sir Leslie Stephen in London, where he bit the children. Emma writes, I am vexed about Pepper. I feel it quite sad to extinguish such a quality of enjoyment as lived in that little body. However, her fears that Pepper was to be put down were fortunately not realised. As a very last chance he was sent to the Archbishop at Addington Palace and there, no doubt in an odour of sanctity, Pepper is believed to have reformed his ways.8 On another occasion Emma writes

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worship at church, were neither more nor less concerned about individual suffering than they are today and certainly less affected by major social evils. The Darwins, Charles and Emma, were not of the stuff of the Frys and the Gurneys, but they were good people and within the radius of their family, their friends and their servants they created a happiness and serenity around them which many families might envy today. [page] 5

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aloud was carefully nurtured and Emma was a considerable authority on style. As late as 1892 when her maid Matheson (who was an excellent reader) was on holiday she engages as a substitute a lady who is described as being too good and makes the conversations so dramatic that they sound vulgar ,10 and vulgarity, next to lack of good sense, was something that Emma would not endure. Because of this habit of family reading aloud, Emma's and Charles' tastes were very similar; indeed Charles was

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7.30 A simple tea with an egg or a slice of meat. 8.00 Two games of backgammon with Emma; then he would read some scientific book to himself often in German either in the drawing-room or, if there was too much chatter, in his study. After this he would listen to Emma while she played on the piano or read to him more of the current novel. The games of backgammon were pursued with a perfervid zeal and taken very seriously. If losing Charles would exclaim to Emma Bang your bones , in a fit of

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this gave the old man intense pleasure. At the reception afterwards he thought the Port and Sherry was delightful.4 By 1891 when he applied for a full day's work at Down and was refused by Emma, one gets the faintest suspicion that he might have been becoming a bit of an incubus, as Emma writes to Henrietta his work is not worth is a day . Nevertheless, one of the first visits Emma would make, when she returned from Cambridge to Down for the summer, was to Parslow's cottage, though by 1893 he seems

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sitting up, I feel as if I would faint . She asked Francis to ring for Emma, who came almost instantly. At this time Charles' face looked very grey and sagging. Henrietta gave him some of the whisky, which he was able to swallow, and after three teaspoonfuls he recovered consciousness. Emma kept trying to make him lie down but he said he must sit up. A little later the front-door bell rang which meant that Dr. Moxon and Dr. Allfrey had arrived, but by the time they reached the bedroom he was

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. It was the habit of all members of the Darwin household to have more than one book going at the same time and Emma strikes a harmonious chord in undedicated minds when she writes to Henrietta in June 1892, Our stiff book is Henry James' stories and our light one Leslie Stephens' Hours in a Library. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety! 1 I dare say that Emma was more critical in much of her speech and writing than in her thoughts because she was entirely captivated by the charms of Imogen

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obviously doing odd jobs on special occasions as when they had a grand party, and as late as 1891, when he was seventy-nine, he was asking Emma to give him a full day's work, which from prudence she declined to do. In 1840, after Parslow had been in service for one year, Madame Sismondi wrote to her niece, Your roof, my Emma, brought us good luck while there, everything went to our hearts' content; be it observed that Parslow is the most amiable, obliging, active, serviceable servant that ever

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during this visit that the idea of building a verandah at Down captured the imagination of both Charles and Emma. From 1873 the times which Charles spent away from Down can best be set out in a table such as the one concocted by Francis up to the year 1854. 1873, March. A rented house was taken in Montague Street for a month, much against Charles' inclinations. August. A visit to Sir Thomas Farrer at Abinger Hall in Surrey. 1874, January. The usual visit to brother Erasmus and again in the following

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and Emma devoted much time searching first for a suitable small estate in Surrey. The choice of Down, nevertheless, was rather the result of despair than of actual preference; they were weary of house-hunting and the attractive points about Down seemed to outweigh its somewhat more obvious faults. It had at least one essential quality, quietness. Indeed it would have been difficult to find a more secluded place so near to London. Charles was delighted with the countryside, so unlike what he

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crosspiece of wood on a step of the stairs and thus reared up as high as was desired. The children came down fast or slow, standing or sitting, according to their desires and the gradient. It could be made almost flat for little children and steep enough to make the big children come down with a grand rush .15 Emma was now getting rather old for too raucous behaviour, though boisterous fun, if fairly quiet, was relished and she was not above a little bribery to preserve decorum. Little Charley

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during those forty years it is hard to say. His reputation is so tarnished by rumour one would be excused for suspecting that he indulged in black magic. The truth is that he was probably just a silly old man, but he certainly caused great distress to Emma, particularly over his management of the affairs of the village school. There is the vaguest scent of a scandal but it would be indecent at this time to sniff around. Whatever may have been the trouble, after a few years of his incumbency, Emma

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.15 After Tara came to an end, Emma, then aged eighty-seven, bought a new mare called Nancy. There had been a short interval between Tara and Nancy when a lame horse named Peter had been hitched to the carriage and which in his own interest Emma wished to keep. However, Leonard told her that it was quite disreputable to be seen being [page] 8

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Species was published, Charles had lived almost entirely on unearned income. Even after the publication of his books the amount of money that he earned from their sale would not have gone far to support him and Emma in the style in which they lived. By the end of 1871 Charles had earned a total of 4729 10s. od. from his various publications. Thus from 1859 his average income from sale of books was just under 400 a year. By 1872 immediately after the publication of The Descent of Man things were

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; how they got their money and how they spent it. We learn more about Darwin's mysterious illness and a great deal about the personalities of Darwin himself and his wife, Emma, as revealed in the intimate circle of their family life. Concluding chapters are concerned with two more remarkable personalities: Miss Olive Willis (Headmistress of Downe House School), and Sir George Buckston Browne. This book must take its place within the volume of Darwinian literature essential for those interested in

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slowly. One last embellishment needs to be recorded. In the autumn of 1881, the year before Charles died, a strip of field was bought to add to the garden beyond the orchard . The object was to have a hard tennis court, but the additional ground added greatly to the pleasantness of the gardens. Emma was more enthusiastic about this than her children, and was boiling over with schemes about the tennis court. Today the old court is still there, the concrete is sorely cracked and the weeds have to be