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, Alexander Emanuel 1835 1910 Marine biologist. s of J.L.R.A. Converted to belief in evolution by reading and corresponding with Fritz M ller. 1869 Dec. 1 visited Down House with wife. Fairly frequent correspondent with CD. EB. Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, known as Louis 1807 1873 Ichthyologist geologist. For. Mem. R.S. 1838. Prof. Natural History Neuch tel 1832 1847. Prof. Zoology Geology Harvard 1847 1873. 1841 CD sent J. Researches, 1854 CD sent Living Barnacles, 1859 CD sent Origin. 1849 CD
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ordered Bentham, for, as says, it will be very curious to see a Flora written by a man who knows nothing of British plants' LLii 131. Jul.30 'I have got Bentham and am charmed with it'. These two quotations refer to Handbook to the British flora, 1858, which remained in print for more than 100 years. 1859 B accepted evolution. 1862 B approved of Orchids in his Presidential address to Linnean Society. 1882 B was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Biography: Jackson 1906, DNB
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Feb. CD called at Argyll House, London. 1882 C was pall-bearer at CD's funeral. Main works relating to evolution: 1867 The reign of law, London; 1884 The unity of nature, London, DNB. Canary Islands 1831 CD planned a trip there with Kirby Ramsay, perhaps also Dawes, before Beagle invitation came. see also Tenerife. Canby, Dr William Marriott 1831 1904. Botanist of Wilmington, Delaware, USA. C provided information on Dionaea for Insectivorous plants. Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de 1806
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c1842 1854. Compilers CD considered his evolution books to be compilations. 1859 CD to Huxley, 'The inaccuracy of the blessed band (of which I am one) of compilers passes all bounds, The difficulty is to know what to trust. No one or two statements are worth a farthing' LLii 281. Concepcion Chile. 1835 Mar.4 7 Beagle at. Earthquake of Feb.20 had caused almost total destruction of the town and of its port Talcahuano. Condy's ozonised water 1862 CD took for dyspepsia. CD to Hooker 'with, I think
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for Insectivorous plants. Cope, Edward Drinker 1840 1897. American palaeontologist. Prof. Geology Palaeontology Pennsylvania 1889 . 1872 CD to Alpheus Hyatt about Hyatt's and C's theories on evolution MLi 338. 1876 CD to ?William Erasmus D, 'He writes very obscurely, but is an excellent naturalist' Carroll 502. The origin of the fittest, 1887, New York. Copiap Chile. 1835 Jun.22 CD reached C on expedition from Valparaiso, via Coquimbo. Jun.26 Jul.1 CD took a short expedition into cordilleras
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was up for membership MLi 89. 1859 C reviewed Origin in Examiner, hostile but free from bigotry LLii 237. DNB. Crawley, Charles 1846 1899. Cambridge friend of Francis D. 1872 C visited Down House. 1882 C was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. C wife, Augusta Emily Butcher, drowned while boating on river Wye. Crellin, J. K. 1968 C was editor of Darwin and evolution, London, a Jonathan Cape Jackdaw card wallet with facsimilies and other material, including t.p. of 1859 Origin
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Mackintosh. Issue included Frances E. Essay on Instinct 1883 in G. J. Romanes, Mental evolution in animals, posthumous essay on instinct by CD, 355 384, index 405 411 (F1434). Complete transcript of original mss in R. C. [page] 13
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136, 138. 'Charles Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1835 and his studies of the distribution of animals and plants thereon led him for the first time to consider the problem of organic evolution. Thus was started the revolution in thought on this subject which has since taken place'. Gal pagos Islands Research Station Built by Charles Darwin Foundation at Academy Bay, Indefatigable I.; dedicated 1964. Gal pagos Islands Stamps 1935 commemorative issue by Ecuador, centenary of CD's
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(F698). Green, Rev. John Richard 1837 1883. Historian. Librarian at Lambeth Palace 1869 . 1860 G was present, as an undergraduate student, at British Association Oxford meeting; he described the scene to Boyd Dawkins, then a fellow student LLii. 322. DNB. Greg, William Rathbone 1809 1881. Social essayist. 1878 CD to G, on G's son's views on and objections to CD's views on evolution Carroll 557. Gresson, Rev. G. T. Of Worthing. 1863 Innes suggested G as a possible tutor to CD's sons Darwin-Innes 216
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[Down House] directly after the funeral and bore up manfully' Darwin-Gray 62. Henslow, Rev. George 1835 1925, Botanist. Only s of John Stevens H. Hon. Prof. to Royal Horticultural Society. 1882H was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. 1873 The theory of evolution of living things, London. Henslow, Rev. John Stevens 1796 1861. m 1s 3d. Father-in-law of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. FRS 1818. Prof. Mineralogy Cambridge 1822 1827, Botany 1827 1861. Vicar of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837 1861
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him in London. 1849 H edited Manual of scientific enquiry, to which CD contributed the geology (F325). 1859 CD sent H copy of 1st edition of Origin. 1861 CD to Gray, on evolution as stated in H's Physical geography of the globe, 1861 LLii 373. DNB. Heterogamy 1863 [letter] The doctrine of heterogamy and the modification of species, Athen um, No. 1852:554 555 (Bii 78, F1729). Hewitt, Mr A pheasant and poultry breeder of Birmingham. 1868 Mar. CD to J. J. Weir on sexual preferences of pheasant cocks
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1861 Darwin-Gray 76. Hutton, Richard Holt 1826 1897. Unitarian clergyman, which he later abandoned. Man of letters. 1875 H was a member of Vivisection Commission. Huxley, Henrietta Anne see Heathorn. Huxley, Sir Julian Sorrell 1887 1975. Zoologist. Kt 1958 FRS 1938. Eldest s of Leonard H Julia Frances Arnold. m 1919 Marie Juliette Baillot. 1909 Feb.12 H was present at CD celebrations at Oxford. Author of works on evolution and biological popularizer. 1939 The living thoughts of Darwin
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Natural History Society. H worked especially on fossil cephalopods. Pupil of L. Agassiz and friend of Cope. 1872 CD to H about H's and Cope's ideas on acceleration and retardation in evolution. CD wrote on the back of one of H's papers 'I cannot avoid thinking this paper fanciful' LLiii 154, MLi 338. 1877 CD to H on inheritance of acquired characters LLiii 232. Hybrids 1868 On the character and hybrid-like nature of the [page] 17
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; Italian (F1242) 1878; Romanian (F1243) 1965. Instinct 1873 [letter] Inherited instinct, Nature, Lond., 7:281, introducing a letter without title from William Huggins, ibid., 7:281 282 (Bii 170, F1757). 1873 Origin of certain instincts, Nature, Lond., 7:417 418 (Bii 172, F1760). 1883 The late Mr. Darwin on instinct, Nature, Lond., 29:128 129 (F1804), summary, with last 3 paragraphs in full, of a communication by Romanes to Linnean Society of London, published in full in Mental evolution in animals
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Japanese First editions in: Journal of researches (F216) 1954; Coral reefs (F319) 1949; Origin of species (F718) 1896; Descent of man (F1100) 1949; Different forms of flowers (F1300) 1949; Autobiography (F1524a) 1972. Jardine, Sir William, Bart 1800 1874. Scottish cabinet naturalist, especially of birds. 7th Bart. 1860 CD to Lyell, CD had had a letter from J who opposed CD on evolution, but his attack on CD's ornithological accuracy is worthless Carroll 201. J's relict Hyacinth Symonds m
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at a time. If only he had something to do I believe he would be better' Lubbock, Darwin-Wallace celebrations of the Linnean Society of London, 57 58, 1908. 1882 L was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Leuckart, Carl Georg Friedrich Rudolf 1822 1898. Prof. Zoology Leipzig. 1864 CD to Falconer, L was an early convert to evolution. Lewes, George Henry 1817 1878. Man of letters. Common law husband of Mary Ann Cross [George Eliot] 1854 1878. 1868 Feb. L reviewed Variation
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friend and correspondent of CD, but never on the same comfortable terms as Hooker, and never stated unequivocally in print his views on CD's position in regard to evolution. Blind in old age. 1836 Oct.29 CD first met at L's house in London. 1839 ED to her sister Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II], 'Mr Lyell is enough to flatten a party, as he never speaks above his breath, so that everybody keeps lowering their tone to his' EDii 40. 1845 CD dedicated 2nd edition of Journal of researches to L. 1844
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1870. s of William M. Editor Gdnr's Chronicle 1865 . 1860 CD to about evolution, mentioning that he had written to his father who was ill MLi 147. 1860 CD to M, on papilionaceous flowers MLii 256. ?1860 CD to M, about peloric flowers and referring to M's father's plant breeding N R 76. 1862 CD to M, about M's approval of Origin. 1869 Plant Teratology, Ray Society, London. Masters, William 1796 1874. Nurseryman. f of Maxwell Tylden M. Friendly correspondent of CD. Matheson ED's personal maid
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CD to Chauncey Wright, 'I conclude with sorrow that though he means to be honourable, he is so bigoted that he cannot act fairly' LLiii 135. M's other evolutionary works: 1873 Apes and men, an exposition of structural resemblances bearing upon questions of affinity and origin, London; 1876 Contemporary evolution; an essay on some recent social changes, London; 1882 Nature and thought, London. Biography: J. Gruber 1960. DNB. Moffatt, or Moffat Liveried footman at Down House, 1858 1878. Moggridge
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. Lane's delightful hydropathic establishment' LLi 85. In 17c M was home of Sir William Temple and Esther Johnson, Swift's Stella. Moore, Aubrey Lackington 1848 1890. Anglican clergyman. Rector of Frenchay, Bristol 1876 1881. Fellow of Keble College Oxford 1881 . 'The clergyman who more than any other man was responsible for breaking down the antagonism towards evolution then widely felt in the English Church' Poulton, Darwin and the Origin, 11. DNB. Moore, David, n Muir 1807 1879. Botanist
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