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A315    Pamphlet:     H.A.S. [1888]. Darwin and his works: a biological & metaphysical study. London: John Bale and Sons.   Text   Image   PDF
expression. Whatever the subtle element is, it is the same essence in kind that characterises brute life. Their life energy, their conscious entity is labelled Corporeal, material; we snuff out the last iota of respect to the mystery of their life, and yet their complex organisms evince the like principle in kind that we lay claim to under soul; whereas the same touch of nature makes the whole world kin. [page 46
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F1146    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. 2d ed. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
would not sneeze if they took snuff, although they all declared that they invariably did so; accordingly they all took a pinch, but from wishing much to succeed, not one sneezed, though their eyes watered, and all, without exception, had to pay me the wager. Sir H. Holland remarks13 that attention paid to the act of swallowing interferes with the proper movements; from which it probably follows, at least in part, that some persons find it so difficult to swallow a pill. Another familiar
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F1146    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. 2d ed. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
protect the eyes from too severe a jar or vibration. I think so, because dogs and cats, in crunching hard bones, always close their eyelids, and at least sometimes in sneezing; though dogs do not do so whilst barking loudly. Mr. Sutton carefully observed for me a young orang and chimpanzee, and he found that both always closed their eyes in sneezing and coughing, but not whilst screaming violently. I gave a small pinch of snuff to a monkey of the American division, namely, a Cebus, and it
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
Mrs. Wedgwood, of Maer, which he valued much but he rarely carried it, because it tempted him to take too many pinches. In one of his early letters he speaks of having given up snuff for a month, and describes himself as feeling most lethargic, stupid, and melancholy. Our former neighbour and clergyman, Mr. Brodie Innes, tells me that at one time my father made a resolve not to take snuff, except away from home, a most satisfactory arrangement for me, he adds, as I kept a box in my study, to
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
years. And I have a dim recollection of his saying, Thank God, you'll have bread and cheese, when I was so young that I was inclined to take it literally. When letters were finished, about three in the afternoon, he rested in his bedroom, lying on the sofa, smoking a cigarette, and listening to a novel or other book not scientific. He only smoked when resting, whereas snuff was a stimulant, and was taken during working hours. He took snuff for many years of his life, having learnt the habit at
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
notwithstanding the chirping protests of their mother, ran up his legs and back. Early in the afternoon he generally attended to his correspondence, then rested upon the sofa smoking a cigarette, a habit which he contracted in South America among the Gauchos. He was also addicted to snuff-taking, which he deprecated and in a mild way endeavoured to keep in check. He once attempted to break up the habit, and resolved not to indulge in it at home, which one of his friends, a clergyman, called a most
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
(which was much above the average, and I should say fully six feet), his ponderous brow, and long white beard—the moustache being cut on a line with the lips and slightly brown from the habit of snuff-taking. His deep-set eyes were light blue-gray. He made the impression of a powerful man reduced somewhat by sickness. The massive brow and forehead show in his later photographs, but not so conspicuously as in a life-size head of him when younger, which hung in the parlour. In the brief hours I then
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
easily have been overlooked by a stranger, and her strong affection. Her joyousness and animal spirits radiated from her whole countenance, and rendered every movement elastic and full of life and vigour. It was delightful and cheerful to behold her. Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to come running downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure. Even when playing with her cousins, when her joyousness almost passed
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
safe, but box rather smashed; cylindrical old cocoa-or snuff-canister much safer. I enclose postage. As an account of the movement, I shall allude to what I suppose is Oncidium, to make certain, is the enclosed flower with crumpled petals this genus? Also I most specially want to know what the enclosed little globular brown Orchid is. I have * The woodpecker was one of his stock examples of adaptation [page] 30
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
often in the midst of dictating he went eagerly into the hall to get a pinch of snuff, leaving the study door open, and calling out the last words of his sentence as he left the room. In spite of his activity, he had, I think, no natural grace or neatness of movement. He was awkward with his hands, and was unable to draw at all well.* This he always regretted, and he frequently urged the paramount necessity to a young naturalist of making himself a good draughtsman. He could dissect well under
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
; laughing, 68; gestures, 68; dress, 69; early rising, 69; work, 69; fondness for dogs, 69; walks, 70; love of flowers, 72; riding, 73; diet, 73, 76; correspondence, 74; business habits, 75; smoking, 75; snuff-taking, 75; reading aloud, 77; backgammon, 76; music, 77; bed-time, 77; art-criticism, 78; German reading, 79; general interest in science, 79; idleness a sign of ill-health, 80; aversion to public appearances, 80; visits, 81; holidays, 81; love of scenery, 81; visits to hydropathic establishments
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F2113    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393.   Text   PDF
smoked an occasional cigarette, but his real little weakness was snuff. It is difficult to suppose that he did not benefit by the habit, careful as he was to keep it in check. He kept his snuff-box in the hall of his house, so that he should have to take the trouble of a walk in order to get a pinch, and not have too easy an access to the magic powder. The impression made on him by his own success and the overwhelming praise and even reverence which he received from all parts of the world, was
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F2113    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393.   Text   PDF
other characteristics; namely, her sensitiveness, which might easily have been overlooked by a stranger, and her strong affection. Her joyousness and animal spirits radiated from her whole countenance, and rendered every movement elastic and full of life and vigor. It was delightful and cheerful to behold her. Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to come running down-stairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure. Even
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F1548.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF
off snuff-that chief solace of life. We thank you most sincerely for your prompt and early invitation to Hitcham for the British Association for 1850:1: if I am made well and strong, most gladly will I accept it; but as I have been hitherto, a drive every day of half a dozen miles would be more than I could stand with attending any of the sections. I intend going to Birmingham2 if able; indeed, I am bound to attempt it, for I am honoured beyond all measure in being one of the Vice-Presidents. I
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F1548.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF
botanists doubted whether it was a Phanerogam. When we meet I will tell you why I doubt this bud-impregnation. We are at present in a state of utmost confusion, as we have pulled all our offices down and are going to rebuild and alter them. I am personally in a state of utmost confusion also, for my cruel wife has persuaded me to leave off snuff for a month; and I am most lethargic, stupid, and melancholy in consequence. Farewell, my dear Hooker. Ever yours. Letter 321. TO J.D. HOOKER. Down, April
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F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF
can hardly forgive its immorality. Nevertheless I should like to read more by the same author, and shall be sorry if indeed she is, as she now feels, exhausted. I have received the last Edinburgh too, and have again and again to thank her [Bessy]. She is much too generous habitually to me, I blush when I receive supernumeraries. If she is one-tenth part as prodigal to others as she is to me, she will not reserve for herself enough even for a ha'porth of snuff, God bless 24 2 [pages] 372 - 37
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F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
considerable strength gained. Dr G., moreover (and I hear he rarely speaks confidently), tells me he has little doubt but that he can cure me in the course of time time, however, it will take. I have experienced enough to feel sure that the cold-water cure is a great and powerful agent and upsetter of all constitutional habits. Talking of habits, the cruel wretch has made me leave off snuff that chief solace of life We shall stay here till at least June 1st, perhaps till July 1st; and I shall have to
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F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
movement elastic and full of life and vigour. It was delightful and cheerful to behold her. Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to come running downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with 1 Given in his Life and Letters. 10 2 [pages] 148 - 14
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A237.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF
distasteful to him, and when he came of age he entered the office of a building surveyor. But the strain of London life, and an insatiable love of work when work was to be had, undermined his health, and he died in middle age. Mr. Matthews himself was also an example of an intelligent man with considerable ability entirely lost in the narrow round of a small old-fashioned city business, which absorbed all his energies, and, combined with a habit of excessive snuff-taking, affected both his mental
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A490    Pamphlet:     [Shipley, Arthur Everett and James Crawford Simpson eds.] 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. [Cambridge: University Press].   Text   Image   PDF
., F.R.S. 32. PAPER CUTTER USED BY CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Major Leonard Darwin, R.E., Pres. R.G.S. 33. RULER USED BY CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Major Leonard Darwin, R.E., Pres. R.G.S. 34. SNUFF-JAR USED BY CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. He generally took snuff from a jar on the hall table, because having to go this distance for a pinch was a slight check; the clink of the lid of the snuff jar was a very familiar sound. Sometimes when he was in the drawing-room, it
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A490    Pamphlet:     [Shipley, Arthur Everett and James Crawford Simpson eds.] 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. [Cambridge: University Press].   Text   Image   PDF
. Lent by W. E. Darwin, Esq. Taken Aug. 23, 1842. 239. SILVER SNUFF-BOX WHICH BELONGED TO CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by W. E. Darwin, Esq. On the inside of cover is the inscription E. W. to C. D. I shall never forget you. He had a nice silver snuff-box given him by Mrs Wedgwood of Maer, which he valued much but he rarely carried it, because it tempted him to take too many pinches. (Life and Letters, vol. 1. p. 122.) 240. PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Major Leonard Darwin, R.E., Pres. R.G.S
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McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.169]    Note:    [1909]   [List of items to lend to the Darwin exhibition]   Text   Image
. Autobiography. Writing board on which he wrote the 'Origin of Species.' Compass which he took with him on his voyage with his name in it. Christening mug, Snuff box. All medals received by C.D. date 1838 1842 1853 1854? 1871 1875 1881 [1v
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A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
unmistakeable signs of having visited the snuff-jar outside. After working about a year at the worms, he was able at the end of 1881 to publish the charming little book—The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. This was the last of his books, and its reception by reviewers and the public alike afforded the patient old worker no little gratification. Darwin's scientific career, which had begun with geological research, most appropriately
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A546    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1909. A visit to Darwin's village: reminiscences of some of his humble friends. Evening News (12 February): 4.   Text   Image
cigarette. But he was always a rare man for snuff, black snuff, that Lundy Foot. He kept it on the hall table, in a big tin that held near two quarts, and he'd be running in and out of the study twenty times a day for a go. Dear, dear, an' a fine lot 'ud get spilled on the floor, and when the girls 'ud be sweeping you'd hear the sneezing. He hardly ever went out visiting. But they'd come to him. I've waited at table on Tyndall and Huxley and MacIntosh and Sir Charles and Lady Lyell and all o' them
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A1095    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1914. Obituary of William Erasmus Darwin. The Times (12 September): 11.   Text
medals, snuff-box, christening mug, autobiography, the letters written home by him from The Beagle, his notebook on children, two early sketches of The Origin of Species, the Royal Society candlesticks, and other articles, with the request that he would bequeath them to some member of the Darwin family with a similar request in his turn, so that they might remain permanently in the possession of the Darwin family. He also left £1,650 (less any sums given since July 8 last) to the Royal Society
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F1553.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF
for a ha'porth of snuff, God bless her, as Montagu1 would say, but I say it with more fervour and less affectation. Like you I do not know whereabouts you are in our history, so forgive me if I radote. Harriet [Surtees] wrote lately to your aunt Sara, and doubtless told her of our plan of going into Italy in August for a twelvemonth. For my own part, I quit my dear little Ch ne and all its dumb inhabitants with great pain. I hate moving, I hate travelling, and already I have been crying over
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F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
much checked and considerable strength gained. Dr G., moreover (and I hear he rarely speaks confidently), tells me he has little doubt but that he can cure me in the course of time time, however, it will take. I have experienced enough to feel sure that the cold-water cure is a great and powerful agent and upsetter of all constitutional habits. Talking of habits, the cruel wretch has made me leave off snuff that chief solace of life. We shall stay here till at least June 1st, perhaps till July
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F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
It was delightful and cheerful to behold her. Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to comerunning downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure. Even when playing with her cousins, when her joyousness almost passed into boisterousness, a single glance of my eye, not of displeasure (for I thank God I hardly ever cast one on her), but of want of sympathy, would for some minutes alter her whole countenance. The
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A874    Book:     Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts.   Text   Image   PDF
indulgence in tobacco running mostly to the exhilarating pinch of snuff. In the evenings came his regular games of backgammon with Mrs. Darwin, the reading, till he was tired, of some scientific book, and, finally, the refreshment of some music. Though he was in bed by 10.20, his nights were generally bad; he often lay awake for hours, wearied by the activity of his thoughts that went on wrestling with some problem on hand, or fretted by any vexation of the day even, it may be, the venial sin of
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A1103    Periodical contribution:     Keith, A. 1922. Darwin's famous home. The Straits Times (29 November): 11.   Text
almost catch an echo of a large and laughing family - one of the happiest in all England – an echo of sixty years ago. Darwin's Study. We have been standing in the far end of the hall looking to our left along the corridor of the house; near here in olden days stood the hall table with its jar of snuff. On our right open two doors, through either of which Darwin was wont to issue as he came to refresh himself from the jar. The first door leads into the study, the new study, with its fireplace in
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A260    Book:     Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.   Text   Image
heavily, as though each movement was an effort. When interested in his work he moved about quickly enough, and often in the middle of dictating he went eagerly into the hall to get a pinch of snuff, leaving the study door open, and calling out the last words of his sentence as he went. In spite of his natural activity and youthful strength, he had throughout life a clumsiness of movement. His hand was too unsteady and awkward to permit him to make usable drawings, and bothered him much in
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A875    Book:     Bradford, Gamaliel. 1926. Darwin. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin.   Text   Image   PDF
restful, but he certainly did not overdo the habit. His favorite indulgence was snuff-taking, which was given up and renewed much after the fashion of Lamb's tobacco. Of his efforts in this direction he writes, with humor: 'I am personally in a state of utmost confusion also, for my cruel wife has persuaded me to leave off snuff for a month; and I am most lethargic, stupid, and melancholy in consequence.'35 The chief element in Darwin's care of his health, however, was persistent rest. All his
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A875    Book:     Bradford, Gamaliel. 1926. Darwin. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin.   Text   Image   PDF
. Sexual selection, D.'s theory, 66, 67. Shakespeare, William, vitality, 126; D.'s opinion, 147. Shaw, G. B., and religion and evolution, 237. Shelley, P. B., and nature, 152. Sin, effect of evolution on belief, 231. Slavery, D.'s antipathy, 134. Smoking, D. and, 182. Snuff, D.'s indulgence, 183. Socialism, and evolution, 224. Society, D. and, 173, 178. Spencer, Herbert, and 'survival of the fittest,' 5, 91; D. on, 47, 78; type, 54; and universal evolution, 121, 219. Spinoza, Baruch, type, 53
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A179    Book:     Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray.   Text   Image
resting, whereas snuff was a stimulant, and was taken during working hours. He took snuff for many years of his life, having learnt the habit at Edinburgh as a student. He had a nice silver snuff-box given him by Mrs. Wedgwood of Maer, which he valued much but he rarely carried it, because it tempted him to take too many pinches. Smoking he only took to permanently of late years. The reading aloud often sent him to sleep, and he used to regret losing parts of a novel, for my mother went steadily on
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A179    Book:     Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray.   Text   Image
CHAPTER XIV DARWIN'S LIFE AFTER 1850 1. The Home Life a Downe SIR FRANCIS DARWIN prepared the Life and Letters of his father in 1887. He gained the affection of all readers by making a chapter called Reminiscences of My Father's Everyday Life, in which he described the daily routine of work and walks and jokes and affection and backgammon and snuff and pets. Fortunate is the biographer whose subject is so downright and lovable that it takes on an added beauty when its homely details are made
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A179    Book:     Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray.   Text   Image
eagerly into the hall to get a pinch of snuff, leaving the study door open, and calling out the last words of his sentence as he went. Indoors he sometimes used an oak stick like a little alpenstock, and this was a sign that he felt giddiness. He could dissect well under the simple microscope, but I think it was by dint of his great patience and carefulness. It was characteristic of him that he thought many little bits of skilful dissection something almost superhuman. He was so unhappy at
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A876    Book:     Abbott, Lawrence F. 1927. Charles Darwin, the saint. In Ibid. Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday.   Text   Image   PDF
and her strong affection. Her joyousness and animal spirits radiated from her whole countenance, and rendered every movement elastic and full of vigour. It was delightful and cheerful to behold her. Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to come running downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure. She would at almost any time spend half an hour in arranging my hair, making it, as she called it, beautiful, or in
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A1111    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1927. [Recollection of Darwin by gardener Henry Wheeler]. Darwin at home: a crusty, snuff-taking recluse. Sunday Post (4 September): 3.   Text   PDF
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 3 DARWIN AT HOME: A CRUSTY, SNUFF-TAKING RECLUSE. Stories of the Famous Scientist: Visitor Who confirmed Him in His Ape Theory. There is an old couple living on the outskirts of London who knew Darwin at the time when the famous scientist was engaged on his now well-known experiments on the evolution of man. They are Mr and Mrs Henry Wheeler, of Ronver Road, Lee, who were at one time employed by Darwin at his beautiful country home, Downe Hall
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A7054    Book contribution:     Keith, Arthur. 1928. Darwin's home. In: idem, Concerning man's origin being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, together with recent essays on Darwinian subjects. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, pp. 66-82.   Text   PDF
hollows and ridges which form, some six miles away, the flank of the Kentish plateau. It is an easy step to the village from Down House. In search of a pinch of snuff at the Vicarage Charles Darwin had not far to go; nor [page] 7
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A7054    Book contribution:     Keith, Arthur. 1928. Darwin's home. In: idem, Concerning man's origin being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, together with recent essays on Darwinian subjects. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, pp. 66-82.   Text   PDF
most catch an echo of a large and laughing family —one of the happiest in all England—an echo of sixty years ago. We have been standing in the far end of the hall looking to our left along the corridor of the old house; near here in olden days stood the hall table with its jar of snuff. On our right open two doors, through either of which Darwin was wont to issue as he came to refresh himself from the jar. The first door leads into the study, the new study, with its fireplace in the wall
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A557    Book:     Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins.   Text   Image
which the new Strand comes out and, if the newspaper boy does not linger scandalously on his way, he will arrive with it in College library, so that there is just time to read the new Holmes before Chapel. Unfortunately the same thought has occurred to several other enthusiastic students, whereupon we all go out into Weston's Yard, ostensibly to snuff the air and paying no attention to each other, in reality as so many privateers ready to pounce upon the boy and rob him of his precious burden
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F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF
Lindsay, Calle Piedad. Big bottles Large Clasp Knife. Bees wax, Rosin, corks for jars. Market fish Repair lock Paper for plants. Bottles small with large mouths. Woollen stockings mice and rat traps Black silk handkerchief Pills Druggist Museum see petrification Snuff box Mackintosh washing bills. Seeds of grass. Katers compass. Indigo gunpowder and shot Gun Snuff. Formation of Corrientes if possible obtain them. 3 leagues up shells in cliff. Water not fresh above 50 miles Island Marineras
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A6590    Pamphlet:     Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp.   Text   Image   PDF
*Packets of seeds from experimental collections, with letter from Alphonse de Candolle (1806 93), a Swiss botanist. Some of these packets are dated, the earliest 1855, the latest 1876. They were received by Darwin from various parts of the world. A test of certain of the seeds was made at Kew Gardens in 1935, when it was found that some of those of three species of Trifolium still germinated. *Case of beetles. *Scales. *Snuff jars. The snuff was kept by Darwin in the hall in order that he
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CUL-DAR132.1    Printed:    [1946]   'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp   Text   Image
*Packets of seeds from experimental collections, with letter from Alphonse de Candolle (1806 93), a Swiss botanist. Some of these packets are dated, the earliest 1855, the latest 1876. They were received by Darwin from various parts of the world. A test of certain of the seeds was made at Kew Gardens in 1935, when it was found that some of those of three species of Trifolium still germinated. *Case of beetles. *Scales. *Snuff jars. The snuff was kept by Darwin in the hall in order that he
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A6590    Pamphlet:     Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp.   Text   Image   PDF
Small book made by Anne Darwin for her cousin, afterwards Mrs. Godfrey Wedgwood, bound in a fragment of a dress of Mrs. Darwin's. *Brooch which belonged to a sister of Darwin. *Snuff box, pens, private ledger, cheques, ruler handkerchief, razor, paper-knives, dust and paste brushes. Below: 'The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called Wright of Derby, ' by William Bemrose, London and Derby, 1885 (cf. p. 30). *Illuminated address from the Birmingham Philosophical Society
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CUL-DAR132.1    Printed:    [1946]   'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp   Text   Image
Small book made by Anne Darwin for her cousin, afterwards Mrs. Godfrey Wedgwood, bound in a fragment of a dress of Mrs. Darwin's. *Brooch which belonged to a sister of Darwin. *Snuff box, pens, private ledger, cheques, ruler handkerchief, razor, paper-knives, dust and paste brushes. Below: 'The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called Wright of Derby, ' by William Bemrose, London and Derby, 1885 (cf. p. 30). *Illuminated address from the Birmingham Philosophical Society
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F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
cruel wretch has made me leave off snuff that chief solace of life. We thank you most sincerely for your prompt and early invitation to Hitcham for Brit. Assoc. for 1850: if I am made well and strong, most gladly will I accept it; but as I have been hitherto, a drive every day of half-a-dozen miles would be more than I could stand with attending any of the sections. I intend going to Birmingham, if able; indeed I am bound to attempt it, for I am honoured beyond all measure in being one of the V.P
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A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF
the birth of William, asses' milk and expenditure on a wet nurse appears. The wet nurse appears again after the birth of Anne, but she seems to have got on quite well without asses' milk . Snuff receives constant mention until little Anne died in 1851, when it disappears until 1856. It will be remembered that it was Anne who would bring him a little snuff as a present and perhaps the memory of this was for a while too poignant. Beer for the servants was bought in casks and workmen on the road
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A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF
'click' as he came down the Longwalk or in his strolls around the Sandwalk.1 Indoors, however, he walked slowly and always took his time mounting stairs, although these at Down, at least between the ground floor and the first floor, which he would most often have had to negotiate, are by no means steep. During such perambulations he might take an oak stick, especially if he felt giddy , even if it meant going from the study into the hall for a pinch of snuff, to which he was much addicted. He was
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A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF
downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure. When going round the Sandwalk with me, although I walked fast, yet she often used to go before, pirouetting in the most elegant way, her dear face bright all the time with the sweetest smiles. In the last short illness, her conduct in simple truth was angelic. She never once complained; never became fretful; was ever considerate of others, and was thankful in the most gentle, pathetic manner
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