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A668
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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].
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make a speech. In 1938 he presented each guest with a silver snuff-box containing Kendal's Brown , which he maintained was a sovereign remedy for colds and, in his case, prevented him from ever having one, or so he averred. Through the advocacy of Lord Moynihan, Buckston Browne was later to be knighted, but this was in connection with a further munificent donation to the College the Buckston Browne Experimental Research Station, which was built on land adjacent to Down House and, in an indirect
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to ED play the piano, was backgammon. He and ED played two games every evening when they were alone. He won most games, she most gammons. 1876 Jan.28 CD to Gray records 5285 games played EDii 221. Tobacco: CD started taking snuff when he was a student at Edinburgh and continued to do so, finding it a stimulant. He smoked a few cigarettes when travelling with gauchos in South America, and restarted late in life when he was relaxing. Charles Darwin's Full Signature 1854 HANDWRITING CD's
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Malvern, G made him give up snuff. DNB. Gunville Tarrant Dorset. Home of Josiah Wedgwood III 1800 1805. Gurney, Edmund 1847 1888. Writer on music psychic research. 1876 CD to G on music LLiii 186. 1881 G wrote on vivisection in Fortnightly Rev., 30:778. 1882 on same subject, Cornhill, 45:191, referred to LLiii 210. 1882 G was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. DNB. [page 156
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, washing 6, dresses for ED the girls 28, gifts 79, miscellaneous 75, dripping 3. These figures do not include those expenses which CD paid for himself, menservants wages, alcohol, snuff and later cigarettes and the clothing of the boys. See also entry under CD finance. ICONOGRAPHY, House: 1 1880 painting by Albert Goodwin, back from sw in EDii 76. 2 1882 Aug. drawing by Alfred Parsons, back from sw, wood engraving from in Century Mag., Jan. 1883, also in LLi 320. 3 etching of whole sw front, not
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on death of Amy Richenda D Carroll 497. 1881 Romanes to his sister, recounts an episode about CD and N's liking for snuff Life of Romanes 129. 1882 N was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for [page] 21
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A691
Pamphlet:
[Titheradge, Philip]. 1981. The Charles Darwin memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent. [St. Ives, Cornwall: B. Tempest & Co.]
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Geography', by Sir John Herschel, the copy presented to Darwin by the author. Show Case 6 *Snuff jars, containing some of the snuff that Darwin used. The jars were kept in the Hall in order that he might check himself from excessive use by having to fetch it. *Microscope presented by Darwin to John Lubbock, afterwards the first Lord Avebury. He was an anthropologist, President of the Royal Society in 1881, President of the Institute of Bankers, Chairman of the London County Council; and as M.P
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A691
Pamphlet:
[Titheradge, Philip]. 1981. The Charles Darwin memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent. [St. Ives, Cornwall: B. Tempest & Co.]
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Show Case 10 *Handkerchief, snuff box, razor, paper-knives, ruler, dust and paste brushes, used by Charles Darwin. *Mirror, which was fixed outside a window of the Old Study so that visitors could be seen as they approached the entrance. Candle snuffers. *Charles Darwin's geological hammer, scientific instruments, etc., including home-made field magnifying glass. *Case containing beetles collected at various times by Darwin. Show Case 11 Downe Coal Club; subscriptions, 1841-1876 inclusive
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F1925
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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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has said that he was a brave man who could snuff a candle with his [page] 44 BAHIA MARCH 183
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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shape, so low as to walk nearly on Belly. 17 14-17m, 32m 28 12-18w Snuff to destroy insects Powdered quicklime 20u/wx, 36m 30 26m, 35-37m/w (a) wb some think Pigeons pair after colour I think White Trumpeter took first to White Fan-tail 32 wt House pigeons lay oftener than Field Pigeons 35 7m, 7-9w 4 to 6 months for the pairing 27m 36 5-7m, 5-llw choose for purpose - thin, reared in spring 22-24m/w Fertility of field Pigeons lasts longer 41 wt [pages] 85
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A27b
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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evening recreation, other than reading, being read to and listening to ED play the piano, was backgammon. He and ED played two games every evening when they were alone. He won most games, she most gammons. 1876 Jan. 28 CD to Gray records 5285 games played—EDii 221. Tobacco: CD started taking snuff when he was a student at Edinburgh and continued to do so, finding it a stimulant. He smoked a few cigarettes when travelling with gauchos in South America, and restarted late in life when he was relaxing
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A27b
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)—Carroll 421-423. Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883. Physician. In charge of cold water cure at The Lodge, Malvern. DNB. 1849 When CD first went to Malvern, G made him give up snuff. Günther, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf, 1830-1914. Zoologist. On staff of British Museum (Natural History). 1867 FRS. 1869 G gave CD information on sexual differences in fish. 1870 G arranged for cutting of blocks for Descent by Ford. 1871 Feb. G at Down House—FUL 95. 1882 G was on Personal
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A27b
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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increase of numbers of starlings Mr. Norman a well-known man in Kent . 1876 CD to N, thanking for condolences on death of Amy Richenda D—Carroll 497. 1881 Romanes to his sister, recounts an episode about CD and N's liking for snuff—Life of Romanes 129. 1882 N was on Personal Friends invited list for CD's funeral. [page] 21
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A27b
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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being away and employed, probably eight indoor servants and the garden staff, expenditure was as follows: meat £250, butter £5, cheese £18, candles £16, oil £7, bacon £10, soap £10, grocery £53, sugar £16, bread £63, fish and game £20, servants £71, poultry £38, tea £27, coffee £11, washing £6, dresses for ED and the girls £28, gifts £79, miscellaneous £75, dripping £3. These figures do not include those expenses which CD paid for himself, menservants wages, alcohol, snuff and later cigarettes
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A622
Periodical contribution:
Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.
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as reprints of the American edition. Darwin's work on human psychology, like that on other animals and on plants, began very early in his career. Indeed, some of the observations in the Expression evidently go back to the time when he was a student at Cambridge University. (He bet some other young men that they could not sneeze by taking snuff and they all had to pay up!) After he got back from the Beagle voyage he opened a series of notebooks on evolution, but soon split the series into two
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A2115
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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. London Borough of Bromley Archives, ref no. 766/1/2, p. 219. [176] G. W. Norman, Diary. London Borough of Bromley Archives, ref no. 766/1/2, p. 250. [177] G. W. Norman, Diary. London Borough of Bromley Archives, ref no. 766/1/2, p. 250. [178] G. W. Norman, Diary. London Borough of Bromley Archives, ref no. 766/1/2, p. 219. [179] F. Darwin 1887, vol. 2, p. 304. On Norman see O'Brien Creedy 2010 (this work contains nothing on Darwin, despite the title 'Darwin's clever neighbour'). On snuff see
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A2115
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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Times, 21 24 Apr. Anon. 1909. A visit to Darwin's village: reminiscences of some of his humble friends. Evening News, 12 Feb., p. 4. Anon. 1927. [Recollection of Darwin by gardener Henry Wheeler.] Darwin at home: a crusty, snuff-taking recluse. Sunday Post, 4 Sept., p. 3. Atkins, H. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore]. Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London
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A2115
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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his nose loudly as he undressed. Perhaps this had something to do with the snuff he habitually took. Even before his famous Origin of species, Darwin already had an impeccable reputation in the scientific community from his voyage on the Beagle as naturalist and best-selling book of travels about it, his major geological, paleontological, zoological and botanical discoveries, his revolutionary coral reef theory his ongoing comprehensive taxonomy of barnacles and a large variety of other
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CWRU-StecherInnes
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Recollections of Charles Darwin, paraphrasing, but written after, recollection in CUL-DAR112.B85-B92
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at the end of each round of the plantation walk to be sure he had accomplished the distance at Snuff 6 months resolve to keep the box in the cellar and key in the garret. Another 6 months, only to take a pinch when from home when he used to get one in my study. On my last visit. D said at dinner B. J I have been fast friends for 30 years, we never roughly agreed on any subject but once and then we looked hard at each other and thought one of us must be very ill In substance sent to F Darwin 20
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