Photograph albums and poems sent to Charles Darwin
To celebrate Charles Darwin’s 209th birthday today, the Darwin
Correspondence Project, Cambridge Digital Library, and English Heritage
Trust, have released online for the first time, two albums of portrait
photographs presented to Darwin in 1877. They were sent by his admirers
in Germany and Austria, and in the Netherlands. Also online for the
first time are the texts of a series of poems written in Darwin’s honour
by Friedrich Adler, a young lawyer from Prague.
See the albums and poems here:
The albums provide a snapshot of networks of supporters of Darwin on the
Continent, and will also be a useful resource for people studying
Dutch, German and Austrian social history. Very little is known about
many of the people featured in these albums. If you can help to identify
any of them, please get in touch.
