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List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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… Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
… "A child of God" (1) …
… (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
… J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1) …
… (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
… D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
… Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
… Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
… W. J. R. (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
… Annie (7) Down Friendly Society (3) …
… Eck, F. A. (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
… Margaret (1) Franklin Society (1) …
… Isidore (2) Geological Society (1) …
… (3) Kent Church Penitentiary Society (1) …
… (21) Kippist, Richard Linnean Society (1) …
… Librarian (2) Librarian, Royal Geographical Society (1) …
… Institute (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
… Rouse, R. C. M. (1) Royal College of Physicians (1) …

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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… In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
… were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119) …
… a few odd entries, the record ends. Both notebooks consist of two different sections, headed ‘Books …
… information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading notebooks (Vorzimmer 1977) …
… Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of …
… Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119: 1] …
… on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord Brougham Dissert. …
… Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
… Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
… [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
… 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
… reading. Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— …
… Zoological Journal ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
… the Wernerian Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the …
… ].— Brit. Agricult. Association [ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England …
… many facts List of Books at end of Catalogue of Royal Soc. [Royal Society of London 1839]— …
… Schlegel Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib & …
… 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of Edinburgh Transactions [ Transactions of …

Darwin’s student booklist

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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…

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… and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert …
… very enjoyable or profitable, would find the discipline of medicine more congenial. In October 1826 …
… anatomy and dissection; and much later in life he wrote of surgery: I also attended on …
… to make me do so; this being long before the blessed days of chloroform. The two cases fairly …
… By the time Charles returned to Shrewsbury in the summer of 1827 he had decided not to continue the …
… list began when he returned to his studies at the beginning of 1826. The position of Granby on …
… However, Granby follows Cuvier: Darwin’s own copy of this is the fifth edition of 1827. Of …
… in 1812; William Henry, after some medical training in Edinburgh, returned to Manchester to work in …
… scientific interests, and also show the close connections of Edinburgh’s intellectual community. A …
… was produced by Robert Jameson, who started the Edinburgh philosophical journal in 1819 …
… took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh. Hugh Blair, although …
… 12 Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society . Vols 1–8i (1808–39). 13 …
… Hunterian oration, for the year 1819: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. …
… opinions respecting diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in London . New …
… his researches in comparative anatomy: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in the year …
… opinions respecting life and diseases: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in …

James Crichton-Browne

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James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth-century, but the letters he exchanged with Charles Darwin as the young and overworked superintendent of the largest mental asylum in England, are almost the…

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… James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth …
… researched human emotional expression, and reveal the lives of Crichton-Browne's patients - …
… a reputation as an energetic pioneer not only in the spheres of diagnosis and treatment, but also of …
… Darwin had recently resumed work on what became Descent of Man and selection in relation to sex …
… and writing Expression; he sent lists and lists of questions and received immensely detailed …
… getting information on subjects such as the bristling of the hair, baring of teeth, and blushing, in …
… time for his son George Darwin’s research into the effects of cousin-marriage on the health of …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…

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… This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
… numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. —Extracts from …
… for private distribution by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1 December 1835. [ Shorter …
… neighbourhood of the Plata. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 542-4. [ …
… study of coral formations. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 552-4. [ …
… the formation of mould. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2nd ser., pt. 3, 5 …
… continents are elevated. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2nd ser., pt. 3, 5 …
… are of marine origin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1839) pt 1: 39 …
… seen on an iceberg in 61° south latitude. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 9 …
… deposits of South America. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2nd ser. 6 (1842): …
… in a letter from Charles Darwin, Esq., to Mr. Maclaren. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 34 …
… volcanic rocks with that of glaciers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2 (1844-50): …
… of the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Geological Society pt. 1, 2 (1846): 267-74. [ …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and plants …
… projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long paper on climbing plants in …
… of the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The …
… end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. …
… ready to submit his paper on climbing plants to the Linnean Society of London, and though he was …
… seconded Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had …
… origin of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to include among …
… fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society of …
… An abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April Darwin …
… that he needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 …
… suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he …
… the duke of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin …
… find himself in December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a …
… against John Scott, who had worked under Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, was …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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… for the voyage, refers to FitzRoy’s ‘immense stock of instruments & books . . . in books all …
… he felt he would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course …
… to leaving mine behind . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert …
… feet. The books in the Poop Cabin are at the Service of all the Officers of the Beagle who …
… transfered from one Officer to another without the knowledge of the person who has it in charge. …
… constructed from the latest authorities. London and Edinburgh, 1823. (Contemporary annotations …
… Joachim. Elements of the philosophy of plants . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: 162v.). …
… before noticed . By Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1827–35. (DAR 33: 255v.; number …
… Britannica. 20 vols., 1 vol. Supplement. 6th ed. Edinburgh, 1823. (DAR 30.2: 198v.; 33: 254). …
… Fleming, John. The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan …
… Anniversary address (1834). Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. …
… Peru and Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). …
… of Anglesea. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1, pt 2 (18): 359–452. (DAR 33: …
… the southern extremity of South America. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 1 (1832): 155 …
… . . . of earthquakes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 51 (1760): 566 …
… Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth. Edinburgh and London, 1802. (DAR 34.1: 92v.). …
… insect . . . Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. …
… a map of cotidal lines. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147 …
… that have not been located. Administration du Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle. …
… of a recent deluge. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 5 (1821): 516–44. (DAR 34.2 …
… Island of Juan Fernández. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR …
… age of the veins of Cornwall. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 2 (1822): …
… the mines of Cornwall. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 120 (1830): 399 …
… and of Ascidiæ. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 126 (1834): 365–88. ( …
… made by Captain Basil Hall, . . . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 (1815): 269 …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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… Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species , it has frequently been …
… species work. Yet when this study is viewed in the context of Darwin’s earlier interests, in …
… as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwin’s study of cirripedes, far from being merely a dry, …
… work which addressed several problems at the forefront of contemporary natural history. Treating a …
… work can be viewed as having perfected his understanding of scientific nomenclature, comprising both …
… invertebrate zoology stemmed from his years as a student in Edinburgh and, in particular, his …
… tidal pools, which I dissected as well as I could.’ In his Edinburgh notebook kept during this …
… for example, there are numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first …
… I have taken many new & curious genera: The pleasure of working with the Microscope ranks second …
… background and, in particular, his earlier researches in Edinburgh on the ova of invertebrates, …
… into contact with these ideas through his association in Edinburgh with Grant (A. Desmond 1984; …
… on the Cirripedia was soon rewarded, for he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London …
… 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. have voted you the Royal Medal for Natural Science— All along of …
… of the award, printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 355–6, mentioned both …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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… The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
… his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species and varieties. In contrast to …
… and involved in the social and political activities of the community of savants as well as in its …
… and gathering information from an ever-expanding network of correspondents. Down House was altered …
… stay; and, with his father’s advice, Darwin began a series of judicious financial investments to …
… which completed his trilogy on the geological results of the Beagle voyage, and extensively …
… Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten papers, six of which related to the Beagle …
… 1843, n. 1). Darwin's inner circle: first discussions of species change In …
… and Richard Owen shows. These friends, with the addition of Hooker, were important to Darwin for …
… the problems and various scientific issues that arose out of his work on species. Darwin discussed …
… friend Adam Sedgwick attacked the work vehemently in the Edinburgh Review (1845), while other …
… an unsuccessful campaign for the chair of botany at Edinburgh University and a period of half …

4.9 'Graphic', cartoon

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< Back to Introduction A cartoon which appeared in the Graphic in 1871 was unusual, in that it pictured a serious scientific challenge to Darwin’s theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of…

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… Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of Glasgow, was President of the British …
… in his view, ‘overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us . …
… with Huxley. Thomson’s theories about the gradual cooling of the sun, and therefore of the earth, …
… with modification by natural selection”.’ The key role of a waning sun in Thomson’s hypothesis …
… which the general public followed the scientific debates of the time. physical …
… references and bibliography ‘The British Association at Edinburgh – Humours of Science’, The …
… of ‘On Geological Time, an address to the Geological Society of Glasgow’, 27 Feb. 1868, and ‘Of …
… pp. 547, 566-7, 577. On George Darwin’s paper read at the Royal Society in 1876, defending his …

1.19 John Collier, oil in NPG

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< Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the Linnean Society, Darwin’s eldest son William decided to commission a replica to add to the family collection of pictures, which he had inherited. The new…

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… Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the …
… Replica 1883’, but in fact it was not an exact copy of the Linnean’s picture. As William Darwin …
… than the original, also the eyes are bluish with a trace of green, and not brownish as in the other …
… that the present generation should have no public portrait of him . . . The Collier from its size is …
… a painting on this scale, and anyway ‘the chance of any of us or the children finally settling at …
… far back as April 1882, Sir John Everett Millais, then one of the NPG’s Directors, had written …
… became better known than the first version in the Linnean Society’s building. William’s action was …
… at Down. The copy of Collier’s portrait of Darwin at the Royal Society was painted by Mabel Messer …
… copies at Christ’s College Cambridge, and in the Royal College of Surgeons. physical …
… and Other Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures in the Royal College of Surgeons of England …
… for the first version of the portrait at the Linnean Society.   …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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… On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
… : reactions and reviews But it was the opinion of scientific men that was Darwin’s main …
… but were nonetheless appreciated for their honest critiques of his views. ‘One cannot expect …
… gave ‘good and well deserved raps’ on his discussion of the geological record; but this criticism, …
… to fly’. His ‘dearly beloved’ theory suffered a series of attacks, the most vicious of which came …
… to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the reviews mentioned in the volume …
… Sedgwick, not surprisingly, attacked the book on a number of fronts. But it was his methodological …
… saying that nat. selection does not explain large classes of facts; but that is very different from …
… on having developed a theory that explained several classes of facts— those of geological succession …
… Darwin. Comparing natural selection to the undulatory theory of light or to the theory of gravity, …
… helps to explain why Darwin was delighted by the defence of his scientific method by the young …
… difficulties were raised against the theory on the basis of existing scientific evidence. Several …
… varieties and natural selection in a lecture before the Royal Institution. Yet he also noted the …
… stated publicly at a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in May that ‘his chief attacks …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having …
… after the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
… his health improved enough for him to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help …
… month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, professor of clinical medicine at University College, …
… of Lythrum salicaria ’) and sent it to the Linnean Society of London, thus completing the work he …
… and December were also marked by the award to Darwin of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal; he had …
… the gold medal was considered the greatest accolade that the Royal Society could bestow. The …
… sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and professor of …
… plants’), which Darwin submitted to the Linnean Society in January 1865. Climbers and twiners …
… Origin . He communicated Crüger’s paper to the Linnean Society, in addition to a paper on Bonatea …
… had been initiated by Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a …
… Scott’s papers on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising …
… Primulaceae that was communicated by Darwin to the Linnean Society (Scott 1864a); other papers of …
… from Scott stating that he had left the botanic garden at Edinburgh, where he had worked as foreman …
… with the staff he supervised as assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. He noted, for …
… Bentham expressed in his presidential address to the Linnean Society; Darwin, however, remained …
… Roderick Impey Murchison that were first presented at the Royal Geographical Society, and later …
… dispute with officers of the recently formed Anthropological Society of London, many of whose …
… The Copley medal controversy After the award of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, Darwin may …
… of 7 November [1864] that half the significance of the Royal Society’s award related to the …
… account’. Darwin had earlier revealed his awareness that a Royal Society medal could not be easily …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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… At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
… scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
… ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
… Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
… with the challenges presented by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, …
… Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s Evidence as to man …
… bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem of human origins. Specifically, Darwin …
… the first part of his presidential address at the Linnean Society of London to British and foreign …
… included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
… in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
… failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
… in species of Linum ’) was read before the Linnean Society. In the paper, Darwin presented …
… the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
… communicated Scott’s Primula work to the Linnean Society in a paper that was read in February …
… different response in Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he …
… and Herschelea Darwin communicated to the Linnean Society ( see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 …
… from John Goodsir, professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, indicate that Darwin had …
… to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …

Darwin and vivisection

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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… broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of …
… prosecution was unsuccessful, but it gave rise to a series of campaigns to increase public awareness …
… It called upon the RSPCA to investigate the nature and scope of vivisections performed in physiology …
… Darwin was sympathetic to the cause, but found some of Cobbe’s rhetoric inflammatory, and he …
… ). Darwin also worried that any bill passed by a House of Commons largely ignorant of science might …
… the event, Darwin became closely involved with the drafting of alternative legislation. Over the …
… involved himself in public controversy and so the extent of his activity in the vivisection affair …
… observation. But he had drawn extensively on the work of physiologists in his study of emotional …
… Brunton, Michael Foster, and Edward Emanuel Klein, all of whom made extensive use of vivisection. …
… laboratory (Klein et al . 1873), which became a focus of criticism in the debates because it …
… Dalton Hooker requesting his approval as president of the Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. …
… approaching Lyon Playfair, an eminent chemist and MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities, to …
… a lengthy paragraph on the treatment of animals in human society, the pain and death they suffered …
… to make an experiment on a live animal … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , …
… Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). In his testimony before the Royal Commission (see below), Darwin …
… on a living vertebrate animal ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , Appendix III, pp. …
… home secretary, Richard Cross, announced on 24 May that a Royal Commission would be appointed to …
… Debates , 3d ser., vol. 224 (1875), col. 794). A Royal Commission was a standard governmental …
… quoted in the committee’s final summary ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. x), …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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… years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when …
… medical student. Two years later he abandoned any idea of following his father in becoming a …
… His interests as an undergraduate at Cambridge, as at Edinburgh, were clearly outside the …
… took his BA degree, Henslow recommended him for the post of unoffical naturalist and companion to …
… during the Beagle ‘s five-year circumnavigation of the globe contain extensive accounts of his …
… was already a well-known naturalist and an accepted member of the scientific community. The …
… introductions, with notes on the habits and ranges of the species. By 1846, he had also published …
… to become assistant to his father, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter …
… on the subject. The joint paper was read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. A few weeks later, …

John Lubbock

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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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… old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of …
… that the two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives. Lubbock's father, John …
… childhood interest in natural history led to a number of significant contributions to the field. …
… 26 March [1867] ) The most striking feature of the correspondence is how much of it is …
… calculations on variation. Darwin made constant requests of Lubbock, bombarding him with questions …
… for example the letters on fly pincers , the Report of the British Association , FitzRoy& …
… but he provided drawings from Darwin's own dissections of ants, and references on variation in …
… not for Reviews,’ Darwin wrote , ‘but for the opinion of men like you & Hooker & Huxley …
… meeting in Oxford in 1860, proposed Darwin for the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1862 and …
… James Torbitt's research into potato blight. Lubbock was one of those consulted on strategy …
… (see Descent p. 94). But the most important aspect of Lubbock’s work for Darwin was the support …
… influential people, arranged for him to meet a member of the royal family in the person of Francis, …
… pleading: “I do not see how I could get a sort of living Royal Duke out of my house within the short …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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… return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in …
… During these years he published two books—his Journal of researches and The structure and …
… In addition, he organised and superintended the publication of the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. …
… Emma Wedgwood. The letters they exchanged during the period of preparation for their marriage are …
… in 1839 the couple set up house in London and at the end of the year their first child, William …
… to Down House in Kent, where Darwin was to spend the rest of his life enjoying the ‘extreme rurality …
… a species theory Viewed retrospectively, in the light of his greatest theoretical achievement …
… read the fourth of a series of papers to the Geological Society of London. Three of the papers …
… William Buckland called it (in his referee’s report to the Society of 9 March 1838), had been …
… and the reviews of his papers for the Geological Society Transactions provide ample evidence …
… in Scotland. This tour resulted in a major paper for the Royal Society in which he advanced the …
… their mutual involvement in the affairs of the Geological Society. During the Beagle voyage …
… are preserved (187 of them in the American Philosophical Society’s collection) but some are missing, …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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… I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
… one or the other was away from Down. The usual rhythm of visits with family and friends took place …
… when Darwin was finishing work on the second edition of Orchids and checking the page-proofs of …
… zoologist Edwin Ray Lankester was blackballed at the Linnean Society of London because of internal …
… scientific reputation, but also to save the Linnean Society from the ‘utter disgrace’ of …
… had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission report was published …
… school at Cambridge University. The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by …
… what action to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write …
… paper on leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin because he …
… ). Darwin recognised scientific skill in all levels of society. He not only offered to propose the …
… Lawson Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. The decision by the Royal Society of London to reject a …
… left Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the …
… April [1876] ). Darwin could not have been surprised by the society’s decision. He already knew …
… that I was not justified in refusing to send it to the Royal Soc, but it is now too clear that I shd …
… of George’s work but intended to present it to the Royal Society. He was pleased that Horace was off …
… On hearing that Charles Wyville Thomson told his students in Edinburgh that the hypothesis of …

Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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… Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin …
… Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can be …
… on the translation tab on the letter page (an example of a Gaston de Saporta letter is here ). …
… 2 V Questions about the breeding of animals …
… Darwin’s questions on the breeding of animals in captivity …
… 4 II Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia 4 …
… 5 II Death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin …
… 6 III Dates of composition of Darwin’s manuscript on species …
… 7 III Abstract of Darwin’s species theory …
… 7 V Death of Charles Waring Darwin 7 VI …
… 7 VIII Presentation copies of Origin …
… New material added to the US edition of Origin 8 V …
… 8 VI Report of the British Association meeting in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July …
… 8 VII Reviews of Origin , 1859–60 …
… Presentation list for Asa Gray’s pamphlet on Origin of species …
… with Drosera read before the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society, 21 February 1861 …
… Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I, concerning the properties of ice 9 …
… Presentation list for third edition of Origin 9 VIII …
… Thomas Francis Jamieson and Charles Lyell on the geology of Glen Roy, Scotland …
… Reports from the Scottish press on Thomas Henry Huxley’s Edinburgh lectures on the ‘relation of man …

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