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1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … youth survive, although more may once have existed . In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, …
- … estimate of Richmond’s work can be gauged from a letter which Hooker wrote to Darwin some years …
- … House MSS, Darwin’s account books, entry for Dec. 1839. Joseph Hooker, letter to Darwin, 17 March …
- … this seemingly conflicts with the indications in Erasmus’s letter of 1866, quoted above. …
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
Summary
< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … Darwin’s half-cousin Francis Galton proposed, in a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette , that Darwin …
- … round marble plaques with profile heads of John Couch Adams, Joseph Lister, and Alfred Russel …
- … Thynne’s tomb, plaques commemorating James Prescott Joule, Joseph Hooker (Darwin’s closest friend), …
- … Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (London: Michael Joseph, 1991), pp. 671–675. Tony Trowles …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … British Aviary [Anon. 1838?]— d[itt]o d[itt]o Lister’s 56 Husbandry [Lisle 1757]— re-read …
- … in Brazil [Gardner 1846]. —— 10 th D r . Joseph Adams. Philosoph. Treatise on Hereditary …
- … Poor [Mayhew 1851].— Missionary Life in Canada [Joseph Abbott 1846] May 20 G. Cumming …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, from whom CD …
- … wishes (1784). 29 Possibly a reference to Joseph Priestley, Hartley’s theory of …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … , p. 320, n. 12). 56 The copyist wrote “Lister” instead of “Lisle”. See Notebook C, p …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … of Khaurism . 2 vols. London. 119: 21b Abbott, Joseph. 1846. Philip Musgrave; or, …
- … 1799, etc . 2 vols. London. 119: 14a Acosta, Joseph de. 1604. The naturall and morall …
- … the Spanish. London. [Other eds.] *128: 159 Adams, Joseph. 1815. A treatise on the …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 21; 119: 13b, 22b Banks, Joseph. 1796–1800. Catalogus bibliothecæ …
- … To which is added, an account of his life (drawn up by Joseph Stock), and several of his …
- … *119: 14v.; 119: 13a Blanco y Crespo, José Maria (Joseph Blanco White). 1845. The life of …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … Abstract in DAR 71: 85–6.] 128: 12 Butler, Joseph. 1736. The analogy of religion, …
- … 119: 12b Corry, John. 1804. The life of Joseph Priestley … With critical observations …
- … vols. London. *119: 24; *128: 180; 128: 5 Davis, Joseph Barnard and Thurnam, John. 1856 …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks . . . 3 vols. London, 1773 …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). Pernety, Antoine Joseph. Journal historique d’un voyage …
- … introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
- … ††. Quoy, Jean René Constant and Gaimard, Joseph Paul. Zoologie , vol. 1 of Freycinet, …
- … the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
- … London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR 35.2: 357). Carne, Joseph. On the relative age of the veins of …
- … A. Darwin, 18 August [1832]). Darwin Library–Down. Lister, Joseph Jackson. Some observatons …
