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Books on the Beagle

Summary

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

Matches: 26 hits

  • 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
  • theimmense stockwhich 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): 84115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
  • dhistoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 182231. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 1521 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 FitzRoys letter to the South African Christian
  • 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de Freycinet, L. Csee  Freycinet, L. C. Desaulses de
  • residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
  • 33: 254). § EuclidElements of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
  • The philosophy of zoology . . .  2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October
  • sur les recherches dhistoire naturelle faites dans lAmérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831Annales
  • to the mountain barometer.  2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831
  • vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t  FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’;  Red
  • Johann von (Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fédorovich).  Atlas de lOcéan Pacifique dressé par M. de
  • pour servir danalyse et dexplication à lAtlas de locéan Pacifique.  2 vols. St Petersburg, 1827
  • Théodore. Mémoire sur les habitudes des coléoptères de lAmérique méridionaleAnnales des
  • Jean Vincent FélixExposition méthodique des genres de lordre des polypiers.  Paris, 1821. (DAR
  • edition. Lesson, René-Primevère. See also Duperrey, L. I. Lesson, René-Primevère.  …
  • Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7 November
  • 1802. (Notes on fly-leaf: ‘Taken from Jones’ (see Jones, T.)). Darwin LibraryCUL †. * Mawe, …
  • …  (Stoddart 1962, p. 14). Rang, SanderManuel de lhistoire naturelle des mollusques et
  • Le pilote du Brésil, ou description des côtes de lAmérique méridionale . . .  Paris, 1826. (DAR 32
  • in Syms Covington, MSJournal 18316’, p. 30; Mitchell Library, Sydney, N. S. W.). Darwin Library

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…

Matches: 24 hits

  • de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec celle de lHomme,” by Dr. Pierquin, published in Paris
  • …  [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r  L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v.] …
  • Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on Annals of Nat. Hist. …
  • 183647] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory S t  Vincent [Bory de Saint-Vincent 1804] …
  • Hist. genérale et Particulière des Anomalies de lorganization des hommes & des Animaux by Isid. …
  • Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon
  • W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] …
  • of the Agricultural Association meeting at Oxford. paper by L d  Spencer on gestation of animals
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • … “Resume analytique des observations par F. Cuvier sur linstinct”—LInstitut 1839. p. 408 [Flourens
  • Histoire Générale et particulière des anomalies de lorganisation chez lhomme et les animaux, …
  • tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. [T. Hogg 1820] Pat. Neil. Art. on
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • very poor Sir J 57  Brownes Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyells Book III 5th
  • References at end Mayo Pathology of Human mind [T. Mayo 1838] Evelyns Sylva [Evelyn
  • VII. part III or p 433. N.B. I think the three first of Hort T. volumes possibly might be reread
  • at end 23 d . Moores Life of Byron 6 volumes [T. Moore 1837].— poor.— —— T. Carlyles
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November
  • …   der Säugethiere . Berlin119: 18a Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. 1838Three