To Susan Darwin 3 [September] 1835
Summary
Living quietly on the ship and eating good food has been good for him. He longs for home. Peru is in a miserable state.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 3 [Sept] 1835 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-286 |
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- … use will require much overhauling & examination. — But sufficient for the day is the evil …
To J. S. Henslow 18 April 1835
Summary
Has just returned from crossing the Cordilleras. Geological observations of formations representing great epochs of violence which broke up the earth’s crust. Shells at over 12000 feet. Silicified trees in sandstone formations at great heights. Red snow and viviparous lizards. Botanical specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1835 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 26 DAR/1/1/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-274 |
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- … the other. During two days of careful examination I said to myself at least 50 times, how …
To Susan Darwin 23 April 1835
Summary
His trip across the Andes and back was his most successful excursion: can clearly demonstate that the western part of the double line of mountains is much older, with fossil shells at 12000ft; the eastern line may be as modern as the Patagonian plains. If proved, this is an important fact in the theory of the formation of the world. Has found petrified trees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1835 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-275 |
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- … an elevation of 12000 ft) I think an examination of these will give an approximate age to …
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … been so much observed of late and which in the course of our examinations for Genera Plantarum had …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …
