From Alfred Newton 9 April 1869
Summary
Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.
Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6694 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva …
- … son Frank was not successful in the Examination for the Trinity Scholarship—but it affords …
- … especially in the vivâ voce part of the examination. I believe that my regret is fully …
From John Beddoe [22 August – 12 September 1869]
Summary
Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts from the data for his paper on colour of hair of single and married women 35 to 45 years old ["On the supposed increasing prevalence of dark hair in England", Anthropol. Rev. 1 (1863): 310–12].
| Author: | John Beddoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Aug – 12 Sept 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6809 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts …
- … I have received the result of the last examination of data— It is vexatiously subversive …
From Francis Darwin [before 8 May 1869]
Summary
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … classical tripos could be admitted to the examination in natural sciences in the following …
- … Michaelmas (autumn) term. Francis sat examinations for the mathematical tripos in January …
From A. M. Norman 2 August 1869
Summary
Apologises for and explains the delay in supplying Haeckel with sponge specimens.
Mentions some of the interesting crustacean specimens he has received from the Porcupine cruise off the West of Ireland.
| Author: | Alfred Merle Norman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 73; Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6848 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … single examples. If however external examination will be of service to you I will gladly …
- … that I have received the Crustacea for examination which have been procured during the …
From E. A. Darwin 26 [November 1869 or later]
Summary
Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Nov 1869 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6539 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was mentioned as coming second in the 1868 examination for the Royal Military Academy, …
From Edward Jones to Mary Anne Ruck 28 April 1869
Summary
Horns of sheep [see Descent 1: 289 n. 26].
| Author: | Edward Jones |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 182–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6707 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … came to hand duly but as to make an examination to the matter you referred to, I have been …
To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the Beagle. University studies end when? Examinations; B.A when? where? 1831 at Cambridge …
From G. H. Darwin [2 December 1869]
Summary
Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7158 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Balfour and John William Strutt . The examination for the moral sciences tripos took place …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 13 September 1869
Summary
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6890 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … two years she will be able to pass her examination as “Doctor der Mathematik und Physik”. …
From W. K. Bridgman 23 January 1869
Summary
Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.
Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.
| Author: | William Kencely Bridgman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6571 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … is singularly favorable in structure for examination, the clumping filament with its …
From Albert Günther [before 27 September 1869]
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries on sexual habits and differences in fish and lizards.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 27 Sept 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: B16–20; DAR 84.2: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6911 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … subjected Solenostoma to a careful examination. We have about a dozen females of about the …
From C. F. Claus 6 February 1869
Summary
Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.
Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;
his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.
| Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6605 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the most careful and conscientious examination possible of these very interesting and …
From Anton Dohrn 30 December 1869
Summary
He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.
Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.
Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7038 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … is published,—certainly after careful examination—every Zoologist may know at once, where …
| letter | (13) |
| Beddoe, John | (1) |
| Bridgman, W. K. | (1) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Jones, Edward | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Norman, A. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Matthews, M. A. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Ruck, M. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Beddoe, John | (1) |
| Bridgman, W. K. | (1) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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
Summary
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.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …
