To W. D. Fox [15 July 1829]
Summary
Tells whereabouts of WDF’s remaining Cambridge possessions;
adds he has many insects for him. Can WDF join him for a week in Wales?
CD must read for his "Little Go" as the examination is being made more difficult.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 July 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-68 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Wales? CD must read for his "Little Go" as the examination is being made more difficult. …
- … was one of the six appointed to make the examination stricter, & that they were determined …
- … very different thing from any previous examination that from all this, I am sure, it will …
To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 9 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1862 ( Gunther 1975 , p. 308 n. 1). Examinations for appointment to the civil service …
- … However, Günther did not have to sit the examination: at the instigation of the principal …
- … would have to pass a civil-service examination. — Good Night | I am tired— | Yours …
From W. C. Williamson 23 October 1877
Summary
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11201 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia …
From Edward Bartlett 20 September 1871
Summary
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
| Author: | Edward Bartlett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7954 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination. …
- … I will forward to you some skins for examination, and the price I will put as low as …
From E. E. Klein 14 May 1874
Summary
Reports on his examination of the effects of Drosera secretion on tooth enamel and dentine, and of artificial gastric juice on fibrous basis of bone.
| Author: | Edward Emanuel Klein |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9460 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Reports on his examination of the effects of Drosera secretion on tooth enamel and …
- … to send me; this is the result of my examination: In N o . 2 there was extremely little …
To William Crawford Williamson 31 January [1848]
Summary
Thanks WCW for his article ["Microscopical objects found in mud of Levant", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848):1–128]. Comments on it; offers to send Ascension Island specimens. Urges WCW to re-examine coal-beds for Infusoria to determine whether intervening beds were deposited by sea-, brackish, or fresh water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1848] |
| Classmark: | Kōbunzo (dealers) (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller, Tokyo) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1149 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Permit me to suggest to you a most careful examination of the beds, under-clay shale &c …
- … to me that careful microscopical examination might reveal infusoria, & show whether the …
- … care to have specimen for microscopical examination: I have described it in detail in my …
From H. W. Bates 12 March 1868
Summary
Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American butterflies. [See Descent 1: 389 on Junonia and Papilio.]
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A40–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6007 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American …
- … G. Precis of some authors) on re-examination I think the genus is better divided into …
To W. D. Fox 25–6 October [1865]
Summary
Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.
News of family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25–6 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4924 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Little-go’: ‘the popular name … for the first examination for the degree of B.A. , …
- … officially called … “The Previous Examination” at Cambridge’ ( OED ). George Howard Darwin …
- … achieving first class in the Easter term examination, 1866 ( Cambridge University calendar …
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 8 May [1865]
Summary
Reports on the funeral of Robert FitzRoy.
His own health has deteriorated and he must give up his work.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4831 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of Cambridge established the Local Examination Syndicate in 1858. The aim was to use the …
- … At centres throughout the country two examinations were held in December every year, one …
- … University Archives–CUL (Cambridge University Register (Local Examinations) 57.1: 1–46). …
- … me to let him try the Cambridge local examination last December he was 15 & of course in …
From Daniel Oliver 20 October 1874
Summary
Sends information about Indian and Australian species of Aldrovanda, Roridula, and Byblis.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 106–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9689 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hampden. Very sincerely y rs | D Oliver 3.1 We have … examination. 3.2] crossed pencil …
- … soaked ] off a minute fragment for yr examination. Roridula . Of this genus Harvey says …
To Charles Henry Middleton 20 [1867?]
Summary
Sorry he cannot remember where S. Filippe [San Felipe?] is.
Doubts that bones of ox, sheep, and horse could have been deposited in guano [on coast of Chile], but they would be worth examination.
[Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’s bookplate.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Henry Middleton |
| Date: | 20 [Jan-Dec] 1867 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (in Middleton’s copy of Origin 4th ed., BB.5.6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5341 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of Chile], but they would be worth examination. [Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’ …
- … Bones would of course be worth examination. — I am sorry that I can give no information & …
Journal and remarks: Journal and remarks. 1832–1836. By Charles Darwin. Vol. 3 of Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. [Separately published as Journal of researches.]
Matches: 1 hit
- … years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, …
Meyer, Ludwig (1827–1900)
Matches: 1 hit
- … German psychiatrist. Passsed the state medical examination, Berlin, 1851; chief physician, …
Fowler, L. N. (1811–96)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 96 Phrenologist. Conducted phrenological examinations from offices in New York City from …
His, Wilhelm (1831–1904)
Matches: 1 hit
- … slice thin tissue sections for microscopic examination, 1866. DBE DSB . Bibliography DBE : …
Gregorios (fl. 1860–70s)
Matches: 1 hit
- … the 30th of June, 1866, at the annual examinations of the Gymnasium in Chios. Cambridge: …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations. VOK is studying embryology. Alexander …
- … is working very hard and hopes to pass her examination this winter, the Parisian events …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 April 1881
Summary
Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 214–15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13104 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot …
From W. D. Fox 3 February [1868]
Summary
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5837 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … by the reference to George Howard Darwin’s examination success (see n. 2, below). …
- … achieved second place in the final examination for the mathematical tripos at Cambridge …
From W. B. Carpenter 2 January [1845]
Summary
Says tuff collected by CD in Pampas and Chile contains organic remains. Wants to examine specimens further and hopes for Government support in doing so.
| Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-813 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … as to make me wish to make a further examination of the Pampas tufa, before expressing a …
- … specimens, I shall make a thorough examination of them, and I hope to be able to arrive at …
- … the purposes of which I consider that the examination of your specimens most legitimately …
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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 …
