To Richard Owen [March? 1840]
Summary
Sends a proof title page and asks RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia] to the printer, Mr Stewart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Mar? 1840] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (29 October 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-559F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia ] to the printer, Mr Stewart. …
- … the temporary title, now affixed to no. I of Fossil Mammalia. Please to observe that it is …
- … whole work, & matches the general one to Mammalia (which was given in last no. of birds). …
- … manuscript of the final number of Fossil Mammalia by the end of the first week of March. …
- … of publication of the last number of Fossil Mammalia was 1 March; it was not, however, …
- … London directory ). The plates for Fossil Mammalia were the work of George Scharf (see …
- … was 1 March. The final number of Fossil Mammalia was published in April 1840 ( Freeman …
- … 1977 ). Fossil Mammalia , by Richard Owen , contained four of the nineteen numbers that …
- … s Zoology. The first number of Fossil Mammalia appeared in February 1838 with a temporary …
- … of Zoology , the final number of Fossil Mammalia was issued with a title page (to which CD …
- … of all the separate numbers of Fossil Mammalia in a single volume as Part I of Zoology. …
- … above the title and author of the part. Mammalia , by George Robert Waterhouse , is Part …
- … 1839, before Part I. The title page of Mammalia , issued in September 1839 with the last …
- … On the published title page of Fossil Mammalia , Owen’s titles are given as ‘professor of …
- … s text of the final number of Fossil Mammalia (see n. 1, above). The original scheme, …
From Charles Lyell 28 August 1860
Summary
Objections to Origin which Owen and Wilberforce could have used. Why have incipient mammalian forms not arisen from lower vertebrates on islands separated since Miocene period? Knows CD would not derive Eocene Mammalia from higher reptiles, but would bats not be modified into other mammalian forms on an ancient island? This is not the case in New Zealand. Why have island seals not become terrestrial? Assumes rate of change is greatest in mammals. Difficulties are small compared with ability to explain absence of Mammalia in pre-Pliocene islands. Asks about descent of Amblyrhynchus. Believes objections apply equally well to independent creation of animal types, but not if the First Cause is allowed completely free agency.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 164–71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2900A |
Matches: 14 hits
- … come into play, it may be said that no mammalia were wanted because it was foreseen that …
- … period? Knows CD would not derive Eocene Mammalia from higher reptiles, but would bats not …
- … compared with ability to explain absence of Mammalia in pre-Pliocene islands. Asks about …
- … discussed the geographical distribution of Mammalia and batrachians in Origin , pp. 393– …
- … The grand argument from absence of mammalia & batrachians in Oceanic islands is probably …
- … they must have retained some of the smaller mammalia. Also if atolls be remnants of sunk …
- … would prefer I conceive to derive Eocene mammalia from the Microlestes of the Trias rather …
- … ancient the bats would be modified into mammalia of other genera & orders long before any …
- … a dominant mammalian volant fauna & some lose their wings & become non-volant mammalia? …
- … Or why did not seals & marine mammalia turn terrestrial in their habits if they had such a …
- … in as much as the rate of change in mammalia is more rapid than in inferior grades & …
- … there have been in Europe several changes of mammalia since the Upper Miocene period. The …
- … shells would change much more slowly than mammalia. Still I grant that the conversion of a …
- … transmutation in the case of absence of mammalia & frogs from remote islands while they …
From James Murphy 10 May 1876
Summary
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
Author: | James Murphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10503 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … has described (“On the development of Man & Mammalia” Philosoph. Trans. 1850) “a vestgial …
- … Marshall refers to ‘Marsupials and some other Mammalia’ ( J. Marshall 1849 , p. 160), not …
- … of the great anterior veins in man and mammalia; including an account of certain remnants …
- … view of these great veins in the different mammalia, and an analysis of their occasional …
- … penis was without a frænum—as most of the Mammalia) copulation took place vis-a-dos but …
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
Date: | [Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 February 1838
Summary
Encloses the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the first part of "The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" [Fossil Mammalia].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402A |
To J. S. Henslow 12 November 1833
Summary
Is sending a cargo of specimens – birds’ skins, small quadrupeds, and fossil bones.
Describes his overland trip from Rio Negro to Buenos Aires and his expedition to Santa Fé.
Asks for mineralogical works to help him with the volcanic rocks of the west coast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 12 Nov 1833 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 20 DAR/1/1/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-229 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … belonging to Toxodon platensis (see Fossil Mammalia , p. 19, and South America , p. 88). …
- … by Richard Owen , who named it Mylodon darwinii ( Fossil Mammalia , pp. 63–73). …
- … Bibliography Fossil Mammalia : Pt 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle … during …
- … Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. Mammalia : Pt 2 of The zoology of the voyage of HMS …
To W. D. Fox [15 June 1838]
Summary
Has not been well.
Plans a geological trip to Glen Roy in Scotland.
Thanks WDF for remembering the crossing of animals, CD’s "prime hobby". "I really think some day I shall be able to do something on that most intricate subject species and varieties."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [15 June 1838] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-419 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Smith, Elder and Co. 1839–41. Fossil Mammalia : Pt 1 of The zoology of the voyage of …
- … London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1839–43. Mammalia : Pt 2 of The zoology of the voyage of HMS …
- … for which he wrote notes. For Fossil Mammalia he contributed a geological introduction on …
- … where the fossils were found, for Mammalia and Birds the notes describe habits and ranges …
To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
Summary
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1839]
Summary
CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 6 June [1839] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-517 |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2386 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … London: University of Chicago Press. 1977. Mammalia : Pt 2 of The zoology of the voyage of …
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. …
- … reviewed in Annals of N. H. Waterhouses Mammalia, & speculated that these 2 corners, now …
- … Robert Waterhouse’s Natural history of Mammalia ( Waterhouse 1846–8 ), which dealt with …
From Charles Lyell 18 September 1860
Summary
It is strange that Agassiz, who is for the "sanctity of species", should favour Pallas’s view of hybrid origin of domestic dog.
CL has not meant to advocate successive creation of types but to question assumption that all mammals descended from single stock. Why should a Triassic reptile or bird not move towards mammalian form because an ancestral marsupial has appeared? Believes recent appearance of rodents and bats in Australia explains their lack of development.
Can CD supply a reference on plant extinction on St Helena?
Believes marsupials better adapted for surviving drought in Australia than higher mammals.
Will not press argument about lack of development of mammalian forms on islands, but CD should note objection.
Does CD’s belief in multiple origin of dogs affect faith in single primates in different regions?
Does time lapse between putative independently descended mammalian forms mean first form will "keep down" later incipient one? Thus Homo sapiens has prevented improvement of other anthropomorphs; bats and rodents on islands would prevent improvement of lower forms into mammalian.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 187–95d) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2920C |
Matches: 7 hits
- … In Richard Owen’s classification of the Mammalia, the Gyrencephala included all the higher …
- … Can we assume as at all probable that all mammalia came from one original Stock instead of …
- … proposed as those of the first coming in of mammalia. But as I understand your views this …
- … them as the probable starting point of mammalia, what influence would the development of a …
- … a geological period, the earlier formed mammalia died out. I have always expected to find …
- … y r . argument respecting absence of other mammalia in islands, as I cannot conceive such …
- … to the want of migratory powers of mammalia, & that alone w d not do, unless the coming in …
To Hugh Falconer [7 March 1857]
Summary
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [7 Mar 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3791 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … but it was the rule in the forms of Mammalia first introduced into this planet.... The …
- … or normal dentition of the placental Mammalia. R. Owen 1850 , also cited by Falconer, is …
- … of specialisation within a group such as the Mammalia increased over geological time. In …
- … CD refers to Owen’s classification of the Mammalia, in which the Gyrencephala included the …
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
From [G. R. Waterhouse] [1943?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of fossil Mammalia from the caverns of Minas Gerais purchased by the British Museum from Claussen.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1843?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-656 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of fossil Mammalia from the caverns of Minas Gerais …
From T. M. Reade 7 May 1874
Summary
Studying glacial drift in NW. England, he finds evidence of intense glacial activity, but the molluscan fauna does not appear to indicate a low sea temperature. Requests information on Tierra del Fuego molluscs for comparison.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9443 |
From the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 31 August 1837
Summary
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury approve CD’s request for £1000 in aid of publication [of Zoology].
Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1837 |
Classmark: | Fossil Mammalia, pp. ii–iii |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Fossil Mammalia , pp. ii–iii Secretary of the Post Office Treasury Chambers 31 Aug 1837 …
To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653 |
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George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …