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From W. J. L. Wharton   [15 September 1874]

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Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.

Author:  William James Lloyd Wharton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 69: A63–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9641

Matches: 31 hits

  • … Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa. …
  • … separated from land by a deep-water channel like ‘barrier reefs’ ( Coral reefs , p.  51). …
  • … end upheaval has been at work, as water worn coral crops up in the flat plains between the …
  • … theorised about the link between subsidence and the formation of coral reefs, arguing that …
  • … because reef-forming corals could only live at limited …
  • … depths, a great thickness of coral rock …
  • … a nearly perfectly flat, dead, altered coral ledge, more or less dry at low water, without …
  • … on the upheaved ancient and compressed coral of which the island is principally formed. …
  • … CD referred to Owen’s charts of the east coast of Africa in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp.  247– …
  • … observations of the depth of living coral in his chapter on geology in the Admiralty …
  • … by Saul B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … cannot call to mind any rock beyond the coral, which crops out at considerable heights, ( …
  • … are mostly (particularly to the south. ) coral, worn & roughened undoubtedly by water. …
  • … ft above the sea. Several isolated hills of coral stand on these plains, their bases being …
  • … appearance. The whole thickness of the coral of Zanzibar must be very great. The coast of …
  • … and detached reefs are of two kinds, those growing up with living coral; and those …
  • … of dead coral, like the island washing gradually away. Of these latter many still …
  • … upheaval; others afford a foundation to coral sand banks that dry high at low water; & …
  • … still more interesting question of growing coral, I have been unable to make any such, as …
  • … suggested that corals had been growing slowly upward …
  • … on a subsiding foundation (see Coral reefs , pp.  47–50, 72–3, and 90–4). …
  • … Zanzibar is reproduced in the third edition of Coral reefs , p.  256. For more on the reef …
  • … Columbia gazetteer of the world ). In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p.  248, CD wrote: ‘On the main …
  • … I should have thought had been formed of coral, had it not been said (Boteler’s Nar.   …
  • … to Africa and Arabia ( Boteler 1835 ). Coral reefs 2d ed.  was published in June 1874 ( …
  • … extending seaward, though there is living coral on its steep face visible a few feet below …
  • … of its perimeter, a cliff of the same old coral from 10 to 20 ft in height, undermined by …
  • … greater or less distance, showing water worn coral whereever the surface rock is exposed, …

From Alfred Tylor   19 November 1868

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On corals and coral-formation.

Author:  Alfred Tylor
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Nov 1868
Classmark:  DAR 178: 198
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6467

Matches: 19 hits

  • … On corals
  • … and coral-formation. …
  • … Society, had opened the discussion of Tylor’s paper. He mentioned that dead corals in the …
  • … neighbourhood of coral reefs extended to ‘vast depths’ ( A.  Tylor 1868 , p.  11). CD had …
  • … miles supposes the temperature was suitable for corals to live, would not that explain the …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … report of a discussion respecting our Coral formations in the Pacific I have looked …
  • … in finding any acount of any recent thick coral deposit which has been elevated Could you …
  • … me if there is any thick bed of miocene coral described   I mean a bed hundreds of feet …
  • … composed exclusively of reef building coral cills without volcanic or stratified rock. …
  • … 300 ft as the greatest elevation recent coral beds have been elevated in the Pacific and …
  • … 11–12). CD’s main work on the topic was Coral reefs ; he also wrote an article, ‘Elevation …
  • … Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations. [Read 31 May 1837. ] By Charles …
  • … from 1846 to 1850, when it surveyed in the Coral Sea (the Pacific Ocean between Australia, …
  • … that the ground touched by the sounding lead at great depth outside the coral reefs was …
  • … also made by corals but I do not find that you have expressed a …
  • … to that effect but you state pieces of dead coral have been dredged up at great depths and …
  • … leave it to be inferred that it may be of coral formations If the hypothesis of a fall in …

From J. D. Dana   21 July 1874

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Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)].

JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [Corals and coral islands].

Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands.

Author:  James Dwight Dana
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 69: A71–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9556

Matches: 24 hits

  • … esteem | very truly yours | James D.  Dana Top of letter : ‘ Keep—Coral Islands ’ pencil …
  • … Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)]. JDD …
  • … correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [ Corals
  • … and coral islands ]. Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
  • … Joseph Pitty. 1842. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; with suggestions as to …
  • … New York: New York Public Library. Stoddart, David R. 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, …
  • … Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s laboratory: evolutionary theory and …
  • … received the copy of your excellent work on Coral Reefs, which you kindly addressed to me, …
  • … much interested in examining his maps of coral islands & others bordered by reefs in the …
  • … Wilkes did not believe in your theory of coral islands, and has published in his book a …
  • … Dana’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Coral reefs 2d ed. (see …
  • … Appendix IV). In his book Corals
  • … and coral islands ( Dana 1872 , p.  320), Dana wrote: While, therefore, a distant barrier …
  • … distribution has been duly considered. In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p.  vi, CD pointed out that …
  • … expounded his own theory of the formation of coral islands. He argued that CD’s theory of …
  • … from continents could account for the shape of coral islands ( ibid. , pp.  288–9). …
  • … of Natural History 4 (1842–4): 66–105, 137–62. ] ]Dana, James Dwight. 1872. Corals
  • … and coral islands . New York: Dodd & Mead. …
  • … Dana, James Dwight. 1875. Corals
  • … and coral islands. 2d edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. Haskell, …
  • … in the second edition of his book ( Dana 1875 , p.  274). In Coral reefs 2d ed. , CD …
  • … to Joseph Pitty Couthouy’s Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific ( Couthouy 1842 ). …

From T. C. Brown   12 May 1875

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Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.

Author:  Thomas Crowther Brown
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 160: 324
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9976

Matches: 29 hits

  • … Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’ …
  • … s 2d edition [ Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near …
  • … of geology. 5th edition. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
  • … Sir On looking over your new Edition of “Coral Reefs” which embraces not only your own …
  • … Reefs , and does not enter upon Fossil Coral Reefs. I am quite aware that most of the …
  • … Geologist a disjointed collection of Corals—for description of which we have the Paleon …
  • … what I suppose to be an early stage of a Coral that must have been a hollow sphere, into …
  • … which in life water entered, and when by degrees the coral marble filled it. …
  • … No 2 being the same coral filled up. No 1 shews the Oolitic matter which must have been …
  • Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in 1874 ( Publishers’ …
  • … circular , 1 July 1874). CD’s book focused on coral reefs from a geological perspective, …
  • … and did not discuss the coral species present in the formations; …
  • … the only mention of semi-fossil coral (on one of highest mountains of Tahiti) occurs on …
  • … Haime’s A monograph of the British fossil corals was continued by Peter Martin Duncan ; …
  • … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
  • … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
  • … Jurassic. The genera Nullipora and Millepora (also known as fire coral) had long been …
  • … considered to be primitive corals (see Lamarck 1801 , pp. …
  • … 373 and 374), but neither is a true coral. …
  • … In Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
  • … were formed by many different species of coral adapted to live at different depths and …
  • … are defective in a very important part which forms the basis of your work on Coral Reefs— …
  • … viz Coral History— This therefore leaves a …
  • … vacuum to be filled, in Fossil Coral Reefs, and which if you were young, might afford …
  • … greatly help to establish the truths of all Coral History. My object in thus addressing …
  • … beds of the Great Oolite a distinct Coral Reef, and it being located near my residence, I …
  • … last four years, been collecting the Corals, numbering nearly 100 species and varieties, …
  • … the ordinary species, and also Parasitic Corals. — It likewise clearly shews the cause of …

From J. V. Carus   16 April 1876

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Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1876
Classmark:  DAR 69: A74–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10453

Matches: 27 hits

  • … Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints. …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs 3d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs, with an appendix by Prof. T. G. Bonney. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1889. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … my thanks   Now I have got through the Coral-Reefs, and in reading this book some doubts …
  • … Carus, 23 March 1876 . Carus was translating Coral reefs 2d ed. into German (Carus trans. …
  • … 1876a). The page references are to Coral reefs 2d ed. Adam Johann von Krusenstern’s …
  • … to ‘Malcolmson’ in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 135, and in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. …
  • … 180. Coral reefs 3d ed. was edited by Thomas George Bonney . The two changes above …
  • … pp. 137 and 140 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 183 and 188 respectively. …
  • … 153, 156, and 156 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 200, 203, 206, and 207 …
  • … pp. 160 and 166 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 212 and 218 respectively. …
  • … 1876a, p. 170, and ‘Baxos de Candelaria’ in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 224. Francis Darwin …
  • … wrote to CD with information about coral reefs in 1874 (see, for example, Correspondence …
  • … in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 171, and in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 224. The three changes above …
  • … pp. 173, 180 and 185 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 227, 234, and 239 …
  • … to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 187, but not to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 241. This change was …
  • … made to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 191, but it was made to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 246. This …
  • … was made to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 197, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 253. ‘Actineœ’ …
  • … was replaced with ‘Actiniœ’ in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 218, and Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. …
  • … 278. In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p. 218, CD had referred to Jean François Marie de Surville …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … as the ‘Hydrographical Memoir’ throughout Coral reefs 2d ed. CD was referring to Cyrille …
  • … These clarifications were reflected in Carus trans. 1876a but not in Coral reefs 3d ed. …
  • … No further editions of Coral reefs were produced in CD’s lifetime. ‘Macolmson’ was changed …

From W. J. L. Wharton   [15 September 1874 or later]

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Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].

Author:  William James Lloyd Wharton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Sept 1874 or later]
Classmark:  DAR 69: A67–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9205

Matches: 19 hits

  • … Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean]. …
  • … continually wash enough sand against the live coral to materially check its growth & the …
  • … 1851, p.  201). CD may refer to his chart showing the distribution of coral reefs across …
  • … the globe (see Coral reefs , p.  ii). …
  • … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … however, are small districts of upraised coral. The one to the S.W.  is the largest, & is …
  • … that there must have been a second eruption, during which lava overlaid the coral beds. …
  • … In height this coral varies between 10 & 100 f t .  and the surface is sometimes …
  • … undulations & blocks. All this upraised coral has been much exposed to water action, & is …
  • … into lower cavities. The Eastern coral is very limited in extent, & is principally …
  • … the fringing reef very narrow. Small ledges of coral are to be found in all the Eastern …
  • … Trous d’argent’ are filled with upraised coral. The inner side of P t . Coton exhibits …
  • … Pierrot” “Flat” & “Pianqui” are of coral, &, with the exception of a small mound on “ …
  • … f t high. So much for the super marine coral. Fringing reef . The existing fringing reef …
  • … bottom sloping off to the level of the old & now submarine coral flat: Submarine reef . …
  • … This submarine coral flat stretches off with a very uniform depth of about 35 fathoms of …
  • … of the two Islands. The curious points to me in the distribution of coral are (1) The …
  • … absence of all upraised coral from the north & south sides of the present Island.   …

To Peter Martin Duncan?   18 July [1861]

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He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.

Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Peter Martin Duncan
Date:  18 July [1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3212

Matches: 18 hits

  • … any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals. Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana. …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … that the classification of the stony corals would be very difficult. From all that I know …
  • … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
  • … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
  • … 30 years since I began examining living corals, but other pursuits interfered & I have …
  • … undertake a study of the British fossil corals. His monograph was eventually published by …
  • … and made notes on a number of different corals and coralline algae during the Beagle …
  • … voyage. His descriptions of corals are included in his Zoological diary (DAR 30 and 31), …
  • … his drawings of these specimens are in DAR 29.3. A few of his observations on corals were …
  • … published in Coral reefs . See Porter 1985 . …
  • … Dana had published a description of the corals and actinia collected during the voyage of …
  • … Exploring Expedition ( Dana 1848 ). Of the 483 corals described, 229 were new, and Dana’s …
  • … a discussion of CD’s interest in studying coral structure and generation processes, see …
  • … Sloan 1985 , pp.  104–9. The stony corals or madrepores (Scleractinia) …
  • … are common forms in coral reefs. CD had been …
  • … friend Charles Stokes to study shallow-water corals such as Fungia during his voyage. See …

To Charles Lyell   [19 February 1840]

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Remarks on his illness and treatment.

Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [19 Feb 1840]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-554

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  • … Remarks on his illness and treatment. Discusses MS [of Coral reefs ] and changes …
  • … in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches . Mentions C. …
  • … G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs. …
  • … Ehrenberg 1834 , p.  50), but CD was told by British naval officers of corals growing at …
  • … twenty-five fathoms ( Coral reefs, p.  83). …
  • … CD means that living corals do not exist at great depths. …
  • … Darwin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … your note, I have read over my chapter on Coral, & I find I am prepared to stand by almost …
  • … Journal of researches, pp.  539–69. Coral reefs was not published until May 1842. C.   …
  • … Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg observed corals growing only to a depth of six fathoms ( …
  • … in my volume. — Although I believe that coral-reefs do not exist at greater depth than 20  …
  • … to what Ehrenberg has said, that in the Red Sea there are beds of coral in 25 fathoms. — …
  • … The argument drawn from the fact of coral-reefs not existing at great, that there must …
  • … with reefs, stands firm, even should coral-reefs be hereafter found to live at much …
  • … immense in which every island is low, & of coral-formation. My classification of reefs is …

From T. M. Reade   21 September 1880

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Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].

Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].

Author:  Thomas Mellard Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 176: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12720

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  • … Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the …
  • … structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): …
  • … brought within the limits of reef building coral growth, a very far fetched idea— I remain …
  • … Reade 1880 ; CD’s latest published work, on coral reefs …
  • … was Coral reefs 2d ed. John Murray (1841–1914) . …
  • … s paper ‘On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands’ was published in the …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
  • … John. 1880. On the stucture and origin of coral reefs and islands. [Read 5 April 1880. ] …
  • … problems dealt with in your researches on Coral Atolls &c— When in Edinburgh last Autumn I …
  • … to me his theories of the formation of coral reefs &c as since set forth in this paper …
  • … to account for everything relating to coral reef growth without subsidence & elevation— It …

To Smith, Elder & Co.   8 January 1874

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Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.

Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.

Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Smith, Elder & Co
Date:  8 Jan 1874
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9233F

Matches: 14 hits

  • … Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs , and he will soon consider any …
  • … of Researches the following week. Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned. …
  • … be so good as to return my copy of the Coral reefs to 6 Queen Anne S t Cavendish Sq — & …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … The first edition of Coral reefs was published in 1842 by Smith, Elder & Co . CD was in …
  • … CD’s preface to the new edition is dated February 1874 (see Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp.   …
  • … CD refers to images that first appeared in Coral reefs , pp.  2, 3, 48, 98, 100, and were …
  • … 469, 471, 473, 474. These images appear in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp.  2, 65, 131, 133.In …
  • … and woodblocks if they decided not to make a new edition of Coral reefs . CD had asked …
  • … Dalton Hooker whether he had a copy of Coral reefs that he could use for corrections (see …
  • … that you will publish a new edition of my Coral reefs; & earnestly hope that it will not …

To Ernst Haeckel   21 January [1876]

Summary

EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  21 Jan [1876]
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10363

Matches: 18 hits

  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … specifically praised CD’s pioneering work on coral reefs ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21, 41 n. …
  • … the same time poetical description of coral-reefs & of their innumerable co-inhabitants. I …
  • … enthusiasm when I first wandered over a coral-reef, but I did not admire the beauty of the …
  • … forces. — With respect to the formation of coral islands I think that you lay too much …
  • … on erhebung : the wear & tear of the corals by the breakers & the action of the wind are …
  • … January 1876 . Arabische Korallen (Arabian corals; Haeckel 1876b ). Erhebung : elevation, …
  • … as a principal cause in the formation of coral islands ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21–2). CD’s …
  • … of waves and wind in breaking down the coral and depositing other debris, were sufficient …
  • … to account for the increase in dry land on coral islands ( …
  • … 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Dana, James Dwight. 1872. Corals
  • … and coral islands . New York: Dodd & Mead. Würffel, Rheinhard. 2000. Lexikon deutscher …
  • … see Coral reefs , pp. 20–1). …
  • … CD had strengthened this argument in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
  • … James Dwight Dana’s suggestion that many coral islands showed evidence of recent uplift ( …

To J. D. Hooker   27 [March 1874]

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Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed.]; will JDH lend her his copy?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 [Mar 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 320
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9373

Matches: 10 hits

  • … Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed. ]; will JDH lend her his …
  • … first asked to borrow Hooker’ s copy of Coral reefs in January (see letters to J.  D.   …
  • … so troublesome. Etty is helping me over Coral-Reefs. — Will you lend her for a month your …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … Emma Litchfield was correcting the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letter to H.  E.   …
  • … 21 [March 1874] ). There were three maps in Coral reefs ; CD made minor revisions to the …
  • … map of the Pacific and Indian Oceans in Coral reefs 2d ed. , plate 3. …

From Horatio Piggot   20 March 1875

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Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.

Author:  Horatio Piggot
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Mar 1875
Classmark:  DAR 69: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9894

Matches: 9 hits

  • … advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in …
  • … next edition of Coral reefs . …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
  • Coral reefs 2d ed.  was published in 1874. The book contained …
  • … There were no illustrations of corals (class Anthozoa) or other fauna associated with …
  • … work on the structure & distribution of Coral Reefs, the great advantage that would accrue …
  • … colored, if necessary, of the different Coral producing Zoophytes mentioned in your work. …
  • … of the most important of them: Works on Coral are not often accessible in the Country: …

To J. V. Carus   23 March 1876

Summary

Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  23 Mar 1876
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10426

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  • … Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs , 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned. …
  • … the basal part formed of agglutinated fragments & coral sand together with some of …
  • … the more delicate deep-water corals” D r All e n is a misprint for All a n at p 68 My dear …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs 3d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs, with an appendix by Prof. T. G. Bonney. By …
  • … This clause was added to the German translation of Coral reefs 2d ed. (Carus trans. 1876a, …
  • … p. 52). It was not added to Coral reefs 3d ed. The reference …
  • … Brands Allan ; this correction was made to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 68, and to the German …
  • … in large part of agglutinated fragments & coral sand; and when I spoke of the vertical …

To ?   10 July [1872–3]

Summary

Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  10 July [1872-3]
Classmark:  Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8404F

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  • … Sends publication details of Coral reefs , which he thinks is now only available …
  • … of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … title. “The structure & distribution of Coral Reefs 1842, Smith, Elder & Co London. ”— I …
  • … does not mention the second edition of Coral reefs , which appeared in May or June 1874 ( …
  • … 22, letter from G. H. Darwin, 30 May 1874 ). Coral reefs . Volcanic islands (published in …
  • … 1846) were reissued by Smith, Elder with Coral reefs in a single volume in 1851 ( Geology …
  • … of the ‘Beagle’ : Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …

To Charles Lyell   6 [July 1841]

Summary

Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. G. Ehrenberg. His conception of the formation of Bermuda.

Pessimistic about the effect of his poor health on his scientific work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  6 [July 1841]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.24)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-602

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  • … in case by chance you should want to ask me any questions about Coral-Masses Shrewsbury …
  • … Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. …
  • … Ministry of Defence. Moresby provided CD with extensive descriptions of coral reefs ( …
  • … see Coral reefs, pp.  22, 83, 191–6). The Lyells were preparing to leave on a year’s trip …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … in Radnorshire, Wales, where he examined the corals of the Wenlock limestone, a Silurian …
  • … have enjoyed to have followed you about the coral-limestone— I once saw close to Wenlock, …
  • … 119–20 of his Glen Roy notebook (DAR 130). Described in Coral reefs, pp.  188–91. Ibid. , …
  • … pp.  196–205. Plate III (a world map) in Coral reefs is coloured as follows: dark blue for …
  • … reefs of an irregular form, reefs not based on coral foundation, and certain unusual …
  • … reefs in the Red Sea ( Coral reefs, pp.  119–23). Ehrenberg 1834 . Robert Moresby , a …
  • … rough drawing, I remember, of the masses of coral— But the degree in which the whole mass …
  • … of mud seems to have invaded & covered a coral reef—leaving but very few islets yet free …
  • … suggestion of a neutral tint for such coral-reefs, as I am uncertain about, but I almost …
  • … I shall of course enumerate them. — (N.B.  Coral reefs extend along nearly whole line of …
  • … flat bank, encrusted with knolls & reefs of coral, with land formed on one side. This land …
  • … edges, solidified by the growth of some coral: at Bermuda, the wind has heaped more sand & …

To Peter Martin Duncan   13 April [1868?]

Summary

Promises to send coral specimens.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Peter Martin Duncan
Date:  13 Apr [1868?]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13802

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  • … Promises to send coral specimens. …
  • … Accordingly I have looked out all the corals which I can find, & I will send them on …
  • … conjectured from the reference to specimens of coral from the Keeling Islands (see n.  2, …
  • … of London that included the Keeling Islands coral specimens. No letter from Lyell to CD on …
  • … 1869 , Duncan referred to some deep-sea corals from Cape Verde that CD had given him. …
  • … Duncan later described as a new species a coral, Placopsammia darwini (a synonym of …
  • … Tubastraea coccinea , the orange cup coral), that had been collected by CD in the …
  • … Cainozoic periods elucidated by their coral faunas. [Read 24 November 1869. ] Quarterly …
  • … Notices of some deep-sea and littoral corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, …
  • … you do not care about the soft parts of corals. I have a few notes regarding some of those …

To Smith, Elder & Co   30 October 1875

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Smith, Elder & Co
Date:  30 Oct 1875
Classmark:  Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10233

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  • … Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs . …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … being half Profits on sale of 2 d . Edit of Coral Reefs up to June 30 th . I have received …
  • … records the receipt of £2 8 s . 10 d . for Coral reefs 2d ed. ; no earlier entry for the …
  • … Elder & Co to publish a new edition of Coral reefs , but worried that they might not want …
  • … Smith, Elder & Co, 17 December [1873] ). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 ( …

To Charles Lyell   [September–December 1842]

Summary

Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [Sept–Dec 1842]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-605

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  • … Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs. …
  • … a problem for CD’s coral theory. See CD’s letter to Charles Maclaren, [15 November– …
  • … we ought to look out for upraised coral-formations (putting on one side denudation) above …
  • … 3: 393–4). Maclaren cited the lack of upraised coral formations of great thickness as …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … within areas favourable to the growth of corals) reefs are absent, which shows that their …
  • … America (August 1842) and had discussed CD’s Coral reefs with him. CD’s comment that his …
  • … it probable that CD revised his view at about this time. In Coral reefs CD indicated that …
  • … the growth of thick coral formations would require a very slow rate of subsidence (p.   …
  • … might be submerged more quickly than the coral could grow. As a result new reefs might be …
  • … Lyell 1840 , 3: 393–4). In Journal of researches (pp.  568–9) and Coral reefs (pp.  114, …
  • … 145, and 148) CD indicated that modern coral archipelagos might have been built on sunken …

To Smith, Elder & Co.   27 March [1874]

Summary

Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs, 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s charges.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Smith, Elder & Co
Date:  27 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.16-20 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.16-17, letter ff.18-19, address envelope f.20))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9374

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  • … Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs , 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s …
  • … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
  • … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
  • … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
  • … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
  • … thought that I had corrected the sheets of the Coral Reefs enough, but I find so many bad …
  • … is established from the reference to the proofs of the second edition of Coral reefs ; …
  • … copies of Coral reefs 2d ed.  were available from late May (see letter from G.  H.   …
  • … was helping to correct the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letters to H.  E.   …
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Darwin & coral reefs

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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…

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  • … out on the west coast of S. America before I had seen a true coral reef. I had therefore only to …
  • … the continued deposition of sediment by the upward growth of coral. To do this was to form my theory …
  • … Charles Darwin describing how he arrived at his coral reef theory. Autobiography , pp. 98-9 …
  • … was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually …
  • … early in September, Darwin jotted down some notes about coral formations in the field notebook …
  • … both European and Chilean formations as well as the Pacific coral reefs. Coral formations are …
  • … crustal changes strongly suggests that Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation originated as a …
  • … hypothesised a corresponding subsidence in the Pacific. The coral islands would thus furnish proof …
  • … own view of the geology of the Pacific. In his chapter on coral reefs in the second volume of the  …
  • … who had just published the results of his survey of 32 coral islands, and the Frenchmen Quoy and …
  • … aware that his view of the relationship of subsidence and coral building, if verified, would be an …
  • … he wrote out a draft of his theory in a memorandum headed ‘Coral islands 1835.’ It is the first …
  • … The impact of Darwin’s first sighting of a coral island is confirmed by a letter to his sister …
  • … at Mauritius, in which he states that ‘The subject of Coral formation has for the last half year, …
  • … mountain; to how great a depth or thickness the work of the Coral animal extends is quite uncertain. …
  • … gradually subsides, is granted to be true; then probably the Coral limestone must be of great …
  • … & Eimeo, mentioned in this journal, which are encircled by a Coral reef separated from the shore …
  • … with a movement opposite to the continent of S. America; the coral would be continued upwards, …
  • … would sink beneath the level of the sea & disappear, but the coral would have completed its …
  • … bottom . . . Let any mountain be submerged gradually & coral grow in the sea in which it is …
  • … of the theory,  The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs  (1842) was based on intensive …
  • … The first evidence of ideas that led to Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation: A geological friend …
  • … cores of [his] heart’ to have finished writing his book on coral reefs: letter to Leonard Jenyns …
  • … R. 1976. Darwin, Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs.  British Journal for the …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … He spent the early months working on second editions of  Coral reefs  and  Descent of man ; the …
  • … ). Back over old ground New editions of  Coral reefs  and  Descent  consumed the …
  • … enterprises in the 1870s, were family affairs. Coral reefs His son Horace had …
  • … with the later chapters on the formation and distribution of coral-reefs substantially revised, and …
  • … been increased by the publication in 1872 of  Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an …
  • … or volcanic activity in accounting for the absence of coral-reefs in certain locations. Darwin …
  • … also indicate that the land had long remained stationary ( Coral reefs , p. vi). On receiving a …
  • … 274). Descent Alongside his revision of  Coral reefs,  Darwin went to work on a …

Science, Work and Manliness

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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …

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  • … 1853] Darwin praises Dana’s latest work, On Coral Reefs and Islands . The size of …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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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…

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  • … of researches  and  The structure and distribution of coral reefs —both of which were to become …
  • … Within a year of his return to England his papers on coral reefs and on South America had …
  • … to be a ‘zealous disciple’ of Lyell, but his theory of coral reef formation, first conceived in 1835 …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

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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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  • … the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations.  Proceedings of the …
  • … F1661.] — The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology …
  • … F1724.] — The structure and distribution of coral reefs . By Charles Darwin. Revised …
  • … R. 1976. Darwin, Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs.  British Journal for the …

Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … 1 V Darwin’s early notes on coral reef formation …
  • … Presentation lists for second edition of Coral reefs and second edition of Descent …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … of the origin of low and lagoon encircling Islands of the Coral formation.” For – altho’ I have …
  • … safely say is very little if at all inferior to his – of Coral Island formations – in any one …
  • … down that “Their lagoon is nearly filled up with growing coral and sand” – but – here is the word – …
  • … out their mistake, only when run aground on some one of the Coral patches lying to the Southward of …
  • … that passage but the Sun being then to the Eastward – the coral was visible and she put about – just …
  • … only harbour – passing cautiously between the patches of coral rock clearly visible to an eye at the …
  • … (whilst in the Pacific Ocean) some of the circularly formed coral Islands having accessible Lagoons …
  • … is shallow – almost filled with branching corals and coral sand.” Hey presto! Why stop to notice it …
  • … as mentioned and is placed on the S.E. rn end of a Coral Bank which extends from the Island to S …
  • … six wide. The Islets are mere skeletons little better than coral reefs – on which broken coral and …
  • … – the lagoon is shallow – almost filled with branching coral and coral sand. The small Northern …
  • … it's circumference – There are many extensive patches of Coral in it but room enough and water …
  • … of the class – peculiarly adapted to the soils of the coral formation. Nevertheless Mr Darwin …
  • … or five fathoms of water upon them) dark bands of living coral appear through the emerald green …
  • … with green bushes and tall coconut trees – in the flat of coral rock nearly dry at low water between …
  • … undermining and overwhelming force. Yet these low strips of Coral Islets, almost victoriously …
  • … (being unusually smooth) as far as the living mound of the coral wall on which the swell of the open …
  • … Island there is a large bay composed of the finest white coral sand – quite level and so much …
  • … proposed the name of Keeling instead of “the Borneo’s Coral Isles” which he adopted. Of course the …
  • … been [ f.169r p.45 ] dropped – and that of the “Coral Isles” descriptive of their Geological …
  • … seemed steep to, with a beautiful beach of sand or white coral – a reef projects near a 1/4 of a …
  • … Direction Island (from above high water reach) the solid coral stone (which has been hardened …
  • … for want of time, and partly from seeing that all the coral obstructions within it would be …
  • … footed travellers by the extensive bed of sharp (growing) coral by which it is surrounded – but Mr H …
  • … but by vessels bringing it to exchange for (most probably) coral – of course, to have made any …
  • … of the origin and progress of low and lagoon islands of the coral formation – in the 2 nd that …
  • … only ^at first^ getting raised above the level at which the coral builders can work upwards – namely …
  • … – “Theory of the origin of low and lagoon islands of the Coral formation” – into a shape, which …

The geology of the Beagle voyage

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The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to understand the changing relation between the levels of land and sea. As he studied the shores of South America, and discovered shells inland at thousands of feet…

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  • … work during the voyage related to the formation of coral reefs.  For the previous two generations, …
  • … of its former shoreline would be marked by a ring of living coral.  Darwin’s inventive theory of …
  • … into three volumes:   The structure and distribution of coral reefs  (1842),  Geological …

John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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  • … Society at which Darwin read his paper on the formation of coral islands . Stokes was …
  • … valuable paper by my friend Mr. Darwin, on the formation of coral islands, read at the Geological …
  • …  these queries was the following:—`Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high …

Darwin's 1874 letters go online

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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…

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  • … During the year he published second editions of Coral reefs and Descent , assisted with the …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the only coral atoll Darwin observed first-hand. …
  • … FitzRoy and Belcher; and, last but by no means least, the coral reef theories of Charles Darwin. …
  • … in Anderson (2018) and Ross’ posthumous publication on coral formation in 1855). The Cocos …
  • … Cocos-Keeling visit was designed to gather information on coral islands as indicated in FitzRoy’s …
  • … Keeling, Darwin was keenly interested in the questions of coral formation, and a much more careful …
  • … polypii.” Ross promised a further discussion of Darwin’s coral theories, which seems to refer to a …
  • … 2018. Ross, John Clunies. “Review of the Theory of Coral-Formation Set Forth by Ch. Darwin in …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … pointed out several errors in the companion volume, Coral reefs , already in its second edition. …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … of the Barnacles !!! . . . Portlock proposed you for the Coral Islands & Lepadidæ. Bell …
  • … of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 355–6, mentioned both Coral reefs and Living Cirripedia …

Darwin & Geology

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The lessons Darwin learned from Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge, and in the field in North Wales, stood him in good stead during the Beagle voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two-thirds of his time ashore,…

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  • … the Cape Verde islands, to the heights of the Andes, and the coral reefs of the Pacific, Darwin’s …
  • … R. 1976. Darwin, Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs. British Journal for the …

Port Lewis, Mauritius

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First coral lagoons

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  • … Describes his work on coral formation and the Beagle 's visit to the low lagoons of the …

Charles Lyell

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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…

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  • … is clear in Darwin's innovative explanation of the origin of coral reefs: although thousands of …

Race, Civilization, and Progress

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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…

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  • … notebooks, he modeled evolution after a tree of life or coral that was " irregularly branched …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … of which he proposed a new explanation of the formation of coral reefs that won the support of …

2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal

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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…

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  • … the name is a decorative design, appropriately representing coral. As an example, one surviving but …

About Darwin

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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection.  But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…

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  • … America, developed a new explanation for the formation of coral reefs, and witnessed the lifestyles …
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