To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1842]
Summary
CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1842] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-620 |
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- … Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) Charles Robert …
To H. E. Strickland [11 August 1842]
Summary
Congratulates HES on producing an authoritative document [BAAS committee report on zoological nomenclature].
Has been to N. Wales looking at glacier traces described by W. Buckland, which are most interesting and clear. Has written an article on what he saw ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | [11 Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-638 |
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- … Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) Charles Robert …
To Hugh Edwin Strickland 17 February [1842]
Summary
CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1842] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-619 |
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- … Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) Charles Robert …
- … and epilogue by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass. , and London: Harvard University Press. …
To H. E. Strickland 31 May [1842]
Summary
Comments on HES’s Report ["Report of a committee … (on) nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing names that are only partially erroneous to prevent those who detect the error from coining new names and attaching their own. HES’s rule for "authority for a species" is difficult, though on the whole best. Suggests stating it boldly to prevent appropriation of species names by "tacker[s] of two old names together".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | 31 May [1842] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-630 |
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- … Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) Charles Robert …
- … L. Jenyns objects to this clause’. ( Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Strickland …
- … he gives a [ added ] wrong name? C.D. ( Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Strickland …
To J. S. Henslow 16 September [1842]
Summary
CD gives JSH Fuegian paints and spears and a Pacific dolphin hook for his museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-642 |
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- … and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. London: John Van Voorst. Russell- …
- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. …
To Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.
Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].
CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [9 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629 |
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- … 24). The specimens are now in the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology. Reptiles, the …
- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fish : Pt IV of The …
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1842]
Summary
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1842] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-624 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Darwin pedigree : …
To W. J. Broderip [31 August 1842]
Summary
Discusses toad [mentioned in Journal of researches, p. 115].
Describes house at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William John Broderip |
| Date: | [31 Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-640 |
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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Journal of researches : …
To Emma Darwin [8 March 1842]
Summary
Family news from Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-622 |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To W. H. Miller [16 October – 27 November 1842]
Summary
Mentions preparing geological notes for press. Asks whether WHM still has some geological specimens he had examined for CD.
Urges WHM to attend important meeting of Geological Society on 3 December.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Date: | [16 Oct – 27 Nov 1842] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-651 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Volcanic islands : …
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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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Journal of researches : …
To Mary-Anne Herbert [5 May 1842]
Summary
Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert |
| Date: | [5 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-628 |
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- … Litchfield. 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904. …
To Richard Owen [4 February 1842]
Summary
Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1842] |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617G |
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- … Darwin’s Beagle diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Podgorny, Irina. 2013. …
To William Yarrell [5 or 12 September 1842]
Summary
CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.
Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Yarrell |
| Date: | [5 or 12] Sept 1842 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-613 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1975. …
- … University Press. 1927–96. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
To John Price 29 November [1842–55]
Summary
Not able to assist JP as he knows no schoolmaster in the area.
Cannot answer zoological question but thinks the two Serpulae are distinct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1842-55] |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1786 |
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- … at Shrewsbury School and at Cambridge University . He was a private tutor in Chester. …
To Smith, Elder & Co. [17 May 1842]
Summary
Gives instructions for sending out copies of Coral reefs to various journals. Discusses the complimentary copies which have already been sent out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | [17 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 December 1988); Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (April 2014) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629A |
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- … is in the Rare Books Department, University Library, Cambridge. Hippolyte Baillière was a …
To W. H. Fitton 23 June 1842
Summary
[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]
CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Fitton |
| Date: | 23 June 1842 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-632 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. ‘Parallel roads of Glen Roy’: Observations on the …
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
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The correspondence 1821-60: anniversary paperback set
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General Editor Frederick Burkhardt, and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge University Press 2009) These eight award-winning volumes, reprinted for the first time in paperback, present the definitive text of all known letters to…
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Oxford and Cambridge University Club
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Intrigue at Cambridge
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- … Darwin's friend John Maurice Herbert writes with news of charges of corruption and …
2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…
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- … < Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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- … < Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a …
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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- … < Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a …
Who we were
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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…
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1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … < Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, …
Biodiversity and its histories
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…
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- … The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories , which …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Cambridge
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Preparation and specimens
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- … Letters about leaving Cambridge, preparing for the voyage, sending specimens, and news from Darwin …
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … < Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and …
Darwin and women: a selection of letters
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A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video stream. Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of…
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1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2
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< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…
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- … < Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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