From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [24 September – 10 October 1868]
Summary
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6339 |
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- … went to London on 16 July 1868 before travelling to the Isle of Wight. The Darwins had …
From A. B. Meyer 15 September 1868
Summary
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6366 |
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- … at least three years (1870 to 1873) travelling and collecting in the Celebes, visiting New …
To Charles Lyell 14 July 1868
Summary
Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.
Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6275 |
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- … down for £50 in aid of the expence of travelling. Do turn this over in your mind. I am so …
From John Price 5 March 1868
Summary
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5982 |
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- … with the statement, ‘I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province. ’ ‘Savans, …
From Ernst Haeckel [before 6 February 1868]
Summary
Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.
Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.
His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.
Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].
Describes research on Siphonophora.
Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5840 |
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- … of me and Miklucho in our Canaries travelling gear as “Medusae fishermen. Another keen …
From Alphonse de Candolle 2 July 1868
Summary
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6264 |
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- … which has often come to my mind while travelling, which is that men readily make races of …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
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- … months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of …
- … phenomena, began to conceive a grand geological theory. Travelling inland, Darwin concluded that all …
- … he made and the mineral samples he collected. Travelling on from South America and crossing …
Arthur Mellersh
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Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
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- … serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account …
Frances Power Cobbe
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Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
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- … brother inherited the house). She spent some time travelling, then returned to England and …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … naturalist at the heart of British scientific society, travelling often to London and elsewhere to …
Florence Caroline Dixie
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On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the Scottish Borders; “Whilst reading the other day your very interesting account of A Naturalist’s Voyage round the world,” she said, “I came across a passage…of…
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- … previous year Lady Florence Dixie had spent six months travelling around Patagonia where she had …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … year started work as a land surveyor with another brother, travelling to different parts of England …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Stevens Henslow, Darwin became fascinated by the thought of travelling to the tropics in emulation …
Marianne North
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Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
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- … her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began travelling with the aim of painting the …
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … in government, Müller was appointed to the position of travelling naturalist for the national musem …
- … Janiero, a move that resulted in the wholesale dismissal of travelling naturalists. He refused …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … from a journey in Switzerland with Miss Bonham Carter, travelling alone, no doubt to the surprise of …
- … from a journey in Switzerland with Miss Bonham Carter, travelling alone, no doubt to the surprise of …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … a naively patronising ‘compliment’: ‘While I was travelling in Germany I often heard it from …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … In this chatty letter to her daughter Henrietta, who was travelling in the south of France at the …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … was used almost exclusively in the field notebooks when travelling ashore. On board, or when he was …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
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1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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- … Darwin admitted that he suffered very much from cold when travelling: ‘The coat, however, will never …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … response to discussions with Henry Walter Bates, friend and travelling companion of Alfred Russel …
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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- … Francis Darwin, [before 31 July 1879] ). Darwin advised travelling by train, although it took eight …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … was evidently attending school, and spent some time travelling in Europe (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … and the boys were away from August to October 1871, travelling from Boston to Niagara Falls to the …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … the distraction of the British public with ‘gaieties travelling & War Bulletins’ ( letter from …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … Sydney Smith life [S. Smith 1855] Galtons Art of Travelling [Galton 1855] March 13 th …
- … 119: 11a ——. 1759. An oration concerning travelling in one’s own country. In Stillingfleet, …
