To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh. …
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [1871?] |
| Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … museum. My son, the bearer of this, is now attending to anatomy & wishes much to inspect …
To Francis Darwin 25 March [1871]
Summary
If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7626 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … established by the reference to Francis’s attending the hospital and by the subject matter …
To John Tyndall [27 February 1871]
Summary
Thinks JT’s discovery of a glycerine respirator is an interesting practical discovery. CD has been wondering about the hairs in our nostrils, but doubts that JT has explained their function, since there are hardly enough.
Will ask W. Ogle to observe hairs in nostrils of different races.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 7 (EH 88205945) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7518 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to see tomorrow D r . Ogle who has been attending to powers of smelling, & I will tell him …
To J. B. Innes 13 January 1871
Summary
CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7439 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … any claim on the School account. From attending to other subjects my memory has become …
To William Preyer 13 May 1871
Summary
Obliged for letter about human ear. Comments on ears and on E. R. Lankester’s idea about the ear-lobe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 13 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 267–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7756 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Egyptians; but it is evidently a point worth attending to. The astronomer Jansen sent me a …
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Explains about the attendance at St George’s hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Alum. Cantab. ). Francis was evidently attending lectures at Cambridge Medical School. …
From William Bowman 26 January 1871
Summary
Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7456 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Such cases certainly do occur. I am now attending a workman in a factory, (sent to me by a …
From W. D. Fox 21 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent.
Notes the death of Frank Parker [CD’s nephew].
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7505 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … you have quite got rid of the miseries attending your fall from horseback, and I hope that …
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [after 9 March 1871]
Summary
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 9 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 60–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7562 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … go on repeating our own views without attending to the arguments of the other, so I have …
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
Adam Sedgwick
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One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was …
School Visits
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BOOK NOW FOR OUR SCHOOLS WORKSHOPS The Darwin Correspondence Project are inviting schools to book onto a series of exciting educational workshops starting in September, to coincide with our ‘Darwin in Conversation’ exhibition. Each school session…
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- … Risk Assessment . If your school is interested in attending then book using the calendar …
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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- … that I had during the two previous years been incessantly attending to the effects on the shores of …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … teenager was taunted by the others, but by the time he was attending Walthamstow infants’ school, …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … Darwin thanked ‘Professor and Mrs. Asa Gray’ for attending to ‘some points in the expressions of the …
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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- … Emma describes Darwin’s difficulties with one of his many attending physicians. Charles has taken to …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … tutor at a preparatory school for a couple of terms, before attending a boarding school from around …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … weeks .’ He found it ‘grievous’ to have to forego attending the renowned Birmingham Music Festival …
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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- … He also astonished the metropolitan scientific community by attending a reception at the Royal …
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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- … Roberts, a Catholic priest and friend of Mivart’s, who was attending Huxley’s lectures. Father …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … An ‘accursed attack’ of the condition prevented him from attending the Cambridge meeting of the …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … the unconscious contraction of his own muscles when attending women in labour ( letter from J. T. …
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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- … Wedgwoods for the summer, and Elizabeth was evidently attending school, and spent some time …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … tutor at Trinity to request that he be excused from attending college lectures for the time being ( …
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…
