To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1839]
Summary
CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 6 June [1839] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-517 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of arrangements for descriptions and engravings [for Fish].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1839] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-539 |
To Richard Owen [1839 – April 1840]
Summary
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1839 – Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-397 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Dated from the 12 Upper Gower Street address adn the publication date of Fossil Mammalia. …
To William Shoberl [21 March 1839]
Summary
Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl; Henry Colburn |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-501 |
To A. Y. Spearman 14 October 1839
Summary
Presents the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the fourth number now published of the second part of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1839 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-538A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1839, detailing the various costs of Mammalia, No. 4. The total expense was £71 13 s. 2 d. …
To A. Y. Spearman 4 February 1839
Summary
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1839 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1839, detailing the various costs of Mammalia, No. 3 and Birds, No. 2. The total expenses …
To A. Y. Spearman 27 May 1839
Summary
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … detailing the various costs of Fossil Mammalia, Nos. 2 and 3. The total expenses were £57 …
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Colburn, Henry | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Colburn, Henry | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …
