To Hugh Falconer [7 March 1857]
Summary
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3791 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … but it was the rule in the forms of Mammalia first introduced into this planet.... The …
- … or normal dentition of the placental Mammalia. R. Owen 1850 , also cited by Falconer, is …
- … of specialisation within a group such as the Mammalia increased over geological time. In …
- … CD refers to Owen’s classification of the Mammalia, in which the Gyrencephala included the …
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
From Charles Lyell [16 January 1857]
Summary
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Jan 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 394 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2039 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Mammalia in the whole world Eocene Thanet Sands 0 hiatus 0 Secondary Maestricht beds 0 …
From Henry Doubleday 26 January 1857
Summary
Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2044 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Suecica sistens animalia Sueciæ regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. …
To T. H. Huxley 3 February [1857]
Summary
Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.
Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2045 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … framework and fossils of the class Mammalia’ to be delivered in the Museum of Practical …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (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 …
