From W. B. Dawkins 15 January 1875
Summary
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9819 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [3 or 17 December 1843]
Summary
Comments on GRW’s paper [Rep. BAAS (1843): 65–7; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 (1843): 399–412]. CD says by "link" between any two groups he never understood a half-way link, merely one in a long series. Observes that one cannot have a simple species intermediate between two great families. Criticises GRW’s use of circles to represent groups, which leads to thinking that groups are of equal value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [3 or 17] Dec 1843 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-718 |
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 T. H. Huxley 1 November [1860]
Summary
THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.
CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.
Henrietta’s serious illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2972 |
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 J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … man to form a distinct sub-class of the Mammalia’ ( C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 480–93). C. …
- … classified as a distinct sub-class of the mammalia (see n. 27, below). In his letter to …
- … data in his reclassification of the mammalia according to cerebral characteristics ( Owen …
- … 5). In Owen’s reclassification of the mammalia ( Owen 1857 , p. 37), he divided the class …
From Charles Lyell 30 September 1861
Summary
Asks for copy of CD’s paper ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71]. Gathers that drift of Moel Tryfan is glacial.
Believes Glen Roy roads formed later than submergence of Scotland.
Asks CD’s opinion concerning relative chronology of various glacial deposits, particularly a flint tool find in the Ouse River near Bedford.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2813-16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3270 |
To Caroline Darwin [9 November 1836]
Summary
His fossil bones are unpacked and some are great treasures. He has some geology to do: R. I. Murchison has lent him a map and asked him to look at a part of the country he has been describing.
Their only protection against having Harriet Martineau as sister-in-law is that she works Erasmus too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [9 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-321 |
To A. Y. Spearman 22 September 1838
Summary
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the second number of the second part of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Sept 1838 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1838, detailing the various costs of Mammalia, No. 2. The total expense was £47 16 s. 6 d. …
To A. Y. Spearman 20 May 1840
Summary
The fourth number of part one of the Zoology has now been published. The Smith, Elder & Co. account is submitted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 May 1840 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-568A |
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- … detailing the various costs of Fossil Mammalia, No. 4. The total expense was £47 12 s. 8 …
To Gerard Krefft 17 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for JLGK’s article [see 8331].
CD thinks it a pity that Owen shows so little consideration for the judgment of other naturalists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | 17 July 1872 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8416 |
To Caroline Darwin 13 November 1833
Summary
His troubles during the revolution have ended well.
Now plans to investigate geological formations at Rio Negro. Is concerned about the expense but cannot bear to miss seeing "one of the most curious pieces of Geology".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 13 Nov 1833 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-230 |
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 |
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- … 1839, detailing the various costs of Mammalia, No. 4. The total expense was £71 13 s. 2 d. …
From Caroline Darwin 9–28 March [1834]
Summary
They learn from a garbled report in the Times that CD’s specimens have arrived in Cambridge.
William Clift, at Royal College of Surgeons, delighted by CD’s letter about the bones that were sent to Plymouth.
Strange coincidence that Royal College of Surgeons has the front portion and CD has sent home the remainder of a skull, of which a drawing can now be completed.
Other news of family and friends.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 & 28 Mar [1834] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-239 |
From George Robert Waterhouse [April 1844]
Summary
Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.
GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2026 |
To Charles Lyell [8 February 1845]
Summary
Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.
Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].
Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-824 |
From Charles Lyell 8 September 1860
Summary
Believes CD’s argument against special creation based on absence of terrestrial mammals on islands isolated before Pliocene era is very strong. However, the absence means Cetacea and bats have not modified towards terrestrial existence. There is similar lack of development of bats and rodents in Australia. Constancy among land shells of Madeira over long period shows that the majority of their species are immutable: a minority of "metamorphic" species maintains the overall number of true species while extinction removes many. Emphasis on the role of extinction discomfits CD’s opponents since the power of generation of new species ought to keep pace. Mentions Ammonite deposits with reference to CD’s comments on their apparent sudden extinction [Origin, pp. 321–2]. Perhaps absence of transmutation on slowly subsiding atolls indicates the slow rate of selective change.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 179–86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2908A |
From Edward Blyth [after 24 February 1867]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6403 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881
Summary
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12971 |
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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…
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- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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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…
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- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …