To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
To William Lonsdale [May? 1837]
Summary
Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [May? 1837] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will …
- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ ( Collected papers 1: …
- … Press. 1977. ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas …
- … of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of …
To J. D. Hooker [6 March 1844]
Summary
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-738 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species …
- … with the Galapagos, though one of the nearest Pacific isl ds . — A genus of birds, which I …
- … Low Archipelago Islands. — Shall you study the Pacific Flora. — Lesson, I remember remarks …
- … of the Flora of the islands of the Pacific, but whether this uniformity was of species or …
- … he is no authority. — If you ever work the Pacific Flora, you will find the Appendix to my …
To J. S. Henslow 16 September [1842]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 16 Sept [1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-642 |
To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more …
- … northern limits of true coral islands in Pacific, for scacely any islands occur south or …
- … with corals. — People’s ideas of the Pacific are most false. — In the thick archipelagoes— …
- … to your E & W. Boundary of coral in the Pacific, it is scarcely possible to give any …
- … reference to the immense open ocean of the Pacific. — Again The Radack & Ralix islands, …
To Linnean Society 23 June 1875
Summary
Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 23 June 1875 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.917) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10027 |
To Catherine Darwin 8 November 1834
Summary
CD has recovered from his illness.
Fatigue and depression had almost decided Captain FitzRoy to turn over his command, but he was dissuaded.
Beagle will now go no further south than Cape Tres Montes and will finish survey in five months.
CD experiences his first earthquake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 8 Nov 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-262 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … has time for & then proceed across the Pacific. Wickham (very disinterestedly, giving up …
- … useful part & return, as commanded by the Pacific. The Captain, at last, to every ones joy …
- … The Captain then talks of crossing the Pacific; but I think we shall persuade him to …
- … of returning to you all: crossing the Pacific & from Sydney home will not take much …
- … To have endured T. del F. & not seen the Pacific would have been miserable: As things are …
To J. D. Hooker [26 March 1845]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Mar 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-846 |
To Charles Wilkes [7 November 1836]
Summary
Arranges to meet CW for conversation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Wilkes |
Date: | [7 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-320 |
To A. R. Wallace 3 November 1880
Summary
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12791 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … about distribution of Land Mollusca over Pacific, but I think there must be some far more …
- … D r . Gould showed how every islet in the Pacific has land-shells. p. 157 I heartily agree …
- … on the total absence of mammals in the Pacific islands. Viti Levu is one of the Fijian …
- … the name for an island group in the South Pacific; it is now the independent Republic of …
- … United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific, 1838–42 ( Gould 1852–6 ). In a letter …
- … have there been distributed over the Pacific by man’s agency. ’ In Island life , pp. 156– …
To W. H. Smyth 7 August [1839]
Summary
Asks for details of Smyth’s Island discovered by WHS – particularly whether the islets form a ring surrounding a lagoon. [See Coral reefs, p. 158].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Smyth |
Date: | 7 Aug [1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-530 |
To J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society [1839 – May 1842]
Summary
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [1839 – May 1842] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-477 |
To Alexander von Humboldt 1 November 1839
Summary
Gratified by AvH’s letter.
Sends data on temperature of the sea in the Galapagos, South Pacific, and the Abrolhos Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt |
Date: | 1 Nov 1839 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Kasten 4, Nr. 22, Bl. 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-545 |
To William Lonsdale 3 August [1837]
Summary
Asks to withdraw abstract of his paper on coral formations ["Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific" (1838), Collected papers 1: 46–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 3 Aug [1837] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … formations ["Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific" (1838), Collected papers 1: 46–9]. …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1845]
Summary
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-817 |
To C. G. Semper 2 October 1879
Summary
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245 |
To Charles Lyell [24 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.
Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1056 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
To J. S. Henslow 18 July 1833
Summary
Fears JSH will think his collections scanty. Makes it a constant rule to prefer obscure and diminutive tribes of animals.
Now has a servant whom he has taught to skin birds, etc.
Lists four barrels of specimens he is sending.
Gives future route. He looks forward to the western coast of South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 July 1833 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 18 DAR/1/1/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-210 |
To J. D. Dana 25 May [1857]
Summary
Thanks him for information concerning Crustacea.
Comments on natural history study in the U. S.
Mentions work done by Huxley on Crustacea ["Description of a new crustacean", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 363–9];
John Lubbock on larvae of Diptera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 25 May [1857] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Silliman Family Papers (MS 450) Box 19, folder 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2094 |
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Darwin, Caroline | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
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Lyell, Charles | (18) |
Henslow, J. S. | (7) |
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Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
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…
Matches: 15 hits
- … he looked forward to verifying it when he could observe the Pacific islands. The central idea …
- … the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. …
- … Darwin had expressed to his friend his expectation that the Pacific islands would furnish evidence …
- … ‘to hear of your report respecting the islands in the Pacific, and it will be curious if you find a …
- … the Beagle and not in the field. His spelling of ‘Pacific’ suggests that he was writing before …
- … both European and Chilean formations as well as the Pacific coral reefs. Coral formations are …
- … The tone is hypothetical and speculative: As in Pacific a Corall bed. forming as land …
- … Corall forming, Coralls.– I should conceive in Pacific. wear & tear of Reefs must form strata of …
- … crust and hypothesised a corresponding subsidence in the Pacific. The coral islands would thus …
- … him to depart from Lyell’s own view of the geology of the Pacific. In his chapter on coral reefs in …
- … how such reefs could have been formed in parts of the Pacific where the water was otherwise far too …
- … with Lyell’s chapter and with the observations of earlier Pacific voyagers, notably the British …
- … in the Marshall Islands confirmed that the foundations of Pacific atolls had indeed sunk many …
- … the elevation of South America was matched by the sinking of Pacific islands: 25 June 1835 . …
- … This coral episode: Darwin, Dana and the coral reefs in the Pacific. In Roy MacLeod and Philip F. …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
Matches: 10 hits
- … N.W. n Australia – in combination with another from the Pacific (sent over the Torres Straits …
- … at the Cocos are influenced by the advancing swell of the Pacific coming on from Torres Straits. …
- … the Cordillera of the Andes – or even on the Coast of the Pacific – between Concepcion and Valdivia …
- … convicts had taken a very small craft and crossed the vast Pacific Ocean from Australia to Chile: ” …
- … the case of Australia – small Islands situated far in the Pacific, densely inhabited by Cannibals – …
- … from the Westward [ f.157r p.21 ] of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (as in the Atlantic) and …
- … instructed by Headquarters to examine (whilst in the Pacific Ocean) some of the circularly formed …
- … and reconcile with them – my “advancing swell from the Pacific” – but from apprehending that if I …
- … from a Polynesian Islander had I seen him in the Pacific. Two boys attracted my notice particularly …
- … The party of buccaneers with whom Dampier came across the Pacific from the West Coast of America – …
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Summary
In praise of missionaries
Matches: 1 hits
- … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …
Darwin & Geology
Summary
The lessons Darwin learned from Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge, and in the field in North Wales, stood him in good stead during the Beagle voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two-thirds of his time ashore,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the heights of the Andes, and the coral reefs of the Pacific, Darwin’s notes on geology …
Thomas Henry Huxley
Summary
Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … as assistant surgeon on H.M.S. Rattlesnake in the South Pacific (1846–1851). He pursued natural …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … being prepared for a survey voyage to South America and the Pacific. The letters that Darwin …
The geology of the Beagle voyage
Summary
The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to understand the changing relation between the levels of land and sea. As he studied the shores of South America, and discovered shells inland at thousands of feet…
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- … the harbour at Concepcion, Chile, several feet out of the Pacific Ocean. Some of Darwin’s …
Darwin & the Geological Society
Summary
The science of geology in the early nineteenth century was a relatively new enterprise forged from the merging of several distinct traditions of inquiry, from mineralogy and the very practical business of mining, to theories of the earth’s origin and the…
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- … volcanoes. He argued, for example, that sections of the Pacific Ocean floor were sinking in …
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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- … —On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the …
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: 3 hits
Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … high plains of South America, the low coral islands of the Pacific Ocean, and even the geology of …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … an end, during his voyage from South America via a number of Pacific Ocean islands to New Zealand …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of alternate zones of elevation and depression in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’. It also mentioned …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … Blossom as assistant surveyor to Captain F.W. Beechey on a Pacific voyage of 1825-28. In HMS …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … and place at the table with the commander in chief of the Pacific Station were held out as …