From Asa Gray 11 October 1861
Summary
Notes several cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" in different genera; feels the discovery of pollen that will act only on the pistil of another flower is most important. Believes CD should next turn his attention to investigating cases of "precocious fertilisation".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: 82–3, DAR 110 (ser. 2): 117, DAR 111: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3282 |
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- … made the botanical collections for the Pacific railroad survey of 1853–4. The greater part …
- … dates for the botanical parts of the Pacific Railway reports. Journal of the Arnold …
- … railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the …
- … my Manual p. 269, and to my observations in Pacific Rail-Road Surveys , vol. 4. p. 117, …
Gray, Asa. 1858–9. Diagnostic characters of new species of phænogamous plants, collected in Japan by Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859.] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.s. 6: 377–452.
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- … Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations …
Vancouver, George (1757–98)
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- … Cook’s second and third voyages to the Pacific. Appointed commander of the Discovery , …
Holden, E. S. (1846–1914)
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- … 97. Founder, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1889. Librarian, West Point, 1901–14. …
Kellett, Henry (1806–71)
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- … 1806–71 Naval officer. Surveyed in the Pacific, 1845–51, and co-operated in the search …
Cochrane, A. A. L. P. (1824–1905)
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- … the navy in 1840. Commander-in-chief, Pacific Station, 1873–75; admiral, 1881. Knighted …
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 December 1844
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".
Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.
Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Galapagos flora work goes on well.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 32–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-804 |
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 |
Graham, C. C. (1784–1885)
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- … expedition for the Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railway, but left the company to complete …
Phelps, E. L. (1818/19–1908)
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- … of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University …
Nash, Wallis (1837–1926)
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- … farming. Involved in founding the Oregon Pacific Railroad and Oregon Agricultural College. …
Ayres, W. O. (1817–87)
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- … on the ichthyology of the United States’s Pacific coast. Left California in the 1870s; …
Laplace, C. P. T. (1793–1875)
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- … Commanded a surveying voyage of Asian and Pacific waters, and circumnavigated the globe …
Surville, J. F. M. de (1717–70)
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- … of exploration and trade to the central Pacific aboard the Saint Jean Baptiste , 1769–70. …
Filhol, Henri (1843–1902)
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- … transit of Venus, based on Campbell island, Pacific Ocean, 1875; travelled to New Zealand, …
From Robert Damon 12 October 1877
Summary
Asks whether CD considers it possible that a mollusc could poison anyone on contact, as RD has heard from missionaries about a certain South Sea variety.
| Author: | Robert Damon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11182 |
From George P. Bissell 10 February 1870
Summary
Sends information on the distribution of various species in the U. S.
| Author: | George P. Bissell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 261 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7101 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 October 1875
Summary
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 205–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10206 |
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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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- … 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
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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…
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- … 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 – …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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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 …
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
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In praise of missionaries
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- … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …
Darwin & Geology
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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,…
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- … to the heights of the Andes, and the coral reefs of the Pacific, Darwin’s notes on geology …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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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…
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- … as assistant surgeon on H.M.S. Rattlesnake in the South Pacific (1846–1851). He pursued natural …
The geology of the Beagle voyage
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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Darwin’s earthquakes
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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…
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- … high plains of South America, the low coral islands of the Pacific Ocean, and even the geology of …
Conrad Martens
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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…
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- … an end, during his voyage from South America via a number of Pacific Ocean islands to New Zealand …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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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…
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- … 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
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'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?
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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 …
