To John Higgins 2–3 December [1853]
Summary
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 2–3 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1541 |
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- … Arranges meeting. Discusses his account. …
To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
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- … Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853]. Mentions his criticism of …
- … The meeting of the Geological Society on 1 June 1853. Elizabeth Darwin , nearly 6 years …
- … care to hear the above Report of our meeting; but I do not at all expect you to answer …
- … p. 230). The Royal Society council meeting for the nomination of fellows took place on 2 …
To Charles Lyell 24 March [1853]
Summary
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1508 |
To C. S. Bate 30 August [1853]
Summary
Sends thanks for recent specimen, which gave him conclusive evidence that Verruca acts only on calcareous rocks.
Asks for a reference on carbonic acid.
Is glad CSB progresses in research on spider-like Crustacea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1528 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 9 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1512 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 March [1853]
Summary
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A21–A24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506 |
To Francis Galton 24 July [1853]
Summary
FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.
Describes his health and life at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 24 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1525 |
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- … Association for the Advancement of Science meeting was held in Birmingham in September …
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
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- … of the Ascidians. Report of the 22d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
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- … 1853] . The voting took place at the meeting of the council of the Royal Society on 3 …
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
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- … in cirripedes. CD is referring to the 1849 meeting of the British Association for the …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
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…
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
Caroline Kennard
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Kennard’s interest in science stemmed from her social commitments to the women's movement, her interests in nature study as a tool for educational reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a…
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- … in 1893-94. She also participated in a number of annual meetings for the Association of the …
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … sought out, and despite the gaps that their frequent meetings leave in the documentary record, it is …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … No. 8 (1902–1910) in the Society’s library: minutes of meetings in 1908–1909, pp. 254, 258, 268, 272 …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … [1856] ) made him unable to travel to many scientific meetings and social events in the capital. As …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species , published in 1877, …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … as the founding of the Entomological Society and the early meetings of the British Association for …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … edited by David Brewster; and Robert Grant took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian Natural History …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … tired. GRAY: He was seldom seen even at scientific meetings, and never in general society; …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … he even allowed the club the use of his own lawn for its meetings (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. …
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … when feelings ran high, were not rapidly arranged in secret meetings on horseback, but after careful …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … of London, to raise the question at one of the society’s meetings. A lively debate ensued about the …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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- … from rather different quarters in the interval between these meetings with Lyell. At a second …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [February 1878] ). Further meetings were held with Farrer and James …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … December (claiming that his nervousness about speaking at meetings led him to forget ‘a duty’ which …
