From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Summary
Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864]. …
- … September. Hooker was attending the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
- … 21 September 1864 ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … Ages of society. Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … address. Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … lectures at the British Association annual meetings was divided into sections by subject; …
- … separate sections ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … ethnology section ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … with Burton at the British Association meeting on 18 September 1864; Burton intended to …
- … and Fitzwilliam also presented papers at the meeting drawing on their experiences (see …
- … Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of …
From Charles Spence Bate 6 January 1864
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on the accuracy of stating that barley and wheat are different varieties of the same species.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4380 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of your views “On species” At the Meeting of the British Association at Newcastle I heard …
- … Bate read his speech at the 29 July 1863 meeting of the Devonshire Association for the …
- … for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Newcastle from 26 August to …
- … 2 September ( Report of the thirty-third meeting of the British Association for the …
From T. H. Huxley to J. D. Hooker 3 December 1864
Summary
His suspicions regarding [Edward] Sabine’s treatment of CD were justified by the Anniversary Address. THH, [George] Busk, and [Hugh] Falconer insisted on a more accurate account of the grounds on which the Copley Medal was awarded to CD.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 129–30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4691F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of [6 December 1864] . Huxley refers to the meeting of the Royal Society of London on 30 …
- … time. I wish you had been at the Anniversary Meeting & Dinner, because the latter was very …
- … 1847 stipulate that the minutes of all Council meetings must be recorded, and that these …
- … records must be made available at any meetings of the Society ‘as the case may require, or …
From George Busk 1 December 1864
Summary
Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4689 |
From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864
Summary
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
| Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4620 |
From T. H. Huxley 4 November 1864
Summary
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4655 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council. …
From J. D. Hooker 26[–8] October 1864
Summary
Comments at length on Ramsay’s glacial paper ["On the erosion of valleys and lakes", Philos. Mag. 4th ser. 28 (1864): 293–311]. Prefers it to Tyndall, but unconvinced about sea action and unwilling to grant that ice power sculptures the totality of landscape.
Unwilling to support Wallace for Royal Medal.
Herbert Spencer’s noisy vacuity.
Garden varieties that are constant and infertile with parent deserve to be called species.
Scott ineligible to be Linnean Society associate because he is not in England.
George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26[–8] Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 247–53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4645 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 5 November [1864] , n. 3. At the same meeting, Tyndall was awarded the Rumford Medal for …
- … date is established by the reference to the meeting of the Philosophical Club of the Royal …
- … Orchids are going ahead fast. We had a good meeting of Phil Club yesterday. Busk gave us …
- … tundra to rainforest. There was a Council meeting of the Royal Society on 27 October 1864. …
- … astronomical photography at a Council meeting on 3 November 1864 (Royal Society, Council …
To John Scott 6 February [1864]
Summary
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4402 |
From John Scott 12 [February 1864]
Summary
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 [Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4386 |
From George Gabriel Stokes to T. H. Huxley 5 December 1864
Summary
Sabine’s Royal Society address [awarding the Copley Medal to CD], in referring to the Origin, did not contain the words "expressly excluded". The actual words were "expressly omitted from the grounds of our award". This was not meant to place the Origin on a sort of index expurgatorium, but was a simple statement of fact.
| Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 72–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4700 |
From Edward Sabine 3 November 1864
Summary
Announces that the Council of the Royal Society has awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4651 |
To Ray Society [before 4 November 1864]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin suggesting the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ray Society |
| Date: | [before 4 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 102r: Minute 1118, 4th November 1864) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4654 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … address. Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
- … Lyell’s presidential address to the annual meeting of the British Association for the …
- … 20–]22 February [1864] and n. 15. The annual meeting of the British Association for the …
- … 21 September 1864 ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
From E. A. Darwin [before 30 November 1864]
Summary
Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4688 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the argument that Falconer presented at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on 27 …
- … others at the Dublin Natural History Society’s meeting on 15 January 1864 indicates that …
- … he read a report of the meeting in the 5 March 1864 issue of the Reader , p. 307 (see DAR …
- … 1863 ). Newton exhibited the foot at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 21 …
From Hugh Falconer 7 November [1864]
Summary
Hopes CD will be able to receive the Copley Medal in person. HF sees it as doubly significant in recognising CD’s work and as a protest against the profession of religious as opposed to scientific faith.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4662 |
To J. D. Hooker [24 July 1864?]
Summary
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 July 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4573 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864]. …
From E. A. Darwin to Hugh Falconer 2 July 1864
Summary
Encloses list of CD’s publications.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 2 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 472 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4550 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … nomination of CD for the Copley Medal at the meeting of the Royal Society, 23 June 1864 ( …
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
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| Falconer, Hugh | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
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…
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … No. 8 (1902–1910) in the Society’s library: minutes of meetings in 1908–1909, pp. 254, 258, 268, 272 …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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'
Summary
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 …
