From Caleb Burrell Rose 30 April 1839
Summary
Sends fee for admission to the Geological Society and a signed obligation.
| Author: | Caleb Burrell Rose |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/216) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-507A |
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- … From Caleb Burrell Rose 30 April 1839 …
- … Rose, C. B. Darwin, C. R. …
- … of London (GSL/L/R/4/216) Caleb Burrell Rose Swaffham 30 Apr 1839 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Sir | Y r ob t . & Humble Serv t | C.. B.. Rose PS | I have requested the East of England …
- … on application early next week— C.. B.. Rose To C h . s . Darwin Esq re Secretary to the …
Rivers, Thomas (1798–1877)
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- … Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, in 1827. Specialised in the cultivation of roses and fruit. …
- … Author of works on rose and fruit culture; contributed extensively to gardening journals. …
- … 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. 11,12,13,14,15,16,20,22 roses …
- … fruit rose family business British Pomological …
- … Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire works on rose and fruit culture gardening journals Nurseryman …
Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample descriptions of all the fine leading varieties of roses … The whole arranged so as to form a companion to the descriptive catalogue of the Sawbridgeworth collection of roses, published annually. London: the proprietor.
To Thomas Rivers 7 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".
Asks for information about roses.
Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3906 |
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- … variation". Asks for information about roses. Strange that great changes in peaches are …
- … London 2 (1817): 160–1. Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … of all the fine leading varieties of roses … The whole arranged so as to form a companion …
- … of the Sawbridgeworth collection of roses, published annually. London: the proprietor. …
- … Has a common Rose produced by …
- … seed a moss-rose? What can be the origin of the Austrian Bramble, which seems …
- … found it so) & which sport into a yellow rose: may not this be case like Laburnum? — If …
- … in CD’s discussion of bud-variation in roses as having ‘informed’ CD about particular …
- … However, in Variation 1: 380, CD discussed the relationship between various moss-roses and …
- … the Provence rose, twice citing Rivers. See the letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] …
- … shall work up such cases as I have about Roses—sports which seem very numerous, & which I …
- … I do want very much to know, whether you have sown seed of any Moss Roses, & whether the …
- … seedlings were moss-roses. — …
To Thomas Rivers 11 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for "rich and valuable" letter [missing].
Has read TR’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Seedling fruits – plums", (1863): 27] – "a treasure to me".
Questions about seedling peaches that approach almonds.
Asks whether TR has ever observed varieties of plants growing close to other varieties for several generations without being affected by crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3910 |
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- … flowers will be grand to quote. I am extremely glad to hear about the seedling moss-roses. …
- … That case of seedling like Scotch Rose, unless you are …
- … sure that no Scotch rose grew near (& it is unlikely that you can remember) must, one …
- … asked specifically about bud-variation in roses. The Baronne Prevost case was described in …
- … 7 January [1863] , CD asked whether Rivers had ‘sown seed of any Moss Roses, & whether the …
- … seedlings were moss roses’. …
- … He also wondered whether ‘a common Rose produced by …
- … seed a moss-rose’. In Variation 1: 380, CD reported …
- … Rivers’s information that ‘his seedlings from the old single moss-rose almost always …
- … produced moss-roses’, and also that he …
- … raised two or three roses of the Provence class from the …
- … seed of the old single moss-rose. Rivers’s article on seedling plums appeared in the …
From a lady [before 17 July 1875]
Summary
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 July 1875] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 17 July 1875, p. 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070F |
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- … Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose. …
- … species may interest you. The Macartney Rose, of which I have a tree, has all over England …
- … for grafting or seed-vessels after the Rose. Finding my own dying out, I tried in various …
- … was described as ‘a lady’. The Macartney rose ( Rosa bracteata ) is native to China. An …
Rose, R. N. 1953. The Field, 1853–1953. London: Michael Joseph.
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- … Rose, R. N. 1953. The Field, 1853–1953. London: Michael Joseph. NW4 705.4.c.95.3 11,13 …
Rose, Lionel. 1988. ‘Rogues and vagabonds’: vagrant underworld in Britain 1815–1985. London: Routledge.
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- … Rose, Lionel. 1988. ‘Rogues and vagabonds’: vagrant underworld in Britain 1815–1985. …
From Edward Blyth [22 October 1855]
Summary
Gives references to William Allen’s narrative of the Niger expedition [William Allen and T. R. H. Thompson , A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty’s Government to the river Niger in 1841 (1848)]: common fowl returning to wildness, details of domestic sheep, ducks, and white fowl.
Range of the fallow deer; its affinity to the Barbary stag.
Natural propensity of donkeys for arid desert.
Indian donkeys often have zebra markings on the legs.
Believes the common domestic cat of India is indigenous.
Occurrence of cultivated plants from Europe in India; success of cultivation. Ancient history of cultivated plants.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum and indicate that it was originally 20 pages long.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Oct 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A93–A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1811 |
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- … brown crayon 7.6 What … Britain! 7.7] ‘Roses’ added brown crayon 7.11 The ordinary … …
- … very similar to the English ‘cabbage rose’, but distinguishable at the first glance by a …
- … practised eye; yet I doubt whether the true ‘cabbage rose’ would thrive here, as …
- … its variety the moss-rose has never I believe been brought to flower; & the ‘York & …
- … does not thrive, nor have we any white roses similar to the English ordinary double …
- … s blush’. We have other white & pale roses, however, and some which pass as varieties of …
- … varieties of the R. sinensis (or ‘monthly rose’) thrive well. Now could you induce some …
- … no Nineveh monument give an idea of the roses which were probably grown in the ‘hanging …
- … are even now celebrated for perhaps those same varieties of roses; & how long back can …
- … be traced notices of rose-water , & consequently of the essential oil or atar-gul ? I will …
- … returns, I will consult him about early Sanscrit notices of the rose, atar , &c ( i.e. ‘ …
- … Otto of Roses’, Anglicá ). Such enquiries should be extended to all the known cultivated …
Carlyle, Thomas. 1902. The French revolution. With introduction, notes and appendices by John Holland Rose. 3 vols. London: George Bell and sons.
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- … notes and appendices by John Holland Rose. 3 vols. London: George Bell and sons. Internet …
To Robert Caspary 4 March 1866
Summary
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5026 |
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- … to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [ Bull. Congr. …
- … me; but I have as yet read only that on the rose, for I am a very poor German scholar, & I …
- … for I am not fully persuaded by your rose case; I hope your longer paper will have a more …
- … 21 February [1866] and n. 2. The paper ‘on the rose’ was Caspary 1865c ; see letter from …
- … n. 3. Caspary 1865c described a hybrid rose that displayed both blended characters and …
From Hermann Müller [after 23 February 1868]
Summary
HM is certain his brother Fritz would like to see Für Darwin translated into English by Dallas. He will make arrangements with the German publisher.
Two friends are writing Darwinian works: Adolf Speyer on phylogeny of Lepidoptera
and August Röse on genealogy of mosses.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5920 |
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- … works: Adolf Speyer on phylogeny of Lepidoptera and August Röse on genealogy of mosses. …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Röse, August. 1868. Über die Verbreitung der …
- … order Trichoptera (caddisflies). August Röse explicitly applied Darwinian principles to …
- … plant geography in his paper on the distribution of Thuringian mosses ( Röse 1868 ). …
- … for his exploration); another friend of mine, Röse, is about to explain the genealogical …
Rose, Gustav. 1858. Über die heteromorphen Zustände der kohlensauren Kalkerde. [Read 17 June 1858.] Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1858): 63–111.
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- … Rose, Gustav. 1858. Über die heteromorphen Zustände der kohlensauren Kalkerde. [Read 17 …
Trousseau, Armand. 1868–72. Lectures on clinical medicine: delivered at the Hôtel Dieu. Translated by Pierre Victor Bazire and John Rose Cormack. 5 vols. London: New Sydenham Society.
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- … Translated by Pierre Victor Bazire and John Rose Cormack. 5 vols. London: New Sydenham …
Röse, August (1821–73)
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- … August Röse 1821–73 German botanist. Barnhart, J. H. 1965 Bibliography Barnhart, John …
To William Sedgwick 4 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sedgwick |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.347) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5975 |
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3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
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< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Romanes, G. J. (138) Rose, C. B. (1) …
Darwin and working from home
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Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…
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- … to the days: 7 am Rose and took a short walk. …
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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- … Hog. on Culture of Carnation. Auricula. Polyanth tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. …
- … rs . Gores Manual of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] …
- … 119: 8a Gore, Catherine Grace Frances. 1838. The rose fancier’s manual . London. …
- … . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … Cistineæ. The natural order of cistus, or rock rose … With … directions for their cultivation . …
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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- … – a similar concept to modern tectonic plates – that rose and fell as the molten material beneath …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … scientific methodologies. The ecological movement, which rose to prominence in the 1970s, and which …
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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- … by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree. In all organic beings the …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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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…
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- … the roads were a succession of beaches formed as the land rose from the sea (‘Observations on the …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … Darwin would be produced by the London photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Barraud produced both …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … ridiculing Darwin ‘badly & Huxley savagely’. Huxley rose in response and ‘answered admirably’, …
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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- … GRAY …he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and …
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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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
