To Syms Covington 21 October 1853
Summary
Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1853 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1538 |
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- … Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads …
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
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- … 24 January 1853. CD recorded the expenses of a trip to London on 3 February 1853 in his …
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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- … M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 188). However, the trip was not made until February 1854 (see letter …
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Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … had invited the young man to join him on an extended field trip to study the stratigraphy of North …
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…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … Henrietta of 20 March 1871, re. his plans for a London trip (DCP-LETT-7605). Rejlander’s letter to …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
Variation under domestication
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A fascination with domestication Throughout his working life, Darwin retained an interest in the history, techniques, practices, and processes of domestication. Artificial selection, as practiced by plant and…
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
Cape of Good Hope
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'A most imposing barrier'
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- … is looking forward to visiting John Herschel and to a short trip into the African desert. …
Glen Roy
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Darwin makes a field trip to Glen Roy, Scotland, to observe the geological phenomenon of the 'parallel roads'. He later described his theory of how the roads were created as 'one long gigantic blunder'
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- … Darwin makes a field trip to Glen Roy, Scotland, to observe the geological phenomenon of the …
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 …
4.1 Albert Way, comic drawings
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< Back to Introduction The earliest identifiable comic drawings of Darwin are these pen sketches by his Cambridge undergraduate friend Albert Way of Trinity College, which must date from c. 1828-30. They refer to his passion for beetle-collecting – a…
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- … as a boy, and recalled going on a botanical collecting trip with him in their schooldays. The …
Punta Alta, Argentina
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Large fossils of extinct animals
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- … Fitzroy wishes Darwin well on his trip on land to Rio Negro and comments on the size of the large …
Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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- … Letters about preparing for an unrealised, research trip to the Canary Islands before Darwin was …
Alexander von Humboldt
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The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … the wealth from his parents’ estate to finance a five-year trip to the Spanish Americas, where he …
Species theory made public
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Articles by both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace describing their independently derived theories of species change, are read at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Darwin was at home with his family following the death of his son, Charles Waring, on 28 June…
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- … son, Charles Waring, on 28 June. Wallace was on a field trip in the Malay archipelago. …
Tremadoc, Wales
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Pre-Beagle geology field trip
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- … Sedgwick describes the continuation of the geology field trip in North Wales after Darwin left him. …
Santiago, Cape Verde
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Opportunties in the Cape Verde Islands
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- … Sends news of his trip from England and the wonderful vegetation at the Cape Verde Islands. …
