skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
places::England in term disabled_by_default
places::England in term disabled_by_default
0 Items

Sorry, no results...

Try modifying your search:

 
NB: Searches are not case sensitive and will find both singular and plural of any term
Examples:
floweringfind the word ‘flowering’
flowering plantfind documents containing both ‘flowering’ and ‘plant(s)’
"flowering plant"find the phrase ‘flowering plant(s)’
pl*t find any word beginning ‘pl’ followed by zero or more characters, and ending ‘t’
*plant find any word ending with ‘plant(s)’
plant* find any word beginning ‘plant’
Search:
in keywords
137 Items
Page:  1 2 3 4 5  ...  Next

Bournemouth, England

Summary

Beagle contact

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Darwin's Beagle shipmate Bartholomew James Sulivan forwards a reply to Darwin's questonnaire. …

Wakefield, England

Summary

Terror and exhaltation

Matches: 1 hits

  • … James Crichton-Browne sends observations of expression in his patients at the West Riding Asylum. …

Haywards Heath, England

Summary

Melancholia and delusion

Matches: 1 hits

  • … The assistant medical officer at the Sussex County Asylum gives some cases of expression in …

Worcester, England

Summary

Expression in blind boys

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Descriptions of blushing and expression in a school for blind boys.   …

Liphook, England

Summary

Baby’s tears

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Emma Darwin’s niece says it is too late to observe her baby's tears with accuracy. …

Southampton, England

Summary

Crying, shrugging, pouting

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Darwin's eldest son William passes on information about the action of muscles in crying, and …

Beagle Voyage

Summary

In 1831, aged 22, Charles Darwin set sail on HMS Beagle for a voyage that would change his life and the way that we understand the world. Find out about the adventures that he had during his five years abroad.

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Using a range of primary sources, including letters diary entries and contemporary images, the …

Suggested reading

Summary

  Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1855). Stickney-Ellis, S.,  The wives of England: Their relative duties, domestic …
  • …  (London, 2004). Gender, Sex and subordination in England , (Yale, 1995). …
  • … cultivating science: Flora’s daughters and botany in England, 1760 - 1860 . (John Hopkins …

Darwin’s queries on expression

Summary

When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

Matches: 30 hits

  • … Worcester College for the Blind, Worcester, England blushing in the blind …
  • … 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, England infants' …
  • … 11 March 1871 Woolston, Southampton, England letter to …
  • … 32 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Square W London, England enclosed in a letter from …
  • … 1869 West Riding Asylum, Wakefield, England   …
  • … 1870 West Riding Asylum, Wakefield, England blushing …
  • … 18 March 1870 Down, Kent, England blushing …
  • … 1871 West Riding Asylum, Wakefield, England blushing …
  • … New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, England pouting …
  • … March 1868] Chester Place, London, England? blushing …
  • … [7? April 1868] Southampton, England blushing …
  • … [22? April 1868] Southampton, England Langstaff's …
  • … 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about Auracania, Peru) …
  • … June 1870 Portman Square, London W., England (about Auracania, Peru) …
  • … [1871] Trinity College, Cambridge, England   …
  • … 7 Nov 1872 Rutland Gate, London, England   …
  • … 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, Hampshire, England observations of …
  • … 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, England letter to …
  • … 32 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Square W, London, England Enclosed letter from Dr. …
  • … 26 Jan 1871 North Bank, London, England blushing …
  • … 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England   …
  • … 15 Aug [1867] Down, Kent, England CD sent query about …
  • … Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath, England   Paget, …
  • … 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square W., London, England astonishment …
  • … Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England   …
  • … 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England blushing …
  • … 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England   Reade, …
  • … 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England extracts from Carl Johan …
  • … 13 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, London, England women and W. Africans …
  • … [1871] Victoria Street, London, England? notes on wife …

Richard Henry Corfield

Summary

Richard Henry Corfield was in his final year at Shrewsbury School when Darwin started there. It’s hard to say how well they knew each other, but fifteen years later Corfield appeared again in Darwin’s life as a surprisingly familiar face on the other side…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … of Darwin’s departure, Corfield intended to return to England and take up a new business there . …
  • … he passes out of the Correspondence .  He was back in England in 1838 where he married a woman …
  • … to work as a merchant, this time in Newton, Lancashire (1861 England Census). Eventually he retired …

Orundellico (Jemmy Button)

Summary

Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…

Matches: 5 hits

  • … island, but FitzRoy had decided to educate his captives in England and instruct them in religion …
  • … lack of affection. Moreover, Orundellico’s experiences in England had so profound an effect on the …
  • … this point, many of the possessions Jemmy had been given in England had been lost through pilfering, …
  • … to Darwin, was ‘ very happy, did not wish to return to England; had not forgotten his English & …
  • … Sulivan met Wammestriggens in 1866, when he was brought to England by the Patagonian Missionary …

George Keen

Summary

George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one …
  • … and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early settlers from England. In 1825 Elizabeth Yates married …
  • … contacts, arranged for the fossils to be shipped to England . George Keen was one of the European …

George James Stebbing

Summary

George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … property. Darwin was impressed. ‘ No vessel ever left England with such a set of Chronometers … all …

4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature

Summary

< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … variously titled Sem’s Pantheon of Celebrities of England or Celebrities of the Day . Clearly …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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…

Matches: 30 hits

  • … [ Journal of the Royal Agricultural   Society of England ]. Zoolog. Soc. [DAR *119: 12v …
  • … Paper [ Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of   England Society ]. 1 st  to 8 th  vol. …
  • … 18 th . 7 th  & 8 th . Vol of Hume’s England [Hume 1763]— Admirable —— Skimmed Sir. …
  • … [Belsham 1806] & one of D r . Cootes History of England from Ann to G. IV [Coote 1819]. …
  • … [Carlyle 1843] June 16 th . Hume’s Hist of England [Hume 1763]. to beginning of Elizabeth. …
  • … [Selby 1835] —— 30 Journal of R. Agricult Soc. of England [ Journal of   the Royal …
  • … Rennie] ed. 1833]. 6. H. Miller First Impressions of England [H. Miller 1847]. Nov. 10 …
  • … 1851 Jan 27. M. Martineau. History of England [H. Martineau 1849–50] March 16 th . …
  • … 1846.  Philip Musgrave; or, memoirs of a   Church of England missionary in the North American   …
  • … Henry Thomas. 1857.  History of civilization in   England . 2 vols. London.  128: 23 …
  • … the Lord Chancellors   and keepers of the great seal of England from the earliest   times till …
  • … 1849–57.  The lives of the Chief Justices of   England . 3 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 23b …
  • … *119: 24 Coote, Charles. 1819.  The history of England, from the   earliest times to the …
  • … of cattle.  Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England  15: 76–88.  *128: 177 …
  • … 5v. Froude, James Anthony. 1856.  History of England from the   fall of Wolsey to the …
  • … Hallam, Henry. 1827.  The constitutional history of England   from the accession of Henry VII to …
  • … 1842.  A treatise on some of the   insects of New England, which are injurious to vegetation . …
  • … A home tour through the manufacturing   districts of England in the summer of 1835 . London. …
  • … Journal of   the   Royal Agricultural Society of England  2: 3–28. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection. …
  • … eds.]  119: 6a ——. 1763.  The history of England, from the invasion of   Julius Caesar …
  • … 1704.  The history of the   rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in 1641, with the   …
  • … 119: 9b ——. 1848–61.  The history of England, from the   accession of James II.  5 vols …
  • … Board of   Agriculture; from the northern department of England . York. [Darwin Library.]  119: …
  • … 119: 22b ——. 1849–50.  The history of England during the thirty   years’ peace, 1816–46 …
  • … 119: 12a ——. 1847.  First impressions of England and its people . London. [Other eds.]  …
  • …   delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England . 2 vols. London. [Darwin Library.]  128: …
  • … of William Smith, author of the “Map   of the strata of England and Wales.”  London.  119: 18b …
  • … 11 Smollett, Tobias George. 1805.  The history of England,   from the revolution in 1688 …
  • … Philip Henry (Lord Mahon). 1836–54.  History of   England from the peace of Utrecht to the peace …
  • … of Modena . Vols. 9 and 10 of  Lives of the Queens of England, from the   Norman conquest; with …

Earthworms

Summary

As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … on worms, the class collaborated with students at the New England Conservatory (NEC) to …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

Summary

Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

Matches: 12 hits

  • … people have been working – and doing excellent work– for England, as you said. Myself [included], …
  • … name is Julien-Joseph Virey, very well known in France, in England as well, and in the United States …
  • … enormous European attention – and [receives attention] in England as well. He also embraces …
  • … in natural sciences from the clergy that you have in England. After all, Charles Darwin was quite …
  • … history, let alone evolution or Lamarckism. So I think England is quite – in my view – quite …
  • … dangerous atheism implicit in Lamarck. By 1830 in England, a lot of people are really worried that …
  • … and substantial summary of Lamarck’s theory available in England, and indeed perhaps in Europe. …
  • … in France had similar status to the Geological Society in England; however, whereas on the Geolocial …
  • … even today, enjoy something which is unthinkable in England or in other European countries or the …
  • … attention was a real threat. [?] Of course, in England, remember, in 1830, the great debate …
  • … made barons, counts. They are honoured by the state. In England, not. So, in 1832, at the British …
  • … but they enjoyed privileges that would be unthinkable in England, not for the reasons that they were …

Alexander Burns Usborne

Summary

Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … BMD ( Death index ) Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: …
  • … W. Keay. 2: 122 Narrative 2: 482–3 England, select births and christenings, 1538 …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

Summary

Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

Matches: 5 hits

  • … ), he decided to bring his four captives back to England, educate them, instruct them in religion, …
  • … and interpreters for passing English ships. On the voyage to England, the captives were vaccinated …
  • … in Falmouth harbour, Yokcushlu’s earliest experiences of England were the smallpox ward of the …
  • … time they were returned to their home . Yokcushlu left England in the Beagle on 27 December …
  • … and clothing she, Elleparu, and Orundellico had received in England may have heightened Darwin’s …

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…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … and his family had a lifetime involvement with the Church of England, and various dissenting …
  • … his older brother Erasmus were christened in the Church of England as young boys, and had every …
  • … to many of the elite cultural and political institutions of England. It was required to enter Oxford …
  • … the children were baptised and confirmed in the Church of England. The whole family took the …
  • … the period roughly between 1800 and 1870, the Church of England underwent its most substantial …
  • … secularisation of English institutions was that Church of England clergymen came to see their …
Page:  1 2 3 4 5  ...  Next
letter