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List of correspondents

Summary

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,…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … Edwards & Co. (1) Babbage, Charles (10) …
  • … Bartlett, R. S. (1) Barwell, Richard (1) …
  • … Bishop, I. P. (1) Bishop, Richard (1) …
  • … Bond, Frederick (2) Boner, Charles (5) …
  • … Edward (1) Bradlaugh, Charles (2) …
  • … Brayley, E. W. (1) Breese, Charles (1) …
  • … Samuel (b) (14) Buxton, Charles (2) …
  • … Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. (2) …
  • … Crawfurd, John (3) Crawley, Charles (2) …
  • … Virginius (3) Dallas, Charles (1) …
  • … Dixie, Florence (3) Dixon, Charles (1) …
  • … Ford, R. S. (1) Fordman, Richard (1) …
  • … (2) Frean, Richard (2) Frere, G. E. …
  • … Symington (1) Griffin, Charles (1) …
  • … Albert (64) Günzbourg, Charles (1) …
  • … Science-Gossip (1) Hardy, Charles (3) …
  • … Hart, W. E. (1) Harte, Richard (1) …
  • … Hill, Lewin (2) Hill, Richard (b) (5) …
  • … Hinrichs, G. D. (4) Hinton, Charles (1) …
  • … College, London (1) Kippist, Richard (21) …
  • … Ogle, William (38) Okes, Richard (1) …
  • … Owen, G. S. (1) Owen, Richard (40) …
  • … Ramu, H. (4) Randolph, Richard (2) …
  • … Rich, Anthony (27) Richard, Henry (1) …
  • … Rice, Thomas (2) Spruce, Richard (5) …
  • … Stoddard, C. W. (2) Stokes, Charles (3) …
  • … T. M. (2) Strachey, Richard (4) …

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: 24 hits

  • … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
  • … There appears to be good art. on Entozore 12  by Owen in Encyclop. of Anat. & Physiology [R. …
  • … researches on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord …
  • … geological History of the Horse [Karkeek 1841]. (not read.) Owen not got these No s . …
  • … read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
  • … Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare:  King Richard II ;  King Henry IV ] …
  • … 1859]. (goodish) 1  The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
  • … British Association for the Advancement of Science (1854). Richard Owen gave the same paper at the …
  • … is confused; the citation given is actually that of Richard Owen’s paper on Dinornis  rather than …
  • … all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers . Revised by Richard Bradley. London.  *119: 19v.; 119: …
  • … Erskine. 2 vols. London.  *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839.  Primitiæ floræ   …
  • … of Useful Knowledge.) London.  *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845.  Insect life . …
  • … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806.  Essays on the anatomy of …
  • … [Other eds.]  *119: 13, 22; 119: 22b Beste, John Richard. 1855.  The Wabash; or, …
  • … of the London Clay . London.  *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852.  Hungary in 1851: …
  • … Home life in Germany . London.  128: 11 Bradley, Richard. 1724.  A general treatise of …
  • … life from 1838 to the present   time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London.  128: 9 …
  • … . 3 vols. Edinburgh and London.  128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848.  Journal of a …
  • … nature of virtue . Cambridge.  *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848.  Memoirs of Sir Thomas …
  • … Rural hours . 2 vols. London.  *119: 24 Coote, Charles. 1819.  The history of England, …
  • … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 143–51.]  128: 6 Dana, Richard Henry. [1840].  Two years before …
  • … of glaciers.  Edinburgh.  119: 15b Ford, Richard. 1846.  Gatherings from Spain . By the …
  • … 119: 8a, 13a Hamilton, James. 1854.  A memoir of Richard Williams . Edinburgh.  128: 9 …
  • … in DAR 71: 87–8.]  *128: 173; 128: 12 Harlan, Richard. 1835.  Medical and physical …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

Matches: 12 hits

  • … kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King shared the …
  • … . . compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . . by Richard Walter . London, 1748. ( …
  • … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
  • … the proceedings . .  . Cambridge, 1833.  (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
  • …  London, 1823. (DAR 30.1: 41). ‡ Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle.  A description of active and …
  • … 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t  FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’;  Red notebook , pp. 75, 105e, …
  • … Zoological Journal  5 (1832–4). (Inscribed ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836 …
  • … 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * Lyell, Charles.  Principles of geology . . .  3 …
  • … ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 …
  • … Reyno de Chile ). Part 2. Madrid, 1795. (Inscription: ‘Charles Darwin Valparaiso 1834’). Darwin …
  • … * Richardson, Samuel.  The history of Sir Charles Grandison . . .  7 vols. London, 1781. (Vols. 3 …
  • … 109v.). Werner, G. See Syme, P. [Whateley, Richard].  A view of the Scripture …