To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826]
Summary
Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-22 |
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- … To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826] …
- … DAR 92: A3–4 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 29 Jan [1826] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
- … of London 33: 83–6. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London. Ure, Andrew. 1823. …
- … Dr Andrew Duncan , the elder. Lister 1826 . Ure 1823 , p. 598. The article on ‘Nitrogen’ …
- … p. 112). Samuel Parr Eyre died 1 February 1826 ( Shrewsbury School Register ). Identified …
To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826
Summary
CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1826 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-20 |
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- … To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826 …
- … 28 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 6 Jan 1826 Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline …
- … Edinburgh. Jan. 6 th . | 1826— My dear Caroline, Many thanks for your very entertaining …
- … of zoological and botanical observations made in 1826. A notebook in DAR 118 of zoological …
- … University of Edinburgh on 27 March 1827 (not 1826, as CD states in the Autobiography , …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 1, letter from Caroline and Susan Darwin, 2 [January 1826], and letter from …
- … Catherine Darwin, 15 January [1826] ). …
- … and sick whom Erasmus Alvey Darwin visited in 1826 included Mrs O. Jones ( Correspondence …
- … 1, letter from Susan Darwin, [27 March 1826] ). Possibly Clare Leighton , a friend of the …
To Susan Darwin [4 September 1831]
Summary
Spent preceding day with Henslow; much to be done. A friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has written to Capt. FitzRoy about CD. Peacock offered appointment as Beagle naturalist first to Leonard Jenyns, who almost accepted, as did Henslow himself. CD will talk to Capt. Francis Beaufort [Hydrographer] and FitzRoy. Thanks all his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-115 |
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- … edited by David Brewster and Robert Jameson , 1824– 32. Humboldt 1817 . Coldstream 1826 ; …
- … Foggo 1826 and 1827 . The letter bears a London postmark. CD evidently carried it with …
- … Bibliography Coldstream, John. 1826. Account of some of the rarer atmospherical phenomena …
- … Journal of Science 5: 85–92. Foggo, John. 1826. Results of a meteorological journal kept …
To John Higgins 14 May 1866
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £262 8s. 8d.
Had not heard they had suffered so much from the cattle plague in Lincolnshire.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 14 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090G |
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- … in Lincolnshire was Joseph Gilbert . John Higgins’s son was John Higgins ( 1826–1902) . …
To Richard Kippist? 11 December [1860]
Summary
Orders several volumes: Mémoires du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle 8 (1822), Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 14 (1826), and BAAS Report containing Owen’s Presidential Address [1858, pp. xli–cx].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3016 |
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- … Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 14 (1826), and BAAS Report containing Owen’s Presidential …
- … 8: 12–46, 241–96. Grant, Robert Edmond. 1826. On the structure and nature of the Spongilla …
- … to Grant’s belief in transmutation ( Grant 1826 ). The paper is cited in the ‘Historical …
- … third edition of Origin , p. xiv: In 1826, Professor Grant, in the concluding paragraph …
To Robert FitzRoy [28 August 1834]
Summary
Recounts his trip [from Valparaiso] to Santiago. His meeting with Claude Gay, Thomas Sutcliffe, and others. Geology of tour uninteresting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1834] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-254 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 March 1844]
Summary
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-738 |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
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- … Ray Society. 1854. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; …
- … Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 …
- … essay on the principle of population ( Malthus 1826 ), which he read in September 1838 ( …
- … s work, closely; he re-read Malthus 1826 in 1847 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix …
- … IV). There is an annotated copy of Malthus 1826 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1871]
Summary
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7958 |
To J. E. Gray 19 January [1856]
Summary
Is obliged for JEG’s assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1822A |
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- … Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 …
To Samuel Birch 6 February [1856]
Summary
Is grateful for SB’s note and assistance. Will call upon him in London in a fortnight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1856] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1492) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1829A |
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- … Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1492) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 …
To Samuel Birch 8 April [1856]
Summary
His thanks for the extracts sent by SB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1494) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851A |
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- … Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1494) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 …
To Samuel Birch 21 April [1861]
Summary
Regrets having troubled SB during his illness. His thanks for the assistance already given.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence, 1826–67: 1493 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3124A |
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- … Department of the Middle East, Correspondence, 1826–67: 1493 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 …
To Samuel Birch [12 March 1856]
Summary
Arranges an appointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
| Date: | [12 Mar 1856] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841A |
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- … Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1489) Charles Robert Darwin London, …
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [before 3 February 1863]
Summary
Answers D. Beaton’s criticism of Gärtner’s work, defending his results in crossing experiments and vindicating the memory of "one of the most laborious lovers of truth who ever lived".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3966 |
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- … Press. 1985–. Gärtner, Karl Friedrich von. 1826. Nachricht über Versuche, die Befruchtung …
- … varieties of peas were published in Gärtner 1826 and 1849; he had originally argued that …
- … of the seed in the female parent ( Gärtner 1826 , pp. 36, 61), but in Gärtner 1849 , he …
- … May [1861] ). The references are to Gärtner 1826 and Herbert 1837 , pp. 348–52. See also …
To Catherine Darwin 5 July [1832]
Summary
Sailing next day to Montevideo. He has taken many hitherto undescribed animals. Describes the glories of the Brazilian forest.
Mentions his concern over the Reform Bill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 5 July [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-176 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1846]
Summary
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Jan 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-945 |
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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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- … find the discipline of medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a …
- … training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). However, Charles’s medical …
- … Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January 1826 , so perhaps he meant that the list …
- … Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made a list of some books he had …
- … House. Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January [1826] : I have been most …
- … 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. 12 mo: duodecimo. 11 Pennant …
- … 13 Edinburgh new philosophical journal vols. 1–19 (1826–64), a continuation of the Edinburgh …
- … copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. 16 Hudson 1826; Lister 1826. CD described Lister 1826 as …
- … A periodical by Samuel Johnson. 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. …
- … th ed. 2 vols. London. Hudson, Marianne Spencer. 1826. Almack’s: a novel . 3 vols. …
- … Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826. Brambletye House: or, cavaliers …
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: 28 hits
- … 1800]— perhaps worth reading quoted by Malthus [Malthus 1826]. Heberdens observations on …
- … spont. Hybrids. where? Sweet Hortus Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has remarks on acclimatizing of …
- … 29 Chardin [Chardin 1686] & Bernier [Bernier 1826]. Mack. says very amusing Toland …
- … [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus 1826 [Malthus 1826]— (read) Pallas’ …
- … Baber’s Biography. translat. by Erskine [Baber 1826] Lee Scot’s Narrative of Shipwreck in …
- … memoire descriptif de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by …
- … generales sur les Mammif. Isid. G. St. Hilaire. 1826? [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826] facts on …
- … 1844].) read Sageret sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826] (Gerard Hybrids [Gérard 1844]) …
- … North’s lives of L d . Guildford & the Norths [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew …
- … [Lavater 1806–7] Malthus on Population [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th W. Earle’s 60 …
- … [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley 1826] 19 th . Read well Mackenzie …
- … 8 th Sageret’s Mem: sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. …
- … I to Tom. XX —— 7 Malthus on population [Malthus 1826] (2 d time) —— 12 Brickell’s …
- … Col. Lib Aug. 25. North’s lives of L. North [North 1826] interesting Sept 13. Sismondi …
- … 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt …
- … 1847] goodish —— 20. Berniers Travels [Bernier 1826]— d[itt]o —— 26 Lane’s Water Cure …
- … of Birds Yarrell has.?— Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees …
- … Bentham has published list of Pyrenes plants [Bentham 1826]. I daresay he w d . go over list with …
- … These authors were cited in Lesson and Garnot 1826–30. 9 CD did not follow his own …
- … Paris. [Darwin Library.] *119: 9v.; 119: 1a Baber. 1826. Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din …
- … and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826. Catalogue des plantes indigènes …
- … *119: 20v.; 128: 14 Bernier, François. 1826. Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656 …
- … Majesty’s Ships Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826. Under the command of Capt. W. F. …
- … de l’Académie royale des sciences, pendant l’année 1826, pp. clxix–cc. *128: 167 Dampier, …
- … “Adventure” and “Beagle” between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …
- … *119: 20v. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1826. Mammifères. In Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
- … the most instructive and amusing lives . 34 vols. London. 1826–33. [Other eds.] 119: 2a …
- … “Adventure” and “Beagle” between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …
Early Days
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…
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- … Letter 20 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [6 Jan 1826] Darwin describes to his sister Caroline his …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … wrote to his sister during an earlier voyage (16 March 1826): ‘I flatter myself I have a complete …
- … the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). …
- … description of active and extinct volcanoes . . . London, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 23v., 26). Darwin …
- … MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., atlas. Paris, 1826–30. (DAR 30.2: 184; 31.1: 241). …
- … journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London, 1826. (DAR 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library …
- … dans les deux hémisphères. 2d ed. Paris, Strasbourg, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 56v.). Darwin Library–CUL †. …
- … Conchifera and Mollusca in a collection formed . . . 1826–30. Zoological Journal 5 (1832–4). …
- … Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy …
- … des côtes de l’Amérique méridionale . . . Paris, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 1, 2). [Saint Pierre, …
- … by J. B. B. Eyriès of Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … stretched over four decades. Ross’ chief project from 1826 to his death was developing a settlement …
- … to the Cape of Good Hope, where he lived from 1820 to 1826, while pressing the British and the Dutch …
- … his party to Cocos Keeling. Hare thus came Cocos-Keeling in 1826, after Ross’ initial visit but …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination …
Erasmus moves to London
Summary
Darwin's brother, Erasmus, leaves Edinburgh to go to Cambridge University
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- … Darwin's brother, Erasmus, leaves Edinburgh to go to Cambridge University …
Philip Gidley King
Summary
King was born in Parramatta, New South Wales on 31 October 1817, son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriett (Lethbridge). His grandfather, also named Philip Gidley King, had been governor of New South Wales. As a child, King travelled to England with…
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- … and in 1824-5 attended school near Deptford in London. From 1826 to1830 he sailed under his father’s …
William Darwin Fox
Summary
Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…
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- … John Stevens Henslow. Fox’s diary and accounts for 1824 to 1826, now in Christ’s College Old Library …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
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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- … R. Malthus’ An essay on the principle of population (1826) furnished him with a causal mechanism …
George Peacock
Summary
George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … as deacon, then priest and became Vicar of Wymewold in 1826. In 1839 he was appointed Dean of Ely …
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…
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- … His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their …
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
Richard Matthews
Summary
Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
Elleparu (York Minster)
Summary
Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
Summary
Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … railroad and bank, and member of a canal commission. In 1826, Darlington became a founder of the …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … been shewn in Section IV took place in the latter part of 1826. That I am however quite …
- … her lying with the English crew until the middle of January 1826 – when he at last left, but had not …
- … and saw these Isles for the first time in his life July 1826. On first landing ^then^ – Mr J.C. Ross …
- … races for being so kept. IX. “In 1826 or within a year of that time – Mr J. …
- … as possible is as follows – About 9 years ago i.e. from 1826 or 1827 counting back from 1836 – Mr …
- … that Mr Hare came to these Islands before the middle of 1826 His Knightly credit for accuracy of …
- … of the present writing. VI “In 1826 – Mr J.C. Ross formerly master of a …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … Malthus’s Essay on the principle of population (London, 1826), he found a clue: in the competition …
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…
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
