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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

  • … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
  • … Edwards & Co. (1) Babbage, Charles (10) …
  • … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
  • … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
  • … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
  • … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
  • … Bond, Frederick (2) Boner, Charles (5) …
  • … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
  • … Edward (1) Bradlaugh, Charles (2) …
  • … Brayley, E. W. (1) Breese, Charles (1) …
  • … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
  • … Samuel (b) (14) Buxton, Charles (2) …
  • … Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. (2) …
  • … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
  • … Coldstream, John (2) Cole, William (3) …
  • … Cooper, W. B. (1) Cooper, William (1) …
  • … Crawfurd, John (3) Crawley, Charles (2) …
  • … Croll, James (16) Crookes, William (1) …
  • … Virginius (3) Dallas, Charles (1) …
  • … la Beche, H. T. (3) Dealtry, William (1) …
  • … Dixie, Florence (3) Dixon, Charles (1) …
  • … Farr, John (2) Farr, William (7) …
  • … Symington (1) Griffin, Charles (1) …
  • … Albert (64) Günzbourg, Charles (1) …
  • … Science-Gossip (1) Hardy, Charles (3) …
  • … Hinrichs, G. D. (4) Hinton, Charles (1) …
  • … Stoddard, C. W. (2) Stokes, Charles (3) …

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

  • … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
  • …  in muscles & bones of man & animals.— (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland …
  • … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
  • … 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
  • … 3 d . Series —— Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] June 7 th …
  • … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray …
  • …  Hind’s Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th  William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt …
  • … 1859]. (goodish) 1  The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
  • … 7  Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph …
  • … In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogle’s translation of Aristotle …
  • … Notebooks ). 19  According to the  DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both …
  • … is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alison’s article which was …
  • … from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has …
  • … listing the volumes in the Naturalist’s Library edited by William Jardine, a forty-volume series on …
  • … 66  The bibliography provides the titles of the works by William Shakespeare that CD recorded …
  • … CD’s collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See  …
  • … 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 …
  • … of the London Clay . London.  *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852.  Hungary in 1851: …
  • … life from 1838 to the present   time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London.  128: 9 …
  • … Jameson . London. [Darwin Library.]  119: 2a Buckland, William. 1836.  Geology and …
  • … . 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, …
  • … to the treaty concluded at Paris, in the year 1815; by   Charles Coote . 4 vols. London.  119: …
  • … during the years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR …
  • … during the years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

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

Matches: 23 hits

  • … kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King shared the …
  • … Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Beechey, Frederick William.  Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific …
  • … 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). …
  • … , etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John.  Travels in the interior of …
  • … . . .  London, 1798. (DAR 31.2: 318v.). Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William.  …
  • … 255v.; number of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William.  A new voyage round the world. …
  • …  London, 1823. (DAR 30.1: 41). ‡ Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle.  A description of active and …
  • … (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). Ellis, William.  Polynesian researches, …
  • … 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t  FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’;  Red notebook , pp. 75, 105e, …
  • … and western coasts of Australia  (includes: Fitton, William. An account of some geological …
  • … Zoological Journal  5 (1832–4). (Inscribed ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836 …
  • … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Kirby, William and Spence, William.  An introduction to …
  • … 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 …
  • … de la Plata.  London, 1825. (DAR 33: 269v.). Owen, William Fitz William.  Narrative of …
  • … Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). Phillips, William.  Elementary introducton to . . . mineralogy …
  • … * Richardson, Samuel.  The history of Sir Charles Grandison . . .  7 vols. London, 1781. (Vols. 3 …
  • … 28 June 1836,  Collected papers  1: 26). Webster, William Henry Bayley.  Narrative of a …
  • … from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay towards a first …
  • … ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Buckland, William. Considerations of the …
  • … I have got it in bedroom, Taxidermy’.). Possibly Swainson, William.  The naturalist’s guide for …