To Robert Hutton [1847 – 12 November 1848]
Summary
Tells RH that he has secured an introduction to Lady Elizabeth Finch through a friend of his father’s. Thanks RH for his efforts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
| Date: | [1847 – 12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1040 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [20? August 1847]
Summary
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [20? Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1042 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]
Summary
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1043 |
To Richard Owen [1847?]
Summary
Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1044 |
DCP-LETT-1046
Summary
Cancelled: same as 1109. Will send carrier to collect the books [volumes of Trans Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
| Author: | John Forbes Royle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 399 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1046 |
To J. F. Royle [16 April – 21 May 1847]
Summary
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
| Date: | [16 Apr – 21 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1047 |
To Leonard Horner [January 1847]
Summary
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Discusses inclination of lava stream.
Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1048 |
DCP-LETT-1049
Summary
Cancelled: same as 1083. Discusses manuscript by DS on slaty cleavage. Thinks of cleavage analogous to his own explanation of laminated lava.
| Author: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 473 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1049 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [January? 1847]
Summary
Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | [Jan? 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050 |
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
Summary
Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
To Charles Lyell [23 January 1847]
Summary
Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.
Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].
Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1051 |
To Daniel Sharpe [19 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | [19 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1052 |
To Charles Lyell [on or before 20 January 1847]
Summary
Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [on or before 20 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1053 |
To Bernhard Studer 20 January [1847]
Summary
Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].
Sends copy of South America.
Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1054 |
To Leonard Jenyns 21 [January 1847]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1055 |
To Charles Lyell [24 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.
Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1056 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 February 1847]
Summary
Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1057 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1847]
Summary
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1058 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]
Summary
On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.
"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1059 |
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (35) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
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| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (107) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (39) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (5) |
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…
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- … [4 September 1843] To Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] To Robert Chambers, 11 …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … in the level of land came under renewed scrutiny. In 1847 David Milne, the Scottish geologist, …
- … remains ( letter to the Scotsman , [after 20 September 1847] ). Other letters to colleagues at …
- … thrown away’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ). The second geological theory …
- … uniqueness fully. Sometime before the end of December 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the …
- … severe problem for Darwin during this period, especially in 1847 and during the last half of 1848 …
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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- … after Darwin’s return to England, since a letter of 1847 refers to information sent through Mr …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … of Anat.— Instinct by D r . Alison [W. P. Alison 1847]. No 19. July. 1840 27 Annales des …
- … . Hooker. read Fortune’s Travels in China [Fortune 1847] read Lettres philosop. sur l …
- … Travels in Peru (translated) [J. J. von Tschudi 1847] Gardners Travels in Brazil [Gardner …
- … [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew Monarchy [Newman] 1847] Berniers …
- … 1843]. (Emma) (read) M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . …
- … animals 54 folio Plates. Maclise 2”12.6. [Maclise 1847] good for woodcuts. (Roy. Coll. of Surgeons) …
- … to publish one. 45 Gosse. Birds of Jamaica [Gosse 1847], recommended by Yarrel …
- … Society of Edinburgh ] Youatt on Pig [Youatt 1847]. Westminster Rev. Oct. 49. Article …
- … [DAR *119: 23] Prescotts Peru [W. H. Prescott 1847] Sleemans Travels to Khiva. 47 …
- … 1841] Edwardes. Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847].— Cunningham Life of Wilkie …
- … Edwards Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847] } Home Library L …
- … [Metzger 1841] Alison on Instinct [W. P. Alison 1847]. 79 Art. Generation [A. Thompson …
- … 1846], skimmed. miserable [DAR 119: 18a] 1847. Jan 14 th Mem: du Museum …
- … 8 th Tschudis Travels in Peru [J. J. von Tschudi 1847] 15. Skimmed 7 th Edit of Lyell’s …
- … 7 published end 1838.— [DAR 119: 18b] 1847 Jan 13 th Life of Tcholtzee …
- … —— 30 Von Ensigen’s Memoirs [Varnhagen von Ense 1847] Col. Lib Aug. 25. North’s lives of L. …
- … Sismondi. Polit. Econ. Essay translated [Simonde de Sismondi 1847], poor Nov. 1. Goethe …
- … —— 28 th Sir J. Barrow autobiography [Barrow 1847].— poor [DAR 119: 19a] 1847. …
- … Spratt & Forbes, travels in Lycia [Spratt and Forbes 1847] 12 th Putsche & Vertuch …
- … 9 th H. C. Watson. Cybele Britannica [H. C. Watson 1847–59].— —— 13 th Phytologist [ …
- … 1824] —— Fortune Wanderings in China [Fortune 1847] Aug 6 th Lettres Philosop. sur …
- … Aug 16. Vestiges of Creation VI th Edit. [Chambers 1847] —— Report of Brit. Assoc. [ …
- … th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] Physio-philosophy. Oken [Oken 1847]. …
- … 6. H. Miller First Impressions of England [H. Miller 1847]. Nov. 10 Prichard Physical Researches. …
- … Treatise [Roget 1834] 9 th Jukes Voyage [Jukes 1847]. Vol. I & II. W. F. Edwards Des …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin questions Mrs. …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin questions Mrs. …
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Letter 1140 —Darwin to J. C. Ross, 31 Dec 1847 Darwin writes to James Clark Ross, officer …
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…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 1140 — Darwin, C. R. to Ross, J. C., 31 Dec 1847 Darwin asks Ross to collect …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … shell of Concholepas , a Chilean abalone. By February, 1847, Darwin had expanded his study and …
- … work of comparative anatomy, but it was only at the end of 1847 that Darwin decided to undertake a …
- … Bowerbank, who had founded the Palaeontographical Society in 1847. ‘With respect to publication of …
4.4 Thomas Huxley, caricature sketch
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< Back to Introduction This amusing sketch signed by Thomas Huxley is in a letter that he wrote to Darwin on 20 July 1868. By the late 1860s, Origin of Species had given rise to extreme adulation of Darwin on the part of some of the younger German…
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
Elizabeth Darwin born
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Daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) born
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- … Daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) born …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … state of disarray in the taxonomy of the group. Late in 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
George Peacock
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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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- … and the treasures that might be brought home. In 1847, at the age of 56, he married Frances …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … 1980, pp. 60–2, 124–128, Worster 1985, pp. 179–80, 184–7). An appeal It is a …
