To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 January [1852]
Summary
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … CD’s personal copy of Living Cirripedia (1851) does not contain the extra material. …
- … Leighton 1851 , also published by the Ray Society . …
- … that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [ Lichens (1851)]. …
- … Bibliography Leighton, William Allport. 1851. The British species of angiocarpous lichens, …
- … their sporidia. London. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. …
To J. D. Dana 8 May [1852]
Summary
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 8 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1481 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine. Discusses …
- … Müller presentation copies of Living Cirripedia (1851) (MS attached to CD’s copy of Living …
- … the second larval stage in Living Cirripedia (1851): 13–14 and Living Cirripedia (1854): …
- … Society 20: 73–83. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Krohn, August David. 1859. Beobachtungen …
- … 25 (pt 1): 355–64. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … of Philadelphia Press. Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. …
- … 1850] , n. 4. See also Living Cirripedia (1851): 9–13, where CD discussed his views on …
- … precise taxonomic affinities. See Baird 1851, pp. 307–22 for a contemporary historical …
- … 18 November [1847] . See Living Cirripedia (1851): 37 and Living Cirripedia (1854): 151. …
- … 1852] , n. 5. The crustacean had accompanied copies of Living Cirripedia (1851) and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (see letter to J. D. Dana, 15 February [1852] ). Hippolyte …
- … Journal of Science and Arts . Silliman 1851 , pp. 336–7. CD refers to the blind cave rat …
To Richard Owen 17 July [1852]
Summary
Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 17 July [1852] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … his book [ Living Cirripedia , vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is …
- … Press. 1927–96. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1834–40. Histoire …
- … on the publication of Living Cirripedia (1851) , in which CD discussed the males of Ibla …
- … to fifty-five pages in Living Cirripedia (1851): 8–63 and included few illustrations of …
- … vertically from it. ’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 28). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, …
- … are discussed in Living Cirripedia (1851): 207–14, 231–44, and summarised on pp. 281–93. …
- … been obscure. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 25–8, and Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix …
- … Dana 1846 and Living Cirripedia (1851): 26 n. ). Dana also believed that, analogous to …
To A. A. Gould 29 February [1852]
Summary
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1475 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … I). Ibla cumingii ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 183). CD dissected two specimens sent by …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
- … of presentation copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (MS attached to CD’s copy of Living …
- … author’s copies of Living Cirripedia (1851) (see letter to Edwin Lankester, 30 January [ …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 17 December [1852]
Summary
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1852] |
| Classmark: | Ripon College, Lane Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1493 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 2d ser. 13, pt 3: 1–36. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … CD recorded that he sent Living Cirripedia (1851) and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) to Bosquet (MS attached to CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) …
To Syms Covington 14 March 1852
Summary
Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.
Has published one book on barnacles [1851].
Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1852 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1477 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Has published one book on barnacles [1851]. Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm …
- … Sulivan dined with the Darwins on 27 November 1851 ( Emma Darwin’s diary) following his …
- … return to England in the autumn of 1851. Sulivan had taken three-years leave from the …
- … your very interesting letter of June, 1851, with an account just such as I liked to hear …
- … gold in Guyong, New South Wales, in February 1851, precipitated the Australian gold-rush. …
- … By the end of 1851 it had been discovered that the gold fields in Victoria were more …
From Japetus Steenstrup 8 April 1852
Summary
His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.
He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].
His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.
| Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1852 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478A |
Matches: 8 hits
- … CD for his book [ Fossil Cirripedia (1851)]. His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr …
- … from the Zoology Museum in Copenhagen for use in preparing Fossil Cirripedia (1851). CD …
- … four thousand years ago. Steenstrup 1851 . The Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL contains two …
- … returned the fossils to Steenstrup in April 1851 and sent him a presentation …
- … copy of the volume in September 1851. See Correspondence vol. 5, letters to J. …
- … J. S. Steenstrup, 3 April 1851 and …
- … 9 September [1851] . In his letter to Steenstrup of 3 January [1852] ( Correspondence …
- … Ibla and Scalpellum given in Living Cirripedia (1851). Steenstrup, who was influenced by …
To Josiah Wedgwood III 20 November 1852
Summary
A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1852 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1490 |
To W. D. Fox 7 March [1852]
Summary
Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.
On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.
The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.
Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1476 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … letter to Syms Covington, 23 November 1850 ) and the 1851 gold-rush in New South Wales and …
- … Victoria, Australia. During 1851, Louis Napoleon, president of the French republic, …
- … culminated in the coup d’état of 2 December 1851, which was widely considered in England …
- … introduced bills in the House of Lords in 1851 and 1852 to strengthen the laws regulating …
- … London poor soon after publication in April 1851 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … Gully about his own health in March 1851 when he took his daughter Anne to Malvern for …
To J. D. Dana 25 November [1852]
Summary
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1492 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … London: Macmillan. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … 5). A lengthy notice of Living Cirripedia (1851) was published in the American Journal of …
- … front of the mouth’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 26 n. ), with the second pair of antennae …
- … genus, Labidocera . See Living Cirripedia (1851): 12, 27. CD means that he should have …
To J. D. Dana 15 February [1852]
Summary
Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".
Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.
The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].
Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1473 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … U.S.N. Philadelphia. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … See letter to J. D. Dana, 9 September [1851] . CD refers to his discovery of deviations …
- … to hermaphrodites. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 281–93 for a ‘Summary on the nature and …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
To Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 17 May [1852]
Summary
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 17 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1482 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the library of the Royal Geographical Society, corrected to May 1851 (London, 1852). …
To George Robert Waterhouse 8 September [1852]
Summary
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1852] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1487 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … can find fossils. Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)]. …
To Japetus Steenstrup 3 January [1852]
Summary
Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.
Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1469 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … therefore have numerous synonyms. See letter to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 16 October [1851] . …
From John Higgins 27 July 1852
Summary
Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1902) . (Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record …
To John Higgins 19 June [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 19 June [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1483 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … See also letter to John Higgins, 7 June 1851 , and Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John …
To W. E. Darwin 24 [February 1852]
Summary
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1474 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … See letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1851] , n. 5. George Howard Darwin , aged 6 1 2 . …
To William Parsons, earl of Rosse, Chairman of the Committee of Papers, Royal Society 16 March [1852]
Summary
Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR2: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-840 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Daniel Sharpe, 16 October [1851] ). The paper had been read at meetings of the …
To W. D. Fox 24 [October 1852]
Summary
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Oct 1852] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1489 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1852] . Horace Darwin was born on 13 May 1851 and was Emma’s last child until the birth of …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (2) |
The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with …
- … expired at Malvern at 1 Midday on the 23 d . of April 1851.— I write these few pages, as I …
- … her dear joyous face. Blessings on her.— April 30. 1851. Notes: 1 …
- … Darwin’s reaction to her sister’s death Aug. 1851. Etty nearly 8 years old. She appeared for …
- … Annie's illness and death To W. D. Fox, [ 27 March 1851 ] To Emma Darwin, [17 …
Our poor dear dear child: To Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851]
Summary
Marsha Richmond shares her experiences of editing the very moving letters Darwin wrote to his wife Emma about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10.
Matches: 1 hits
- … about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … he explained in the preface to Living Cirripedia (1851): vii, ‘to have described only a single …
- … In both volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an …
- … parts of the mature animal.’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 25). As a basis for his homologies, …
- … in the various genera of Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 286–7), which he later …
- … the highest classificatory value’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 285).^12^ For delineating …
- … the cement glands of the organism ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 20). This association suggested to …
- … feel no hesitation in advancing it. ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 37–8) In Living …
- … belonging to the same species!’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 293)—this discovery was unique in the …
- … devoted the first sixty-five pages of Living Cirripedia (1851), and a lengthy section in …
- … by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( Correspondence vol. 5), in …
- … mentioned both Coral reefs and Living Cirripedia (1851), but it was the latter work that …
- … to the analogy with plants in Living Cirripedia (1851): 214: ‘Although the existence of …
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
- … pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the …
- … from Parent to offspring of some Forms of Disease. 1851 [Whitehead 1851]. Packard. A Guide to …
- … [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— Southeys Life of Wesley [R. …
- … Humboldt 1849]. Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China …
- … Steenstrup on Hermaphroditismus [Steenstrup 1846]. 1851. Jan. 6 th . Pickering Races …
- … 1850].— April 5 Manual of Geology Lyell [Lyell 1851] —— 30 Annales des Sc. Phys. de …
- … nothing July 16 th Dixon. Pigeons [E. S. Dixon 1851].— Dec. 26. Count Odart’s …
- … Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR 119: 23b] 1851 Jan 27. M. Martineau. …
- … 1844]. good London Labour & London Poor [Mayhew 1851].— Missionary Life in Canada …
- … July 1 st . Edwardes Year in Punjaub [Edwardes 1851] good 16 Gleig’s Life of Clive [Gleig …
- … 15. Liebig Familiar letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Nov. 15 th Wilson Voyage. Scotland …
- … [DAR *128: 182] 83 Jury Report. Exhibition of 1851 on silk-worms & sheep, selection …
- … et de ses ràces ou varietes 8 o . 12. p. 1 Pl. Poitiers 1851. Chez H. Oudin [Mauduyt 1851] Read …
- … of Madeira with list of Birds ( some migratory ) [Harcourt 1851]. Yarrell has (read) Rev d …
- … Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read 96 …
- … 1852] grand illustrated work on Legumes [?Vilmorin-Andrieux 1851–7] 110 [DAR *128: 154] …
- … March 26. Gosse’s Sojourn in Jamaica [Gosse 1851] April 30 Journal of Horticultural Soc of …
- … 1852 . Feb. 1. Emigrants Manual [Burton 1851] March 10 th Hind’s Solar System …
- … Man’s Nature & Development [Atkinson and Martineau 1851] —— 25 Head. Home Tour …
- … of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia ] Vol I to V 1851 M. Edwards. Introduction …
- … —— 13 th Neale’s Residences in Siam [Neale 1851] 22 Sir J. Davis China during War and …
- … 1853] (excellent) —— 23 Howitts Victoria [Howitt 1851] part of (poor) Oct 7 th Sir …
- … 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … June 8 th Sketch of Madeira by E. Vernon Harcourt p. 1851 [Harcourt 1851] —— 11 Busk …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and …
- … made to the plates, but even close to publication in early 1851, Darwin told Sowerby, ‘ I like the …
- … books. ’ When the first fossil monograph appeared in June 1851, it was the third part of volume 5 …
- … of the living species; having finished writing in July 1851 , he corrected proof-sheets from …
- … the first volume of Living Cirripedia bears the date 1851, it did not appear until January …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
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…
Matches: 3 hits
- … confusing sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851 …
- … dioecious plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at …
- … he justified in a lengthy footnote (Living Cirripedia (1851): 293 n.). The problem that bothered …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
Summary
< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
Matches: 5 hits
- … the small impression that can be purchased.’ In 1851 the scope of the project was expanded …
- … in securing the Association’s decision to hold its July 1851 meeting in Ipswich. Furthermore, this …
- … When Prince Albert himself visited the Ipswich conference in 1851 amid great celebrations, he too …
- … Letter from Ransome to Michael Faraday, 6 June 1851, in Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), The …
- … of Science’, dated from Ipswich, Times (3 July 1851), p. 5. ‘Visit of Prince Albert to Ipswich’, …
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…
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … branch. Waterhouse became keeper of mineralogy in 1851 and keeper of geology in 1856, where he added …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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. …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … publications, his barnacle books ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851 and 1854) and Living Cirripedia …
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.…
Horace Darwin born
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Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born
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- … Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … responsible for the magazine's success at that time. In 1851 she met the philosopher, writer …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Death of Annie Darwin
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The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma, heavily pregnant, has to stay behind at Down.
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- … The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … in his sense of loss when his daughter Annie died in 1851. Darwin was educated at the …
