To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 25 [April 1853]
Summary
Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1379 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Summary
Writes concerning marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To [William Sharpey] [1853–72?]
Summary
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | [1853–72?] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13892 |
To C. S. Bate 10 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1471 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
To Albany Hancock 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1498 |
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
To Thomas Salt 31 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499F |
To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
To Albany Hancock 12 February [1853]
Summary
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1501 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 18 February 1853
Summary
Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1503 |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
From Albany Hancock 25 February 1853
Summary
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
| Author: | Albany Hancock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1505 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 March [1853]
Summary
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A21–A24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506 |
To Thomas Salt 15 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506F |
From R. Carden 18 March 1853
Summary
Asks when the Transfer will be prepared, so he can have the money ready.
| Author: | Robert Carden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1853 |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506G |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 19 March [1853]
Summary
Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1507 |
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| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hancock, Albany | (6) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Hancock, Albany | (7) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
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…
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- … of the common barnacles (the Lepadidae and Balanidae) in 1853. Upon dissecting Alcippe and …
- … of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), Darwin …
- … received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1853, even before completing the second …
- … vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. have voted you the …
- … printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 355–6, mentioned both Coral reefs …
- … conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), …
Scientific Practice
Summary
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…
1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
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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- … about Yokcushlu was also shared with Simms Covington in 1853 . Yokcushlu was next heard 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…
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- … Martineau [H. Martineau 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells …
- … Land [Twamley 1852] Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s …
- … relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 9–11 89 1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in Gardeners Ch …
- … Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in …
- … Principles of Commerce & Commercial Law: Lectures [Stephen 1853] Warrens Diary of a …
- … Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex [Devereux 1853] M rs . Colin Mackenzie …
- … [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] …
- … W. Dunker in Zoolog. Proc. a paper on Limnea [Dunker 1853].— D r . Anthony will publish on F. W. …
- … (read) Pictet Paleontologie new Edition [Pictet 1853–7] Pliny Nat History, translated …
- … Generales 1851 120 [Milne-Edwards 1851]. 1853. Feb. 6. Schouw Bot. Geograph: in …
- … to Vol XII. 1840 (not much) [DAR 128: 5] 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D …
- … 2 & 3. } 20 th . Galtons Tour in S. Africa [Galton 1853] good Aug 23. Moore’s …
- … Nov. 11. Sir Hudson Lowe’s life and letters [H. Low 1853] very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores …
- … Society of London ] up to Vol II. Part IV. N.S. 1853 Sept. No s I–IV of Microscopical …
- … —— 5. Johnston Nat. History of E. Borders [G. Johnston 1853]. 20 Dana’s Crustacea [J. D. Dana …
- … Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, Black & White [Pulszky 1853] (moderate) [DAR 128: 8] …
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…
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 1533 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [27 September 1853] Darwin praises Dana’s latest …
Arthur Mellersh
Summary
Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…
Francis Galton
Summary
Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … a natural historical narrative of the journey (Galton 1853). Darwin enjoyed and admired Galton’s …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
Summary
Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … 1536 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, J. W. (b), 11 Oct [1853] Darwin gives his opinion to Sir …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … exhibited at the Victorian Fine Arts Society in Melbourne in 1853, the Paris Universal Exhibition in …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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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,…
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- … public recognition of his scientific achievements when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the …
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … In 1852 Darwin had asked about the gold rush and in 1853 he thanked Covington for his account …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he discovered that it contained …
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…
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- … with Huxley (see for example his letter of 23 April 1853), but he did not reveal his own theory of …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … the writing medium, except for the months of January-March 1853, when Darwin used bright blue ink, …
