To Natural History Review [before 10 October 1862]
Summary
In his work on cirripedes [Cirripedia, vol. 1 Lepadidae (1851), pp. 53–5] CD described a particular organ as an "auditory-sac" although he was unable to trace the supposed nerve from it to any ganglion. August Krohn [in "Observations on the development of the Cirripedia", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 6 (1859): 423–8] concluded that the organ was ovarian. CD supposes that Krohn is correct, but gives further observations that suggest an auditory function. If someone could find ova within the curious organ it would confirm Krohn’s view.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Natural History Review |
Date: | [before 10 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 115–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3895 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … on cirripedes [ Cirripedia , vol. 1 Lepadidae (1851), pp. 53–5] CD described a particular …
- … of Cirripedes’ ( Collected papers 2: 85–7)). Living Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 53–5, 57–8. …
- … Krohn 1859 . In Living Cirripedia (1851) , p. 57, CD stated: ‘I was not able to ascertain …
- … 25 (pt 1): 355–64. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. …
- … ibid. , p. 57). Living Cirripedia (1851) . The reference is to the Italian zoologist …
From Charles Cardale Babington 17 January 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Asks if CD has observed the true oxlip (Primula elatior).
Comments on Hottonia and Stellaria graminea. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 72, 313.]
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 58–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3393 |
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- … Van Voorst. Babington, Charles Cardale. 1851. Manual of British botany, containing the …
- … pp. 72–3, citing C. C. Babington 1851 , p. 258. C. C. Babington 1843 , p. 242. …
- … with longer petals, in C. C. Babington 1851 , p. 51, and in C. C. Babington 1856 , …
- … p. 53. CD cited C. C. Babington 1851 on this point in Forms of flowers , p. 313 n. …
From W. B. Clarke 21 January 1862
Summary
Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3401 |
To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3439 |
From Daniel Oliver 4 September 1862
Summary
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3711 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 December [1862]
Summary
Enthusiastic about Lectures IV and V [Lectures to working men (1863)].
Sends specific comments on fantail pigeon,
sterility of hybrids,
the geological section diagram.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3866 |
From John Higgins 13 June 1862
Summary
Sorry he did not meet CD in London.
Discusses investment in land as compared with railway shares.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1862 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3603F |
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- … investing in the Great Northern Railway since 1851 (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS), …
From William Branwhite Clarke 16 January 1862
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3392 |
From Asa Gray 9 December 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3850 |
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- … in the service of the Cunard line since 1851, and commanded fourteen different steamers …
To W. D. Fox 20 [September 1862]
Summary
Would like to go to Cambridge [for BAAS meeting]. Reminisces about his student days.
Pleased that WDF likes his book [Orchids]. At one time CD agreed with Lyell that he was an ass to publish it.
Working on dimorphism and sensibility of other plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 20 [Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3732 |
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- … vol. 5, letter to W. D. Fox, [27 March 1851] , n. 5). See also Correspondence vol. 8, …
From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
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- … and Anne Elizabeth Darwin ’s nurse until 1851, would arrive towards the end of Francis and …
From J. D. Hooker 12 November 1862
Summary
Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.
Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.
R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3802 |
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- … geology at the University of Dublin since 1851; he entered the university’s medical school …
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1862
Summary
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3725 |
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- … were rendered illegal by acts of Parliament of 1851, 1860, and 1861, the last two acts …
From J. B. Innes 16 December [1862]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3863 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Post Office directory of the six home counties 1851, 1855, 1859). His father, James Lewis …
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the nurse at Down House between 1842 and 1851 ( Freeman 1978 ). She apparently remained …
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Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
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.…
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- … 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.
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- … 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…
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- … 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…
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- … 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…
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- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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.…
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
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
Summary
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 …
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 …
About Darwin
Summary
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 …