From G. H. K. Thwaites 16 October 1868
Summary
On local black-boned fowls,
CD’s new book [Variation], and Pangenesis.
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6420 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5823 |
From E. W. Janson 4 June 1868
Summary
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
| Author: | Edward Westey Janson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6228 |
From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 and 8 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6149 |
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- … seaside resort of Swanage in Dorset in 1848 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix I; Emma …
From George Bentham [before 22 April 1868]
Summary
Has studied Variation with interest.
Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,
but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.
Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6134 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]
Summary
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5873 |
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- … to engage in fierce battles. Sulivan had resided in the Falklands from 1848 to 1851. …
From Armand de Quatrefages 4 March 1868
Summary
Proportions of sexes of the silkworm are about equal, but knows of no statistics.
Cannot share his view of origin of species.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5980 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1868
Summary
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6179 |
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- … of Arts and Sciences , dating from 1848 onwards, are in the unbound journal collection in …
To H. W. Bates 18 March [1868]
Summary
Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6022 |
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- … London and had explored the Amazon between 1848 and 1859 ( ODNB ). CD evidently refers to …
To J. B. Innes 1 December 1868
Summary
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6486 |
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- … vol. 4, letter to John Innes, [8 May 1848] and n. 2, and Moore 1985 , pp. 468–9). John …
To the Traffic Manager, South Eastern Railway [c. September 1868]
Summary
Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | South Eastern Railway |
| Date: | [c. Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6341 |
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- … Adams. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock. 1848–62. Bradshaw’s railway manual, shareholders’ …
To W. D. Fox 14 May [1868]
Summary
WDF’s letter gives CD the kind of facts he wants. His story about peacocks is so good that CD will quote it [Descent 2: 46].
Pleased WDF approves of his book [Variation]
– "beloved Pangenesis disagrees badly with many".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6172 |
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- … 1: 551–7, 870). CD read Couch 1847 in 1848 (see Reading notebooks, Correspondence vol. …
From George Robert Crotch 2 October [1868]
Summary
Bibliographical references on [stridulation in] Coleoptera. Finds no idea of sex has occurred to authors [i.e., they do not find the stridulating organs differing according to sex; cf. Descent 1: 378–85].
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6407 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Westring 1847 is in part 2 of volume 14 (1848): 42–4. CD acknowledged Crotch for specimens …
From J. D. Hooker 20 May 1868
Summary
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 210–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6189 |
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- … medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical …
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
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- … conjectured date of 27 October [1846 or 1848? ] ( Correspondence vol. 3). Edward Blyth …
From William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin 28 February [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5952 |
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- … Wiltshire, and Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. London: Kelly & Co. 1848–75. …
From Fritz Müller 9 September 1868
Summary
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6359 |
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- … Anatomie der wirbellosen Thiere. 1848 pg. 582. ” Leydig has added many interesting …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
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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- … on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). Letters between Darwin and Richard …
- … on board ship ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). Darwin’s chapter plainly calls on …
- … a notion which was roundly criticised by William Hopkins in 1848. Hopkins maintained that transport …
- … ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), was accepted by Darwin, and he …
- … the group, turned over some notes he had made, and, early in 1848, obtained permission for Darwin to …
- … & Species theory al Diabolo together During 1848, Darwin examined the genera Ibla …
- … is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). Once Darwin had decided to …
- … this period, especially in 1847 and during the last half of 1848 and the beginning of 1849. When his …
Schools Gallery: Using Darwin’s letters in the classroom
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English| History| Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks studying Darwin’s letters, including comparing sections from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ to letters…
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- … Letter 1174 - Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 10 May 1848 …
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…
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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…
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- … Letter 1166 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, [26 Mar 1848] Darwin describes in detail to …
- … Letter 1167 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., [1 Apr 1848] Darwin ends by suggesting that if …
- … Letter 1174 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 10 May 1848 Darwin discusses his barnacle work. …
- … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin writes to Hooker about his …
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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- … 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. Alison 1848]— (read) Montagus Translat of Visa …
- … 1834] (& of Europe?) [Gould 1832–7] & of Australia [Gould 1848]; well worth studying for …
- … [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & …
- … [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming …
- … 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes …
- … Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] Lamb’s Letters [Lamb 1837] (read) …
- … [Godwin 1835] Brookes last Journal by Mundy [Mundy 1848] Goldsmiths life by Forster …
- … Charing Cross—sells Johnstons Maps [A. K. Johnston 1848] separately—Forbes is going to publish one. …
- … Emotions by G. Ramsay B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of …
- … 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850 …
- … Christian K.. Soc [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1848] 81 March 30 th . Life …
- … Brown 1824, 1814, 1818]. [DAR 119: 21a] 1848 . Jan 1. Reports & …
- … 25. Bunbury Journal of Residence at C. of Good Hope [Bunbury 1848] March. 5. Memoires de la …
- … 12. Arthur Adams. Notes from Journal of Nat. Hist. [Belcher 1848] May Kosmos [?A. von …
- … 7 th Supplements to Müllers Physiology [Baly and Kirkes 1848] 17 th Thompson’s Birds of …
- … Oct 5. Gould Introduct. to Birds of Australia [Gould 1848] —— 20 Billing’s Voyage to N. Sea …
- … ] up to Tom IX inclusive [DAR 119: 21b] 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone …
- … July 20. Sterlings Memoir of by Hare [Sterling 1848]— moderately good Campbells Chancellors …
- … Eyre [Brontë] 1847]— Kelly’s & O’Kellys [Trollope 1848]— M r Warrenne [E. Wallace 1848 …
- … Autobiography of a Working Man. A Somerville [A. Somerville 1848] (excellent) 28. M. …
- … & Gould Principles of Zoology Vol I. [Agassiz and Gould 1848] 30. Hom. de Hells Travels …
- … 5 th . Miss Martineau. Eastern Travels [H. Martineau 1848], curious & interesting …
- … (poor) —— Sir Fowle’s Buxton’s life [Buxton 1848]— (very good) 3 d Sleeman’s …
- … 1845b]. G. Gurney [Hook] 1836]. Harold [Bulwer-Lytton] 1848] Consuelo [Sand 1847]. Wandering …
- … —— May. Haygarth Bush Life in Australia [Haygarth 1848] —— Diary of an Invalid [Matthews 1820 …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … ill health, which increased in severity in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter …
- … entries and correspondence during periods of sickness in 1848, 1852, and 1859 (see Colp 1977, pp. 38 …
- … Correspondence vol. 4, letter to Emma Darwin, [27-8 May 1848] . See also Browne 1995, pp. 428-9 …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … sends a list of plants from Gray’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to append the ranges of …
- … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin catches up on personal …
- … Letter 1189 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., 2 July [1848] Darwin criticises the lecturing …
- … Letter 1176 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, Emma, [20–1 May 1848] Darwin writes to his wife Emma. …
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. …
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.…
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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3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … Henry Walter Bates, and the two men travelled to Brazil in 1848 to pursue natural history. Despite …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she …
Father dies
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Darwin's father, Robert Waring Darwin. dies in Shrewsbury
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- … Darwin's father, Robert Waring Darwin. dies in Shrewsbury …
Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
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- … the first intakes at both Queen’s and Bedford Colleges in 1848 and 1849. Her teachers included James …
Hermann Müller
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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…
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- … the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … XVII, 1882 4 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 10 MAY 1848 5 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER …
Asa Gray
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Darwin’s longest running and most significant exchange of correspondence dealing with the subjects of design in nature and religious belief was with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was one of Darwin’s leading supporters in America. He was also a…
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- … the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1848 he married Jane Loring. They had no …
