[Williams & Norgate] 16 June [1880]
Summary
Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 16 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619F |
From Anthony Rich 4 June 1880
Summary
CD’s portrait at exhibition is praised by critics. CD and the Prime Minister may boast of having been in their day "the best abused men in England".
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12620 |
From J. H. Comstock 4 June 1880
Summary
Summarises points of interest in his Report upon cotton insects [U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology (1879)].
| Author: | John Henry Comstock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12621 |
From James Torbitt 7 June 1880
Summary
Sets out specific propositions concerning his potato varieties, which he will make to the Government, if he is given CD’s and T. H. Farrer’s support.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12622 |
To H. B. Baildon 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bellyse Baildon |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12623 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 [June 1880]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [June 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12624 |
To John Murray 9 June 1880
Summary
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12625 |
To Henry Johnson 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR471) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12626 |
From R. F. Charles 9 June 1880
Summary
Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.
| Author: | Robert Fletcher Charles |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12627 |
To G. H. Darwin 11 June [1880?]
Summary
Some essays have arrived for GHD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June [1880?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12628 |
To John Murray 11 June 1880
Summary
Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12628F |
To Edward Vivian 11 June 1880
Summary
"The enclosed, evidently intended for you, has by a mistake been addressed to me."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Vivian |
| Date: | 11 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR472) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12629 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 June 1880
Summary
Matters related to Climbing plants
and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 505 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12631 |
From R. F. Charles 12 June [1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for writing to Murray concerning Journal of researches extracts for his reading-book.
| Author: | Robert Fletcher Charles |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12632 |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 13 June [1880]
Summary
CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 13 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12633 |
From Thomas Meehan 14 June 1880
Summary
Suggests plants whose stamens show movement.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12634 |
From James Torbitt 14 June 1880
Summary
JT attempting to get Government backing for his experiments; wishes to quote from CD’s letter in support of his work.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12635 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 16 June 1880
Summary
Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12636 |
To James Torbitt 16 June 1880
Summary
Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 16 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12637 |
To A. C. Ramsay 17 June 1880
Summary
Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 17 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638 |
| letter | (31) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Charles, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Torbitt, James | (2) |
| Comstock, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Baildon, H. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Torbitt, James | (3) |
| Charles, R. F. | (2) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 9 hits
- … below, ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell …
- … over the comparative anatomy of human and ape brains. 6 Many of Lyell’s supporters were …
- … Lyell, see Bynum 1984 and L. G. Wilson 1996. 6. Owen’s complaints about C. Lyell 1863a …
- … See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. …
- … T. H. Huxley, 7 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley papers 6: 110). For more on the X-club, see …
- … to Huxley, 5 June 1865 (Imperial College, Huxley papers 6: 104). 27. Rough draft of a …
- … June 1865, and 8 June 1865 (Imperial College, Huxley papers 6: 108, 111). 30. Letter from …
- … Charles Lyell, 11 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley papers 6: 116). 34. C. Lyell 1865. …
- … for man. British Journal for the History of Science 6 (1972–3): 261–303. Barton, Ruth. …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 7 hits
- … animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later …
- … old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin …
- … a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). …
- … in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did …
- … Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). In March, after …
- … 29 May [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] ). Sterility and …
- … [1863] that he had been ‘ordered to do nothing for 6 months’ by his doctors, mentioning that even …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 4 hits
- … I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned …
- … on the outcome ( enclosure to letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 [August] 1874 ): I think you …
- … & it had been refused’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [6 or 7 August 1874] ). When the letter was …
- … to the vomit and ate it ( letter from W. G. Walker, 6 December 1874 ). The Zoological …
Darwin's Fantastical Voyage
Summary
Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.
Matches: 1 hits
- … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 7 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, …
- … Index-maker’, Darwin wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 6 January . Darwin had sent the manuscript …
- … but never fulfilled. He was sent a news clipping on 6 July from the Maryport Weekly Advertiser …
- … House of Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin …
- … The Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle described on 6 July the inheritance over eight …
- … is too short for so long a discussion’, he wrote on 6 April . Yet Wallace continued to press him, …
- … you as their leader’ ( letter from Gaston de Saporta, 6 September 1868 ). The support …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
Summary
Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
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…
Matches: 8 hits
- … 1863 and n. 1, and letters from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863], 29 September [1863] …
- … Ladies & MPs' (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863], and letter …
- … MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s. 6 d. for distributing the 'cruelty …
- … December [1863], and Animal World , 1 February 1872, pp. 65–6). It is clear that the use of steel …
- … against the use of steel traps in 1877 ( Spectator , 6 January 1877, p. 15, and Emma Darwin 2: …
- … pheasants, and other game-birds (Carr 1981, pp. 475–6, Mackenzie 1988, p. 18, Allen 1994, p. 127.). …
- … be grateful for any suggestions, addressed to A. B., 6 Mr. Strong, Printer, Bromley, Kent …
- … of animals, 1835 ( Statutes, public and general , 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 59), and the Act for the …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 18 hits
- … (2) Appleton, T. G. (6) Arnold, F. S. …
- … (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) Bartlett, R. S. …
- … (1) Boardman, A. F. (6) Boccardo, Gerolamo …
- … (2) Bonham-Carter, E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, …
- … (1) Browne, Walter (6) Brownen, George …
- … (17) Buckland, William (6) Buckler, William …
- … (2) Child, G. W. (6) Children, J. G. …
- … (1) Clarke, W. B. (b) (6) Claus, C. F. …
- … P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John …
- … (2) Crüger, Hermann (6) Cuming, Hugh …
- … (1) Darwin, Amy (6) Darwin, Anne Eliza …
- … (47) Darwin, Sara (6) Darwin, V. H. …
- … (2) Davidson, Thomas (6) Davis, J. E. …
- … (1) Dear Friend (6) Delage, Yves (1) …
- … (13) Denny, John (6) Desmarest, Eugène …
- … (3) Elliot, Walter (6) Elliott & Fry …
- … (39) Fabre, Jean-Henri (6) Fairfax, Mary …
- … (9) Galton, E. S. (6) Galton, Erasmus …
Interview with Randal Keynes
Summary
Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and [of] all the scientist's colleagues. 6. Darwin's poetic sensibility …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin’s best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 …
- … intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the …
- … effect on my mind’ ( letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 ). A competing theory on the …
- … in his `Literary Banquet’ (letters from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and 9 November 1872 ). …
Darwin's life in letters
Summary
For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … with letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 7 hits
- … his botanical work, at Down House since the winter of 1855–6 (see CD’s Classed account book (Down …
- … to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other teething problems …
- … advice on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived …
- … § Asclepias currasavica 3 1.6 …
- … Canna Warscewisii— 4 2.6 …
- … Pentas rosea 1.6 …
- … § Melastoma atropurpurea 6 2.6 …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 3 hits
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 3 hits
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
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 in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 4 hits
- … a paper for the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not …
- … different translator ( see letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 ). In Germany, …
- … of the human species ( see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 ). Ramsay’s was not the …
- … of the pot of life’? ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 May 1862 ). In his address, Huxley also …
Darwin & Glen Roy
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Jamieson, 3 September 1861 To Thomas Jamieson, 6 September [1861] To Charles …
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: 22 hits
- … good by D r L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v.] 6 Books to be Read …
- … [Le Couteur 1836] Bechstein on Caged Birds. 10 s 6 d . translated by Rennie [Bechstein …
- … de la Geographie des trois Regnes de la nature. Paris. 6: folio par Céran de Lemonier. Bailliere …
- … Organique dans l’echelle animale, par A. Dugés, 4to. avec 6 planches, ibid, 1832. 6 s . [Dugés …
- … p. 195) “Boltons Harmonia Ruralis” [Bolton 1794–6]— Yarrell probably has it. account of …
- … of Carnation. Auricula. Polyanth tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. [T. Hogg 1820] …
- … Edition, with Plates and Woodcuts. Post 8vo., 9 s . 6 d . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in …
- … Pœppig Travels in S. America. German [Pöppig 1835–6].— Zoologie Generale. Iside. St Hilaire …
- … 1809]. Communicat to Board of Agriculture. vol 6 quoted by Youatt on migration of Sheep [Anon …
- … [C. H. Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// Exotic …
- … Nacht. von einigen Berlin 1763? [Kölreuter 1761–6] Godwins answer to Malthus [Godwin 1820] …
- … [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker 1844. in Parts. cheap. 1.6 a part. 38 Schlegel Essay on …
- … Darluc. Hist Nat. de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of …
- … of Nat: Hist: of Creation. Churchill: 1844. 7 s ” 6 d . [Chambers] 1844] in which species are …
- … Jussieus introduct to Bot. price 6 s [Jussieu 1842] [DAR *119: 20v.] …
- … 40 vols. 12mo. coloured plates, cloth lettered, (pub. at 6 s per vol.) reduced to 5 s 1834–43 …
- … 5. Peacocks, Pheasants, &c. [Jardine 1834a] 6. Birds of the Game kind [Jardine 1834b]. …
- … Ruminating Animals (Deer, Antelopes, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 12. Ruminating Animals (Goats, …
- … of Vertebrate animals 54 folio Plates. Maclise 2”12.6. [Maclise 1847] good for woodcuts. (Roy. …
- … Analysis & theory of the Emotions by G. Ramsay B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] …
- … (read) Knox. Ornithological Ramble in Sussex. 7. 6. [A. E. Knox 1849] J. Lubbock has & …
- … when out Lisianky’s Voyage round world 1803–6 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyell’s …
