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From J. H. Gilbert to W. T. Thiselton Dyer 24 July 1875

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From Andrew Reid to W. G. Smith 28 April [1880]

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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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… his publishers, he warned that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). …
… turned out, alas, very dull & has disappointed me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June …
… home again’, he fretted, just days before his departure ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26 …
… many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879 ) …
… wrinkles one all over like a baked pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 …
… itself, or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and …
… office to complete Horace’s marriage settlement ( letter from W. M. Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). …
… but they were ‘as nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ) …
… on your life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). …
… the statement ‘In the beginning was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). …
… as the ‘organ of “uncultivated materialism”’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879 ]). …
… up the glory & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 …
… wholly & shamefully ignorant of my grandfathers life’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 March 1879 …
… voyage, Francis Beaufort of the Admiralty described the unknown young man as ‘A M r Darwin …
… Erasmus Darwin a largely forgotten figure, but he was also unknown in person to any of his living …
… these things with the when & the where, & the who—’ ( letter from V. H. Darwin, 28 May …
… well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard …
… ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little …
… Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s final task …
… inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there were ‘too many human …
… not to have come up when the Darwins lunched with him on 12 August (Darwin’s ‘Journal’). Nor did …
… the world. At the end of the year he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs by the Turin Academy of …
… which greatly pleased Darwin ( letter from Grant Allen, 12 February 1879 ). One of Allen’s targets …
… engagement being made public ( letter from T. H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 ). Darwin’s response not …
… accurate in its treatment’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 November 1879 ). The comment that …

1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait

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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…

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… youth survive, although more may once have existed . In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, …
… Owen’s offer, and the fate of Fanny’s watercolour is unknown. Thus the surviving portraits …
… estimate of Richmond’s work can be gauged from a letter which Hooker wrote to Darwin some years …
… account books, entry for Dec. 1839. Joseph Hooker, letter to Darwin, 17 March 1862 (DCP-LETT-3474). …
… this seemingly conflicts with the indications in Erasmus’s letter of 1866, quoted above.   …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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… handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller, 22 February …
… Correspondence about Darwin’s Questionnaire (click on the letter dates to see the individual letters …
… Correspondent Letter date Location …
… Africa)? ] mentioned in JPM Weale letter, but Bowker's answers not found …
… Woolston, Southampton, England letter to W.E. Darwin shrugging …
… Square W London, England enclosed in a letter from Henry Maudsley …
… 20 June 1867 Unknown? comments from A.D. Bartlett and …
… South Africa possibly included in letter from Mansel Weale …
… Peradeniya, Ceylon enclosed in letter from G.H.K. Thwaites …
… Egypt] possibly included in letter(s) from Asa Gray Nile …
… Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
… Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
… Abbey Place, London, England letter to Emma Darwin baby expression …
… Penmaenmawr, Conway, Wales letter to Emma Darwin infant daughter …
… Matthews, Washington Unknown? Smithsonian …
… Square W, London, England Enclosed letter from Dr. C. Browne …
… Muller, Ferdinand Unknown? astonishment …
… W., London, England enclosed in letter from W. W. Reade Hottentots …
… Swinhoe (Consul) Unknown? Chinese …
… Taplin, George Unknown? forwarded by Smyth …
… Wedgwood, Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] …
… England (about Australia) encloses letter from Austrialian friend, letter not …
… Wilson, Samuel 12 Nov 1867 Longerenong, Wimmera, …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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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…

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… that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
… persevered with his work on Variation until 20 July, his letter-writing dwindled considerably. The …
… from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
… ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
… than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
… from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 …
… leap from that of inferior animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
… out that species were not separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public …
… book he wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
… I respect you, as my old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
… against stronger statements regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). …
… thinking, while Huxley’s book would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In …
… change of species by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the …
… disaffected towards Lyell and his book. In a February letter to the Athenæum , a weekly review of …
… find great difficulty in answering Owen unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
… of so much of Lyell’s book being written by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
… is wretched to see men fighting so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). …
… overt act, and I shall watch for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] …
… by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.— It is mere rubbish thinking, at …
… he had ‘gained nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). poor miserable …
… Natural History Review ( see letter to H. W. Bates, 12 January [1863] ). Darwin added Bates’s …
… Society ( see letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, 12 November 1863 ). Characteristically, …
… also encouraged him to write ( see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). In this paper, Scott …
… to capture his attention ( see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). Additionally, Darwin …
… Huxley, 25 February 1863 , and letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). Emma was a …

Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep

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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…

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… Hooker, ‘or as far as I know any scientific man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1878] ). …
… or arched.… Almost all seedlings come up arched’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 24 March [1878–80] ). …
… when he finds out that he missed sensitiveness of apex’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [11 May 1878] …
… Darwin complained. ‘I am ashamed at my blunder’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 22 December [1878] ). …
… accursed German language: Sachs is very kind to him’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 June …
… have nobody to talk to, about my work, I scribble to you ( letter to Francis Darwin, 7 [July 1878] …
… but it is horrid not having you to discuss it with’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 20 [July 1878] ). …
… determine whether they had chlorophyll, Francis reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 …
… ‘There is one machine we must have’, Francis wrote ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 17 July …
… ‘He seems to me to jump to conclusions rather’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [before 3 August 1878] …
… the pot-plant every day & never the bedded out one’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 7 July …
… ‘I have borrowed Cieselski & read him,’ he reported ( letter from Francis Darwin, [22 June 1878 …
… books & red-wine which is here the cure for all evils’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [24 and 25 …
… is very sweet & pretty,’ he added a week later ( letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ). …
… in a booboo, whereas I ought to have said a gee-gee’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 17 July [1878] ). …
… close down on the object, but he will always do so’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 August [1878] ). …
… idiot, a deaf-mute, a monkey & a baby in your house!’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 2 September …
… that I want to play the part of a thieving wasp’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 21 June 1878 ). …
… than zoology, where his work had been more controversial ( letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph …
… me Dr Darwin, the title seems to me quite ridiculous’ ( letter to John Price, 2 April [1878] ). …
… of the “imperfection of the Geological Record”’ ( letter from Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, 28 …
… The Swiss botanist Arnold Dodel-Port announced on 12 June 1878 the first issue of an atlas with …
… science our atlas would not have come together’ ( letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 18 June 1878 ). …
… or religious prejudice. An engineer in Bohemia addressed his letter to ‘the inspired hermit of Down’ …
… in Germany, as if they had been school-boys’ ( letter to Karl von Scherzer, 1 April 1878 ). …
… a personal god with the ‘eternity of matter’ ( letter from H. N. Ridley, [before 28 November 1878] …
… a Naturalist and leaves Moses to take care of himself ’ ( letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 …
… note when Darwin was offered a large bequest from a person unknown to him. The benefactor wrote on …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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… of respect and affection’. He hinted as much in his letter of 4 June : ‘you will see I have done …
… have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August …
… method of recording leaf motion for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October …
… … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
… , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
… in July 1877 (F. Darwin 1877b), and Darwin sent Cohn’s letter vindicating his son’s research to …
… his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October …
… the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter to Darwin written before 16 …
… the only one full-page in size. Haeckel sent a personal letter of congratulation on 9 February , …
… (see Appendix V). The album arrived with a long letter from the director and secretary of the …
… thanked the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every …
… the beginning of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished …
… reported, ‘but found him as soft & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ) …
… write to Owen & offer himself you & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June …
… where I hope it may remain for centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). …
… you in the interests of truth, of man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] …
… to the old story to be horsewhipped by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back …
… frog spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] …
… credence to racist prejudice in Descent of man . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on …
… the subjects of Siebold’s study of medical monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October …
… our blood and thus keep back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles …
… and wives of ‘men of the white race’. In a follow-up letter he warned, ‘you find them in multituds …
… polish serves to hide the absence of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). …
… in New Guinea, who reportedly had hard inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January …
… up Pangenesis with wicked imprecations’ (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December …
… disclaimed its ‘scientific value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book …
… so many men exhibit is in many cases purely physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September …
… give them drink so that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). …
… down to rest’, he explained ( letter to J. W. Clark, 12 November 1877 ). Worms Aside …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
… fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
… François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
… quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
… probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
… we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
… of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
… find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
… sooner or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The …
… leaves into their burrows ( Correspondence vol. 29, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 …
… on the summit, whence it rolls down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The …
… light on it, which would have pleased me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, …
… annelid seemed to have rather the best of the fight’ ( letter from G. F. Crawte, 11 March 1882 ). …
… by the American educator Emily Talbot (Talbot ed. 1882). His letter to Talbot written the previous …
… by the flippant witlings of the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice …
… men, and their role as providers for the family. In his letter, he conceded that there was ‘some …
… of our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). …
… she be fairly judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January …
… he has allied himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 …
… Would my actions be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February …
… 20 March [1882] ; see also letter from T. L Brunton, 12 February 1882 , and letter to T. L. …
… & it is a consolation to me to think that the last 10 or 12 years were the happiest (owing to …
… specimens from Germany: ‘As my name will probably be unknown to you, I may mention, as a proof that …
… ’ ( Correspondence vol. 17, letter from F. M. Malven, 12 February [1869] ). An extract from …
… the same class with his’ ( letter to F. M. Malven, [after 12 February 1869] ). Accompanying this …
… world, the sorrowful utterance of an insignificant and unknown woman, but let it be like a little …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

Summary

The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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… he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace. This …
… has infinitely exceeded my wildest hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). …
… to choose from the load of curious facts on record.—’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] ). …
… as evidence for what actually occurred in nature ( see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and …
… throwing away what you have seen,’ he told Hooker in his letter of 8 [June 1858] , ‘yet I have …
… his work was interrupted by the arrival of the now-famous letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, …
… selection. Darwin’s shock and dismay is evident in the letter he subsequently wrote to Charles Lyell …
… Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). …
… on Charles Lyell’s endorsement, the editors have dated the letter 18 [June 1858]. However, the …
… McKinney has suggested that Darwin received Wallace’s letter and manuscript on 3 June 1858, the same …
… Brooks maintains that Darwin received Wallace’s letter even earlier, perhaps as early as 14 May. …
… of the Peninsular & Oriental Company, and assuming that the letter to Darwin was posted at the …
… 20 May via Southampton. According to Brooks, Darwin kept the letter for a month, during which time …
… at Down on 18 June. In the absence of Wallace’s letter or of any firm evidence for the date of its …
… work, and he shows no sign of anxiety. He says in a letter to Syms Covington, 18 May [1858], that he …
… ‘There is not least hurry in world about my M.S.’ In his letter to Hooker of 8 June [1858], he …
… of someone who is distressed, as Darwin clearly was in his letter to Lyell, at the prospect of …
… papers at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858, including a letter from Wallace to Hooker thanking him …
… Darwin was during the days immediately following his letter to Lyell. On 18 June 1858, his eldest …
… of his material would require a ‘small volume’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October [1858] ). …
… kidney beans’, to the Gardeners’ Chronicle (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 13 …
… a “vera causa” be admitted for one instead of a purely unknown & imaginary one such as the word …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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… him as a bitter enemy. Darwin and Sedgwick Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… of a spirit of bravado, but a want of respect. Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, …
… of brotherly love and as his true-hearted friend. Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… classes of facts”. Darwin and Owen Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. …
… the nature of such influences as “heterodox”. Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… his book “the law of higgledy-piggledy”. Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, …
… his views now depends on men eminent in science. Letter 2767 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
… prevail without such aggressive tactics. Letter 5500 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, E. P. …
… reader to take the side of the attacked person. Letter 5533 — Haeckel, E. P. A. to …
… of the matter, a vigorous attack is essential. Letter 5544 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, …
… political, and religious differences. Letter 2285 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 18 …
… MS, but Darwin will offer to send it to journal. Letter 2294 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… his views from anything Darwin wrote to him. Letter 2295 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… he does not feel this alters the justice of case. Letter 2299 — Hooker, J. D. & …
… They explain that Darwin and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the …
… reasons for arranging the joint presentation. Letter 2306 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
… is now planning a 30-page abstract for a journal. Letter 2337 — Wallace, A. R. to …
… paper public unaccompanied by his own views. Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. …
… of minute variations and sexual selection. Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, …
… George Darwin’s notes on Wallace’s argument. Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. …
… and form new species without being isolated. Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. …
… relating to sterility that they will never agree. Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… cannot be increased through natural selection. Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, …

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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… read There appears to be good art. on Entozore 12 by Owen in Encyclop. of Anat. & …
… [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
… all Vols. Marshall’s Rural Economy of Yorkshire, 12 s [Marshall 1788]—— often quoted by …
… Palaces. Fourth Edition with Woodcuts. 2 vols. fcap. 8vo., 12 s . 30 [Jesse 1838] …
… 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
… Animals (Deer, Antelopes, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 12. Ruminating Animals (Goats, Sheep, …
… et Culture. 4to. Avec 10 planches. Amsterdam, 1768. 12 s . 41 Bailliére [Saint-Simon] 1768] …
… M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
… of Vertebrate animals 54 folio Plates. Maclise 2”12.6. [Maclise 1847] good for woodcuts. (Roy. …
… Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
… Malthus on Population [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th W. Earle’s 60 Eastern Seas [Earl 1837]. …
… vol. 19 Mungo Parks travels [Park 1799] Feb 12 Sir H. Davy consolations in travel [H. …
… [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages skimmed. Coral Theory 12 th Dampier [Dampier 1697]. 1 st …
… references at end of Hallam [Hallam 1837–9]) Feb. 12 th Charlsworths Journal [ Magazine …
… Hour & Man. H. Martineau [H. Martineau 1841] —— 12 Sir S. Romilly’s Memoirs [Romilly 1840 …
… Natur-gesichte [Bechstein 1789–95]. d[itt]o March 12 th Gardener’s Magaz. [ Gardener' …
… and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement ] 12 Backhouse Narr: of Visit to …
… Dict. des Sci. Nat. [A. P. de Candolle 1820] marked 12. Watertons Essays in Nat. Hist. 2 nd …
… Oct. Cosmos [A. von Humboldt 1845–8]. Vol. 1 Nov. 12 Martin on the Horse [W. C. L. Martin …
… [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
… of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
… ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
… to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
… 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
… Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: together with a journey across the …
… of the Moluccan Archipelago, and along the previously unknown southern coast of New Guinea, …
… by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
… 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
… *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
… art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …

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…

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… voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
… classificatory value’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 285).^12^ For delineating the higher …
… by scarcely sensible intervals from some other, now unknown, Crustaceans. Should these intervening …
… was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
… (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
… genera, & made out their ears & nostrils, which were quite unknown. I have lately got a …
… Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
… latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
… and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
… Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
… other species you have discovered a condition hitherto unknown in the animal kingdom, namely, …
… it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
… ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
… different sub-orders of the order Acrothoracica. ^12^ The significance which CD ascribed to …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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… ‘my wife … poor creature, has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). …
… quantity of work’ left in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The …
… to a reprint of the second edition of Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February …
… & I for blundering’, he cheerfully observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. …
… provided evidence for the ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising …
… year to write about his life ( Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 …
… nowadays is evolution and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). …
… him ‘basely’ and who had succeeded in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). …
… disgrace’ of blackballing so distinguished a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ) …
… must have been cast by the ‘poorest curs in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February …
… her questions were ‘too silly to deserve an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 …
… on Dionaea ‘to test the insect eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 …
… sending Darwin small amendments to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). …
… to get positive results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March …
… in the Encyclopaedia Britannica the previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September …
… and to promote work he admired. He was so interested in a letter from Fritz Müller in Brazil …
… with the ants that inhabited the trunk that he sent the letter to Nature for publication. ‘It …
… communicated this information in an article in Nature ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before …
… phyllotaxis by the mutual pressure of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). …
… Scottish shoemaker and ardent naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December …
… live blood-hound which shall hunt it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 …
… the public to consider Torbitt an untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ) …
… request, with the ‘awful job’ of informing the author ( letter to G. G. Stokes, 21 April [1876] ). …
… thought the paper was ‘not worthy of being read ever’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 …
… to William Thiselton-Dyer on 26 April that Tait’s letter about his ‘accursed paper’ had quite …
… [1876] ). The irony was probably not lost on Darwin when an unknown German correspondent wrote in …
… for one so poor at figures as I am’, Gray conceded on 12 November , although he could reassure …
… Darwin’s oldest son William (see Correspondence vol. 12 and the Supplement to vol. 24). By the …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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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…

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… in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
… means of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864 …
… book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
… as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
… would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
… of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
… if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
… reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from the Isle of Wight on the formation …
… would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
… ignorant article… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] …
… ‘he is a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] …
… turn, to a great influx of unsolicited letters from persons unknown to Darwin, offering additional …
… wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. …
… proved very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from George Cupples, who was encouraged …
… with the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous …
… of science On 27 February , Darwin sent a letter of thanks to the naturalist and …
… he later added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). …
… to various classes, a dim ray of light may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868 …
… as well as of ‘victorious males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). …
… of females was remarked upon by other entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 …
… and Coleoptera on 9 September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday …
… for as sure as life he wd find the odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] …
… George Robert Crotch, writing to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I …
… box of preparations to papa … I will write a less beetley letter soon.’ Other relations …
… present had taken no particular interest in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 …
… in the great question of the “Origin of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). …
… weapon in the hands of the enemies of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 …
… A correspondent of Hooker’s distributed it in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ) …
… defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September on ‘the terrible “Darwinismus …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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… – that all the super-interesting extracts from hitherto unknown ancient and modern writings in Latin …
… and if none be so – before the publication [ f.152v p.12 ] of my new work – I shall then give …
… information. Seeing however, that I was in Sydney from the 12 th to the 30 th inclusive of …
… this planet” – V. “Until the 12 th everyone was actively occupied – Our …
… which are given in the plan *[3] V. Until the 12 th everyone was actively employed – …
… to be a circular group of low Islands extending from Lat 12˚ 4' S. to 12˚ 23 [an error of nine …
… the Islets are numerous. Their value to navigators remained unknown – until Captain J.C. Ross …
… Colonial laws of Java under the British Government.” *[12] “If so (said Captain S.) upon what …
… a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
… to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
… wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
… – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
… was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
… to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
… ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
… from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
… at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
… the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
… – that their value to navigators of those seas remained unknown until they were by Captain J. C. …
… South Latitude. Hence the fact being that it is in 12˚&c. The guess that I have made respecting …
… Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
… *[11] Copied from the previous Editions. *[12] That Government enacted – that all …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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… will do me & Natural Selection, right good service’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 26–7 Februrary [1861] …
… Whereas for Darwin such cases exemplified the working of unknown laws of development in conjunction …
… ‘barometer’ of scientific opinion, Charles Lyell ( see letter to Charles Lyell, 20 July [1861] ). …
… selection could not be ‘directly proved’ ( see second letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [April 1861] ). …
… was ‘the only one proper to such a subject’ ( letter from Henry Fawcett, 16 July [1861] ). Mill in …
… or against some view if it is to be of any service!’ ( letter to Henry Fawcett, 18 September [1861] …
… chapter on the imperfection of the geological record ( see letter to George Maw, 19 July [1861] ). …
… he planned to report ‘at a favourable opportunity’ ( letter from Joseph Leidy, 4 March [1861] ). …
… laboratory where Nature manufactures her new species’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 28 March [1861] ) …
… study of natural history was evident. He told Darwin in his letter of [1 December] 1861: …
… by insect enemies from which the other set is free’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 30 September 1861 ) …
… be a ‘very valuable contribution to Nat. History.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 4 April [1861] ). He …
… causes &c’, and ‘Monkeys,—our poor cousins.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 3 December [1861] ). …
… a view to obtaining ‘large distribution’ for the work ( letter to H. W. Bates, 25 September [1861] …
… him on producing ‘a complete and awful smasher’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 January [1861] ). Ever …
… but he and Owen would ‘never be friends again’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 January [1861] ). …
… fully believe a better man never walked this earth’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] ). …
… could perhaps ‘throw some light on Hybridisation’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 September [1861] ). …
… the diversity & perfection of the contrivances.–-’ ( letter of [28 July–10 August 1861] ). …
… had ‘some direct bearing on the subject of species’ ( letter to Henry Fawcett, 18 September [1861] …
… whether I am not doing a foolish action in publishing’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1861] …
… ‘it is such tedious work comparing skeletons—’ ( letter to Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefage de Bréau …
… on the subject had been ‘one long gigantic blunder’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 September [1861] …
… £800, and would so ‘be at once an almost rich man’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1861] ). The …
… of what was thought to be ‘a form of typhus fever’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1860 ). This …
… to take up his new position. William’s description, in his letter of [17 November 1861], of his …
… two or three respectable persons on your own account’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 17 [October 1861] …
… to see that greatest curse on Earth Slavery abolished’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1861] ): …
… acceptance of the theories set forth in Origin ( see letter to P. L. Sclater, 12 [March 1861] …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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… by the prospect of animals suffering for science. In a letter to E. Ray Lankester, he wrote: ‘You …
… another word about it, else I shall not sleep to-night’ ( letter to E. R. Lankester, 22 March [1871 …
… pangenesis. Darwin was taken aback, and swiftly replied in a letter to Nature , insisting that he …
… deserved credit for his ‘ingenuity and perseverance’ ( letter to Nature , [before 27 April 1871] …
… for further cross-circulation and ‘Siamesing’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 13 September 1871 ). …
… Some of the results were promising, but inconclusive (see letter from G. J. Romanes, 14 July 1875 …
… results will be necessary to convince physiologists’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 18 July 1875 ). …
… for your work; & I suppose birds can be chloroformed (letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 December …
… branded physiologists as ‘demons let loose from hell’ ( letter to F. B. Cobbe, [14 January 1875] ) …
… detail here . He stated his position most frankly in a letter to Henrietta, 4 January [1875] . …
… that ‘private men’ would be pushed out, ‘young unknown men who are the most likely to do good work’. …
… point of view I have rejoiced at the present agitation. ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January …
… science of Physiology as doomed to death in this country. ( letter To T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 …
… are now in the position of a persecuted religious sect’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 June [1876] ) …
… of the utility of experiment amongst people in general’ ( letter from T. L. Brunton, 12 February …

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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… his University) and is much less his own man. A letter from England catches his attention …
… 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably nice and kind letter Dr A. Gray has sent me in answer to my …
… be of any the least use to you? If so I would copy it… His letter does strike me as most uncommonly …
… has done my stomach surprising good. GRAY: 12 My dear Mr Darwin, I rejoice in …
… on the geographical distribution of the US plants; and if my letter caused you to do this some year …
… a brace of letters 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received …
… might like to see it; please be sure [to] return it. If your letter is Botanical and has nothing …
… Atlantic. HOOKER: 28 Thanks for your letter and its enclosure from A. Gray which …
… notions of natural Selection and would see whether it or my letter bears any date, I should be very …
… 55 My good dear friend, forgive me. This is a trumpery letter influenced by trumpery feelings. …
… at least while the physical cause of variation is utterly unknown and mysterious – we should … …
… do a good deal to secure it. Darwin passes Gray’s letter to Hooker with a cringe. …
… I answered that they varied within certain fixed but unknown limits. To this he shrugged his …
… full relief from all anxiety. Darwin shows Gray’s letter to Hooker. DARWIN: …
… back. JANE GRAY: 189 [Jane Gray. Letter to her sister. Fall, 1868.] Mr Darwin …
… DARWIN: 192 My dear Gray. When I look over your letter[s] … and see all the things you …
… me, and yet was most anxious till two days ago, when I got a letter from him in excellent spirits. …
… HOOKER 10 MAY 1848 5 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 12 OCTOBER 1849 6 C DARWIN …
… 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 12 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 30 JUNE 1855 …
… HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 12 OCTOBER 1857 60 A GRAY TO …
… TO GRAY AT THIS TIME 189 JANE LORING GRAY, LETTER TO HER SISTER, 1868 or 1869 …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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… whole has infinitely exceeded my wildest hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November …
… to choose from the load of curious facts on record.—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] ). …
… as evidence for what actually occurred in nature (see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and …
… throwing away what you have seen,’ he told Hooker in his letter of 8 [June 1858] , ‘yet I have …
… his work was interrupted by the arrival of the now-famous letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, …
… selection. Darwin’s shock and dismay is evident in the letter he subsequently wrote to Charles Lyell …
… Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). …
… on Charles Lyell’s endorsement, the editors have dated the letter 18 [June 1858]. However, the …
… McKinney has suggested that Darwin received Wallace’s letter and manuscript on 3 June 1858, the same …
… Brooks maintains that Darwin received Wallace’s letter even earlier, perhaps as early as 14 May. …
… of the Peninsular & Oriental Company, and assuming that the letter to Darwin was posted at the …
… 20 May via Southampton. Accordingto Brooks, Darwin kept the letter for a month, during which time he …
… at Down on 18 June. In the absence of Wallace’s letter or of any firm evidence for the date of its …
… work, and he shows no sign of anxiety. He says in a letter to Syms Covington, 18 May [1858] , …
… ‘There is not least hurry in world about my M.S.’ In his letter to Hooker of 8 June [1858] , he …
… of someone who is distressed, as Darwin clearly was in his letter to Lyell, at the prospect of …
… Society on 1 July 1858. It also includes an unpublished letter from Wallace to Hooker thanking him …
… Darwin was during the days immediately following his letter to Lyell. On 18 June 1858, his eldest …
… abstract of his material would require a ‘small volume’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October [1858] …
… for the work. Again, he called upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). …
… Darwin held firm to the original plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , …
… a “vera causa” be admitted for one instead of a purely unknown & imaginary one such as the word …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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… Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
… . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
… the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
… on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
… Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
… d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
… a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
… of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
… also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… 1827–35. (DAR 33: 255v.; number of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William. A new …
… Professeurs du Jardin du Roi. (Number of volumes on board unknown; references are to plates and …
… residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
… 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
… The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
… to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
… 2 vols. Paris, [1799–1800]. ( Red notebook , pp. 5e, 12). Darwin Library–Down. Lacordaire, …
… de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
… of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
… and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
… John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
… account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
… the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
… of the voyages . . . London, 1773. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.]. London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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… Dohrn, Naples   accession or collection number unknown   copyright …
… computer-readable date 1873-01-01 to 1873-12-31   medium and material plaster bust   …
… Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to Dohrn, 15 Nov. 1873, explaining plans …
… for the Stazione: DCP-LETT-9412. Darwin’s follow-up letter to Dohrn, enclosing his personal …
… of the Zoological Station of Naples’, Nature 12 (6 May 1875), pp. 11–13. Dohrn, ‘The Zoological …

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