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Darwin’s student booklist

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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…

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… and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert …
… medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a second year, this time …
… on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations …
… to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
… bought it later for himself. Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made …
… and then added all the books he had read since starting at Edinburgh in 1825. Some of the …
… in 1812; William Henry, after some medical training in Edinburgh, returned to Manchester to work in …
… scientific interests, and also show the close connections of Edinburgh’s intellectual community. A …
… was produced by Robert Jameson, who started the Edinburgh philosophical journal in 1819 …
… to meetings of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh. Hugh Blair, although not a …
… work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
… text Books that I have read thro since my return to Edinburgh.— Franklins Journal to …
… Library–Down. 7 CD probably refers to the Edinburgh journal of science (1824–32), …
… History Society . Vols 1–8i (1808–39). 13 Edinburgh new philosophical journal vols. 1 …
… CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
… . 4th edition. 3 vols. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. …
… with geological illustrations . By Georges Cuvier. 5th ed. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. London: T. …
… and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Paris, John …
… and description of the northern whale-fishery . 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., …

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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… 1908, gave all but a few to the Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. These works, …
… After the Darwin archive was established in the Cambridge University Library, books that contained …
… Robin Darwin, and many of these were later acquired by the University Library and are in the Rare …
… reading. Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— …
… [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
… Zoological Journal ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
… the Wernerian Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the …
… 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
… Schlegel Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib & …
… M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
… 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of Edinburgh Transactions [ Transactions of …
… Natural History Society ] Ed. New Phil Jour [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
… Dobrizhoffer’s Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ. [ Edinburgh New …
… Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
… of Edinburg Phil. Journal. & L’Institut for 1839 [ Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and L& …
… [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
… [Saint-Hilaire 1830] Read W. R. Wilde in Dublin University Magazine early month of 1854 on …
… from whom CD borrowed books. 2 The Cambridge University Library, known then as the …
… 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 …
… by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
… Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered before the University of Cambridge … May 10, 1859. To …
… Adam. 1850. A discourse on the studies of the University [of Cambridge]\. 5th ed. London and …
… with particular reference to the leading studies of the University of Cambridge. 3 pts. London …
… in early times—deer, goats, sheep, and swine. Dublin University Magazine 43: 127–46, 317–33. …

Barnacles

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…

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… the Ova of the Pontobdella muricata , Lam. The Edinburgh Journal of Science Vol. VII. April …
… on the Structure and Nature of Flustra. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal April-October …
… Containing Observations Made by C.D. When He Was at Edinburgh, March 1827.” In Barrett, P. ed., The …
… York: Grove Press. (p.1 - 83) Letters Letter Packet: Darwin's Barnacles …
… to London to have Mr. Arthrobalanus illustrated. Letter 1022 —Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
… the unusual anatomy of Mr. Arthrobalanus. Letter 1140 —Darwin to J. C. Ross, 31 Dec 1847 …
… in search of the lost explorer John Franklin. Letter 1253 —Darwin to Albany Hancock, [21 …
… to ask him to share preserved specimens with him. Letter 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, …
… appreciation for these creatures. Although your university may not have its own barnacle …

Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage

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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…

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… at Shrewsbury, his two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years …
… there are letters from Shropshire friends, contemporaries at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and from …
… 1764), now in the Rare Book Collection in the Cambridge University Library, indicate that Robert …
… Student life When himself a medical student at Edinburgh University, Darwin devoted much of …
… fellows your friends at Barmouth must be’ ( see letter to J. M. Herbert, [13 September 1828] ). …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…

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… shorter publications, 1829-1883 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer …
… F1660.] —Remarks on the preceding paper, in a letter from Charles Darwin, Esq., to Mr. …
… that of glaciers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2 (1844-50): 17-18. [ Shorter …
… 2005. Charles Darwin, geologist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s …
… in the nineteenth century . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Laudan, Rachel. …

John Murray

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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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… the business in 1843, had spent a year studying geology at Edinburgh University; as a result of his …
… there are in the Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library a similar number of letters …
… end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his friend …
… John Murray, to open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray …
… have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
… copies some pages in Darwin’s chapter were transposed ( Letter 1244 ). Darwin was anxious lest an …
… & make the poor workman some present’ (12 June [1849] Letter 1245 ). Darwin’s next …
… his ‘big species book’; on 18 June 1858, he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace with the …
… asked Lyell to act as his intermediary with John Murray ( Letter 2437 ), who, without even reading …
… not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a retail …
… proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all Murray’s …
… – and a second edition was immediately called for ( Letter 2549 ). In the end Murray paid Darwin …
… (Variation ), but work progressed slowly ( Letter 3078 ); meanwhile in 1862 Murray published On …
… Murray only offered Darwin half profits for this title ( Letter 3261 ); it was never a best-seller …
… ‘I fear it can never pay’ (3 January [1867] Letter 5346 ). In the end Murray decided to print …
… to Brazil, the beginning of a life-long correspondence ( Letter 4881 ). Subsequently Darwin …
… the risk himself. Murray suggested printing 750 copies ( Letter 6597 ), but Darwin decided on 1000 …
… fail, I think, to be much read’ (28 September [1870] Letter 7329 ). Murray decided to print 2500 …
… hope to Heaven book will sell well’ (12 January [1871] Letter 7438 ). A second printing was …
… America, of St George Mivart‘s Genesis of species ( Letter 7907 ) ; this was Darwin’s …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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… learn that the book was on sale even in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January …
… the book, thinking that it would be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). …
… he told Hooker, did not at all concern his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] …
… of which came from Richard Owen in the April issue of the Edinburgh Review . Indeed, after …
… his theory would have been ‘ utterly smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A …
… from right principles of scientific investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). …
… a theory solely by explaining an ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). …
… phenomena it comes in time to be admitted as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] …
… natural selection did not necessarily lead to progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 …
… considered it more a failure than a success ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 February [1860] ). …
… naturalists because more accustomed to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). …
… two physiologists, and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like …
… tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] ). By the …
… favour of change of form’, namely those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). …
… his study of the geographical distribution of species ( see letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 …
… ‘man is in same predicament with other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he …
… book had become ‘topics of the day’ at the meeting in a letter from Hooker written from Oxford. …
… Darwin ‘master of the field after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other …
… that ‘this row is best thing for subject.—’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). Further …
… if the whole were already proved) to his own views.—’ ( letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, …
… ‘how differently different opposers view the subject’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1860] …
… studying the first published piece: 'I said in a former letter that you were a Lawyer; but I …
… that these visits have led to changed structure.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 April [1860] ). …
… several months later, ‘just as at a game of chess.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 [July 1860] ). …
… substance from non=nitrogenised substances.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [August 1860] ). Relying …
… scarcely be believed without further supporting evidence ( letter to Edward Cresy, 12 December …
… ‘how much better fun observing is than writing.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12 September [1860] ) …
… hope & think I shall improve the Book considerably.—’ ( letter to John Murray, 5 December [1860 …
… of some good judge coming some little way with me.’ ( letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860] ). …

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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… marine invertebrates carried out during his student days in Edinburgh and later on board the …
… invertebrate zoology stemmed from his years as a student in Edinburgh and, in particular, his …
… tidal pools, which I dissected as well as I could.’ In his Edinburgh notebook kept during this …
… voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
… background and, in particular, his earlier researches in Edinburgh on the ova of invertebrates, …
… into contact with these ideas through his association in Edinburgh with Grant (A. Desmond 1984; …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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] ( …
… of slides that, through Francis Darwin, he gave to the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge in …

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] …
… God demented Owen, as a punishment for his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] …
… year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had initiated the …
… different response in Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he …
… by his botanical notebook and sketchbook (Cambridge University Library DAR 117 and DAR 186: 43). …
… in August from John Goodsir, professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, indicate that …

Early Days

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…

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… Darwin's early research While at university, Darwin excelled at natural history, which …
… Grove Press, pages 1 – 83. Letters Letter Packet: Darwin's Early Days …
… lectures and lecturers, often ridiculing them. Isolated in Edinburgh he asks that his sisters write …
… the exam he must take to complete his degree. Letter 78 —Darwin to William Darwin Fox …
… spend Fox’s visit beetling in Cambridgeshire. Letter 98 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [28 …
… Darwin's descriptions of his studies and his time spent at university? What do his letters to …
… unable to take courses in entomology and natural history at university? …
… and experiments with Flustra and bryozoans from his university days, we suggest collecting …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The year was marked by …
… The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
… having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
… his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
… may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
… always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
… for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
… gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
… added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
… of anything, & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] …
… better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] …
… he was ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
… others very forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] …
… my book will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In …
… however, ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was …
… might be more willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865 …
… & I loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ) …
… you will be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; …
… needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June …
… in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864 …
… 1865 that he had just finished hearing it read aloud ( letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). …
… Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s name ( see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, …
… so weak that I am not able to do any scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] …
… 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he should repeat Karl …
… coloured varieties (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). …
… species arising’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] ). …
… of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin . Like …
… December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a really curious …
… who had worked under Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, was compounded by Scott’s …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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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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… visitors (23 March 1873; Emma described his visit in a letter to Fanny Allen, [26 March 1873], DAR …
… it too hot and left before the manifestations started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
… (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and Charles Darwin’s letter to Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] ). …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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… Government grant was exhausted ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, …
… are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). …
… the essay of 1844 to read (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1847]) …
… friend Adam Sedgwick attacked the work vehemently in the Edinburgh Review (1845), while other …
… himself: as he told his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he …
… Natural selection Perhaps the most interesting letter relating to Darwin’s species theory, …
… Darwin not only used his personal notes and records but, by letter, marshalled the resources of …
… of the laws of creation, Geographical Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) …
… an unsuccessful campaign for the chair of botany at Edinburgh University and a period of half …

All Darwin's letters from 1873 go online for the anniversary of Origin

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To celebrate the 158th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species on 24 November, the full transcripts and footnotes of over 500 letters from and to Charles Darwin in 1873 are now available online. Read about Darwin's life in 1873 through his…

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… than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1873] ) …
… I could give 2 scientific secretaries work to do ( Letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ) …
… with his father in his botanical work, and later became university lecturer and then reader in …
… have now been printed off, & most of them sold! ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] …
… a highly critical review appeared anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April. Darwin asked one …
… you, as we should to an honoured & much loved brother. ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 …
… their meaning; some love of the new and marvellous ( Letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 …

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, …
… Asa Gray. Darwin is annoyed at Owen’s malignity [ Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. …
… 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. & …
… 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 first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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… Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
… first heard about Fanny when he was an undergraduate at Edinburgh. She soon became one of the main …
… creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
… both recently back from France, Catherine wrote to Darwin in Edinburgh. ‘I never saw such merry, …
… First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
… Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
… his father’s decision that he give up studying medicine at Edinburgh and instead go to Cambridge …
… Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at the University ” this horrid phantom appear’d …
… awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
… ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
… mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
… ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
… Darwin that she would remember him. Responding to a recent letter he had written in a ‘ Blue …
… there was not to be an end of them!! In her last letter before the Beagle sailed, she …
… Little wonder that Darwin felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, …
… The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), in which Fanny …
… so very engaging and delightful about her.— ’ In the letter accompanying his book in 1872, Darwin …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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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…

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… species such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. …
… Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, evidently in response …
… about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he discussed a …
… transmutation; he also wrote to Lyell telling him about the letter to the Athenæum . 9 …
… 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from Falconer, who reiterated his …
… and went on to say that he intended to make a copy of his letter to show to friends. 18 In …
… wrote to Darwin to ask what he thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). …
… he reiterated his admiration for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week …
… in the dispute. When Hooker pressed him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), …
… with Huxley in June and July and had seen Huxley’s letter to Hooker about the affair, 24 he …
… reluctantly agreed to delete his own note. In his last letter to Huxley dealing with the affair, he …
… 30 However, two weeks later, in his last letter to Hooker on the matter, Lubbock’s tone was …
… analysis of the situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that …
… third edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865 …
… written in Swedish, he gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred …
… 1983, Stocking 1987, and Van Riper 1993. 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 …
… pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
… 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and …
… Letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, 13 March 1865 (University of Edinburgh, Lyell 1, Gen. 113 …
… Burkhardt et al. 27 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.: …
… and the manners and customs of modern savages. London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. …
… to the Darwinian revolution . Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Origin : On the …
… and the discovery of human prehistory . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. …

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 …
… the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University Library in bound volumes DAR …
… DAR — Darwin Archive CUL — Cambridge University Library Down — Down House, …
… on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
… constructed from the latest authorities. London and Edinburgh, 1823. (Contemporary annotations …
… 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 …
… Joachim. Elements of the philosophy of plants . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: 162v.). …
… also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… before noticed . By Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1827–35. (DAR 33: 255v.; number …
… residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
… Britannica. 20 vols., 1 vol. Supplement. 6th ed. Edinburgh, 1823. (DAR 30.2: 198v.; 33: 254). …
… Fleming, John. The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan …
… Peru and Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). …
… to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
… 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) …
… Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth. Edinburgh and London, 1802. (DAR 34.1: 92v.). …
… it highly useful to the arts and sciences . . . 2d ed. Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin …
… Dalyell, Thomas. Observations on the Planariae. Edinburgh, 1814. ( Voyage , p. 89). Fox …
… Basil Hall, . . . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 (1815): 269–78. (DAR 38.2: …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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… I omitted to observe, which I ought to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] …
… work your wicked will on it—root leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ) …
… and John Scott Burdon Sanderson, a professor at University College, London, and director of the …
… parts of the flower would become modified & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August …
… it again, “for Heaven knows when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). …
… we take notes and take tracings of their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ) …
… in importance; and if so more places will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 …
… our unfortunate family being fit for continuous work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September …
… One highly critical article appeared anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April ([Baynes] 1873 …
… on any point; for I knew my own ignorance before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] …
… “he would fly at the Empr’s throat like a bulldog” ( letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, …
… force & truth of the great principle of inheritance!” ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 …
… the heavy breathing that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish …
… with up lines; & sadness & decay with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April …
… with the advance of civilisation and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). …
… have never felt an inclination to have a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 …
… of an orbital one produces snapping of the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 …
… that illustrated the physiognomy of the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 …
… by an individual could be transmitted to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February …
… a related discussion in Nature magazine, forwarding a letter from William Huggins on a case of …
… Kepler who was fearful of butchers and butcher’s shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 February …
… smell. Darwin joined the debate, writing to Nature ( letter to Nature , [before 13 March …
… The debate later shifted to ants when Darwin forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James …
… disperse wildly after he had smashed some with his finger ( letter to Nature , [before 3 April …
… danger by seeing the corpses of a fellow species” ( letter to Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). …
… cousin’s aims but regarded the project as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ) …
… in correspondence, and investing money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among …
… Paley as educational influences, and the uselessness of his Edinburgh and Cambridge courses: “every …
… Heijs van Zouteveen trans. 1873) reached two students at the University of Utrecht, who wrote …

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