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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: 28 hits
- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
- … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
- … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
- … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
- … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
- … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
- … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
- … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
- … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
- … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
- … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
- … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
- … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
- … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
- … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
- … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
- … Coldstream, John (2) Cole, William (3) …
- … Cooper, W. B. (1) Cooper, William (1) …
- … Croll, James (16) Crookes, William (1) …
- … la Beche, H. T. (3) Dealtry, William (1) …
- … Farr, John (2) Farr, William (7) …
- … Philippi, R. A. (1) Phillips, John (21) …

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
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … in muscles & bones of man & animals.— (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland …
- … 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming 1850] Sir C. Phillips Recollections of Curran [C. …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 1837–9] …
- … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
- … 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
- … & Forsyth on Forest Trees [Boutcher 1775 and Forsyth 1791] Phillips History of cultivated …
- … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … —— 15 th . Phillip’s life of W. Smith [J. Phillips 1844]. —— 30 Abridged Despatches Duke …
- … 3 d . Series —— Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] June 7 th …
- … Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor …
- … Tour in Sweden [Wollstonecraft 1796]. (poor) —— Phillips. Life of Curran [C. Phillips 1818] …
- … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray …
- … Hind’s Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt …
- … 7 Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph …
- … In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogle’s translation of Aristotle …
- … Notebooks ). 19 According to the DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both …
- … is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alison’s article which was …
- … Jameson . London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 2a Buckland, William. 1836. Geology and …

Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 22 hits
- … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
- … Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Beechey, Frederick William. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific …
- … Antoine de. A voyage round the world. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1772. ( …
- … Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert …
- … , etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John. Travels in the interior of …
- … 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John. The narrative of the Honourable …
- … . . . London, 1798. (DAR 31.2: 318v.). Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. …
- … Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s …
- … 255v.; number of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William. A new voyage round the world. …
- … 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. Meteorological essays and …
- … (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). Ellis, William. Polynesian researches, …
- … and western coasts of Australia. Fleming, John. The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. …
- … atlas. London, 1814. (DAR 30.1: 30v.). Forster, John Reinhold. Observations made during a …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages …
- … 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ Henslow, John Stevens. Geological description of …
- … and western coasts of Australia (includes: Fitton, William. An account of some geological …
- … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Kirby, William and Spence, William. An introduction to …
- … de la Plata. London, 1825. (DAR 33: 269v.). Owen, William Fitz William. Narrative of …
- … Library–CUL, Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). Phillips, William. Elementary introducton to . . …
- … 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 26). Webster, William Henry Bayley. Narrative of a …
- … from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay towards a first …
- … ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Buckland, William. Considerations of the …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 21 hits
- … Darwin with his now famous beard, had been taken by his son William in April, when Darwin was …
- … for him to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help; he also ordered a …
- … In the same month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, professor of clinical medicine at …
- … the two previous years. As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 …
- … The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin’s eldest son and a banker …
- … shape and size, indicated fertility between dimorphic forms. William participated in the detailed …
- … can do as much pollen work as ever you like’. Comments on William’s findings, along with other …
- … wife, Emma, or by Henrietta. Darwin’s own replies to William disclose his delight in discovering the …
- … of a paper by another of his orchid correspondents, John Traherne Moggridge, who in June sent him …
- … of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again Much of Darwin’s …
- … plight of another of Darwin’s fellow orchid-experimenters, John Scott. Their correspondence had been …
- … five years. Scott felt that his superiors, James McNab and John Hutton Balfour, no longer treated …
- … indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker met …
- … support ‘on the grounds of science’ ( letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ), but Scott declined …
- … As in earlier years, Darwin consulted Charles William Crocker about his crossing experiments with …
- … 1864 ). A notably rambling and long letter arrived from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of …
- … by a merciful deity for the use of humankind ( letter from John Beck, 6 October 1864 ). …
- … his brother Erasmus told him of a subscription fund for John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, South …
- … that a Neanderthal race once extended across Europe. John Lubbock mentioned his forthcoming volume …
- … of the Royal Society, Edward Sabine, to the geologist John Phillips revealed Sabine’s fears that in …
- … ever so little degree the Council’s award’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 21 December [1864] ). In …