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From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
| Author: | John Wood Warter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
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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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- … [Dutrochet 1837] Voyage aux terres australes [Péron 1824]— Chap. 39. tom. 4. p. 273. …
- … Indian Islands 8 consult D r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] Sillimans Journal [ …
- … to writings of “Blaine” [Blaine 1824], p. 271 } what have …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1798] Stewart, Playfair Preliminary Dissert. [Stewart 1824 and Playfair 1824] Hume’s …
- … 1820–1] Spix & Martius. German? [Spix and Martius 1824] Adansons voyage to Senegal …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … in Vet. says Blaine on Dogs in 2 d Edit. [Blaine 1824] gives all Knight’s facts on dogs instincts …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … [R. Southey 1834–47]. The Book of the Church [R. Southey 1824]. History of Brazil [R. Southey 1810 …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … several of W. S. Landors Imaginary Conversations [Landor 1824–9]— very poor Sir J 57 …
- … Macculloch letters on Highlands [J. MacCulloch 1824]. 4. Vols.— skimmed Montagu’s …
- … 1704]. (poor). Inheritance & marriage [S. E. Ferrier] 1824 and 1818].— 18 th . 7 th …
- … in Annales des Sciences no. 1: 1841: [Prévost and Dumas 1824] 23 d Moorcraft & Trebeck …
- … 1847], poor Nov. 1. Goethe Autobiography [Goethe 1824] I Part queer —— 20 Life of …
- … et Corbié. Les Pigeons de Volière &c [Boitard and Corbié 1824] —— Fortune Wanderings in …
- … Appendix to Parry, Flinders, & Tuckey’s Voyages [R. Brown 1824, 1814, 1818]. [DAR 119: …
- … [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 …
- … 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 …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
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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- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … refers to the Edinburgh journal of science (1824–32), which was edited by David Brewster ( …
- … journal vols. 1–14 (1819–26). 14 Bostock 1824–7. Volume 1 is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
- … and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. 1824–7. An elementary system of …
- … residence and travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824 . 2 vols. London: H. Colburn. …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. A letter from Robert Edward Alison, who had …
- … shown in their Zoologie of Freycinet’s Voyage (1824), that reef-building corals lived only …
- … first sighting of a coral island is confirmed by a letter to his sister Caroline, written on 29 …
- … the time of the visit of the Beagle to Tahiti. The letter of 29 April was written shortly after …
- … he had a sound theory and one that was worth publishing. The letter continues: ‘I hope to be able to …
- … heart’ to have finished writing his book on coral reefs: letter to Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842] . …
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 …
- … of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … in the Annales des Mines . . . Trans. with Notes. London, 1824. (DAR 36.2: 522; Stoddart 1962, p. …
- … 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 …
- … du monde . . . 1817–20. 9 vols., 4 vols. plates, Paris, 1824–44. (DAR 32.1: 52v.). Frézier, …
- … 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 …
- … Pacifique dressé par M. de Krusenstern. St Petersburg, 1824–7. ( Narrative 2: 506). § …
- … 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). …
- … Lindley. An English grammar. 2 vols. 5th ed. York, 1824. (Inscription: ‘Rob t . FitzRoy 1831’) …
- … 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; …
- … in Brazil in the years 1817–1820. 2 vols. London, 1824. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Chas. Darwin …
- … 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 …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … British Library since 1908 ( British Library Add MS 37631 1824-1854 - # 4 : a satire of Narrative …
- … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
- … Portsmouth. He went to sea as in 1819 and made lieutenant in 1824, serving in South America. He took …
