To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 25 [April 1853]
Summary
Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1379 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Summary
Writes concerning marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To [William Sharpey] [1853–72?]
Summary
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | [1853–72?] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13892 |
To C. S. Bate 10 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1471 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
To Albany Hancock 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1498 |
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
To Thomas Salt 31 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499F |
To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
To Albany Hancock 12 February [1853]
Summary
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1501 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 18 February 1853
Summary
Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1503 |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
From Albany Hancock 25 February 1853
Summary
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
| Author: | Albany Hancock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1505 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 March [1853]
Summary
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A21–A24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506 |
To Thomas Salt 15 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506F |
From R. Carden 18 March 1853
Summary
Asks when the Transfer will be prepared, so he can have the money ready.
| Author: | Robert Carden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1853 |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506G |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 19 March [1853]
Summary
Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1507 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
| Carden, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hancock, Albany | (6) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Hancock, Albany | (7) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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 ( …
- … of the common barnacles (the Lepadidae and Balanidae) in 1853. Upon dissecting Alcippe and …
- … 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 …
- … received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1853, even before completing the second …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 355–6, mentioned both Coral reefs …
- … 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] ( …
Scientific Practice
Summary
Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of …
- … with detailed correspondence about barnacles. Letter 1514 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. …
- … of one idea. – cirripedes morning & night.” Letter 1480 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, …
- … on embryological stages than Huxley thinks. Letter 1592 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H …
- … and difficulties of botanical experimentation. Letter 4895 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J …
- … on Anelasma which he thinks seems probable. Letter 5173 — Müller, J. F. T. to …
- … and on some plants which seem to be dichogamous. Letter 5429 — Müller, J. F. T. to …
- … and crossed with pollen of other species. Letter 5480 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. …
- … Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863]. Letter 5551 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. …
- … on the use and importance of the microscope. Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., …
- … with a microscope ranks second only to geology. Letter 1018 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, …
- … “take advantage of your wicked offer of assistance”. The letter is full of observations on barnacles …
- … ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Letter 1167 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, …
- … finds this microscope “wonderfully superior”. Letter 1174 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
- … specimens and information for his barnacle book. Letter 1140 — Darwin, C. R. to Ross, J …
- … to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin. Letter 1262 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, …
- … discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits. Letter 1495 — Darwin, C. R. to …
- … at his collection to check on his suspicions. Letter 1370 — Darwin, C. R. to Covington, …
- … only one specimen is known to exist in the world. Letter 1251 — Darwin, C. R. to Gould, …
- … between theory and practice in natural history. Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, …
- … first describer’s name to specific name. Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., …
- … perpetuity of names in species descriptions. Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
- … with the former and deferring the species paper. Letter 1319 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, …
- … have progressed but Hooker is not converted. Letter 1339 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
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- … Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the …
- … for the ‘Literary and Scientific Portrait Club’. In a letter to Hooker of May 1855, Darwin made an …
- … was interrupted by Laurence’s departure to America in 1853, and no more seems to have come of it’. …
- … and dated bottom right date of creation 1853 computer-readable date 1853-01 …
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…
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- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Martineau [H. Martineau 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … Land [Twamley 1852] Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s …
- … relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 9–11 89 1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in Gardeners Ch …
- … Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in …
- … Principles of Commerce & Commercial Law: Lectures [Stephen 1853] Warrens Diary of a …
- … Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex [Devereux 1853] M rs . Colin Mackenzie …
- … [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, …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letters Letter 282 - Darwin to Fox, W. D., [9 - 12 August 1835] Darwin …
- … “a little reading, thinking and hammering”. Letter 1533 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [27 …
- … involved in producing such a magnum opus. In a subsequent letter , Darwin describes Dana’s …
- … that de Bosquet has bestowed on the subject. Letter 2669 - Bunbury, C. J. F. to Darwin, …
- … a work of “astonishing labour and patience”. Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 …
- … 134 crosses which was “no slight labour”. Letter 3901 - Darwin to Falconer, H., [5 & …
- … not depleted completely his health and strength. Letter 4000 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., …
- … . It is, Darwin says, “a monument of labour”. Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 …
- … a wonderful, indefatigable worker you are!”. Letter 4997 - Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, [4 …
- … systematically to collect and arrange facts. Letter 8153 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [9 …
- … and anxiety” involved in the editorial process. Letter 9157 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H., …
Arthur Mellersh
Summary
Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … of departure reviews of Origin . The second is a single letter from naturalist A. R. Wallace to …
- … everything is the result of “brute force”. Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 …
- … nature, as he is in a “muddle” on this issue. Letter 3256 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, …
- … shares a witty thought experiment about an angel. Letter 3342 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
- … He asks Gray some questions about design. Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 …
- … of my precipice”. Darwin and Wallace Letter 5140 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, …
- … of variations. Darwin and Graham Letter 13230 — Darwin, C. R. to Graham, …
- … of people, including members of his own family. Letter 441 — Wedgwood, Emma to Darwin, …
- … about his “honest & conscientious doubts”. Letter 471 — Darwin, Emma to Darwin, C. …
- … there is a danger in giving up revelation”. Letter 2534 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, …
- … need of an act of intervention to bring change. Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, …
- … with that knowledge which only He can give me.” Letter 5303 — Boole, M. E. to Darwin, C …
- … that his theory be compatible with her faith. Letter 5307 — Darwin, C. R. to Boole, M. …
- … and science should each run its own course. Letter 8070 — Darwin, C. R. to Abbot, F. E. …
- … “with qualifications”, if he wishes. Letter 8837 — Darwin, C. R. to Doedes, N. D., 2 …
- … man’s intellect, “but man can do his duty”. Letter 12041 — Darwin, C. R. to Fordyce, …
- … most correct description of my state of mind”. Letter 12757 — Darwin, C. R. to Aveling, …
- … as examples to illustrate his ideas on beauty. Letter 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
- … discusses humming birds and orchids as examples. Letter 4939 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C …
- … a long discussion on beauty in the natural world. Letter 4943 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, …
- … beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects. Letter 5003f — Shaw, James to Darwin, C …
- … Beauty against the Duke of Argyll’s criticisms. Letter 5004 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, …
- … of beauty being displayed in conspicuous parts. Letter 5060 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. …
- … 1536 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, J. W. (b), 11 Oct [1853] Darwin gives his opinion to Sir …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … making his first of many trips to the Alps in the summer of 1853. He spent a probationary year …
- … Darwin initiated a correspondence with Müller, but that letter has not been found; however, Müller …
- … gaining access. In October 1867, Müller sent Darwin a letter describing his discovery of …
- … Müller had spent almost every summer since 1853 in different parts of the Alps and in 1881 published …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … Soon after Origin was published, Darwin received a letter from Asa Gray offering to arrange an …
- … Darwin responded favourably to Gray’s proposal in his letter of 21 December [1859] ( Correspondence …
- … had been fixed through the process of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and …
- … of species; Darwin sent this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had …
- … [1860] and 1 February [1860]). A month later, in his letter of 8 March [1860], Darwin sent …
- … (especially that given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin …
- … changes he intended to make in the American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860 …
- … corrected Second Edition with additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). …
- … resulting from three separate printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and …
- … in 1844. In the last or tenth and much improved edition (1853, p. 155), the anonymous author says: ‘ …
- … qui est pour lui sa raison d’être.’’ In 1853, a celebrated geologist, Count Keyserling …
- … of Origin ( Origin 3d ed., pp. 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
Summary
Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … waited ten years before he sat for his next photograph. By 1853, Darwin’s life as a naturalist was …
- … and made at least four different exposures of Darwin between 1853 and 1857. They took this …
- … to the copy he had sent five years previously in his 1860 letter to Hooker , Darwin exclaimed …
- … gaze. These photographs were rarely included in a Darwin letter, save for perhaps a very few close …
- … taken for public consumption. Responding to a letter from a German translator – Adolph …
- … which you do me the honour to wish to possess.” As the letter and photograph had to travel from Down …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … public recognition of his scientific achievements when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the …
- … in his health was indicated by his comment in a letter to Hooker on 29 [May 1854] : ‘Very far …
- … large-scale geological changes. As he told Hooker in a letter of 5 June [1855] , ‘it shocks my …
- … he had written to Hooker ( Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 [June 1850] ), …
- … interested in animal breeding. As Darwin told Fox in a letter of 27 March [1855] , the object of …
- … ‘all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 7 May [1855] ). But …
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he discovered that it contained …
- … to the entire natural history community by sending a letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , …
- … it adequately. On 18 June 1858, Darwin received a now lost letter from Wallace enclosing his essay …
- … I had, however, quite resigned myself & had written half a letter to Wallace to give up all …
Thomas Henry Huxley
Summary
Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Editorial policy and practice
Summary
Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of …
- … (for example in a dealer's catalogue).The text of each letter has been closely checked against …
- … letters he received is given in the 'Annotations' below the letter (line numbers refer to …
- … to be identified by inference from the content and date of a letter or its reply, or some other …
- … of letters have had to be dated only approximately. If a letter is in a series which contains a …
- … the writing medium, except for the months of January-March 1853, when Darwin used bright blue ink, …
- … and ‘after’ are used in a strict sense. Thus a letter dated ‘after 8 July 1854’ is judged to have …
- … 3. The address If there is no address on a letter from Darwin, but there is some internal …
- … not supplied unless good evidence is at hand. 4. The letter summaries The summaries on …
- … of the printed Calendar . Where the full text of a letter is also given and there are …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … purposes’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and …
- … book (Down House MS) and Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855] ). …
- … its sensitivity to touch (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December …
- … his employer’s hothouses over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( …
- … he had had, he would ‘probably have made a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February …
- … adding ‘I shall keep to curious & experimental plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January …
- … of Westerham, with whom he had dealt over many years. In his letter to Hooker, Darwin mentioned that …
- … of the plants you want before going to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ) …
- … I shall avoid[,] of course I must not have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ) …
- … him: ‘I long to stock it, just like a school-boy’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). …
- … which I wished for, but which I did not like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February …
- … in a particular mixture of moss, peat, and charcoal (see the letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to …
- … of his plants, proffering further advice on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March …
- … sh d . not see such transcendent beauty in each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
- … to envision the tropics (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, [28 April 1831] …
- … of my old friends again’ ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, May–June [1832] …
- … of the tropics ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). …
- … to identify the families to which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he …
- … for experiments, which seem to me really worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] …
- … [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 …
- … Tait that he had ‘4 houses of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869 …
- … to the greenhouses ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). …
- … out’ on that list the plants he could not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] …
- … ‘Gloxinia droopy & upright’ both in this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February …
- … Treviranus 1863a, which he received in mid-February (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February …
- … that Darwin made of the plants sent to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] …
- … as having been sent to Darwin from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] …
- … or orders listed. Corrected spellings are taken from Lindley 1853, Index Kewensis , the Gray …
- … Treviranus and to Treviranus 1863a, p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … our door N o 12 and N o 11 is in the slit for the Letter box.— he decidedly ran past N o 11 …
- … has learned them from my sometimes changing the first letter in any word he is using—thus I say …
- … , pp. 131–2. [6] Correspondence vol. 2, letter from Emma Wedgwood, [23 January 1839] . …
- … to be in the same hand. One such entry, made on 22 July 1853, the last of a series of similarly …
- … Darwin family stayed in Eastbourne from 14 July to 4 August 1853 (de Beer ed. 1959a, p. 13). …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … Despite the difference in language between Darwin’s letter and the modern scientific paper quoted …
- … daresay very well, & for coining new words.’ See the letter The word first appeared …
- … for atheism, but as Darwin himself acknowledged in a letter to Mary Boole, it was more satisfactory …
- … as a result of the direct intervention of God. See the letter We may contrast Darwin’s …
- … sucks it, must have! It is a very pretty case.’ See the letter Darwin was confident …
- … nature as she really is.’ It seems from Haeckel’s letter that what most struck him about …
- … of his great discovery is by contrast extremely modest. In a letter written in 1864 and …
- … Entomologist 37: pp. 206-210 Lindley, John. 1853. The vegetable kingdom; or, the structure …
