To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
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To Charles Lyell [1847 or 1848]
Summary
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1847 or 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825F |
To Charles Lyell 23 [October 1861]
Summary
Comments especially on the "intermediate shelf" problem of Glen Roy; views of Jamieson and Milne. CD "cannot help a sneaking hope that the sea might have formed the horizontal shelves".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 [Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3295 |
To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826]
Summary
Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1826] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-22 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 6 April [1863]
Summary
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 6 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4076 |
To David Milne 20 [September 1847]
Summary
Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".
Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Milne Home |
Date: | 20 [Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.3813) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1120 |
To J. D. Hooker [7 January 1845]
Summary
Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?
Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.
Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".
Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.
Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-814 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
To Caroline Darwin [19 May – 16 June 1837]
Summary
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [19 May – 16 June 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360 |
To Charles Lyell 25 August [1845]
Summary
Discusses the power of land covered with snow to radiate heat.
Criticises CL’s discussion of slavery [in Travels in North America (1845)]. A review of CL’s book is in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Mentions John Lindley’s views on carbonic acid gas and extinction;
refers to the discussion of multiple and single creations in Humboldt’s Kosmos.
The origin of volcanic craters of elevation.
There is a popular demand for a new edition of Principles.
Praises palaeobotanical work of C. J. F. Bunbury.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Aug [1845] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-905 |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
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- … species, are in DAR 67: 60–4. William Thompson (1823–1903) owned a nursery in Ipswich. …
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
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- … letter from E. C. Darwin, [ c. June 1823]). The plate closet, named after its original …
To Asa Gray 20 March [1880]
Summary
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Mar [1880] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12541 |
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- … obtain Ipomoea seeds from William Thompson (1823–1903). CD later reported that the seeds …
To Catherine Darwin 20–9 July 1834
Summary
In the past six months he has done much geology and natural history. His geological pursuits are a source of high pleasure. Has lately determined to work chiefly on corals.
Spent three weeks going up the Santa Cruz with a party; they ran out of provisions 20 miles from the Cordilleras. Winter at present prevents his doing much natural history.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 20–9 July 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-248 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [September 1847]
Summary
Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: C3–C6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1116 |
To Leonard Jenyns 3 December [1837]
Summary
CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.
Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 3 Dec [1837] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-391 |
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- … La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 7 vols. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. …
To Charles Lyell 23 [September 1860]
Summary
Hopes to get Asa Gray’s review of Origin republished.
Argues for single origin of mammals.
Encloses two phylogenetic diagrams indicating possible descent of mammals.
Comments on rodents, marsupials, and dingo in Australia,
and on a paper on the survival of stumps as a result of root grafting.
Argues that man had a single progenitor and consists of a single species.
Comments on destruction of non-white races.
Discusses introduction of rodents to islands by man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.227) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2925 |
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- … La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par MM. Lesson et …
To J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society [1839 – May 1842]
Summary
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [1839 – May 1842] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-477 |
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- … La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 7 vols. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. …
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Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Friend | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Friend | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
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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- … Provenance: DAR 271.1: 5 Notes 1 Franklin 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 …
- … bound with Abernethy 1819a, Abernethy 1819b and Abernethy 1823. The volume has ‘Erasmus Darwin’ on …
- … 1819a; CD perhaps refers to Abernethy 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. …
- … used in Lister 1826 for younger sons. 17 Henry 1823. Volume 2 is in the Darwin Library–CUL …
- … Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1823. Introductory lectures, exhibiting some …
- … of a residence and travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824 . 2 vols. London: H. Colburn …
- … of Natural History 33: 202–13. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the shores …
- … 21, and 22 . London: John Murray. Henry, William. 1823. The elements of experimental …
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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- … has various coloured maps by Copenhagen Botanists [?Schouw 1823] of range of plants. 13 …
- … Flanders & Holland in 1817 [Neill, Hay, and Macdonald 1823] These three last books quoted in …
- … Geneva— Mem. de la Soc. Genev. Tom II p. 29 [L. A. Necker 1823] read Lindleys Horticulture …
- … 15 th ) 13 th . Minor poems of Milton [Milton 1823] & first 2 d 71 vol of …
- … Tour by Deput. Caledon. Soc [Neill, Hay, and Macdonald] 1823] Ref at end Godwins answer to …
- … 20 Franklins Narrative 1 st Expedition [Franklin 1823] Oct 4 Drinkwater Siege of Gibraltar …
- … 12 th Necker. Mem. les Oiseaux de Geneve [L. A. Necker 1823] —— Owen on pearly Nautilus [R …
- … [Sévigné 1801] Quentin Durward [W. Scott] 1823]. Veronica [Zschokke 1845b]. G. Gurney [Hook] …
- … Physique, de Chimie, et de l’Histoire Naturelle (1794–1823). 71 CD wrote “1 st ” …
- … Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 13v. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the …
- … ——. 1830. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823 . . . 1826 . 2 vols. Weimar. 119: 3a …
- … . Paris. [Darwin Library.] 128: 4 Milton, John. 1823. The minor poems of John Milton . …
- … *119: 5v.; 119: 13b Necker, Louis Albert. 1823. Mémoire sur les oiseaux des environs de …
- … [Neill, Patrick, Hay, John, and Macdonald, James]. 1823. Journal of a horticultural tour through …
- … *128: 179; 128: 8 Schouw, Joakim Frederik. 1823. Pflanzengeographische Atlas zur …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 12b [——]. 1823. Quentin Durward . 3 vols. London. [Other …
- … Lamétherie and H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville. Paris. 1794–1823. *119: 13v.; 119: 10a …
- … la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris . Paris. 1823–34. 119: 19a Mémoires de l …
- … Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture of New York . New York. 1823–6. 119: 19a; *128: 167 …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … went on to become a fellow and then tutor of the college in 1823. During his time at Cambridge he …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, …
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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- … parasitism, mutualism, aposematism or exaptation?’, pp. 182–3. See the paper One of the …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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…