From R. E. Alison [March – July 1835]
Summary
Sends some historical data to illustrate the elevation of the coast at Valparaiso in recent times.
Author: | Robert Edward Alison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Mar – July 1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 36: 425–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-247 |
From John Coldstream 13 September 1831
Summary
Suggestions and information helpful to CD in preparation for Beagle voyage. David Brewster’s meteorological papers. Suggests an oyster-trawl for collecting marine animals. Recommends CD see R. E. Grant. For meteorological observations suggests F. W. Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific [1831] and an interview with J. F. Daniell of King’s College.
Author: | John Coldstream |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-124 |
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- … Brewster 1826 , 1823. Beechey 1831 . A copy of another edition (Philadelphia 1832) is in …
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 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November 1822
Summary
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3 |
From T. F. Jamieson 3 September 1861
Summary
Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 75–92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242A |
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. …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
From H. S. Fox 25 July 1834
Summary
Thanks CD for letter of 5 April and specimens; did not know the Falklands and Patagonia were so interesting geologically.
Will answer CD’s queries about S. Brazil in another letter. Names Friedrich Sellow, A. Saint-Hilaire, and Andrew Mathews as naturalists who travelled there. Directs CD to Alexander Caldcleugh in Santiago.
Author: | Henry Stephen Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-252 |
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- … army as A.D.C. to General Bolivar, 1823–30 ( Modern English Biography ). Alexander …
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 …
From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
From T. M. Coan 14 February 1874
Summary
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9290 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 [March] 1846
Summary
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Mar] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 63–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-958 |
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 …
From John Grant Malcolmson 24 July 1839
Summary
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 7–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-528 |
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 |
From Moritz Schiff 8 May 1876
Summary
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Author: | Moritz Schiff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10500 |
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- … 289–303. Feinsod, Moshe. 2011. Moritz Schiff (1823–1896): a physiologist in exile. Rambam …
From J. D. Hooker [mid-July 1845]
Summary
The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.
Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.
JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [mid-July 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-884 |
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- … Polar Sea, in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, & 1823. Commanded by lieutenant, now admiral, …
From Edward Blyth [8 November 1855]
Summary
History of the rose in India.
Looks forward to reading what Hooker and Thompson say on species and varieties in their Flora Indica [1855].
Domestication of the turkey in America. The Peruvians had domestic dogs. W. W. Robinson of Assam reports that otters are extensively trained for fishing but cormorants never are. Gives Robinson’s comments on local domestic geese, rabbits, and cats.
EB has skins of jungle fowl from different localities to send.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1776 |
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- … Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823–1826. 5 pts in 1 vol. Berlin. Prescott, …
From G. R. Waterhouse 21[–22] May 1845
Summary
Discusses insects collected by CD on St Paul’s Island and the Galapagos.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21[-2] May 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-869 |
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- … Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823–1826. 5 pts in 1 vol. Berlin. Journal of …
From Charles Lyell 5 May 1869
Summary
Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.
Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].
Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.
Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.
Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.
J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1869 |
Classmark: | Lyell 1881, 2: 441; DAR 85: A100–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6728 |
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- … and her half-sister, Miss Duvansel, in 1823 ( K. M. Lyell 1881 , 1: 125). It may have …
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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
Summary
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.…
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, …
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 …
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…