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From George Peacock   [c. 26 August 1831]

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Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.

Author:  George Peacock
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 26 Aug 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-106

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  • … of the southern coasts of South America (1826–30). Robert FitzRoy was appointed commander …
  • … Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 …

From John Lubbock   [after 28 April 1860?]

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Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 28 Apr 1860?]
Classmark:  DAR 48: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2394

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  • … Taylor and Walton. Müller, Johannes Peter. 1826. Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des …
  • … by Johannes Peter Müller in J.  P.  Müller 1826  and refined in J.  P.  Müller 1834–7. CD …

From J. C. Symmes   6 February 1874

Summary

Believes that he has an important physical theory: all atoms revolve.

Author:  John Cleves Symmes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 177: 339
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9269

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  • … London: Chapman and Hall. [McBride, James. ] 1826. Symmes’s theory of concentric spheres: …
  • … and discharged through the other ( [McBride] 1826 , p.  36; see also Sinnema n.d. ). Durch …

From J. D. Hooker   [3 November 1854]

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JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.

There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3 Nov 1854]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 214–15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1629

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  • … of London. Gaudichaud, Charles Beaupré-. 1826. Botanique. Vol. 4 of Freycinet, L. C. D. …
  • … Freycinet. Hooker’s reference is to Gaudichaud 1826 , pp.  64–83. During Hooker’s visit to …

From G. H. Darwin   [14 May 1871]

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Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14 May 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7757

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  • … The reference is probably to Malthus 1826 ( An essay on the principle of population , in …
  • … Press. 1985–. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a …

From J. D. Hooker   9 November 1856

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JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.

Never felt so shaky about species before.

His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1856
Classmark:  DAR 100: 105–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1983

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  • … University Press. 1975. Ross, James Clark. 1826. Zoology. Appendix, pp. 91–120, of Parry, …
  • … performed in the years 1824–25, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Fury. London. 1826. …
  • … p.  543). James Clark Ross in Ross 1826 , Appendix, pp.  116–20. Hooker had accompanied …

From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons   7 February 1867

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Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.

Author:  W. H. S Gibbons
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1867
Classmark:  DAR 165: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5394

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  • … his family ( Shrewsbury Chronicle , 20 September 1825 and 22 September 1826); W.  H.  K.   …
  • … from Caroline and Susan Darwin, 2 [January 1826] ( Correspondence vol.  1). See also n.   …

To A. R. Wallace   6 April 1859

Summary

First part of Origin MS is with Murray;

CD hopes he has noticed ARW’s work fairly.

ARW is right in thinking that CD was led to believe that selection was the principle of change from studying domesticated productions and that after reading Malthus he "saw at once how to apply this principle". Geographical distribution and geological relations of extinct and recent inhabitants of S. America first led him to the subject, "Especially case of Galapagos Islds". Hooker and Lubbock are full converts and Huxley now believes in species mutation. "We shall live to see all the younger men converts."

Praises ARW’s work and spirit.

CD had actually written a letter to ARW stating he would not publish before him but was persuaded by Lyell and Hooker to allow them to act "as they thought fair & honourably".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  6 Apr 1859
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2449

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  • … Bibliography Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a …
  • … CD refers to Wallace 1855 . Malthus 1826 . Hooker 1859  was the first scientific work to …

From W. J. L. Wharton   [15 September 1874]

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Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.

Author:  William James Lloyd Wharton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Sept 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 69: A63–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9641

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  • … s Ships, Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826, under the command of Capt. W. F. Owen. 2 …
  • … the British voyage to Africa from 1821 to 1826 (see Owen 1833 ). CD referred to Owen’s …

To J. D. Hooker   25 December [1868]

Summary

Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].

Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.

Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 Dec [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 105–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6512

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  • … Bibliography Cassini, Henri. 1826–34. Opuscules phytologiques. 3 vols. Paris: F. G. …
  • … Cassini made these observations in Cassini 1826–34 , 1: 216–19. Coelospermous: ‘Hollow- …

To Caroline Darwin   24 October – 24 November [1832]

Summary

During the past two months CD has been lucky with fossil bones, and he is also finding new specimens of living animals.

He describes an ostrich hunt.

Has received several letters from home.

He enjoys Buenos Aires and admires the señoritas. Tierra del Fuego is next.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:  24 Oct & 24 Nov [1832]
Classmark:  DAR 223: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-188

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  • … and Co. 1839–43. Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys …
  • … Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 …
  • … for no end. ’ (DAR 30.2: 112). Head 1826 . Lieutenant Robert Nicholas Hamond , who had …

To Henry Fawcett   6 December [1860]

Summary

Expresses his admiration for HF’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine (Fawcett 1860).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Fawcett
Date:  6 Dec [1860]
Classmark:  Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3012F

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  • … Biology 4: 67–170. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; …
  • … on the principle of population ( Malthus 1826 ) in 1838 (see Notebooks , Notebook D, 134e …

To Henry Johnson   9 June 1880

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Thanks for enclosures.

Remembers Edward Vivian.

Glad to hear of flint tools.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Johnson
Date:  9 June 1880
Classmark:  Torquay Museum Society (AR471)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12626

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Caroline & Susan Darwin, 2 [January 1826] . …

From John Grant Malcolmson   24 July 1839

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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

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  • … s opinion. ’ (See n.  9, below. ) Finlayson 1826 . The east coast of Madras. Benza 1837 . …
  • … Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Finlayson, George. 1826. The mission to Siam, and Hué the capital …
  • … of 1819 and the bursting of the dams in 1826; also a theory of the Runns formation & some …

To J. D. Hooker   [7 January 1845]

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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

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  • … Hunter . Henslow 1838 . Lesson and Garnot 1826–30. Lütke 1835–6 . CD eventually revised …
  • … la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. 4 vols. and 2 atlases. …

To A. R. Wallace   5 July [1866]

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CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.

Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 July [1866]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add 46434, f.70)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5145

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  • … Press. 1985–. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a …
  • … copy of the sixth edition ( Malthus 1826 ) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …

From E. J. Edwards   28 June 1881

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Remembers being taken by CD, as a Shrewsbury senior, on a botanical collecting trip.

Sends a portrait [of Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848)?] from an old portfolio.

Author:  Edward James Justinian George (Edward) (James) Edwards
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 99: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13224

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  • … a student at Shrewsbury School between 1826 and 1830; CD had also been a student there …

To Charles Lyell   23 [September 1860]

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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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  • … voyage of the Coquille , 1822– 5 ( Duperrey 1826–30 , 1, pt 1: 127, 341). See letter from …
  • … Press. 1985–. Duperrey, Louis Isidore. 1826–30. Voyage autour du monde … sur la Corvette …

From John Price   17 September 1881

Summary

Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.

Author:  John Price
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 174: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13341

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  • … Wales with Nathan Hubbersty in mid-June 1826 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (DAR 158)). Price had hoped …
  • … vol. 1, letter from John Price, [July 1826] ). Hubbersty died in October 1881; his wife …

To J. D. Hooker   15 [December 1871]

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Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [Dec 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8106

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  • … 1972. Palgrave of Arabia. The life of William Gifford Palgrave 1826–88. London: Macmillan. …
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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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  • … find the discipline of medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a …
  • … training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). However, Charles’s medical …
  • … Granby  in a letter to his sister dated 29 January 1826 , so perhaps he meant that the list …
  • … Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made a list of some books he had …
  • … House.  Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January [1826] : I have been most …
  • … 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. 12 mo: duodecimo. 11 Pennant …
  • … 13 Edinburgh new philosophical journal  vols. 1–19 (1826–64), a continuation of the  Edinburgh …
  • … copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. 16 Hudson 1826; Lister 1826. CD described Lister 1826 as …
  • … A periodical by Samuel Johnson. 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. …
  • … th  ed. 2 vols. London. Hudson, Marianne Spencer. 1826.  Almack’s: a novel . 3 vols. …
  • … Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826.  Granby . 3 vols. London. …
  • … of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826.  Brambletye House: or, cavaliers …

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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  • … 1800]— perhaps worth reading quoted by Malthus [Malthus 1826]. Heberdens observations on …
  • … spont. Hybrids. where? Sweet Hortus Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has remarks on acclimatizing of …
  • … 29 Chardin [Chardin 1686] & Bernier [Bernier 1826]. Mack. says very amusing Toland …
  • … [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus 1826 [Malthus 1826]— (read) Pallas’ …
  • … Baber’s Biography. translat. by Erskine [Baber 1826] Lee Scot’s Narrative of Shipwreck in …
  • … memoire descriptif de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by …
  • … generales sur les Mammif. Isid. G. St. Hilaire. 1826? [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826] facts on …
  • … 1844].) read Sageret sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826] (Gerard Hybrids [Gérard 1844]) …
  • … North’s lives of L d . Guildford & the Norths [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew …
  • … [Lavater 1806–7] Malthus on Population [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th  W. Earle’s 60 …
  • … [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley 1826] 19 th . Read well Mackenzie …
  • … 8 th  Sageret’s Mem: sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. …
  • … I to Tom. XX —— 7 Malthus on population [Malthus 1826] (2 d  time) —— 12 Brickell’s …
  • … Col. Lib Aug. 25. North’s lives of L. North [North 1826] interesting Sept 13. Sismondi …
  • … 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt …
  • … 1847] goodish —— 20. Berniers Travels [Bernier 1826]— d[itt]o —— 26 Lane’s Water Cure …
  • … of Birds Yarrell has.?— Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees …
  • … Bentham has published list of Pyrenes plants [Bentham 1826]. I daresay he w d . go over list with …
  • … These authors were cited in Lesson and Garnot 1826–30. 9  CD did not follow his own …
  • … Paris. [Darwin Library.] *119: 9v.; 119: 1a Baber. 1826.  Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din …
  • … and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826.  Catalogue des plantes indigènes …
  • … *119: 20v.; 128: 14 Bernier, François. 1826.  Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D.   1656 …
  • … Majesty’s Ships Leven   and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826. Under the command of   Capt. W. F. …
  • … de l’Académie royale des sciences, pendant l’année 1826, pp. clxix–cc. *128: 167 Dampier, …
  • … “Adventure” and “Beagle” between the years   1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …
  • … *119: 20v. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1826. Mammifères. In Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
  • … the most instructive and amusing lives . 34 vols. London. 1826–33. [Other eds.]  119: 2a …
  • … “Adventure” and “Beagle”   between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …

Early Days

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…

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  • … Letter 20 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [6 Jan 1826] Darwin describes to his sister Caroline his …

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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  • … wrote to his sister during an earlier voyage (16 March 1826): ‘I flatter myself I have a complete …
  • … the Sandwich Islands,   in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). …
  • … description of active and extinct volcanoes . . .  London, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 23v., 26). Darwin …
  • … MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., atlas. Paris, 1826–30. (DAR 30.2: 184; 31.1: 241). …
  • … journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes.  London, 1826. (DAR 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library …
  • … dans les deux hémisphères.  2d ed. Paris, Strasbourg, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 56v.). Darwin Library–CUL †. …
  • … Conchifera and Mollusca in a collection formed . . . 1826–30.  Zoological Journal  5 (1832–4). …
  • … Travels in Chile and La Plata . . .  2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy …
  • … des côtes de l’Amérique méridionale . . .  Paris, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 1, 2). [Saint Pierre, …
  • … by J. B. B. Eyriès of  Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to …

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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  • … stretched over four decades. Ross’ chief project from 1826 to his death was developing a settlement …
  • … to the Cape of Good Hope, where he lived from 1820 to 1826, while pressing the British and the Dutch …
  • … his party to Cocos Keeling. Hare thus came Cocos-Keeling in 1826, after Ross’ initial visit but …

Philip Gidley King

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King was born in Parramatta, New South Wales on 31 October 1817, son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriett (Lethbridge). His grandfather, also named Philip Gidley King, had been governor of New South Wales. As a child, King travelled to England with…

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  • … and in 1824-5 attended school near Deptford in London. From 1826 to1830 he sailed under his father’s …

William Darwin Fox

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Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…

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  • … John Stevens Henslow. Fox’s diary and accounts for 1824 to 1826, now in Christ’s College Old Library …

Journal of researches

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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…

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  • … Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination …

Erasmus moves to London

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Darwin's brother, Erasmus, leaves Edinburgh to go to Cambridge University

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  • … Darwin's brother, Erasmus, leaves Edinburgh to go to Cambridge University …

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … sister Catherine. After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her older …
  • … by Catherine Darwin, who had observed them at a ball in 1826: ‘ Fanny Owen has quite the preference …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … R. Malthus’  An essay on the principle of population  (1826) furnished him with a causal mechanism …

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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  • … as deacon, then priest and became Vicar of Wymewold in 1826. In 1839 he was appointed Dean of Ely …

George James Stebbing

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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…

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  • … His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their …

Boat Memory

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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…

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  • … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836.  [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …

Richard Matthews

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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…

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  • … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836.  [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …

Elleparu (York Minster)

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Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…

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  • … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836.  [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …

ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks

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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802   Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …

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  • … railroad and bank, and member of a canal commission.  In 1826, Darlington became a founder of the …

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…

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  • … been shewn in Section IV took place in the latter part of 1826. That I am however quite …
  • … her lying with the English crew until the middle of January 1826 – when he at last left, but had not …
  • … and saw these Isles for the first time in his life July 1826. On first landing ^then^ – Mr J.C. Ross …
  • … races for being so kept. IX. “In 1826 or within a year of that time – Mr J. …
  • … as possible is as follows – About 9 years ago i.e. from 1826 or 1827 counting back from 1836 – Mr …
  • … that Mr Hare came to these Islands before the middle of 1826 His Knightly credit for accuracy of …
  • … of the present writing. VI “In 1826 – Mr J.C. Ross formerly master of a …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … Malthus’s Essay on the principle of population (London, 1826), he found a clue: in the competition …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836.  [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
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