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To the Geological Society of London   31 January [1842]

Summary

Hopes to meet with museum committee after 11 o’clock next day.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Geological Society of London
Date:  31 Jan [1842]
Classmark:  Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/7/25)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-616

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To the Geological Society of London   31 January [1842] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 31 Jan [1842] Geological Society of London …
  • … Society for a year beginning in February 1842. CD signed the report of the Museum …
  • … of the Geological Society, 18 February 1842 ( Proceedings of the Geological Society 3 ( …

To W. D. Fox   [31 March 1842]

Summary

Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [31 Mar 1842]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-625

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To W.  D. Fox   [31 March 1842] …
  • … Harriet Fox was buried on 28 March 1842. There were five children. …
  • … Fox 56) Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [31 Mar 1842] William Darwin Fox …

To W. H. Fitton   23 June 1842

Summary

[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]

CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Fitton
Date:  23 June 1842
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-632

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To W.  H. Fitton    23 June 1842
  • … papers, MS Am 1419: 239) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 23 June 1842 William Henry Fitton …
  • … Darwin. Philosophical Magazine 3d ser. 21 (1842): 180–8. [ Shorter publications , pp. 140– …
  • … Capel Curig, N. Wales] 23 June 1842 “Yesterday (and the previous days) I had some most …
  • … from William Buckland , dated 22 July 1842. According to Buckland, it ‘was communicated to …
  • … glacial sites in North Wales 18–28 June 1842 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol.  2, Appendix …

To W. D. Fox   [9 December 1842]

Summary

CD likes Down House, describes countryside.

Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.

Is at work on Volcanic islands.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [9 Dec 1842]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-654

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  • … To W.  D. Fox   [9 December 1842] …
  • … Their third child, Mary Eleanor Darwin had died on 16 October 1842. …
  • … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64) Charles Robert Darwin Down [9 Dec 1842] William Darwin Fox …

To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?]   [1842–82?]

Summary

Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:  [1842–82?]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11313

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To [William Baxter or W.  W.  Baxter? ]   [1842–82? ] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.536) Charles Robert Darwin unstated [1842–82? ] William Walmisley Baxter William …
  • … Kent, close to Down, where CD lived from 1842 (see n. 2, below, and this supplement, …
  • … Baxter or W. W. Baxter? ], 8 December [1842–81] . Spermaceti ointment was used as a mild …

To Leonard Jenyns   [13? January 1842]

Summary

CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:  [13? Jan 1842]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-614

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To Leonard Jenyns   [13? January 1842] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [13? Jan 1842] Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield …
  • … introduction to Fish is dated 8 January 1842. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins , who executed …

To Mary-Anne Herbert   [5 May 1842]

Summary

Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert
Date:  [5 May 1842]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-628

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  • … To Mary-Anne Herbert   [5 May 1842] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [5 May 1842] Mary Anne Johnes/Mary Anne Herbert …
  • … On Tuesday, 3 May 1842, Emma travelled to Maer (see Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 36). Charles …

To H. E. Strickland   [11 August 1842]

Summary

Congratulates HES on producing an authoritative document [BAAS committee report on zoological nomenclature].

Has been to N. Wales looking at glacier traces described by W. Buckland, which are most interesting and clear. Has written an article on what he saw ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:  [11 Aug 1842]
Classmark:  Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-638

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To H.  E. Strickland   [11 August 1842] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [11 Aug 1842] Hugh Edwin Strickland …
  • … on what he saw ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71]. …
  • … Darwin. Philosophical Magazine 3d ser. 21 (1842): 180–8. [ Shorter publications , pp. 140– …

To Charles Stokes    [January–March 1842]

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Summary

Returns snuff box.

Sends a microscope for repair.

Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Stokes
Date:  [Jan–Mar 1842]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-613A

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  • … To Charles Stokes    [January–March 1842] …
  • … DAR 185: 91 Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [Jan–Mar 1842] Charles Stokes …
  • … 2, letter to Charles Stokes, [1839–September 1842] ). The corals to which CD refers may be …
  • … Buildings, Gray’s Inn. An entry of 5 April 1842 in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) …

To J. F. Royle   [2 February 1842]

Summary

Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Forbes Royle
Date:  [2 Feb 1842]
Classmark:  University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-617

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  • … To J.  F. Royle   [2 February 1842] …
  • … ball’ ( Emma Darwin to Jessie Sismondi, 8 February [1842], Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 67). …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [2 Feb 1842] John Forbes Royle …

To William Yarrell   [5 or 12 September 1842]

Summary

CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.

Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Yarrell
Date:  [5 or 12] Sept 1842
Classmark:  Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-613

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  • … To William Yarrell   [5 or 12 September 1842] …
  • … sons, MS-Papers-1256-2) Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 5 Sept 1842 12 …
  • … Sept 1842 William Yarrell …
  • … Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in September 1842 ( DNB ); he probably sought information about …

From Hugh Falconer    [1842–3]

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Summary

Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.

Author:  Hugh Falconer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1842–3]
Classmark:  DAR 205.5: 215
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13805

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  • … From Hugh Falconer    [1842–3] …
  • … DAR 205.5: 215 Hugh Falconer unstated [1842–3] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Falconer came to England on sick leave in 1842 and returned to India in 1847. Falconer …

To H. E. Strickland   [19 February 1842]

Summary

CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:  [19 Feb 1842]
Classmark:  Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-620

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To H.  E. Strickland   [19 February 1842] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [19 Feb 1842] Hugh Edwin Strickland …
  • … zoological nomenclature. See letter to Hugh Edwin Strickland, 17 February [1842] , n.  1. …

To Susan Darwin   [22 February 1842]

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Summary

Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].

Plans to visit Shrewsbury.

Describes behaviour of William Darwin.

Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  [22 Feb 1842]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-621

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  • … To Susan Darwin   [22 February 1842] …
  • … 10 Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [22 Feb 1842] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
  • … Coral reefs , which was published in May 1842. Anne Marsh . William Erskine , husband of …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles …

To H. E. Strickland   31 May [1842]

Summary

Comments on HES’s Report ["Report of a committee … (on) nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing names that are only partially erroneous to prevent those who detect the error from coining new names and attaching their own. HES’s rule for "authority for a species" is difficult, though on the whole best. Suggests stating it boldly to prevent appropriation of species names by "tacker[s] of two old names together".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:  31 May [1842]
Classmark:  Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-630

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To H.  E. Strickland   31 May [1842] …
  • … Strickland Papers) Charles Robert Darwin Maer 31 May [1842] Hugh Edwin Strickland …
  • … nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing …
  • … corrected draft of Strickland et al. 1842 was circulated among naturalists for criticism …
  • … see his letter to Strickland, 17 February 1842 , n.  2. The report had been corrected in …

From Alexander Bridport Becher   1 September 1842

Summary

Francis Beaufort has instructed ABB to order three copies of Coral Reefs.

Author:  Alexander Bridport Becher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Sept 1842
Classmark:  United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no .10 (1841–2), p. 510)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-605F

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  • … From Alexander Bridport Becher   1 September 1842
  • … Book no .10 (1841–2), p. 510) Alexander Bridport Becher 1 Sept 1842 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Sept 1 st 1842 C Darwin Esq r Sir— When Capt Beaufort went away he told me to order three …

To Susan Darwin   [late July–August 1842]

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Summary

Has made an offer for house at Down, renting having been refused. Discusses price, risks involved, and Edward Cresy’s advice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  [late July–Aug 1842]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A16–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-634

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  • … To Susan Darwin   [late July–August 1842] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [late July–Aug 1842] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
  • … £2,200 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 75). See letter to Emma Darwin, [13 March 1842] , n.  1. …

To G. R. Waterhouse   [4 or 11 September 1842]

Summary

Thanks GRW for collection [of insects] he has made up for CD’s nephew.

Leaves decision to GRW as to which institutions should receive CD’s Beagle insects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Waterhouse
Date:  [4 or 11] Sept 1842
Classmark:  Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-641

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  • … To G.  R. Waterhouse   [4 or 11 September 1842] …
  • … of Texas at Austin Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 4 Sept 1842 11 …
  • … Sept 1842 George Robert Waterhouse …
  • … articles published between 1837  and 1842 . Two additional descriptive articles appeared …

To Emma Darwin   [8 March 1842]

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Summary

Family news from Shrewsbury.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [8 Mar 1842]
Classmark:  DAR 210.8: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-622

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  • … To Emma Darwin   [8 March 1842] …
  • … DAR 210.8: 18 Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [8 Mar 1842] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … Correspondence vol.  2, Appendix II), 1842: ‘March 7 th Went to Shrewsbury for 10 days. ’ …

To Leonard Jenyns   [9 May 1842]

Summary

Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.

Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].

CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:  [9 May 1842]
Classmark:  Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-629

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  • … To Leonard Jenyns   [9 May 1842] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [9 May 1842] Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield …
  • … s Account Book (Down House MS) entry for 3 May 1842 reads: ‘Hall for making index 9s’. He …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
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Darwin and Down

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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842.   The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow.  The village combined the…

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  • … 16 miles off.— To E. C. Darwin,  [24 July 1842] Charles and Emma Darwin, with …
  • … of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842.   The house came with eighteen acres of …
  • … To his sister, Catherine Darwin,  [24 July 1842] To P. G. King,  21 February 1854 : ‘I …

Darwin and Fatherhood

Summary

Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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  • … and writing from home. Although when he moved to Downe in 1842 he described this part of Kent as …
  • … death of a baby daughter only a few weeks after her birth in 1842 had a far more limited impact on …

Darwin & Glen Roy

Summary

Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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  • … ever geological field trip, a return visit to North Wales in 1842, Darwin wrote that the signs of …
  • … [12? March 1841] To William Fitton, [c. 28 June 1842] To Charles Lyell, [5 and …

Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I

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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared.  Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…

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  • … heading in the earliest outline of his theory written in 1842 , and, as he told Asa Gray in …

Darwin & coral reefs

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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…

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  • … theory,  The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs  (1842) was based on intensive reading and …
  • … his book on coral reefs: letter to Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842] .   Suggestions …

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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  • … Illustrations of the Domestic animals of Gt. Britain [D. Low 1842].— 23  must be read carefully. …
  • … Erasmus—— Lavater. Life & Correspondence [?Heisch 1842] Coleridge. Literary …
  • … Cicero [Middleton 1741] W. Meister’s Life [Goethe 1842].— Malcolm’s History of Persia …
  • … [DAR *119: 15] Zanoni by Bulwer [Bulwer-Lytton 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. …
  • … organs read A. Alison on Population. 2 vols. Feb. 1842 [A. Alison 1840].— Youatt in …
  • … 1836]: worth looking at. Low has probably told all [D. Low 1842] Madras Journal [ Madras …
  • … Soc. appears to be good Papers on Sewalik Fossils in 1842 [Cautley 1840 and Cautley and Falconer …
  • … Read “Bronn’s Geschicte der Natur.” [Bronn 1842–3] Kingdons translat …
  • … Jussieus introduct to Bot. price 6 s  [Jussieu 1842] [DAR *119: 20v.] …
  • … Cerealia [Loiseleur Deslongchamps 1842–3] Phytologist [ …
  • … (List from Muller & Bronn [Müller 1837–42 and Bronn 1842–3] in this Book) 52 Royle …
  • … . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— 1842 Jan 10 M rs …
  • … —— 17 th  Laing notes of a Traveller 1 vol [Laing 1842] —— Finished Wordsworth 6 vols. …
  • … such  instincts .— [DAR 119: 12b] 1842 March. 26 th  Holcroft’s Memoirs …
  • … [Hyde 1704] Feb. Vol. of Madame D’Arblay [Burney 1842–6] Mar 1. Lieut. Eyres Narrative …
  • … nothing —— Doubleday on Population [Doubleday 1842] —— Ramond’s voyage in Pyrenees …
  • … 1774] —— F. Bremer’s little novels [Bremer 1842, 1843b, 1844a, 1844c] March 7 th  M …
  • … 1839] 14 th  Arnolds lectures on History [Arnold 1842] —— History of Civilization by …
  • … very poor Oct 1 Owen on Mylodon Robustus [R. Owen 1842]. References at end. 7 th . …
  • … June 8 th  Wilson Voyage Round Scotland [J. Wilson 1842] (poor) M. Gerard sur l’Espece …
  • … [Chambers 1845] —— Bronn’s Gesickte [Bronn 1842–3] 2 d . Vol [DAR 119: 16b] …
  • … [M. G. Lewis 1834] Nov 7. Life of Lavater [?Heisch 1842] —— 25. M rs . Meredith. N.S …
  • … April VI & VII. vol. of Madame d’Arblay [Burney 1842–6]. —— 15 th . Phillip’s life of W …
  • … —— Jussieu. Cours Elementaire Botanique [Jussieu 1842] —— Transactions of Amer. Philosoph Soc …
  • … des Naturalistes de Moscou ]. Vols for 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842, 43, 44—not all these latter vols: …
  • … 17 th  Thompson’s Birds of Ireland [W. Thompson 1842] Part I. Sept. 17. Sir J. Ross. Voyage …
  • … Nov. 15 th  Wilson Voyage. Scotland [J. Wilson 1842] —— Southey. Book of the Church [R. W. …
  • … Keppell. 1853 [Keppel 1853] Dickens America [Dickens 1842] Thackerays Lectures on …
  • … et exp. pages 248. 8 vo [Loiseleur Deslongchamps 1842–3] Linn. Soc.? must be read.— not in Royal. …
  • … of Indies [Acosta 1604].— Report, Brit. Assoc.  1842 . Richardson N.Z. Fish [J. Richardson …

3.1 Antoine Claudet, daguerreotype

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< Back to Introduction This daguerreotype of Darwin with his firstborn child, William, was, according to a label on the glass, taken on 23 August 1842, just before the family moved from London to Down. It is generally attributed to the French…

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  • … was, according to a label on the glass, taken on 23 August 1842, just before the family moved from …
  • … daguerreotype of the Darwins. Darwin’s account book for 1842 records the purchase of a daguerreotype …
  • … this information does not tally with the dating: in August 1842, William would have been only two …
  • … Claudet 
 date of creation 23 August 1842 
 computer-readable date 1842-08-23 
 …

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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  • … their first child, William Erasmus, was born. In September 1842, the family, now increased by a …
  • … and explore new avenues of thought, and by the summer of 1842 he felt that his research had …
  • … of species  was published, but the general outline of 1842 is, to a surprising degree, present in …
  • … far from their original locations. The following year, 1842, having heard of evidence of glaciation …
  • … research required. The trip to North Wales in June 1842 was his last field trip: thereafter his …
  • … stays at Shrewsbury and Maer during the summers of 1841 and 1842 show that he was making botanical …
  • … obvious relevance to the theory of descent (Pencil sketch of 1842, in  Foundations , p. 74). …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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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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  • … looking to sell Darwin’s image to the masses. Between 1842 and his death in 1882, Darwin was …
  • … Image: Charles Darwin and William Darwin, c. 1842, attributed to Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797 …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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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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  • … his mouth to do so.—[35] 25v.  Feb. 20 th . 1842. Anny (, same age) has learned to shake …
  • … 28v. [39] Anny was to day March 1 st  1842 rather amused, at a wafer sticking first to one hand …
  • … case of my watch.— 29v.  March 1 st  1842— Anny says Papa pretty clearly—[40] A few days …
  • … pretty & Papa for a week past perfectly clear Feb 1842 I have long observed that the …
  • … for their feelings— 31 [42] In Jan ry . 1842 it was first perceived that Willy began to …
  • … “bub my crumps” & 31v.  March 29 th . 1842.— I have some months remarked how much …
  • … gabble nonsense words,— 33  March 20: th .— 1842 Doddy is a great adept at throwing …
  • … the eyes & is a full face.— 36  March 26 th  1842 2 years & 3 mth— Doddy was …
  • … not the “beast in house”.— 37v. [50] May 1. 1842. 14 months old It is curious to see how …
  • … down the corners of his mouth[51] June 1 st . 1842 Observed the first day I put on a new …
  • … stuck to it, “no Doddy did not”. Aug 26 th .. 1842 About a fortnight ago, I met Willy …
  • … at Upper Gower Street between 12 February and 16 March 1842. [43] Stammering ran in the …
  • … [51] Emma Darwin and the children went to Maer on 3 May 1842; CD joined them on 18 May (Emma Darwin …
  • … of bees in pollination, made in the summers between 1840 and 1842, are in DAR 46.2 and DAR 205.5: 53 …

Species theory outlined

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Darwin writes a 32-page outline of his ideas on species change, known as 'the pencil sketch' 

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  • … Darwin writes a 32-page outline of his ideas on species change, known as 'the pencil sketch'  …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics.  Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…

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  • … of the Geological Society of London  2nd ser. 6 (1842): 415-31.  [ Shorter publications , pp. 147 …
  • … to 1836 . By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842.  [F271.] —Notes on the …
  • … by floating ice.  Philosophical Magazine  21 (1842): 180-8.   [ Shorter publications , pp.  140 …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

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. …

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  • … obst. doct. 35 Den Haag 20 december 1842 Rotterdam 23 …
  • … Assistant lecturer   Almelo 1842 Hoorn 5 january 1915 …
  • … School.   Dordrecht 11 oktober 1842 Tiel 9 august 1920 …
  • … Civil Engineer.   Arnhem 8 january 1842 Deventer 11 December …
  • … School.   Haarlem 2 september 1842 Amsterdam 10 may 1915 …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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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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  • … had also completed two outlines of his ‘species theory’ (1842 Pencil sketch and 1844 Essay). …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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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.…

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  • … obst. doct. 35 Den Haag 20 December 1842 Rotterdam 23 …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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  • … should be denied him. After prolonged illnesses in 1841 and 1842, years poorly represented in the  …

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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  • … ). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in …
  • … coincidence. if Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short …

Moves to Down, Kent

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The Darwins move to Down House, in the village of Down (later 'Downe'), Kent.  Darwin, who spent the rest of his life there, described it as a "good, very ugly house".

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  • … The Darwins move to Down House, in the village of Down (later 'Downe'), Kent.  Darwin, who spent …

Alexander Burns Usborne

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Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…

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  • … with his mother and his older sister Ann Amelia. In 1842 he returned to surveying around the British …
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