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To Charles Lyell   [15 or 22 September 1843]

Summary

Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].

BAAS meeting.

Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.

Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.

Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [15 or 22] Sept 1843
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-696

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  • … To Charles Lyell   [15 or 22 September 1843] …
  • … American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Sept 1843 22 …
  • … Sept 1843 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … letter from John Lindley, [before 2  September 1843] , and letter to J.   …
  • … S. Henslow, [2 September 1843] . The longevity of seeds was of great interest to …
  • … Emma Darwin was born on 25 September 1843. The British Association had met in August in …
  • … letter to G.  R. Waterhouse, [November 1843] . Edward Forbes had served as naturalist in …
  • … from April 1841 to October 1842. See letter to John Lindley, 8 [April 1843] . See …

From Charles Lyell   [9 April 1843]

Summary

Spoke to Henry Warburton, W. H. Fitton, and E. B. Greenough on CD’s idea of a Government grant for publication [not identified].

Will read at next meeting his paper on erect Nova Scotia fossil trees [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8].

E. P. Halstead reports on shores rising off Burma and Bay of Bengal.

Unpacking his U. S. fossils.

Phillips looked at beds below coal in Pennsylvania. Result is the usual different species found but with complete representation of forms.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [9 Apr 1843]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 81, 205.9: 393
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-670

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  • … From Charles Lyell   [9 April 1843] …
  • … 170: 81, 205.9: 393 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated [9 Apr 1843] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … fossil trees [ Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8]. E. P. Halstead reports on shores …
  • … see Proceedings of the Geological Society 4 (1843–5): 64). Probably a reference to the …
  • … Meeting, 16 February 1844 ( Proceedings of the Geological Society 4 (1843–5): 336). …
  • … C.  Lyell 1843 . Edward Pellew Halsted spent the years 1839 to 1842 in the East Indies and …

To Charles Lyell   [1 September 1844]

Summary

Asks about CL’s new book [Travels in North America (1845)].

Discusses views of A. D. d’Orbigny on elevation.

Mentions reading W. H. Prescott [History of the conquest of Mexico (1843)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [1 Sept 1844]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-773

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  • … on elevation. Mentions reading W. H. Prescott [ History of the conquest of Mexico (1843)]. …
  • … Dated by CD’s reference to having read Prescott 1843  and …
  • … Robberds 1843 , see nn.  9 and 10, below. The only Sunday falling between these two dates …
  • … 3: Géologie , pp.  93–8. Edward Forbes (1843) had recently demonstrated the existence of …
  • … held at York in 1844 , p. xxx). Prescott 1843 . CD’s entry in his reading notebook (DAR …
  • … Vorzimmer 1977 , p.  131). Robberds 1843 , recorded in CD’s reading notebook (DAR 119; …
  • … P. Bertrand. Prescott, William Hickling. 1843. History of the conquest of Mexico, with a …
  • … of Wisconsin Press. Robberds, John Warden. 1843. A memoir of the life and writings of the …

To Charles Lyell   [16 December 1843]

Summary

Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [16 Dec 1843]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-724

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  • … To Charles Lyell   [16 December 1843] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.33) Charles Robert Darwin Down [16 Dec 1843] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …

To Charles Lyell   21 June [1859]

Summary

Discusses S. S. Haldeman’s paper ["Enumeration of the recent freshwater Mollusca", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 4 (1844): 468–84].

Centres of species origin.

Describes his corrections of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  21 June [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.165)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2470

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  • … forms (Wilson ed. 1970, p.  262). Haldeman 1843–4 , pp.  475–6. Origin , pp.  351–6. …
  • … Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD had read Haldeman 1843–4  in May 1845 ( Correspondence vol.  4, …
  • … Press. 1985–. Haldeman, Samuel Steman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the recent freshwater …

To Charles Lyell   4 February [1860]

Summary

Suggests references in Journal of researches 2d ed. in response to a query about the antiquity of man. Perplexed about S. S. Haldeman and Haldeman 1843–4. Glad to hear about A. C. Ramsay. Has received letter from H. G. Bronn.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 Feb [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 229
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2687F

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  • … Perplexed about S. S. Haldeman and Haldeman 1843–4. Glad to hear about A. C. Ramsay. Has …
  • … New York: Macmillan. Haldeman, Samuel Steman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the recent freshwater …
  • … has not been found. CD refers to Haldeman 1843–4  and to the Royal Society of London . …
  • … IV.  CD had apparently first read Haldeman 1843–4  in 1844 (see Correspondence vol.  4, …

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

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  • … publication date of the volumes of Gaimard ed. [1843–8] to which Charles Frédéric Martins …
  • … of Jan Meyen’. CD refers to Gaimard ed. [1843–8]. The Athenaeum was a London club of which …
  • … persons ([Cowell] 1975, p.  66). Gaimard ed. [1843–8] is divided into several multi-volume …

To Charles Lyell   4 December [1849]

Summary

Discusses J. D. Dana’s Geology [1849]. Pleased that the part on corals confirms his views [Coral reefs (1842)]. Discusses Dana’s observation that in Sandwich Islands lava streams often join dikes at right angles with no cone. Retracts earlier denial of this possibility. Criticises Dana’s view of Australian valleys.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 Dec [1849]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.85)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1275

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  • … Bibliography Dana, James Dwight. 1843. On the areas of subsidence in the Pacific, as …
  • … indicated the land was rising. See Dana 1843 . Lyell eventually added a supplement to his …

From Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley   17 June 1859

Summary

Extended discussion of their respective difficulties with the definition and status of species and with the extent to which the theory of transmutation may be applied.

Has rediscovered S. S. Haldeman’s 1844 paper defending the transmutation theory with great skill.

Asks for reference to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s first enunciation of the progressive development and transmutation theory.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  17 June 1859
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2469A

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  • … Bibliography Haldeman, Samuel Steman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the recent freshwater …
  • … L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 173–4. Haldeman 1843–4 . Lyell met Samuel Steman Haldeman during …

To Charles Lyell   [16 June 1848]

Summary

Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.

Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.

Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].

Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [16 June 1848]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1186

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  • … London and New York: Macmillan. Kemp, William. 1843. Observations on the latest geological …
  • … terraces in the valley of the Gala in Kemp 1843 , pp.  33–4. The terraces are discussed in …

To Charles Lyell   4 November [1855]

Summary

Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].

CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.

Invites CL to visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1772

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …

From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell   3 February 1866

Summary

Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.

Author:  Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Feb 1866
Classmark:  F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4995F

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  • … of California Press. Gardner, George. 1843. Contributions towards a flora of Brazil. II. …
  • … of Botany ; these included Gardner 1843  and 1845, a detailed description of plants on the …

To Charles Lyell   [5 and 7 October 1842]

Summary

Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  5 and 7 Oct 1842
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-649

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  • … s disbelief in Welsh glaciers see Murchison 1843 . See also Davies 1969, pp.   287–94. The …
  • … Company. London. Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1843. Anniversary address of the president. …

To Charles Lyell   16 [June 1856]

Summary

Condemns theory of Edward Forbes and others that many islands were formerly connected to South America by now submerged continents.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  16 [June 1856]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.131)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1902

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …

To Charles Lyell   28 March [1859]

Summary

Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  28 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2437

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  • … s prestigious publishing company in 1843. As well as acquiring his father’s connections …

To Charles Lyell   20 July [1861]

Summary

Mentions George Maw’s "good review" of Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].

Relates remark by J. S. Mill concerning soundness of logic and method of Origin.

Is at work [on Orchids and Variation].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 July [1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.258)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3215

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  • … 16 July [1861] . After the publication in 1843 of his System of logic , John Stuart Mill …

To Charles Lyell   11 February [1857]

Summary

Discusses a proposed expedition to Australia. Urges collecting and investigating productions of isolated islands. Recommends dredging the sea-bottom.

Mentions keeping Helix pomatia alive in sea-water.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  11 Feb [1857]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.145)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2050

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …

To Charles Lyell   [8 August 1846]

Summary

Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.

Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [8 Aug 1846]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-990

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …

From Charles Lyell   17 June 1856

Summary

CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".

CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".

Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 June 1856
Classmark:  DAR 146: 475
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1905

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …

To Charles Lyell   25 June [1856]

Summary

Criticises at length the concept of submerged continents attaching islands to the mainland in the recent period. Notes drastic alteration of geography required, the dissimilar species on opposite shores of continents, and differences between volcanic islands and mountains of mainland areas. Admits sea-bed subsidence, but not enough to engulf continents. Denies that theory can explain island flora and fauna.

Considers Edward Forbes’s idea a check on study of dissemination of species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  25 June [1856]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.132)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1910

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  • … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …
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Darwin's works in letters

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For the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin, we've added a new page to our Works in letters section on Cross and self fertilisation. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin, Origin itself, the…

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  • … my works. ( letter to Ernst Dieffenbach, 2 October 1843 ) Darwin published over …

Syms Covington

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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…

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  • … at Stroud, New South Wales, 130 miles north of Sydney. By 1843 Covington was working for the …
  • … in Covington’s welfare, even so far removed.  In 1843 Darwin dispatched a new ear-trumpet  for him …

George Robert Waterhouse

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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…

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  • … their ‘ descent from common stock’ in a letter of 1843 .   In the same year, Darwin …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … correspondence with George Robert Waterhouse. On [26 July 1843] ( Correspondence vol. 2), for …

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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  • … [DAR *119: 13v.] Yarrel’s Birds [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus …
  • … 1825–36] Prescott. Hist. of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read …
  • … Travels into the interior of New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843]. Capt. Porter, Journ of Cruize in …
  • … Prichards. Nat: History of Man. Bailliere. 1.10 [Prichard 1843]  must be studied . London Library …
  • … Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib &c &c. …
  • … “Scenes in Sandwich Isl d  & Central America [Jarves 1843] contains good account of Silkworm, …
  • … } Much Botany & [Backhouse 1843] Nat: Hist.— …
  • …  be read. Paper on transmutation of shells [Haldeman 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. …
  • … . 42  [P. Miller 1724] Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] & Chantry [G. Jones 1849]. …
  • … 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of Constable [Leslie 1843]. (Emma) (read) M rs  Fry’s Life …
  • … 1847].— Cunningham Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR *119: 23v.] …
  • … 3 d  Part of Clarendons History [Hyde 1704]. 1843 Jan 10. Last Vol of Clarendons …
  • … 1842–6] Mar 1. Lieut. Eyres Narrative [?V. Eyre 1843].— May 7 th . F. Horner’s life …
  • … Bremer [Bremer 1843a].— [DAR 119: 13a] 1843 Feb 20 th . L. Jenyns notes …
  • … d[itt]o. —— 26 Hinds Regions of Vegetation [Hinds 1843]. June 10 th . Linnæan Trans. …
  • … of London ] to end of Vol: XVIII & Part I. of V. 19 (1843) 25. Murray Domestic Poultry.— …
  • … Nov 30. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843] 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— …
  • … Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] 1843 May 20 th  Carlyle’s Past …
  • … 1844 Jan 7 th  Borrow’s Bible in Spain [Borrow 1843]. 22. Hallam Constitu History …
  • … 30 1. Vol of Prescotts Hist of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843] /Oct 1 st / 2 d  & 3 d  Vol …
  • … July 5 th  Owens Lectures on Invertebrata [R. Owen 1843–6] Aug 1 Bradley’s Husbandry 3. …
  • … —— d[itt]o Salmon Fishing in Tweed [Scrope 1843]. (d[itt]o) 20 th  Reflections on the Study …
  • … Nov. 20 Liebig’s familiar letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1843] —— Ranke’s Popes of Rome 3 vols …
  • … 3 d . 25 th  Forbes Alps [J. D. Forbes 1843] —— Crawfords Embassy to Siam …
  • … Philadelphia ]; skimmed. 24 th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] …
  • … —— 10 Neander’s Life of St Bernard [Neander 1843] interesting —— Feuerbachers Trials …
  • … 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. 7 th  Leslie’s …

Darwin & Glen Roy

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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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  • … October 1842] To William Darwin Fox, [4 September 1843] To Charles Lyell, 8 …

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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  • … of the living species he had collected. By the end of 1843 he had also completed the writing of a …
  • … the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle  from February 1838 to October 1843. The correspondence provides a …
  • … in articles on  Sagitta , finished during the autumn of 1843, and  Planariae, described in 1844 …
  • … unless they went to some other authority. Towards the end of 1843, he increasingly hoped that …
  • … thinking during this period and in his letters of 1843, Darwin was clearly testing his evolutionary …
  • … I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July 1843] ).  It is interesting to …
  • … twelve letters from Darwin to Kemp in the years 1840 to 1843 have come to light; they were published …
  • … flowers’ to the  Gardeners’ Chronicle , [late August 1843], expresses his interest in ‘unity of …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … 714 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [13 or 20 Nov 1843] Darwin knows Cambridge botanist J. …

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.  They are a connecting thread that spans…

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  • … spans forty years of Darwin’s mature working life from 1843 until his death in 1882 and bring into …
  • … lives of the two men.  Their correspondence began in 1843 when Hooker, just returned from …

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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  • … University   Utrecht 14 november 1843 Leipzig 20 may 1909 …
  • … School   Dordrecht 22 january 1843 Franeker 28 december 1896 …
  • … Publisher   Amsterdam 18 oktober 1843 Dordrecht  30 march …
  • …     Amsterdam 3 october 1843 Amsterdam 29 march 1913 …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … Murray, who followed his father as head of the business in 1843, had spent a year studying geology …

Henrietta Darwin born

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Daughter, Henrietta Emma, born

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  • … Daughter, Henrietta Emma, born …

Meets Joseph Hooker

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Darwin begins a 40-year friendship with Joseph Dalton Hooker.  In November Hooker begins work on Darwin's Beagle plant specimens.

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  • … Darwin begins a 40-year friendship with Joseph Dalton Hooker.  In November Hooker begins work on …

Suggested reading

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  Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…

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  • … domestic influence and social obligations ,  (London, 1843). Somerville, M.,  On …

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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  • … University   Utrecht 14 November 1843 Leipzig 20 May 1909 …
  • … School   Dordrecht 22 January 1843 Franeker 28 December 1896 …
  • … Publisher   Amsterdam 18 October 1843 Dordrecht  30 March …
  • …     Amsterdam 3 October 1843 Amsterdam 29 March 1913 …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 717  - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [28 November 1843] Hooker thanks Darwin for his …

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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  • …  vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, n. 1). Darwin's inner circle: first …

John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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  • … command in 1841, and eventually returned to England in 1843. Shortly after, he unwittingly involved …

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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  • … in exact manner of grown up person.— March 1 st . 1843. Annie shows no signs of skill in …
  • … was natural acting & deceit. 39v. [54] Jan. 20 1843 Willy 3 years & a month. …
  • … to something he used to say when a baby. 40  Feb 1843. Willy says “No” in the fiercest way …
  • … later; Anne Elizabeth was born in 1841 and Henrietta Emma in 1843. Mrs Locke was probably the …
  • … name and address of a Mrs Locke are noted in Emma Darwin’s 1843 diary. [16] The following …

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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  • … instrument maker George Stebbing (1774—1847). By 1843, he was established enough in the town to be …
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