To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
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- … 3: 87–102. Hinds, Richard Brinsley. 1843. The regions of vegetation; being an analysis of …
- … a review of Ross 1847 and W. J. Hooker 1843 , in which J. D. Hooker’s work on Antarctic …
- … of Natural History ( Hinds 1845 ). Hinds 1843 . See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. …
- … ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …
- … Reeve Brothers. Hooker, William Jackson. 1843. Notes on the botany of HM Discovery Ships, …
To Henri Milne-Edwards 18 November [1847]
Summary
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1136 |
To Charles Lyell [1847 or 1848]
Summary
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1847 or 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825F |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
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- … ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …
To John Higgins 10 September [1847]
Summary
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1117 |
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- … 2, letter to Susan Darwin, [8 December 1843] , n. 3). It may be the same ‘slip of land’ …
To Leonard Horner [January 1847]
Summary
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Discusses inclination of lava stream.
Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1048 |
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- … presidents of the Geological Society in 1843 and 1845 were Roderick Impey Murchison and …
To Leonard Jenyns 21 [January 1847]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1055 |
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- … to a small Almanack first published in 1843, under the name of ‘The Naturalists’ Pocket …
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1847]
Summary
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 July [1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1104 |
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- … ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
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- … Nova Scotia coal formation (see C. Lyell 1843 , p. 185). This was the first evidence of …
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 12 April 1847
Summary
[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 156–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1079 |
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- … 2, letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July 1843] , and Correspondence vol. 3, letter to …
To John Russell [10 March 1847]
Summary
Memorial presented by members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific societies, submitting that natural history is inadequately provided for by the present constitution of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 1847 XXXIV.253–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1070F |
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- … of Trustees of the British Museum in August 1843 ( Herschel calendar , no. 5571). The …
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1847
Summary
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1097 |
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- … ships Erebus and Terror , in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
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,…
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…
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. …
John Murray
Summary
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.…
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 …
