From J. D. Hooker 1 September [1845]
Summary
JDH’s grandfather’s death.
Collecting testimonials for the Edinburgh chair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-910 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Hooker 1845d , pp. 224–5, for his description of Psidium galapageium . Schouw 1845 . …
- … From J. D. Hooker 1 September [1845] …
- … DAR 100: 14–15 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 1 Sept [1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Huxley, ed. 1918 , 1: 204–5. Humboldt 1845–8 . The translation was by Augustin Prichard . …
- … E. Forbes 1845 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1844 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1845] . Cunningham 1827 . See J. D. …
- … Phillip Parker King. London. Forbes, Edward. 1845. On the distribution of endemic plants, …
- … pp. 67–8. Humboldt, Alexander von. 1845–8. Kosmos; a general survey of the physical …
- … John Murray. Schouw, Joakim Frederik. 1845. Les conifères d’Italie, sous les rapports …
- … excellent paper in the Ann. Sc. Nat for April 1845 & chart, on the distrib. of Conif. in …
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845]
Summary
First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.
Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.
Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-862 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845] …
- … DAR 100: 48 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [28 Apr 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … with letter to J. D. Hooker, [11–12 July 1845] , n. 22, and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [after 12 July 1845] , where Hooker corrects this figure to ‘40’. …
- … Society , on 4 March, 6 May, and 16 December 1845, but the paper was not published until …
- … Bibliography Bosanquet, Samuel Richard. 1845. "Vestiges of the natural history of …
- … London: John Churchill. Forbes, Edward. 1845. On the distribution of endemic plants, more …
- … 1845a . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [January 1845] . Edward Forbes was to announce his …
- … theory in June that year ( E. Forbes 1845 ). Humboldt 1843 , 1: 54–5, in which the …
- … of heaths across Europe is discussed. Hume 1845 , a response to [Chambers] 1844 . …
- … Bosanquet 1845 . CD’s ‘40225’ was written directly below Hooker’s ‘185’. Thus he could …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [11–12 July 1845] ). See Hooker’s annotation on the enclosure …
- … comparée. 3 vols. Paris. Hume, Abraham. 1845. Examination of the theory contained in the " …
From J. D. Hooker [23] March 1845
Summary
JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-844 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Caspar Carl Reinwardt. Gérard 1844 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [late February 1845] . …
- … From J. D. Hooker [23] March 1845 …
- … DAR 100: 41–2 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [23] Mar 1845 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hopkins, William. 1845. On the motion of glaciers. London, Edinburgh …
- … Magazine 26: 1–16, 146–69. Murray, John. 1845. Strictures on morphology: its unwarrantable …
- … Sedgwick and William Hopkins . Hopkins’ views are set out in Hopkins 1845 . Saint-Hilaire …
- … 1841 . Murray 1845 . Herman Schlegel, director of the Natural History Museum at Leiden, …
- … West Park Kew. Sunday Evening | March 1845. My dear Darwin I had the pleasure of receiving …
From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845]
Summary
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-832 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845] …
- … DAR 100: 165–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Ghent [late Feb 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 5). Benjamin Jules Paul Delessert. Decaisne 1845 . The process of sexual reproduction in …
- … London: John Churchill. [Chambers, Robert. ] 1845. Explanations: a sequel to ‘Vestiges of …
- … London: John Churchill. Decaisne, Joseph. 1845. Recherches sur les anthéridies et les …
- … See letters to J. D. Hooker, 22 [January 1845] , and to C. …
- … G. Ehrenberg, 23 January [1845]. Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was keeper of the Royal …
- … Lindley’. Perrottet 1838 . Probably Hinds 1845 . This paper contains a sketch of flora of …
- … St Petersburg. Hinds, Richard Brinsley. 1845. Memoirs on geographic botany. Annals and …
- … J. Murray; H. Colburn. Humboldt, Alexander von. 1845–62. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen …
- … Fé ( Humboldt 1814–29 , 3: 497). Humboldt 1845–62 . John Lindley described plant breeding …
- … Chambers] 1844 , p. 221, and [Chambers] 1845 , p. 111. Joseph Decaisne . Antoine Nicolas …
From J. D. Hooker [2–6 April 1845]
Summary
A Tasmanian Cyttaria is same species as CD’s Fuegian fungus. Did the species originate on the beeches of Fuegia or of Tasmania?
JDH gives interpretation of Vestiges.
John McCulloch, J. F. Schouw, and Lamarck on the species question.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2–6 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 219–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-850 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [2–6 April 1845] …
- … DAR 104: 219–20 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [2–6 Apr 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Harry S. Goodsir from Edinburgh. Hinds 1845 . A. P. de Candolle 1839–40 . Saint-Hilaire …
- … John Churchill. Hinds, Richard Brinsley. 1845. Memoirs on geographic botany. Annals and …
- … J. Berkeley to J. D. Hooker of 1 April 1845 : ‘The Cyttaria is I think the same with the …
- … was in London, see letter to Ernst Dieffenbach, 8 April [1845] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [16 April 1845] . See n. 1, above. Ronald Campbell Gunn collected plants, …
- … a north-west passage left Britain on 19 May 1845. The vessels were the Erebus and Terror , …
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1845
Summary
Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.
Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 51–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-887 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1845 …
- … DAR 100: 51–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Edinburgh 5 July 1845 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [11–12 July 1845] , for CD’s comments on Christian Konrad …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 June 1845] , n. 1. CD did not change his previous …
- … of researches 2d ed. , p. 24. Watson 1845 . J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp. 219–20, 240. …
- … 20 Abercrombie Place. July 5 th . 1845. My dear Darwin On the arrival of your last welcome …
- … in his letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 June 1845] , or CD’s ‘advice to collectors’ as printed …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Journal of researches : Journal of researches …
- … Vieweg. Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1845. On the theory of "progressive development," applied …
From J. D. Hooker [4–9 September 1845]
Summary
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–9 Sept 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 208–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-914 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [4–9 September 1845] …
- … DAR 104: 208–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [4–9 Sept 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Reeve Brothers. Humboldt, Alexander von. 1845–8. Kosmos; a general survey of the physical …
- … that this letter comes between CD’s letters to J. D. Hooker, [3 September 1845] and [ …
- … 10 September 1845] . …
- … Probably a reference to Humboldt 1845–8 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 1 September [1845] . Gérard 1844 . Jean François Camille Montagne . The Irish …
From J. D. Hooker [mid-July 1845]
Summary
The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.
Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.
JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [mid-July 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-884 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [mid-July 1845] …
- … DAR 100: 49–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Edinburgh [mid-July 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … falls between letter from J. D. Hooker, [after 12 July 1845] , and letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [22 July – 19 August 1845] . …
- … Humboldt 1845–8 was an unauthorised translation by Augustin Prichard , published by …
- … Bibliography Humboldt, Alexander von. 1845–8. Kosmos; a general survey of the physical …
- … in John Murray Archive). Strzelecki 1845 . Bronn 1841–9 . Hawaii. Artemis of Ephesus, …
From J. D. Hooker [22–30 January 1845]
Summary
Sends comparison of the floras of Society and Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22–30 Jan 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 247–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-818 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [22–30 January 1845] …
- … DAR 104: 247–8 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [22–30 Jan 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from CD to Hooker, 22 [January 1845] , and is probably before Hooker’s departure on …
- … the following note, in ink, by CD: Feb. 1845. Hookers list of Society Is d includes about …
From J. D. Hooker 14 September 1845
Summary
Thanks for Journal of researches.
Puzzled over pea flower from Cape Tres Montes.
Thinks species a fair and most profitable subject for discussion, but has no formed opinion of his own.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 55–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-916 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 14 September 1845 …
- … DAR 100: 55–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 14 Sept 1845 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … appeared some time before 7 October 1845 ( Wiltshear 1913 , p. 357). The introduction …
- … West Park Kew Septr. 14. | 1845. My dear Darwin I am indeed pleased with the last Edition …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Journal of researches : Journal of researches …
From J. D. Hooker [19 November 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.
Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-928 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [19 November 1845] …
- … DAR 100: 57–8 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [19 Nov 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … before CD’s trip to London, 19–24 November 1845, recorded in CD’s Account Book (Down House …
- … letter to G. B. Sowerby, 12 [November 1845] . Webb and Berthelot 1836–50. CD kept the …
From J. D. Hooker [after 12 July 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-883 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [after 12 July 1845] …
- … DAR 100: 43–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Down [after 12 July 1845] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [11–12 July 1845] ). See Journal of researches 2d ed. , pp. 392– …
- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
From J. D. Hooker 25 October 1862
Summary
Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.
J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 64–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3780 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … surveyed in the XIXth century , vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark. …
- … vols. in 1. Berlin. Parrot, J. J. F. W. (Friedrich) von. 1845. Journey to Ararat. London. …
- … von Parrot’s Reise zum Ararat ( Parrot 1834 ), was translated into English in 1845 ( …
- … Parrot 1845 ). Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [ …
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5570 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 25 March 1854]
Summary
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 25 Mar 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1559 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 December 1844
Summary
Thanks for pleasant stay at Down.
Remarks on boulders found on southern islands.
Describes the alpine character of the Andes flora and relays information on other mountain floras.
Quotes instances of seeds that retained their vitality after being carried by ocean currents.
Sends notes on the comparative floras of New Zealand, Australia, and west coast of South America.
Encloses a copy of part of a letter from George Gardner in Ceylon concerning the European character of the mountain flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-799 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … described in Henslow 1845a and R. Owen 1845 . Henslow later retracted: the whale bones …
- … Journal of Natural Science 1: 27–34. Martineau, Harriet. 1845. Letters on mesmerism. …
- … London. Owen, Richard. 1845. Appendix to Professor Henslow’s paper, consisting of a …
- … voyage, J. C. Ross 1847 . Martineau 1845 , p. 9. When her regular mesmerist could not …
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … dispersed during the Miocene period ( Forbes 1845 and 1846). For extensive discussions of …
- … British Association for the Advancement of Science ( Forbes 1845 ; see also n. 8, above). …
- … Geological Survey of Great Britain between 1845 and 1847 (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 206– …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [mid-July 1845] ). In his letter of [before 17 March 1855] ( …
From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854]
Summary
JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 June 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 383 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1576 |
| letter | (63) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and anticlinal lines of a geological formation, 3 March 1845 Edward Forbes's " …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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,…
Matches: 8 hits
- … his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in …
- … vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from 1845 onwards; he was a conscientious …
- … attacked the work vehemently in the Edinburgh Review (1845), while other colleagues like Edward …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he ought to be both …
- … of his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845. At Lyell’s recommendation, …
- … the original publisher, to John Murray, and throughout 1845 Darwin worked hard to provide manuscript …
- … on board the Beagle back to Tierra del Fuego. By 1845, Darwin was in full command of a …
- … Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) and quick to make use of the young …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 1 hits
- … vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). Having indulged his senses, Darwin …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … he was working (Darwin to his wife Emma, [7-8 February 1845] ). Although Darwin did not usually …
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…
Matches: 19 hits
- … on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on …
- … 1834–9] Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] (read) Keppells(?) voyage to Borneo …
- … Exploring Expedition towards the Rocky Mountains [Frémont 1845]. (amusing extracts). perhaps for …
- … America by A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good …
- … [DAR *119: 22] Eyeres Travels [E. J. Eyre 1845] very amusing Tschudi’s Travels in …
- … Campbells Lives of Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] last vol. Ludlows Memoirs …
- … Murchisons Russia [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works …
- … Wilkes Expedition. £ 3. 3 s [Wilkes 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of …
- … Soc. of Neuchatel on Jura. 1846, or 7, or 8 [?Marcou 1845]. 46 Morris good for me.— …
- … 1853] Vol. V of Campbells Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] Lives of the Lindsays …
- … [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832–7] Wilkes [Wilkes 1845]. Voyage Vol I. to V Apr …
- … May. Blanco White. Auto-biography [Blanco y Crespo 1845].— 24 Improvisatore [Andersen 1845] …
- … Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] Oct. Cosmos [A. von Humboldt 1845–8]. …
- … Dec. 10 Ray. Society. Vol I. Reports [Ray Society 1845].— 20 D r Badham insect Life …
- … Feb 6 Explanations by Author of Vestiges [Chambers 1845] —— Bronn’s Gesickte [Bronn 1842–3] 2 …
- … [Twamley 1844] —— Whewell on Education [Whewell 1845–52]. Dec: 26. Watson History of …
- … [Heber 1828] —— 31 Kitto on Deafness [Kitto 1845] —— the French in Algiers [Lamping …
- … 1841] April 10 Wagners Anatomy by Tulk [Wagner 1845] (half through) —— 24 Steenstrup …
- … th Elie de Beaumont Lecons Geologie [Élie de Beaumont 1845] skimmed. June 17 th . Downing …
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … hundred letters from Darwin, from his first negotiations in 1845 until his final years. Although …
- … came to discuss a second edition, probably at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s …
- … Colonial Library in three monthly parts (July to September 1845) before being reissued in a single …
- … you have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
Richard Matthews
Summary
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…
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
Summary
Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
Matches: 3 hits
Journal of researches
Summary
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…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
Summary
< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. , 2 nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1845), pp. 22, 90, 182, and 384. Francis …
Second species sketch
Summary
Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842
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- … Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842 …
George Darwin born
Summary
The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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- … The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
Summary
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…
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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- … In the course of discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton …
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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- … in roman numerals. Others relate to Darwin’s 1839 or 1845 volumes and Belcher’s Narrative of the …
- … The British press was decidedly unsympathetic. Recalled in 1845, he returned home in humiliation as …
- … world, and had copies of both the 1839 Narrative and the 1845 second edition titled Journal of …
- … Borneo, and the Philippines in HMS Samarang from 1842 to 1845, and ended his naval career with …
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…
