From Julius Victor Carus 28 January 1868
Summary
Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5809 |
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- … University Press. 1985–. Dujardin, Félix. 1845. Sur le développement des méduses et des …
- … 3d ser. 4: 257–81. Lewis, Matthew Gregory. 1845. Journal of a residence among the negroes …
- … article by Félix Dujardin ( Dujardin 1845 ). See CD’s annotation. In Variation 2: …
- … 229, CD quoted from M. G. Lewis 1845 , p. 100, on the horned cattle of the West …
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 1 January 186[8]
Summary
HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Jan 186[8] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077F |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
From George Robert Crotch 2 October [1868]
Summary
Bibliographical references on [stridulation in] Coleoptera. Finds no idea of sex has occurred to authors [i.e., they do not find the stridulating organs differing according to sex; cf. Descent 1: 378–85].
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6407 |
To Frederic Higgins? 18 September 1868
Summary
Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic Higgins |
Date: | 18 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/17/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6378 |
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- … in nearby Alford (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter from John Higgins, 15 March 1845 ). …
From Henry Bonham-Carter 26 January 1868
Author: | Henry (Carter, Henry Bonham) Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5801 |
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- … entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1845. He achieved the rank of ‘senior optimes’, the …
From W. E. Darwin [after 25 March 1868]
Summary
Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6069 |
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- … Worcestershire. London: W. Kelly; Kelly & Co. 1845–1928. Variation US ed. : The variation …
From Hermann Müller 10 March 1868
Summary
Has heard from W. Engelmann of Leipzig; he is willing to let CD have the woodcuts to Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)] for 22 thalers.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6001 |
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- … married Engelmann’s daughter Louise (b. 1845) in 1864 ( Engelmann 1911 , pp. 62 n. 6 and …
To Richard Kippist 22 April [1868]
Summary
"Please give Bearer Books for me.–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2 (Box 3, Folder 36)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6136 |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
From John Lubbock 2 November [1868]
Summary
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6443 |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
From Albert Müller 20 May 1868
Summary
Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.
In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6191 |
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- … Company had been sailing to Hong Kong since 1845 (Rabson and O’Donoghue 1988, p. 17). …
To J. B. Innes 15 June [1868]
Summary
CD writes in detail about difficulties with Horsman’s financial accounts and the affairs of the parish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6242 |
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- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Post Office London directory : Post- …
To Charles Alexander Johns 13 August [1868?]
Summary
CD not a good enough botanist to form a judgment of specimen. Does not understand whether CAJ supposes the variety to be a result of hybridism or of the present very hot summer, which CD cannot doubt will have an effect on some British plants in their struggle for life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | C. A Johns |
Date: | 13 Aug [1868?] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A27 p. 60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6312 |
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- … been identified. In the Phytologist 2 (1845): 908, Johns said that species of leguminous …
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1868
Summary
Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6383 |
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- … Review was published in Calcutta from 1845 until at least 1858 ( BLC ). Blyth published …
From George Bentham [before 22 April 1868]
Summary
Has studied Variation with interest.
Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,
but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.
Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6134 |
From Edward Blyth [before 25 March 1868]
Summary
Detailed notes on secondary sexual differences in various species of birds and mammals.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 154–5, DAR 84.1: 131–3, DAR 48: A77, DAR 84.2: 187v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6048 |
To W. E. Darwin [15 March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6067 |
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- … Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. London: W. Kelly; Kelly & Co. 1845–1928. …
From Leonard Jenyns 9 May 1868
Summary
Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6168 |
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- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
From George Cupples 1 May 1868
Summary
Has read Variation;
is preparing a monograph on Scotch deerhounds. Offers CD information on size of male and female deerhounds.
Might not the effect of human mother’s imagination on "character of offspring" support Pangenesis?
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6157 |
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- … of researches ; the second edition of 1845 had the spine title Naturalist’s voyage , and …
From John Brodie Innes 16 January 1868
Summary
Sends school subscription to CD as treasurer. Hopes Henrietta will assist in teaching there.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5791 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
letter | (31) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Innes, J. B. | (5) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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,…
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- … 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,…
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- … 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
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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…
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- … vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). Having indulged his senses, Darwin …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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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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- … he was working (Darwin to his wife Emma, [7-8 February 1845] ). Although Darwin did not usually …
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…
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…
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- … 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
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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)
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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…
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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
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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. …
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'
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< 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
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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
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The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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- … The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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…