To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1846]
Summary
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-951 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … London: John Churchill. [Chambers, Robert. ] 1845. Explanations: a sequel to ‘Vestiges of …
- … and George Robert Waterhouse at Down House on 6 December 1845, see letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [25 November 1845] and [ …
- … 10 December 1845] . The identity of the author of Vestiges of the natural history of …
- … Hooker, 1 February 1846 , n. 8. [Chambers] 1845 . CD recorded that he had read this on 6 …
- … Sedgwick published a scathing attack (Sedgwick 1845) on Vestiges of the natural history …
- … Chambers] 1844 ), to which [Chambers] 1845 was a partial answer. Edward Forbes had joined …
To Thomas Gold Appleton 31 March [1846]
Summary
Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife Mary, Appleton’s sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1846] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-968F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife …
- … Bibliography Frémont, John Charles. 1845. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky …
- … by the reference to Mackintosh 1846 . CD refers to John Charles Frémont and Frémont 1845 . …
- … CD’s annotated copy of Frémont 1845 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; he read it in 1846 (see …
To Richard Owen 25 November [1846]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1033 |
From G. B. Sowerby 17 January 1846
Summary
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 1c–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-943 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Refers to shells brought to Sowerby by CD in November 1845. See CD’s letter to G. …
- … B. Sowerby, 12 [November 1845] , and intervening letters. CD may have queried Sowerby’s …
- … missing in CD’s letter of [1 December 1845] , had been found. Sowerby had already been …
- … letter to G. B. Sowerby, [9? December 1845] , n. 1. Two fragments of Navidad Turritellae …
From Roderick Impey Murchison [1846?]
Summary
Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.
| Author: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1846?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13830 |
To the London Library 1 February [1846?]
Summary
Orders John Pye Smith’s book [Relations between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of geological science (1839)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | London Library |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1846?] |
| Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (Corbett Autograph Collection MS21/3/1/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13821 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
To J. L. Stokes 3 November 1846
Summary
CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1846 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017 |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1846]
Summary
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Jan 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-945 |
To John Lindley [c. 10 October 1846]
Summary
CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lindley |
| Date: | [c. 10 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-999 |
From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
To William Crawford Williamson 23 June [1846]
Summary
Does not remember where specimens came from. CD picked fossils most likely to contain Infusoria. Discusses composition of Tertiary strata of South America from which they came. Questions WCW’s statement that they contained siliceous matter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Date: | 23 June [1846] |
| Classmark: | Missouri Botanical Garden Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-985 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1846]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of draft. When does JH want the money for the new farmhouse? Bankers are Robarts, Curtis & Co. JH to pay them the rent directly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1846] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-980 |
To Robert FitzRoy 1 October 1846
Summary
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1002 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [8? February 1846]
Summary
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8? Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-950 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November 1845] , n. 6. Maria Hooker , J. D. Hooker’s …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1846]
Summary
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
| Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983F |
To Robert FitzRoy 23 November [1846]
Summary
J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.
A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 121a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1030 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846]
Summary
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-973 |
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| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (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,…
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…
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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
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
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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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
