To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
To John Scott 6 March 1863
Summary
Answers JS’s criticism of natural selection, which he doubts JS understands. CD does not believe in an "innate selective principle".
To understand "utility" JS should read CD on correlation.
Origin of maize: no longer thinks husked form was wild because of Asa Gray’s evidence on its variability.
Has information from Thomas Rivers on weeping habit in trees.
JS’s experiments on coloured primroses.
Encloses bibliographical note on Passiflora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B66–8, B71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4031 |
To Thomas Rivers 1 February [1863]
Summary
Answers TR’s query about stomata.
CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3962 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 17 February 1863
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3994 |
From Edward Bradford 31 July 1863
Summary
Doubts CD’s view in Orchids [pp. 236–46] that Catasetum tridentatum is exclusively male and has as its female form the genus Monachanthus. EB has grown many of this type in Trinidad; has never seen that female form.
| Author: | Edward Bradford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 274, DAR 166: 95/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4259 |
To W. D. Fox 4 [September 1863]
Summary
His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.
Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4292 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
To George Snow 8 May 1863
Summary
Has pleasure in giving GS a testimonial for the office of surveyor for the Bromley District.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Snow |
| Date: | 8 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (30 April – 2 May 2019, Lot 207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4147F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Webb, Sidney and Webb, Beatrice. 1913. …
From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863]
Summary
Possible dimorphism in Phlox.
Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.
Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10–16] June [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4198 |
From Daniel Oliver 17 February 1863
Summary
DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8770 |
From W. D. Fox 29 May [1863]
Summary
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4193 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
To J. F. Lennard from the parishioners of Down, Kent 3 April 1863
Summary
Testimony by the parishioners of Down, Kent, to the moral character and integrity of George Snow, District Surveyor. Signed by nearly fifty local residents, including CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Farnaby Cator, 1st baronet; John Farnaby Lennard, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (24 July 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4074F |
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- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Return of highway districts : Return …
From John Scott 28 May [1863]
Summary
Sends abstract from Edinburgh Courant of his orchid sterility paper [see 4087]. Balfour altered title to obscure its theoretical nature.
Sends specimens showing curious variation.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4190 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical …
From H. E. Darwin to Thomas Warner 14 October [1863]
Summary
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Thomas Warner |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1863] |
| Classmark: | Mrs Carole Cockett (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4320A |
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- … Agricultural College, Cirencester, founded in 1845 ( Sayce 1992 , p. 351). See also n. …
From Henry Farncombe Billinghurst [21 July 1863 – August 1870?]
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of some signed transfers.
| Author: | Henry Farncombe Billinghurst |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1863 – Aug 1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B18v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5765 |
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- … of the letter. George was born on 9 July 1845. The earliest he could have signed a legal …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and Worcestershire. London: W. Kelly; Kelly & Co. 1845–1928. Post Office directory of …
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 14 February 1863
Summary
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985 |
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- … each parish by the Scottish Poor Law Act of 1845, were responsible for the administration …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [c. 26 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4314 |
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- … resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical …
From Armand de Quatrefages 19 May [1863]
Summary
Spoke on Moulin-Quignon Jaw before Académie des Sciences.
Thanks CD for photograph [of Niata skull].
Controversy on species fixity [at Société d’Anthropologie].
Sends photographs of Mouin-Quignon Jaw.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4171 |
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- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
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| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (5) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Cator, J. F. | (1) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (5) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (5) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Austen, J. T. | (2) |
| Billinghurst, H. F. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Bradford, Edward | (1) |
| Cator, J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Goodsir, John | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hance, H. F. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Lennard, J. F. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Paget, James | (1) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Snow, George | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Warner, Thomas | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
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
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…
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- … 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…
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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
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…
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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
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
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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…
