From J. D. Dana 21 July 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)].
JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [Corals and coral islands].
Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9556 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 November [1874]
Summary
CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.
With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9735 |
From B. J. Sulivan 5 January 1874
Summary
Mentions family news;
sends a little magazine [missing] dealing with South American mission and showing "what teaching and the gospel of Christ is doing for those poor Natives".
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9226 |
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- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
To J. V. Carus 30 October 1874
Summary
Will soon send remaining sheets [of Descent, 2d English ed.]. Fears JVC’s errata have come too late for printing.
His new work [Insectivorous plants] will make a rather big book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 112–113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9702 |
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- … V. Carus, 27 October 1874 and n. 5. In 1845, John Murray published the second edition …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
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- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
From William Withers 23 February 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for presenting books to a gardeners’ society.
| Author: | William Withers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9312 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by …
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 February 1874
Summary
Sends £40 for copyright to Édmond Barbier’s revision of Moulinié’s Descent translation.
Journal of researches translation is in press.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9265 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Moulinié, Jean Jacques, trans. 1873–4. La …
To G. E. Shuttleworth 17 February [1874]
Summary
At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Edward Shuttleworth |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1874] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5134) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9299A |
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- … resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical …
To James Verrell 21 September 1874
Summary
"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Verrell |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (August 1979) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9649 |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
To John Phillips 31 March [1874]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.
Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9379 |
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- … in CD’s ‘Journal’ took place in October 1845 ( Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix II). …
To C.-F. Reinwald [12 December 1874]
Summary
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9752A |
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- … researches had not been updated since 1845 was compensated for by the particular flavour …
From Leyson Lewis [before 6 August 1874]
Summary
Encloses specimen of a male hop with female flowers. It is the only peculiarity in the ground.
| Author: | Leyson Lewis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9589F |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
To T. M. Reade 9 May 1874
Summary
Interested in TMR’s investigation of drift. Narrative 1: 545–6 contains catalogue of shells collected. Much struck by marine productions of Tierra del Fuego.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 9 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9450 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Narrative : Narrative of the surveying …
From Henry Cecil 9 April 1874
Summary
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
| Author: | Henry Cecil |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9399 |
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- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Journal of researches : Journal of researches …
From W. D. Fox 8 May [1874]
Summary
Has left Delamere and settled on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9446 |
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- … Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1874
Summary
An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).
Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".
Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.
Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].
Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 187–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9250 |
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- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1874. On the …
From T. M. Coan 14 February 1874
Summary
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
| Author: | Titus Munson Coan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A11, DAR 90: 40–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9290 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Malo, David. 1839. On the decrease of …
From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1874
Summary
The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.
The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9331 |
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- … Joseph Berkeley , when involved with the 1845 to 1847 government commission on the cause …
From R. F. Cooke 17 November 1874
Summary
Booksellers approve of [9s] price for 2d edition of Descent. 1350 copies were sold at annual sale.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 443 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9721 |
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- … RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
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| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Verrell, James | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Withers, William | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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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
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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
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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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- … 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…
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- … 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
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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
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
