From Edward Blyth [3 April 1856]
Summary
Reports observations on Indian pigeons from David Scott at Hansi. EB adds remarks on Indian breeds he has encountered. Suggests Egypt, Turkey, and Syria would be good places from which to obtain specimens. Believes domestic races are all descended from Columba livia; their calls are all similar and they pair indiscriminately.
Guinea-fowl.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A140–A143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1849 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1849 …
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Jekel ed. 1849, an annotated edition of Carl Johan Schönherr 1833–45. …
- … CD recorded using Jekel ed. 1849 in his lists and notes on aberrant genera, DAR 205.9 ( …
- … in each genus, as listed in Jekel ed. 1849. CD believed that aberrant genera generally …
- … it also came from Australia, it was listed as dubious (Jekel ed. 1849, pp. 51, 53). …
- … Jekel ed. 1849, p. 53, referring to Mythites tuberculatus , a species from Tasmania. …
- … His copious notes and tables on Jekel ed. 1849 are in DAR 205.9 (iii): 288–302. CD also …
- … that follow were taken from Jekel ed. 1849. The numbers following the genus names were …
- … as Amorbaius and Epithylax in the family of Campyloscelides (Jekel ed. 1849, p. 245). …
- … Jekel ed. 1849, p. 259. The family Dryophthorides was composed …
- … of only one genus, Dryophthorus . Jekel ed. 1849, p. 44. Fabricius 1781 , 1: 209–16. …
- … from Byrsops by 172 genera in Jekel ed. 1849, pp. 44–114. The genus Pteroplectus …
- … the family Byrsopsides in Jekel ed. 1849, p. 117 (Jekel gave the spelling, incorrectly, …
From J. G. Forchhammer [15 November 1849]
Summary
Has sent all the fossil pedunculated cirripedes in the Copenhagen collection, together with a letter from Johannes Steenstrup concerning changes he believes are needed in the descriptions.
Author: | Johan Georg Forchhammer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Nov 1849] |
Classmark: | University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1270 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 September 1849
Summary
CD partly right. JDH was calling "stratification" what CD calls "foliation". Answers CD’s question on cleavage foliation in Himalayas. Glacial action.
Charmed by CD’s Admiralty instructions on geology [in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does not give prices of books and instruments he recommends.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 217–18 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1257 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 30 September 1849 …
- … JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Camp Sikkim, Himalayas 30 Sept 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Survey of India, who had died early in 1849. Before working in India, he had been employed …
- … in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does …
- … for the Admiralty manual (Herschel ed. 1849). Pinnock 1821 . William Pinnock wrote a …
- … the chapter on meteorology for Herschel ed. 1849. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel , whose paper ‘ …
- … India. The Admiralty manual, Herschel ed. 1849. Alexander James Adie , Scottish instrument …
From Edmund Saul Dixon [April–June 1849]
Author: | Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr–June 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13801 |
From H. E. Strickland 8 February 1849
Summary
The priority rule has only diverted vanity to a rush to be first. Has no objection to CD’s suggestion that good books be quoted in preference to first descriptions if there is a chance by this means of developing this silly vanity into ambition to advance knowledge. Still, this must not affect the rule of priority. Responds to CD’s four cases.
Author: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From H. E. Strickland 8 February 1849 …
- … Strickland Papers) Hugh Edwin Strickland Tewkesbury 8 Feb 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from H. E. Strickland, 15 February 1849 . Lepas balanus is a synonym of Balanus …
- … in the case of Conchoderma (see letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] , n. 5). …
- … The Lodge Tewkesbury Feb 8. 1849. My dear Darwin, Pray do not apologize for the length of …
- … letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] . In Living Cirripedia (1851): 67, the …
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Continues prior letter of this date. Has received CD’s [1202]. Thanks CD for saving his correspondence.
Sent "a yarn about species" in October mail.
Some "puerile" JDH letters printed in Athenæum.
Requests CD extract anything valuable from his letters to CD and Lyell for Athenæum.
CD’s complemental males in barnacles wonderful.
Warns CD to drop his battle about perpetuity of names in species descriptions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 136–7 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1220 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849 …
- … 1847–51: 136–7 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Darjeeling 3 Feb 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Dorjiling Feby 3 d . 1849. Dear Darwin I left no room in my last for a gossip with you & …
- … from a letter of his to William Jackson Hooker , dated 25 July 1849, in Athenæum , no. …
- … 1146, 13 October 1849, pp. 1039–40. Alexander von Humboldt had supported Hooker’s efforts …
- … See letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] . Hooker refers to a review of ‘Modern …
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1849
Summary
Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.
The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.
Condolences at CD’s father’s death.
Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.
"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."
From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.
Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1247 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1849 …
- … 8 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Camp Sikkim, Himalayas 24 June 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Camp Sikkim Himal. June 24, 1849. My dear Darwin Your two letters reached me yesterday & …
- … in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 . For his comments on Hooker’s explanation of …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 . ‘A mountain stream which at times is full …
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1219 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849 …
- … 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Darjeeling 3 Feb 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Campbell, Archibald. 1849. Journal of a trip to Sikim, in December 1848, with …
- … returning to Darjeeling on 19 January 1849. Hooker’s published account of this journey …
- … Dorjeeling Feby 3 d . 1849. My dear Darwin This is to be a continuation of my travels …
- … D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 115). See Campbell 1849 , p. 525, for Archibald Campbell ’s account …
From H. E. Strickland 15 February 1849
Summary
Clarifies the notion and use of type-species and applies it to CD’s problem with Conchoderma.
Author: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1226 |
From Emma Wuttke 1 October 1873
Summary
Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.
Author: | Emma Wuttke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9083 |
From James Murphy 10 May 1876
Summary
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
Author: | James Murphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10503 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Marshall’s description occurs in Marshall 1849 ; however, Marshall refers to ‘Marsupials …
- … and some other Mammalia’ ( J. Marshall 1849 , p. 160), not Edentata (a former order …
- … London: John Murray. 1874. Marshall, John. 1849. On the development of the great anterior …
- … in the human subject. [Read 21 June 1849. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
From H. E. Strickland 31 January 1849
Summary
Responds to CD’s two objections to the principles involved in the "Rules of zoological nomenclature": (1) that strict enforcement of the rule of priority would cause much inconvenience, and (2) attaching name of the first describer in perpetuity puts a premium on careless description by "species mongers".
Author: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1849 |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1216 |
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- … From H. E. Strickland 31 January 1849 …
- … Strickland Papers) Hugh Edwin Strickland Tewkesbury 31 Jan 1849 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to Hugh Edwin Strickland, 29 January [1849] , n. 3. Strickland’s letter book is preserved …
- … The Lodge | Tewkesbury Jan 31. 1849 My dear Darwin I send you a copy of the Rules of …
From Charles Cardale Babington [c. June 1855]
Summary
Reports that he sees the oxlip, cowslip, and primrose as really distinct species; hybrids are formed between any two.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1584 |
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- … Press. 1977. Gärtner, Karl Friedrich von. 1849. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die …
- … of CD’s annotation referring to Gärtner 1849 , which he completed reading in June 1855 ( …
- … are preserved in CD’s copy of Gärtner 1849 , following p. 728, in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … of the hybrids given in a table ( Gärtner 1849 , pp. 724–8). White flowered varieties of …
- … is discussed on p. 59. CD’s notes on Gärtner 1849 , made in June 1855 (DAR 116), indicate …
From H. C. Watson 20 September 1861
Summary
The Primula experiments of J. Sidebotham; HCW’s distrust of the results [see J. Sidebotham, "Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5].
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3258 |
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- … Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5]. …
- … Chicago Press. 1977. Sidebotham, Joseph. 1849. Experiments on the specific identity of the …
- … Phytologist 1 (1844): v–vi). Sidebotham 1849 . See n. 4, above, and Watson 1847–59 , 2: …
- … In a note, he made reference to Sidebotham 1849 ( Collected papers 2: 63 n. 6): Mr. …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [after 20 October 1873?]
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 Oct 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9792 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 59 100 . 57 Voelcker in Ann & Mag. Nat. Hist 1849. IV. p. 135 1.1 Nepenthes] underl red …
- … John Murray. 1875. Voelcker, Augustus. 1849. On the chemical composition of the fluid …
- … ascidia of Nepenthes . [Read 12 July 1849. ] Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical …
- … is from Augustus Voelcker in Voelcker 1849 . The original text in fact reads, ‘The unburnt …
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
From Henry Potonié 16 April 1878
Summary
Points out evolutionary comments by Alexander Braun in his Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur 1849–50.
Author: | Henry Potonié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11476 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 October 1873
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9113 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( Voelcker 1849 , p. 238). CD’s annotations are notes for …
- … John Murray. 1875. Voelcker, Augustus. 1849. On the chemical composition of the fluid …
- … ascidia of Nepenthes . [Read 12 July 1849. ] Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical …
- … to Voelcker’s analysis of the fluid at Kew in 1849. 2.2 Did I understand] cross in left …
From Asa Gray [c. 24 May 1857]
Summary
Discusses difficulties involved in deciding which genera are protean in the light of some comments by H. C. Watson.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 24 May 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2104 |
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Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
Matches: 7 hits
- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good …
- … headaches, fatigue, trembling, faintness, and dizziness. In 1849, Darwin’s symptoms became so severe …
- … health diary (Down House MS), which he kept between 1 July 1849 and 16 January 1855, describes …
- … vol. 2). He suffered from persistent sickness in 1849, describing ‘incessant vomiting’ in his letter …
- … Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1849] , and Correspondence vol. 7, …
- … where he and his family spent three months in March 1849 (see Correspondence vol. 4). He also …
- … vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 , and Colp 1977, pp. 43-6). He underwent …
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…
Matches: 10 hits
- … of an Admiralty Manual of scientific enquiry (1849) designed to guide the scientific work of …
- … for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham in September 1849. At Birmingham, Darwin made …
- … of expedience ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] ), but in the end he adhered to the …
- … History’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] ). He also wrote a paper, which he sent …
- … with Darwin’s letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] . As Darwin wrote to J. D. Hooker, …
- … fatigue and ill health ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 ). Health and wealth …
- … 1847 and during the last half of 1848 and the beginning of 1849. When his father Robert Waring died …
- … to Down in June, is the subject of several letters in 1849. Darwin was convinced that it was a …
- … House MS) that he kept for the next five years. In December 1849, for example, he had 25 days that …
- … personal wealth considerable. In the year between September 1849 and September 1850, Darwin’s …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
Summary
< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic …
- … and Kirby. According to a report in the Athenaeum in 1849 , the original intention was simply …
- … and dated in the image, bottom right, ‘T.H. Maguire, 1849’. date of creation 1849 …
- … ‘Our weekly gossip’, Athenaeum , no. 1141 (8 Sept. 1849), pp. 913–914. ‘Review. Portraits of …
- … Secretary’, Gardeners’ Chronicle , 42 (20 October 1849), pp. 662–663. Letters from Darwin to …
Scientific Practice
Summary
Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
Matches: 5 hits
- … to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Letter 1167 — …
- … 1262 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, [29–30 Oct 1849] Darwin thanks Hancock for specimens …
- … Letter 1251 — Darwin, C. R. to Gould, A. A., 20 Aug [1849] Darwin thanks J. D. Dana for …
- … Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 Hooker sends Darwin “a yarn about …
- … Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 12 Oct 1849 Darwin writes to Hooker about his …
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
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- … synonyms’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] ). In the conclusion to …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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
- … Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] & Chantry [G. Jones 1849]. Grote’s History of Greece …
- … Universelle ou traité des Cepages Comte Odart 1849” [Odart 1849] read very good . Rivers …
- … Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray [C. W. G. Saint-John 1849] (read) Knox. Ornithological …
- … on Pop. praised by Daily News. by M r Hicks [Hickson 1849] Published separately Taylor & …
- … India [Sleeman 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads …
- … 1828–40] Campbell’s Chief Justices [J. Campbell 1849–57] Tocquevilles Democracy …
- … [J. Campbell 1845–7] Lives of the Lindsays [Lindsay 1849] D r Harvey’s Sea Side …
- … Aspects of Nature. Humboldt [A. von Humboldt 1849]. Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig …
- … Inside Front Cover] Edig. New Phil. Journ.— 1849. Jan. Marten on Transportal of …
- … [Lamb 1837]. (good) [DAR 119: 22a] 1849. Feb 8 th . Geology of Russia by …
- … Marc 3 d Thompson’s Nat. Hist of Ireland [Thompson 1849–56]. Vol. I. II & 3 May. St. …
- … Nov 22. H. Miller Footsteps of the Creator [H. Miller 1849] Dec. 10. Dana’s Geology. U.S. …
- … 1849a and 1849b] Aug. 16 Harvey Sea-side Book [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior …
- … Dec. 26. Count Odart’s Amelographie [Odart 1849] —— Richardson’s Boat Voyage [J. Richardson …
- … [W. Lloyd 1840].— [DAR 119: 22b] 1849 Feb. 5 th . Miss Martineau. …
- … June Brooks Four Months amongst Goldfinders [Brooks 1849] July 25. Campbell’s Chancellor’s [J …
- … [Fry 1847] (poor) Sept. 5. Newman on the Soul [Newman 1849] Nov. 4 th Burtons life …
- … . Jan 15 th Lives of Lindsays 3. Vols. [Lindsay 1849] Capital Feb. 6 th . …
- … Cure [Lane 1846] amusing June Layards Nineveh [Layard 1849] Vol 1. Vol. 2. Sept. 23 d . …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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. …
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- … College 28 Amsterdam 18 november 1849 Uithoorn 25 august …
- … Burghal School Enkhuizen 20-05-1849 Steenderen …
- … Arnhem High Burghal School Arnhem 1849 Den Bosch 18 …
- … School Amsterdam 29 march 1849 Sneek 31 july 1938 …
- … Burghal School 28 Goes 28 september 1849 Lichtenvoorde 13 …
- … History. Utrecht 16 august 1849 Angerlo 18 october 1930 …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 24 january 1849 Monnickendam 8 …
- … College. Breda 21 september 1849 Den Bosch 13 oktober 1879 …
- … Clerk Winterswijk 23 january 1849 Amsterdam 5 December …
- … on Natural History. Middelburg 1849 Middelburg 1921 …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … been diagnosed as ‘suppressed gout’ by Henry Holland in 1849 ( Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W …
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.…
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- … College 28 Amsterdam 18 November 1849 Uithoorn 25 August …
- … Burghal School Enkhuizen 20 May 1849 Steenderen …
- … Arnhem High Burghal School Arnhem 1849 Den Bosch 18 …
- … School Amsterdam 29 March 1849 Sneek 31 July 1938 …
- … Burghal School 28 Goes 28 September 1849 Lichtenvoorde 13 …
- … History. Utrecht 16 August 1849 Angerlo 18 October 1930 …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 24 January 1849 Monnickendam 8 …
- … College. Breda 21 September 1849 Den Bosch 13 October 1879 …
- … Clerk Winterswijk 23 January 1849 Amsterdam 5 December …
- … on Natural History. Middelburg 1849 Middelburg 1921 …
What is an experiment?
Summary
Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Letter 1253 —Darwin to Albany Hancock, [21 Sept 1849] Darwin writes to barnacle expert …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … widened her social network and after her father's death in 1849 she travelled to Switzerland …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
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- … intakes at both Queen’s and Bedford Colleges in 1848 and 1849. Her teachers included James Martineau …
William Yarrell
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William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both. He was a member of several science and natural history societies, including the Linnean Society…
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- … William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … MAY 1848 5 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 12 OCTOBER 1849 6 C DARWIN TO R …
Darwin's illness
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Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … clientele. He wrote from Malvern to his friend Hooker in 1849. " At present, I am …