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To J. D. Hooker   22 [January 1844 – March 1882]

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Discusses books returned

and invites him to Down for a few days.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13816A

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To Adolf von Morlot   9 August [1844]

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Declines to undertake to have AM’s journal published but recommends possible publishers in England.

Expresses scepticism about AM’s glacier theory. Emphasises role of floating ice instead. Mentions article by William Hopkins on movement of glaciers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:  9 Aug [1844]
Classmark:  Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-769

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  • … ice-sheet advancing from Scandinavia. Hopkins 1849 , read 1 May 1843. James David Forbes …
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Darwin's health

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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

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< 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

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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…

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  • … 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

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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

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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…

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  • … Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August 1849] Darwin thanks Mary Whitby …
  • … Letter 1219  - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [3 February 1849] Hooker passes on news of …

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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  • … 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

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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,…

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  • … Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 In this gossipy letter, Hooker …
  • … Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 12 Oct 1849 Darwin opens by discussing their …

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. …

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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

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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

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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?

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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…

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  • … specimens for his own use. A portrait of Darwin in 1849 shows him with a specimen bag over …
  • … to travellers that was issued by the Navy (Herschel ed. 1849). He also treated many of his …

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)

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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…

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  • … campaigning, legislation was passed in 1822, 1835, and 1849 (see nn. 1 and 5, below) to prevent …
  • … Act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals, 1849 ( Statutes, public and general , …

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…

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  • … 1846). Habilitation in physics (1847) and professor in Bern (1849). Brunner was responsible for the …
  • … After the foundation of the Imperial Geological Survey (1849), Wolf obtained there a position of a …

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 …
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