From Charles John Andersson [6 April 1856]
Summary
European men choose partners for different reasons. Savages select more for bodily attraction than facial beauty.
Author: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Apr 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1850 |
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- … DCP-LETT-1850 …
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
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- … vols. Leiden. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien. 1850–7. Conspectus generum avium. 2 vols. Leiden. …
- … London: John Van Voorst. Gould, John. 1850–83. The birds of Asia. 7 vols. London. Gray, …
- … supplement was completed in 1869. J. Gould 1850–83 . By January 1856, seven parts of this …
- … 9, pt 1: 620–4. Chesney, Francis Rawdon. 1850. The expedition for the survey of the rivers …
- … 17, pt 2: 3–13, 681–96. Hutton, Thomas. 1850. The chronology of creation; or, geology and …
- … but has ablack capped head. Bonaparte 1850–7 , 1: 514–15, describes Chrysomitris …
- … Hutton 1846 , pp. 162–8. In Chesney 1850 , 1: 582–4, Francis Rawdon Chesney described …
- … is figured as the frontispiece of Hutton 1850 . This work is in the Darwin Library–CUL and …
- … al . 1827–35, 8, facing p. 232. J. Gould 1850–83 , 7: pl. 28, which figures ‘ Pucrasia …
- … the authorised version’ (p. 173). Chesney 1850 , 1: 82. Aldrovandi 1599–1603. CD recorded …
- … c . 22 March 1856] and n. 2. Chesney 1850 , 1: 731–2: ‘Description of the bird called … “ …
- … 1779 , 1: 229–30. All these references are to the first volume of Chesney 1850 . The last …
- … reference to Cervus elaphus is in Chesney 1850 , 1, appendix 3, p. 728. The seven volumes …
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 7 February 1856
Summary
Has heard CD is much interested in questions relating to varieties and species. Mentions a case of a seminal variety of Colletia spinosa, described by John Lindley, which appears identical with another wild species of Colletia from S. America. Hopes CD will one day "enlighten us very much" on "the laws of species". There are many different views on the limits of species; M. F. Dunal made 50 species of Solanum which George Bentham considers are all varieties of S. nigrum.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 374, DAR 205.4: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1830 |
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- … pommier et sa culture. Paris. Lindley, John. 1850. Memorandum concerning a remarkable case …
- … Bunbury refers to Lindley 1850 . Colletia spinosa is a synonym of C. spinosissima , rosea. …
- … an account of the Colletia ( Lindley 1850 , p. 29). Colletia spinosissima is a synonym of …
- … admitted into books as species’ ( Lindley 1850 , p. 32). [W. J. Hooker] 1830a, pp. 152– …
- … plant had been raised from seed ( Lindley 1850 , p. 29). CD had told Bunbury as early as …
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
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- … Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850]. …
- … Wilkes, U.S.N. London. Pickering, Charles. 1850. The races of man; and their geographical …
- … several editions. CD owned a copy of Pickering 1850 , which is in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … The passage referred to occurs in Pickering 1850 , p. 314, where Charles Pickering stated …
From Edward Blyth 23 February 1856
Summary
Opposition to EB within the Asiatic Society.
Possibility of establishment of a zoological garden at Calcutta.
Has seen Gallus varius alive for the first time.
Will procure domestic pigeons for CD; could CD pay for them by returning hardy creatures, such as macaws and marmosets, which EB can sell for a high price in India?
Does not recall his authority for genealogy of the asses of Oman. If a genuine wild ass exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia.
Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer.
Details of an unusual species of wild dog.
Fertility of canine hybrids. General tendency toward hybrid sterility.
Has skins of hybrid Coracias and the parent species.
Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A128–A132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1832 |
From Edward Blyth 26 February 1856
Summary
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A126–A127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1833 |
From Edward Blyth [c. 22 March 1856]
Summary
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: 133–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845 |
To John Lubbock 27 October [1856]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1979 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 May 1856
Summary
Non-endemic Ascension Island plants brought by man, not wind-transported.
Bentham has found intermediates between oxlip and cowslip in Herefordshire.
JDH finds quantity of albumen in seeds is not variable within a species.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1869 |
To C. J. Andersson 25 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks for proof sheets of Lake Ngami: or, exploration and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa (Andersson 1856).
Is very grateful for the information CJA has provided about cattle in South Africa, and wishes to ask further questions about native breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
Date: | 25 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845F |
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- … travelled together in southern Africa from 1850 to 1852 ( Andersson 1856 ). For Andersson’ …
From Edward William Vernon Harcourt 31 May 1856
Summary
Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.
Author: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1883 |
To Henry Ambrose Oldfield 10 May [1856]
Summary
Asks HAO about breeds of Tibetan dogs and other domesticated animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Ambrose Oldfield |
Date: | 10 May [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.128) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1872 |
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- … surgeon to the British Residency in Nepal, 1850–63. He was apparently on leave in 1856, …
From W. D. Fox 19 December [1856]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11799 |
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- … vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] ). By 1853, CD no longer used the douche ( …
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
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- … Conchyliologie , the first four volumes (1850–4) of which were edited by Jean François de …
To Syms Covington 9 March 1856
Summary
Thanks SC for his interesting account of the state of the colony. SC was wise to settle there where his sons have much better prospects.
Has finished his book on barnacles [1854]. Royal Medal awarded him chiefly for this work.
Asks SC whether he has observed any odd imported breeds of poultry, for his work on variation of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 9 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1840 |
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- … 4, letter to Syms Covington, 23 November 1850 ). The Royal Medal of the Royal Society of …
To Charles Lyell 21 April [1856]
Summary
Speculates about cause of inclination in unusual columns of lava. Suggests CL check with William Hopkins about sliding movements in viscid matter.
Comments on CL’s expedition to Madeira.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1855 |
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- … theory proposed in detail in C. Lyell 1850 ; Leopold von Buch considered that lava could …
From H. C. Watson 19 November 1856
Summary
Discusses means of seed transport.
Considers the difficulty of deciding which, if any, botanical species are real.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A7–A10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1994 |
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- … 1111 b. variety 1800 ab species (sole) 1850 a. species 1111 b. variety 1856 a. species. …
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
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- … by direction of the Royal Irish Academy in 1850–51. [Read 24 April 1854. ] Transactions of …
To W. D. Fox 3 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.
As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 3 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1815 |
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- … 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] ). CD refers to his recent letters to the …
To J. D. Dana 29 September [1856]
Summary
Thanks JDD for replies to queries [in 1925]; would like to know whether teeth of cave rat are of New or Old World type.
Wishes Louis Agassiz would publish his theory of parallels of geological and embryological development. "I wish to believe but have not seen nearly enough as yet to make me a disciple."
Is working hard on variations and origin of species, but fears it will be a couple of years before he publishes.
Describes his recent work on rabbits and pigeons.
The dispersal of land Mollusca is a most difficult problem.
Confesses he is sceptical of immutability of species; discusses difficulty of proving it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 29 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1964 |
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- … of living forms. See Agassiz 1849 and 1850. In the concluding pages of Dana 1853 , Dana …
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Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
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Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Blyth, Edward | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Andersson, C. J. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … Covington still assisted Darwin in his work: in 1850 he sent a box of barnacles to London , some …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
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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- … the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He made the point more …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … occasions in his correspondence with Hooker. On 13 June [1850] , for example, Darwin wrote: …
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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- … state of indecision’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] ) as he and Emma tried to choose …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … when he first wrote out his species essay in full. In 1850, he had written to Hooker ( …
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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- … Memoirs of Plumer Ward by Hon Phipps [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] …
- … & will lend me— Pickering Races of Man [Pickering 1850]. (has a good chapter). …
- … Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] Burnetts Hist. of own time …
- … Miss. Fennimore Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans …
- … Dana’s Geology. U.S. Expedition [J. D. Dana 1849] 1850 March Forbes Cystideæ & …
- … [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov. Memoirs of Pal. Soc [ …
- … 12. Sedgwicks Discourse on Study of Univers [Sedgwick 1850] 28 Steenstrup on …
- … Feb. 3 d . Hutchinson on Dog-breaking [Hutchinson 1850] 27. Chambers. Sanatory Reform [Anon …
- … 5. Collin’s Autobiography [?Collins 1848]. good 1850 . Jan 15 th Lives of …
- … March 16 th . Newman Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] excellent —— Lord Cloncurry Memoirs …
- … 1846] May 20 G. Cumming S. African Hunter [Cumming 1850] goodish July 1 st . …
- … Sept 12 th . B. Franklins life by Sparks [Sparks ed. 1850] very good Oct 3 Martineau …
- … Podrome de Paleantologie stratigraphique [Orbigny 1850–2] 24 fr: 3. vols. The Vegetation of …
- … Danicorum Mammalium Domesticorum by Prof. Benddz [Bendz 1850]— Plates very expensive Coll. of …
- … Anat. der Wirbellosen Thiere. 1848 [K. T. E. von Siebold 1850].— [DAR *128: 180] …
- … Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read …
- … to aid me on skeletons Knox Races of Mankind [R. Knox 1850] a curious Book. (Blyth). in …
- … of the Horticultural Society of London ]. Vol I. to V. (1850) VI & VII May 27 th . …
- … [Agassiz 1835] —— 30 Bairds Entomostraca [Baird 1850] May 22 d . Madras Journal of …
- … 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D r . Coombe [Combe 1850]. good Feb. 6. Letters of Ray …
- … Histoire du Pommier, Poirier, Pêcher [Duval 1852, 1849, 1850] —— 27 th . Hist. Nat. Gen. de …
- … Sept. 4. Nunn’s Shipwreck in the Favorite [Nunn 1850] —— 16 Pepys Diary. Vol 1. 2. 3 d …
- … Facultes Interieurs des animaux invertebres [Macquart 1850]. —— 8 th Gosse Naturalist …
- … 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. Johnston 1850]. March 28 th Sebastian …
- … [DAR 128: 13] Aug. 20 Weber der Taubenfreund 1850 [Weber 1850] Sept. 1 st . Puvis …
- … [Veith 1856].— 3 d Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R. Knox 1850] 7. Willughby by Ray …
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…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January [1850] and n. 6; and letter to J. B. Innes, …
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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- … 1853 . Preparing for publication Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray …
- … I have not yet thought’, Darwin told Bowerbank in January 1850, ‘ your mentioning the Palæont. Soc. …
- … was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the end, Darwin was …
- … many parcels I have no doubt they wd aid me’. By April 1850, he reported to Steenstrup that he had ‘ …
- … and after requiring late changes by Sowerby in September 1850, told him, ‘ I hope to God I have now …
- … the first fossil volume approached completion in September 1850, Darwin had reported on his progress …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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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,…
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 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, 23 Nov 1850 In this letter, Darwin thanks his …
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. …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … myself on you’ ( letter to Wilhelm Dunker, 3 March [1850] ). In the mid-1850s, Darwin was …
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.…
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…
Leonard Darwin born
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The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born
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- … The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born …
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…