To N. T. Wetherell 8 [August 1850]
Summary
Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell |
| Date: | 8 [Aug 1850] |
| Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1267 |
To Salt & Son 26 November [1850]
Summary
Inquires about financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Salt & Sons |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1372 |
To Syms Covington 23 November 1850
Summary
Thanks SC for box of specimens [of cirripedes].
Often wishes he had settled in one of the colonies because of opportunities for his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1850 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1370 |
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- … To Syms Covington 23 November 1850 …
- … Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Nov 1850 Syms Covington …
- … Down Farnborough, Kent, November 23, 1850. Dear Covington,— I received your letter of the …
- … rush was at its height in the summer of 1850; from the British point of view, inflated …
From Emma Darwin [22–3 April 1851]
Summary
Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22–3 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1410 |
To the Palaeontographical Society [before 22 February 1850]
Summary
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | [before 22 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1304 |
To W. D. Fox 4 September [1850]
Summary
Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".
Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1352 |
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- … To W. D. Fox 4 September [1850] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Sept [1850] William Darwin Fox …
- … of Science at Charleston, South Carolina, 15 March 1850, Louis Agassiz stated that, viewed …
- … and CD visited Bruce Castle on 6 September 1850. CD refers to Quetelet 1849 , pp. 228–36, …
- … s review of the book in the Edinburgh Review (1850) 92: 1–57, in which the views described …
To Wilhelm Dunker 3 March [1850]
Summary
Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Antiquariat Inlibris (dealers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1306F |
To W. D. Fox [17 January 1850]
Summary
Account of the birth of Leonard Darwin, during which he administered the chloroform to Emma.
Continues the water-cure.
Has begun work on fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1292 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [13 April 1850]
Summary
CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [13 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1336 |
From William Masters 3 April 1850
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.
| Author: | William Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1318 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
Summary
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To Thomas Salt 7 April [1850]
Summary
Thanks for the information about a possible investment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1850] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319F |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1356 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 10 February [1851]
Summary
CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1388 |
From Abraham Clapham 8 March 1850
Summary
Results of crosses in Phlox.
| Author: | Abraham Clapham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1309 |
To Robert Fitch 17 March [1850]
Summary
Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1313 |
To Robert Fitch 11 November [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustrating fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369 |
To J. D. Dana 29 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.
Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Smith College Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1381 |
To the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 20 May [1850]
Summary
Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 20 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1329 |
From Henry Holland to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 24 February [1869]
Summary
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6632 |
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- … one of the Edinburgh Reviews of the year 1850 Lacroix, as well as Laplace, has written a …
- … written is worth having Ever yours very sincerely | H. Holland 1.1 If … 1850 2.3] crossed …
- … pencil 2.1 “Sur … 1850 2.3] scored blue crayon ; ‘Read’ in margin blue crayon 3.1 …
- … essay review of Quetelet 1846 published in the Edinburgh Review for July 1850 ( [ …
- … Herschel] 1850 ), which Holland evidently knew had been written by Herschel. CD may have …
- … vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] ). Holland refers to Sylvestre François …
- … 1871. [Herschel, John Frederick William. ] 1850. Review of Lettres à S.A.R. le duc régnant …
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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....
Summary
... 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?
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…
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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
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…
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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…
