To Robert Fitch 6 January [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 6 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1288 |
To J. S. Henslow 17 January [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 17 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A96–A97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1293 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
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- … Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for …
- … Agassiz 1850 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 4, letter to Louis Agassiz, 15 June [1850] ). Agassiz’s presentation copy of Lake …
- … is in the Darwin Library–CUL. CD recorded having read it between 16 August 1850 and …
- … early November 1850 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 119: 22a). Lyell had returned …
To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
To Charles Henry Lardner Woodd 4 March 1850
Summary
Comments on paper by CHLW.
Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.
"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Henry Lardner Woodd |
Date: | 4 Mar 1850 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 375 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1307 |
DCP-LETT-1282
Summary
Cancelled: part of 1014. Has been dissecting an animal about the size of a pin-head for the last half month. Could spend another month on it 'and daily see some more beautiful structure'.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [1850?] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1282 |
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- … DAR 144: 120 Charles Robert Darwin Down [1850? ] Robert FitzRoy …
To William Harris 6 August [1850]
Summary
Reports on the fossil cirripedes sent him; several are new, some are "elegant".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Harris |
Date: | 6 Aug [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1344 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 15 June [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1342 |
To Robert Fitch 24 January [1851]
Summary
Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 24 Jan [1851] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1387 |
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- … fallax . See Correspondence vol. 4, letters to Robert Fitch , 10 January [1850] , 15 …
- … January [1850] , [23 …
- … January 1850] , and [ …
- … 6 February 1850] . Withers 1928–53 , which discusses the cirripedes presented to the …
- … vol.4, letter to Robert Fitch, [December? 1850] . In the preface to Fossil Cirripedia ( …
To Japetus Steenstrup 16 October [1851]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Xenobalanus. Discusses systematic relations of the genus.
Comments on paper by J. T. Reinhardt ["Om slaegten Lithotryas", Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 2 (1850): 1–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 16 Oct [1851] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1459 |
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- … Om slaegten Lithotryas ", Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 2 (1850): 1–8]. …
- … Society. 1854. Reinhardt, Johannes Theodor. 1850. Om slægten Lithotryas Evne til at bore …
- … 25 December [1849] , and [26 January – March 1850] ). CD believed that the basal scales in …
- … 344–8. CD referred at length to Reinhardt 1850 on p. 346 n. , pointing out that his and …
- … Siphonicella , as a synonym. Reinhardt 1850 , published in Danish in the same journal as …
To Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker 20 September 1850
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens.
Describes progress on his book [Fossil Cirripedia] and his work on living cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens.
Comments on book [F. C. L. Koch and Wilhelm Dunker, Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes (1837)].
Sends thanks to Friedrich Adolph Roemer and R. A. Philippi for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker |
Date: | 20 Sept 1850 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4941 I, 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1359 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 25 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks JS for fossil cirripedes. Discusses the specimens. Sends thanks to J. G. Forchhammer for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 25 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1297 |
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
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- … Circular 26 (1863): 216). Carpenter 1850 . CD’s copies of the Philosophical Transactions …
- … Society are in the Darwin Library–CUL; in them, Carpenter 1850 is lightly annotated. …
- … Bibliography Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1850. On the mutual relations of the …
- … vital and physical forces. [Read 20 June 1850. ] …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society (1850): 727–57. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. …
To S. P. Woodward 21 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]
Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 21 Mar [1850] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1314 |
To M. J. Berkeley 7 April [1855]
Summary
Asks for a pea variety for an experiment.
Discusses C. F. v. Gärtner’s results [in Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]. Criticises Gärtner’s belief that hybrids are always less fertile than their parents.
Asks about MJB’s experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1662 |
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- … selection , pp. 68, 71. Gärtner had died in 1850. In an undated, unbound slip associated …
- … Bibliography Berkeley, Miles Joseph. 1850–1. Gärtner’s observations upon muling among …
- … of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1850): 156–72; 6 (1851): 1–13. Correspondence : …
- … 404, and also mentioned biefly in Berkeley 1850–1 (see n. 6, below). These peas were a …
- … Wiegmann 1828 is also mentioned in Berkeley 1850–1 . Gärtner 1849 , pp. 497–9. CD’s copy …
- … in October (see n. 3, above). Berkeley 1850–1 , a review of Gärtner 1849 . CD’s annotated …
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 …
To John Murray 3 October [1861]
Summary
Would JM object to size of Orchids being same as W. N. Hutchinson, Dog breeding [1850]? Prefers little book, not to look pretentious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 110–111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3275 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 27 October [1850]
Summary
MS [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] can be ready in two weeks, but CD would like a decision from the Council of the Ray Society on number of plates. Thinks specimen should be sent to G. B. Sowerby Jr for an estimate on price of engraving. Regrets he is not familiar with routine of the Society. Systematic section will be in two parts; the third part will be on anatomy, habits, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
Date: | 27 Oct [1850] |
Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (29 March 2000) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1364 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850 …
- … 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Silchar 26 Nov 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Gardens. It had first flowered at Kew in 1850. Specifically applied to the Mediterranean …
- … the report of that meeting, published in 1850, or had read CD’s brief account of his …
From James R. Garrett to Robert Patterson 1 December 1854
Summary
Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.
Author: | James R. Garrett |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 1 Dec 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1608 |
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- … this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’ …
- … s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport …
- … been found. The Athenæum , no. 1168, 16 March 1850, p. 290, reported on Edward Forbes’s …
- … productions by birds; and in Feb. y . 1850 Professor E. Forbes, who was then preparing a …
- … copies. — The Athenæum of 16 th . March 1850, contains a notice of the Professor’s paper, …
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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
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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…