From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854] …
- … DAR 104: 214–15 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [3 Nov 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 6: 289–97. Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1854. Siluria; the history of the oldest known rocks …
- … John C. 1981. R. I. Murchison’s Siluria (1854 and later). Archives of Natural History 10: …
- … botanist and palaeobotanist. Murchison 1854 . Unger’s work on the fossil flora of Europe ( …
- … 14 November 1844 , n. 2). CD had been elected a fellow on 7 March 1854 and admitted …
- … on 2 May 1854 ( Gage 1938 , p. 52). Thomas Bell had been elected president of the society …
- … for several days at the end of October 1854. They visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenham …
- … from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n. 2. J. D. Hooker 1854b . Pteris longifolia …
- … the Mediterr: see Hookers Jour. Bot for Nov 1854. p. 351. (it is on Athenæum table—) now …
- … account of the publication of Murchison 1854 . David Lyall had been assistant surgeon in …
- … s visit to Down at the end of October 1854 (see n. 12, below), CD had evidently asked …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] ). A note in DAR 114.4: 222a may be the text …
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854 …
- … DAR 205.9: 384 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 25 Aug 1854 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Royal College of Surgeons. Owen, Richard. 1854. On some fossil reptilian and mammalian …
- … remains from the Purbecks. [Read 7 June 1854. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological …
- … 10: 420–33. Westwood, John Obadiah. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly …
- … James Clark (not Clarke). In the autumn of 1854, through Sir James’s influence, Hooker was …
- … botaniques. Paris. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Meneghini, Giuseppi. 1853. On the animal …
- … and Hooker 1855 ). It was read on 14 December 1854 at the Royal Society. In their paper, …
- … Hooker 1855 , p. 151). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 June 1854] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 7 July [1854] , concerning the subject of ‘high and low’ development in the …
- … at a meeting of the Geological Society on 10 May 1854 in which he noted the difficulty in …
- … some fossils of vegetable origin ( Westwood 1854 , pp. 382, 386–7). The nature of certain …
- … had recently read a paper ( R. Owen 1854 ) describing Spalacotherium , a new mammalian …
- … Bonney 1919 , p. 6). See letter to Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood, 18 [August 1854] . …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854) , available for distribution in early September ( letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] ). Possibly a reference to Hooker’s application to the East …
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854] …
- … DAR 205.9: 385 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [6 Nov 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … for whom CD was seeking a place at Kew (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] ). …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 November [1854] . Disko Island, off the west coast of Greenland …
- … of the Philosophical Club on 23 November 1854 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 126). The Arctic fossils …
- … Tertiary period. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1854] , n. 4. J. D. Hooker …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1854] , n. 7. George Bentham . When Bentham …
- … Montague Villas, Richmond Hill, in December 1854 (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 352). According …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 November [1854] , n. 5). Joachim Barrande and Edward Forbes . …
From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854]
Summary
JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1576 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854] …
- … DAR 205.9: 383 Joseph Dalton Hooker Hitcham [29 June 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … ibid . , pp. 95–117). See also letter to S. P. Woodward, 6 May 1854 , n. 4. J. D. …
- … Hooker 1855 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 July [1854] ). …
- … after letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [June 1854] . The use of chloroform as a general …
- … chloroform. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 June 1854] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 27 [June 1854] . Vegetable kingdom. Forbes and Hanley [1848–]1853, 1: xi. The …
- … Bibliography Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1854. Principles of comparative physiology. 4th …
- … Jones 1845–52 , 1: 50, 53, 59. Carpenter 1854 , pp. 16–20, 59. An annotated copy is in …
From J. D. Hooker [24 June 1854]
Summary
Birth of JDH’s second child.
Asks CD’s view of "highness" and "lowness" in animals. Gives his own for plants; extent of deviation from type, e.g., floral parts deviating from leaf.
Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 202–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1572 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [24 June 1854] …
- … DAR 104: 202–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Hitcham [24 June 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography [Brodie, Benjamin Collins]. 1854. Psychological inquiries: in a series of …
- … floral parts deviating from leaf. Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854]. …
- … see n. 2, below). The Hookers’ second child, Harriet Anne, born on 23 June 1854. [ …
- … Brodie] 1854 . After ‘great’, Hooker had written and then deleted: ‘*deviation from [ …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [June 1854] . CD had been in London 21 to 23 June. He …
From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1546 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854] …
- … DAR 205.9: 391 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [after 11 Dec 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] ). The numbers in the column indicate the …
- … represented by very few species. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] and …
- … 11 [December 1854] . …
From J. D. Hooker 5 December [1854]
Summary
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 388–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1611 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 5 December [1854] …
- … Dalton Hooker London, Montagu Villas, Richmond, 3 5 Dec [1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] , enclosing Bentham’s list, and letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1854] . It is not clear whether Hooker is making a literal …
- … 1846 ), as mentioned in letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] . J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, introductory essay, pp. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854] . The memorandum is preserved with Hooker’ …
- … here in the letter to Hooker, 11 [December 1854] . CD discussed the scarcity of individual …
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1854]
Summary
Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 86–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1557 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1854] …
- … DAR 100: 86–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [26 Feb 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … friend, J. D. Hooker. Kew, Jan. 12th, 1854. ’ CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin …
- … a second letter from Lyell, dated 21 February 1854 from Tenerife, in which the geological …
- … Frances Harriet Hooker was pregnant. Her second child was expected in June 1854. Charles …
- … s letter from Madeira, dated January 1854, was read at a meeting of the Philosophical Club …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 18 February [1854] , n. 2). There is, however, no passage in …
From J. D. Hooker [c. 25 March 1854]
Summary
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Mar 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1559 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [ c . 25 March 1854] …
- … DAR 205.9: 382 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [c. 25 Mar 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Journal of researches 2d ed. , p. 322. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 March [1854] . …
- … in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 March [1854] , to having received Hooker’s letter …
- … on the morning of 26 March 1854. The two surviving pages of the letter are numbered ‘III’ …
From J. D. Hooker [15 November 1854]
Summary
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 386 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1607 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [15 November 1854] …
- … DAR 205.9: 386 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [15 Nov 1854] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1854] , n. 7). Steudel 1840–1. CD’s copy, lightly …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1854] , for CD’s rephrasing of these comments. In …
- … and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1854] , CD also made the following note (DAR …
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1867. Coleoptera …
- … barnacles ( Living Cirripedia (1851) , Living Cirripedia (1854) , Fossil Cirripedia (1851) …
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1854) ). Fries was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in …
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … expedition is described in J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 177–270. While Hooker was travelling in …
- … through his territory ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 198). Major Charles Thoresby ( East-India …
- … of Sikkim, Nepal, and Bhutan (J. D. Hooker 1854, 1: 115–18). The British did eventually …
- … of the soils of Sikkim to J. D. Hooker 1854, 2: 383–4. He also assisted Hooker by making …
- … absence from Darjeeling (J. D. Hooker 1854, 2: 402–4). Hooker discussed the distribution …
- … in the letter text) in J. D. Hooker 1854, 2: 394–400. The Gangetic valley is mentioned on …
- … the foothills of the Himalayas (J. D. Hooker 1854, 1: 101–2). Hugon 1837 , one of several …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … s suggestions made on CD. See J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 302–3, in which he discussed the …
- … of these mountains, see J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 265–325. Samuel Turner , who was one of …
- … species in that area alone ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 323). Described in McClelland 1835 . …
- … like shell and small crab are found sparingly. ’ ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 347). In J. …
- … D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 336 n. , Hooker explained his meaning more fully: It is not generally …
From J. D. Hooker 20 September 1862
Summary
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3731 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 and 7 April 1850
Summary
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 7 Apr 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319 |
From J. D. Hooker [30 December 1861 or 6 January 1862]
Summary
Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.
Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].
No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.
Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3375 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1858]
Summary
JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 125–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2385 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … were reputed to exist ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 2). Hooker had previously examined fossil …
- … asiatica , described in J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 24 n. , and in Hooker and Thomson 1855, …
- … also known as the dziggetai ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 172 n. ). Only one specimen had …
- … he arrived on 16 March ( J. D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 634). CD’s letter has not been found. …
From J. D. Hooker 30 July [1867]
Summary
Plans to come to Down on Saturday.
Returned Adam Bede two years ago.
Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind
and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".
Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5588 |
letter | (56) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (56) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
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,…
Matches: 5 hits
- … cirripedes and culminated in Living Cirripedia (1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again …
- … series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his cirripede study was …
- … indicated by his comment in a letter to Hooker on 29 [May 1854] : ‘Very far from disagreeing with …
- … Back to species theory In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle …
- … do as I wish it Throughout the correspondence of 1854 and 1855, the overwhelming …
Darwin and Down
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … [24 July 1842] To P. G. King, 21 February 1854 : ‘I live in the country about 16 miles …
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…
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: 23 hits
- … [Wellesley 1832] Sir. W. Nott’s Life [W. Nott 1854].— [DAR *119: 15v.] From …
- … de la Boheme [Barrande 1852–1911] must be deeply studied 1854 The Zoologist by E. Newman [ …
- … [Pepys 1825] (Read).— Sir W. Notts life [W. Nott 1854] read [DAR *128: 177] …
- … r . Nott & Gliddon: Trübner & Co [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] (read) A Lecture by …
- … not published but reported fully in Literary Gazette Sept 30 1854 91 Agricult. Journal …
- … d’un Naturaliste A. de Quatrefages [Quatrefages de Bréau 1854]. (light reading) (??) read …
- … Domestic animals. 94 Lloyd Scandinavian Adventures 1854 [L. Lloyd 1854]. praised in …
- … sur les Migration des Vegetaux 4 to Pamphlet [Godron 1854] (read) Journal of Asiatic Soc. …
- … specially of central platform of France 8 fr. [Lecoq 1854–8] Read Journal de la Soc. Imp. d …
- … Sir J. Lubbock. member Ferguson on Poultry [Ferguson 1854], recommended by M r Brent, but …
- … D r . Badham “Ancient & Modern Tattle” on Fish [Badham 1854]. M r Tegetmeier says very …
- … (read) From Nott & Gliddon [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] Roselini Monumenta [ …
- … Carboniferous strata, translated in Bull. General [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important …
- … I ought to read Murchinson’s Siluria [Murchison 1854]— I must read it. & buy it.— …
- … W. R. Wilde in Dublin University Magazine early month of 1854 on food of Irish. ( Pig ) [Wilde] …
- … translated into French by Gaudin—with additions [Heer 1854]. Archives du Museum [ Archives …
- … Himmalaya [T. Thomson 1852] [DAR 128: 7] 1854 Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, …
- … 1848]. March 7 th . Hooker’s Himmalaya [Hooker 1854].— —— 23 Stansbury. Exploration …
- … July 3 d . Sir B. B. Psychological Essays [Brodie] 1854] —— Duval Histoire du Pommier, …
- … Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1854–62] Tome I [DAR 128: 9] …
- … Williams Missionary in T. del Fuego [Hamilton 1854] March 28 th . Sir G. Stephens Lectures …
- … Richardson 1784] (poor) [DAR 128: 10] 1854. Microscopical Journal [ …
- … 1855. Wollastons Insecta Maderensia [Wollaston 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. …
Darwin and the Church
Summary
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…
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on …
- … in manuscript form to the Ray Society at the beginning of 1854 , where it took longer than the ‘ …
- … to tell his friend Thomas Henry Huxley in early September 1854, ‘ My second volume on the …
- … Society; the monograph itself was printed in 1854. This volume appears not to have been discussed …
- … but he wrote to the Palaeontographical Society in February 1854 and the society confirmed that he …
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: 3 hits
- … sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851, 1854). …
- … spermatozoa’ attached to the female (Living Cirripedia (1854): 23). Darwin had previously worked out …
- … from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. …
- … In both volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an introductory section to …
- … was best placed among the Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 527–8).^1^1^ Both …
- … segments are quite aborted . . . ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 562–3) Indeed, …
- … be the most natural arrangement. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 588) The fact that the …
- … with his figure of the mature animal ( Living Cirripedia (1854), Plate XXV). Throughout …
- … (1851): 37–8) In Living Cirripedia (1854), Darwin ventured to suggest the possible …
- … by a new and anomalous course. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 151–2) Crisp (1983) has …
- … from bisexuality to unisexuality. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 29)^16^ Darwin’s …
- … merely varieties (Southward 1983). In Living Cirripedia (1854), Darwin clearly stated the …
- … be found eminently variable. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 155) One of the first …
- … a very direct and curious manner’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 529). Modern systematists place …
- … nature was demonstrated.’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 555). See also Rachootin 1984, pp. 235–6. …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … the start a cautious and sometimes a difficult one. In 1854-5 the newly established firm of Henry …
- … who thought that ‘it was probably taken in the year 1854, but he had never seen it’. A slot in the …
- … Walker, dated 1912; the photograph itself is here dated 1854, and accompanied by a facsimile of …
- … Polyblank, photographers date of creation 1854 or early 1855 computer-readable …
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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- … Dramatist 23 Middelburg 20 june 1854 Middelburg 13 october …
- … Deventer 11 september 1854 Deventer 8 march 1936 Haarlem …
- … Phil.nat.cand Leiden 18 july 1854 Batavia 8 march 1896 …
- … University. Utrecht 16 april 1854 Amsterdam 4 january 1928 …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 16 april 1854 Amsterdam 4 january …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 19 august 1854 Oud-Beijerland 23 …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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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- … Dramatist 23 Middelburg 20 June 1854 Middelburg 13 October …
- … Deventer 11 September 1854 Deventer 8 March 1936 Haarlem …
- … Phil.nat.cand Leiden 18 July 1854 Batavia 8 March 1896 …
- … University. Utrecht 16 April 1854 Amsterdam 4 January 1928 …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 16 April 1854 Amsterdam 4 January …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 19 August 1854 Oud-Beijerland 23 …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … used in a strict sense. Thus a letter dated ‘after 8 July 1854’ is judged to have been written very …
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … in major cities of the US and Canada on physiognomy in 1854. In 1866 he sought training in anatomy …
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 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he …
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…
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- … of logical thought and language. On 20 May 1854, Darwin again took over the notebook and, …
- … a bit of red glass at the garden) 47v. May 1854. Before tea Ch. asked Lenny P. Have you …
- … give me a kiss if you like”. 48 [74] May 20— 1854.— I saw a pile of sand lying on the lawn …
- … I could not help it awfully”.— 49 June 1854— About 9 months ago, Lenny defined being in …
- … Horace Lenny. When ill with Fever & recovering (Dec 1854) used constantly to ask in the …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … Darwin (with a caption querying the date, and suggesting ‘1854?’). It was reproduced …
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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- … and wrote about barnacles on a daily basis from 1846 to 1854. Ultimately, Darwin's deep and …