To J. A. H. de Bosquet 15 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.
Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1515 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … Verruca . Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. …
- … the Greek derivation of the name. A copy of Bosquet 1854 is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 17 December [1852]). Living Cirripedia (1854): 496–526 …
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 41–4. The diagrams were not …
- … by the copyist. Living Cirripedia (1854): Plate XXI has figures of five species of …
- … s misreading of ‘terga’. Living Cirripedia (1854): 518–20, 520–1. Bosquet apparently …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … adopted CD’s manuscript name. See Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 43 and …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 525–6, both of which cite Bosquet’s Monographie des Crustacés …
- … but the work did not actually appear until 1854. Bosquet sent CD specimens of some of the …
- … no adductor ridge. See Living Cirripedia (1854): 526. In Living Cirripedia (1851) , the …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 August [1854]
Summary
Thanks JAHdeB for his present of two volumes [Description des Entomostracés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France et de la Belgique (1852) and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on geographical distribution of the Entomostraca.
CD’s second volume for the Ray Society [Living Cirripedia] is finished but not yet published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 13 Aug [1854] |
| Classmark: | Lucy T. Eisenberg (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1578 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 August [1854] …
- … collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Aug [1854] Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet …
- … and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on …
- … Bosquet 1852 and 1854. Both volumes are in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … the final revision of Living Cirripedia (1854) on 15 July (‘Journal’; Correspondence …
- … copies for both Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854) (MS attached to CD’ …
- … s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) in the Cambridge University Library). …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 October [1853]
Summary
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1537 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137]. …
- … and Klein Spauwen, Belgium, in Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 29 n. 1. CD thanked Bosquet …
- … of Chirona unguiformis ) and for the variety erisma ( Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 29, 30). …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and …
- … Verrucidæ of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. …
- … Bosquet 1854 . See letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 15 April [1853] , n. 6. …
- … systematicus specierum’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 631, 637). CD began working on the …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 24 December 1853
Summary
Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1543 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 296. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 293. Referring to CD, Bosquet wrote: ‘Ce Naturaliste distingué …
- … et solides du Genre Verruca. ’ ( Bosquet 1854 , p. 13 n. ). See letter to J. A. H. de …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … The manuscript of Bosquet 1854 . See Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 10. See letter to J. A. …
- … Synopsis et index systematicus specierum’ of Living Cirripedia (1854): 626, 631, and 637. …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 18 June 1853
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. Comments on various specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 18 June 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1520 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … 7 June [1853] . CD thanked Bosquet in the preface to Fossil Cirripedia (1854) . A copyist’ …
- … s misreading of Verruca prisca ( Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 43–4; …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 525–6). CD recorded that the …
- … came from the collection of James de Carle Sowerby ( Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 43; …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 525). CD thanked John Morris for providing specimens and …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … and called his new species Pollicipes darwinianus ( Bosquet 1854 , Tab. I, figs. 8–16). …
- … that CD added to Living Cirripedia (1854) , p. 631, in lieu of giving the specific …
- … specierum’. In Living Cirripedia (1854): 631 n. , he explained that the fragments of S. …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 19 January [1854]
Summary
Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1548 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. A. H. de Bosquet 19 January [1854] …
- … DAR 143: 130 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Jan [1854] Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet …
- … A. H. de Bosquet, 24 December 1853 . Bosquet 1854 . CD had sent the first two Cirripedia …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 7 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 7 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1517 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … sent to CD answered the questions. Bosquet 1854 . See letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 15 …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … de Limbourg. Haarlem. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … 15 April [1853] . In Living Cirripedia (1854): 522, CD stated that: ‘by far the most …
- … CD’s description ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 525–6) makes no reference to the basal …
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 17 December [1852]
Summary
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1852] |
| Classmark: | Ripon College, Lane Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1493 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … MS attached to CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) in the Cambridge University Library). …
- … Of later volumes, only Living Cirripedia (1854) was sent. Bosquet, of Maestricht, studied …
- … strata of Holland and Belgium (see Bosquet 1854 ). In Bosquet 1857 , ‘Notice sur quelques …
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 9 September [1856]
Summary
On JAHdeB’s discovery of Cretaceous Chthamalus. Cites his own acceptance of negative evidence about Chthamali in Fossil Lepadidae.
Comments on JAHdeB’s cirripede drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1952 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … The references are to Living Cirripedia (1854) . CD had presented Bosquet with copies of …
- … Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain …
- … CD had corresponded with Bosquet between 1852 and 1854 about fossil sessile Cirripedia. He …
- … of a work on fossil Crustacea ( Bosquet 1854 ). Bosquet 1857 . In the published version, …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 1974. Darwin …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 17 July 1853
Summary
Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 17 July 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1523 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1851): 264–5 and Living Cirripedia (1854): 631. Bosquet’s new species are listed, with …
- … Synopsis et index systematicus specierum’, Living Cirripedia (1854): 626, 631, and 637. …
- … index included in Living Cirripedia (1854): 611–40, no mention was made of the number of …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Sowerby, James and Sowerby, James de Carle. …
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…
Matches: 13 hits
- … 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
Summary
< 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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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
Summary
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. …
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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’
Summary
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
Summary
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.…
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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 …
Thomas Henry Huxley
Summary
Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … an appointment as paleontologist to the Geological Survey in 1854. He moved quickly to the inner …
