To G. R. Waterhouse 29 August [1854]
Summary
Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1854] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1583 |
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … of the Cirripedia monograph, Living Cirripedia (1851) , Living Cirripedia (1854) , Fossil …
- … Cirripedia (1854) . Possibly Fitch 1847 , published by the Norfolk and Norwich …
- … Society 1: 252–4. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … 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 the Ray Society [before 23 January 1854]
Summary
"A letter having been read from Mr. Darwin stating that the MSS of the 2nd vol. of his work [Living Cirripedia] extended to 900 pages it was resolved that the whole be published in one volume."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ray Society |
| Date: | [before 23 Jan 1854] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1549 |
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 a librarian [early September? 1854]
Summary
Will return all but two volumes; requests four titles, including Pepys’s Diaries, but not the first volume.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Librarian |
| Date: | [early Sept? 1854] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9763) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592F |
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 …
To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1854]
Summary
Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 18 [Aug 1854] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1547 |
To Albany Hancock 30 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1509 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … called ‘protruberant buttons or cushions’. Living Cirripedia (1854): 577–8. …
- … Bibliography Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … order, Abdominalia ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 563–6). Alcippe lampas was classified as a …
- … complete gut, respectively. See Living Cirripedia (1854): 543–4. The ‘bosses’ are there …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vi, fig. 6; cited in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 53. See Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 8, 9 …
- … and Living Cirripedia (1854): 193. Pollicipes carinatus , which was described in Fossil …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. …
- … 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. S. Henslow 17 November [1854]
Summary
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1602 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin 22 July 1863
Summary
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4251 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … for South America , and the illustrations for Living Cirripedia ( 1851 and 1854 ), Fossil …
- … Cirripedia (1854) , and Orchids (see Correspondence vols. 3, 4, 5, and 9). …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
From J. E. Gray [1846–54]
Summary
Lateral teeth in Arcadae.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1846–54] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13814 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … and fossil Cirripedia were published between 1851 and 1854 (see Living Cirripedia (1851) , …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , Living Cirripedia (1854) , and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1854) ). The configuration of umbonal teeth described by Gray is …
- … 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 Robert Fitch 3 December [1849]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Pollicipes from the Chalk.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1274 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … The Ray Society published the two volumes of Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ). The …
- … two volumes of Fossil Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) were published by the Palaeontographical …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Sharpe, Daniel. 1846. On slaty cleavage. [ …
To T. H. Huxley 20 February [1855]
Summary
Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.
Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1855] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1635 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 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. …
- … H. Huxley 1855a (see n. 7, below). See letters to T. H. Huxley, 8 September [1854] and …
- … 13 September [1854] . Huxley had examined specimens of cirripedes during his visit to …
- … his views on the Lepadidae (pedunculated cirripedes) (see Living Cirripedia (1854): 134). …
- … See Living Cirripedia (1854) , p. 134, where CD described the cementing apparatus in …
- … T. H. Huxley 1854b . Living Cirripedia (1854): 546. T. H. Huxley 1855a . CD’s copy is …
From Frederick Smith 26 February 1858
Summary
Identifies an ant described by CD and discusses the predatory habits of Formica sanguinea.
Describes some wasps’ nests.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 191 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2226 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Cambridge University Press. 1975. Smith, Frederick. 1854. Essay on the genera and species …
- … of British Formicidæ. [Read 4 December 1854. ] Transactions of the Entomological …
- … Society of London n.s. 3 (1854–6): 95–135. Smith, Frederick. 1857. Revision of an essay on …
- … known species of British ants in F. Smith 1854 and revised this list in F. Smith 1857 . …
- … areas of southern England ( F. Smith 1854 , pp. 101, 103). CD must have asked Smith …
- … s account of the subject ( F. Smith 1854 ). In CD’s copy of the work, Smith’s description …
From Hermann Kindt 5 September 1864
Summary
Requests permission, for a friend, to publish extracts of Orchids in German translation.
| Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4609 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … barnacle work, conducted between 1846 and 1854, see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix II. …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
- … 9 [July 1864] and n. 6. Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) was published in two volumes by …
- … the Ray Society in 1851 and 1854. In recognition of his work on the first volume, CD was …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub- class Cirripedia, …
To Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss 21 December [1851]
Summary
Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1851] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1465 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of Tesseropora rosea . In Living Cirripedia (1854): 335 n. , CD stated: ‘There can be no …
- … Mollusken. Stuttgart. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … Tetraclita rosea (see Living Cirripedia (1854): 321). Krauss had described it in Krauss …
- … p. 136. CD thanked him in Living Cirripedia (1854): 335 n. for sending a ‘unique specimen …
Lewis, Richard Albert. 1952. Edwin Chadwick and the public health movement, 1832– 1854. London: Longmans, Green.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edwin Chadwick and the public health movement, 1832– 1854. London: Longmans, Green. 4 …
Page, David. 1854. Introductory text-book of geology. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & sons.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Page, David. 1854. Introductory text-book of geology. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & …
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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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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 …
