From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Summary
List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].
| 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] . …
To William Robert Grove 26 April [1854]
Summary
Is honoured by his election to the Philosophical Club [of the Royal Society].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1854] |
| Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1567 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To William Robert Grove 26 April [1854] …
- … Great Britain (Grove Papers) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Apr [1854] William Robert Grove …
- … Royal Society until the meeting of 24 April 1854, when Joseph Dalton Hooker was elected to …
- … 1919 , pp. 39, 259). CD was elected on 24 April 1854 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 39). See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 26 March [1854] , in which CD asked Hooker to propose him for membership …
To J. D. Hooker 11 [December 1854]
Summary
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 [Dec 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1612 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 [December 1854] …
- … DAR 114: 148 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 [Dec 1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … The Monday following the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1854] . J. D. …
- … letter from J. D Hooker, 5 December [1854] , n. 4). CD made this point again in Natural …
- … in letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] . The genus Erythroxylon , which at that …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1854] , Hooker proposed giving CD a copy of J. D. …
- … CUL. It is lightly annotated by CD. See letters from J. D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] and …
- … 5 December [1854] . See CD’s memorandum attached to the letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1854] . CD was speaking from experience. In his paper ‘ …
- … Bentham’s list, see letter from J. D. Hooker, [after 11 December 1854] . Athenæum , no. …
- … 1415, 9 December 1854, p. 1496: ‘a meeting of friends and admirers was held at King’s …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1854] , n. 5. CD later described his experiences …
To J. D. Hooker 26 March [1854]
Summary
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1562 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 26 March [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 120 Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Mar [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … at the anniversary meeting in November 1854 due to continuing bad relations with members …
- … 28 May 1847] . CD was elected on 24 April 1854 and remained a member until his resignation …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [ c . 25 March 1854], n. 3. Henry Holland , physician in …
- … of conifers and gymnosperms generally, see letters from J. D. Hooker, [29 June 1854] and …
- … 25 August 1854 . The introduction to Flora Indica (J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855). John …
- … letter to which CD refers, dated 21 February 1854 (Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), …
- … reviewed in the American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 17 (1854): 241–52, 334–50. …
- … s notes about the letter, dated 26 March 1854, are in DAR 205.2: 102. They refer to Gray’s …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 21 February 1854 , Gray wrote: ‘I confine myself to trying to …
- … In his letter to Hooker, 21 February 1854 , Gray referred to the ‘inevitable mingling of …
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1854]
Summary
Is Bentham’s list of aberrant genera biased by exclusion of genera with many species?
JDH’s belief that Aquilegia varieties are one species is consistent with their great interfertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1610 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 159 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Dec [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Gazette , no. 48, 2 December 1854, pp. 771–2: ‘[Forbes] was beloved and admired beyond …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] ). See CD’s memorandum attached to letter …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [15 November 1854] , n. 4. See letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1854] . Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural …
To Daniel Sharpe 12 November [1854]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.
Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].
CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.
Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1599 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Daniel Sharpe 12 November [1854] …
- … Special Collections Research Center Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Nov [1854] Daniel Sharpe …
- … and its environs. [Read 15 November 1854. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of …
- … on foliation and cleavage [ Athenæum 30 Sept 1854]. CD is convinced DS’s view will replace …
- … Geological Society meeting of 15 November 1854. Sharpe discussed the relationship of the …
- … slates. The Athenæum , no. 1405, 30 September 1854, pp. 1172–82, carried a report of the …
- … the other’ ( Athenæum , no. 1405, 30 September 1854, p. 1178, later published as Forbes …
- … Athenæum , no. 1405, 30 September 1854, pp. 1178–9). Lyell, apparently influenced by the …
To Mrs Stutchbury 22 August 1854
Summary
Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury |
| Date: | 22 Aug 1854 |
| Classmark: | Matthews 1982, p. 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1579A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Mrs Stutchbury 22 August 1854 …
- … 262 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Aug 1854 Hannah Louisa Bernard/Hannah Louisa Stutchbury …
- … Down | Farnborough | Kent Aug. 22 d 1854 Madam I have at last finished with the valuable …
- … Geological Survey ( Matthews 1982 , p. 264). Living Cirripedia (1854) was distributed …
- … in September 1854 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] ). CD sent Stutchbury presentation copies of both volumes ( …
To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 119 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Mar [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … CD recorded having finished on 7 March 1854 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
- … Henry Colburn. 1839. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Stansbury, Howard. 1852. An expedition to …
- … finished reading Stansbury 1852 on 23 March 1854 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … recorded having read this work on 6 February 1854 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … According to his ‘Journal’, CD finished the final revision of Living Cirripedia 1854 on …
- … 15 July 1854 ( Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix I). Hooker had expressed surprise that the …
To P. G. King 21 February 1854
Summary
PGK’s letter stirred memories of their old days in the Beagle.
Gives news of his work on cirripedes. Would like to examine Scalpellum papillosum of King from Patagonia if PGK’s father has a duplicate in his collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Gidley King |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1854 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554A |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To P. G. King 21 February 1854 …
- … Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Feb 1854 Philip Gidley King …
- … in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 154. Britain and France declared war on Russia in January 1854. …
- … Down | Farnborough, | Kent. Feb. 21. 1854. My dear King I can hardly tell you how pleased …
- … having been midshipman aboard the Beagle . In 1854, he was assistant superintendent of the …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Nicholas, F. W. and Nicholas, J. M. 1989. …
- … the pedunculated cirripedes. Living Cirripedia (1854) , which described the sessile …
- … cirripedes, appeared in September 1854. CD had listed P. P. King’s description of …
- … mention the species in Living Cirripedia (1854) . CD identified the small, ‘complemental’ …
To John Higgins 23 March [1854]
Summary
Discusses investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1561 |
To G. H. Turnbull 12 December [1854]
Summary
Thanks for subscription to Down Coal and Clothing Club, whose finances are improving.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Turnbull |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 3 (EH 88206055) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1613 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To G. H. Turnbull 12 December [1854] …
- … DAR 261.11: 3 (EH 88206055) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Dec [1854] George Henry Turnbull …
- … See letter to G. H. Turnbull, 28 October [1854] . Turnbull’s subscription of £1 1 s . …
- … list of subscribers in the club’s Honorary subscriptions book (Down House MS) for 1854–5. …
To Robert Patterson 6 April [1854]
Summary
He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1854] |
| Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 713 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1565 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Robert Patterson 6 April [1854] …
- … Praeger 1935 , p. 713 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr [1854] Robert Patterson …
- … DOWN, FARNBOROUGH, KENT Ap. 6th. [1854] MY DEAR SIR A sharp attack of unwellness has …
- … 5, Appendix I), CD recorded on 9 September 1854: ‘Finished packing up all my cirripedes. ’ …
- … See letter to Robert Patterson, 21 August [1854] . Praeger 1935 , p. 711, …
- … Patterson to his wife Mary, dated 2 May 1854, in which Patterson described ‘some pleasant …
To the Palaeontographical Society [before 24 February 1854]
Summary
Letter from CD about a monograph of fossil Balanidae. Resolved that CD be asked to complete the monograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | [before 24 Feb 1854] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1555 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To the Palaeontographical Society [before 24 February 1854] …
- … minutes) Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 24 Feb 1854] Palaeontographical Society …
- … 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. …
- … Palaeontographical Society council on 24 February 1854, from which the text given here has …
- … the introduction to Living Cirripedia (1854) , CD had not originally intended to prepare a …
To Thomas Salt 12 July [1854]
Summary
Thanks for money paid into his account. Has not received interest payment from Lord Powis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 12 July [1854] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Thomas Salt 12 July [1854] …
- … sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 Charles Robert Darwin 12 July [1854] Down Thomas Salt …
- … to CD’ s Investment book (Down House MS), p. 43, the capital was repaid on 1 July 1854. …
- … Interest up to 1 July 1854 was also recorded ( ibid. , p. 44). Charles Wilding was Lord …
- … for five years; the money was repaid in 1854. See also this volume, Supplement, letters to …
- … 5, letter to Josiah Wedgwood III, 1 May [1854] . Muckleston’s executor was his son, Edward …
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854]
Summary
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1601 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 156 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Nov [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … J. D. Hooker, [6 November 1854] , n. 10. …
- … Agricultural Gazette , no. 45, 11 November 1854, pp. 727–8, carried a short extract from …
- … Edward Forbes . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 July [1854] , n. 9. See letter from …
- … letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n. 1. Waterhouse 1845 , p. 19 n. There …
- … See letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n. 2, for CD’ s purpose in studying …
From H. C. Watson 20 November [1854]
Summary
Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1605 |
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 1 March [1854]
Summary
Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.
Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1556 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 March [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 118 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Mar [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … active service in the Baltic. Sulivan sailed on 25 March 1854 (Sulivan ed. 1896, p. 126). …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [26 February 1854] . Roderick Impey Murchison was known to be ‘not …
- … to Charles Lyell’s letter to Leonard Horner dated January 1854 from Madeira (see letter …
- … to Charles Lyell, 18 February [1854] , n. 2, and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [26 February 1854] , n. 5). Bartholomew James Sulivan had requested a return …
- … 65–70. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 February 1854] . A favourable review of J. D. …
- … 1854a was published in the Athenæum , no. 1374, 25 February 1854, pp. 237–9. See letter …
To Edward Sabine 28 June [1854]
Summary
Is unequal to taking chair as President of Natural History Section of BAAS meeting in Liverpool. Very little fatigue or excitement brings on swimming of head, nausea, and other symptoms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
| Date: | 28 June [1854] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 386) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1574 |
Matches: 4 hits
To J. S. Henslow 2 September [1854]
Summary
Sends his comments on JSH’s MS on cirripedes ["On typical objects in natural history", Rep. BAAS (1855): 108–26].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1586 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. S. Henslow 2 September [1854] …
- … collection: folder #11) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Sept [1854] John Stevens Henslow …
- … Both are described in Living Cirripedia (1854) . Henslow included them in his example. …
- … 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. …
- … Advancement of Science held at Liverpool in 1854 , p. xlvi). The object of the committee, …
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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…
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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 …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … able to finance another extended voyage to Malaysia. Between 1854 and 1862, he travelled some 14,000 …
