From John Gwyn Jeffreys 7 September 1851
Summary
Has sent CD some cirripedes and notes which he hopes will be of use. Gives details of occurrence and source of some of the specimens.
| Author: | John Gwyn Jeffreys |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1851 |
| Classmark: | D. Gwyn Jeffreys (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1452 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … In the introduction to Living Cirripedia (1854): 2, CD stated: ‘I have given much fewer …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …
- … B . amphitrite in Living Cirripedia (1854): 240. William Clark of Exmouth. He contributed …
- … Balanus improvisus ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 250–3). Jeffreys’s specimen is mentioned …
- … for B. porcatus ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 256). This cirripede is generally found on …
- … that B. amphitrite was not found in British waters (see Living Cirripedia (1854): 241). …
- … is described in Living Cirripedia (1854): 261–8. In the section ‘Range, habits, &c. ’, …
- … is described in Living Cirripedia (1854): 225–6. Jeffreys’s specimen was the largest CD …
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 17 November 1854
Summary
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1854 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1603 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 17 November 1854 …
- … MS-Papers-0083-268) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Nov 1854 Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell …
- … might have colonised the country. In November 1854 he was re-examining the geographical …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] ). CD had visited the Bay of Islands in …
- … Down Bromley Kent Nov. 17 th . 1854 Dear Sir I hope you will excuse the great liberty I …
To John Higgins 18 March [1854]
Summary
Discusses price of a farm.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1560 |
To George Henry Turnbull 28 October [1854]
Summary
CD writes as the Treasurer of the Down Coal and Clothing Club and the Down Friendly Club, requesting subscriptions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Turnbull |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 2 (EH 88206054) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1595 |
To James Smith of Jordanhill 6 February [1848]
Summary
Thanks for present of fossil Balani.
Thanks also for JS’s request to David Landsborough to send barnacle specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Smith of Jordanhill |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1848] |
| Classmark: | Glasgow City Archives (396/TD1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1153F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vol. 5, letter to J. E. Gray, 28 March [1854] and n. …
- … finishing Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and (1854) . David Landsborough . CD attended a council …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Withers, Thomas Henry. 1928–53. Catalogue of …
- … to James Smith of Jordanhill, 28 January [1848] ). See Fossil Cirripedia (1854) , p. 235. …
- … collection to the British Museum in 1854 (see Withers 1928–53 , 2: 5, and Correspondence …
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’ …
To J. D. Hooker [November–December 1854]
Summary
[Recto:] CD defines "aberrant genus".
[Verso:] JDH’s list of families, [presumably] with aberrant genera, and [presumably] the number of species in each genus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Nov–Dec 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1596 |
To ? 16 August [1854–8]
Summary
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1854-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1578A |
To Edward Forbes 23 January [1852?]
Summary
Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1852?] |
| Classmark: | Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin, QH365 .O2 1859) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Bibliography 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. …
- … and the Isle of Wight in Living Cirripedia (1854): 296–8. He included short descriptions …
- … and Verrrucidae in Living Cirripedia (1854) because at this stage he was unsure that the …
- … those thanked in the preface of Fossil Cirripedia (1854) for having provided specimens. …
To John Lubbock [September 1854]
Summary
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [Sept 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1585 |
To Robert Hunt 22 July [1855]
Summary
Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 22 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1727 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Hunt, Robert. 1854. Researches on light in its chemical relations; embracing …
- … in its chemical relations , 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments …
- … Letter from Robert Hunt, 19 July 1855 . R. Hunt 1854 . R. …
- … Hunt 1854 , pp. 215–47. These pages are annotated in CD’s copy; on p. 237, CD noted: ‘ …
To J. E. Gray 28 [June 1848]
Summary
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 28 [June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1187 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Ranzani 1820 , cited in Living Cirripedia (1854): 5, 272, 329 …
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 10, 37. Conchotrya and Brisnæus are listed as synonyms for …
- … are described in Living Cirripedia (1854): 483–91. The synonym Octomeris stutchburii is …
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Gray, John Edward. 1825. A synopsis of …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Ranzani, Camillo. 1820. Osservazioni su i …
To J. D. Hooker 7 July [1854]
Summary
CD’s view requires only that ancient organisms resemble embryological stages of existing ones. Thus "highness" in plants is difficult to evaluate because they have no larval stages. Would compare highest members of two groups, rather than archetype, to determine which group was higher. Against Forbes’s polarity and parallelism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 July [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 7 July [1854] …
- … DAR 114: 123 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 July [1854] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Petitpierre. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1854. Principles of comparative physiology. 4th …
- … number was incorrect. In Living Cirripedia (1854): 528 n. , CD quoted a passage from this …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 June 1854] ). For CD’s view of archetypes, see letter …
- … Carpenter addressed this issue in Carpenter 1854 . On a slip attached to his copy of this …
To A. C. Ramsay 22 November [1854]
Summary
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1606 |
From William Thompson 29 September 1848
Summary
Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.
| Author: | William Thompson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1848 |
| Classmark: | Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3 William Thompson 29 Sept 1848 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 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. …
- … s letter, CD recorded ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 273): Mr. Thompson goes on to say, that …
- … or another letter ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 272): I am informed by Mr. Thompson, that …
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1834–40. Histoire …
- … work in Natural History. ’ In Living Cirripedia (1854): 107, CD wrote ‘With regard to the …
- … abilities. CD dedicated Living Cirripedia (1854) to Milne-Edwards, ‘with the most sincere …
- … 2d ser. 19: 34–86. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … notion is expressed in Living Cirripedia (1854): 107–8 n. : ‘A far more tenable view is …
- … was repeated in Living Cirripedia (1854): 106, 580. CD and Dana had earlier disagreed …
- … also letter to J. D. Dana, 8 May [1852] . Living Cirripedia (1854): 106–8 and nn. Dana’s …
- … on CD’s list of presentation copies of Living Cirripedia (1854) (MS attached to CD’ …
- … s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) in the Cambridge University Library). Dana had earlier …
- … 25 November [1852] ). Living Cirripedia (1854) was noticed in American Journal of Science …
- … in Madeira on 18 December. On 18 February 1854 they landed in Tenerife and remained in the …
- … 1, p. 9) and CD ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 565 n. ) had reservations about using these …
From Thomas Vernon Wollaston 2 March [1855]
Summary
Hybrid insects.
Description of the Salvages.
Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.
Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1640 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … arithmetic and the ‘principle of divergence’, 1854–1858. Journal of the History of Biology …
- … s Insecta Maderensia ( Wollaston 1854 ) in the first months of 1855 ( Correspondence …
- … 1855. ’ CD’s extensive notes on Wollaston 1854 are in DAR 197.1 and 197.2. CD frequently …
- … necessarily encompassing Spain ( Wollaston 1854 , pp. xiii–xiv). Wollaston described his …
- … species (p. ix). The concluding sentence of the introduction to Wollaston 1854 , p. xviii. …
- … John Murray. 1859. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1854. Insecta Maderensia; being an account of …
- … between the Harpalides and Chlœniidea ( Wollaston 1854 , pp. 22–3). CD’s reference is to …
- … and Calathus complanatus in Wollaston 1854 , p. 25. Wollaston’s collection of four …
- … of Dezerta Grande in the Madeiras ( Wollaston 1854 , p. 25). CD had evidently counted the …
- … of Funchal is described in Wollaston 1854 , p. 501. Richard Thomas Lowe , a friend and …
- … abundant individually of all with which we are concerned. ’ ( Wollaston 1854 , p. xiii). …
- … Actually Wollaston 1854 , pp. 483–4, with reference to the taxonomic position of the …
- … a tendency to be wingless ( Wollaston 1854 , p. xii). CD discussed the origin of apterous …
- … on apterous beetles are cited from Wollaston 1854 in Origin , pp. 135–6. Wollaston, like …
- … grand and comprehensive idea. ’ ( Wollaston 1854 , p. xiii). The island of Porto Santo. CD …
To Francis Galton 28 May [1854]
Summary
Discusses how Fuegians and other primitive peoples light fires.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 28 May [1854] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1881 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Francis Galton 28 May [1854] …
- … Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 May [1854] Francis Galton …
- … 1854 is the most likely year for this letter as the information was probably requested by …
- … in England only between March and 6 August 1854 before the publication of Galton 1855 . A …
To John Edward Gray [January 1851]
Summary
Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | [Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1383 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … in the letter. Spengler 1790 . CD cited this work in Fossil Cirripedia (1854) and in …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854) . CD had requested permission from the trustees of the British …
- … perhaps why CD wished to examine Cocks’s collection (see Living Cirripedia (1854): 196). …
- … University Press. 1985–. 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 …
- … etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Spengler, Lorenz. 1790. Beskrivelse og …
To Williams & Norgate 16 February [1861]
Summary
Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Library King’s R d . Chelsea; & C. J. Culliford 22 Southampton St r , Strand 1854. —” …
- … Bibliography Ferguson, George. 1854. Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize …
- … poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854). …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, Supplement). Ferguson 1854 . Williams & Norgate did send a copy, …
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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
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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 …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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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 …
