From J. D. Hooker 7 December 1856
Summary
Has done New Zealand flora calculations. Results support CD’s theory of necessity of crossing. Trees tend to have separate sexes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2014 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 7 December 1856 …
- … DAR 100: 113–14 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 7 Dec 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … was published in Edinburgh Review 104 (1856): 490–518. The author was George Bentham ( …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 December [1856] . The list, in the back of CD’s copy of the …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
From S. P. Woodward [15 July 1856]
Summary
Lists Lusitanian shells with wide ranges beyond that geographical province.
Antiquity and elevation of land mass is more important than latitude for the distribution of shells.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 July 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1928 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From S. P. Woodward [15 July 1856] …
- … DAR 205.3: 305 Samuel Pickworth Woodward unstated [15 July 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … the letter from S. P. Woodward, 15 July 1856 , Woodward intended to compile this list on …
- … see letter to S. P. Woodward, 18 July 1856 ). The list expands on the information given …
- … Champlain. Paddington Canal! An. N. H. June 1856— Valvata piscinalis , Brit. Sweden + …
From John Henry Gurney 2 July 1856
Summary
Hybrids of Phasianus versicolor breed freely between themselves as well as with common pheasants. Has been assured that hybrids between mallards and pintails are sometimes fertile inter se.
| Author: | John Henry Gurney |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1916 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Henry Gurney 2 July 1856 …
- … 165: 259 John Henry Gurney London, Palace Gardens, 24 2 July 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … No 24 Palace Gardens | Kensington 2 July 1856 Sir M r C Buxton has forwarded to me your …
From H. C. Watson 20 June 1856
Summary
Conveys [? J. T. I. Boswell-]Syme’s opinion of variability of agrarian weeds and ranges of species common to U. S. and W. Europe. The Hispano-Hibernian connection.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1907 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From H. C. Watson 20 June 1856 …
- … DAR 181: 34 Hewett Cottrell Watson Thames Ditton 20 June 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Thames Ditton June 20. 1856 My dear Sir The title page of my ‘Remarks on Geogr. Distr. …
- … Watson 1843 ). See letter from H. C. Watson, 10 June 1856 , and letter to H. …
- … C. Watson, [after 10 June 1856] . CD appended a note in the manuscript of Natural …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
From John Davy 10 January 1856
Summary
On the vitality of the ova of the Salmonidae at different stages of development.
| Author: | John Davy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1856 |
| Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 8 (1856–7): 27–33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1819A |
From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856] …
- … 205.9: 403 Samuel Pickworth Woodward unstated [after 4 June 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to S. P. Woodward, [after 4 June 1856] . This note supplements the answers given …
- … letter to S. P. Woodward, [after 4 June 1856] (see CD’s annotations). The page references …
From J. D. Hooker 9 November 1856
Summary
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 105–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1983 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 9 November 1856 …
- … DAR 100: 105–10 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 9 Nov 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [16 October 1856] ). The manuscript is now in DAR 14. Hooker’ …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … p. 541. CD visited London on 13 November 1856 to attend a meeting of the Philosophical …
- … of the Geological Society on 5 November 1856. In the paper ( Owen 1857a ), Owen made it …
- … here for clarity. They had been received by CD by 15 November 1856 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 November [1856] ). The notes are in DAR 100: 109–10. Note A was presumably …
From John Obadiah Westwood 23 November 1856
Summary
The Kentucky cave insects (Adelops) are evidently identical to European species of the same genus, some of which are cave insects, others found in damp, dark places.
| Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1998 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From John Obadiah Westwood 23 November 1856 …
- … DAR 205.3: 297 John Obadiah Westwood Hammersmith 23 Nov 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1851 and Silliman 1851 . See letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . Lacordaire 1854–75 . Schiödte [1849] was translated and read …
- … Jno O Westwood Hammersmith | 23 Nov r . 1856 Lepdoderus Hohenwarti (Coleopt? new Fam. ) —— …
From H. C. Watson 5 June 1856
Summary
Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.
Variability of agrarian weeds.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1891 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From H. C. Watson 5 June 1856 …
- … DAR 181: 32 Hewett Cottrell Watson Thames Ditton 5 June 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Thames Ditton June 5 th 1856 My dear Sir Allow me to suppose your letter divisible into …
- … also letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 , n. 10. Watson refers to the three editions …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] . See the second part of the letter, following …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … that he had read Watson 1835 on 15 June 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
From George Bentham 2 December [1856]
Summary
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: A75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From George Bentham 2 December [1856] …
- … DAR 111: A75–6 George Bentham London, Victoria St, 91 2 Dec [1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to George Bentham, 30 November [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6). Bentham left the …
- … 6, letter to George Bentham, 30 November [1856] ). Ononis minutissima is pygmy restharrow; …
From Thomas Davidson 29 December 1856
Summary
His experience confirms CD’s view that some species and even some genera of Brachiopoda are consistently more variable than others, and that such variable forms are variable in all localities and at all periods. Similarly a species that shows a lack of variability does so at all points in time and space. Discusses the causes of variability. [See Natural selection, p. 106.]
| Author: | Thomas Davidson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2024 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Thomas Davidson 29 December 1856 …
- … DAR 162: 116 Thomas Davidson Brighton 29 Dec 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 48 Park Crescent | Brighton. 29. Dec. 1856. Dear Sir I beg to thank you for your kind note …
- … letter to Thomas Davidson, 23 December [1856] . Davidson’s information was cited by CD in …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
From Edward Blyth [c. 22 March 1856]
Summary
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: 133–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Edward Blyth [ c . 22 March 1856] …
- … DAR 98: 133–9 Edward Blyth Calcutta [c. 22 Mar 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur. [Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856. ] …
- … by Joseph de Guignes. ] Paris. Owen, Richard. 1856. Description of a fossil cranium of the …
- … hybrid. ’ See letter from Edward Blyth, 23 February 1856 and n. 11. Hermann Schlegel was …
- … Museum of the Netherlands in Leiden. Owen 1856 . The fossil ox was discovered by John …
- … W. E. Darwin, [25 April 1855] ). In August 1856, he began crossing all his kinds ‘to see …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 30 August [1856] ). The records of his crosses are in DAR …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 8 January [1856] . Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1855a . Bonaparte …
From Edward Blyth 26 February 1856
Summary
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A126–A127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1833 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 26 February 1856 …
- … DAR 98: A126–A127 Edward Blyth Calcutta 26 Feb 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Letter from Edward Blyth, 23 February 1856 . See …
- … letter from Edward Blyth, 23 February 1856 , n. 7. Blyth’s salary as curator of the …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 8 January 1856 . Chesney 1850 , 1: 442. Cuvier 1834–6 , 7: …
From W. D. Fox 8 March [1856]
Summary
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1646 |
Matches: 4 hits
From H. C. Watson 10 June 1856
Summary
Evidence relevant to E. Forbes’s land-bridge theory.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1898 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From H. C. Watson 10 June 1856 …
- … DAR 181: 33 Hewett Cottrell Watson Thames Ditton 10 June 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see the letter from H. C. Watson, 5 June 1856 . Watson refers to Edward Forbes’s views …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
From J. D. Hooker 7 May 1856
Summary
Non-endemic Ascension Island plants brought by man, not wind-transported.
Bentham has found intermediates between oxlip and cowslip in Herefordshire.
JDH finds quantity of albumen in seeds is not variable within a species.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1869 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 7 May 1856 …
- … DAR 100: 94–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 7 May 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Suppl. to n.s. 1: 1-200. Forbes, Edward. 1856. Map of the distribution of marine life, …
- … the letter to C. J. F. Bunbury [before 9 May 1856] . Probably Edward Forbes’s ‘Map of the …
- … Johnston’s Physical atlas ( E. Forbes 1856 ). In a manuscript list headed ‘Kerguelan …
- … Club (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1856] ). Huxley was not elected, however, until …
From John Richardson 17 July 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about the geographical distribution of freshwater fishes.
| Author: | John Richardson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1929 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Richardson 17 July 1856 …
- … DAR 205.3: 285 John Richardson Grasmere 17 July 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … Lancrigg— Grasmere | Westmoreland 17 July 1856 Dear Sir The Common Pike and Salmon are the …
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856] …
- … DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 Edward Blyth Calcutta 8 Jan [1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 2 vols. London. Hodgson, Brian Houghton. 1856. On a new perdicine bird from Tibet. Journal …
- … letter 1855, this was clearly a mistake for 1856. The content of the letter indicates that …
- … also indicate the letter was written in 1856. CD began his correspondence with Blyth in …
- … in 1869. J. Gould 1850–83 . By January 1856, seven parts of this work had been published. …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … variation attained up to this present time (1856). Those first brought, says he, were all …
- … W. Crump to Edward Blyth, [before 8 January 1856]. Thomas Horsfield , keeper of the East …
- … recorded having read the work on 11 May 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, *128: …
- … volume eight ‘on Pigeons & Fowls’ in March 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … to rank both as distinct species … Hodgson 1856 . Rüppell 1845, p. 106, in which Rüppell …
- … Crump to Edward Blyth, [before 8 January 1856] . James Brooke was raja of Saráwak, Borneo. …
- … recorded having read this work in March 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
- … also letter from Edward Blyth , [ c . 22 March 1856] and n. 2. Chesney 1850 , 1: 731–2: ‘ …
From Laurence Edmondston [before 3 May 1856]
Summary
The vaunted fidelity of the ark bird has its exceptions.
Gives some details on wild pigeons.
Answers in the affirmative CD’s query about drifted trees.
| Author: | Laurence Edmondston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 May 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1865 |
From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
| Author: | Thomas Hutton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
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Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
Matches: 21 hits
- … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s …
- … Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker, who were joined in 1856 by Hooker’s friend the American …
- … only source of information about his preoccupations during 1856 and 1857. They reveal little noticed …
- … might work in nature ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, n. 10 ). He was surprised that no …
- … remarked to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] ). I mean to make my …
- … on plants. Expanding projects set up during 1855 and 1856 (see Correspondence vol. 5), he tried …
- … first two chapters of his species book, completed by October 1856 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … Gray, vary in the United States ( letter to Asa Gray, 2 May 1856 )? What about weeds? Did they …
- … hermaphrodite’ ( letter to to T. H. Huxley, 1 July [1856] ), which became a source of amusement in …
- … that Asa Gray and Hooker confirmed during the course of 1856. Science at home: the botanical …
- … many different experiments on plants through the summers of 1856 and 1857, particularly with garden …
- … have grown well.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1856] ). His faith in his ideas …
- … trees (see letters to William Erasmus Darwin, [26 February 1856] and to Charles Lyell, 3 May …
- … Waring Darwin, the sixth and last, was born on 6 December 1856) was a constant worry, particularly …
- … in New South Wales ( letter to Syms Covington, 9 March 1856 ). Many other topics, …
- … the geological phenomenon of cleavage, still unresolved in 1856, with John Phillips and entered into …
- … visited the Darwins at Down House for several days in April 1856, and Darwin took this opportunity …
- … made in a letter written by Lyell from London on 1–2 May 1856. Darwin took the suggestion seriously …
- … him to write up his views ( letters to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1856] ). Darwin had also …
- … At a second weekend party held at Down on 26 and 27 April 1856, he had discussed the question of …
- … doctrine.’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, n. 7 ). The excitement and intellectual …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Matches: 4 hits
- … were built to the area (Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 8 April [1856] ). This meant that most of the …
- … family duties (Darwin to W. B. Tegetmeier, 19 November [1856] ) made him unable to travel to many …
- … his son William, [30 October 1858] ). In one letter in 1856, he explained his paternal feelings …
- … in this world.’ (Darwin to Syms Covington, 9 March 1856 ) In the late nineteenth century, …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Origin
Summary
Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
Summary
Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
Summary
Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s …
- … as Natural selection ). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by June 1858. At …
- … 2 13 October 1856 [Variation under domestication] [2] …
- … 11 13 October 1856 Geographical distribution (DAR 14; …
- … 3 16 December 1856 On the possibility of all organic …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … research notes, including letters going back to at least 1856 . Among them were accounts of …
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
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- … undefinable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). The idea that sterility was a test …
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: 27 hits
- … [DAR *128: 160] Mansfield’s Paraguay [Mansfield 1856] } read Chesterton Prison Life …
- … Hutchison Dog Breaking 3 d . Edit [Hutchinson 1856] new information on Pointer & Retriever …
- … Annal des Sc. Nat. 4 th Series. Bot. Vol 6 [Naudin 1856]. Read Notes to Jardine & …
- … 1855 Sept. Tegetmeier on Poultry [Tegetmeier 1856–7] —— 27 th . Mem. de l’Acad. …
- … Das Ganze der Landwirttschaft [Kirchhof 1835].— 1856. Jan 10 th G. Colin Traite de …
- … [Rudolphi 1812] [DAR 128: 16] 1856 Jan 21. Huc’s Chinese Empire [Huc …
- … Mar 1 Veith Naturgeschichte Haussaugethiere [Veith 1856].— 3 d Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R …
- … 1741–55] d[itt]o [DAR 128: 17] 1856 . Jan 28. Watt’s Life by Muirhead …
- … [Pepys 1848–9]— April 21 Sandwitt Kars [Sandwith 1856]. [DAR 128: 18] March …
- … 1851–6] —— Wollaston on Variation [Wollaston 1856] F. Smith on Apidæ [F. Smith 1855] …
- … 1835 [H. C. Watson 1835] [DAR 128: 20] 1856 June 26. Davis J. Barnard. …
- … 1855] —— 19 Von Tschudi Alpine life [Tschudi 1856] 30. Brehm Handbuch Vogel …
- … 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami [Andersson 1856] —— 26 Slightly skimmed Forbes …
- … 1765] Oct. 23. Tracings of Iceland Chambers [Chambers 1856]. —— Mansfield Travels in …
- … 2 vols July D r . Kane’s Arctic Voyage [Kane 1856] Sept. 12. Ch. Napiers Life …
- … rubbish yet amusing Nov. 15. Tender & True [Spence] 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [1854–6] …
- … Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very interesting. …
- … —— 16 Zoologist [ Zoologist ]. up Vol. 14. 1856 May 9 th Voyage au Pol. Sud. Consid. Gen …
- … 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted 1856] (excellent) March 21. Mill on Liberty …
- … The revised edition of Johnston’s Physical atlas (1856) included ‘Map of the distribution of …
- … 113 The Cottage Gardener ceased publication in 1856. 114 CD marked this entry …
- … vols. London. 119: 14a Andersson, Carl Johan. 1856. Lake Ngami; or, explorations and …
- … [Darwin Library.] 119: 20a; *128: 173 ——. 1856. Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 9a Chesterton, George Laval. 1856. Revelations of prison life; …
- … 128: 5 Davis, Joseph Barnard and Thurnam, John. 1856–65. Crania Britannica. …
- … Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853, 1854, 1856 . London. 128: 24 …
- … . Lundæ. *119: 5v. Froude, James Anthony. 1856. History of England from the fall of …
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…
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- … naturalist Edward Forbes. Darwin declared to Hooker in July 1856 ‘y ou continental extensionists …
- … of his old friend, the geologist Charles Lyell, who, in May 1856, twenty months after Darwin had …
- … urgency to publish and, following Lyell’s advice in May 1856, began to write a sketch his theory. ‘I …
- … without full details. ’ Writing to his cousin Fox in June 1856, Darwin openly confessed his fears …
- … work ’ he had ‘desisted’. By November 1856, he had both good and bad news to report to Lyell: ‘ …
- … press. Although Darwin had decided in the autumn of 1856 to write only from the materials he …
- … wrote ten and a half chapters of his Big Book between May 1856 and June 1858. With a total of …
- … length ’, he had complained to Hooker in December 1856. By mid-1858, only the first chapter on …
- … being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858 (Cambridge University …
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…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … of the human form’, Quarterly Review , 99:198 (Sept. 1856), pp. 452-491. Joseph Simms, Nature’s …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to me’ ( letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 24 June [1856] ). In a follow-up letter, Darwin hinted at …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … it was the subject of his first scientific paper (Müller 1856). In the autumn of 1855, Müller …
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 1979 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 27 Oct [1856] Darwin provides detailed …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
Tenth child born
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The Darwins' tenth and last child, Charles Waring Darwin, is born
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- … The Darwins' tenth and last child, Charles Waring Darwin, is born …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … work preparing his ‘big book’ on species. Begun in May 1856 at the urging of Lyell, the manuscript …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … `big book’, Natural selection , begun in 1856. Coming hard on the heels of The descent of man …
