To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To ? 9 October [1856] …
- … University (Autograph File, D) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Oct [1856] Unidentified …
- … molluscs, as expressed in the letters to P. H. Gosse, 28 September 1856 , and to J. …
- … D. Dana, 29 September [1856]. CD had probably requested eggs of land molluscs (see letter …
- … to W. D. Fox, 3 October [1856] ). His experiments on the possible means of transport of …
- … Mollusca in salt water, begun in October 1856, are recorded in his Experimental book (DAR …
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856]
Summary
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
Date: | 3 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1848 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856] …
- … MS-Papers-0083-268) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Apr [1856] Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell …
- … letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 21 April [1856] . CD’s questions and Mantell’s answers have …
- … letter to W. B. D. Mantell, 10 April [1856] . In Variation 2: 161 n. 65, CD stated: ‘the …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … letter to W. B. D. Mantell, 10 April [1856] , was included in the chapter on geographical …
- … the first draft of which was completed in July 1856 (see Natural selection , pp. 532– …
- … 4). Mantell was in England between 1856 and 1859. See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 23 August [1856]
Summary
Instructions for delivering pigeons to Down.
Has Scandaroons for WBT.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 23 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1943 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 23 August [1856] …
- … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Aug [1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 August [1856] and [15– …
- … 22 August 1856] . Tegetmeier’s letter has not been found. He had apparently told CD that …
- … to him. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [15–22 August 1856] . See letter to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 24 June [1856] . …
To T. C. Eyton 27 [August 1856]
Summary
Asks about strains of Herefordshire cattle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 27 [Aug 1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.136) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1946 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To T. C. Eyton 27 [August 1856] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.136) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 [Aug 1856] Thomas Campbell Eyton …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to T. C. Eyton, 21 August [1856] and …
- … 31 August [1856] . Eyton had published The herd book of Hereford cattle (Eyton 1846[–53]). …
- … See letter to T. C. Eyton, 31 August [1856] . …
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1856]
Summary
Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1969 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 178 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Oct [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] . It is not clear from the correspondence …
- … what seeds CD had requested. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1856] and …
- … 8 September [1856] . …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 November [1856]
Summary
Has received nine skins from Walter Elliot of Madras; WBT may describe them if he wishes.
Expects some Persian fowls.
Can WBT inquire about the fertility of certain duck hybrids?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1981 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 November [1856] …
- … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Nov [1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 19 October [1856] . Eaton 1852 . CD’s annotated copy is in …
- … Library–CUL. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 19 November [1856] . See letter to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 21 September [1856] . In the …
- … 11 November issue of the Cottage Gardener 17 (1856–7): 103, Tegetmeier reported on the 14 …
- … J. A. H. de Bosquet, [before 3 November 1856] . Samuel Bult was a leading pigeon fancier …
- … poultry sale was to take place on Tuesday, 4 November 1856 ( Gardeners’ Chronicle and …
- … Agricultural Gazette , 25 October 1856, p. 719). Catalogues for the sale were available …
To W. D. Fox 15 March [1856]
Summary
Believes WDF’s case of mongrel Scotch deerhound is very valuable for him.
Mentions his work on pigeons and chickens.
Fears sometimes he will break down: "My subject gets bigger and bigger".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 15 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1843 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. D. Fox 15 March [1856] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 97) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Mar [1856] William Darwin Fox …
- … Shropshire Infirmary and CD’s brother-in-law, had died in January 1856 ( Eddowes Salopian …
- … Journal , 16 January 1856, p. 5). …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 8 March [1856] , in which Fox related his view that the …
- … See letter to Samuel Birch, [12 March 1856] . The alula is the ‘bastard-wing’ of birds, …
- … See letter to W. D. Fox, 8 March [1856] and n. 7. CD’s series of young pigeons was …
- … entries in CD’s reading notebooks for March 1856 relating to early ornithological works. …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 March [1856] ). The differences in the number of ribs is …
From T. V. Wollaston [early November 1856]
Summary
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2030 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From T. V. Wollaston [early November 1856] …
- … DAR 181: 138 Thomas Vernon Wollaston unstated [early Nov 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … John van Voorst. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the variation of species with especial …
- … book, p. 17 (DAR 157a) on 30 November 1856. CD had apparently requested further details …
- … characters of variation’, of Wollaston 1856 . The ‘opus diab[olicus]’ is Wollaston 1854 . …
- … to be joined was discussed in Wollaston 1856 , pp. 96–7, and Natural selection , pp. …
- … from T. V. Wollaston, [11 or 18 December 1856] . The ‘Q’ stands for quoted. CD used this …
To Charles Lyell 3 May [1856]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing a sketch of his views.
Comments on CL’s letter [1862].
Mentions various geological topics.
Asks to borrow publication by Heer.
Mentions flight of Colymbetes over ocean.
Recalls visit by Wollaston.
Notes views of Hooker and Huxley on species.
Mentions ability of ducks to transport plant seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 May [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1866 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 3 May [1856] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.127) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 May [1856] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 . See …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 21 April [1856] . Heer 1855 . …
- … See letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 . CD mentioned this case in Origin , p. 386. …
- … letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 and n. 7). CD further debated the pros and cons …
- … outline of his theory with J. D. Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1856] and …
- … 11 May [1856] ) before he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice writing species sketch’ on 14 May (‘ …
- … Appendix II). CD went to London on 5 May 1856. On Tuesday, 6 May, he read a paper at the …
- … see letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 February 1856] ). The case referred to here was of seeds …
To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856]
Summary
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1991 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 183 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Nov [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 (see n. 2, below). A letter to …
- … from Asa Gray , sent by Gray to CD enclosed in the letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [16 November 1856] . This experiment was recorded in CD’s Experimental book, …
To Thomas Henry Huxley 2 April [1856]
Summary
Invitation to THH and wife to come to Down to meet H. C. Watson, T. V. Wollaston, and the Hookers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1847 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Thomas Henry Huxley 2 April [1856] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 46) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Apr [1856] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … On Physiology and Comparative Anatomy’, was advertised for 22 April 1856 ( Medical Times & …
- … Gazette 12 (1856): 404). CD was subsequently invited to attend the lecture (see letter …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1856] ). …
- … wife Frances arrived at Down on 22 April 1856. Thomas Vernon Wollaston came on 25 April …
- … of lectures on physiology and comparative anatomy in 1856 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 138). …
To Edward Cresy 26 [December 1843 – April 1846 or September 1855 – October 1860?]
Summary
Says Hooker does not want plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1843 - Apr 1846 or Sept 1855 - Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13787 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 26 Mar 1846 26 Apr 1846 26 Sept 1855 26 Oct 1855 26 Nov 1855 26 Dec 1855 26 Jan 1856 26 …
- … Feb 1856 26 …
- … Mar 1856 26 …
- … Apr 1856 26 …
- … May 1856 26 …
- … June 1856 26 …
- … July 1856 26 …
- … Aug 1856 26 …
- … Sept 1856 26 …
- … Oct 1856 26 …
- … Nov 1856 26 …
- … Dec 1856 26 Jan 1857 26 Feb 1857 26 Mar 1857 26 Apr 1857 26 May 1857 26 June 1857 26 July …
To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1856]
Summary
Arrangements for visit of Huxleys to Down on 26 Apr.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1852 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1856] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 33) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Apr [1856] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 April [1856] and the letter to …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker, 8 April [1856] . See letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 2 April [1856] , n. 2, for the members of the party staying at Down House. …
- … joined them for dinner on 26 April. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 April [1856] , n. 3. …
To Thomas Davidson 23 December [1856]
Summary
Asks TD about variation among brachiopods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Davidson |
Date: | 23 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2021 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Thomas Davidson 23 December [1856] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.142) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Dec [1856] Thomas Davidson …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … See letter from Thomas Davidson, 29 December 1856 . In Natural selection , p. 106, CD …
- … Prof. E. Forbes & from Mr. Woodward. ’ See letters from S. P. Woodward, 2 May 1856 and …
- … 15 July 1856 . …
- … letter from Thomas Davidson, 29 December 1856 . Davidson was a fellow of the Geological …
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856 …
- … 475 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London, Harley St, 53 17 June 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 53 Harley St. , Lond. , June 17, 1856. My dear Darwin I wonder you did not also mention …
- … Sharpe 1856 , which had been read on 5 December 1855. …
- … Daniel Sharpe had died on 31 May 1856. …
- … Sharpe 1856 , pp. 118–23. The map given in the second volume of C. Lyell 1830–3 , facing …
- … 3 vols. London: John Murray. Sharpe, Daniel. 1856. On the last elevation of the Alps; with …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 25 June [1856] ). McAndrew 1854. CD had corresponded with …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 25 June [1856] . Lyell evidently considered his questions to …
- … Irish Academy 6: 354–5. Haughton, Samuel. 1856. Discussion of tidal observations made by …
- … is childish (see the Anniversary Address, 1856). But how far you are at liberty to call up …
- … was entirely covered by shallow seas. Haughton 1856 , pp. 137–9, read on 24 April 1854. …
To Charles Lyell 16 [June 1856]
Summary
Condemns theory of Edward Forbes and others that many islands were formerly connected to South America by now submerged continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1902 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 16 [June 1856] …
- … Mss.B.D25.131) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 [June 1856] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … of great antiquity in letter to S. P. Woodward, 27 May 1856 . See also letter from S. …
- … P. Woodward, 4 June 1856 . Webb and Berthelot 1836–50; …
- … Heer 1855 (see letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 ); and Maury 1855a . …
- … see letter from Charles Lyell, 17 June 1856 ). E. Forbes 1846 , pp. 348–50, 382–3, and …
To E. W. V. Harcourt 12 June [1856]
Summary
Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.
Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 12 June [1856] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 252–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1900F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To E. W. V. Harcourt 12 June [1856] …
- … 346, fols. 252–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 June [1856] Edward William Vernon Harcourt …
- … ser. 15: 430–8. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the variation of species with especial …
- … Harcourt’s reply to CD’s letter of 1 June [1856] (this volume, Supplement) has not been …
- … vol. 6, letter from E. W. V. Harcourt, 31 May 1856 . CD had recently read Thomas Vernon …
- … especial reference to the Insecta ( Wollaston 1856 ; see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to …
- … T. V. Wollaston, 6 June [1856] ). Wollaston had discussed …
- … of isolation on islands ( Wollaston 1856 , pp. 70–88); he concluded that isolation, after …
- … DAR 71: 87–8. John Gould . See Wollaston 1856 , p. 102. CD’s letter to Nathaniel Haslope …
From Charles Lyell 1–2 May 1856
Summary
Urges CD to publish his theory with small part of data.
Corrects names of land shells on list of shells picked up at Down.
Discusses transport of Ancylus from one river-bed to another by water-beetle.
"I hear that when you & Hooker & Huxley & Wollaston got together you made light of all Species & grew more & more unorthodox."
Mentions discussion of old Atlantis by Oswald Heer.
Comments on Helix and Nanina.
Mentions beetle discovered with small bag of eggs of water-spider under wing.
Madeira evidence favours single species birth-place theory.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1–2 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1862 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From Charles Lyell 1–2 May 1856 …
- … DAR 205.3: 282 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated 1–2 May 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … had visited the Darwins from 13 to 16 April 1856 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Lyell’s list of …
- … May 1. 1856. My dear Darwin As I sent you a list of the land-shells picked up at Down when …
- … Mollusca, living and fossil’ in February 1856. Ancylus fluviatilis was included among the …
- … see letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 April [1856] , n. 2). Lyell had evidently heard about the …
- … pp. 56–7). In a letter of 30 April 1856 to Charles James Fox Bunbury , Lyell stated: ‘ …
- … 2: 212). CD made notes, dated 28 April 1856, on his conversation with Wollaston. These …
- … are preserved in DAR 197.2, together with further notes dated 8 May 1856. In …
- … a letter to Lyell dated 12 May 1856 (F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Middle life 2: 391–2), …
- … CD recorded having read Heer 1855 on 7 August 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … notes on this conversation, dated 16 April 1856 and headed ‘With Darwin: On the Formation …
- … p. 54). In a letter to Bunbury, 30 April 1856 (see n. 7, above), Lyell again discussed …
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856 …
- … DAR 205.3: 304 Samuel Pickworth Woodward British Museum 15 July 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his copy, CD reread the work in October 1856. Louis Agassiz believed in the multiple …
- … Brit. M. July 15 th 1856. Dear Sir Your question was answ d . almost by express …
- … similar to that posed in the letters to H. C. Watson, [after 10 June 1856] , and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 22 June [1856], in which he asked whether species common to both Europe and …
- … the Zoological Society of London on 8 July 1856. Woodward had attempted to ascertain which …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … See letter from S. P. Woodward, [15 July 1856] . Gérard Paul Deshayes . Hugh Cuming owned …
- … Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 18 (1856): 74–5. Harvey 1854 , published by John Van …
From Asa Gray 23 September 1856
Summary
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1959 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Asa Gray 23 September 1856 …
- … DAR 165: 94 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 23 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Humphrey Milford. 1928–95. Gray, Asa. 1856–7. Statistics of the flora of the northern …
- … Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 23 d . 1856. My Dear Mr. Darwin D r . Engelmann, of St. Louis, …
- … DAB ). See letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . ‘Maruta=Anthemis’ was written in pencil in …
- … Mountains to Oregon and California. In 1856 he was the Republican nominee in the American …
- … presidential elections. A. Gray 1856–7 , the first part …
- … of which appeared in September 1856. CD’s annotated copy is in DAR 135 ( …
- … 3). See letter to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] , for CD’s response to this information. …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
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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
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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…
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- … 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
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Origin
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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
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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.
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- … 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
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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…
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- … 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
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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…
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- … research notes, including letters going back to at least 1856 . Among them were accounts of …
Species and varieties
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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
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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…
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- … [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…
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…
Begins 'Natural Selection'
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Darwin begins writing his 'big book', Natural Selection. The book was never finished, but later formed the basis for On the Origin of Species
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- … Darwin begins writing his 'big book', Natural Selection. The book was never finished, but …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …