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: …
To J. D. Dana 29 September [1856]
Summary
Thanks JDD for replies to queries [in 1925]; would like to know whether teeth of cave rat are of New or Old World type.
Wishes Louis Agassiz would publish his theory of parallels of geological and embryological development. "I wish to believe but have not seen nearly enough as yet to make me a disciple."
Is working hard on variations and origin of species, but fears it will be a couple of years before he publishes.
Describes his recent work on rabbits and pigeons.
The dispersal of land Mollusca is a most difficult problem.
Confesses he is sceptical of immutability of species; discusses difficulty of proving it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1964 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Dana 29 September [1856] …
- … Buchanan was elected. See letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 9 September [1856] and n. 3. …
- … Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 Sept [1856] James Dwight Dana …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … by the relationship to the letter from J. D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . Letter from J. …
- … D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . In the manuscript of his species book, CD stated that Dana …
- … p. 556). In his letter of 8 September 1856 Dana expressed doubt whether it was possible …
- … his scientific journals (Wilson ed. 1970). The 1856 presidential elections of the United …
- … See also letter to P. H. Gosse, 28 September 1856 . [Chambers] 1844 . Lyell’s prolonged …
From Bernard Peirce Brent [after August 1856]
Summary
On his breeding of Jacobin pigeons. How reciprocal crosses to produce mules work among canaries, goldfinches, linnets, and green linnets.
Will soon forward copies of Cottage Gardener for June.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Aug 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2850 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Bernard Peirce Brent [after August 1856] …
- … DAR 160.2: 298 Bernard Peirce Brent unstated [after Aug 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … gave birth to her tenth child on 6 December 1856. William Bernhard Tegetmeier was a mutual …
- … journal between October 1855 and February 1856; his copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … vol. 6, letter to W. D. Fox,3 January [1856] ). CD thanked him in Variation 1: 132 n. …
- … on the birds of Germany in July and August 1856 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … 128: 20; and vol. 6, letters to E. W. V. Harcourt, 19 August [1856] and …
- … 23 August [1856] ). Pistor 1831b . CD owned a copy of C. M. Wilhelm Pistor’s manual of …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 11 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks WBT for help with pigeons and poultry.
Will probably be away at the time of Anerley show.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 11 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1873 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 11 May [1856] …
- … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 May [1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … nn. 3 and 4, below). See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 April [1856] . The poultry and …
- … pigeon show held from 29 July to 1 August 1856 at Anerley Gardens, near the Crystal Palace …
- … to W. D. Fox, 31 July [1855] ). The 1856 show was the last one held because it failed to …
- … health (see letter to W. D. Fox, 8 June [1856] ), so CD was able to attend the Anerley …
- … see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 August [1856] ). Possibly a reference to the fact that …
- … the Anerley show ( Cottage Gardener 16 (1856): 339). No specific use of CD’s name has been …
To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856]
Summary
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11–12 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1986 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 181 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11–12 Nov [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … by the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 . Letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 , in which Hooker invited CD to dinner on Wednesday, 12 …
- … letter to George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin, 13 [November 1856] ). See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [19 October 1856] and n. 2. …
- … CD recorded this case on 19 October 1856 in his Experimental book, p. 15 (DAR 157a). …
From T. V. Wollaston [c. 27 June 1856]
Summary
On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1912A |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From T. V. Wollaston [ c . 27 June 1856] …
- … DAR 205.3: 300 Thomas Vernon Wollaston [c. 27 June 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the variation of species with especial …
- … relationship to the letter from Wollaston, [27 June 1856] (see Calendar number 1912). In …
- … queries that CD posed after reading Wollaston 1856 . Although the letters are incomplete, …
- … was described in detail in Wollaston 1856 , pp. 80–92. He claimed that the ‘annihilation …
- … On page 81 of his copy of Wollaston 1856 (Darwin Library–CUL), CD noted that Wollaston ‘ …
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
Summary
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856 …
- … DAR 205.3: 303 Samuel Pickworth Woodward British Museum 4 June 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … British Museum. June 4 th — 1856. Dear Sir I am sorry you are not coming to the Meeting …
- … 1851–6 , 3: 389). See letter to S. P. Woodward, [after 4 June 1856] . Letter to S. …
- … P. Woodward, 27 May 1856 . William Whewell was the master of Trinity College, Cambridge. …
- … of the Geological Society on 4 June 1856. Daniel Sharpe , president of the Geological …
- … Zoological Societies, had died on 31 May 1856 as a result of a fall from his horse on 20 …
- … see letter from S. P. Woodward, 2 May 1856) . CD had been ‘inclined very much to dispute’ …
- … see letter to S. P. Woodward, 27 May 1856 ). Woodward had used information from CD’s …
To W. D. Fox 8 [June 1856]
Summary
The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.
Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 [June 1856] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1895 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To W. D. Fox 8 [June 1856] …
- … collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 [June 1856] William Darwin Fox …
- … CD’s letter to W. D. Fox, 4 June [1856] , was forwarded to Fox at Harrogate, where he had …
- … on the back of CD’s letter of 4 June [1856] (see n. 1, above), Ellen Sophia Fox mentioned …
- … to Brooke has not been found, but see the letter to Edgar Leopold Layard, 8 June [1856] . …
- … expecting their tenth child, born December 1856. CD and Emma did not go to Tenby in July …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 29 November [1856] . Perhaps from S. Erhardt, who provided …
- … 1: 276–7. Charles Lyell and his wife had visited Down from 13 to 16 April 1856. See …
- … letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 , and letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] . The manuscript of the …
- … of CD’s species book, composed in 1856 and dealing with ‘Variation under domestication’, …
To Laurence Edmondston 11 September [1856]
Summary
Requests observations on pigeons.
Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1954 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Laurence Edmondston 11 September [1856] …
- … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1856] Laurence Edmondston …
- … letter from T. V. Wollaston, [February 1856] ). Thomas Edmondston was accidentally shot …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] . See …
- … letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] , n. 5. …
- … See letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] and n. 3. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] . Measurements of a wild rabbit from the Shetland …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 March [1856]
Summary
Discusses various pigeons and would welcome receiving any odd breed. Some pigeons have died from overeating bag salt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1844 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 March [1856] …
- … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Mar [1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 15 March [1856] . Notes recording the results of CD’s crosses …
- … my list of friends’ ( Cottage Gardener 16 (1856): 73–4). Tegetmeier concluded that ‘it is …
- … vols. Berlin. Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1856. On the remarkable peculiarities existing …
- … s Account book (Down House MS) for 10 March 1856 that reads: ‘Townsend: Skeletons’. There …
- … work for Tegetmeier’s Poultry book (Tegetmeier ed. 1856– 7), the first number of which …
- … was issued in May, or to Tegetmeier 1856 (see n. 8, below). Pallas 1767–80 , pt 4, pp. …
- … of this breed at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 25 November 1856. …
- … In the written report ( Tegetmeier 1856 ) he mentioned Pyotr Simon Pallas’s earlier …
To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856] …
- … DAR 93: A108–A109 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan [1856] John Stevens Henslow …
- … Experimental book (DAR 157a) on 22 January 1856, CD recorded sowing Henslow’s seeds. The …
- … results were recorded in May and June (see letter to J. S. Henslow, 16 June [1856] ). …
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, 3 January [1856] . George Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffordshire, …
- … Henslow, née Stevens, had died on 15 January 1856 at the age of 80. Susannah Darwin had …
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1856]
Summary
CD (and Emma) had a good laugh over JDH’s mortified response to a misinterpretation (in print) concerning his position on multiple creation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 June [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1885 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 164 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … in Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany in seven parts in 1856 ([J. …
- … D. Hooker] 1856). An annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … from M. Adolphe Brongniart. Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1 (1856–7): 313–25. …
- … Griffith 1857 ). Daniel Sharpe died on 31 May 1856 following a riding accident, only a few …
- … Society. CD had gone to London on 29 May 1856 ( Emma Darwin’s diary) and attended a …
- … four localities in London ( Annual Register (1856), Chronicle, p. 116) The final display …
From J. D. Dana 8 September 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1951 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From J. D. Dana 8 September 1856 …
- … 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38 James Dwight Dana New Haven 8 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6). The meeting of the …
- … was held in Albany, New York, from 20 to 28 August 1856. Louis Agassiz . See letter to …
- … J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] and n. 5. The information on fish from the Mammoth Cave, …
- … New Haven, Sept. 8, 1856. My dear Sir:— I received your most welcome letter a few days …
- … 168–78, 349–61. Dana, James Dwight. 1856. On the plan of development in the geological …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … In the letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6), CD had asked for …
- … him. In his letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6), CD had asked …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ). Dana and his wife, Henrietta Frances , …
- … in his letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6). Entomostraca was …
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ( Dana 1856 ); it was also published together with …
- … history’ (New Haven: Ezekial Hayes, 1856). There is an annotated copy of the pamphlet in …
To E. W. V. Harcourt 23 August [1856]
Summary
Has received [C. L.?] Brehm’s work [unspecified]. Will return it in two or three weeks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1856] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4598 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1856]
Summary
Multiple creations.
Necessity for crossing in plants and animals: JDH to take up the subject; explains separate sexes in trees.
Continental extensions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 July [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1932 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 171 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 July [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July [1856] . Hooker was an examiner in botany for the …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July [1856] . CD had asked Hooker to read the manuscript …
- … on species ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July [1856] ). Hooker’s reply has not been found. …
- … was discussed in the letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1856 , and the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 July [1856] . Alphonse de Candolle discussed the need to establish the …
From H. C. Watson 26 November 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s query on Subularia and Limosella. There are discrepancies among authorities on whether Subularia flowers out of water. Limosella certainly flowers out of water.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 207: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2002 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From H. C. Watson 26 November 1856 …
- … DAR 207: 19 Hewett Cottrell Watson Thames Ditton 26 Nov 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from C. C. Babington, 22 November 1856 , n. 1. J. E. Smith 1824–36 , W. J. …
- … British flora. Koch 1843–4 . See letter from C. C. Babington, 22 November 1856 , n. 2. …
- … See letter from George Dickie, 1 December 1856 . George Dickie was professor of natural …
- … Thames Ditton Nov r . 26. 1856 My dear Sir It is some score of years since I gathered the …
To J. D. Hooker [19 October 1856]
Summary
CD sorry he had to leave the Hookers abruptly to catch his train.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [19 Oct 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1977 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [19 October 1856] …
- … DAR 114: 179 Charles Robert Darwin Down [19 Oct 1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … with seed: planted these seeds on 19 th . — See letter to T. C. Eyton, 5 October [1856] . …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 October [1856] ). The experiment, which was carried out in …
- … book, p. 15 (DAR 157a) on19 October 1856: Killed some sparrow *on 14 th [ interl ], one …
From Richard Thomas Lowe 12 April 1856
Summary
Discusses the flora of Porto Santo in relation to that of Madeira. While these islands have some 20 endemic species in common, there are 7 or 8 species endemic to Porto Santo alone, and 25 common to Porto Santo and Europe that are not found on Madeira. Believes the great difference in soil and climate is enough to explain this: plants common on one island cannot be made to grow on the other. Believes J. D. Hooker has underestimated the number of species endemic to Madeira. There are some remarkable endemic species of common plants in the Dezertas.
The eel is the only freshwater fish on Porto Santo and Madeira.
| Author: | Richard Thomas Lowe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1856 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection, Journal I: 132–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1852A |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Richard Thomas Lowe 12 April 1856 …
- … Lyell collection, Journal I: 132–6) Richard Thomas Lowe 12 Apr 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Chrysanthemum haematomma , described in Lowe 1856 , p. 296. It was distinguished from its …
- … visited CD at Down House from 13 to 16 April 1856, and the ‘Migration of Plants & Shells’ …
- … about Madeiran shells, dated 16 April 1856, are in DAR 205.3 (Letters). The date as given …
- … 25, 265–86, 461–79. Lowe, Richard Thomas. 1856. Species Plantarum Maderensium quædam novæ, …
- … Monizia by Lowe and described in Lowe 1856 , pp. 295–6. It comprised only one species, …
- … the name Arthrochortus and described in Lowe 1856 , pp. 301–2. Lowe considered the single …
- … of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany ( Lowe 1856 ). The list includes species from Porto …
To Henry Tibbats Stainton 13 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1853 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Henry Tibbats Stainton 13 April [1856] …
- … Collections MSS DAR 16) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Apr [1856] Henry Tibbats Stainton …
- … s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr …
- … pt 1, pp. 169–242. [Stainton, Henry Tibbats]. 1856. Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal …
- … which began publication on 5 April 1856. Stainton was the founder and editor of the …
- … the Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer (12 April 1856) opened with an unsigned editorial, …
- … s Weekly Intelligencer , 12 April 1856, pp. 9–10. Westwood, John Obadiah. 1839–40. An …
- … more prominent than formerly’ ( [Stainton] 1856 , p. 9–10). George Newport was awarded …
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1856
Summary
Continued debate on formation of species as a result of retreat from glaciers.
JDH suggests internal powers of species modification, which he knows CD abhors.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 111–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1995 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1856 …
- … DAR 100: 111–12 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 22 Nov 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 November [1856] and n. 2. Thomas Thomson was superintendent …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 November [1856] . CD did not communicate this information (see …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 November [1856] ). See …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 4 November 1856 , which CD had sent to Hooker to read. The remainder …
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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. …
