To Charles Spence Bate 13 June [1851]
Summary
Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 13 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1340 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … for specimens (see letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] ). CD was particularly …
- … 1851): 11. See letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] , in which CD commented on …
- … arctic regions. See letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] , in which CD discussed …
- … cement has run in and spoiled the specimens. See letter to C. S. Bate, 18 August [1851] . …
- … letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] , and also Beck 1865 ). A good example of CD’s use of the micrometer is found in the table on the generic characters of the larval prehensile antennae in Living Cirripedia (1851): …
- … 1851 , pp. 328–9, the author stated: ‘Unfortunately … I have not been able, even with the greatest care and watchfulness, to preserve the young creature alive, so as to have the successive forms through which it passes’. CD was unaware that there is, in fact, no second stage larva as depicted in Burmeister 1834 and reproduced in Living Cirripedia (1854) , Plate XXX, fig. 1 (see letter …
To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13807 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1851) in which all four specimens in this letter are described as …
- … in January 1851. See letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] . Scalpellum trilineatum …
- … letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] ) and the date of completion of the manuscript of the first volume of Fossil Cirripedia ( 1851 ) …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 19 January [1854]
Summary
Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1548 |
To George Newport 12 August [1851]
Summary
Returns scissors with thanks.
Young John Lubbock who has a strong taste for dissecting insects would benefit greatly from conversation with GN.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Newport |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1851] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1450 |
To John Edward Gray [January 1851]
Summary
Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | [Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1383 |
To Robert Fitch 15 January [1850]
Summary
Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1291 |
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- … sixteen hitherto unpublished Darwin letters of 1849 to 1851. Proceedings of the American …
- … Cirripedia (1851): 34–5). This P.S. is actually bound with Fitch’s letter of [28 January …
- … 1851 and 1854 by the Palaeontographical Society . Fitch’s specimens in the Norwich Castle Museum are illustrated in Trenn 1974 , p. 478 (fig. 3). See letter …
To Emma Darwin [21 April 1851]
Summary
Further reports on Anne’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1408 |
To Syms Covington 14 March 1852
Summary
Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.
Has published one book on barnacles [1851].
Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1852 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1477 |
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- … ago to receive your very interesting letter of June, 1851, with an account just such as I …
- … letters to Syms Covington , 30 March 1849 and 23 November 1850 , n. 1). Bartholomew James Sulivan dined with the Darwins on 27 November 1851 ( …
- … letter to Syms Covington, 23 November 1850 . The discovery of gold in Guyong, New South Wales, in February 1851, …
To J. D. Dana 8 May [1852]
Summary
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 8 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1481 |
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- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (see letter to J. D. Dana, 15 February [1852] ). Hippolyte …
- … 4, letter to Henri Milne-Edwards, 18 November [1847] . See Living Cirripedia (1851): 37 …
- … letter from J. D. Dana, [before 29 December 1850] , n. 4. See also Living Cirripedia (1851): …
- … letter to J. D. Dana, 15 February [1852] , n. 5. The crustacean had accompanied copies of Living Cirripedia (1851) …
- … letter to J. D. Dana, 6 December [1853] , n. 2. The Lerneidae, an order of parasitic copepods, share several characteristics with the Cirripedia. Like cirripedes, they hatch as a free-swimming nauplius and at the first cyclops stage they settle as parasites on the gills of a flat-fish; later they are transformed again into free- swimming sexual forms. The means by which the larvae, and later the female, attach to the host was obscure in the 1850s, as were their precise taxonomic affinities. See Baird 1851, …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
To James Dwight Dana 9 September [1851]
Summary
Thanks him for letter and Balanus specimen.
Acasta is curious; may be a new genus.
Is sending copy [of Fossil Cirripedia 1]. Correcting proofs [of Living Cirripedia 1].
Mentions comment by Hermann Abich on JDD’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands [in Geology (1849)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1851] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1453 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the reference in the letter to CD receiving copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) ‘a few days …
- … p. 319). See letter from John Gwyn Jeffreys, 7 September 1851 . Living Cirripedia ( …
- … 12 November 1851 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix I). The letter has not been …
- … 1851) to Dana, Augustus Addison Gould , and Louis Agassiz in the United States (MS attached to CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) , Cambridge University Library). Otto Hermann Wilhelm Abich , professor of mineralogy at Dorpat University. Dana 1849 . See Correspondence vol. 4, letters …
To Japetus Steenstrup 9 September [1851]
Summary
Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.
Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.
Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1851] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1454 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 3 April 1851
Summary
Fossil cirripedes specimens being returned. Will send a copy of monograph [Fossil Cirripedia]. Discusses work on recent cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1851 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1397 |
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- … but see letter to Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker, 5 April [1851] , n. 2. Most …
- … see Fossil Cirripedia (1851): v and Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. G. Forchhammer, …
- … CD until September (see letter to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 9 September [1851] ). Johan Georg …
- … 1851 and finished this work on 12 November (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix I). Steenstrup had earlier sent CD much desired specimens of Anelasma squalicola (see Correspondence vol. 4, letters …
To Robert Fitch [5 February 1850]
Summary
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1301 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 25 June [1851]
Summary
Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 25 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1438 |
To Thomas Salt 12 July [1854]
Summary
Thanks for money paid into his account. Has not received interest payment from Lord Powis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 12 July [1854] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577F |
To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
To James Dwight Dana 15 June [1851]
Summary
Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".
Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 15 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | Gilman 1899, p. 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2107 |
From Emma Darwin [21 April 1851]
Summary
Discusses Anne’s sickness and her hope.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1409 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … arrived on Tuesday, 22 April. See also letter from Emma Darwin, [22–3 April 1851] . …
- … letter dated ‘Saturday | 7 oclock’ is in DAR 210.13. A purgative. Bessie Harding , nurserymaid at Down House ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 80–1). A sand-glass, probably used when taking a pulse. Emma was in the final weeks of her pregnancy. Horace Darwin was born 13 May 1851. …
To A. A. Gould 29 February [1852]
Summary
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1475 |
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
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- … We have lost the joy of the Household Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … < Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged …
John Murray
Summary
Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a …
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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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … George Eliot was the pen name of the celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
Thomas Burgess
Summary
As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…
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- … As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and …
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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- … On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But …
