To Williams and Norgate 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2739 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Apr [ …
To Otto Zacharias 5 October [1876]
Summary
The sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation will be sent to OZ as they become ready.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | 5 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10632 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill …
To Ernst Dieffenbach 8 April [1845]
Summary
Thanks ED for copy of German edition of Journal of researches. Asks him to write and ask German publisher to return plates and MS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 8 Apr [1845] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/01) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-854 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/01) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Apr [ …
From Asa Gray 22 May 1877
Summary
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10969 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 4 . 6 1836 —1 . 97 1850 —2 . 01 1860 —2 . 06 1866 —2 . 10 The 4 . 6 seems the only one out …
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was the first which completely wrong— 1 15 = .06 which is nearer . 067 than to . 066. The …
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Voyage of HMS Beagle in Commentary

Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … in miniature, upwards of 400 volumes!’ This in a cabin 6 feet 6 inches square! Since most of …
- … 2e Partie, Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … 2 vols. London, 1829. (DAR 37.2: 798; Stoddart 1962, pp. 6, 8, 11). Encyclopædia …
- … Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, Mariano de. Memoria sobre el …
- … of the Geological Society of London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR 35.2: 357). Carne, Joseph. On the …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Jones, “Earl, Logan and ‘Indonesia,’” Archipel 6 (1973): 93-118. …