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From Charles John Andersson   [6 April 1856]

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Summary

European men choose partners for different reasons. Savages select more for bodily attraction than facial beauty.

Author:  Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 Apr 1856]
Classmark:  DAR 85: A102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1850

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  • … DCP-LETT-1850

To Adam Sedgwick   11 October [1850]

Summary

Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].

Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adam Sedgwick
Date:  11 Oct [1850]
Classmark:  Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1369F

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  • … To Adam Sedgwick   11 October [1850] …
  • … manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Oct [1850] Adam Sedgwick …
  • … History of Medicine. Sedgwick, Adam. 1850. A discourse on the studies of the University of …
  • … s Discourse on the studies of the University of Cambridge ( Sedgwick 1850 ; see n.   …
  • … 2, below). Sedgwick 1850 . CD’s annotated copy, inscribed ‘From the Author’, is in the …
  • … recorded reading this edition on 12 November 1850 ( Correspondence vol.  4, Appendix IV, …
  • … 1833 . The fifth edition ( Sedgwick 1850 ) was expanded by a preface of 442 pages, longer …
  • … He visited Malvern again from 11 to 18 June 1850 ( ibid. , Appendix I) and had also been …
  • … cure at home (see ibid. , letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 June [1850] , and letter to W.   …
  • … D.  Fox, 4 September [1850] and n.  2). See also Browne 1990 . …
  • … reaching his 11th birthday on 27 December 1850; he entered Rugby School in 1852. On the …
  • … 4, letter to W.  D.  Fox, 10 October [1850] and n.  2. Sedgwick, in the first edition of …
  • … The preface to the fifth edition ( Sedgwick 1850 ) expands on the same theme, containing a …

To Charles Lyell   [8 June 1850]

Summary

Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.

Personal and social comment.

Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [8 June 1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1337

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  • … To Charles Lyell   [8 June 1850] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.94) Charles Robert Darwin Down [8 June 1850] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … expecting her first child; Leonard Lyell was born on 21 October 1850. …
  • … sea-floor. Personal and social comment. Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850]. …
  • … Gideon Algernon Mantell recorded on 1 June 1850: ‘to the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’ …
  • … 4, Appendix I) a stay at Malvern from 11 to 18 June 1850. Katharine Murray Lyell , who was …
  • … Book (Down House MS) entry for 6 June 1850. Anne Elizabeth Darwin , then nine years old. …
  • … On British fossil Lepadidae’, read 5 June 1850 at the Geological Society, Collected papers …
  • … 1: 251–2. Agassiz 1850 . CD’s annotated presentation copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
  • … it in his list of books read on 16 August 1850 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol.  4, Appendix …

Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1850. On the mutual relations of the vital and physical forces. [Read 20 June 1850.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1850): 727–57.

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  • … Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1850. On the mutual relations of the …
  • … vital and physical forces. [Read 20 June 1850. ] …
  • … Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1850): 727–57. SC T340.1.b.85.141 11 …

To Richard Owen   10 September [1850]

Summary

About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];

would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  10 Sept [1850]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1355

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  • … To Richard Owen   10 September [1850] …
  • … Owen correspondence 9/198) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Sept [1850] Richard Owen …
  • … present species. See letter to Richard Owen, 10 September [1850] (calendar number 1356). …
  • … and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of …
  • … F.  Dixon 1850 . Following the death of Frederick Dixon in 1849, Owen undertook to edit …
  • … volume was published the end of December 1850 ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 January 1851). …
  • … Sowerby made the drawings for F.  Dixon 1850 ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  38). Listed in …
  • … Bibliography Dixon, Frederick. 1850. The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and …

Whitelegge, Thomas (1850–1927)

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  • … Thomas Whitelegge 1850–1927 Botanist. …

To Robert Fitch   [13? April 1850]

Summary

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Fitch
Date:  [13? Apr 1850]
Classmark:  Norwich Castle
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1315

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  • … To Robert Fitch   [13? April 1850] …
  • … Norwich Castle Charles Robert Darwin Down [13? Apr 1850] Robert Fitch …
  • … given to James de Carle Sowerby (see letter to J.  de C.  Sowerby, 4 May [ 1850] ). CD ‘ …
  • … systematic Sessilia’ on 28 April 1850, as recorded in his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence …
  • … James de Carle Sowerby (see letter to J.  de C.  Sowerby, [13 April 1850] ). See letter …
  • … to James de Carle Sowerby , [13 April 1850]. CD experienced protracted delays with the …

To James de Carle Sowerby   12 February [1850]

Summary

Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.

Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].

Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James de Carle Sowerby
Date:  12 Feb [1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1303

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  • … To James de Carle Sowerby   12 February [1850] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Feb [1850] James de Carle Sowerby …
  • … Bibliography Dixon, Frederick. 1850. The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and …
  • … in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)]. Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a …
  • … The anniversary meeting of the Geological Society was on Friday, 15 February 1850. F.   …
  • … Dixon 1850 , Tab. xxviii. …
  • … See letter to Richard Owen, 10 September [1850] . Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  Tab. I (fig. …

To Richard Owen   [before 28 April 1850]

Summary

Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [before 28 Apr 1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1357

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  • … To Richard Owen   [before 28 April 1850] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.89) Charles Robert Darwin Down [before 28 Apr 1850] Richard Owen …
  • … the relationship to the letter to Richard Owen, 28 April [1850] (see n.  2, below). Tab. …
  • … XXVIII, fig. 9, refers to F.  Dixon 1850 . The plate is reproduced in Fossil Cirripedia ( …
  • … CD (see letter to Richard Owen, 28 April [1850] ). Tab. XIV, figs. 3 and 4, are in Sowerby …
  • … Bibliography Dixon, Frederick. 1850. The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and …

From the Ray Society   [4–6 November 1850]

Summary

In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.

Author:  Ray Society
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4–6 Nov 1850]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1366A

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  • … From the Ray Society   [4–6 November 1850] …
  • … and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) Ray Society [4–6 Nov 1850] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Dated on the basis of the council meeting of 4 November 1850 and on CD’s reply …
  • … to Edwin Lankester , 7 November [1850]. See …
  • … letter to Edwin Lankester, 27 October [1850] . The letter has not been found. …

To Japetus Steenstrup   1 September [1850]

Summary

Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.

Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:  1 Sept [1850]
Classmark:  Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1351

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  • … To Japetus Steenstrup   1 September [1850] …
  • … 4to) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Sept [1850] Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup …
  • … greatest use to me in illustrating the British species. ’ (pp. v–vi). Reinhardt 1850 . See …
  • … letter to Albany Hancock, 25 December [1850] . See Fossil Cirripedia (1854):  25 n. Lepas …
  • … Society. 1854. Reinhardt, Johannes Theodor. 1850. Om slægten Lithotryas Evne til at bore …
  • … letter to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 15 June [1850] . CD had apparently misread Steenstrup’s …

McLaren, C. B. B. (1850–1934)

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  • … Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren 1850–1934 Politician. …

To John Higgins   9 May [1850]

Summary

Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  9 May [1850]
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1326

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  • … To John Higgins   9 May [1850] …
  • … Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 May [1850] John Higgins …
  • … income from the farm remained at the reduced rate during 1850, 1851, and 1852 (see letter …
  • … to John Higgins, 13 December [1850] , and Correspondence vol.  5, letters to John …
  • … in Parliament and at public meetings during the first few months of 1850 ( Annual …
  • … Register 1850, History, p.  2). Some wished a return to protectionism, others a remission …

To J. S. Bowerbank   17 March [1850]

Summary

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Scott Bowerbank
Date:  17 Mar [1850]
Classmark:  University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1312

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  • … To J.  S. Bowerbank   17 March [1850] …
  • … Bentley Historical Library Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Mar [1850] James Scott Bowerbank …
  • … in which the copyist recorded a postmark: ‘March 18 th . , 1850 . ’ See letter to J.   …
  • … S. Bowerbank, [8 March 1850] . …

To W. D. Fox   10 October [1850]

Summary

Is concerned about the education of his boys and is undecided between Rugby and Bruce Castle schools; is inclined toward the latter, but afraid to experiment on so important a subject.

Reports on his pear-trees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  10 Oct [1850]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1362

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  • … To W.  D. Fox   10 October [1850] …
  • … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Oct [1850] William Darwin Fox …
  • … s diary records that ‘Willy went to school’ on 28 January 1850. Probably A.  Hill 1833 . …
  • … See letter to W.  D. Fox, 4 September [1850] . The final decision was to send William to …
  • … old stereotyped stupid classical education’. See letter to W.  D. Fox, [May 1850] . See …
  • … letter to Syms Covington, 23 November 1850 , n.  4. See letter to W.  D. Fox, 6 February [ …
  • … Down House MS) has an entry for 19 August 1850: ‘Whartton Rev d . — Willy School 74 3 6. ’ …

To Josiah Wedgwood III   1 December [1850]

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Discusses share dealings and investment matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah Wedgwood, III
Date:  1 Dec [1850]
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1373

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  • … To Josiah Wedgwood III   1 December [1850] …
  • … See letter to Salt & Son, 26 November [1850] . …
  • … DAR 210.10: 15 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Dec [1850] Josiah Wedgwood, III …

From J. D. Hooker   6 and 7 April 1850

Summary

Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.

JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.

Argument with Falconer.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 and 7 Apr 1850
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1319

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   6 and 7 April 1850
  • … Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) Joseph Dalton Hooker Calcutta 6 Apr 1850 7 …
  • … Apr 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … set out on this expedition on 1 May 1850. Lack of time prevented the exploration of the …
  • … note: Hooker in Letter. Ap. 6 th . — 1850. — Says in Sikkim the floras of tropical, …
  • … to Nepal in 1848 ( J.  D. Hooker 1854 , 1: 178). He visited England in 1850–1. Hooker …
  • … Govt. House Calcutta April 6. 1850 My dear Darwin Here at last I take up my pen to write …
  • … I forget HC. Bot Gardens. April 7 th . 1850 Dear Darwin Here I am staying with Falconer! …
  • … joined Hooker in Darjeeling in February 1850, prior to their expedition to the Khasia …

To J. de C. Sowerby   [8] June [1850]

Summary

CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James de Carle Sowerby
Date:  [8] June [1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1338

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  • … To J.  de C.  Sowerby   [8] June [1850] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down [8] June [1850] James de Carle Sowerby …
  • … Saturday fell on the 8 June in 1850, not 9 June as CD has it. …
  • … letter to the visit to Malvern confirms 1850 as the year. CD stayed at Malvern from 11 to …
  • … letter to J.  de C.  Sowerby, [13 April 1850] . Pollicipes glaber ( Fossil Cirripedia ( …
  • … the Palaeontographical Society on 28 June 1850, a letter from J.  de C.  Sowerby was read …

To J. de C. Sowerby   [28 August or 4 September 1850]

Summary

CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James de Carle Sowerby
Date:  [28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1348

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  • … To J.  de C.  Sowerby   [28 August or 4 September 1850] …
  • … American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Aug 1850 4 …
  • … Sept 1850 James de Carle Sowerby …
  • … letter to J.  S. Bowerbank, 10 September [1850] , in which it is made apparent that CD did …

To Albany Hancock   [31 March or 7 April 1850]

Summary

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albany Hancock
Date:  [31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Classmark:  The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1316

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  • … To Albany Hancock   [31 March or 7 April 1850] …
  • … Collection of English and American Literature. Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Mar 1850 7 …
  • … Apr 1850 Albany Hancock …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851):  133. See also letter to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 3 April [1850] . …
  • … was evidently received by CD before his letter to Albany Hancock, 15 [April 1850] . See …
  • … letter to Albany Hancock, [26 January – March 1850] , in which CD stated he was sending to …
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Syms Covington

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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…

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  • … Covington still assisted Darwin in his work:  in 1850 he sent a box of barnacles to London , some …

Have you read the one about....

Summary

... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

What is an experiment?

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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…

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  • … the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He made the point more …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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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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  • … occasions in his correspondence with Hooker. On 13 June [1850] , for example, Darwin wrote:    …

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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  • … state of indecision’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox,  10 October [1850] ) as he and Emma tried to choose …

Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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  • … Letter 1370 — Darwin, C. R. to Covington, Syms, 23 Nov 1850 Darwin thanks Covington for the …
  • … Letter 1319 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 6 & 7 Apr 1850 Hooker thinks Darwin is “too …
  • … Letter 1339 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 13 June [1850] Darwin writes to Hooker on …

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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  • … when he first wrote out his species essay in full. In 1850, he had written to Hooker ( …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … Memoirs of Plumer Ward by Hon Phipps [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] …
  • … & will lend me— Pickering Races of Man [Pickering 1850]. (has a good chapter). …
  • … Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] Burnetts Hist. of own time …
  • … Miss. Fennimore Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans …
  • … Dana’s Geology. U.S. Expedition [J. D. Dana 1849] 1850 March Forbes Cystideæ & …
  • … [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov. Memoirs of Pal. Soc [ …
  • … 12. Sedgwicks Discourse on Study of Univers [Sedgwick 1850] 28 Steenstrup on …
  • … Feb. 3 d . Hutchinson on Dog-breaking [Hutchinson 1850] 27. Chambers. Sanatory Reform [Anon …
  • … 5. Collin’s Autobiography [?Collins 1848]. good 1850 . Jan 15 th  Lives of …
  • … March 16 th . Newman Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] excellent —— Lord Cloncurry Memoirs …
  • … 1846] May 20 G. Cumming S. African Hunter [Cumming 1850] goodish July 1 st . …
  • … Sept 12 th . B. Franklins life by Sparks [Sparks ed. 1850] very good Oct 3 Martineau …
  • … Podrome de Paleantologie stratigraphique [Orbigny 1850–2] 24 fr: 3. vols. The Vegetation of …
  • … Danicorum Mammalium Domesticorum by Prof. Benddz [Bendz 1850]— Plates very expensive Coll. of …
  • … Anat. der Wirbellosen Thiere. 1848 [K. T. E. von Siebold 1850].— [DAR *128: 180] …
  • … Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively  be read …
  • … to aid me on skeletons Knox Races of Mankind [R. Knox 1850] a curious Book. (Blyth). in …
  • …   of the Horticultural Society of London ]. Vol I. to V. (1850) VI & VII May 27 th . …
  • … [Agassiz 1835] —— 30 Bairds Entomostraca [Baird 1850] May 22 d . Madras Journal of …
  • … 1853. Jan. 27 th  Life of D r . Coombe [Combe 1850]. good Feb. 6. Letters of Ray …
  • … Histoire du Pommier, Poirier, Pêcher [Duval 1852, 1849, 1850] —— 27 th . Hist. Nat. Gen. de …
  • … Sept. 4. Nunn’s Shipwreck in the Favorite [Nunn 1850] —— 16 Pepys Diary. Vol 1. 2. 3 d …
  • … Facultes Interieurs des animaux invertebres [Macquart 1850]. —— 8 th  Gosse Naturalist …
  • … 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. Johnston 1850]. March 28 th  Sebastian …
  • … [DAR 128: 13] Aug. 20 Weber der Taubenfreund 1850 [Weber 1850] Sept. 1 st . Puvis …
  • … [Veith 1856].— 3 d  Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R. Knox 1850] 7. Willughby by Ray …

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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  • … side of É de B.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 3 January 1850 ). Barnacles Over a …
  • … In the year between September 1849 and September 1850, Darwin’s Account Books (Down House MSS) …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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  • … (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January [1850] and n. 6; and letter to J. B. Innes, …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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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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  • … 1853 . Preparing for publication Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray …
  • … I have not yet thought’, Darwin told Bowerbank in January 1850, ‘ your mentioning the Palæont. Soc. …
  • … was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the end, Darwin was …
  • … many parcels I have no doubt they wd aid me’. By April 1850, he reported to Steenstrup that he had ‘ …
  • … and after requiring late changes by Sowerby in September 1850, told him, ‘ I hope to God I have now …
  • … the first fossil volume approached completion in September 1850, Darwin had reported on his progress …

Suggested reading

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  Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…

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  • … H. & Chalus, E. (eds.),  Women's history, Britain 1750 - 1850: An introduction , (Oxford, …
  • … fortunes: Men and women of the English middle class , 1780-1850 (London, 2002). Desmond, A., …
  • … Shoemaker, R. B.,  Gender in English society, 1650-1850: The emergence of separate spheres ? (1998 …

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 1319 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 6 & 7 Apr 1850 Hooker apologises for the …
  • … Letter 1339 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 13 June [1850] Darwin writes to Hooker from his …

Barnacles

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…

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  • … Letter 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, 23 Nov 1850 In this letter, Darwin thanks his …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … Burghal School 27 Deventer 29 may 1850 Groningen 2 may 1908 …
  • … for Ladies   Leeuwarden 10 november 1850 Leeuwarden 28 …
  • … Technologist   Assen 17 october 1850 Delft     …
  • … of Natural History. 27 Leiden 2 may 1850 Middelburg 19 …

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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  • … myself on you’ ( letter to Wilhelm Dunker, 3 March [1850] ). In the mid-1850s, Darwin was …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • … Burghal School 27 Deventer 29 May 1850 Groningen 2 May 1908 …
  • … for Ladies   Leeuwarden 10 November 1850 Leeuwarden 28 …
  • … Technologist   Assen 17 October 1850 Delft     …
  • … of Natural History. 27 Leiden 2 may 1850 Middelburg 19 …

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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  • … Darwin’s Cambridge mentor – as its second (appointed in 1850). Henslow’s parish was only about …
  • … DCP-LETT-1283; 20 Nov. [1849], DCP-LETT-1272; 17 Jan. [1850], DCP-LETT-1293. Letters from Darwin to …

Leonard Darwin born

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The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born

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  • … The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • … 1847; Francis, born 16 August 1848; Leonard, born 15 January 1850; and Horace, born 18 May 1851. It …
  • … memoirs and reminiscences. [61] Leonard Darwin, born 1850. [62] Francis Darwin, born …
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