To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
To Leonard Jenyns [4 December 1837]
Summary
Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [4 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-392 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … London. 1840–2. [Vols. 2,3,4,9] Fossil Mammalia : Pt 1 of The zoology of the voyage of …
- … Fish numbers began to appear before Fossil Mammalia and Birds were completed, and Reptiles …
- … to time, you need not be in any hurry; for all the fossil Mammalia, (& perhaps fossil …
- … shells) living Mammalia,—birds, & reptiles have to be completed before the turn for the …
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
From the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 31 August 1837
Summary
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury approve CD’s request for £1000 in aid of publication [of Zoology].
| Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | Fossil Mammalia, pp. ii–iii |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Fossil Mammalia , pp. ii–iii Secretary of the Post Office Treasury Chambers 31 Aug 1837 …
From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society. …
- … an account of your 80 specimens of mammalia, and 450 birds, which were on the table at the …
- … darwinii (see Martin 1837 ). Later, in Mammalia , pp. 16–18, George Robert Waterhouse …
- … published as Journal of researches. ] Mammalia : Pt 2 of The zoology of the voyage of HMS …
To Leonard Jenyns 3 December [1837]
Summary
CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.
Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-391 |
To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837
Summary
Galapagos land birds and reptiles.
No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."
Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.
Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.
The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 July 1837 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-367 |
From Robert FitzRoy 15 November 1837
Summary
RF declines to give an opinion on the wording of the preface to CD’s volume [Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative, published separately as Journal of researches] and refers him to a disinterested third party.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-386 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … November, or the first number of Fossil Mammalia, Zoology Part 1, due to appear in January …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Secretary of the Post Office | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
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…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …
