From J. D. Dana [before 6 December 1855]
Summary
Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 Dec 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1544 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … species seemed to me to be so different, between the Sections—that is the temperate of one …
- … from the temperate of the other &c &c that I chose the stronger term—looking at the three …
- … the Australian Cirripedes, especially if the temperate shores be alone considered, are as …
- … several zones of temperature, the torrid, temperate & frigid, and even the subzones were …
- … not mean to imply that the species of the temperate zone had any close resemblance or any …
- … not mean to imply that the species of Temperate New Holland were allied to those of the …
From C. J. F. Bunbury 10 April 1855
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about mountain vegetation of the Cape of Good Hope. The distribution of some plants provides problems for both migration and special creation hypotheses.
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1664 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … less ‘social’ or abundant than those of temperate regions. CD commented: ‘Ask Hooker about …
From Edward Blyth [22 October 1855]
Summary
Gives references to William Allen’s narrative of the Niger expedition [William Allen and T. R. H. Thompson , A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty’s Government to the river Niger in 1841 (1848)]: common fowl returning to wildness, details of domestic sheep, ducks, and white fowl.
Range of the fallow deer; its affinity to the Barbary stag.
Natural propensity of donkeys for arid desert.
Indian donkeys often have zebra markings on the legs.
Believes the common domestic cat of India is indigenous.
Occurrence of cultivated plants from Europe in India; success of cultivation. Ancient history of cultivated plants.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum and indicate that it was originally 20 pages long.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Oct 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A93–A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1811 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … unlikely)? The genus belongs to the temperate regions of the N. hemisphere exclusively; …
| letter | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 10 hits
- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
Matches: 1 hits
- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
Summary
For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Matches: 1 hits
- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …
