To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1847]
Summary
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1077 |
To William Henry Harvey [7 April 1847]
Summary
Descriptions of the algae specimens found on the Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1847] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Dublin, Department of Botany, Herbarium |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1078 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (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.
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- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
