To John Murray 30 [January 1860]
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Suggests it would be easier and cheaper if he were given one or two pages in preface [to Journal of researches] for two or three important errors. Would like to take out one sentence if present preface is not stereotyped. Table of contents is shabby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 30 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.92–93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2616 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 30 January 1860
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On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2669 |
| letter | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Barnburgh
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- … A Cambridge friend rejoices in Darwin's appointment on the voyage and sends news of fellow …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … fieldwork. Altogether, Darwin wrote fifteen books and 130 scientific papers while he was …
3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … pp. 542-570 (pp. 560-1). J. van Whye, ‘Iconography’, pp. 130, 177. …
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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- … Twyford (originally from London) at Stroud, New South Wales, 130 miles north of Sydney. By 1843 …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … list is headed ‘Stove Plants’, and itemises more than 130 species and their associated orders or …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … more slowly than Insectivorous plants , but even so only 130 were left by the end of 1875 ( …
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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- … 5 December 1927 Den Haag 130 Luijten J. (Jan) …
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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- … 130 Luijten J. (Jan) Teacher …
