To J. de C. Sowerby 23 September [1850]
Summary
Plans to come to London to examine the proofs of JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has new German specimens; one is unknown and must be introduced but a woodblock will do.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1360 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Pollicipes gracilis , in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 69, giving his reasons for believing …
- … to fit in the figure ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. IV, fig. 3b). It is the inside view …
To Robert Fitch [December? 1850]
Summary
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [Dec? 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1376 |
To Robert Fitch 10 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1290 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Classified as Scalpellum fossula by CD ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 24–5). …
- … In Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 22, CD distinguished this species from S. quadratum , which …
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Sowerby, James and Sowerby, James de …
To Japetus Steenstrup 20 May [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 20 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1330 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … nicobarica . For its manner of boring, see Living Cirripedia (1851): 336–47. Steenstrup …
- … 1845a . In Living Cirripedia (1851): 55 n. , CD referred to Steenstrup 1846 and thanked …
- … 2). Ibla cumingii and Scalpellum ornatum ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 189–203, 248– 53). …
- … Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
To J. S. Bowerbank [24 April 1850]
Summary
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not …
- … Pollicipes concinnus in Fossil Cirripedia (1851), pp. 48–50, and stated that he was unable …
- … of the council, secretaries and members of the Palaeontographical Society (1851)). The …
- … were included in Fossil Cirripedia (1851), p. 1. Bowerbank was an expert on sponges, and …
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1378 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … by Hugh Cuming ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 344). CD did not examine Alcippe until early …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … is reproduced in Living Cirripedia (1851) , Plate VIII, figs. 2 and 2a’, copied from …
- … 2d ser. 2: 225– 48. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … set in type. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 346 n. , in which CD discussed the differences …
From the Ray Society [after 7 October 1850]
Summary
"Resolved that the Secretary be requested to ask Mr. Darwin if he would agree to the publication of his work [Living Cirripedia] in parts."
| Author: | Ray Society |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Oct 1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1361 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … evidently complied with this request. Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) was published in …
- … two volumes, the first in 1851 (the pedunculated cirripedes) and the second in 1854 (the …
- … Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … University Press. 1927–96. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Trenn, Thaddeus J. 1974. …
- … unpublished Darwin letters of 1849 to 1851. Proceedings of the American Philosophical …
- … from the Chalk described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 62 and Tab. III, fig. 10a. CD began …
To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1342 |
To Robert Fitch 6 January [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1288 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of Chicago Press. 1977. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Trenn, Thaddeus J. 1974. …
- … are described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 70–1 and 75–6. In the preface, CD thanked …
- … unpublished Darwin letters of 1849 to 1851. Proceedings of the American Philosophical …
To Albany Hancock 12 May [1850]
Summary
Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 12 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1327 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … was the wearing agent ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 345–8). CD gave priority to Verruca as …
- … 2d ser. 2: 225– 48. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … of Lithotrya , see Living Cirripedia (1851): 336–8. See also letters to Albany Hancock , …
To J. de C. Sowerby 12 September [1850]
Summary
CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1358 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 1 September [1850]
Summary
CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1350 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … CD agreed with Angelin’s judgment ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 52). The eight species …
- … in three different plates in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) . Anatifera cretæ is figured as …
To Albany Hancock 15 [April 1850]
Summary
Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 15 [Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | J. Hancock (1886): 258–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1321 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … are discussed in Living Cirripedia (1851): 344–6, 346 n. See also letters to Albany …
- … Bibliography Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … Oxynaspis celata ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 134). Jean Guillaume Bruguière s, who wrote …
To J. G. Forchhammer 20 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks JGF for geological information.
Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johan Georg Forchhammer |
| Date: | 20 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1328 |
To Robert Fitch 17 March [1850]
Summary
Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1313 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … 13 April 1850] . Pollicipes glaber ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 61; Tab. III, fig. 10). …
- … Pollicipes laevis . In Fossil Cirripedia (1851) it is listed as a synonym for both P. …
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 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 27 August [1850]
Summary
Returns one figure and sends two minute new species to be figured [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. "Pray observe how time slips by."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1347 |
To Richard Owen 28 April [1850]
Summary
Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.
Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1322 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … it in F. Dixon 1850 ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 37–8). The reference is probably to the …
- … of Sussex. London. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. OED : The Oxford English dictionary. …
- … 46 , vol. 7, cited in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 37–8. Xiphidium angustum , a synonym for …
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
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- … Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with …
- … expired at Malvern at 1 Midday on the 23 d . of April 1851.— I write these few pages, as I …
- … her dear joyous face. Blessings on her.— April 30. 1851. Notes: 1 …
- … Darwin’s reaction to her sister’s death Aug. 1851. Etty nearly 8 years old. She appeared for …
- … Annie's illness and death To W. D. Fox, [ 27 March 1851 ] To Emma Darwin, [17 …
Our poor dear dear child: To Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851]
Summary
Marsha Richmond shares her experiences of editing the very moving letters Darwin wrote to his wife Emma about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10.
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- … about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … he explained in the preface to Living Cirripedia (1851): vii, ‘to have described only a single …
- … In both volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an …
- … parts of the mature animal.’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 25). As a basis for his homologies, …
- … in the various genera of Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 286–7), which he later …
- … the highest classificatory value’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 285).^12^ For delineating …
- … the cement glands of the organism ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 20). This association suggested to …
- … feel no hesitation in advancing it. ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 37–8) In Living …
- … belonging to the same species!’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 293)—this discovery was unique in the …
- … devoted the first sixty-five pages of Living Cirripedia (1851), and a lengthy section in …
- … by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( Correspondence vol. 5), in …
- … mentioned both Coral reefs and Living Cirripedia (1851), but it was the latter work that …
- … to the analogy with plants in Living Cirripedia (1851): 214: ‘Although the existence of …
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: 24 hits
- … pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the …
- … from Parent to offspring of some Forms of Disease. 1851 [Whitehead 1851]. Packard. A Guide to …
- … [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— Southeys Life of Wesley [R. …
- … Humboldt 1849]. Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China …
- … Steenstrup on Hermaphroditismus [Steenstrup 1846]. 1851. Jan. 6 th . Pickering Races …
- … 1850].— April 5 Manual of Geology Lyell [Lyell 1851] —— 30 Annales des Sc. Phys. de …
- … nothing July 16 th Dixon. Pigeons [E. S. Dixon 1851].— Dec. 26. Count Odart’s …
- … Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR 119: 23b] 1851 Jan 27. M. Martineau. …
- … 1844]. good London Labour & London Poor [Mayhew 1851].— Missionary Life in Canada …
- … July 1 st . Edwardes Year in Punjaub [Edwardes 1851] good 16 Gleig’s Life of Clive [Gleig …
- … 15. Liebig Familiar letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Nov. 15 th Wilson Voyage. Scotland …
- … [DAR *128: 182] 83 Jury Report. Exhibition of 1851 on silk-worms & sheep, selection …
- … et de ses ràces ou varietes 8 o . 12. p. 1 Pl. Poitiers 1851. Chez H. Oudin [Mauduyt 1851] Read …
- … of Madeira with list of Birds ( some migratory ) [Harcourt 1851]. Yarrell has (read) Rev d …
- … Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read 96 …
- … 1852] grand illustrated work on Legumes [?Vilmorin-Andrieux 1851–7] 110 [DAR *128: 154] …
- … March 26. Gosse’s Sojourn in Jamaica [Gosse 1851] April 30 Journal of Horticultural Soc of …
- … 1852 . Feb. 1. Emigrants Manual [Burton 1851] March 10 th Hind’s Solar System …
- … Man’s Nature & Development [Atkinson and Martineau 1851] —— 25 Head. Home Tour …
- … of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia ] Vol I to V 1851 M. Edwards. Introduction …
- … —— 13 th Neale’s Residences in Siam [Neale 1851] 22 Sir J. Davis China during War and …
- … 1853] (excellent) —— 23 Howitts Victoria [Howitt 1851] part of (poor) Oct 7 th Sir …
- … 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … June 8 th Sketch of Madeira by E. Vernon Harcourt p. 1851 [Harcourt 1851] —— 11 Busk …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and …
- … made to the plates, but even close to publication in early 1851, Darwin told Sowerby, ‘ I like the …
- … books. ’ When the first fossil monograph appeared in June 1851, it was the third part of volume 5 …
- … of the living species; having finished writing in July 1851 , he corrected proof-sheets from …
- … the first volume of Living Cirripedia bears the date 1851, it did not appear until January …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
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…
Matches: 3 hits
- … confusing sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851 …
- … dioecious plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at …
- … he justified in a lengthy footnote (Living Cirripedia (1851): 293 n.). The problem that bothered …
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,…
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
Summary
< 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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- … the small impression that can be purchased.’ In 1851 the scope of the project was expanded …
- … in securing the Association’s decision to hold its July 1851 meeting in Ipswich. Furthermore, this …
- … When Prince Albert himself visited the Ipswich conference in 1851 amid great celebrations, he too …
- … Letter from Ransome to Michael Faraday, 6 June 1851, in Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), The …
- … of Science’, dated from Ipswich, Times (3 July 1851), p. 5. ‘Visit of Prince Albert to Ipswich’, …
Alexander Burns Usborne
Summary
Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…
George Robert Waterhouse
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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…
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- … branch. Waterhouse became keeper of mineralogy in 1851 and keeper of geology in 1856, where he added …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
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…
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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. …
John Murray
Summary
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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- … publications, his barnacle books ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851 and 1854) and Living Cirripedia …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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.…
Thomas Henry Huxley
Summary
Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Death of Annie Darwin
Summary
The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma, heavily pregnant, has to stay behind at Down.
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- … The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma …
Horace Darwin born
Summary
Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born
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- … Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … responsible for the magazine's success at that time. In 1851 she met the philosopher, writer …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … in his sense of loss when his daughter Annie died in 1851. Darwin was educated at the …
