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List of correspondents

Summary

Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
  • … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … Bartlett, R. S. (1) Barwell, Richard (1) …
  • … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … Bishop, I. P. (1) Bishop, Richard (1) …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
  • … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
  • … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
  • … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
  • … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
  • … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
  • … Ford, R. S. (1) Fordman, Richard (1) …
  • … (2) Frean, Richard (2) Frere, G. E. …
  • … Hart, W. E. (1) Harte, Richard (1) …
  • … Hill, Lewin (2) Hill, Richard (b) (5) …
  • … College, London (1) Kippist, Richard (21) …
  • … Ogle, William (38) Okes, Richard (1) …
  • … Owen, G. S. (1) Owen, Richard (40) …
  • … Ramu, H. (4) Randolph, Richard (2) …
  • … Rich, Anthony (27) Richard, Henry (1) …
  • … Rice, Thomas (2) Spruce, Richard (5) …
  • … T. M. (2) Strachey, Richard (4) …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

Summary

'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

Matches: 11 hits

  • … to spread my views’, he wrote to his publisher, John Murray, on 30 January , shortly after …
  • … disintegration of his relationship with the palaeontologist Richard Owen: ‘your several articles’, …
  • … is somewhat under a cloud’, he wrote to J. E. Taylor on 13 January , and he complained to the …
  • … as that on the origins of music provided by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. …
  • … Hooker’s cause was taken up by his friends, in particular John Lubbock and John Tyndall, as one …
  • … to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 …
  • … photographic plates with his overseas publishers, and with John Murray’s assistant, the excitable …
  • … of the booksellers, encouraged an originally cautious John Murray to gamble on the book’s success: & …
  • … attractive dishes in his `Literary Banquet’ (letters from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and 9 …
  • … to supply comparative observations, and Darwin’s protégé John Scott, now employed as a curator in …
  • … a copy of  Expression  to another old Cambridge friend, John Maurice Herbert, who when they were …

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: 26 hits

  • 18327] contains all his fathers views Quoted by Owen [Hunter 1837] [DAR *119: 3v.] …
  • There appears to be good art. on Entozore 12  by Owen in Encyclop. of Anat. & Physiology [R. …
  • researches on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord
  • 1824] Humes Essay [?Hume 17412] J. Taylor Art of Dying [J. Taylor 1651] …
  • The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • geological History of the Horse [Karkeek 1841]. (not read.) Owen not got these No s . …
  • read itErasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • News. by M r  Hicks [Hickson 1849] Published separately Taylor & Walton HeadedMalthus” …
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • … [DAR 119: 2a] Scientific Memoirs pub. by Taylor [ Scientific Memoirs ] Mag. of
  • at end 59 Hunters animal economy edited by Owen [Hunter 1837], read several papers all
  • Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [ShakespeareKing Richard IIKing Henry IV ] …
  • by Boswell [Boswell 1831] Philip Van Artevelde [H. Taylor 1834]. reread Macaulay Art. …
  • 1843] /Oct 1 st / 2 d  & 3 d  Vol Sept 5 W. Taylors life & Corresp. [Robberds
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • Buffon [Milne-Edwards 183440]. March 5 th  St. Johns Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8
  • English Poets [Thackeray 1853] Haydons Life by T. Taylor [Haydon 1853] Sir B. Lowes
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science (1854). Richard Owen gave the same paper at the
  • is confused; the citation given is actually that of Richard Owens paper on Dinornis  rather than
  • all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers . Revised by Richard Bradley. London.  *119: 19v.; 119: …
  • … [Other eds.]  *119: 13, 22; 119: 22b Beste, John Richard. 1855The Wabash; or, …
  • Home life in Germany . London128: 11 Bradley, Richard. 1724A general treatise of
  • …   islands . London. *128: 172 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1812The friend; a series of
  • … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 14351.]  128: 6 Dana, Richard Henry. [1840].  Two years before
  • of glaciers.  Edinburgh119: 15b Ford, Richard. 1846Gatherings from Spain . By the

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

Summary

On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s  Origin of species , …
  • … a series of attacks, the most vicious of which came from Richard Owen in the April issue of the  …
  • … . Fawcett asserted that Darwin’s theory accorded well with John Stuart Mill’s exposition of the …
  • … to hear Samuel Wilberforce, the bishop of Oxford, reply to John William Draper’s paper giving a …
  • … Darwin about further, less dramatic incidents, including John Lubbock’s retort to Wilberforce on the …
  • … I shall improve the Book considerably.—’ ( letter to John Murray, 5 December [1860] ). Although he …
  • … to convert people under 20 year,’ he told his friend John Innes, ‘though firmly convinced  now …
  • … good judge coming some little way with me.’ ( letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860] ). …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

Summary

Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

Matches: 6 hits

  • … on [Joseph Henry] Green, the private doctor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had been to Germany and …
  • … stressed the fact that Darwin insisted on his originality. Richard Owen started first, in a nasty …
  • … Let me give you one instance. For people like John Fleming , the Scottish minister and …
  • … Saint Hilaire, Cuvier, Bory de Saint-Vincent, Virey – to John Fleming, in the 1820s, these were …
  • … about coleoptera. He knew a lot through conversation with [John Stevens] Henslow of what …
  • … for the Advancement of Science, [Charles] Pritchard, [John] Dalton and I don’t remember who? …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

Summary

Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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  • … as Daniel Oliver, Friedrich Hildebrand, Fritz Müller, and John Scott who had provided initial …
  • … in the foreman of the propagating department at Kew, Richard Irwin Lynch, who sent specimens and …
  • … the full paper. A disgruntled Darwin reported to George John Romanes on 23 May , ‘the Council …
  • … and ignorance in the name of science: ‘I am not John the baptist from the wilderness of locusts and …
  • … William Conant, was a colleague of the showman Phineas Taylor Barnum. Visitors were charged twenty …
  • … me in a considerate and friendly manner.’ He wrote to John Brodie Innes, the former vicar of Down, …