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List of correspondents
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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,…
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- … D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
- … (1) Chairman, Committee of Papers, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … W. J. R. (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Annie (7) Down Friendly Society (3) …
- … Eck, F. A. (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
- … Margaret (1) Franklin Society (1) …
- … Isidore (2) Geological Society (1) …
- … (3) Kent Church Penitentiary Society (1) …
- … (21) Kippist, Richard Linnean Society (1) …
- … Librarian (2) Librarian, Royal Geographical Society (1) …
- … Lindvall, C. A. (2) Linnean Society (23) …
- … Institute (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … Rouse, R. C. M. (1) Royal College of Physicians (1) …
James Crichton-Browne
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James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth-century, but the letters he exchanged with Charles Darwin as the young and overworked superintendent of the largest mental asylum in England, are almost the…
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert …
- … medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a second year, this time …
- … on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations …
- … bought it later for himself. Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made …
- … and then added all the books he had read since starting at Edinburgh in 1825. Some of the …
- … the first edition of his Pharmacologia on the History of Medical Substances in 1812; William …
- … scientific interests, and also show the close connections of Edinburgh’s intellectual community. A …
- … was produced by Robert Jameson, who started the Edinburgh philosophical journal in 1819 …
- … took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh. Hugh Blair, although …
- … about twenty years before the doctor arrived to set up his medical practice. The remaining …
- … text Books that I have read thro since my return to Edinburgh.— Franklins Journal to …
- … Library–Down. 7 CD probably refers to the Edinburgh journal of science (1824–32), …
- … 12 Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society . Vols 1–8i (1808–39). 13 …
- … Hunterian oration, for the year 1819: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. …
- … opinions respecting diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in London . New …
- … his researches in comparative anatomy: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in the year …
- … opinions respecting life and diseases: delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in …
- … . 4th edition. 3 vols. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. …
- … with geological illustrations . By Georges Cuvier. 5th ed. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. London: T. …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of …
- … Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119: 1] …
- … on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord Brougham Dissert. …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … in Edin. Encyclop. [Neill 1808] Brit. & Foreign Medical Rev. N o 14. Ap 1839 [Anon. …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … reading. Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— …
- … Zoological Journal ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
- … the Wernerian Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the …
- … ].— Brit. Agricult. Association [ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England …
- … many facts List of Books at end of Catalogue of Royal Soc. [Royal Society of London 1839]— …
- … Schlegel Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib & …
- … British Med. Review by D r Forbes [ British and Foreign Medical Review ] Prof. Forbes says …
- … 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of Edinburgh Transactions [ Transactions of …
- … Natural History Society ] Ed. New Phil Jour [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
- … [DAR 119: 7a] 1840 D r . Hollands Medical Notes [Holland 1839]— have added …
- … [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in a Medical Journal which Hooker has & lent to …
- … Walker, On intermarriage . British and Foreign Medical Review 7: 370–85. *119: 5v. …
- … *128: 173; 128: 12 Harlan, Richard. 1835. Medical and physical researches; or, …
- … vols. London. 119: 12b Holland, Henry. 1839. Medical notes and reflections . London. …
- … Library.] *119: 7v.; 119: 7a ——. 1840. Medical notes and reflections . 2d ed. London. …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of …
- … who had performed vivisection on dogs at the British Medical Association congress in Norwich. The …
- … it is degrading to our physiologists to make, and to our medical students to witness, operations …
- … experts Godfrey Lushington and William Shaen, with leading medical men, such as James Paget, and …
- … Dalton Hooker requesting his approval as president of the Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. …
- … approaching Lyon Playfair, an eminent chemist and MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities, to …
- … the crucial role of vivisection for physiological and medical knowledge. It objected to the needless …
- … a lengthy paragraph on the treatment of animals in human society, the pain and death they suffered …
- … a certificate signed by the heads of various scientific and medical institutions. Licences could be …
- … to make an experiment on a live animal … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , …
- … Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). In his testimony before the Royal Commission (see below), Darwin …
- … on a living vertebrate animal ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , Appendix III, pp. …
- … home secretary, Richard Cross, announced on 24 May that a Royal Commission would be appointed to …
- … Debates , 3d ser., vol. 224 (1875), col. 794). A Royal Commission was a standard governmental …
- … quoted in the committee’s final summary ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. x), …
- … controversy continued. Physiologists and a portion of the medical profession mounted a more …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the …
- … His interests as an undergraduate at Cambridge, as at Edinburgh, were clearly outside the …
- … remains a subject of great interest to Darwin scholars and medical historians. On 1 October …
- … to become assistant to his father, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter …
- … on the subject. The joint paper was read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. A few weeks later, …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … of carbonate of ammonia on roots’, read at the Linnean Society of London on 6 and 16 March, …
- … by planting in apposition’, was read at the Linnean Society on 4 May, but not published. …
- … Collier in 1881 for a portrait commissioned by the Linnean Society. Collier sent Darwin a copy of …
- … vivisection debate in 1875, and had even testified before a Royal Commission that experiments …
- … Defence Association’, an organisation made up largely of medical professionals interested in …
- … life in the 1840s: his duties as secretary of the Geological Society, his work on geology, coral …
- … ). In May 1857, Darwin wrote to the secretary of the Royal Society, William Sharpey, with …
- … by Thomas Francis Jamieson in a paper to the Geological Society. Darwin was a referee for the paper …
- … from my continued ill-health has been my seclusion from society & not becoming acquainted with …
- … expenses, incurred as a result of her struggle to obtain a medical degree at Edinburgh. ‘I have the …
- … our names being added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women. I shall be …
- … an MD from Dublin and went on to practise medicine in Edinburgh. Women’s education was often …
- … incarceration of convicted criminals, even their use in medical experiments. Darwin was partially in …
- … ‘the imbecile, the maimed, and other useless members of society’. He regarded this as the highest …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … zoologist Edwin Ray Lankester was blackballed at the Linnean Society of London because of internal …
- … scientific reputation, but also to save the Linnean Society from the ‘utter disgrace’ of …
- … had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission report was published …
- … school at Cambridge University. The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by …
- … what action to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write …
- … paper on leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin because he …
- … ). Darwin recognised scientific skill in all levels of society. He not only offered to propose the …
- … Lawson Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. The decision by the Royal Society of London to reject a …
- … left Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the …
- … April [1876] ). Darwin could not have been surprised by the society’s decision. He already knew …
- … last for my life’, he told George Stokes, secretary of the society, on 21 April, confessing, ‘as I …
- … that I was not justified in refusing to send it to the Royal Soc, but it is now too clear that I shd …
- … of George’s work but intended to present it to the Royal Society. He was pleased that Horace was off …
- … after falling off his horse. Darwin sought the best medical care. On 30 May, the surgeon James Paget …
- … On hearing that Charles Wyville Thomson told his students in Edinburgh that the hypothesis of …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … evidently assumed Darwin to be both a clergyman and a medical doctor, two vocations he had once …
- … He asked Bates, who was president of the Entomological Society of London, to raise the question at …
- … by several other entomologists who had been present at the society’s meeting. Darwin circulated his …
- … and trimorphic plants’. They were read before the Linnean Society of London on 19 March. In a letter …
- … supported Farrer’s candidacy for fellowship of the Linnean Society ( letter from George Bentham, …
- … 1868] ). Barber’s paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained …
- … Some thought Gray’s position still a strong one. An Edinburgh newspaper maintained that Gray could …
- … in July he was second in the entrance examination for the Royal military academy at Woolwich. ‘I …
- … to be bestowed on him, including the order of merit of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … John Tyndall, professor at and superintendent of the Royal Institution of Great Britain was informed …
- … suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. Hooker, 29 …
- … of June, Darwin’s fourth son, Leonard, who had joined the Royal Engineers in 1871, went to New …
- … he had with Hubert Airy, the son of the Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy, to help Leonard gain …
- … Ruck, the sister of a friend of Leonard Darwin’s in the Royal Engineers, on 23 July 1874. The newly …
- … August [1874] ). Francis had given up the idea of a medical career, and moved back to Down …
- … Dionaea (Venus fly trap) to help with his lecture at the Royal Institution ( letter to J. S. …
- … Balfour; Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see …
- … his time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( see letter to H. …
- … the colour of their surroundings to the Entomological Society of London ( letter from H. W. Bates, …
- … Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to the Geological Society of London and an annual medal ( …
- … February 1874 ), and honorary member of the Entomological Society of France ( letter to Eugène …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … wider implications of evolutionary theory for medicine and society were explored in a campaign that …
- … to Henry Hussey Vivian, an MP and fellow of the Geological Society: ‘I have every cause to believe …
- … He enlisted the support of William Farr, a specialist in medical statistics who worked in the …
- … great success in the army. He gained a commission in the Royal Engineers, obtaining the second …
