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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: 28 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) …
  • … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … Bosquet, 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) …
  • … Colburn, Henry (3) Colby, John (3) …
  • … Colgate, Robert (1) Collier, John (2) …
  • … Craig, J. S. (2) Crawfurd, John (3) …
  • … Crick, W. D. (11) Crier, John (1) …
  • … Davis, J. E. (1) Davy, John (6) …
  • … Denny, Henry (13) Denny, John (6) …
  • … Downie, Mr (1) Downing, John (3) …
  • … Evans, E. G. (2) Evans, John (b) (3) …
  • … Farn, A. B. (1) Farr, John (2) Farr, …
  • … Fisher, J. F. (2) Fiske, John (14) …
  • … Richard (1) Fordyce, John (2) Forel, …
  • … Fox, H. S. (3) Fox, John & Sons (1) …
  • … Gaertner, Albin (2) Gage, John (1) …
  • … Gibbs, George (1) Gibbs, John (2) …

Darwin’s student booklist

Summary

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…

Matches: 10 hits

  • … of the books are suitable reading for a medical student: John Abernethy was a London surgeon whose …
  • … journal  vols. 1–14 (1819–26). 14 Bostock 1824–7. Volume 1 is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
  • … 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a.  The Hunterian oration, for …
  • … Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1819b.  Part of the introductory …
  • … Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1822.  Physiological lectures, …
  • … Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1823.  Introductory lectures, …
  • … A. Strahan and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. 1824–7.  An elementary system …
  • … of Natural History  33: 202–13. Franklin, John. 1823.  Narrative of a journey to the shores …
  • … index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Paris, John Ayrton. 1825.  Pharmacologia . …
  • … and remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham: late of St. John’s College, Cambridge . London: J. …

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

  • … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
  • … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
  • … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
  • … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th  St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
  • … Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor …
  • … 1848] Madam Malguet [Torrens] 1848] —— Lives of John & Alex. Belthune [?Bethune 1840 and …
  • … Ireland [Thompson 1849–56]. Vol. I. II & 3 May. St. John’s Tour in Sutherlandshire [Saint …
  • … 171] Pagets Travels in Hungary & Transylvania [John Paget 1839]— account of Dogs like …
  • … Empire [Huc 1855] Feb 16 th  Pagets Hungary [John Paget 1839] —— Bechsteins …
  • … 23] 1858 Life of Montaigne by B. St. John [B. Saint John 1858].— Miss …
  • … in the  Botanist , 5 vols. (1837–41), edited by John Stevens Henslow and B. Maund. 37 …
  • … may have reissued both parts in 1844. 39  John Lindley served as assistant secretary …
  • …  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors about John Fleming, and the review was by …
  • …  Possibly a mistake for “Mowbray”, the pseudonym of John Lawrence, whose  Treatise on domestic …
  • … this list at the back of the notebook. 84  John Lindley described plant breeding …
  • … with ‘O’ in pencil. 103  Hugh Cuming. John Gould Anthony published  Description of …
  • …   colonies.  London.  119: 23b Abercrombie, John. 1838.  Inquiries concerning the   …
  • … *119: 16v. ——. 1848.  The military life of John Duke of   Marlborough . Edinburgh and …
  • … by Harriet Martineau. London.  128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9.  …
  • … Emperor of Hindustan, written by himself . Translated by John Leyden and William Erskine. 2 vols. …
  • … scientiarum; or, new method of studying the sciences . [By John Hoppus.] (Library of Useful …
  • … . 29 pts. Prague and Paris.  *128: 179 Barrow, John. 1801.  An account of travels into …
  • … of Good Hope . 2 vols. London. 119: 9a Barrow, John. 1847.  An auto-biographical memoir …