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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … "A child of God" (1) …
- … (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
- … Ambrose, J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences …
- … (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
- … D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
- … Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
- … Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
- … W. J. R. (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Annie (7) Down Friendly Society (3) …
- … (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
- … Margaret (1) Franklin Society (1) …
- … Isidore (2) Geological Society (1) …
- … Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. (1) Philosophical Institute of Canterbury …
- … Seare, Thomas (1) Secretary of the Royal Commission on vivisection …
- … (1) secretary of American Philosophical Society (1) …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119) …
- … a few odd entries, the record ends. Both notebooks consist of two different sections, headed ‘Books …
- … information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading notebooks (Vorzimmer 1977) …
- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. …
- … 1802–13]— facts about close species. Wilson’s American Ornithology [A. Wilson 1808–14] …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … according to Hooker has written on topography of N. American plants. [?Michaux 1803].— M r …
- … ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] Linnæan …
- … History Society ] Ed. New Phil Jour [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] Mem: du …
- … Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ. [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] 13 numbers have been …
- … Edinburg Phil. Journal. & L’Institut for 1839 [ Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and L' …
- … 1833] March 1 st . Philosoph. Transactions [ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
- … Sonnets ] 66 Silliman’s Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ] all from 1 to …
- … (& p. 397 to 452 Bought) 30 th Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts …
- … which read if Yarrell does not compare British with N. American [Yarrell 1836].— March I. G. …
- … [Temminck 1813–15]. —— 30 th Silliman [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Vol …
- … Philosoph Soc. Philadelphia [ Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at …
- … ] Edinburgh New Philosoph [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] Zoologist [ …
- … in 1844. 39 John Lindley served as assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
- … ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
- … with the challenges presented by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, …
- … Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s Evidence as to man …
- … the first part of his presidential address at the Linnean Society of London to British and foreign …
- … vol. 10). He sent a copy to Asa Gray to review in an American journal, and also wrote a long …
- … colony, paid tribute to Darwin’s work when he spoke to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in …
- … ). Darwin was subsequently elected an Honorary Member of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, …
- … [1863] ). Asa Gray reviewed Candolle’s memoir in the American Journal of Science and Arts (A. …
- … November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of the Royal Society voted instead for the geologist …
- … to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward Sabine …
- … in species of Linum ’) was read before the Linnean Society. In the paper, Darwin presented …
- … communicated Scott’s Primula work to the Linnean Society in a paper that was read in February …
- … Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he read his orchid paper, …
- … and Herschelea Darwin communicated to the Linnean Society ( see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 …
- … at the suffering of slaves’ (LL 3: 199). The American Civil War Darwin’s aversion to …
- … Hooker, who had long since ceased to discuss politics or the American Civil War in his …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his …
- … easy plant to raise in pot ’. Gray immediately sent seeds of the two plants he had himself used to …
- … angulatus , [ Sicyos angulatus ; bur cucumber]—also of a more genteel Cucurbitacea, …
- … these, especially upon the first, I made my observations of tendrils coiling to the touch ’. …
- … interrupted by his poor health. He did not lose his sense of humour, though, and told his best …
- … Charles Darwin”; for I cannot think what has come over me of late; I always suffered from the …
- … Darwin’s journal for 1863 resolutely records each chapter of Variation as he finished writing it …
- … June 1863, Darwin reported to Gray that although the seeds of Sicyos failed to germinate, he had …
- … in another respect, namely the incessant rotatory movement of the leading shoots, which bring the …
- … I will perhaps write a letter to you for the chance of its being worth inserting in Silliman or …
- … a little paper on these movements ’. Clearly, the seeds of another ‘interruption’ to Variation …
- … flower with its peduncle? ’ Oliver replied with a highly philosophical rumination on the ‘ideal …
- … he could publish his opus. The Journal of the Linnean Society seemed the obvious choice, and yet …
- … paper was long, but an excerpt from it was read by the secretary of the Linnean Society, Frederick …
- … June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). In spite of his …
- … publication and appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in November 1866. …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in …
- … During these years he published two books—his Journal of researches and The structure and …
- … In addition, he organised and superintended the publication of the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. …
- … Emma Wedgwood. The letters they exchanged during the period of preparation for their marriage are …
- … in 1839 the couple set up house in London and at the end of the year their first child, William …
- … to Down House in Kent, where Darwin was to spend the rest of his life enjoying the ‘extreme rurality …
- … a species theory Viewed retrospectively, in the light of his greatest theoretical achievement …
- … read the fourth of a series of papers to the Geological Society of London. Three of the papers …
- … William Buckland called it (in his referee’s report to the Society of 9 March 1838), had been …
- … and the reviews of his papers for the Geological Society Transactions provide ample evidence …
- … Scotland. This tour resulted in a major paper for the Royal Society in which he advanced the …
- … their mutual involvement in the affairs of the Geological Society. During the Beagle voyage …
- … side of the correspondence are preserved (187 of them in the American Philosophical Society’s …
- … put an end to further field work in geology. From his South American days he knew how important good …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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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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- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the meaning …
- … The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers , his fifth book on a …
- … gathering observations made by others. With the exception of bloom, each of these projects would …
- … Francis, who had moved back to Down House after the death of his wife, Amy, the previous year. He …
- … and digestion. William, who had contributed to some of the early research on heterostyly, provided …
- … his father, however, by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins …
- … had been many months in preparation, and involved hundreds of contributors from Germany, Austria, …
- … written between 1861 and 1868 and presented to the Linnean Society of London. In the book, Darwin …
- … nitrogenous matter. His work on teasel was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin, who …
- … perfectly heard & understood’. An abstract appeared in the society’s Proceedings , but the …
- … Rade, a civil servant active in the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter …
- … The album arrived with a long letter from the director and secretary of the Dutch Zoological …
- … January, he was contacted by Christopher Columbus Graham, an American entrepreneur with a large …
- … the previous year. Carlyle had apparently remarked to an American visitor, ‘A good sort of man is …
- … ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows Bowles, …
- … tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse Portman …
- … along with Annie Besant, had reprinted a pamphlet by an American physician that advocated …
- … Galton’s theory of heredity in 1876, but as he was a philosophical writer rather than a scientific …
- … Sara Sedgwick. She was the daughter of Theodore Sedgwick, an American legal theorist, and his wife, …
- … at Christ’s College, and avoided dinner at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. ‘I am not able to …
- … (Thomas Henry Huxley delivered a rousing speech at the Philosophical Society dinner), and busy …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing …
- … again to write on general & difficult points in the theory of Evolution’, he told the …
- … earlier, on 23 February , he had told his valued South American correspondent Fritz Müller, ‘I …
- … as the sweetest place on this earth’. From the start of the year, Darwin had his demise on his mind. …
- … affairs and began to make provision for the dividing of his wealth after his death. Darwin’s …
- … who lived at Down House, remained a continual source of delight. A second grandchild was born in …
- … Krause countered Butler’s accusations in a review of Unconscious memory in Kosmos and sent …
- … and editor Leslie Stephen. There was ‘a hopeless division of opinion’ within the family, Henrietta …
- … Darwin was enormously relieved. ‘Your note is one of the kindest which I have ever received,’ he …
- … that so good a judge, as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the false accusation’. Other friends …
- … Nature , and George Romanes wrote such a savage review of Unconscious memory that Darwin …
- … in his hand, he obliged, and did the same for a young Dutch-American, telling him, ‘my collections …
- … islands who was not only a collector but also considered philosophical questions. Over the course of …
- … the limits of science in questions of religion, morals, and society. Graham accepted evolution and …
- … the Darwinian scientific hypothesis into a universal philosophical theory called Darwinism, as this …
- … obliged to sit for a portrait commissioned by the Linnean Society. ‘It tires me a good deal to sit …
- … & ungracious dog not to agree’, he told Romanes, secretary of the society, on 27 May . …
- … and when William expressed his wish to join the Geological Society of London, if it were ‘not absurd …
- … not commending papers presented by Francis at the Linnean Society the previous December (claiming …
- … the scientific method in future science classes, the American entomologist Charles Riley praised …
- … character, such as ‘his strong sense of humour and love of society’, ‘his extreme interest in the …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and plants …
- … projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long paper on climbing plants in …
- … lengthy discussion written by George Douglas Campbell, duke of Argyll, appeared in the religious …
- … the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The year …
- … ready to submit his paper on climbing plants to the Linnean Society of London, and though he was …
- … Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly …
- … of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to include among the …
- … to the news of Falconer’s death was at first calm and philosophical: ‘I am much grieved; It will be …
- … fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society of …
- … An abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April Darwin …
- … that he needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 …
- … which Darwin edited and submitted in October to the Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s name …
- … 13). Before submitting the letters to the Linnean Society, Darwin enlisted the help of Daniel …
- … published his results in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867), and Darwin …
- … thing, considering that Brewster is President & Balfour secretary’, he wrote to Hooker on 22 …
- … Gray wrote a long review of ‘Climbing plants’ in the American Journal of Science and Arts , in …
- … to express his happiness and relief at the end of the American Civil War. Friends at war …
- … is a charming little story.' The Darwins were also reading `American novels’, Miriam Coles …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with …
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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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … admired in his youth: ‘I have always looked on him as one of the greatest men the world has ever …
- … to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused …
- … university days together, and the long-abandoned pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( …
- … and sceptics Darwin excused himself for reasons of health from various social activities, …
- … in the month, another Williams séance was held at the home of Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood. …
- … was that Williams managed to get the two men on each side of him to hold each other’s hands, instead …
- … January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting to America of the ‘strange news’ that Darwin had …
- … 1874 ). Back over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent consumed …
- … of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an American zoologist, geologist, and leading …
- … against Mivart. Hooker even suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( …
- … career, and moved back to Down with Amy to become Darwin’s secretary. They rented Down Lodge and …
- … with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American correspondent Mary Treat sent …
- … April 1874 ). Asa Gray forwarded a letter from the American physicist and painter Ogden Rood …
- … ( letter from James Ross, September 1874 ). The American philosopher Chauncey Wright sent a …
- … letter from Chauncey Wright, 3 September 1874 ). The American lawyer Samuel Whitaker …
- … Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see letter from …
- … time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( see letter to H. B. …
- … 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 ( …
- … quarters. He was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( …
- … through a historical survey of scientists’ engagement with philosophical materialism, including a …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement …
- … Preface To part II or that intended for N o II of the foresaid works. By Captain Robert …
- … – and almost as heavy – limited the 2 nd to 700 pages of easily readable type – and the Appendix …
- … – I was compelled to omit a very handsome collection of exceedingly valuable materials which I am …
- … the assistance which is to be received in my unapproachably Philosophical Essay on the Oceanic Tidal …
- … work – I shall then give in that – a most wonderfully philosophical solution. At page 106 – …
- … – and thence narrowing in Latitude as it approaches the American Coast – in consequence of the …
- … had been fully approved by the master attendant and the secretary to the Govt. In process of time Mr …
- … thence hied to the Lord High Admiral –Tut – I mean, Mr Secretary to the Board – shewed him the trick …
- … my inadvertently giving the Title of Lord High Admiral to Mr Secretary – I was more in the right – …
- … that he (an M.A. & F.R.S. – who is – or has been, Secretary to the Grand Geological Society and …
- … residence, has a charm for some minds, but the loss of Society – the numerous privations and the …
- … of the Genuine Classical taste – which preferred masculine society and beauty – to feminine – and …
- … their colour was of a brighter red than that of any South American or Polynesian who I had seen i.e. …
- … more of Mr Ross than his seduced accomplice (the British American) did – lost heart and took himself …
- … departure by a party (at the head of whom was the British-American not for himself as he said – but …
- … down the coconut trees and raising maize *[31] ) to the American Whalers whom (he fondly believed) …
- … were with Mr Ross in the vessel – the mate – the British American f.218v p.140 …
- … the Beagle. If a Christian Minister belonging to the Society of Friends or to that of the …
- … should be sent to inspect – among the recesses of the American Rocky Mountains – the wilds of …
- … the arrangements now made – the removal of the [British] American – Raymond – and the troublesome …
- … clear. ***[15] In the term “European” North American is meant to be included. In fact …
- … carries it to maturity. *[32] As the Religious Society in England can testify – two of …
