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To Thomas Henry Huxley 2 April [1856]

Summary

Invitation to THH and wife to come to Down to meet H. C. Watson, T. V. Wollaston, and the Hookers.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:	2 Apr [1856]
Classmark:	Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 46)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1847

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… DCP-LETT-1847 …

To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]

Summary

Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.

Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.

Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.

Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:	[4 Oct 1847]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1122

Matches: 15 hits

… To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847] …
… Mss.B.D25.63) Charles Robert Darwin Down [4 Oct 1847] Mary Elizabeth Horner/Mary Elizabeth …
… the glens. Is reading Hugh Miller [ First impressions of England and its people (1847)]. …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 October 1847] ). A fossil reptile had recently been discovered …
… London 4: 17. Miller, Hugh. 1847. First impressions of England and its people. London. ‘ …
… See letter to Charles Lyell, [11 October 1847] , in which CD informs Lyell that he has …
… he gives no specific reason. Hugh Miller . CD recorded that he finished Miller 1847 on …
… 6 October 1847 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV). Almost certainly the same …
… Press. 1985–. Goldfuss, Georg August. 1847. Über das älteste der mit Bestimmtheit …
… Saarbrück coalfields] [Read 16 June 1847. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of …
… from the Carboniferous period ( Goldfuss 1847 ). Louis Agassiz believed in a progressive, …
… This letter has not been found. See letter from Robert Chambers, 5 October 1847 . See …
… letter to Charles Lyell, [11 October 1847] . See ‘Observations on the parallel roads of …
… 95. See letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] , n. 20. Kilfinnin is located in an …
… to the Scotsman , [after 20 September 1847]). William Buckland was a proponent of the …

To Charles Lyell [23 January 1847]

Summary

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	[23 Jan 1847]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1051

Matches: 10 hits

… To Charles Lyell [23 January 1847] …
… Society (Mss.B.D25.65) Charles Robert Darwin Down [23 Jan 1847] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
… J. D. Hooker, [December 1846 – January 1847] , for CD’s intention to invite Lyell. …
… boulders [ Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172]. Views of Bernhard Studer on …
… University Press. 1985–. Horner, Leonard. 1847. Anniversary address of the president. …
… letter to Bernhard Studer, 20 January [1847] . Charles Maclaren . CD’s letter to him has …
… to Charles Lyell, [on or before 20 January 1847] , n. 2. Leonard Horner did not refer to …
… to emphasise his work on elevation and subsidence ( Horner 1847 ). Charles Lyell had …
… visited CD at Down House on 16 January 1847. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to …
… See letter to Daniel Sharpe, [19 January 1847] , n. 2. South America , pp. 140–68. See …

To Charles Lyell [2 June 1847]

Summary

Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].

Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	[2 June 1847]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.60)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1093

Matches: 12 hits

… To Charles Lyell [2 June 1847] …
… Society (Mss.B.D25.60) Charles Robert Darwin Down [2 June 1847] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
… S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12]. …
… Press. 1985–. Morton, Samuel George. 1847. Hybridity in animals, considered in reference …
… Motacilla alba is the white wagtail. Morton 1847 , p. 207. The carrion crow and the …
… time that CD attended the council, on 9 June 1847, is not a likely date for receipt of the …
… the letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 June 1847] . The correspondence had to do with university …
… In a letter to George Ticknor, 2 April 1847, Lyell wrote: ‘There is a move now in the …
… referred to as Silliman’s Journal . Morton 1847 , in which Samuel George Morton discussed …
… man. Griffith et al. 1827–35. Morton 1847 , p. 204. The passage CD cites is in Temminck …
… nouveau, tenant à la fois de l’une et de l’autre espèce. ’ Morton 1847 , p. 210. The …
… between a horseradish and a cabbage. Morton 1847 , p. 207, citing Temminck 1820–40 , 1: …

To J. D. Hooker [25 March 1847]

Summary

Health bad, cannot get to Kew.

Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[25 Mar 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 85
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1076

Matches: 7 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [25 March 1847] …
… DAR 114: 85 Charles Robert Darwin Down [25 Mar 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… seaweeds in association with Harvey (J. D. Hooker and Harvey 1847 ). …
… Bibliography Harvey, William Henry. 1847. Nereis Australis, or algae of the Southern …
… the letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 March 1847] , n. 1. Reeve Brothers , the publishing firm …
… and description. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1847] , and letter to William …
… Henry Harvey, [7 April 1847] . Hooker was at this time compiling a list of Tasmanian …

To David Milne 20 [September 1847]

Summary

Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".

Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	David Milne Home
Date:	20 [Sept 1847]
Classmark:	National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1120

Matches: 8 hits

… To David Milne 20 [September 1847] …
… Library of Scotland (MS.3813) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [Sept 1847] David Milne Home …
… Collected papers 1: 92). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] , n. 18. …
… See letter to the Scotsman , [after 20 September 1847]. …
… DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395– …
… trip to London on Saturday, 18 September 1847. Milne 1847b , the privately printed version …
… See letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] , n. 5. In a modification of Thomas Dick …
… See letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] , n. 9. In September 1846, when examining …

To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]

Summary

Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.

CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[18 Apr 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 86
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1082

Matches: 14 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847] …
… DAR 114: 86 Charles Robert Darwin Down [18 Apr 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… s College | Cambridge’. See letter to Robert Chambers, [28 February 1847] , and letter to …
… Charles Lyell, [7 March 1847] . Robert Chambers’s authorship of Vestiges of the natural …
… Cottrell Watson to J. D. Hooker, 12 April 1847 . Watson wrote numerous articles for the …
… and CD were planning during the week of the 1847 British Association meeting in Oxford (‘ …
… London: John Murray. 1845. Ross, James Clark. 1847. A voyage of discovery and research in …
… recorded in his reading notebook on 13 July 1847 that he had read volumes one and two of …
… forthcoming number of the Quarterly Review (no. 81, September 1847, pp. 468–500); but it …
… that he may be discussing a review of Ross 1847 and W. J. Hooker 1843 , in which J. …
… mentioned ( Quarterly Review , no. 81, June 1847, pp. 166–87). The author of the latter …
… 1844–7 was issued in 25 numbers; by April 1847 the publishers had issued 23 of these ( …
… this journal from December 1846 to April 1847 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix …
… Annales are in DAR 72 and DAR 74. On 20 April 1847, CD recorded reading John Forbes Royle’ …

To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]

Summary

Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.

Urges JDH to go to Scotland.

Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[4 Aug 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 100
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1105

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… To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847] …
… DAR 114: 100 Charles Robert Darwin Down [4 Aug 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1847. Floræ Tasmaniæ Spicilegium; or contributions …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 July [1847] , for CD’s intention to vote in the Cambridge …
… the London Journal of Botany , published in three parts in the latter half of 1847 ( J. …
… D. Hooker 1847 ). …

To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]

Summary

On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.

"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:	9 Feb [1847]
Classmark:	J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1059

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… To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847] …
… 574 11–13 November 1965) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Feb [1847] Ernst Dieffenbach …
… Bunsen 1847a , 1847b, and 1847c. See also letter to A. W. H. Kolbe, 5 May [1847] . C. …
… Lyell 1847 . See Correspondence vol.5, letter to Charles Lyell, [8 April 1851] , in which …
… University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1847. Principles of geology; or, the modern …
… South America . South America , p. 200. Tschudi 1847 . No copy of this work is in the …
… but CD listed it among his books read on 8 March 1847 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. …
… 4, Appendix IV). Sharpe 1847. See …
… also letters to Daniel Sharpe , [19 January 1847] and [ …
… 23 January 1847] . CD did not begin this work until 9 September 1854, when the final …
… Elder & Co. 1846. Tschudi, Johann Jakob von. 1847. Travels in Peru, during the years 1838– …

To Daniel Sharpe [19 January 1847]

Summary

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Daniel Sharpe
Date:	[19 Jan 1847]
Classmark:	The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1052

Matches: 8 hits

… To Daniel Sharpe [19 January 1847] …
… Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2) Charles Robert Darwin Down [19 Jan 1847] Daniel Sharpe …
… slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and …
… letter to Daniel Sharpe, [23 January 1847] ). Sharpe had previously discussed his views …
… are based on CD’s letters to Bernhard Studer , 20 January [1847] , and to Daniel …
… Sharpe , [23 January 1847]. Studer 1847b , published in the January issue of the Edinburgh …
… not be sedimentary strata. See also letter to Bernhard Studer, 21 March [1847] , n. …
… 4. Sharpe 1847, which was first read at a meeting of the Geological Society on 2 December …

To J. D. Hooker [10 June 1847]

Summary

Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.

Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[10 June 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 94
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1095

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… To J. D. Hooker [10 June 1847] …
… DAR 114: 94 Charles Robert Darwin Down [10 June 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… is cited in Natural selection , p. 420. See letter to Charles Lyell, [2 June 1847] . See …
… letter to William Henry Harvey, [7 April 1847] . Henry Thomas De la Beche , director- …
… president of the Geological Society in 1847. Hooker was botanist to the Geological Survey. …
… Biology 10: 107–53. Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1847–59. Cybele Britannica; or British plants …
… chemistry at Oxford University, 1822–55. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1847] , n. …
… 2. Herbert 1847, p. 100. CD scored the relevant passage in his copy of the paper (Darwin …
… his Cybele Britannica in four volumes ( Watson 1847–59 ). The entire work is in the Darwin …
… having read the first volume on 9 July 1847. On 13 July he noted that he had read volumes …
… s articles in the Phytologist of May–July 1847). George Snow operated a weekly carrier …

To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847]

Summary

Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:	14 Aug [1847]
Classmark:	Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1108F

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… To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847] …
… private collection) Charles Robert Darwin 14 Aug [1847] Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III …
… letter to Josiah Wedgwood III, [20? August 1847] ( Correspondence vol. 4). CD refers to …
… to Josiah Wedgwood III, [22 June – 10 August 1847] , and letter to Josiah Wedgwood III, [ …
… 20? August 1847] and n. 3). Sarah Elizabeth …
… CD recorded a £50 payment on 14 August 1847 for interest on Maer, the former home of …
… books (Down House MS)). CD had advanced £15 to Emma’s trust fund on 17 June 1847 and was …
… repaid 31 August 1847 (see Correspondence vol. 4, …
… to Josiah Wedgwood III , [22 June – 17 August 1847] and n. 4). Shares in the London and …

To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]

Summary

Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:	[22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 210.10: 13
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1043

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… To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847] …
… 210.10: 13 Charles Robert Darwin Down [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III …
… were temporarily depressed. See Annual Register 1847, Chronicle, pp. 119, 140–1. Francis …
… letter to Josiah Wedgwood III, 14 August 1847. Charles Stokes , fellow of the Geological …
… Bradford Railway for Emma Darwin’s trust fund on 21 August 1847. See also letter to …
… Josiah Wedgwood III, [20? August 1847] . Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were …
… by CD on 17 June and was repaid on 31 August 1847 (CD’s Account Book (Down House MS)). …
… During April 1847, and again in September and October, there was a financial crisis in the …
… soon, what money I have to invest. diag 1847. 91 . 6 . 7 interest on Calls. 47 . 10 this …

To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]

Summary

Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.

Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[5 Oct 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 108
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1123

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… To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847] …
… DAR 114: 108 Charles Robert Darwin Down [5 Oct 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1847. Principles of geology; or, the modern …
… question of the origin of coal in C. Lyell 1847 , p. 278. He believed the plants to be …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [6 or 13 October 1847] ). The date first mentioned by Hooker for …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 September 1847] ). Hooker, in fact, left on 11 November. The …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [6 or 13 October 1847] ), at which a compromise was reached. At a …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [6 November 1847] ). For CD’s arguments with Hooker about the …
… origin of coal, see letters to J. D. Hooker, [6 May 1847] and [ …
… 12 May 1847] . Equisetum grows chiefly in swamps. Charles …

To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]

Summary

Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	[11 Oct 1847]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1126

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… To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847] …
… Society (Mss.B.D25.64) Charles Robert Darwin Down [11 Oct 1847] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
… University Press. 1985–. Miller, Hugh. 1847. First impressions of England and its people. …
… a copy of the paper during his visit. Miller 1847 . CD copied these measurements from …
… the table in the letter from Robert Chambers, 5 October 1847 . …
… letter from Robert Chambers, 5 October 1847 . William Kemp of Galashiels had corresponded …
… to the Scotsman , [after 20 September 1847]. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , …

To Leonard Horner [January 1847]

Summary

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Discusses inclination of lava stream.

Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Leonard Horner
Date:	[Jan 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 145: 139
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1048

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… To Leonard Horner [January 1847] …
… DAR 145: 139 Charles Robert Darwin Down [Jan 1847] Leonard Horner …
… the original letter was marked ‘C. Darwin Jan 1847’. South America , published in October …
… Horner, [23 December 1846 – January 1847] ). Erasmus Alvey Darwin . See Correspondence …
… his anniversary address ( Horner 1847 ). The retiring presidents of the Geological Society …
… vol. 3, letter to Leonard Horner, [23 December 1846 – January 1847] , n. 6). …
… University Press. 1985–. Horner, Leonard. 1847. Anniversary address of the president. …

To Joseph Beete Jukes 8 October [1847]

Summary

Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:	8 Oct [1847]
Classmark:	University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1125

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… To Joseph Beete Jukes 8 October [1847] …
… History of Science Collections Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Oct [1847] Joseph Beete Jukes …
… coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral …
… Bibliography Jukes, Joseph Beete. 1847. Narrative of the surveying voyage of HMS Fly, …
… coast of Australia, 1842–6, under the command of Francis Price Blackwood . Jukes 1847 . …
… Jukes 1847 , pp. 347–8. John Crawfurd , who travelled widely in India and China and …

From Robert Chambers to David Milne 7 September 1847

Summary

Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.

Author:	Robert Chambers
Addressee:	David Milne Home
Date:	7 Sept 1847
Classmark:	DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1115

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… From Robert Chambers to David Milne 7 September 1847 …
… DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1 Robert Chambers St Andrews 7 Sept 1847 David Milne Home …
… On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. …
… St. Andrews, September 7, 1847. My dear Sir, I have had a letter today from Mr. Charles …
… see letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ) before CD received one from Milne ( …
… see letter to David Milne, 20 [September 1847] ). CD’s copy of Milne 1847b is preserved in …
… of Edinburgh on 1 March and 5 April 1847 (published in the Transactions of the society in …

To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847]

Summary

Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 77
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1036

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… To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847] …
… DAR 114: 77 Charles Robert Darwin Down [Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… CD refers to 16 January 1847, when Charles Lyell and presumably Hooker visited Down. See …
… Correspondence vol. 4, letter to Charles Lyell, [23 January 1847] . …

To Bernhard Studer 21 March [1847]

Summary

Sends copy of South America.

Will consult BS’s article in the Bulletin.

Recommends article by Daniel Sharpe ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105].

Cites his description of thin laminae in volcanic rocks in Volcanic islands. Suggests similar process may have affected metamorphic schists.

Thanks him for offer of his book [Lehrbuch der physikalischen Geographie und Geologie (1844–7)]. Since he reads German poorly, BS should send book only if short and inexpensive.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Bernhard Studer
Date:	21 Mar [1847]
Classmark:	Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1073

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… To Bernhard Studer 21 March [1847] …
… Bern, Bern, Switzerland Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Mar [1847] Bernhard Studer …
… have been sedimentary. See letters to Daniel Sharpe , [19 January 1847] , and to Bernhard …
… Studer , 20 January [1847]. …
… Sharpe 1847, read 2 December 1846. Volcanic islands , pp. 65–72. The analogy between …
… On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Cites his description of thin …
… letter to Bernhard Studer, 20 January [1847] , for an earlier discussion of this subject. …

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Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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… [4 September 1843] To Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] To Robert Chambers, 11 …

Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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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…

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… in the level of land came under renewed scrutiny. In 1847 David Milne, the Scottish geologist, …
… remains ( letter to the Scotsman , [after 20 September 1847] ). Other letters to colleagues at …
… thrown away’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ). The second geological theory …
… uniqueness fully. Sometime before the end of December 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the …
… severe problem for Darwin during this period, especially in 1847 and during the last half of 1848 …

Edward Lumb

Summary

Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…

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… after Darwin’s return to England, since a letter of 1847 refers to information sent through Mr …

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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… of Anat.— Instinct by D r . Alison [W. P. Alison 1847]. No 19. July. 1840 27 Annales des …
… . Hooker. read Fortune’s Travels in China [Fortune 1847] read Lettres philosop. sur l …
… Travels in Peru (translated) [J. J. von Tschudi 1847] Gardners Travels in Brazil [Gardner …
… [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew Monarchy [Newman] 1847] Berniers …
… 1843]. (Emma) (read) M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . …
… animals 54 folio Plates. Maclise 2”12.6. [Maclise 1847] good for woodcuts. (Roy. Coll. of Surgeons) …
… to publish one. 45 Gosse. Birds of Jamaica [Gosse 1847], recommended by Yarrel …
… Society of Edinburgh ] Youatt on Pig [Youatt 1847]. Westminster Rev. Oct. 49. Article …
… [DAR *119: 23] Prescotts Peru [W. H. Prescott 1847] Sleemans Travels to Khiva. 47 …
… 1841] Edwardes. Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847].— Cunningham Life of Wilkie …
… Edwards Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847] } Home Library L …
… [Metzger 1841] Alison on Instinct [W. P. Alison 1847]. 79 Art. Generation [A. Thompson …
… 1846], skimmed. miserable [DAR 119: 18a] 1847. Jan 14 th Mem: du Museum …
… 8 th Tschudis Travels in Peru [J. J. von Tschudi 1847] 15. Skimmed 7 th Edit of Lyell’s …
… 7 published end 1838.— [DAR 119: 18b] 1847 Jan 13 th Life of Tcholtzee …
… —— 30 Von Ensigen’s Memoirs [Varnhagen von Ense 1847] Col. Lib Aug. 25. North’s lives of L. …
… Sismondi. Polit. Econ. Essay translated [Simonde de Sismondi 1847], poor Nov. 1. Goethe …
… —— 28 th Sir J. Barrow autobiography [Barrow 1847].— poor [DAR 119: 19a] 1847. …
… Spratt & Forbes, travels in Lycia [Spratt and Forbes 1847] 12 th Putsche & Vertuch …
… 9 th H. C. Watson. Cybele Britannica [H. C. Watson 1847–59].— —— 13 th Phytologist [ …
… 1824] —— Fortune Wanderings in China [Fortune 1847] Aug 6 th Lettres Philosop. sur …
… Aug 16. Vestiges of Creation VI th Edit. [Chambers 1847] —— Report of Brit. Assoc. [ …
… th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] Physio-philosophy. Oken [Oken 1847]. …
… 6. H. Miller First Impressions of England [H. Miller 1847]. Nov. 10 Prichard Physical Researches. …
… Treatise [Roget 1834] 9 th Jukes Voyage [Jukes 1847]. Vol. I & II. W. F. Edwards Des …

Referencing women’s work

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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…

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… Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin questions Mrs. …

Darwin in public and private

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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…

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… Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin questions Mrs. …

Barnacles

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…

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… Letter 1140 —Darwin to J. C. Ross, 31 Dec 1847 Darwin writes to James Clark Ross, officer …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin questions Mrs. …
… 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin asks Mrs. Whitby to …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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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. …

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… Society Arnhem 14 july 1847? Gorssel? …
… Middle School Den Haag 15 october 1847 Dublin (Thomastown?) …
… Physician Amsterdam 1847 Amsterdam 3 November 1909 …
… School. Rotterdam 20 august 1847 Rotterdam 8 january 1934 …
… Society. Rhoon 17 august 1847 Rhoon 19 November 1909 …

Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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… Letter 1140 — Darwin, C. R. to Ross, J. C., 31 Dec 1847 Darwin asks Ross to collect …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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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.…

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… Society Arnhem 14 July 1847? Gorssel? …
… Middle School Den Haag 15 October 1847 Dublin (Thomastown?) …
… Physician Amsterdam 1847 Amsterdam 3 November 1909 …
… School. Rotterdam 20 August 1847 Rotterdam 8 January 1934 …
… Society. Rhoon 17 August 1847 Rhoon 19 November 1909 …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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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…

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… shell of Concholepas , a Chilean abalone. By February, 1847, Darwin had expanded his study and …
… work of comparative anatomy, but it was only at the end of 1847 that Darwin decided to undertake a …
… Bowerbank, who had founded the Palaeontographical Society in 1847. ‘With respect to publication of …

4.4 Thomas Huxley, caricature sketch

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< Back to Introduction This amusing sketch signed by Thomas Huxley is in a letter that he wrote to Darwin on 20 July 1868. By the late 1860s, Origin of Species had given rise to extreme adulation of Darwin on the part of some of the younger German…

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… affectionate caricature of him twenty-one years earlier, in 1847, for the amusement of their young …
… 1991), p. 562, illus. 75. For the ‘grotesque drawing’ of 1847: leaflet in the Wedgwood Museum …

People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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… Bern and Berlin (Dr., 1846). Habilitation in physics (1847) and professor in Bern (1849). Brunner …
… grammar and writing at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna (1847), editor-in-chief of the …

Elizabeth Darwin born

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Daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) born

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… Daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) born …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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… the open. In the event, it was not until the beginning of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of …
… vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1847]). Darwin can be seen as a cautious strategist, …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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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…

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… state of disarray in the taxonomy of the group. Late in 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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… George Howard, born 9 July 1845; Elizabeth, born 8 July 1847; Francis, born 16 August 1848; Leonard, …
… Litchfield papers, CUL). [60] Elizabeth Darwin, born 1847. She was always referred to as …

George Peacock

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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…

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… and the treasures that might be brought home. In 1847, at the age of 56, he married Frances …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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… 1980, pp. 60–2, 124–128, Worster 1985, pp. 179–80, 184–7). An appeal It is a …

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