From John Ball 28 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for noticing some difficulties in his hypothesis. Concedes that there is no proof that higher plants are more intolerant of carbon dioxide than lower plants. Argues that the main difference between the lowlands and the high mountains in Palaeozoic times would be the much greater climatic fluctuations that would occur on the mountains. Discusses carbon dioxide diffusion in the Palaeozoic atmosphere. Thinks that the large number of species and genera peculiar to high mountains favours the assumption that "their diffusion must date from a geologically remote period" [see ML 2: 20–2].
| Author: | John Ball |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12335 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … between the lowlands and the high mountains in Palaeozoic times would be the much …
- … fluctuations that would occur on the mountains. Discusses carbon dioxide diffusion in the …
- … species and genera peculiar to high mountains favours the assumption that "their diffusion …
- … of relation between the floras of the mountain masses & that of the surrounding lower …
- … whole the facts favour the idea of the mountain plants being derived from the low country …
- … of genera & species peculiar to the high mountains is great enough to make an a priori …
- … the condition of the lowlands & the high mountains in palæozoic (pre-coalmeasure) times …
From G. H. Darwin 3 March 1879
Summary
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11914 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … south-west of Algiers at the foot of the Tell Atlas mountains. The Chiffa Gorge is about …
- … malarious— Here we are close under the mountains which have still got snow on them from …
- … we are going to drive to a gorge in the mountains about 10 miles away, which is said to be …
- … Rira about 30 miles further on thro’ the mountains. It is a hot mineral baths & said to be …
- … miles south-west of Blida in the Tell Atlas mountains. A ravine known as the Ruisseau-des- …
From C. A. Lindvall 16 February 1879
Summary
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
| Author: | Carl August Lindvall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11885 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Investigation into the grooves whereof the mountains of Scandinavia are furrowed in a …
- … our glaciofluvial eskers, the grooves in the mountains, et cetera; Lindvall 1878 ). This …
- … in the surface of our rounded granite mountains follows a certain law,— they are paralel …
- … herein a power which could grind off the mountains at the bottom, wash the sand and roll …
- … compare this to the traces left on the mountains surface, we find, that the rifles, after …
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
From F. B. White 11 June 1879
Summary
Is applying for the Chair in Zoology at Owens College and asks CD for a testimonial.
| Author: | Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12103 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 14 October 1879
Summary
DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.
| Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12257 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I fancy it must have gone from some of the mountains surrounding Ennerdale, Cumberland. …
From W. S. Dallas 15 and 16 September 1879
Summary
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 16 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 123–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12232 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … pleasures and pains of life. The limestone mountains of England appeared to him as ‘mighty …
From W. E. Darwin [9 November 1879]
Summary
Sends CD petition from Olmstead and asks him to forward it around to get good signatures.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Nov 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 74), Gardner 1880, pp. 31–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12301F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of snow, the precipitous crags of great mountains, however they may be disfigured by man, …
From Fritz Müller 21 January 1879
Summary
Has lately found frog that has eggs on its back.
Pupae of caddis-flies living on rocks have lost fringe of hairs on their feet. In species that live in the water these are used for swimming.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 463–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11839 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … very frequent occurrence in almost all our mountain rivulets. On these rocks, along which …
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| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Ball, John | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … he wrote to Darwin about a local girl living in a mountain town on the island of Tenerife. …
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
Matches: 3 hits
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and off-hand, and acts on the spur of the moment.’ The ‘mountain of Firmness’ over his ears makes …
Monte Sarmiento
Summary
Peaks in Tierra del Fuego
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- … Fitzroy sends mountain heights in Tierra del Fuego. …
Frances Power Cobbe
Summary
Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
Matches: 1 hits
- … referred to her in a letter to Darwin as a 'disenchanting mountain of flesh'. Cobbe, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … volcanic phenomena in South America; and on the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, as the …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … at the same low tide, resembles a miniature volcanic mountain range extruded by the rock itself, and …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
Matches: 1 hits
- … version of the print was published, and is now raised to the mountain top, the highest point in the …
Darwin on childhood
Summary
On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … admirer was old Peter Hailes the bricklayer, & the tree the Mountain Ash on the lawn. All …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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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- … research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain formation, and the elevation of …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Interview with Emily Ballou
Summary
Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … migrated through the tropical regions near the equator along mountain ranges – these would have …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
