From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain …
- … to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. …
- … Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar. …
- … or at all events a support) of my views of the land migration of plants from mountain …
- … to mountain. In Nature of Dec. 9 p. 126 Mr. Baker of Kew …
- … on the migration of alpine plants across mountain chains and the role of wind as means of …
- … are comparatively recent immigrants, & if so must have passed across the sea from mountain …
- … to mountain,— for the richness & speciality of the Madagascar forest-vegetation renders it …
- … Abyssinia, the Cameroons, & other African mountains. Now if there is one thing more clear …
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 17 August 1881
Summary
Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 114d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289 |
From Lawrence Ruck 12 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.
| Author: | Lawrence Ruck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12417 |
From G. H. Darwin [9 June 1881]
Summary
Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.
Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13199 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
From Sarah Marshall 7 November 1881
Summary
Can CD explain why in a mollusc (Bulimus decollatus) immature forms are always broken at the apex.
| Author: | Sarah Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13470 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … snail reaches maturity. Pentelicus is a mountain in Attica, Greece; Lycabettus is a hill …
From J. D. Hooker 11 August 1881
Summary
Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 158–61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13286 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as in Upper India at others by very low mountains— does not this imply vast oscillations …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Marshall, Sarah | (1) |
| Ruck, Lawrence | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Marshall, Sarah | (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
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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.…
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- … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- 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
Summary
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…
