From John Higgins 31 July 1852
Summary
Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.
Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484H |
From Japetus Steenstrup 8 April 1852
Summary
His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.
He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].
His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.
| Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1852 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469 ]. There is no Lepas mitra …
- … September [1851] . In his letter to Steenstrup of 3 January [1852] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … 8 th . April 1852. My dear Sir I have been so late in answering your letter, so wellcome …
- … vol. 5, letter to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 3 January [1852] . Henrick Henricksen Beck . …
From J. D. Hooker [27 August 1863]
Summary
Suggests CD consult George Busk about his stomach.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4276 |
From John Higgins 27 July 1852
Summary
Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484F |
From Thomas Gold Appleton 24 April [1862]
Summary
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3517 |
From E. A. Darwin 24 August [1865]
Summary
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885 |
From Herbert Spencer 22 February 1860
Summary
CD has caused a great change in HS’s views, in showing how a great proportion of adaptation should be explained by natural selection not direct adaptation to changing conditions. HS had remarked on the survival of the best individuals as a cause of improvement in man, but he "& every one" overlooked selection of spontaneous variation. Believes so many kinds of indirect evidence must add up to a conclusive demonstration of the doctrine.
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 107–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2706B |
From William Turner 3 January 1870
Summary
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B158–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088 |
From Melchior Neumayr 19 September 1879
Summary
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
| Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12234 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of brachiopods, see Barrande 1852–1911 , 5: 35–41. See letter from Leopold Würtenberger, …
- … letter from Melchior Neumayr, 21 January 1879 . The Lias is a series of strata forming the lower Jurassic ( OED ). Wilhelm Kobelt was a co-founder of the Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft (German Malacological Society) in Frankfurt am Main; he published extensively on European marine shells ( NDB ). The fifth volume of Joachim Barrande’s Systême silurien du centre de la Bohême ( Barrande 1852– …
From J. D. Hooker [6 April 1866]
Summary
Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.
Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.
Oliver has lost his little girl.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5047 |
From D. T. Ansted 23 April 1863
Summary
Is very grateful for CD’s note and return of the bond for £250; promises to repay CD any profits made from those shares, even in the event of DTA’s death.
Is sorry to hear CD is ill.
| Author: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4123 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
From H. W. Bates 19 December 1866
Summary
HWB sends a copy [missing] of Boutakoff’s letter, explaining that the deer were saiga antelopes and the islands were new discoveries.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313 |
From J. D. Hooker [early December 1856]
Summary
Podostemaceae flowering under water.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early Dec 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1966 |
From Asa Gray 6 November 1865
Summary
Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.
CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4930 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
From T. V. Wollaston [11 or 18 December 1856]
Summary
Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2013 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 1 April [1870?]
Summary
"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7159 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 23 October 1860]
Summary
Quotes note by Julius Milde on Drosera rotundifolia from Botanische Zeitung (1852): 540.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 23 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2971 |
From Hugh Falconer 20 April [1863]
Summary
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4113 |
| letter | (86) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (86) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
| Blyth, Edward | (4) |
| Dana, J. D. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …
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: 1 hits
- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
Scientific Practice
Summary
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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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
Summary
< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … < Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
George Busk
Summary
After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it …
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and …
Arthur Mellersh
Summary
Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
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- … Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
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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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘ fiddler & boy …
The evolution of honeycomb
Summary
Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … Honey-bees construct wax combs inside their nests. The combs are made of hexagonal prisms – cells …
Darwin's bad days
Summary
Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Fritz Müller
Summary
Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … Francis Darwin, in Life and letters of Charles Darwin , wrote of Fritz Müller They …
