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John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at …
- … most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the …
- … it had been walks in the Cambridgeshire countryside with Henslow that had fostered Darwin's …
- … is now in Cambridge University Library. It is inscribed: 'J. S. Henslow to his friend C. Darwin …
- … like the remains of an electric explosion ( from Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 ) …
- … took notice of a young traveller called Charles Darwin when Henslow read some of his letters from …
- … on to Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew. As a schoolboy Henslow had assisted in cataloguing the …
- … of Geology, who introduced him to field studies. In 1819 Henslow carried out a field survey of the …
- … end of the year had collected 263 flowering plants. In 1822, Henslow was appointed Professor of …
- … for the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Despite Henslow's reservations about the …
- … too far' - the two men remained friends to the end of Henslow's life; more than 140 …
- … this earth '. Henslow was curate of Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, from 1824 to …
Darwin's health
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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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- … Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to Hooker’s letter which he put down to his exceptionally …
- … trembling, faintness, and dizziness. In 1849, Darwin’s symptoms became so severe that he removed his …
- … of his critically ill ‘master & friend’ John Stevens Henslow. Darwin was sure the journey from …
- … 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr Jenner’s advice: ‘ drinking very little—enormous …
- … vomiting wonderfully & I am gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) …
- … were psychological or psychosomatic dimensions to Darwin’s most severe periods of crisis. At the …
- … and return to his study at Down to work. Darwin’s history of illness Darwin often …
- … (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 2, letter to J. S. Henslow, 14 October [1837] , …
- … F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach troubles, see …
- … letter to Robert FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] . Darwin’s health diary (Down House MS), which he …
- … 1849] , and ‘vomiting every week’ in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 March 1849 ( …
- … to W. D. Fox, [6 May 1864] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), such regular attacks …
- … and ‘rocking’ had been recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and …
- … 1995, pp. 428-9. On his difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and …
- … vol. 2, letter to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, [28 August 1837] ). His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, …
- … discussed in Colp 1977, pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( …
- … also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . …
- … for several years (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 , and …
- … his chronic vomiting ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …
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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- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … sleep & movements of plants £ 1 ..s 4. [Dutrochet 1837] Voyage aux terres australes …
- … of useful knowledge Horse, cow, sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d’Hist. …
- … contains all his fathers views Quoted by Owen [Hunter 1837] [DAR *119: 3v.] Hunter …
- … 11 besides the paper collected by Owen [Hunter 1837] (at Shrewsbury). Yarrells paper on …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … of plants. 13 Books quoted by Herbert [Herbert 1837] p. 338 Schiede in 1825 …
- … remarks on acclimatizing of plants. Herbert [Herbert 1837] p. 348 gives reference to …
- … worth studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with …
- … notes to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature …
- … [Gaertner 1788–91] (Plates on all seeds) R. Soc Henslow says there is a grand book with …
- … Von. J. Metzger. Heidelberg 1841 [Metzger 1841] Read Henslow in Botanist 36 has written on …
- … 1834]— d[itt]o d[itt]o d[itt]o. d[itt]o. 15 th Henslow’s Botany [Henslow 1837].— d[itt]o d …
- … ] 4. Vol. references at End Feb. 23 rd . Henslow Pamph. on Wheat [Henslow 1841]— fact about …
- … or Review in a Medical Journal which Hooker has & lent to Henslow Huxley [DAR *128: 178 …
- … years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR 71: 51–2.] …
- … years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … sur la distribution géographique des animaux vertébrés, moins les oiseaux. Journal de Physique 94 …
- … Drury, Robert. 1729. Madagascar; or, Robert Drury’s journal, during fifteen years …
- … [Vols. 3 and 4 in Darwin Library.] 119: 3a Dugès, Antoine. 1832. Memoir sur la …
- … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
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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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one …
- … the publication of the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle , for which he described the …
- … touching in the concern they show for one another’s sensibilities. Early in 1839 the couple set up …
- … theoretical achievement, the most important of Darwin’s activities during the years 1837–43 was …
- … daring and momentous conviction that species were mutable (S. Herbert 1980, p. 12; Sulloway 1982b). …
- … species came to be as they are (Kohn 1980). Between April 1837 and September 1838 he filled several …
- … of Darwin’s findings had been spread by the publication by J. S. Henslow and Adam Sedgwick of …
- … voyage. The book was finished and set in type by November 1837, though not published until 1839, …
- … countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle . Also in November 1837, Darwin read the fourth of a series of …
- … May 1838] ). The new research Darwin undertook after 1837 was an extension and an …
- … results of the Beagle voyage. With the help of J. S. Henslow, William Whewell, and other …
- … by Adam White; infusoria by C. G. Ehrenberg; fungi by M. J. Berkeley; and corals by William Lonsdale …
- … were neglected. During the voyage Darwin had expected that J. S. Henslow would describe his …
- … the other on the Keeling Island flora. Darwin’s letters to Henslow show a gradual realisation that …
- … knowledge of plant distribution and classification (see Henslow 1837a and 1838; W. J. Hooker and G. …
- … The letters show that at least five of his friends—Lyell, Henslow, Jenyns, Waterhouse, and his …
- … . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] ). …
- … filled, with facts It is true that, until he took J. D. Hooker into his confidence in …
- … Lyell had called the ‘mystery of mysteries’ (see Babbage 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the …
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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- … Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds to Darwin’s …
- … February 1867] Mary Barber responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression from …
- … him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. to Darwin, H. E., [after 14 October …
- … of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November1872] …
- … and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - …
- … passes on brief observations of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - …
- … wife of naturalist John Lubbock, responds to Darwin’s request that she make observations of her pet …
- … Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
- … and orangs. Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] …
- … in a marble tablet”. Letter 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July 1869] John …
- … Men: Letter 385 - Wedgwood, S. E. & J. to Darwin, [10 November 1837] …
- … Hall, Staffordshire. Letter 1219 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [3 February 1849] …
- … to look for more samples. Letter 4928 - Henslow, G. to Darwin, [11 November 1865] …
- … Men: Letter 1836 - Berkeley, M. J. to Darwin, [7 March 1856] Clergyman and …
- … to feed to them. Letter 2069 - Tenant, J. to Darwin, [31 March 1857] James …
- … University of Bonn. Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] …
- … Men: Letter 378 - Darwin to Henslow, J. S., [20 September 1837] Darwin …
- … Letter 347 - Darwin to Whewell, W., [10 March 1837] Darwin seeks to decline the …
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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- … Light is shed on the close relationship between Darwin’s systematic descriptive work and the species …
- … it is evident from his correspondence that Darwin’s two hours at the microscope did not preclude a …
- … and Daniel Sharpe, demonstrating the extent of Darwin’s continued involvement in contemporary …
- … the midst of all this activity, Hooker responds to Darwin’s particular queries and sends information …
- … Geology, and geological controversy Hooker’s letters illuminate the role of the British …
- … ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). Darwin’s chapter plainly calls on his Beagle …
- … blocked the valley. Darwin was much shaken by Milne’s evidence, especially as he realised that it …
- … asked for it to be destroyed. Only the draft of Darwin’s letter remains ( letter to the Scotsman …
- … found far from their native rock formations. Darwin’s explanation, originally suggested by Lyell, …
- … a great rush of water could carry them up hills. Darwin’s response was to explain such cases as a …
- … his Glen Roy argument—was later superseded by Agassiz’s glaciation theory. A third theme in …
- … Studer to visit him at Down and recommended Studer’s papers to others interested in the subject. …
- … elementary geology . In addition, Lyell asked for Darwin’s view of his major new theory of ‘craters …
- … islands that some craters could not be explained by Lyell’s view. Apparently convinced by Lyell’s …
- … in these years were written in connection with Darwin’s work on Cirripedia. Having sent off the …
- … been described by the taxonomists Darwin had enlisted in 1837 and published in the five volumes of …
- … 2, letter to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April [1837]) and it was intended that invertebrates be included in …
- … by his own widening interest and by Louis Agassiz’s opinion that such a monograph was a ‘desideratum …
- … of materials. Even further afield, Syms Covington, Darwin’s servant during the Beagle voyage, …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course welcome to take …
- … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbing’s charge, and lent to the officers, without …
- … However, from the Beagle correspondence, CD’s diary, field notebooks, and the extensive …
- … are almost always in ink, usually written with CD’s favourite Brahma pens. References to books in …
- … examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Paul et Virginie and to characters in …
- … to do so. For example, two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite …
- … have been found (DAR 42: 73) that are taken from Griffith’s edition of Cuvier’s The animal kingdom …
- … Dictionnaire and could only have come from that author’s Exposition méthodique (1821). …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin …
- … 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and letter …
- … d’histoire naturelle. See Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M., ed. Dictionnaire des …
- … § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, …
- … 1826. (DAR 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ Henslow, John Stevens. Geological description …
- … (Vols. 1 and 2, in one, 3d edition, inscribed from J. S. Henslow to CD ‘on his departure’, September …
- … des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November 1834). …
- … r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November 1834). Darwin …
- … Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). * …
- … Red notebook , p. 89). Darwin Library–CUL, 4th ed., 1837. ‡ Playfair, John. Illustrations …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through …
- … years at Cambridge, and the five years of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle . In 1836, the twenty-seven …
- … in Shrewsbury, and of the role his family played in Darwin’s early life; those from Sarah and Fanny …
- … The letters written to Darwin during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle kept him informed of such …
- … own copy to his son in 1820, and in the early 1820s Darwin’s brother Erasmus made him his assistant …
- … of beetles. Fox also introduced him to John Stevens Henslow and Darwin was a regular presence at the …
- … parties organised by the professor of botany. And it was Henslow who, encouraging Darwin to broaden …
- … fellows your friends at Barmouth must be’ ( see letter to J. M. Herbert, [13 September 1828] ). …
- … a naturalist on a voyage of exploration arose because of Henslow’s recognition of the abilities …
- … had been reasonably answered. During the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Darwin’s letters convey the …
- … enquiry. Coupled with this commitment was Darwin’s growing recognition of his ability to contribute …
- … around his observations and tried out his theories on Henslow in the privacy of their letters. Well …
- … of which were clear to him from his communication with Henslow and his study of Lyell’s …
- … years that testify to the wealth and quality of Darwin’s collections and observations. But more than …
- … the conviction that species were mutable. By the spring of 1837 Darwin was a transmutationist and …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … book out of my head’. But a large proportion of Darwin’s time for the rest of the year was devoted …
- … manner.”‘ The most lively debate centred on Darwin’s evolutionary account of the ‘higher’ faculties …
- … brought a significant milestone for the family, as Darwin’s eldest daughter Henrietta was married in …
- … human evolution was comparatively small, reflecting Darwin’s aim of showing kinship with animals at …
- … Hooker suggested one of the reasons behind the book’s popularity: ‘I hear that Ladies think it …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix IV). Four of Darwin’s five sons received a copy, and his daughter …
- … The geologist William Boyd Dawkins remarked on Darwin’s books’ reception amongst ‘artisans and mill …
- … & menstruation coming out of the primary fact that one’s n th . ancestor lived between tide …
- … A number of correspondents took issue with Darwin’s evolutionary explanation of the ‘higher’ …
- … and beetles to Descent , could not extend Darwin’s evolutionary theory beyond man’s ‘bodily frame …
- … regarding human ancestry was expressed by Darwin’s old friend, the former vicar of Down John Brodie …
- … 1871] ). Yet some continued to find Darwin’s theories consistent with religious belief, …
- … August 1871 ). The Anglican clergyman and naturalist George Henslow reported that he had been …
- … (see Appendix V). Not surprisingly, it was Darwin’s naturalistic theory of the evolution of morals …
- … Frances Power Cobbe, who praised the charm of Darwin’s book, but found highly objectionable his …
- … Wedgwood, [3–9 March 1871] .) Some of Darwin’s correspondence on evolution and ethics was …
- … William offered his assessment of John Stuart Mill’s theory of utilitarianism to assist his father …
- … see I am a traitor in the camp’. Because Darwin’s scientific work was situated in the home, …
- … explain various animal structures and homologies. Mivart’s views were published in expanded form in …
- … Darwin had delivered at the Geological Society of London in 1837, would culminate in Darwin’s last …
