skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.


Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
3 Items

List of correspondents

Summary

Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
  • … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
  • … G. S. (1) Anderson, James (1) …
  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … Frederic (1) Bateman, James (1) …
  • … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
  • … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
  • … Buckley, A. B. (21) Buckman, James (2) …
  • … Burn, Robert (1) Burningham, James (1) …
  • … C., W. S. (1) Caird, James (9) …
  • … Carter, R. B. (2) Cartmell, James (1) …
  • … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
  • … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
  • … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
  • … Colburn, Henry (3) Colby, John (3) …
  • … H. (1) Crichton-Browne, James (40) …
  • … Crocq, Jean (1) Croll, James (16) …
  • … Dawson, J. W. (1) Dawson, James (2) …
  • … Dickie, George (3) Dickson, James (1) …
  • … Dixon, E. S. (2) Dixon, James (2) …
  • … Druitt, Thomas (3) Drummond, James (a) (5) …
  • … Martindale, William (1) Martineau, James (1) …

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: 20 hits

  • … Adam Smith Moral Sentiments [A. Smith 1759] Jackson Four Ages [Jackson 1798] Stewart, …
  • … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • … History of Greece [Grote 1846–56]. Miss. Martineau Society in America [H. Martineau 1837] …
  • … Geography [M. Somerville 1848] Trials Martineau [J. Martineau 1821] (read) Letters of …
  • … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
  • … Character by D’Israeli [D'Israeli 1795]. Miss Martineau Travels in N. America [H. …
  • … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
  • … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
  • … to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Fox’s Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d  Guizot …
  • … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th  St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
  • … Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor …
  • … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
  • … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
  • … 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 1–3 & Last …
  • …  Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph Dalton …
  • … notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert …
  • … de   Neuchâtel . 47  Possibly a slip for James Abbott,  Narrative of a journey …
  • … collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence …
  • …  This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilson’s work on the origin of …
  • … and the ‘O’ in pencil. It is not clear which of William Jackson Hooker’s journals is meant here: the …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

Matches: 24 hits

  • … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
  • … Antoine de.  A voyage round the world.  Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1772. ( …
  • … Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert …
  • … etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John.  Travels in the interior of …
  • … 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John.  The narrative of the Honourable …
  • … . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: 162v.). Colnett, James.  A voyage to the South Atlantic and …
  • … 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James.  Voyages  (editions unidentified; …
  • … 8e, 10;  ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic.  Meteorological essays and …
  • … and western coasts of Australia. Fleming, John.  The philosophy of zoology . . .  2 vols. …
  • … atlas.  London, 1814. (DAR 30.1: 30v.). Forster, John Reinhold.  Observations made during a …
  • … vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). Hawkesworth, John.  An account of the voyages …
  • … 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ Henslow, John Stevens. Geological description of …
  • … 7e, etc.). Darwin Library–CUL ††. Horsburgh, James.  Directions for sailing to and from the …
  • … essay on the kingdom of New Spain.  Translated by John Black. 2 vols. New York, 1811. (Inscription, …
  • … de.  A voyage to South America . . .  Translated by John Adams. 2 vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. …
  • … Darwin Library–CUL † (vols. 1 and 2). Mackintosh, James.  The history of England.  Volume …
  • … (see Jones, T.)). Darwin Library–CUL †. * Mawe, John.  Travels in the gold and diamond …
  • …  3 vols. London, 1820. (DAR 32.1: 51v.). Michell, John. Conjectures concerning the cause . . …
  • … notebook,  p. 80). Darwin Library–CUL †. Miers, John.  Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . …
  • … 28 August 1834). Darwin Library–CUL †. Milton, John.  Paradise lost.  ( ’Beagle’ diary , …
  • … 1831’). Darwin Library–CUL †. § Narborough, John.  An account of several late voyages.  2 …
  • … 32.1: 7). Darwin Library–CUL † (vol.2). Stephens, James Francis. Description of  …
  • … (DAR 32.1: 7;  Red notebook , p. 33e). Weddell, James.  A voyage towards the South Pole …
  • … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL. § Wood, James.  Elements of algebra.  8th ed. Cambridge, 1825. …