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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: 6 hits

  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … Edwards & Co. (1) Babbage, Charles (10) …
  • … Bond, Frederick (2) Boner, Charles (5) …
  • … Edward (1) Bradlaugh, Charles (2) …
  • … Brayley, E. W. (1) Breese, Charles (1) …
  • … Lydekker, R. (1) Lyell, Charles (277) …

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: 11 hits

  • … worth studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with …
  • … of variation in animals in the different isl ds  of E Indian Archipelago— [DAR *119: 6v.] …
  • … in the Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John …
  • … [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 …
  • … 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming 1850] Sir C. Phillips Recollections of Curran [C. …
  • … Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 1837–9] …
  • … 1859]. (goodish) 1  The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
  • … Erskine. 2 vols. London.  *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839.  Primitiæ floræ   …
  • … 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: …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

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

Matches: 8 hits

  • … 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 …
  • … the proceedings . .  . Cambridge, 1833.  (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
  • …  London, 1823. (DAR 30.1: 41). ‡ Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle.  A description of active and …
  • … Paris, 1824–44. (DAR 32.1: 52v.). Frézier, Amédée François.  A voyage to the south-sea and …
  • … vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t  FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’;  Red …
  • … South Sea and Beering’s Straits . . . Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London, 1821. ( Narrative …
  • … (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * Lyell, Charles.  Principles of geology . . . …