To W. D. Fox [25 January 1841]
Summary
Birds has gone to the printer.
Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".
Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-586 |
To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833
Summary
Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-223 |
To Peter Lund Simmonds 25 February [1849]
Summary
Sends detailed report on the prospects for a settlement on the coast of Patagonia, pointing out many problems, and recommending instead the Falkland Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Lund Simmonds |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1849] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 6 April 1834 ). British sovereignty …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Edward Lumb, 30 March 1834 . CD visited the Santa Cruz …
- … see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 6 April 1834 , and Journal of …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 20–9 July 1834 , and Appendix I); for …
- … letter to Caroline Darwin, 30 March – 12 April 1833 ); he spent four days exploring the island in March 1834, …
To Catherine Darwin 6 April 1834
Summary
Describes Patagonia and its inhabitants.
Writes of his pleasure in geology.
Predicts that Falklands will become an "important halting place". Outlines Beagle’s future itinerary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-242 |
To J. S. Henslow 4 October 1834
Summary
CD is unwell.
FitzRoy has dispatched two casks of bones and stones, a box with "very valuable specimens", and a large jar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 23 DAR/1/1/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-258 |
To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833
Summary
Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20–7] Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-216 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 November 1834
Summary
Sends two boxes of specimens and part of his "hum-drum letter-like" journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 24 DAR/1/1/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-263 |
To Richard Owen 23 December [1847–54]
Summary
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1847-54] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13834 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 8 November 1834 . See also …
- … 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 ). On FitzRoy’s breakdown in 1834, during …
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, 16 July [1860] , Mellersh 1968 , pp. 130–6, Bowlby 1990 , pp. 152–8, and n. 3, below. In his Autobiography CD recalled the incidents referred to; the first occurred early in the voyage, at Bahia, Brazil, and concerned slavery (pp. 73–4), and the other occurred during FitzRoy’s breakdown at Concepción, Chile, in 1834 ( …
To J. S. Henslow March 1834
Summary
On fossils ([Megatherium], etc.), plants, shells sent and new ones found; geological observations. Asks for help in understanding cleavage and planes of deposition.
A new species of ostrich. Cites differences in size, colour, nidification, and geographical distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | Mar 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 21 DAR/1/1/21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-238 |
To Caroline Darwin [7 December 1836]
Summary
Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.
His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-325 |
To J. S. Henslow 24 July – 7 November 1834
Summary
CD is excited by JSH’s high opinion of his collections.
Discusses his notes and some new discoveries. Summary of events since leaving Falklands.
Geology of Patagonia.
Corallines at Tierra del Fuego convince him of artificiality of arrangement of their families by Lamarck and Cuvier.
Geological expedition in Andes, ending with serious illness. Specimens being sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 24 July & 28 Oct & 7 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 22 DAR/1/1/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-251 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 June [1863]
Summary
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4223 |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 October [1850]
Summary
Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].
Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1850] |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369F |
To B. J. Sulivan 31 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5330 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 6 April 1834 . FitzRoy died in 1865 ( …
- … letter from B. J. Sulivan, 25 December 1866 and n. 5. Robert FitzRoy had been dismayed to see the reversion of Jemmy Button to his ‘uncivilised’ state when the Beagle stopped in Tierra del Fuego in 1834 ( …
To W. D. Fox 19 [September 1831]
Summary
Describes his appointment, the Beagle, his companions, and the objectives of the voyage. Gives his schedule before departure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 19 [Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-132 |
To Catherine Darwin 8 November 1834
Summary
CD has recovered from his illness.
Fatigue and depression had almost decided Captain FitzRoy to turn over his command, but he was dissuaded.
Beagle will now go no further south than Cape Tres Montes and will finish survey in five months.
CD experiences his first earthquake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-262 |
To Robert FitzRoy [28 August 1834]
Summary
Recounts his trip [from Valparaiso] to Santiago. His meeting with Claude Gay, Thomas Sutcliffe, and others. Geology of tour uninteresting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1834] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-254 |
To W. D. Fox [9–12 August] 1835
Summary
Expresses envy for WDF’s life as a clergyman.
Outlines homeward voyage; tells of his hope of seeing active volcanoes and Tertiary strata in Galapagos. Recommends geology to Fox. Discusses Lyell’s views; CD has become "a zealous disciple".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9–12 Aug] 1835 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 47a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-282 |
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Summary
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
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Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … I have had ill luck however in only one little earthquake having happened Darwin to …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ‘Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
Summary
In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
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 of …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Thomas Burgess
Summary
As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…
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- … As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and …
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…
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- … This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for …
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…
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- … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … ‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … I naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish …
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…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle …
