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List of correspondents

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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,…

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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …

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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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins alterations. The spelling and
  • book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been
  • … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardsons Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 182937] …
  • 183647] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory S t  Vincent [Bory de Saint-Vincent 1804] …
  • 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian Islands 8 consult D r
  • des hommes & des Animaux by Isid. Geoffroy de S t  Hilaire 1832 [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
  • Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on
  • worth studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with
  • Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon
  • of variation in animals in the different isl ds  of E Indian Archipelago— [DAR *119: 6v.] …
  • … & Rev. W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie
  • what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290
  • 2 vols. 8vo. avec 2 atlas 4to. ibid, 181823. £1 2 s  [E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 181823] …
  • chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith
  • … [Gaertner 178891] (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. …
  • Boswells life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 18379] …
  • Bernier, François. 1826Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D.   16561668 . Translated by Irving
  • Bethune, John. 1840Poems by the late John Bethune; with a   sketch of the authors life by his
  • eds.]  119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838A treatise on sheep; with the   best means
  • years 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR 71: 512.]  …
  • years 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: …
  • ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et   variétés darbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet   …

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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  • Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph
  • and  Fossil Cirripedia  (1851, 1854). What led Darwin to engage in this work when he was
  • The correspondence reveals how his initial interest in a singular species found during the Beagle
  • group. Light is shed on the close relationship between Darwins systematic descriptive work and the
  • to this work and that guided his observations through a difficult, often frustrating taxonomical
  • explained in detail in letters to friends and relatives, Darwin felt sufficiently restored in health
  • exchanges on geology with David Milne, Robert Chambers, John Phillips, and Daniel Sharpe, …
  • the midst of all this activity, Hooker responds to Darwins particular queries and sends information
  • Herschel, to write the chapter on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). …
  • that such a monograph was adesideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), was
  • or pistils ( Correspondence  vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November 1840 ). The sexual
  • Barnacles & Species theory al Diabolo together. But I dont care what you say, my species theory
  • both had served ( Correspondence  vol. 2, letters to H. E. Strickland). Darwins task was
  • rule of priority for the sake of expedience ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] ), but
  • to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] . As Darwin wrote to J. D. Hooker, who had warned him

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 …
  • … 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 names of those who take Books are to be written in a list kept for that Purpose. Any …
  • … are not already Duplicates in the Catalogue will confer a general benefit by lending them in a …
  • … from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief …
  • … is of four kinds: There are volumes now in the Darwin Library in Cambridge that contain …
  • … in a text written during the voyage and of such a nature (e.g., passages quoted or paraphrased, …
  • … notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University …
  • … and symbols are used: DAR  —  Darwin Archive CUL  —  Cambridge University …
  • … Paris, 1824–44. (DAR 32.1: 52v.). Frézier, Amédée François.  A voyage to the south-sea and …
  • … South Sea and Beering’s Straits . . . Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London, 1821. ( Narrative …
  • … 1802. (Notes on fly-leaf: ‘Taken from Jones’ (see Jones, T.)). Darwin Library–CUL †. * Mawe, …