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Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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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- … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … notes to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … 6: folio par Céran de Lemonier. Bailliere [Céran-Lemonnier 1837] Transactions of the …
- … history of British Birds by W. Macgillivray [W. Macgillivray 1837–52].— I should think well worth …
- … Instinct & Reason by S. Bushnan. Longman. 5 s [Bushnan 1837]—dedicated to L d . Brougm. 26 …
- … Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil [Wied …
- … of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read) Berkeleys Works …
- … 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in …
- … round world 1803–6 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyell’s Elements of Geology [Lyell 1838] …
- … J 57 Browne’s Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyell’s Book III 5th Edit 58 [Lyell 1837] …
- … —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell 1840]— references at end.— April 6 …
- … abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— Jan 3 d . …
- … Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] Oct. Cosmos [A. von …
- … [J. J. von Tschudi 1847] 15. Skimmed 7 th Edit of Lyell’s Elements 80 [Lyell 1847] …
- … 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 …
- … of Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845. Insect life . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of …
- … of the London Clay . London. *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852. Hungary in 1851: …
- … life from 1838 to the present time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London. 128: 9 …
- … . 3 vols. Edinburgh and London. 128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848. Journal of a …
- … nature of virtue . Cambridge. *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848. Memoirs of Sir Thomas …
- … Rural hours . 2 vols. London. *119: 24 Coote, Charles. 1819. The history of England, …
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 most important of Darwin’s activities during the years 1837–43 was unquestionably his work on …
- … species came to be as they are (Kohn 1980). Between April 1837 and September 1838 he filled several …
- … 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 …
- … by all the leading geologists of England—among them Charles Lyell, Sedgwick, and Buckland (see the …
- … May 1838] ). The new research Darwin undertook after 1837 was an extension and an …
- … of South America”, Darwin continued to defend his and Lyell’s theory that floating ice—rather than …
- … lists of Darwin’s plants (see D. M. Porter 1981). Charles Lyell In the extensive …
- … correspondent, both scientifically and personally, was Charles Lyell. The letters Darwin and Lyell …
- … had declared himself to be a ‘zealous disciple’ of Lyell, but his theory of coral reef formation, …
- … Their correspondence began in 1836 and from the start Lyell accepted Darwin on equal terms as a …
- … versions in Life and Letters , and from excerpts that Lyell made in his notebooks. Lyell’s …
- … portfolios together with parts of letters he had cut from Lyell’s originals for use in his work. …
- … The letters show that at least five of his friends—Lyell, Henslow, Jenyns, Waterhouse, and his …
- … Lyell had called the ‘mystery of mysteries’ (see Babbage 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the …
- … species and varieties had no basis in reality (W. Herbert 1837, p. 341); species were only clearly …
- … Health Active and productive as the years 1837–43 were, they were also years during which …
- … In 1840 the illness was different. As he wrote to Charles Lyell, [19 February 1840] , “it is now …
- … seeds and other interests mentioned in the correspondence of 1837–43, which at first seem unrelated, …
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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- … 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund and Charles, write to Emma Darwin’s sister, …
- … 385 - Wedgwood, S. E. & J. to Darwin, [10 November 1837] Emma’s sister, Sarah, …
- … the Isle of White. Letter 4433 - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March …
- … Letter 378 - Darwin to Henslow, J. S., [20 September 1837] Darwin takes Henslow up on …
- … Letter 347 - Darwin to Whewell, W., [10 March 1837] Darwin seeks to decline the …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … as he explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in March 1837: ‘ I intend giving a kind of journal …
- … which will much add to the value of the whole .’ By July 1837, Darwin had finished the draft of his …
- … flurry of activity had been spurred by assurances in May 1837 that Darwin’s volume would ‘begin to …
- … the first manuscript pages had been sent off. On 1 August 1837, he reminded the dilatory Henslow …
- … Chapter’, Darwin wrote to his sister Caroline, adding that Charles Lyell ‘ says it beats all the …
- … get lost as part of three-volume set. In September 1838, Charles Lyell reported that his father …
- … than the other two volumes, so, as early as September 1837, he had secured an agreement with …
- … of his work, and especially appreciated the positive view of Charles Lyell Sr, claiming that ‘ to …
- … from Colburn, Darwin had few scruples when, in 1845, at Lyell’s suggestion, he asked whether the …
- … German edition produced in 1844, needed to be returned. ‘ Lyell recommended me to write to the …
- … however, not least because it would have been anathema to Charles Lyell, to whom Darwin dedicated …
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … to group themselves clearly under sub-laws. Letter to Charles Lyell, [14] September [1838] …
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 …
- … activity. There are, for example, twenty lengthy letters to Charles Lyell from these years and a …
- … carefully re-examined his own thesis in letters to Milne, Lyell, and Robert Chambers, and, in …
- … for publication in the Scotsman. Yet when the editor, Charles Maclaren, maintained that it would be …
- … original fieldwork was ‘time thrown away’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ). …
- … formations. Darwin’s explanation, originally suggested by Lyell, was that the boulders were …
- … failed to convince other prominent geologists, among them Lyell, so Darwin was keenly interested in …
- … in the subject. The letters also reveal that Lyell sought Darwin’s advice in the preparation …
- … and Manual of elementary geology . In addition, Lyell asked for Darwin’s view of his major new …
- … or nearly so, or whether they had grown gradually, as Lyell maintained, from one envelope of lava …
- … critical point in the controversy, and the point on which Lyell at the time felt it necessary to …
- … volcanic islands that some craters could not be explained by Lyell’s view. Apparently convinced by …
- … would be a ‘thorn in the side of É de B.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 3 January 1850 ). …
- … 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 …
- … remained unmarried. Each daughter was bequeathed £10,000, Charles was bequeathed £15,500, and his …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … of the formation of barrier-reefs and atolls. Charles Darwin describing how he arrived …
- … Darwin had by that time become a ‘zealous disciple’ of Lyell and, having found ample direct evidence …
- … of compensatory crustal changes led him to depart from Lyell’s own view of the geology of the …
- … corals to grow. Darwin was certainly familiar with Lyell’s chapter and with the observations …
- … Shortly after returning to England, Darwin told Lyell of his theory. Lyell was immediately …
- … for ever . . . ,’ he wrote to John Herschel on 24 May 1837, ‘the whole theory is knocked on the head …
- … a lagoon in the centre.’ (Wilson 1972, p. 449). At Lyell’s urging, Darwin read a paper on his …
- … . Darwin confides to his sister that he believes Lyell’s explanation of atoll formation to be …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … of the formation of coral reefs that won the support of Charles Lyell, the leading English geologist …
- … His diary records his memory of the momentous decision in 1837: In July opened first note …
- … as 14 September 1838, before reading Malthus, he wrote to Lyell about ‘the delightful number of new …
- … and space with a pre-existing closely allied species’. To Charles Lyell this was a warning that …
- … his own independent discovery of natural selection. Lyell and Hooker, to salvage the twenty years of …
Darwin & the Geological Society
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The science of geology in the early nineteenth century was a relatively new enterprise forged from the merging of several distinct traditions of inquiry, from mineralogy and the very practical business of mining, to theories of the earth’s origin and the…
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New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … at the conclusion of chapter four. Darwin had informed Charles Lyell about some of the changes he …
- … Dean of Manchester, in his work on the Amaryllidaceæ (1837, p. 19, 339), declares that ‘ …
- … and descent of species. Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent, Feb. …
- … I can, after having read the discussions on this subject by Lyell and by Hooker in regard to plants, …
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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- … to him from his communication with Henslow and his study of Lyell’s uniformitarian views set out in …
- … the conviction that species were mutable. By the spring of 1837 Darwin was a transmutationist and …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … from the clergy that you have in England. After all, Charles Darwin was quite happy at the prospect …
- … Fleming , the Scottish minister and naturalist, friend of Charles Lyell, the debate I was sketching …
- … academic within a lot of people, and William Whewell, in 1837, wrongly thought it was time to say, …
- … at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, [Charles] Pritchard, [John] Dalton …
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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- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … 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 …
- … 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’; Red notebook , pp. 75, 105e, …
- … Zoological Journal 5 (1832–4). (Inscribed ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836 …
- … (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * Lyell, Charles. Principles of geology . . . …
- … ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 …
- … Reyno de Chile ). Part 2. Madrid, 1795. (Inscription: ‘Charles Darwin Valparaiso 1834’). Darwin …
- … Red notebook , p. 89). Darwin Library–CUL, 4th ed., 1837. ‡ Playfair, John. Illustrations …
- … * Richardson, Samuel. The history of Sir Charles Grandison . . . 7 vols. London, 1781. (Vols. 3 …
