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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: 29 hits

  • … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
  • … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
  • … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
  • … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
  • … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
  • … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
  • … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
  • … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
  • … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
  • … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
  • … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
  • … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
  • … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
  • … Coldstream, John (2) Cole, William (3) …
  • … Cooper, W. B. (1) Cooper, William (1) …
  • … Croll, James (16) Crookes, William (1) …
  • … la Beche, H. T. (3) Dealtry, William (1) …
  • … Farr, John (2) Farr, William (7) …
  • … Philippi, R. A. (1) Phillips, John (21) …
  • … Wheler, E. A. (9) Whewell, William (8) …

Adam Sedgwick

Summary

One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick  was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…

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  • … fieldwork, offered regular annual lectures, and joined with John Stevens Henslow, William Whewell …

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: 21 hits

  • The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • June /41/ [Herschel 1841] I see I  must   study  Whewell on Philosophy of Science [Whewell 1840] …
  • 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming 1850] Sir C. Phillips Recollections of Curran [C. …
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • 119: 4a] Lessings Laocoon [Lessing 1836] Whewell inductive History [Whewell 1837] …
  • Boswells life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 18379] …
  • 1807] 24 th   Well  Skimmed (for second time) Whewells Bridgewater Treatise [Whewell
  • 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
  • … & Forsyth on Forest Trees [Boutcher 1775 and Forsyth 1791] Phillips History of cultivated
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • M rs . Meredith. N.S. Wales [Twamley 1844] —— Whewell on Education [Whewell 184552]. …
  • Buffon [Milne-Edwards 183440]. March 5 th  St. Johns Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8
  • … —— 15 th . Phillips life of W. Smith [J. Phillips 1844]. —— 30 Abridged Despatches Duke
  • Tour in Sweden [Wollstonecraft 1796]. (poor) —— Phillips. Life of Curran [C. Phillips 1818] …
  • … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2126 [A. Murray
  • …  Hinds Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th  William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt
  • 7  Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph
  • In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogles translation of Aristotle
  • Notebooks ). 19  According to the  DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both
  • is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alisons article which was

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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  • … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
  • … Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Beechey, Frederick William.  Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific …
  • … 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 …
  • … . . .  London, 1798. (DAR 31.2: 318v.). Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William.  …
  • … Voyages  (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s …
  • … 255v.; number of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William.  A new voyage round the world. …
  • … 8e, 10;  ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic.  Meteorological essays and …
  • … (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). Ellis, William.  Polynesian researches, …
  • … 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 …
  • … and western coasts of Australia  (includes: Fitton, William. An account of some geological …
  • … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Kirby, William and Spence, William.  An introduction to …
  • … de la Plata.  London, 1825. (DAR 33: 269v.). Owen, William Fitz William.  Narrative of …
  • … Library–CUL, Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). Phillips, William.  Elementary introducton to . . …
  • … 28 June 1836,  Collected papers  1: 26). Webster, William Henry Bayley.  Narrative of a …
  • … (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay towards a first …