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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,…

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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

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
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec celle de lHomme,” by Dr. Pierquin, published in Paris
  • …  [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r  L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v.] …
  • … [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.] …
  • to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19  : …
  • what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290
  • chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith
  • Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature
  • … [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] …
  • 1809]— references at end of each Chap. June 1. King & FitzRoys Voyages [King 1839 and
  • Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86  p.p. 364. 8 vo  (Much on Distribution of
  • 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
  • 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: …

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
  • FitzRoy in the  Narrative  (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
  • would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoys own: ‘You are of course welcome to take
  • … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbings charge, and lent to the officers, without
  • CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King shared the working space with CD. …
  • The names of those who take Books are to be written in a list kept for that Purpose. Any
  • from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 2938), 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, …
  • in letters from the family as having been sent to CD (e.g., Fleming, Martineau, Pennant); although
  • notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University
  • Naturelle  3 (1834): 84115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
  • naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 182231. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 1521 January [1833]). Darwin
  • 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and letter
  • 182425 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, JohnThe narrative of
  • … (DAR 31.2: 318v.). Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, WilliamOutlines of the geology
  • … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10;  ‘Beaglediary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic.  …
  • 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de Freycinet, L. Csee  Freycinet, L. C. Desaulses de
  • dhistoire naturelle.  See Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M., ed. Dictionnaire des
  • … § EuclidElements of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, …
  • …  Hereford, 1774. (DAR 31.1: 207v.). Fitton, W. See King, P. PNarrative of a survey of the
  • … (Vols. 1 and 2, in one, 3d edition, inscribed from J. S. Henslow to CDon his departure’, September
  • vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t  FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’;  Red
  • des polypiers.  Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7 November 1834). …
  • 1802. (Notes on fly-leaf: ‘Taken from Jones’ (see Jones, T.)). Darwin LibraryCUL †. * Mawe, …
  • LibraryCUL, Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). Phillips, WilliamElementary introducton to . . …