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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts …
- … Press . Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back …
- … was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). He was also unsatisfied with his …
- … me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June 1879] ). Even the prospect of a holiday in the Lake …
- … ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26] July [1879] ). From July, Darwin had an additional …
- … all, Darwin, despite his many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry …
- … pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 ). The year ended with the start of …
- … or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and the …
- … marriage settlement ( letter from W. M. Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). Seventy years old …
- … could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of Greiz College …
- … with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). The botanist and schoolteacher …
- … was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). Carus Sterne was the …
- … ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879 ]). As one of Darwin’s most ardent admirers, …
- … & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 ]). …
- … Beaufort of the Admiralty described the unknown young man as ‘A M r Darwin grandson of the well …
- … thought ‘perfect in every way’ ( letter from E. A. Wheler, 25 March 1879 ). She suggested that …
- … be given the task of cutting up the text and rearranging it—a job, he was sure, she could do ‘very …
- … with ‘no shade of doubt’ that the apex of the radicle was ‘a kind of brain for certain movements’ ( …
- … District for a holiday in a hotel owned by Victor Marshall, a Darwin family friend. Francis was to …
- … atrocious. The other cloud on the horizon was Thomas Henry Farrer’s objection to the …
- … most useful’, Emma reported, because Darwin told Farrer ‘a great deal about Horace that he did not …
- … & I may not be equal to the exertion’ ( letter to H. A. Pitman, [13 May 1879] ). In the end, …
- … that Darwin found the sittings tiring, and that she was ‘a good deal disgusted’ with the gown …
- … with information, suggestions, and questions. On 5 February, a stonemason, Thomas Maston, wrote …
- … Darwin’s salary as his assistant, he mentioned that Henry Woodward, a palaeontologist at the British …
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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- … in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880 . …
- … book, Erasmus Darwin , had been published in November 1879. It was received well by his relations …
- … life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles Harrison Tindal, …
- … he had written for the German journal Kosmos in February 1879, an issue produced in honour of …
- … Butler, Evolution old and new , which had appeared in May 1879. Krause wanted to correct Butler’s …
- … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and letter to Ernst Krause, 9 …
- … Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 (before Evolution old and new was …
- … 21 January 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen æum , a leading literary weekly. He …
- … outside the medium of correspondence or scientific publishing, a critic whom he clearly regarded as …
- … Francis Balfour described Movement in plants as ‘a complete revelation— The remarkable nervous …
- … with diverse backgrounds and interests. In February, a 12-year-old boy asked politely, ‘What causes …
- … 1880 ). On 16 February , ‘an ardent student’, Henry Faulds, sought help in collecting finger and …
- … Scientific Association (1880): 19–20). In November, a delegation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ …
- … vol. 27, letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 December 1879 ). For some years, Wallace’s main source of …
- … against English landlords from the Irish Land League. In May, a parliamentary committee was …
- … Darwin children, 17 [January 1880] ). At the year’s end, a Christmas card from another old friend, …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … of physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … it was first published in 1804. On rereading this work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched …
- … essays, many of a philosophical nature, produced by Samuel Johnson and published twice a week …
- … practice. The remaining titles provide lighter fare. Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) died aged …
- … Vol. 8 Vo Almack & Granby 16 6 Vols 12. mo Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols 8 Vo …
- … Harriet Owen ( 31 [December 1827] ) refers to ‘Scorpions’, a term used in Lister 1826 for younger …
- … years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 . London: John Murray. Henry, William. 1823. The elements of …
- … William Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … Thomas. 1784–85. Arctic zoology . 2 vols. London: Henry Hughs. Scoresby, William. 1820. …
- … roundheads . 3d ed. 3 vols. London: Colburn. White, Henry Kirke. 1826. The life and …
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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- … presented here makes this information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading …
- … about the works were later additions to the notebook text. A number of entries in the ‘Books to be …
- … the scientific works listed on the left-hand pages (labelled ‘a’ in the transcript) and the non …
- … numbered as follows: the verso of the pages of DAR *119, the ‘a’ pages of DAR 119, the odd-numbered …
- … identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is given in …
- … until the shelves overflowed, and then, with much lamenting, a day was given up to the cataloguing. …
- … to be Read Humboldt’s New Spain—much about castes [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s …
- … (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle Philosophie [A. P. de Candolle 1821] Decandolle …
- … paper on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] …
- … Humboldt contradicts this view at Teneriffe. in Pers. Narr. [A. von Humboldt 1814–29] D r …
- … Tucker’s light of Nature [Tucker 1768–78] Johnson lifes of Poets [S. Johnson 1779]. Erasmus—— …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … Letters to Philosoph Unbeliever [Priestly 1780] Johnson. Tour to Hebrides by Boswell [Boswell …
- … 3. vols. [Bradley 1724] (nothing) scarcely —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … 9 CD did not follow his own advice. In 1879, he stated that he had unbounded respect for …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … been located. CD may possibly have been referring to Samuel Johnson, The vanity of human wishes …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or, the …
- … 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … Including a journal of a …
- … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt, pseud. (Henry Vizetelly). 1849. Four months among the …
- … the gold districts . London. 119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839. Dissertations on …
- … 71: 125–7.] *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of …
- … tribes. London. 119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839. The physiology or mechanism …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829. Observations on the breeding …
- … Illustrated Library.) London. *128: 157 Johnson, Daniel. 1822. Sketches of field sports …
