To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … an overview of the Beagle voyage (1831–1836). In The Darwinian heritage , edited by David …
- … unofficial naturalist between 1832 and 1836 ( Freeman 1978 ); the voyage to South America …
- … H.M.S. Beagle … during the years 1831 to 1836. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended …
- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
- … and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 vols. and …
- … Notebooks : Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836–1844. Geology, transmutation of species, …
From John Lubbock 2 September 1864
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4606 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 18 March [1864]
Summary
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4431 |
From B. J. Sulivan 23 September [1864]
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4622 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a lieutenant on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836, had remained in the Royal Navy and now …
- … and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy. ] 3 vols. and …
- … commander of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836; CD joined the ship as FitzRoy’s companion ( …
- … had served on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 ( Correspondence vol. 1, Appendix III). …
- … serving on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 ( Correspondence vol. 1, Appendix III). …
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1970–90. Journal and remarks : Journal and remarks. 1832–1836. By Charles Darwin. Vol. …
- … and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern …
- … Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & …
- … Notebooks : Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836–1844. Geology, transmutation of species, …
From Hermann Kindt 11 October 1864
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4632 |
To [Frederick Wollaston Hutton] 8 December [1864]
Summary
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4710 |
From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
To William Lonsdale 6 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 6 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, pp. 436–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, [30–1 October 1836] ). CD had considered Lonsdale as a possible …
To A. R. Wallace 28 [May 1864]
Summary
Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],
and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.
The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.
On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.
[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4510 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
From Robert Swinhoe 4 April 1864
Summary
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4449 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hall, Philip B. 1987. Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), FRS, FZS, FRGS: a Victorian naturalist …
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
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- … as colonial treasurer in Cape Town from 1836 to 1842; he published a number of works …
From William Bennett 29 April 1864
Summary
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
Author: | William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4475 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
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- … the ship anchored at Falmouth on 2 October 1836 ( ‘Beagle’ diary , pp. 17, 447). CD had …
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To E. A. Darwin 30 June 1864
Summary
Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].
Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.
Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.
Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1864 |
Classmark: | ML 1: 247–8; DAR 154: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4548A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
letter | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kindt, Hermann | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Beck, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Kindt, Hermann | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Beck, John | (1) |
Bennett, William | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
Lesquereux, Leo | (1) |
Lonsdale, William | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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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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Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … Beagle letters (e.g. letter to Caroline Darwin, 29 April 1836 ) to the more considered and …
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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John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … no effect. ’ Darwin and Herbert spent Christmas 1836 together in Cambridge , indulging their …
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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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- … Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] …
- … 1829] Prostitution of Paris [Parent-Duchâtelet 1836]. about licentiousness destroying their …
- … has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea Botany R. …
- … Col. le Couteur has written on wheat [Le Couteur 1836] Bechstein on Caged Birds. 10 s 6 d …
- … [?Heisch 1842] Coleridge. Literary Remains [Coleridge 1836–9] Inconsistency of Human …
- … and Duméril 1821] Encyclop of Anat & Phys [Todd ed. 1836–59] [DAR *119: 14] …
- … 36s.— Wiegmann. Archif fur Naturgeschicte. 33 1836. Meyen on distrib of plants in …
- … race-horse during past & present century. Hookham” [Anon. 1836]: worth looking at. Low has …
- … Königlichen Akad: der Wissen: Aus dem Jahre 1834.— Berlin 1836.— “Vergleich: Anat der Myxinoiden”. …
- … (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] [DAR *119: 19v.] …
- … Cattle, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 15. Parrots [Selby 1836]. 26. Honey Bees [Jardine ed …
- … Life of L d . Clive. by Malcolm [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … [DAR 119: 4a] Lessings Laocoon [Lessing 1836] Whewell inductive History [Whewell …
- … 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833 …
- … Sept. 25 th . Prichard. Physical Researches [Prichard 1836–47]. Volumes II with references at end …
- … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
- … Cyprinidae from the vol 19. Asiatic Researches [McClelland 1836].— References at end.—— …
- … 1823] & first 2 d 71 vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7] 26 th . Carlyle. Hero …
- … prolix —— 3 d vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. Giaour [Byron 1813] —— Some …
- … —— Col. le-Couteur on Wheat [Le Couteur 1836]. marked.— 25 Youatt on Sheep [Youatt 1837] d …
- … & Letters [Shelley 1840].— Some Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. —— Part of Waltons lives …
- … Mahons Hist. Peace of Utrecht to La Chapelle [Stanhope 1836–54] III Vols. —— 17 th Laing …
- … 1842] —— Finished Wordsworth 6 vols. [Wordsworth 1836–7] [DAR 119: 12a] …
- … [Drury 1729] —— 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836] 1844 Jan 7 th …
- … Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell [Hall 1836]. April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit …
- … Yarrell does not compare British with N. American [Yarrell 1836].— March I. G. St. Hilaire …
- … 1844] Jan 5 th . L d . Mahon History [Stanhope 1836–54] IV vol: 14 Thaleba by …
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Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest …
- … FitzRoy, who commanded the Beagle from 1828 to 1836 during two surveying voyages to the southern …
- … When the Beagle docked at Falmouth on 2 October 1836, two years later than originally planned, …
- … !!!!!!! ’. He wed his long-term fiancée in December 1836—‘ a most inconvenient time to marry ’, …
- … but adamant in the importance of missionary work. In 1836, Darwin joined with FitzRoy in …
- … Instead, after marrying the pious Mary O’Brien in 1836, and publishing the account of the Beagle …
- … will be his end,’ Darwin wrote about FitzRoy in January 1836, ‘ under many circumstances I am sure, …
- … Anderson, ed., Narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 , 4 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto …
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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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- … and the five years of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle . In 1836, the twenty-seven-year-old traveller …
- … society When Darwin returned to England in October 1836 it was with the firm intention of …
- … in the ornithological notes written during the summer of 1836, when, homeward bound, he was …
- … ‘Ornithological notes’ p. 262). In the winter of 1836 the question of the stability of …
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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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Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … of a satirical account of the Beagle ’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the …
- … century, the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of …
- … the end of that Beagle voyage, over twelve days in April 1836 before the Beagle headed home via …
- … Beagle , titled Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 . It was accompanied by an …
- … before replacing Beechey as commander of HMS Sulphur in 1836. In Sulphur , he spent nearly …
- … Leisk was present when the Beagle visited the islands in 1836, and FitzRoy baptized the Leisk …
- … from a British ship that stopped at Cocos- Keeling in early 1836 en route from China to London; …
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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … letter from Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [28 October 1836] , letter from Emma Wedgwood and …
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Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836 . By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
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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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- … , p. 196). In another field notebook, at Cape Town in May 1836, he lists, probably with the …
- … some of his idiosyncratic spelling during the summer of 1836 (Sulloway 1982b, pp. 331–2, n. 13). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder, 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). ‡ …
- … ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836’). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 28). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 26). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 22–3). …
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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…
Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … the Royal Academy in 1837, and therefore probably painted in 1836), also represents the Beagle …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 297 — Darwin, S. E. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Feb 1836 Darwin’s sister Sarah E. Darwin …
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Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Some naturalists, such as Jean …