From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1872
Summary
Miscellaneous personal matters.
What does CD think of Robert Mallet’s earthquake theory? Would it not account for strata dipping at base of range of mountains?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 121–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8547 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … earthquake theory? Would it not account for strata dipping at base of range of mountains? …
- … follow and extend at either side of the mountain-chains of the world’ ( Mallet 1872 , p. …
- … the action of earthquakes and the elevation of mountain chains in ‘Volcanic phenomena …
- … and the formation of mountain chains’ . …
- … Volcanic phenomena and the formation of mountain chains’: On the connexion of certain …
- … South America; and on the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, as the effect of the …
- … dipping inwards at the base of ranges of mountains? All quiet here at present | Ever yours …
From Asa Gray 6 October 1872
Summary
Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.
AG’s recent tour of the U. S.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8545 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). Joseph …
- … made our detour into the Colorado Rocky Mountains, to take her up to the summit of Gray’s …
- … stretch to the E. base of the Rocky Mountains, then down to Denver, & up into the Mts. …
- … to an invalid—whence I climbed a high mountain or two, among them Gray’s Peak, the …
- … audacity (French). Grays Peak, named for Asa Gray , is the highest mountain in the Front …
From John Scott 25 September 1872
Summary
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8534 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1872]
Summary
Is much vexed about Drosera.
Land-level changes and volcanic activity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 31–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8552 |
To J. V. Carus 23 September 1872
Summary
Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.
Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 88–89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8531 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … translation. I most sincerely hope that the mountain-air & rest have done your health some …
From Alfred Espinas March 1872
Summary
AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.
| Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8231 |
From B. A. Renshaw 15 June 1872
Summary
Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.
| Author: | Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8387 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the island of Tenerife; Aguamansa is in the mountains to the north. Machanga : a Spanish …
To Amy Ruck 24 February [1872]
Summary
Wants AR to make any observations she can on the occurrence of little ledges on the side of steep, turf-covered slopes. Feels they may result from the washing down of worm-castings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8224 |
From A. F. Boardman 18 March 1872
Summary
On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.
Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8245 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … East trade winds and over the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi valley. This if true (and …
From H. A. Head 18 September 1872
Summary
Impressions of Duluth and the natural history of its environs.
| Author: | Henry A. Head |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8526 |
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- … as I have seen here and in the Rocky Mountains. — On the small lakes scattered about in …
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Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
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- … he wrote to Darwin about a local girl living in a mountain town on the island of Tenerife. …
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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John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
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< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
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- … and off-hand, and acts on the spur of the moment.’ The ‘mountain of Firmness’ over his ears makes …
Monte Sarmiento
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Peaks in Tierra del Fuego
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- … Fitzroy sends mountain heights in Tierra del Fuego. …
Frances Power Cobbe
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Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
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- … referred to her in a letter to Darwin as a 'disenchanting mountain of flesh'. Cobbe, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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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- … volcanic phenomena in South America; and on the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, as the …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … at the same low tide, resembles a miniature volcanic mountain range extruded by the rock itself, 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…
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
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< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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- … version of the print was published, and is now raised to the mountain top, the highest point in the …
Darwin on childhood
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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … admirer was old Peter Hailes the bricklayer, & the tree the Mountain Ash on the lawn. All …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain formation, and the elevation of …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … migrated through the tropical regions near the equator along mountain ranges – these would have …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
