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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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- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course welcome to take …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … However, from the Beagle correspondence, CD’s diary, field notebooks, and the extensive …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … are almost always in ink, usually written with CD’s favourite Brahma pens. References to books in …
- … examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Paul et Virginie and to characters in …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Beering’s Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and letter …
- … la Beche, Henry Thomas. A geological manual. London, 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de …
- … d’histoire naturelle. See Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M., ed. Dictionnaire des …
- … § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, …
- … naturelle faites dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 …
- … géologie et de climatologie asiatiques. 2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
Matches: 10 hits
- … The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at …
- … it had been walks in the Cambridgeshire countryside with Henslow that had fostered Darwin's …
- … is now in Cambridge University Library. It is inscribed: 'J. S. Henslow to his friend C. Darwin …
- … took notice of a young traveller called Charles Darwin when Henslow read some of his letters from …
- … on to Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew. As a schoolboy Henslow had assisted in cataloguing the …
- … of Geology, who introduced him to field studies. In 1819 Henslow carried out a field survey of the …
- … end of the year had collected 263 flowering plants. In 1822, Henslow was appointed Professor of …
- … for the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Despite Henslow's reservations about the …
- … too far' - the two men remained friends to the end of Henslow's life; more than 140 …
- … this earth '. Henslow was curate of Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, from 1824 to …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … never was a finer chance for a man of zeal & spirit. ( Letter from J. S. Henslow, 24 August …
- … not only kept him in touch with family and friends, but with Henslow and others from whom he could …
- … he returned to England. It was even letters sent back to Henslow and published without Darwin' …
- … would be a companion for Robert FitzRoy , the Beagle 's captain. Darwin was not the …
- … history, brought him to the top of the list when first Henslow himself, and then Leonard Jenyns , …
- … the Beagle finally sailed from Plymouth on 27 December 1831, Charles was on board. They did not …
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.
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- … Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun …
- … Track down clues to find out more about Darwin’s life and work. Explore Darwin’s study to find out …
- … This is the journey that changed Darwin’s life but how did he get to go and what did he discover? …
- … his letters to find out. Download ‘Darwin’s letters home' activity …
- … any thing worthy to be noted in Natural History’ ( Letter from J. S. Henslow, 24 August 1831 ) …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
Matches: 11 hits
- … and colonial authorities. In the nineteenth-century, letter writing was one of the most important …
- … in times of uncertainty, controversy, or personal loss. Letter writing was not only a means of …
- … The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker. The second is between Darwin …
- … to Hooker “it is like confessing a murder”. Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D. …
- … wide-ranging genera. Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
- … flora of the USA. He sends a list of plants from Gray’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to …
- … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin catches up on personal …
- … Mentors Darwin's close relationship with John Stevens Henslow, the professor of botany …
- … Mentors This collection of letters documents Henslow’s mentoring while Darwin was on the …
- … mail to Montevideo. He talks of being a sort of Protégé of Henslow’s and it is Henslow’s “bounden …
- … Letter 115 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, S. E., [4 Sept 1831] Darwin writes to his sister Susan. …
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…
Matches: 27 hits
- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … Library of useful knowledge Horse, cow, sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … papers. read Audubons Ornithol: Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— 4 Vols. well worth reading …
- … worth studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with …
- … to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … 1828a]. quoted by D r Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … &c. Also Encyclop. of Agriculture by Loudon [Loudon 1831]. Book I. ch. 7 & Book II. Ch. 8. …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … [Gaertner 1788–91] (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 …
- … of Authors in Loudon’s Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] Dieffenbach Travels into the …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … end Herschel’s Introd to Nat. Philosophy [Herschel 1831] d[itt]o 2 d time of Reading 62 …
- … 1838] 14 Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. …
- … 1834]— d[itt]o d[itt]o d[itt]o. d[itt]o. 15 th Henslow’s Botany [Henslow 1837].— d[itt]o d …
- … ] 4. Vol. references at End Feb. 23 rd . Henslow Pamph. on Wheat [Henslow 1841]— fact about …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR 71: 51–2.] …
- … years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … sur la distribution géographique des animaux vertébrés, moins les oiseaux. Journal de Physique 94 …
- … Drury, Robert. 1729. Madagascar; or, Robert Drury’s journal, during fifteen years …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … from this, the editing of excerpts from Fritz Müller’s letters on climbing plants to make another …
- … to comment on a paper on Verbascum (mullein) by CD’s protégé, John Scott, who was now working in …
- … and, according to Butler, the bishop of Wellington. Darwin’s theory was discussed at an agricultural …
- … significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of Darwin’s and prominent supporter of (though not a …
- … Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. Hooker’s father, died in August. There …
- … The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
- … having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
- … his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
- … may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
- … always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
- … for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
- … gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
- … added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
- … ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
- … willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After …
- … loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). …
- … The last two months of the year also saw letters from George Henslow, the son of Darwin’s mentor at …
Alexander von Humboldt
Summary
The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell …
- … was the Personal Narrative of Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in Central and South America …
- … movement, and trained with Abraham Gottlob Werner, Europe’s leading practitioner of mineralogy and …
- … of nature. When Darwin was a student at Christ’s College, Humboldt’s Personal Narrative …
- … between Cambridge and Grantchester. So strong was Darwin’s desire to emulate Humboldt that after …
- … Beagle . The documents of the exciting autumn of 1831 prove that almost everyone in Darwin’s …
- … translation of the Personal Narrative , a gift from Henslow inscribed ‘to his friend C. Darwin on …
- … of nature. He used the Personal Narrative and Humboldt’s writings on Asia as omnipresent sources …
- … filled on the voyage and after suggests that Humboldt’s influence on Darwin’s thought was eclipsed …
- … found his specimens, echoed themes so central to Humboldt’s work that a citation would have been …
- … traveller,’ the published version of Darwin’s diary, his Journal of the voyage, was a tribute to …
- … be considered Darwin’s epitaph for his hero, written in a letter to another old voyager the year …
