To J. M. Herbert [1–6] June 1832
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Summarises experiences since leaving England. "How intimately what may be called the ""moral part"" is connected with the enjoyment of scenery." The loneliness of the voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [1–6] June 1832 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-172 |
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- … I am even beneath his contempt I can eat Salt Beef & musty biscuits for dinner. — see what …
To Caroline Darwin 25–6 April [1832]
Summary
His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 25–6 Apr [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-166 |
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- … c &c gun rifle all floating in the Salt Water: every thing is a little injured, but not …
To Susan Darwin 14 July – 7 August [1832]
Summary
Regrets leaving the tropics, despite interest in a land where Europeans have never been. They have experienced political turmoil at Montevideo. Natural history going well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July – 7 Aug [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-177 |
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- … We have never yet (nor shall we) dined off salt meat. — Rice & Peas & Calavanses are …
To R. W. Darwin 8 February – 1 March 1832
Summary
Writes with great happiness about the first part of the voyage, after his misery from seasickness passed. He finds himself well prepared, the ship quiet, comfortable, and compact; he has already a "rich harvest" and finds the natural history (especially geology) exceedingly interesting. The tropics are full of great beauty.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Date: | 8 & 26 Feb & 1 Mar [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-158 |
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- … being half drowned in a sail filled with salt water. — About 50 miles North of the line, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … islands, where they continued to evolve. Seeds in salt water For his theory to …
- … whether the seeds of common garden plants could be soaked in salt water, survive, and germinate. …
- … asks Hooker to predict which seeds will be easily killed in salt water. Letter 1669 …
- … 1. Why did Darwin undertake soak common garden seeds in salt water? 2. Why do you think …
- … Hooker in putting together his experiment soaking seeds in salt water? What does their exchange tell …
- … swallow common garden seeds? How does this relate to the salt water experiments? 5. How do …
- … EXPERIMENT Recreate Charles Darwin's seeds in salt-water experiment! What you …
- … hardware store or seed catalogue. small vials of salt water. Average salt content of sea water …
- … size, etc. Have each group make predictions about how the salt water will affect the seeds. Have a …
- … Place the seeds in small vials filled with salt water. Leave them for a week and have the students …
- … first experiment mimicked Darwin’s 1855 work on seeds and salt-water. The experiment is delightfully …
- … illustration of biogeography: many seeds survive weeks in salt-water and are still capable of …
List of correspondents
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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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- … Salisbury, Lady (1) Salt & Son (1) …
Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
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- … were known collectively as the Dovelies, or Miss Pepper and Salt) died in 1832. Her father& …
Darwin The Collector
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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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- … Activities provide an introduction to Charles Darwin, how and why he collected so many specimens …
Getting to know Darwin's science
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One of the most exciting aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the opportunity it gives to researchers to ‘get to know’ Darwin as an individual. The letters not only reveal the scientific processes behind Darwin’s publications, they give insight…
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- … life. Students dissected barnacles, tested the effects of salt water on seeds, observed the habits …
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
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- … talking ass, Jonah’s whale, Lot’s wife turned to salt, Joshua making the sun stand still, etc. – 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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- … must be read. 1855 (read) Salts Travels in Abyssinia [Salt 1814] Appendix &c must be read …
- … —— 23 Stansbury. Exploration & Survey of the Great Salt Lake [Stansbury 1852]. May 15 th …
- … Jamaica [Gosse 1847] 12 Salts Travels in Abyssinia [Salt 1814] —— Boreau Flore du …
- … or Latter Day Saints, in the valley of the Great Salt Lake: a history . Philadelphia. …
- … Affghanistan, 1841–2. London. *128: 180 Salt, Henry. 1814. A voyage to Abyssinia, …
- … 1852. An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: including a description of …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … the pollen of one flower to another, immersing seeds in salt water, feeding them to birds and fish); …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … loss and gain of water. When Francis witnessed the effect of salt and acid solutions on the …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … the experiment before! Instead of taking it for granted that salt water kills seeds. I shall have it …
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…
