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Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings Darwin's first reflections on human progress were …
- … human progress or cause degeneration. In the "Fuegians", Darwin thought he had witnessed …
- … several years earlier as part of a missionary enterprise. Darwin was struck by the progress that had …
- … been returned to their native land. After the voyage, Darwin began to question the …
- … After the publication of Origin of Species , many of Darwin's supporters continued to …
- … or extermination of other peoples and cultures. When Darwin wrote about the human races and …
- … on human and animal behavior accumulated over three decades. Darwin argued forcefully for the unity …
- … and beyond. Letters Darwin’s first observations of the peoples …
- … Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow. Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April 1833 …
- … wildness." Charles wrote to his sister, Emily Catherine Darwin, about witnessing …
- … most of the British empire by an act of Parliament in August 1833 which took effect in the following …
- … descent. Letter 4933 : Farrar, F. W. to Darwin, 6 November 1865 "so …
- … this a very strong argument for the Polygenist?" Darwin asked the English settler …
- … of replies from the South African native, Christian Gaika. Darwin was impressed by Gaika's …
- … of civilization of the natives. Letter 5617 , Darwin to Weale, J. P. M., 27 August …
- … civilization" Letter 5722 , Weale, J. P. M. to Darwin, [10 December 1867] …
- … Just prior to the publication of Origin of Species , Darwin discussed his views on progress in a …
- … structure. This remained a point of dispute between many of Darwin’s scientific supporters, …
- … Alpheus Hyatt. In the last edition of Origin (1872), Darwin tried to clarify his position: " …
- … ( Origin , 6 th ed, p. 98). Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October …
- … which I have briefly discussed in the Origin." Darwin discussed the role of …
- … the philosopher William Graham. Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October …
- … races being exterminated." Letter 3439 : Darwin to Kingsley, Charles, 6 February …
- … a unit, will have risen in rank." Letter 4510 : Darwin to Wallace, A. R., 28 [May …
- … & moral qualities. Letter 13230 : Darwin to Graham, William, 3 July 1881 …
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an …
- … answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was supposed to destroy. …
- … at my fury and revenge— Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a …
- … Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of revealing letters to Darwin, giving glimpses into their …
- … not know whether Fanny burnt the letters she received from Darwin, but he carefully kept the letters …
- … father, William Mostyn Owen, ‘ the Governor ’. Darwin first heard about Fanny when he was an …
- … The high-spirited, fun-loving Fanny, two years older than Darwin, clearly established the terms of …
- … her love of the dramatic, and most of all her inclusion of Darwin in a make-believe private world, …
- … Forest that shaped the relationship she developed with Darwin. The characters include Peter, a …
- … In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to Darwin, he was postilion to her housemaid, …
- … words, convey a warmth of character that was first noted by Darwin’s sister Catherine. After staying …
- … on the social life of Brighton, she also demanded that Darwin send her ‘Shrewsbury scandal’. ‘You …
- … black mysteries after so long an absence ’. Darwin, however, did leave Shrewsbury before …
- … a clergyman. Fanny’s slow response to the news of Darwin’s departure came with the excuse that she …
- … like any thing but what I am , a Housemaid ’. Darwin’s feelings were probably more …
- … he had not heard from her. Writing before the end of Darwin’s first Cambridge term, Fanny …
- … they think, of a Housemaid writing to M r Charles Darwin— ' That summer, while away …
- … A gift with wings At Cambridge, Darwin’s new-found passion for entomology …
- … felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, received four months later in Rio …
- … grief to you, dearest Charley ’, was the only consolation Catherine could offer. ‘If Fanny was not …
- … sister Sarah the previous summer. Darwin’s sister Catherine thought him ‘a dissipated, gambling …
- … man ’ and ‘ a tiresome person to live with. ’ Catherine remained the most sceptical. ‘Poor Fanny …
- … following the birth of her first daughter in May 1833, she was ‘deplorably ill & weak, and very …
- … , the difference between the sisters being caught by Catherine Darwin, who had observed them at a …
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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- … from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief …
- … two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 …
- … is of four kinds: There are volumes now in the Darwin Library in Cambridge that contain …
- … notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University …
- … and symbols are used: DAR — Darwin Archive CUL — Cambridge University …
- … , conveys the following information: CD’s copy, now in Darwin Libary–CUL, was used on board. The …
- … 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the Darwin Archive. The copy in the Darwin …
- … . 2 vols. Strasbourg, 1819. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘C. Darwin HMS Beagle’; DAR 32.1: 61). Darwin …
- … 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 1832 Philadelphia …
- … Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § Blainville, Henri …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … signatures of the members . . . who met at Cambridge, June 1833. With a report of the proceedings . …
- … Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 …
- … de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833). Darwin Library–CUL ††. …
- … . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 369–93. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. (DAR 37.2: 797). …
- … ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). Maskelyne, Nevil. Tables …
- … of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar . . . 2 vols. London, 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). …
- … (Vols. 3–7 inscribed ‘Chas. Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, …
- … Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to Catherine Darwin, 5 July [1832]). …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have read it. Ogleby Temminck. …
- … of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la …
- … Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in …
- … Darby’s Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil …
- … Lives of Kepler & Galileo. Drinkwater [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French …
- … Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de …
- … countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du …
- … 5 s 1834–43 1. Humming Birds, Vol. 1 [Jardine 1833]. 3. Humming Birds, Vol 2 …
- … 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes lives [Drinkwater 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of …
- … Fellow’s Lycia (1 st Travels) [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins …
- … [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinson’s Egyptian remains [?J. G. …
- … 10 th Surville-Marion [Crozet 1783]. Fanning [Fanning 1833], Dixon [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages …
- … other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed …
- … to Khiva (James Abbott 1843). 48 Emily Catherine Darwin. 49 Almost …
- … list of the books read by CD (DAR 120), which was begun by Catherine Darwin and continued by CD. …
- … . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 8a Gore, Catherine Grace Frances. 1838. The rose …
- … . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 22b [Marsh, Catherine M.]. 1858. English hearts and …
- … Franklin . London. 119: 23b [Spence, Catherine Ellen]. 1856. Tender and true. A …
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,…
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- … activities for building and maintaining such connections. Darwin's networks extended from his …
- … when strong institutional structures were largely absent. Darwin had a small circle of scientific …
- … section contains two sets of letters. The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. …
- … about Hooker’s thoughts. Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 Jan 1844] …
- … is like confessing a murder”. Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 23 Feb [1844 …
- … of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera. Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 …
- … of the species. Letter 1685 — Gray, Asa to Darwin, C. R., 22 May 1855 Gray …
- … of alpine flora in the USA. Letter 2125 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 20 July [1857] …
- … have in simple truth been of the utmost value to me.” Darwin believes species have arisen, like …
- … or continuous area; they are actual lineal descendants. Darwin discusses fertilisation in the bud …
- … exchange This collection of letters between Darwin and Hooker, while Darwin was writing his …
- … to information exchange. Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] …
- … followed automatically. On the issue of nomenclature reform, Darwin opposes appending first …
- … 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R., 15 & 21 Jan [1833] Henslow acknowledges receipt of …
- … He reports on his father’s health, as well as sister Catherine’s and his own. He also notes that …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s seasickness, he would often …
- … contain his feelings at seeing the alteration in Jemmy, and Darwin lamented ‘so complete and …
- … joined the captain’s table for dinner, and, according to Darwin, was ‘ very happy, did not wish to …
- … with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University …
