To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1845]
Summary
Condolences on JDH’s grandfather’s death.
When his wife can move, they will go to Staffordshire.
Returns some books; would like to see copy of Kosmos [by Alexander von Humboldt]. Would be proud owner of JDH’s work [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 Sept 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-912 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Alexander von Humboldt]. Would be proud owner of JDH’s work [ Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]. …
- … 40. 23 vols. Paris. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. Extract …
- … Dumont d’Urville [1841–54] . Boston Journal of Natural History , containing Hayes 1844 . …
- … Montagne 1844 . …
- … Gérard 1844 . Webb and Berthelot 1836–50, vol. 3, pt 1. Humboldt 1845–8 . Pernety 1769 , …
- … 1845. Montagne, Jean François Camille. 1844. Mémoire sur le phénomène de la coloration des …
- … 4. Notebooks : Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836–1844. Geology, transmutation of species, …
- … 16 vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hayes, John Lord. 1844. Probable influence of icebergs upon drift. …
To J. D. Hooker [5 or 12 November 1845]
Summary
Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".
Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 or 12] Nov 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-924 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … for Antarctic flora [ Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]. Agrees geographical distribution will …
- … had not been described in Zoology . CD’s essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57–255). …
- … J. D. Hooker 1844–7 . Apparently this refers to part one. Although all ten numbers of …
- … Species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Edited by Francis Darwin. …
- … De Beer ed. 1958. ] Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. Extract …
- … vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
- … which plants are distributed over the face of the globe’ ( J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , p. xii). …
- … J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp. 452–3, discusses the apparent differences in structure of …
- … emerges from the beech tree’s bark. Gérard 1844 . The application of a current from a …
To W. D. Fox [13 February 1845]
Summary
News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.
Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.
Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.
Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-827 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Bibliography Anon. 1844. A few words by way of comment …
- … Martineau’s statement. Athenæum , 28 December 1844, pp. 1198–9. Carlyle, Thomas. 1843. …
- … and present. London. Martineau, Harriet. 1844. On mesmerism. Athenæum (23 and 30 November, …
- … with mesmerism see letter to William Darwin Fox, 20 December [1844] . Thomas Arnold . …
- … The ‘Life’ is Stanley 1844 , recorded in CD’s list …
- … of ‘Books Read’ on 30 November 1844 (DAR 119; Vorzimmer 1977 , p. 133). Thomas Carlyle …
- … 18, 1144–6, 1173–4. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. 1844. The life and correspondence of Thomas …
- … article ( Athenæum , no. 896, 28 December 1844, pp. 1198–9) was a reply to a series of …
- … apparently as a result of mesmerism ( Martineau 1844 ). See R. K. Webb 1960 , pp. 230–3. …
From J. D. Hooker [4–9 September 1845]
Summary
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–9 Sept 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 208–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-914 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Strasbourg, and London. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. …
- … Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, 5 May [1844] . CD had a higher opinion of this exercise …
- … Hooker. On p. 10 of his copy of Gérard 1844 (Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL) CD noted ‘ …
- … as species. ’ A. P. de Candolle 1818–21 , 2: 524. J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp. 241–2. …
- … vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
- … D. Hooker, 1 September [1845] . Gérard 1844 . Jean François Camille Montagne . The Irish …
From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845]
Summary
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-832 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Bibliography [Chambers, Robert. ] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. …
- … de quelque Fucus. [Read 11 November 1844. ] Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Botanique 3d …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–11 November 1844] , n. 7. Bejaria , a member of the heather …
- … 5 vols. Stuttgart and Tübingen. Lindley, John. 1844. Editorial. Gardeners’ Chronicle and …
- … variations (Tegetmeir 1866–7). Gérard 1844 . There are two copies in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … 40. 23 vols. Paris. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. Extract …
- … performed by Lord Arthur Hervey in 1843 ( Lindley 1844 ). This article was used …
- … the transformist position, see [Chambers] 1844 , p. 221, and [Chambers] 1845 , p. 111. …
To J. D. Hooker [15 or 22 August 1845]
Summary
Sorry to hear about condition of JDH’s grandfather.
Sends proofs of Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches.
Grieves to hear labels are displaced on his plants.
May he annotate [F. Gérard’s] L’espèce [(1844), extracted from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny (1839–49)]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 or 22] Aug 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-900 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … May he annotate [F. Gérard’s] L’espèce [(1844), extracted from Dictionnaire universel d’ …
- … Berthelot 1836–50, vol. 3, pt 1. Gérard 1844 . Robert Graham , whose students Hooker was …
- … 40. 23 vols. Paris. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. Extract …
- … the third and final number. J. D. Hooker 1844–7 . Dumont d’Urville [1841–54] , Webb and …
- … vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 13 or 20 November 1843] . Male flowers, in plants with separate sexes. Gérard 1844 . …
- … University Press. 1985–. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. …
- … vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844– 7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. …
- … Webb and Berthelot 1836–50. J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pt 1. See Correspondence vol. 2, …
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1845]
Summary
JDH’s books have arrived safely.
Is sending him corrected MS of first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.].
Lyells have just visited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [4 June 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-864 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 40. 23 vols. Paris. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. Extract …
- … by the relationship to the letter to John Murray, [6 June 1845] . Gérard 1844 . Boston …
- … Journal of Natural History , containing Hayes 1844 ; Webb and Berthelot 1836–50; Dumont d’ …
- … 16 vols. Paris. 1841–9. Hayes, John Lord. 1844. Probable influence of icebergs upon drift. …
To J. D. Hooker [10 September 1845]
Summary
Going to Shrewsbury on Monday.
Means to attempt the question of species: "though I shall get more kicks than half-pennies, I will, life serving, attempt my work".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Sept 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-915 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Gérard, Frédéric. 1844. De l’espèce dans les corps organisés. …
- … See ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence , vol. 3, Appendix II). Humboldt 1845–8 . Gérard 1844 . …
- … Hooker’s criticism of Gérard 1844 (see previous letter) clearly struck CD as an implied …
- … of species’. See letter to Emma Darwin, 5 July 1844 , in which CD makes such a union of …
- … executor to work up and publish his essay of 1844. Auguste Saint-Hilaire was not related …
To Hugh Falconer 8 March [1845?]
Summary
Has written down what he gathered from HF on Tibetan dogs. Would welcome a few more details at any time, as he knows of nothing parallel to it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1845?] |
| Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (2 October 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1839 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … letter to Hugh Falconer, [December? 1844] ). See also Correspondence vol. …
- … letter to Adolf von Morlot, 28 November [1844] and n. 6. Falconer was an employee of the …
- … the letter to Hugh Falconer [December? 1844] (see n. 2, below). A copy of this letter in …
- … letter to Hugh Falconer, [December? 1844] and n. 2). He later published the observation …
- … CD had a conversation with Falconer in late 1844 (see Correspondence vol. 24, Supplement, …
To J. D. Hooker [10 December 1845]
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of JDH’s visit and "all our raging discussions".
Would like to compare insects from Kerguelen Islands with those from Tierra del Fuego.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-935 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … shipping concerns. Richardson and Gray 1844–75, in which the zoological results of James …
- … s visit to Down on 6 December 1845. J. D. Hooker 1844–7 . CD was correct. The error is …
- … rectified in the corrigenda to J. D. Hooker 1844–7 (p. 548). The page referred to was in …
- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
To W. D. Fox [24 April 1845]
Summary
Murray will publish a second edition of the Journal [of researches].
CD has finished first version of South America.
A strange book, The vestiges [of creation (1844)] has appeared and some have attributed it to CD. He is "flattered and unflattered".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-859 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845]
Summary
First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.
Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.
Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-862 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … material on cryptogams in J. D. Hooker 1844–7 . Journal of researches , p. 444. Hooker …
- … exposed. London. [Chambers, Robert. ] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. …
- … of Usnea melaxantha , see J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp. 519–21. J. D. Hooker 1845a . See …
- … Hume 1845 , a response to [Chambers] 1844 . Bosanquet 1845 . CD’s ‘40225’ was written …
- … sections, pp. 67–8. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
To John Murray [4 June 1845]
Summary
Obliged to JM for acceding to request for an additional £50 [for Journal of researches, 2d ed.]. Will reconsider title when type is set up. Gives up the map. Writes about other details of publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [4 June 1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-875 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 July – 19 August 1845]
Summary
Thanks for facts on solitary islands having several species of peculiar genera; "it knocks on the head some analogies of mine".
Has long been trying to discover in how many flowers crossing is probable, but finds it difficult to show "even a vague probability of this".
Will JDH proof-read Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches?
Gives information on his Galapagos collection; explains why it differs from others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 July – 19 Aug 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-892 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … also letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 September 1844] . It is unlikely that CD is referring to …
- … and species (mules). Journal of researches 2d ed. , ch. 17. E. Forbes 1844 , p. 326. …
- … at Cork , pp. 130–93. Forbes, Edward. 1844. On the light thrown on geology by submarine …
- … Britain, Friday evening, the 23d February 1844. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 36: …
To J. D. Hooker [16 April 1845]
Summary
Thanks for information about books.
Murray is publishing CD’s Journal of researches. Would be grateful for a sentence on Galapagos plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [16 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-849 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … de Candolle 1839–40 . Jussieu 1842. Hayes 1844 , in which several of CD’s observations on …
- … in South America are cited. Couthouy 1844 . CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … vols. London. Couthouy, Joseph Pitty. 1844. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; …
- … de Paris 4: 573–621. Hayes, John Lord. 1844. Probable influence of icebergs upon drift. …
From W. B. Carpenter 2 January [1845]
Summary
Says tuff collected by CD in Pampas and Chile contains organic remains. Wants to examine specimens further and hopes for Government support in doing so.
| Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-813 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April 1845
Summary
With thanks for ED’s publication. "I consider your having made my work known in Germany a full & ample recompense to such exertions as I made during our Voyage".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1845 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-852 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Catalogue. The German translation of Journal of researches (Dieffenbach trans. 1844). …
To J. D. Hooker 19 March [1845]
Summary
Would like to borrow the pamphlet on variation [Frédéric Gérard, "De l’espèce dans les corps organisés" (1844), extract from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny].
Glad to hear Humboldt’s views on migration. CD believes we cannot "put any limit to the possible and even probable migration of plants".
Wants good book on plant morphology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-842 |
To J. D. Hooker [7 January 1845]
Summary
Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?
Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.
Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".
Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.
Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Jan 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-814 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … wood. Has read Vestiges [ of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his …
- … Bibliography [Chambers, Robert. ] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. …
- … reaction to the Vestiges ( [Chambers] 1844 ) is reflected in the following note, which he …
- … of groups, source of error— [Chambers] 1844 , pp. 231–2, favoured the quinarian system of …
| letter | (51) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (2) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (2) |
| Forbes, Edward | (2) |
My most solemn request: To Emma Darwin, 5 July 1844
Summary
Alistair Sponsel talks about a touching letter Darwin sent to his wife Emma in 1844. Having just completed a sketch of his species theory, Darwin wrote detailed instructions about what to do with his manuscript in the event of his death.
Matches: 1 hits
- … about a touching letter Darwin sent to his wife Emma in 1844. Having just completed a sketch of his …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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,…
Matches: 10 hits
- … published two books on geology, Volcanic islands (1844) and Geological observations on South …
- … edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in 1844 for a German translation of the first …
- … Society of London, acting as one of four vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from …
- … and refereed papers for all these organisations. Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten …
- … others. Only two months after their first exchange, early in 1844, Darwin told Hooker that he was …
- … murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). Nine months later, in his letter …
- … , pp. 57–255), an expanded version, completed on 5 July 1844, of a pencil sketch he had drawn up …
- … of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of the essay of 1844 to read (see Correspondence vol. …
- … the natural history of creation , published anonymously in 1844. His old friend Adam Sedgwick …
- … future, is that addressed to his wife Emma, dated 5 July 1844 , just after Darwin had completed …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 5 hits
- … of his paper on Darwin. THE SAND WALK: 1844 In which Darwin, at home in …
- … and copied and communicated to Messrs Lyell and Hooker in 1844, being a part of [an …
- … a murder. DARWIN: 7 January 1844. My dear Hooker. I have been …engaged in a …
- … which is not written out much fuller in my sketch copied in 1844, and read by Hooker some dozen …
- … 1846 7 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 25 …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … he no longer believed in fixity of species [11 January 1844] ? And then there …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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: 23 hits
- … 1841].— L d . Dudley’s Correspondence [Dudley 1844]. Hallam Constitut Hist: Hen VII …
- … Hall’s voyage in the Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] …
- … Observ. on Instinct [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker 1844. in Parts. cheap. 1.6 a part. 38 …
- … Jesses new Book. (April 44) on Nat. Hist [Jesse 1844] must be studied. J. Jarves “Scenes in …
- … Traite Elementair Palæontologie M. Pictet [Pictet 1844–5]— Forbes?? Waterhouse has it— 1844— read …
- … Hooker recommends order [Backhouse 1844] at Library …
- … Vestiges of Nat: Hist: of Creation. Churchill: 1844. 7 s ” 6 d . [Chambers] 1844] in which …
- … in Taylors Scientific Memoirs—goes by sexes [Wartmann 1844] for (1844) Blofield Algeria. 1844 …
- … on transmutation of shells [Haldeman 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. published Lib. Geological …
- … Read Waterton’s last series on Nat: Hist: [Waterton 1844] tailess horses. Read “Bronn …
- … [Bernhardi 1834] (M. Gerard. experiments on species [Gérard 1844].) read Sageret sur les …
- … Travels to Khiva. 47 Residence in India [Sleeman 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849 …
- … [Plymley 1808] Sleemans Residence in India [Sleeman 1844] Curiosities of Literature …
- … [Lockhart 1828] 16 L d Dudley’s Letters [Dudley 1844] Nov. 25 Finished 3 d Part …
- … 30. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843] 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— …
- … 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836] 1844 Jan 7 th Borrow’s Bible in Spain …
- … April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit. & Pickwick [Dickens 1844 and 1837] July 20 th …
- … Rome [Niebuhr 1828–42] [DAR 119: 14a] 1844 May 26 th L d …
- … Narr: of Visit to Mauritius & G. Good Hope [Backhouse 1844] very poor Oct 1 Owen on …
- … Read. 6 vols: finished [DAR 119: 15a] 1844 & 5 Oct 20. Lloyd Field …
- … —— Vestiges of the Nat. History of Creation [Chambers] 1844] Pœppig Reisen …
- … nothing this seems all [DAR 119: 15b] 1844 & 5 Burne’s Bokhara (3. vols) …
- … 1840] 30 th . Arnolds life 3 vols [A. P. Stanley 1844] Jan 5 th . L d . Mahon …
Divergence
Summary
In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…
Matches: 1 hits
- … beginning to think along these broad lines as early as 1844 , and was certainly investigating …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Summary
The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
Summary
Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
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- … enclosure to Gray , along with extracts from Darwin’s 1844 species essay , that was read to the …
Scientific Networks
Summary
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,…
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter of 11 January 1844 , Darwin revealed to Hooker that …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … a theory of transmutation in a short pencil sketch, and in 1844, he once again committed his …
- … published in the event of his sudden death . Later in 1844, he told the naturalist Leonard …
- … of Creation caused a publishing sensation in October 1844, the public reaction to the …
- … receive his views with open arms. Since its publication in 1844, the transmutationist work …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … influential essay on classification (Milne-Edwards 1844). Like von Baer, Milne-Edwards recognised …
- … paper on classification by Gaspard Auguste Brullé (Brullé 1844). In this work, Brullé argued that …
- … of embryological development, as outlined in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57–255), …
- … p. 45). See also the fuller discussion of this topic in the 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229). …
- … and body of a mammal. ^5^ In his species essay of 1844, for example, CD stated: ‘The cause …
- … CD had arrived at such a view of cirripede systematics by 1844, judging by statements in the essay …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … outlines of his ‘species theory’ (1842 Pencil sketch and 1844 Essay). In the course of …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … from the day of his birth, 27 December 1839, until September 1844. Parallels in the development of …
- … during this period but in far less detail. By September 1844, Henrietta Emma was one year old, and …
- … possible unlike any other child I ever saw[55] Sep. 1844. Annie 3 years & ½ was looking …
- … Etruria pottery works. Emma Darwin visited there on 31 May 1844. [58] Betley Hall, home of …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … order to supplement views already expressed in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations ; Correspondence …
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…
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- … during the autumn of 1843, and Planariae, described in 1844. Another important specimen was the …
- … W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. Hooker 1844–7, 1845, 1846, 1853–5, and 1860). In …
- … true that, until he took J. D. Hooker into his confidence in 1844, Darwin does not appear to have …
- … for Kemp, based on Kemp’s letters, and published in 1844 almost entirely as Darwin wrote it (see …
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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People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Hunt for new letters: last chance!
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Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although we already know of more than 15,000 letters that Darwin exchanged with nearly 2000 correspondents around the world, letters continue to come to light in both…
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- … Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although …
