To Francis Boott 20 August 1848
Summary
CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Boott |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1848 |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1195 |
From J. E. Gray 26 August 1848
Summary
Is sorry that any person has misunderstood his intentions. JEG read his papers on cirripedes at the Zoological Society without intending to interfere with CD’s work; he merely wished to record his old observations, made before CD commenced his study, and thought that by so doing he was helping CD. [See "Description of a new species of Anatifa" and "On Thaliella", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44.]
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1848 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/254-255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1196 |
To J. E. Gray 29 August [1848]
Summary
It had been suggested to CD that JEG intended to anticipate some of his work on the Cirripedia. CD doubted this because JEG had suggested that CD commence the work and has assisted throughout; however, CD sought assurances regarding JEG’s intentions as he wished that "what little novelty there yet remained in the subject, should be the reward of my work". CD apologises for having spoken to JEG on the subject and will communicate JEG’s assurances to those who had expressed their opinions regarding JEG’s intentions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1848] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/256-257) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1197 |
To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1848] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1198 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 1 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.
Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1199 |
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
From William Thompson 29 September 1848
Summary
Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.
| Author: | William Thompson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1848 |
| Classmark: | Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200A |
To William Hellier Baily 5 October 1848
Summary
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1201 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
To ? [15 or 22 October 1848]
Summary
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [15 or 22] Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1204 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Summary
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
To Maria Hooker [17 December 1848]
Summary
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1848] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1209 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Obliged for drawings and coins. Cannot tell what the stone is.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1210 |
To John Higgins 6 December [1848]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions death of his father and his own inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1211 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.
Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.
Mentions illness.
Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1212 |
To B. W. Hawkins [1848–51]
Summary
Testimonial recommending B. Waterhouse Hawkins [for a teaching post].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
| Date: | [1848–51] |
| Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (George P. Merrill collection, box 4, file H) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13869 |
| letter | (85) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). Letters between Darwin and Richard …
- … on board ship ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). Darwin’s chapter plainly calls on …
- … a notion which was roundly criticised by William Hopkins in 1848. Hopkins maintained that transport …
- … ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), was accepted by Darwin, and he …
- … the group, turned over some notes he had made, and, early in 1848, obtained permission for Darwin to …
- … & Species theory al Diabolo together During 1848, Darwin examined the genera Ibla …
- … is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). Once Darwin had decided to …
- … this period, especially in 1847 and during the last half of 1848 and the beginning of 1849. When his …
Schools Gallery: Using Darwin’s letters in the classroom
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English| History| Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks studying Darwin’s letters, including comparing sections from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ to letters…
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- … Letter 1174 - Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 10 May 1848 …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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…
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Scientific Practice
Summary
Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 1166 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, [26 Mar 1848] Darwin describes in detail to …
- … Letter 1167 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., [1 Apr 1848] Darwin ends by suggesting that if …
- … Letter 1174 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 10 May 1848 Darwin discusses his barnacle work. …
- … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin writes to Hooker about his …
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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- … 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. Alison 1848]— (read) Montagus Translat of Visa …
- … 1834] (& of Europe?) [Gould 1832–7] & of Australia [Gould 1848]; well worth studying for …
- … [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & …
- … [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming …
- … 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes …
- … Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] Lamb’s Letters [Lamb 1837] (read) …
- … [Godwin 1835] Brookes last Journal by Mundy [Mundy 1848] Goldsmiths life by Forster …
- … Charing Cross—sells Johnstons Maps [A. K. Johnston 1848] separately—Forbes is going to publish one. …
- … Emotions by G. Ramsay B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of …
- … 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850 …
- … Christian K.. Soc [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1848] 81 March 30 th . Life …
- … Brown 1824, 1814, 1818]. [DAR 119: 21a] 1848 . Jan 1. Reports & …
- … 25. Bunbury Journal of Residence at C. of Good Hope [Bunbury 1848] March. 5. Memoires de la …
- … 12. Arthur Adams. Notes from Journal of Nat. Hist. [Belcher 1848] May Kosmos [?A. von …
- … 7 th Supplements to Müllers Physiology [Baly and Kirkes 1848] 17 th Thompson’s Birds of …
- … Oct 5. Gould Introduct. to Birds of Australia [Gould 1848] —— 20 Billing’s Voyage to N. Sea …
- … ] up to Tom IX inclusive [DAR 119: 21b] 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone …
- … July 20. Sterlings Memoir of by Hare [Sterling 1848]— moderately good Campbells Chancellors …
- … Eyre [Brontë] 1847]— Kelly’s & O’Kellys [Trollope 1848]— M r Warrenne [E. Wallace 1848 …
- … Autobiography of a Working Man. A Somerville [A. Somerville 1848] (excellent) 28. M. …
- … & Gould Principles of Zoology Vol I. [Agassiz and Gould 1848] 30. Hom. de Hells Travels …
- … 5 th . Miss Martineau. Eastern Travels [H. Martineau 1848], curious & interesting …
- … (poor) —— Sir Fowle’s Buxton’s life [Buxton 1848]— (very good) 3 d Sleeman’s …
- … 1845b]. G. Gurney [Hook] 1836]. Harold [Bulwer-Lytton] 1848] Consuelo [Sand 1847]. Wandering …
- … —— May. Haygarth Bush Life in Australia [Haygarth 1848] —— Diary of an Invalid [Matthews 1820 …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … ill health, which increased in severity in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter …
- … entries and correspondence during periods of sickness in 1848, 1852, and 1859 (see Colp 1977, pp. 38 …
- … Correspondence vol. 4, letter to Emma Darwin, [27-8 May 1848] . See also Browne 1995, pp. 428-9 …
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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- … sends a list of plants from Gray’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to append the ranges of …
- … Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin catches up on personal …
- … Letter 1189 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., 2 July [1848] Darwin criticises the lecturing …
- … Letter 1176 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, Emma, [20–1 May 1848] Darwin writes to his wife Emma. …
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. …
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.…
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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3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … Henry Walter Bates, and the two men travelled to Brazil in 1848 to pursue natural history. Despite …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she …
Father dies
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Darwin's father, Robert Waring Darwin. dies in Shrewsbury
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- … Darwin's father, Robert Waring Darwin. dies in Shrewsbury …
Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
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- … the first intakes at both Queen’s and Bedford Colleges in 1848 and 1849. Her teachers included James …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle …
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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- … XVII, 1882 4 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 10 MAY 1848 5 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER …
Asa Gray
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Darwin’s longest running and most significant exchange of correspondence dealing with the subjects of design in nature and religious belief was with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was one of Darwin’s leading supporters in America. He was also a…
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- … the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1848 he married Jane Loring. They had no …
