To Lovell Augustus Reeve [before 14 March 1849]
Summary
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lovell Augustus Reeve |
| Date: | [before 14 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Melvill 1900: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223F |
To Charles Lyell [2 September 1849]
Summary
Discusses effect of subsidence and elevation on deposits. Cites examples along coasts of South America and Wales. Proposes theory to explain thickness of deposits in south Wales.
Asks CL’s opinion of his theory of "craters of elevation" described in Volcanic islands.
Mentions CL’s comparison of Mississippi beds to the Pampas.
Comments on Poulett Scrope’s views on the separation of basalt and trachyte.
Describes his cirripede work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [2 Sept 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1252 |
To Richard Owen [24 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].
Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.
Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [24 Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1228 |
To Albany Hancock [29 or 30 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | [29 or 30] Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | Maine Historical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1262 |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 October 1846] ). The name that was …
- … letter to Sven Lovén, 12 November 1849 . Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The description in Living Cirripedia (1851): 204, reads: ‘ New South Wales, attached to a mass of the Galeolaria decumbens, (Mus. Hancock)’. G. decumbens is a polychaete worm. CD may also have wished to alter the name of Arthrobalanus subsequent to his improved expertise in the comparative anatomy and taxonomy of the barnacles. When he began in 1846 …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 March 1849]
Summary
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1233 |
To Susan Darwin [19 March 1849]
Summary
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A7–A8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1234 |
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- … Gully 1846 , pp. 657–8). By May, Gully had made CD give up snuff (see letter to J. S. …
- … means’ ( Gully 1846 , p. 83 n. ). ).For CD’s opinion of homoeopathy see letter to W. D. …
- … 1846. The water cure in chronic disease: an exposition of the causes, progress, & terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lungs, nerves, limbs, & skin; and of their treatment by water, and other hygienic means. London: J. Churchill. LL : The life and letters …
To J. D. Hooker 28 March 1849
Summary
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1236 |
To W. J. Hooker [c. February 1849]
Summary
Thanks WJH for information on J. D. Hooker’s progress.
J. D. Hooker promised a copy of his Galapagos paper. Can WJH forward one to the Athenaeum?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–J 1849, 27: 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1218 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 October 1849
Summary
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260 |
To J. S. Henslow [26 September 1849]
Summary
Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.
His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [26 Sept 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A92–A95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1254 |
To J. D. Dana 5 December [1849]
Summary
Comments on JDD’s book [Geology (1849)]. Is sending copies of various geological papers. Their agreements and differences on coral reefs, volcanic geology, denudation, and subsidence.
Comments on Robert Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Asks to borrow cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1276 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 4 December [1849] , n. 5. John Vaughan Thompson’s Zoological researches and illustrations was published in parts between 1828 and 1834, some of which soon became difficult to procure. This is the work in which the larval stages of cirripedes was first described ( J. V. Thompson 1830 ). The papers referred to are probably those Thomas Bell published on Crustacea between 1835 and 1846. …
To Charles Lyell 3 July [1849]
Summary
Discusses CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849]. Corrects CL’s error regarding location of Megatherium finds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 July [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1248 |
To J. D. Dana 8 October 1849
Summary
Discusses cirripedes collected by JDD.
Gratified that he agrees "to some extent" with CD’s views on coral reefs.
Mentions his health.
Asks for JDD’s publication on cirripedes.
Sends message from William Baird concerning Crustacea research of J. O. Westwood.
Mentions Joseph Leidy’s discovery of cirripede eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1259 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1846 , p. 225 n. , Dana stated that the pedicel (peduncle) of the Lepadidae (which he called Anatifæ ) corresponded to a pair of antennae in the larval stages. CD, however, maintained that the peduncle and all the externally visible parts of Cirripedia corresponded to the three anterior segments of the head of a crustacean. CD further believed that the prehensile antennae were associated with the fronto-lateral horns of the larvae and that they developed into the means of attachment for the organism ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 9–10, 28). See also letter …
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| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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 to …
Barnacles
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Darwin and barnacles …
Scientific Practice
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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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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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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,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not …
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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- … This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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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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- … The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University …
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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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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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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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
Divergence
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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]…
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- … In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin , …
Darwin and the Church
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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…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
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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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … I naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish …
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…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle …
