To J. A. H. de Bosquet 7 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 7 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1517 |
To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
To Albany Hancock 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1498 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … to them. See Living Cirripedia (1854): 555. See letter to Albany Hancock, 10 February [ …
- … letter to Albany Hancock, [21 September 1849] ). Because of this belief he had deferred examining Alcippe until he was finished with the common cirripedes. For a discussion of their differences, see Living Cirripedia (1854): …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 24 December 1853
Summary
Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1543 |
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- … du Genre Verruca. ’ ( Bosquet 1854 , p. 13 n. ). See letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 18 …
- … manuscript of Bosquet 1854 . See Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 10. See letter to J. A. H. …
- … letter as a result of a piece having been torn off. A misreading by the copyist of ‘tergum’. Probably a misreading of ‘specierum’ by the copyist. CD did include descriptions of Bosquet’s new species in the ‘Synopsis et index systematicus specierum’ of Living Cirripedia (1854): …
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 19 March [1853]
Summary
Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1507 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 October [1853]
Summary
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1537 |
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
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- … see also letter to J. D. Dana, 8 May [1852] . Living Cirripedia (1854): 106–8 and nn. …
- … and Arts (see letter to J. D. Dana, 25 November [1852] ). Living Cirripedia (1854) was …
- … 1854): 106, 580. CD and Dana had earlier disagreed over the homologies of the two pairs of larval antenna. See Correspondence vol. 4, letter …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, [1 November 1849] ). He and Mary Lyell, together with Frances Joanna and Charles James Fox Bunbury , arrived in Madeira on 18 December. On 18 February 1854 …
- … letter to J. D. Dana, 27 September [1853] , CD wrote about John Lubbock : ‘if you can ever give him a little encouragement it would really be a good service, for he … may do good work in Natural History. ’ In Living Cirripedia (1854): …
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
To Albany Hancock 12 February [1853]
Summary
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1501 |
To C. S. Bate 10 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1471 |
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- … mia for Living Cirripedia (1854): Plate XXIX, p. 670. See letters to Edward Forbes , [1 …
- … 1854): 512–18), Bate is mentioned as having sent some specimens; he also reported to CD that he could find no impressions on slate rocks from which he had removed specimens of Verruca (p. 514). See also letter …
To C. S. Bate 7 July [1853]
Summary
Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.
Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.
Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 7 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1521 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
To Albany Hancock 30 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1509 |
To John Higgins 2–3 December [1853]
Summary
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 2–3 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1541 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1853]
Summary
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1540 |
To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
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- … See letter to Albany Hancock, 29 January [1853] . In Living Cirripedia (1854) , CD stated …
- … 1854): 527). CD finally decided to place Alcippe within the Lepadidae, giving greater weight to its sexual relations shared with the genera Ibla and Scalpellum than to gross anatomical differences. Modern classification schemes, however, rely on the reduced number of thoracic limbs and absence of abdominal segments and rank Alcippe and Cryptophialus together in a separate order, the Acrothoracica. For Hancock’s view, see letter …
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
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- … letter to Richard Owen, 17 July [1852] . Alcippe lampas has no rectum or anus ( Living Cirripedia (1854): …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] ). George Howard Darwin , then 7 1 2 years old, was not sent to Bruce Castle either. In August 1856 he went to Clapham Grammar School, where science and mathematics had a more prominent place in the curriculum than at more traditional schools. The school was run by Charles Pritchard , who later became Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford ( Moore 1977 p. 53). The final proofs of Living Cirripedia (1854) …
To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
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- … 1854). The total for 1853 was given as £57 12 s . 9 d . , less the £42 that CD had already advanced to Sowerby through the Ray Society (see letter …
- … letter to J. D. Dana, 27 September [1853] . In the last half of 1853, CD’s Account book (Down House MS) has several entries for payments to George Brettingham Sowerby Jr , including a large sum on 17 September, for drawings and plates for both Fossil Cirripedia (1854) …
From Albany Hancock 25 February 1853
Summary
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
| Author: | Albany Hancock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1505 |
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| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Hancock, Albany | (7) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
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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- … The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. …
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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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
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 …
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 …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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 …
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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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
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 …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … < Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid …
John Murray
Summary
Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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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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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
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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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of …
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 …
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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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
Barnacles
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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 …
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 …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … < Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
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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- … Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a …
