To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1960 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To John Lubbock 23 September [1856] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Sept [1856] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … Les métamorphoses. Revue des deux Mondes 10 (1855): 90–116, 275–314; 3 (1856): 496– 519, …
- … 859- 83; 4 (1856): 55–82. …
- … to the letter from J. D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . Owen 1849 . Lubbock was at this time …
- … see letter to John Lubbock, 27 October [1856] ). CD’s annotated copy of Owen 1849 is in …
- … Hotham Lubbock , was married to William Powell Rodney on 11 September 1856 ( The Times , …
- … 12 September 1856). The wedding took place in Down church. CD’s daughter, Henrietta Emma, …
- … Letter from J. D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . The passage quoted was probably in the section …
- … on Entomostraca in Lubbock 1855 . See letter to John Lubbock, [14 January 1856] . …
- … and others]. 1826–. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1856–7. Lectures on general natural history. …
- … 1849 was discussed in the fifth part ((1856), pp. 60–4). When Lubbock came to write up …
- … natural history given at the School of Mines in 1856 and published in the Medical Times & …
- … Gazette ( T. H. Huxley 1856–7 ). Ellen Frances Lubbock was pregnant. The Lubbocks’ first …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 [September 1856]
Summary
Specifies pigeons in which he is interested. Has become almost more interested in rabbits than anything else.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 [Sept 1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2068 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 [September 1856] …
- … Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday ( Post Office London directory 1856). See letters to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 20 March [1856] , n. …
- … 8 and 24 June [1856] . …
- … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 [Sept 1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 21 September [1856] . John Bailey Jr of Mount Street and his …
- … CD paid for these skeletons on 7 October 1856. A carrier left the George Inn, Borough High …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 September [1856]
Summary
States his requirements with regard to pigeons and his interest in ducks and rabbits. Inquires about poultry seen at Leith Hill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1957 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 September [1856] …
- … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Sept [1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … Bibliography Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1856. On the remarkable peculiarities existing …
- … in England and possibly in France and Germany. See n. 1, above. Tegetmeier 1856 –7. …
- … The first number was issued in May 1856. By September, three further numbers had been …
- … CD stayed there from 13 to 19 September 1856 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Harrison Weir. …
- … the best carrier pigeons at the Anerley poultry show, 29 July – 1 August 1856 ( Cottage …
- … Gardener (1856) 16: 340). In Variation 1: 132 n. 2, CD recorded that: ‘Mr. Haynes and Mr. …
- … See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 24 June [1856] . Tegetmeier was a regular contributor to …
- … see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 3 November [1856] ). In Variation 1: 156, finnikins and …
To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1856]
Summary
Will send MS on one point of geographical distribution. It is "of infinite importance" that JDH see it, for CD has never felt such difficulty in deciding what to do.
Wants capsules of aquatic plants, to float in sea-water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1963 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 177 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Sept [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] . Both Hooker and CD attended the 16 October meeting of the …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … distribution, which was completed in October 1856 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The list has …
- … in letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [July 1856] . The forty pages of manuscript relating to …
- … CD wanted Hooker to read (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July [1856] ). Letter to J. …
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856]
Summary
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1950 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856] …
- … DAR 114: 176 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Sept [1856] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … month of pregnancy. Her last child, Charles Waring Darwin , was born on 6 December 1856. …
- … 64, 66–86. [Vols. 5,6] Sorby, Henry Clifton. 1856. On the microscopical structure of mica- …
- … ed. 1900, 1: 145, and Eve and Creasey 1945, p. 64). Tyndall 1856 . See letter to J. …
- … of the sections, p. 78. Tyndall, John. 1856. Comparative view of the cleavage of crystals …
- … 8 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1856] . George Bentham . CD refers to the brief …
- … 7. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1856] , n. 2. Hooker wrote the following note at …
- … D. Hooker, 5 August [1856] . …
- … Sorby 1856 . Henry Clifton Sorby proposed that cleavage took place when metamorphosed …
From Asa Gray 23 September 1856
Summary
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1959 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Asa Gray 23 September 1856 …
- … DAR 165: 94 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 23 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Humphrey Milford. 1928–95. Gray, Asa. 1856–7. Statistics of the flora of the northern …
- … Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 23 d . 1856. My Dear Mr. Darwin D r . Engelmann, of St. Louis, …
- … DAB ). See letter to Asa Gray, 2 May [1856] . ‘Maruta=Anthemis’ was written in pencil in …
- … Mountains to Oregon and California. In 1856 he was the Republican nominee in the American …
- … presidential elections. A. Gray 1856–7 , the first part …
- … of which appeared in September 1856. CD’s annotated copy is in DAR 135 ( …
- … 3). See letter to Asa Gray, 12 October [1856] , for CD’s response to this information. …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
To J. D. Dana 29 September [1856]
Summary
Thanks JDD for replies to queries [in 1925]; would like to know whether teeth of cave rat are of New or Old World type.
Wishes Louis Agassiz would publish his theory of parallels of geological and embryological development. "I wish to believe but have not seen nearly enough as yet to make me a disciple."
Is working hard on variations and origin of species, but fears it will be a couple of years before he publishes.
Describes his recent work on rabbits and pigeons.
The dispersal of land Mollusca is a most difficult problem.
Confesses he is sceptical of immutability of species; discusses difficulty of proving it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1964 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Dana 29 September [1856] …
- … Buchanan was elected. See letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, 9 September [1856] and n. 3. …
- … Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 Sept [1856] James Dwight Dana …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … by the relationship to the letter from J. D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . Letter from J. …
- … D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . In the manuscript of his species book, CD stated that Dana …
- … p. 556). In his letter of 8 September 1856 Dana expressed doubt whether it was possible …
- … his scientific journals (Wilson ed. 1970). The 1856 presidential elections of the United …
- … See also letter to P. H. Gosse, 28 September 1856 . [Chambers] 1844 . Lyell’s prolonged …
To Laurence Edmondston 11 September [1856]
Summary
Requests observations on pigeons.
Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1954 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Laurence Edmondston 11 September [1856] …
- … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1856] Laurence Edmondston …
- … letter from T. V. Wollaston, [February 1856] ). Thomas Edmondston was accidentally shot …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] . See …
- … letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] , n. 5. …
- … See letter to Laurence Edmondston, 3 May [1856] and n. 3. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] . Measurements of a wild rabbit from the Shetland …
From J. D. Dana 8 September 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1951 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From J. D. Dana 8 September 1856 …
- … 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38 James Dwight Dana New Haven 8 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6). The meeting of the …
- … was held in Albany, New York, from 20 to 28 August 1856. Louis Agassiz . See letter to …
- … J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] and n. 5. The information on fish from the Mammoth Cave, …
- … New Haven, Sept. 8, 1856. My dear Sir:— I received your most welcome letter a few days …
- … 168–78, 349–61. Dana, James Dwight. 1856. On the plan of development in the geological …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … In the letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6), CD had asked for …
- … him. In his letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6), CD had asked …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ). Dana and his wife, Henrietta Frances , …
- … in his letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] ( Correspondence vol. 6). Entomostraca was …
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ( Dana 1856 ); it was also published together with …
- … history’ (New Haven: Ezekial Hayes, 1856). There is an annotated copy of the pamphlet in …
To Philip Henry Gosse 22 September [1856]
Summary
CD is working hard on variations.
Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.
Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1958 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Philip Henry Gosse 22 September [1856] …
- … University of Texas at Austin Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Sept [1856] Philip Henry Gosse …
- … Dated by CD’s interest in 1856 in collecting pigeon and rabbit carcasses and by his …
- … which CD recorded as having read in May 1856 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … letter to P. H. Gosse, 28 September [ 1856] ). CD had read P. H. Gosse 1851 in 1852 ( …
- … having read P. H. Gosse 1847 on 11 May 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
- … 18). See also letter to P. H. Gosse, 28 September 1856 . P. H. Gosse 1851 , p. 173. …
From Peter Wallace 10 September 1856
Summary
Reports on the naturalised animal life of Ascension.
| Author: | Peter Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1953 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Peter Wallace 10 September 1856 …
- … DAR 205.2: 261 Peter Wallace Ascension 10 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … not been found. CD wrote to several overseas naturalists in June 1856 (see letters to E. …
- … L. Layard, 8 June [1856] , and to Robert …
- … Everest , 18 June [1856]). CD had included Wallace’s name in an earlier list of people to …
- … See letter to E. L. Layard, 8 June [1856] . CD himself saw wild guinea-fowl on Ascension …
- … of Ascension | Green Mountain September 10 th . 1856 Dear Sir— I received your note dated …
- … June 22 nd . 1856 on the 4 th . of this Month, and in answer beg to state, that I will do …
From E. L. Layard [September–October 1856]
Summary
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
| Author: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept–Oct 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 185–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1897 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From E. L. Layard [September–October 1856] …
- … DAR 83: 185–6 Edgar Leopold Layard Ceylon [Sept–Oct 1856] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: …
- … to CD’s letter to E. L. Layard, 8 June [1856] , which would have arrived in Cape Town in …
- … See letter to E. L. Layard, 8 June [1856] . Although CD did not use the information given …
- … See letter to E. L. Layard, 8 June [1856] , n. 7. CD used this information in Variation …
To W. B. Tegetmeier [18 September 1856]
Summary
CD concerned with rabbits and ducks because evidence of their single origin is "better … than in most cases".
Death of William Yarrell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1955 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier [18 September 1856] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [18 Sept 1856] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 30 August [1856] , and by CD’s reference to being away from …
- … Leith Hill Place, from 13 to 19 September 1856 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD’s Catalogue of …
- … pigeons. William Yarrell died on 1 September 1856. CD had consulted him before sailing in …
From Louis Sulpice Bouton to Charles Tilstone Beke 24 September [1856]
Summary
Sends extract from a correspondent’s letter reporting birds carried to Mauritius from Madagascar by winds.
| Author: | Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton |
| Addressee: | Charles Tilstone Beke |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1961 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Louis Sulpice Bouton to Charles Tilstone Beke 24 September [1856] …
- … DAR 205.3: 262 Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton unstated 24 Sept [1856] Charles Tilstone Beke …
- … letter from Victor de Robillard, 20 September 1856 , in which it is mentioned that Charles …
- … de M Autard de Bragard— Savane— 17 Sept— 1856 En 1835—36—ou 37, j’ai envoyé à la Société …
- … of M Autard de Bragard— Savanne— 17 Sept— 1856 In 1835—36—or 37, I sent to the Natural …
To George Varenne Reed 8 September [1856]
Summary
George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2139 |
From Victor de Robillard 20 September 1856
Summary
C. T. Beke has communicated to the Mauritius Natural History Society a letter he received from CD. VdeR attempts to answer questions on transport of seeds by the ocean.
| Author: | Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1956 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Victor de Robillard 20 September 1856 …
- … 286 Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard Mauritius 20 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Port Louis, Ile Maurice, le 20 Septembre 1856. A Monsieur Charles Darwin. Monsieur, M r . …
- … Port Louis, Ile Maurice, 20 September 1856. To Mr Charles Darwin. Sir, Mr. Ch. T. Beke …
To P. H. Gosse 28 September [1856]
Summary
Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.
Will write to Richard Hill.
Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1962 |
To John Lubbock 5 September [1856]
Summary
Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1949 |
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 9 September [1856]
Summary
On JAHdeB’s discovery of Cretaceous Chthamalus. Cites his own acceptance of negative evidence about Chthamali in Fossil Lepadidae.
Comments on JAHdeB’s cirripede drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1952 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
Matches: 21 hits
- … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s …
- … Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker, who were joined in 1856 by Hooker’s friend the American …
- … only source of information about his preoccupations during 1856 and 1857. They reveal little noticed …
- … might work in nature ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, n. 10 ). He was surprised that no …
- … remarked to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856] ). I mean to make my …
- … on plants. Expanding projects set up during 1855 and 1856 (see Correspondence vol. 5), he tried …
- … first two chapters of his species book, completed by October 1856 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … Gray, vary in the United States ( letter to Asa Gray, 2 May 1856 )? What about weeds? Did they …
- … hermaphrodite’ ( letter to to T. H. Huxley, 1 July [1856] ), which became a source of amusement in …
- … that Asa Gray and Hooker confirmed during the course of 1856. Science at home: the botanical …
- … many different experiments on plants through the summers of 1856 and 1857, particularly with garden …
- … have grown well.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1856] ). His faith in his ideas …
- … trees (see letters to William Erasmus Darwin, [26 February 1856] and to Charles Lyell, 3 May …
- … Waring Darwin, the sixth and last, was born on 6 December 1856) was a constant worry, particularly …
- … in New South Wales ( letter to Syms Covington, 9 March 1856 ). Many other topics, …
- … the geological phenomenon of cleavage, still unresolved in 1856, with John Phillips and entered into …
- … visited the Darwins at Down House for several days in April 1856, and Darwin took this opportunity …
- … made in a letter written by Lyell from London on 1–2 May 1856. Darwin took the suggestion seriously …
- … him to write up his views ( letters to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1856] ). Darwin had also …
- … At a second weekend party held at Down on 26 and 27 April 1856, he had discussed the question of …
- … doctrine.’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, n. 7 ). The excitement and intellectual …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Matches: 4 hits
- … were built to the area (Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 8 April [1856] ). This meant that most of the …
- … family duties (Darwin to W. B. Tegetmeier, 19 November [1856] ) made him unable to travel to many …
- … his son William, [30 October 1858] ). In one letter in 1856, he explained his paternal feelings …
- … in this world.’ (Darwin to Syms Covington, 9 March 1856 ) In the late nineteenth century, …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Origin
Summary
Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
Summary
Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
Summary
Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s …
- … as Natural selection ). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by June 1858. At …
- … 2 13 October 1856 [Variation under domestication] [2] …
- … 11 13 October 1856 Geographical distribution (DAR 14; …
- … 3 16 December 1856 On the possibility of all organic …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … research notes, including letters going back to at least 1856 . Among them were accounts of …
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Matches: 1 hits
- … undefinable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). The idea that sterility was a test …
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: 27 hits
- … [DAR *128: 160] Mansfield’s Paraguay [Mansfield 1856] } read Chesterton Prison Life …
- … Hutchison Dog Breaking 3 d . Edit [Hutchinson 1856] new information on Pointer & Retriever …
- … Annal des Sc. Nat. 4 th Series. Bot. Vol 6 [Naudin 1856]. Read Notes to Jardine & …
- … 1855 Sept. Tegetmeier on Poultry [Tegetmeier 1856–7] —— 27 th . Mem. de l’Acad. …
- … Das Ganze der Landwirttschaft [Kirchhof 1835].— 1856. Jan 10 th G. Colin Traite de …
- … [Rudolphi 1812] [DAR 128: 16] 1856 Jan 21. Huc’s Chinese Empire [Huc …
- … Mar 1 Veith Naturgeschichte Haussaugethiere [Veith 1856].— 3 d Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R …
- … 1741–55] d[itt]o [DAR 128: 17] 1856 . Jan 28. Watt’s Life by Muirhead …
- … [Pepys 1848–9]— April 21 Sandwitt Kars [Sandwith 1856]. [DAR 128: 18] March …
- … 1851–6] —— Wollaston on Variation [Wollaston 1856] F. Smith on Apidæ [F. Smith 1855] …
- … 1835 [H. C. Watson 1835] [DAR 128: 20] 1856 June 26. Davis J. Barnard. …
- … 1855] —— 19 Von Tschudi Alpine life [Tschudi 1856] 30. Brehm Handbuch Vogel …
- … 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami [Andersson 1856] —— 26 Slightly skimmed Forbes …
- … 1765] Oct. 23. Tracings of Iceland Chambers [Chambers 1856]. —— Mansfield Travels in …
- … 2 vols July D r . Kane’s Arctic Voyage [Kane 1856] Sept. 12. Ch. Napiers Life …
- … rubbish yet amusing Nov. 15. Tender & True [Spence] 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [1854–6] …
- … Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very interesting. …
- … —— 16 Zoologist [ Zoologist ]. up Vol. 14. 1856 May 9 th Voyage au Pol. Sud. Consid. Gen …
- … 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted 1856] (excellent) March 21. Mill on Liberty …
- … The revised edition of Johnston’s Physical atlas (1856) included ‘Map of the distribution of …
- … 113 The Cottage Gardener ceased publication in 1856. 114 CD marked this entry …
- … vols. London. 119: 14a Andersson, Carl Johan. 1856. Lake Ngami; or, explorations and …
- … [Darwin Library.] 119: 20a; *128: 173 ——. 1856. Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 9a Chesterton, George Laval. 1856. Revelations of prison life; …
- … 128: 5 Davis, Joseph Barnard and Thurnam, John. 1856–65. Crania Britannica. …
- … Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853, 1854, 1856 . London. 128: 24 …
- … . Lundæ. *119: 5v. Froude, James Anthony. 1856. History of England from the fall of …
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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- … naturalist Edward Forbes. Darwin declared to Hooker in July 1856 ‘y ou continental extensionists …
- … of his old friend, the geologist Charles Lyell, who, in May 1856, twenty months after Darwin had …
- … urgency to publish and, following Lyell’s advice in May 1856, began to write a sketch his theory. ‘I …
- … without full details. ’ Writing to his cousin Fox in June 1856, Darwin openly confessed his fears …
- … work ’ he had ‘desisted’. By November 1856, he had both good and bad news to report to Lyell: ‘ …
- … press. Although Darwin had decided in the autumn of 1856 to write only from the materials he …
- … wrote ten and a half chapters of his Big Book between May 1856 and June 1858. With a total of …
- … length ’, he had complained to Hooker in December 1856. By mid-1858, only the first chapter on …
- … being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858 (Cambridge University …
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…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … of the human form’, Quarterly Review , 99:198 (Sept. 1856), pp. 452-491. Joseph Simms, Nature’s …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to me’ ( letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 24 June [1856] ). In a follow-up letter, Darwin hinted at …
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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- … it was the subject of his first scientific paper (Müller 1856). In the autumn of 1855, Müller …
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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- … Letter 1979 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 27 Oct [1856] Darwin provides detailed …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … `big book’, Natural selection , begun in 1856. Coming hard on the heels of The descent of man …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< 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…
Begins 'Natural Selection'
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Darwin begins writing his 'big book', Natural Selection. The book was never finished, but later formed the basis for On the Origin of Species
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- … Darwin begins writing his 'big book', Natural Selection. The book was never finished, but …
