To Journal of Horticulture [before 25 November 1862]
Summary
Asks correspondents whether any kinds of strawberries now cultivated have been raised from a cross between the wood or alpine strawberry and the scarlet, pine, or Chili strawberry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 25 Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, n.s. 3 (1862): 672 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3826 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 September 1862
Summary
Praises Orchids.
He has finished his work on Quercus.
H. Lecoq has worked on hybridism,
and P. Duchartre on orchid polymorphism.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3730 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 13 June 1862
Summary
Has read the Origin several times. His position is like Asa Gray’s: he wishes to believe in descent, but proofs of natural selection are lacking.
Looks forward to CD’s promised large book.
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Did CD sow the seeds of his crosses? One would like to know whether the two forms reappear at random.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3603 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
From Francis Boott 27 January 1862
Summary
Has sent CD the published part of his work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex (1858–67)]. Hopes to add 200 more figures. Comments on great variability among the 600–odd species, and on their geographical distribution.
Author: | Francis Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3418 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1862]
Summary
Requests reference to Jules Planchon’s monograph on Linum [Lond. J. Bot. 6 (1847): 588–603; 7 (1848): 165–86, 473–501, 507–28].
Sends list of seeds, including Oxalis, Boraginaceae especially Alkanna.
Asa Gray says JDH wrote reviews of Orchids in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
His experiments amuse him after dull day’s work on vegetables and fruit-trees.
Leschenaultia formosa has exterior stigma, thus eminently requiring insect aid, and thus ensuring crossing almost inevitably.
Asks whether Samuel Haughton at Dublin who made important medical discovery could be the same who reviewed Origin so hostilely [in Nat. Hist. Rev. 7 (1860): 23–32]; if so, he can sneer at and abuse CD to his heart’s content.
Asa Gray as rabid as ever [on Civil War].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3793 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 January 1862]
Summary
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3395 |
From Henry Holland 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3423 |
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From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
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From H. W. Bates 24 November 1862
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of paper which was also praised by Hooker and Wallace. Only cares for one other opinion, that of C. Felder of Vienna. He finds ordinary entomologists are not scientific men. Asks for more criticisms; desires to publish paper in a widely circulating journal to advertise his book.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3825 |
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To Asa Gray 23 November [1862]
Summary
Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3820 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Boott, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Boott, Francis | (1) |
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…
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- … [Dutrochet 1837] Voyage aux terres australes [Péron 1824]— Chap. 39. tom. 4. p. 273. …
- … Indian Islands 8 consult D r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] Sillimans Journal [ …
- … to writings of “Blaine” [Blaine 1824], p. 271 } what have …
- … & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824] at Maer? W. F. Eduards sur …
- … 1798] Stewart, Playfair Preliminary Dissert. [Stewart 1824 and Playfair 1824] Hume’s …
- … 1820–1] Spix & Martius. German? [Spix and Martius 1824] Adansons voyage to Senegal …
- … in Vet. says Blaine on Dogs in 2 d Edit. [Blaine 1824] gives all Knight’s facts on dogs instincts …
- … [R. Southey 1834–47]. The Book of the Church [R. Southey 1824]. History of Brazil [R. Southey 1810 …
- … several of W. S. Landors Imaginary Conversations [Landor 1824–9]— very poor Sir J 57 …
- … Macculloch letters on Highlands [J. MacCulloch 1824]. 4. Vols.— skimmed Montagu’s …
- … 1704]. (poor). Inheritance & marriage [S. E. Ferrier] 1824 and 1818].— 18 th . 7 th …
- … in Annales des Sciences no. 1: 1841: [Prévost and Dumas 1824] 23 d Moorcraft & Trebeck …
- … 1847], poor Nov. 1. Goethe Autobiography [Goethe 1824] I Part queer —— 20 Life of …
- … et Corbié. Les Pigeons de Volière &c [Boitard and Corbié 1824] —— Fortune Wanderings in …
- … Appendix to Parry, Flinders, & Tuckey’s Voyages [R. Brown 1824, 1814, 1818]. [DAR 119: …
- … very good —— 16 Swift. Stella’s Journal [Swift 1824] amusing —— 21 Hallams …
- … excellent 2 d Vol of Goethe Autobiography [Goethe 1824] Aug 30. Hebrew Monarchy …
- … —— Southey. Book of the Church [R. W. Southey 1824] & the Doctor [Southey 1834–47]. Poor. …
- … *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious passage about species …
- … Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie ]. Tom. I to IV. 1824 & 1825 (Too short to be of much use …
- … Library.] 119: 7a Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. 1824. Canine pathology; or, a full …
- … . Paris. *119: 14v. Boitard, Pierre and Corbié. 1824. Les pigeons de volière et de …
- … 205.4: 46–9.] *119: 1v.; 119: 2a, 20a ——. 1824. A list of plants, collected in Melville …
- … La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. [Abstract in DAR …
- … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 119: 10b ——. 1824. The inheritance . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] …
- … London. *119: 22 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. 1824. Memoirs of Goethe: written by …
- … upper provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay 1824–25. [Edited by Emilia Heber.] 2 vols. …
- … 50–64; 66–8. *128: 177 Horsfield, Thomas. 1824. Zoological researches in Java, and …
- … Library.) London. 119: 16b Landor, Walter Savage 1824–9. Imaginary conversations of …
- … Bethune . Aberdeen. 119: 21b MacCulloch, John. 1824. The Highlands and Western Isles …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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. …
William Darwin Fox
Summary
Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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 student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … refers to the Edinburgh journal of science (1824–32), which was edited by David Brewster ( …
- … journal vols. 1–14 (1819–26). 14 Bostock 1824–7. Volume 1 is in the Darwin Library–Down. …
- … and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. 1824–7. An elementary system of …
- … residence and travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824 . 2 vols. London: H. Colburn. …
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … shown in their Zoologie of Freycinet’s Voyage (1824), that reef-building corals lived only …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; …
- … in the Annales des Mines . . . Trans. with Notes. London, 1824. (DAR 36.2: 522; Stoddart 1962, p. …
- … du monde . . . 1817–20. 9 vols., 4 vols. plates, Paris, 1824–44. (DAR 32.1: 52v.). Frézier, …
- … Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). …
- … Pacifique dressé par M. de Krusenstern. St Petersburg, 1824–7. ( Narrative 2: 506). § …
- … Lindley. An English grammar. 2 vols. 5th ed. York, 1824. (Inscription: ‘Rob t . FitzRoy 1831’) …
- … in Brazil in the years 1817–1820. 2 vols. London, 1824. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Chas. Darwin …
John Stevens Henslow
Summary
The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … was curate of Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, from 1824 to 1832, then vicar of Cholsey-cum- …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … they closed down the faculty of medicine for a few months in 1824, if I’m not wrong.) But you do not …
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…