From Alphonse de Candolle 8 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7557 |
From Mary Charlton 25 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for £50 contribution to Edward Cresy’s memorial. £1000 collected so far for an annuity for Mrs Cresy.
| Author: | Mary Charlton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7625 |
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- … donation subscription for M rs Cresy’. Mary Louis Cresy , widow of Edward Cresy (1824–70). …
From T. G. Cresy 19 April 1871
Summary
Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.
| Author: | Theodore Grant Cresy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7700 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cresy refers to Edward Cresy (1824–70) and Mary Louis Cresy . See letter from Mary …
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
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- … Gledstanes. [1888. ] Members of the Athenæum Club, 1824 to 1887. N.p. : privately printed. …
From A. F. Boardman 3 April 1871
Summary
Apologises for shortcomings of his argument in earlier letters, explaining he has had little scientific education, but a life-long interest in progressive development. Resumes theorising.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7654 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … studied at Bowdoin College, Maine, from 1824 (Wheeler and Wheeler 1878 ). Boardman refers …
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 12 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 …
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
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- … Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 …
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| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Charlton, Mary | (1) |
| Cresy, T. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Charlton, Mary | (1) |
| Cresy, T. G. | (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…
Matches: 30 hits
- … [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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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
Summary
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…
