From John Storer to William Boyd Dawkins [before 3 October 1875]
Summary
Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.
| Author: | John Storer |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | [before 3 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 343 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13845 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … s calf, Grandison (279), see G. Coates 1822 , p. 60. CD gave Storer’s information on the …
- … Bibliography Coates, George. 1822. The general short-horned herd-book: containing the …
- … offspring’. George Coates published the General short-horned herd-book in 1822 ( G. …
- … Coates 1822 ); subsequently, the series continued as Coates’s herd book , and a revised …
- … of the entries on Clarissa, see G. Coates 1822 , p. 235, and G. Coates 1847 , p. …
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer 23 July 1875
Summary
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 95, 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10089 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bibliography Goss, John. 1822. On the variation in the colour of …
- … by cross impregnation. [Read 15 October 1822. ] Transactions of the Horticultural Society …
- … du topinambour. Paris: Roret. Sabine, Joseph. 1822. On the native country of the wild …
- … the cultivated plant. [Read 19 November 1822. ] Transactions of the Horticultural Society …
- … Horticultural Society of London ( Sabine 1822 ) was added in Variation 2d ed. 1: 350 n. …
- … of the Horticultural Society of London (see Goss 1822 and Knight 1823 ). CD changed the …
| letter | (2) |
| Storer, John | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Storer, John | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (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: 28 hits
- … in Geolog. Soc. F. Cuvier on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] …
- … of Zoology [Smellie 1790–9]. Fleming Ditto [Fleming 1822] Falconers remark on the …
- … [Azara 1801] Dobrizhoffer’s Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. …
- … Harold [Byron 1819]. Manfred [Byron 1817]. Cain [Byron 1822] 18 th . Bossu & Loefflings …
- … 68 June 6 th Doblado’s letters on Spain [Doblado 1822] excellent November Three vols. of …
- … Dec. 15 th . Flemings Philosoph of Zoology [Fleming 1822]— Well read— references at end.— …
- … th Skimmed through Encyclopædia of Gardening [Loudon 1822]. ref. at end.— Sept 16 th …
- … April 5 th . Simond’s Travels [?Simond 1822].— May 6 th Several volumes of Belsham …
- … History of cultivated Vegetables 2. Vols. [H. Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] …
- … —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson 1822] (nothing) Sept: Acerbis Travels …
- … Mem. Acad. Scien. lu Feb. 19/21/ 82 [A. von Humboldt 1822] 19 th Couch Illustrations of …
- … [Warren 1832–8] De Quincy Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex …
- … edition) —— 25 Quincey Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] (very poor) —— Diary of a …
- … Sur la Distrib. Geograph from Journal de Physique Feb. 1822 [Desmoulins 1822] London Journal …
- … as assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society from 1822 to 1841 then vice-secretary from 1841 …
- … . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 7a ——. 1822. Cain; a mystery . London. [Other eds. …
- … . London. *119: 23 Cuvier, Frédéric Georges. 1822. Instinct. In vol. 23, pp. 528–44, of …
- … [Darwin Library.] 128: 10 De Quincey, Thomas. 1822. Confessions of an English opium …
- … Doblado, Leucadio, pseud . (Joseph Blanco White). 1822. Letters from Spain . London. [Other …
- … de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. …
- … Fitz-Roy .) London. 119: 5a Fleming, John. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or, a …
- … of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822 . London. [Other eds.] 119: 16b …
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. 1822–31. *119: 14v. ——. 1832–7. …
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. 1822–31. 119: 10a Guizot, François …
- … [Darwin Library.] *119: 1v.; 119: 10a ——. 1822. Nouvelles recherches sur les lois que l …
- … Library.) London. *128: 157 Johnson, Daniel. 1822. Sketches of field sports as …
- … and the natural history of man . London. [2d ed. (1822) in Darwin Library.] *119: 1v.; 119: 18a …
- … de sa majesté La Coquille, pendant les années 1822–5 . 2 vols. in 3 and atlas. Paris. 1826–30. …
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. …
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.…
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 10 hits
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 …
- … in the interior of Southern Africa . 2 vols. London, 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; Red notebook , …
- … expedition around the world . . . Aberdeen, [1786], 1822. (DAR 31.1: 206; 35.1: 235v.). …
- … of the geology ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. …
- … autour du monde . . . sur la corvette . . .La Coquille 1822–5. Zoologie par MM. [R. P.] Lesson et …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37 …
- … A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. London, 1825. (DAR 32.2: 109v.). …
- … of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 2 (1822): 49–128. ( Red notebook , p. 20e). …
- … subjects of natural history and botany. London, 1822. Vancouver,George. A voyage of …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
The full edition is now online!
Summary
For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
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- … 2023 and all the letter texts – more than 15000 between 1822 and 1882 – are now published online. …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College …
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … born in the small Thuringian town of Windischholzhausen in 1822, the eldest son of a natural history …
Darwin’s student booklist
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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…
John Stevens Henslow
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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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- … the end of the year had collected 263 flowering plants. In 1822, Henslow was appointed Professor of …
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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- … and probably got his idea from Bory, when he published in 1822 that varieties become species through …
