From [?] [?]
Summary
Hybrid fish.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13860 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
"but most of them [verily?] Christened by myself they may be indulged with a"
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library-Eschwege 1832) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13861 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
[Fragmentary strip.] Discusses pigeons, Australia, Regents Park.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - Volz 1852) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13862 |
To [?] [?]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (18 December 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864G |
To ? [?]
Summary
[Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know nothing of your private".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Eric Korn (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864H |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Unidentified | (5) |
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: 26 hits
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1832. 6 s . [Dugés 1832] Azara Voyages [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds [Azara 1801]— Again— …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … in Spain [Dillon 1780]: Livingston on Sheep [Livingston 1809]. Communicat to Board of …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Patagonia [Falkner 1774] Azara’s Voyage [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds of Paraguay [Azara 1801 …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … 65 skimmed Lamarck II Vol Philos. Zoology [Lamarck 1809]— references at end of each Chap. …
- … 25. Cowpers Life & several volumes of letters [Hayley ed. 1809] 30 th Notices on the …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … *119: 9v.; 119: 1a; 128: 26, 27 ——. 1809. Voyages dans l’Amérique méridionale … …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … . London. 119: 22b Hayley, William, ed. 1809. The life and letters of W[illiam] …
- … Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1809. Philosophie zoologique; ou, exposition …
- … Neva . London. 119: 2a Livingston, Robert R. 1809. Essay on sheep; their varieties, …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … London. 119: 14a Sebright, John Saunders. 1809. The art of improving the breeds of …
- … of Wellington … in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 . Compiled by J. Gurwood. …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
- … for promoting useful knowledge . Philadelphia. 1771–1809. New series, 1818–. 119: 20a …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
Summary
The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
Matches: 6 hits
- … is by far the greatest honour which I have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February …
- … and the birthdate on the front cover is 1808 instead of 1809. The album was intended to commemorate …
- … to them when first laid before the scientific world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March …
- … which I don’t feel myself worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) …
- … man is to my understanding his scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) …
- … Sir, will kindly incorporate it in the German album ( Letter from Carl Kraus , 10 February 1878 …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 11 hits
- … Soon after Origin was published, Darwin received a letter from Asa Gray offering to arrange an …
- … Darwin responded favourably to Gray’s proposal in his letter of 21 December [1859] ( Correspondence …
- … had been fixed through the process of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and …
- … of species; Darwin sent this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had …
- … [1860] and 1 February [1860]). A month later, in his letter of 8 March [1860], Darwin sent …
- … (especially that given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin …
- … changes he intended to make in the American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860 …
- … corrected Second Edition with additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). …
- … resulting from three separate printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and …
- … naturalist published his Philosophie Zoologique in 1809, and his Introduction to Hist. Nat. des …
- … of Origin ( Origin 3d ed., pp. 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 23 hits
- … that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
- … persevered with his work on Variation until 20 July, his letter-writing dwindled considerably. The …
- … from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
- … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
- … than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
- … from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 …
- … leap from that of inferior animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
- … out that species were not separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public …
- … book he wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
- … I respect you, as my old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
- … against stronger statements regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). …
- … thinking, while Huxley’s book would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In …
- … change of species by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the …
- … disaffected towards Lyell and his book. In a February letter to the Athenæum , a weekly review of …
- … find great difficulty in answering Owen unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
- … of so much of Lyell’s book being written by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
- … is wretched to see men fighting so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). …
- … overt act, and I shall watch for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] …
- … God demented Owen, as a punishment for his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] …
- … Darwin’, a transitional form between reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January …
- … a significant gap had been filled in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January …
- … continued to capture his and others’ attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , …
- … In complaining of this to Lyell, he described Lamarck’s 1809 publication as a ‘wretched book’ from …
