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From Sarah Harriet Owen 31 [December 1827]
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They have been having a very gay time. Tells of "Redcoats & Shootables" and several mutual friends.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 [Dec 1827] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-36 |
Author
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Williams, S. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Williams, S. H. | (1) |
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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…
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- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … By the time Charles returned to Shrewsbury in the summer of 1827 he had decided not to continue the …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … Cuvier: Darwin’s own copy of this is the fifth edition of 1827. Of course he could have borrowed an …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … is in the Darwin Library–Down. 15 Jameson trans. 1827. There is an annotated copy in the …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
- … London: Saunders & Otley. Jameson, Robert, trans. 1827. Essay on the theory of the …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … System [Lindley 1830] Bevan on the Honey Bee [Bevan 1827]. Dutrochet mems. sur les …
- … paper on change of plumage in pheasants. Philos. Trans. 1827 [Yarrell 1827] Paxton on the …
- … Ogleby Temminck. Monographs de Mammalogies [Temminck 1827–41]— Has account of variation in …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … on exact adaptation of plants to soil [?Soulange-Bodin 1827]. He is Horticulturist in France. …
- … [Long 1747] Novum Organum. in Lib. Useful Knowledge [Bacon 1827] Num 41. Ed. Review. Sir. J. …
- … Constitut Hist: Hen VII to Georg II d . death [Hallam 1827] Ranke’s Popes [Ranke 1840].— …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Lyell 1838] Gibbon’s Life of himself [Gibbon 1827] Hume’s life of himself [Hume 1777] …
- … relate to me May 7 th . Bevans Honey Bee [Bevan 1827] skimmed.— 8 th Cox’s …
- … [Borrow 1843]. 22. Hallam Constitu History [Hallam 1827]. —— 1. vol of Chesterfields …
- … —— 21 Hallams Constitutional Hist: [Hallam 1827] unreadibly dull —— Norton Genuiness of the …
- … Stephens Illustration of British Entomology [J. F. Stephens 1827–46] Gmelin Botany of Siberia …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … 1853] very good. May 11 th Evelyn Diary [Evelyn 1827] 3 vols. July 8. Astoria, good …
- … [Godron 1853].— July 15 Die Hühner & Pfauenzucht. 1827 [Anon. 1827] —— Neumeister …
- … 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: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … 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 …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … SOURCES Papers Grant, R.E. 1827. Notice regarding the Ova of the Pontobdella …
- … 160-161, index and Plate II. Grant, R.E. 1827. Observations on the Structure and Nature of …
- … Observations Made by C.D. When He Was at Edinburgh, March 1827.” In Barrett, P. ed., The collected …
- … York: Grove Press. (p.1 - 83) Letters Letter Packet: Darwin's Barnacles …
- … to London to have Mr. Arthrobalanus illustrated. Letter 1022 —Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
- … the unusual anatomy of Mr. Arthrobalanus. Letter 1140 —Darwin to J. C. Ross, 31 Dec 1847 …
- … in search of the lost explorer John Franklin. Letter 1253 —Darwin to Albany Hancock, [21 …
- … to ask him to share preserved specimens with him. Letter 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … scientific paper, presented before the Plinian Society in 1827, related his discovery that the so …
- … voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
- … was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
- … (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
- … Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
- … latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
- … and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
- … ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … Griffith’s edition of Cuvier’s The animal kingdom (1827–35) without citation of the source. Since …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … . By Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1827–35. (DAR 33: 255v.; number of volumes on …
- … A narrative of a nine months’ residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … account of some geological specimens . . .). 2 vols. London, 1827. (DAR 38.2: 867v.; ‘Geology’, by W …
- … l’Atlas de l’océan Pacifique. 2 vols. St Petersburg, 1827. ( Narrative 2: 506). …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Lesson, René-Primevère. Manuel de mammalogie. Paris, 1827. (DAR 31.1: 236, where it is confused …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
- … the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
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…
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- … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
- … five apprentices), and arrived at Cocos Keeling in February 1827. He claimed to be surprised to find …
- … by Ross, the relations of the two men deteriorated from 1827 until Hare’s departure. Ross died in …
- … but before the latter’s arrival with his family in early 1827. Ross seems have been aware of Hare’s …
- … we have little but Ross’ account of the situation from 1827 to 1831, it seems clear that the two men …
- … of the apprentices Ross brought with him to Cocos-Keeling in 1827. He was from Shetland, and so, as …
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…
Darwin and barnacles
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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,…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … is as follows – About 9 years ago i.e. from 1826 or 1827 counting back from 1836 – Mr Hare – a very …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … of the people took place in the latter days of Dec r 1827 and first days of Jan y 1828. …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … as Mr Ross returned to the Cocos from England in Feb y 1827 and Mr H left in March 1831 my …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … very first – after his return from England – in February 1827 – But be that as it may – or might …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
