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List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 28 hits
- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
- … Edwards & Co. (1) Babbage, Charles (10) …
- … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
- … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
- … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
- … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
- … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
- … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
- … Bond, Frederick (2) Boner, Charles (5) …
- … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
- … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
- … Edward (1) Bradlaugh, Charles (2) …
- … Brayley, E. W. (1) Breese, Charles (1) …
- … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
- … Samuel (b) (14) Buxton, Charles (2) …
- … Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. (2) …
- … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
- … Crawfurd, John (3) Crawley, Charles (2) …
- … Virginius (3) Dallas, Charles (1) …
- … Dixie, Florence (3) Dixon, Charles (1) …
- … Lydekker, R. (1) Lyell, Charles (277) …
- … Philippi, R. A. (1) Phillips, John (21) …
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…
Matches: 24 hits
- … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
- … Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil [Wied …
- … of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read) Berkeleys Works …
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … in muscles & bones of man & animals.— (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland …
- … 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming 1850] Sir C. Phillips Recollections of Curran [C. …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … round world 1803–6 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyell’s Elements of Geology [Lyell 1838] …
- … Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 1837–9] …
- … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
- … 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
- … & Forsyth on Forest Trees [Boutcher 1775 and Forsyth 1791] Phillips History of cultivated …
- … 3 d . Series —— Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] June 7 th …
- … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray …
- … Hind’s Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt …
- … 1859]. (goodish) 1 The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
- … 7 Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph …
- … In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogle’s translation of Aristotle …
- … Erskine. 2 vols. London. *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839. Primitiæ floræ …
- … of Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845. Insect life . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of …
- … Jameson . London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 2a Buckland, William. 1836. Geology and …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
- … Darwin with his now famous beard, had been taken by his son William in April, when Darwin was …
- … for him to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help; he also ordered a …
- … In the same month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, professor of clinical medicine at …
- … [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Darwin described his symptoms in …
- … the two previous years. As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 …
- … The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin’s eldest son and a banker …
- … shape and size, indicated fertility between dimorphic forms. William participated in the detailed …
- … can do as much pollen work as ever you like’. Comments on William’s findings, along with other …
- … of Dimorphism’ in Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May …
- … of a paper by another of his orchid correspondents, John Traherne Moggridge, who in June sent him …
- … of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again Much of Darwin’s …
- … plight of another of Darwin’s fellow orchid-experimenters, John Scott. Their correspondence had been …
- … five years. Scott felt that his superiors, James McNab and John Hutton Balfour, no longer treated …
- … indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker met …
- … support ‘on the grounds of science’ ( letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ), but Scott declined …
- … and animal-breeders. As in earlier years, Darwin consulted Charles William Crocker about his …
- … curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles Wright, a plant collector in Cuba …
- … Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The French botanist, Charles Victor Naudin, wrote a gracious …
- … using such a periodical to defend himself, Hooker and Lyell discouraged him, and he decided to avoid …
- … 1864 ). A notably rambling and long letter arrived from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of …
- … by a merciful deity for the use of humankind ( letter from John Beck, 6 October 1864 ). …
- … when Colenso was in England in 1864, socialising with Charles Lyell and other members of the London …
- … again, to Ramsay’s view for third or fourth time; but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the …
- … Huxley’s Evidence as to man’s place in nature and Lyell’s Antiquity of man , and that the …
- … of the Royal Society, Edward Sabine, to the geologist John Phillips revealed Sabine’s fears that in …
- … of moral courage which is so small still’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 4 November 1864 ); in …
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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- … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
- … Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Beechey, Frederick William. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … Antoine de. A voyage round the world. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1772. ( …
- … the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert …
- … , etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John. Travels in the interior of …
- … 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John. The narrative of the Honourable …
- … . . . London, 1798. (DAR 31.2: 318v.). Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. …
- … Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s …
- … 255v.; number of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William. A new voyage round the world. …
- … London, 1823. (DAR 30.1: 41). ‡ Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle. A description of active and …
- … (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). Ellis, William. Polynesian researches, …
- … 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’; Red notebook , pp. 75, 105e, …
- … and western coasts of Australia (includes: Fitton, William. An account of some geological …
- … Zoological Journal 5 (1832–4). (Inscribed ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836 …
- … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Kirby, William and Spence, William. An introduction to …
- … (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * Lyell, Charles. Principles of geology . . . …
- … ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 …
- … Reyno de Chile ). Part 2. Madrid, 1795. (Inscription: ‘Charles Darwin Valparaiso 1834’). Darwin …
- … Library–CUL, Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). Phillips, William. Elementary introducton to . . …
- … * Richardson, Samuel. The history of Sir Charles Grandison . . . 7 vols. London, 1781. (Vols. 3 …
- … ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL †. Buckland, William. Considerations of the …
