DCP-LETT-1826
Summary
Table of measurements of heights, lengths of body parts, and weight, made on Indian tigers in 1831, 1832, and 1853.
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1826 |
Smith, William. 1826. On Dahlias. [Read 5 December 1826.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 7 (1830): 141–67.
Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London.
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- … Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London. 1 …
From Caroline Darwin [27 February 1826]
Summary
Theatre at Shrewsbury.
Spark’s death.
Harry [Henry Allen] Wedgwood will make the circuit for the first time at the forthcoming assizes.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-24 |
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- … From Caroline Darwin [27 February 1826] …
- … Darwin/Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood [Shrewsbury] [27 Feb 1826] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Scenes of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland (1826) ‘all of which have been much esteemed’ ( …
- … at the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, on 4 March 1826. Joseph Corbett . An Anti-Slavery Society …
- … Wedgwood was called to the Bar 10 February 1826. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty , amateur …
To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826]
Summary
Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-22 |
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- … To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826] …
- … DAR 92: A3–4 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 29 Jan [1826] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
- … of London 33: 83–6. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London. Ure, Andrew. 1823. …
- … Dr Andrew Duncan , the elder. Lister 1826 . Ure 1823 , p. 598. The article on ‘Nitrogen’ …
- … Samuel Parr Howe Eyre died 1 February 1826 ( Shrewsbury School Register ). Identified by …
To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
From John Price [July 1826]
Summary
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-32 |
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Cassini, Henri. 1826–34. Opuscules phytologiques. 3 vols. Paris: F. G. Levrault.
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- … Cassini, Henri. 1826–34. Opuscules phytologiques. 3 vols. Paris: F. G. Levrault. NC …
Constable, William George. 1927. John Flaxman, 1755–1826. London: University of London Press.
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- … William George. 1927. John Flaxman, 1755–1826. London: University of London Press. 7 …
Lesson, René Primevère and Garnot, Prosper. 1826–30. Zoologie. In Duperrey, Louis Isidore, Voyage autour du monde, sur la corvette de sa majesté La Coquille, pendant les années 1822–5. 2 vols. in 3 and atlas. Paris. 1826–30.
Bellot, Hugh Hale. 1929. University College London, 1826-1926. London: University of London Press.
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- … Hugh Hale. 1929. University College London, 1826-1926. London: University of London Press. …
Ross, James Clark. 1826. Zoology. Appendix, pp. 91–120, of Parry, William Edward, Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1824–25, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Fury. London. 1826.
Rüppell, Eduard, 1826–8. 1845. Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost- Afrikas. Frankfurt-am-Main.
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- … Rüppell, Eduard, 1826–8. 1845. Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost- Afrikas. …
Brewster, David. 1826. Results of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort, every hour of the day and night, during the whole of the years 1824 and 1825. [Read 23 January 1826.] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 10: 362-88; Edinburgh Journal of Science n.s. 5: 18–32.
Harris, J. H. (1826–86)
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- … John Hyde Harris 1826–86 New Zealand lawyer and politician. …
Oswald, Eugene (1826–1912)
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- … Ernst Eugen August Oswald Eugene 1826–1912 German born teacher and author. …
To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826
Summary
CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1826 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-20 |
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- … To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826 …
- … 28 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 6 Jan 1826 Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline …
- … Edinburgh. Jan. 6 th . | 1826— My dear Caroline, Many thanks for your very entertaining …
- … of zoological and botanical observations made in 1826. A notebook in DAR 118 of zoological …
- … University of Edinburgh on 27 March 1827 (not 1826, as CD states in the Autobiography , …
From E. A. Darwin 10 October [1826]
Summary
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-35 |
From James Farley Turner [28 July 1826]
Summary
Is coming to Shrewsbury. Finds little to do but hunt rabbits. Has heard from Nathan Hubbersty and Frederick Watkins.
| Author: | James Farley Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-33 |
From E. A. Darwin [9 March 1826]
Summary
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-25 |
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Historical documents in Commentary
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…
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- … find the discipline of medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a …
- … training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). However, Charles’s medical …
- … Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January 1826 , so perhaps he meant that the list …
- … Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made a list of some books he had …
- … House. Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January [1826] : I have been most …
- … 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. 12 mo: duodecimo. 11 Pennant …
- … 13 Edinburgh new philosophical journal vols. 1–19 (1826–64), a continuation of the Edinburgh …
- … copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. 16 Hudson 1826; Lister 1826. CD described Lister 1826 as …
- … A periodical by Samuel Johnson. 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. …
- … th ed. 2 vols. London. Hudson, Marianne Spencer. 1826. Almack’s: a novel . 3 vols. …
- … Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826. Brambletye House: or, cavaliers …
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…
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- … 1800]— perhaps worth reading quoted by Malthus [Malthus 1826]. Heberdens observations on …
- … spont. Hybrids. where? Sweet Hortus Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has remarks on acclimatizing of …
- … 29 Chardin [Chardin 1686] & Bernier [Bernier 1826]. Mack. says very amusing Toland …
- … [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus 1826 [Malthus 1826]— (read) Pallas’ …
- … Baber’s Biography. translat. by Erskine [Baber 1826] Lee Scot’s Narrative of Shipwreck in …
- … memoire descriptif de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by …
- … generales sur les Mammif. Isid. G. St. Hilaire. 1826? [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826] facts on …
- … 1844].) read Sageret sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826] (Gerard Hybrids [Gérard 1844]) …
- … North’s lives of L d . Guildford & the Norths [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew …
- … [Lavater 1806–7] Malthus on Population [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th W. Earle’s 60 …
- … [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley 1826] 19 th . Read well Mackenzie …
- … 8 th Sageret’s Mem: sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. …
- … I to Tom. XX —— 7 Malthus on population [Malthus 1826] (2 d time) —— 12 Brickell’s …
- … Col. Lib Aug. 25. North’s lives of L. North [North 1826] interesting Sept 13. Sismondi …
- … 1848 Jan 25. W. Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt …
- … 1847] goodish —— 20. Berniers Travels [Bernier 1826]— d[itt]o —— 26 Lane’s Water Cure …
- … of Birds Yarrell has.?— Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees …
- … Bentham has published list of Pyrenes plants [Bentham 1826]. I daresay he w d . go over list with …
- … These authors were cited in Lesson and Garnot 1826–30. 9 CD did not follow his own …
- … Paris. [Darwin Library.] *119: 9v.; 119: 1a Baber. 1826. Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din …
- … and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826. Catalogue des plantes indigènes …
- … *119: 20v.; 128: 14 Bernier, François. 1826. Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656 …
- … Majesty’s Ships Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826. Under the command of Capt. W. F. …
- … de l’Académie royale des sciences, pendant l’année 1826, pp. clxix–cc. *128: 167 Dampier, …
- … “Adventure” and “Beagle” between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …
- … *119: 20v. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1826. Mammifères. In Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
- … the most instructive and amusing lives . 34 vols. London. 1826–33. [Other eds.] 119: 2a …
- … “Adventure” and “Beagle” between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'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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- … stretched over four decades. Ross’ chief project from 1826 to his death was developing a settlement …
- … to the Cape of Good Hope, where he lived from 1820 to 1826, while pressing the British and the Dutch …
- … his party to Cocos Keeling. Hare thus came Cocos-Keeling in 1826, after Ross’ initial visit but …
