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To John Lubbock   14 [July 1855]

Summary

CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  14 [July 1855]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1831

Matches: 1 hit

  • … DCP-LETT-1831

From John Coldstream   13 September 1831

Summary

Suggestions and information helpful to CD in preparation for Beagle voyage. David Brewster’s meteorological papers. Suggests an oyster-trawl for collecting marine animals. Recommends CD see R. E. Grant. For meteorological observations suggests F. W. Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific [1831] and an interview with J. F. Daniell of King’s College.

Author:  John Coldstream
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Sept 1831
Classmark:  DAR 204: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-124

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From John Coldstream   13 September 1831
  • … DAR 204: 64 John Coldstream Leith 13 Sept 1831 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … with much esteem, Yours most sincerely | John Coldstream *S 2 Leith 13 th Sept 1831. …
  • … Brewster 1826 , 1823. Beechey 1831 . A copy of another edition (Philadelphia 1832) is in …
  • … FitzRoy’s (see letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 ). John Frederic Daniell . …
  • … F. W. Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific [1831] and an interview with J. F. Daniell of King’s …
  • … Bibliography Beechey, Frederick William. 1831. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and …

To C. T. Whitley    [19 July 1831]

Summary

He is "mad about Geology" and plans to ride through Wales in August with a few days at Barmouth.

Some humorous gossip.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:  [19 July 1831]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-102A

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To C.  T.  Whitley    [19 July 1831] …
  • … Taylor Library Charles Robert Darwin Shrewsbury [19 July 1831] Charles Thomas Whitley …
  • … visited Whitley in Barmouth. See letter to Charles Whitley, [9 September 1831] . …
  • … North Wales, part of it in the company of Adam Sedgwick ,in August 1831 (see letters from …
  • … Adam Sedgwick, 4 September 1831  and …
  • … 18 September 1831 ). Not identified. …
  • … CD studied Spanish in July 1831 in the hope of carrying out a natural history excursion to …
  • … Robert Lowe were in Barmouth in August 1831 ( Martin 1893 , 1: 19–20). See also Barrett  …

To T. M. Hughes   24 May 1875

Summary

Reports some details of the geological tour he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the obvious signs of past glaciation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:  24 May 1875
Classmark:  Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (Archive DDF Box 720)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9993

Matches: 11 hits

  • … Sedgwick (see Correspondence vol. 1, letters from Adam Sedgwick , 4 September 1831 and …
  • … 18 September 1831 ; Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Adam Sedgwick, 11 [October 1868] ; …
  • … he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the …
  • … s geological fieldwork in Wales, summer 1831. Endeavour 25: 33–7. Secord, James Andrew. …
  • … Sedgwick in North Wales during the summer of 1831; but it is so long ago that I can tell …
  • … tour he took with Adam Sedgwick in 1831 are in DAR 5; he also gave a short account of the …
  • … down their impressions of the other in 1831 ( John Willis Clark and Hughes 1890, 1: 379, …
  • … that Hughes wanted information on the 1831 trip from George Howard Darwin , as both Hughes …
  • … letter from Adam Sedgwick, 4 September 1831 . CD refers to the letter from Adam Sedgwick, …
  • … had encouraged him to take up geology in 1831 (see Correspondence vol. 1, Appendix I). CD …
  • … 1, letter from Adam Sedgwick, 4 September 1831 ). CD returned to North Wales in the summer …

To a bookseller   9 April [1860]

Summary

Orders a copy of Matthew 1831 from a bookseller.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bookseller.
Date:  9 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller MS alb-54:068)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2753F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Orders a copy of Matthew 1831 from a bookseller. …
  • … s work on “Naval Timber & Arboriculture” 1831. Adam Black Edinburgh & Longman London. — …
  • … Durham: Pentland Press. Matthew, Patrick. 1831. On naval timber and arboriculture; with …
  • … aware of Patrick Matthew’s book ( Matthew 1831 ) after Matthew published a letter in the …
  • … There is an annotated copy of Matthew 1831  in the Darwin Library–CUL (see marginalia 1: …

To Robert FitzRoy   [4 or 11 October 1831]

Summary

CD’s luggage is frightfully bulky, though he has been as economical as possible. Has made financial arrangements for his expenses.

Plans to study mathematics during voyage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert FitzRoy
Date:  [4 or 11] Oct 1831
Classmark:  DAR 144: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-139

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Robert FitzRoy   [4 or 11 October 1831] …
  • … DAR 144: 113 Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 4 Oct 1831 11 …
  • … Oct 1831 Robert FitzRoy …
  • … Press. 1988. Darwin, Francis. 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831–36. Nature 88: 547–8. …
  • … as draughtsman for the voyage. On 19 November 1831 FitzRoy reported to Beaufort: ‘Messrs. …

To Charles Thomas Whitley   [9 September 1831]

Summary

Mentions letters from Peacock and Henslow; tells of offer of a position on surveying voyage, his initial refusal, and eventual acceptance. Describes FitzRoy and course of voyage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:  [9 Sept 1831]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-121

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To Charles Thomas Whitley   [9 September 1831] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 [9 Sept 1831] Charles Thomas Whitley …
  • … and poachers: the English game laws 1671–1831. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
  • … see letter to Susan Darwin, [9 September 1831] ). The letter is addressed to Whitley at …
  • … Henry Porter Lowe was at Barmouth in August 1831 with his younger brother, Robert Lowe . …
  • … letter to J.  S.  Henslow, 28 [September 1831] ). A printed announcement of gifts received …

From Henry Matthew   [March or April 1831]

Summary

In London HM was too harassed by his wife to write; has gone home and is much bothered by his father. Looks for a place as a private tutor. Remains CD’s devoted friend.

Author:  Henry Matthew
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Mar or Apr 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-95

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From Henry Matthew   [March or April 1831] …
  • … DAR 204: 39 Henry Matthew Kilve [Mar or Apr 1831] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter clearly was sent after 14 February 1831 ( when Matthew wrote from London ) and as …
  • … known CD to be at home between terms. Easter term began 13 April 1831. Presumably ‘wife’ ( …
  • … see letter from Henry Matthew, [2 February 1831] ). Lord John Russell …
  • … introduced the first Reform Bill on 1 March 1831. CD, a Whig, was pro-Reform. A reference …
  • … of Matthew, visited him in July of 1831 and wrote to Edward Fitzgerald as follows: ‘he is …

From J. S. Henslow   25 October 1831

Summary

Gives CD directions for sending him specimens from Beagle.

Writes of Cambridge politics.

Author:  John Stevens Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Oct 1831
Classmark:  DAR 204: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-143

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From J.  S.  Henslow   25 October 1831
  • … DAR 204: 108 John Stevens Henslow Cambridge 25 Oct 1831 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … by Richard Greaves Townley of Fulbourn, Cambs. ( Cambridge Chronicle , 4 November 1831). …
  • … Cambridge 25 Oct r 1831 My dear Darwin, I have just received your letter about consignment …

From Charles Whitley   13 September 1831

Summary

Congratulates CD on Beagle appointment as an "opportunity … of studying all the natural sciences at once, after your own taste".

Author:  Charles Thomas Whitley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Sept 1831
Classmark:  DAR 204: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-125

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From Charles Whitley   13 September 1831
  • … DAR 204: 69 Charles Thomas Whitley Barmouth 13 Sept 1831 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … in India (see Heber 1828 ). For Sedgwick’s reply, see letter dated 18 September 1831. …
  • … Barmouth Tuesday Sept r . 13 1831 My dear Darwin, Your letter, which arrived on my return …

To Richard Kippist   13 May [1863 or 1868]

Summary

Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Kippist
Date:  13 May [1863 or 1868]
Classmark:  Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4159

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [ Ornithological biography (1831–9)]. …
  • … Society ( DNB ). There was a copy of Audubon 1831–[9] in the Linnean Society’s library in …
  • … from CD’s request to consult Audubon 1831–[9] (see n.  2, below). The printed stationery …
  • … Variation ( Variation 2: 85–191); Audubon 1831–[9] is cited in Variation 2: 154 and 157. …
  • … s librarian ( DNB ). CD read Audubon 1831–[9] in December 1858 ( Correspondence vol.  4, …
  • … in birds (CD’s journal (DAR 158)); Audubon 1831–[9] is cited extensively. CD made an …
  • … 2 June 1868 , Calendar no.  6222). Audubon 1831–[9]. Fellows of the Linnean Society were …

To W. D. Fox   19 [September 1831]

Summary

Describes his appointment, the Beagle, his companions, and the objectives of the voyage. Gives his schedule before departure.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  19 [Sept 1831]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-132

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To W.  D.  Fox   19 [September 1831] …
  • … Fox 44) Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 19 [Sept 1831] William Darwin Fox …
  • … Francis. 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831–36. Nature 88: 547–8. Narrative : Narrative of the …
  • … See letter from George Peacock , [ c. 26 August 1831], n.  1. …
  • … On 15 September 1831, Robert FitzRoy had written to Francis Beaufort ( F. Darwin 1912 , …
  • … letter to J.  S.  Henslow, [5 September 1831] CD writes: ‘Cap. Beaufort says I shall be …
  • … his letter to Susan Darwin, [5 September 1831] he says: ‘I shall pay to mess the same as …

To W. D. Fox   6 [September 1831]

Summary

Received offer of post as naturalist in the Beagle in the same mail as WDF’s last letter. Outlines details of prospective voyage. Not certain, but thinks he probably will go.

Expresses pleasure that all is well with their friendship, which he prizes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  6 [Sept 1831]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-120

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To W.  D.  Fox   6 [September 1831] …
  • … See letter to W.  D.  Fox, 1 August [1831] , n.  2. …
  • … Fox 43) Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 6 [Sept 1831] William Darwin Fox …

To Susan Darwin   [6 September 1831]

Summary

Orders clothing, books, and other supplies for the voyage, to be sent to him in London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  [6 Sept 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 223
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-119

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Susan Darwin   [6 September 1831] …
  • … 223 Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 [6 Sept 1831] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
  • … Captain Beaufort dated 11 November 1831 contains detailed instructions for chronometric …
  • … letter from [J.  M.  Herbert], [early May 1831] , n.  3. The dimensions are close to those …
  • … letter to J.  S.  Henslow, 28 [September 1831] , n.  1. Swainson 1822 (viii + 72 pp. ) …

To J. S. Henslow   [2 September 1831]

Summary

Has just arrived in Cambridge; his father has changed his mind. Asks to see JSH.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  [2 Sept 1831]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 3 DAR/1/1/3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-114

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To J.  S.  Henslow   [2 September 1831] …
  • … 3 DAR/1/1/3) Charles Robert Darwin Red Lion Cambridge [2 Sept 1831] John Stevens Henslow …
  • … was delayed a day in the post. (See letter from Charlotte Wedgwood, 22 September [1831] ). …

From J. S. Henslow   24 August 1831

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Summary

JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.

Author:  John Stevens Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Aug 1831
Classmark:  DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-105

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From J.  S.  Henslow    24 August 1831
  • … DAR 97(ser.2):4–5 John Stevens Henslow Cambridge 24 Aug 1831 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … to J.  S. Henslow, [6 or 13 August 1831] , Henslow must have had at least one additional …
  • … Cambridge 24 Aug 1831 My dear Darwin, Before I enter upon the immediate business of this …

To Robert FitzRoy   [19 September 1831]

Summary

Reports on errands he has done for RF. Has discussed with Beaufort the question of his having right to dispose of his collection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert FitzRoy
Date:  [19 Sept 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-131

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To Robert FitzRoy   [19 September 1831] …
  • … 144: 112 Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 [19 Sept 1831] Robert FitzRoy …
  • … liberty to collect for themselves’ ( Beechey 1831 , p.  xiv, Admiralty instructions). The …
  • … Bibliography Beechey, Frederick William. 1831. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and …

From [J. M. Herbert]   [early May 1831]

Summary

Asks CD to accept a Coddington microscope, which accompanies his anonymous note.

Compliments CD on talent and sincerity.

Author:  John Maurice Herbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [early May 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-99

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From [J.  M.  Herbert]    [early May 1831] …
  • … DAR 204: 35 John Maurice Herbert unstated [early May 1831] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … more. ’ See letter to W.  D.  Fox, [11 May 1831] , the source of the approximate date of …

To J. S. Henslow   [5 September 1831]

Summary

Has met FitzRoy, who has now offered him the post of naturalist on board the Beagle. Other details about the voyage arrangements – mess, CD’s status, route, books.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  [5 Sept 1831]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 4 DAR/1/1/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-118

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To J.  S.  Henslow   [5 September 1831] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 [5 Sept 1831] John Stevens Henslow …
  • … Francis. 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831–36. Nature 88: 547–8. Journal of researches : …
  • … youngest son of Sir Robert Chester , who in 1831 was a clerk in the Privy Council Office ( …
  • … Darwin 1912 , p.  547. ) See letter to Susan Darwin, [5 September 1831] , n.  1. H.  F.   …

To J. S. Henslow   17 [September 1831]

Summary

Plans to come to Cambridge to discuss Beagle voyage. Only difficulty is disposal of his collections. South Sea Islands now more probable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  17 [Sept 1831]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 6 DAR/1/1/6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-128

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To J.  S.  Henslow   17 [September 1831] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Spring Gardens, 17 17 [Sept 1831] John Stevens Henslow …
  • … left at 6.00 a.m. ( Cambridge University calendar , 1831). The Hoop Inn, Cambridge. …
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Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

Matches: 14 hits

  • …  (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , discussing the preparations for the …
  • … for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 ). On board, FitzRoy states, ‘Our …
  • … Beering’s   Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin …
  • … la Beche, Henry Thomas.  A geological manual.  London, 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de …
  • … of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, Thomas.  A description …
  • … naturelle faites dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831.  Annales des Sciences Naturelles  28 …
  • … géologie et de climatologie asiatiques.  2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a …
  • … from J. S. Henslow to CD ‘on his departure’, September 1831). Darwin Library–CUL ††. * …
  • … London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831]). DAR 196.2 †. * Juan, …
  • … vols. 5th ed. York, 1824. (Inscription: ‘Rob t . FitzRoy 1831’). Darwin Library–CUL †. § …
  • … Spanish and English languages.  2 vols. 5th ed. London, 1831. Darwin Library–CUL, vol. 1 only.). …
  • … ed. Cambridge, 1825. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). The volumes listed below, …
  • … Viage) Spanish edition’ in Syms Covington, MS ‘Journal 1831–6’, p. 30; Mitchell Library, Sydney, N. …
  • … Taxidermy.(Letter to Susan Darwin, [6 September 1831] ‘A little book, if I have got it in bedroom, …

The Voyage of the Beagle

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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…

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  • … of zeal & spirit. ( Letter from J. S. Henslow, 24 August 1831 ) It was this letter …
  • … for Darwin when he returned home to Shrewsbury on 29 August 1831 from a geological fieldtrip in …
  • … the  Beagle  finally sailed from Plymouth on 27 December 1831, Charles was on board.  They did not …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … work in N. Wales since he and CD parted,  4 September 1831 Thomas Sutcliffe's map of …

Home learning: 7-11 years

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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.  

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  • … History’ ( Letter from J. S. Henslow, 24 August 1831 )  Encourage …

Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters

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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…

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  • … The letters cover a long time span from one  of 31 August 1831 to his father seeking permission …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • …  vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, [28 April 1831] ), and when, on the  Beagle , he heard …

Darwin & coral reefs

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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…

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  • … sure they will visit the South Sea Islands:  [9 September 1831] . The first evidence of …

Natural Science and Femininity

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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…

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  • … Letter 109 - Wedgwood, J. to Darwin, R. W., [31 August 1831] Darwin’s uncle writes to …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … letter from Francis Beaufort to Robert FitzRoy, 1 September [1831] ). By the time Darwin came to …

Darwin’s introduction to geology

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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.

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  • … at the Darwin family home in Shrewsbury in early August 1831 and together they travelled to the …
  • … Darwin returned to Shrewsbury from Wales on 29 August 1831. He had scarcely put down his geological …

Early Days

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…

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  • … Letter 98 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [28 Apr 1831] Writing to his sister Caroline, Darwin …

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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  • … Library of useful knowledge Horse, cow, sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d …
  • … papers. read Audubons Ornithol: Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— 4 Vols. well worth reading …
  • … 1828a]. quoted by D r  Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel …
  • … &c. Also Encyclop. of Agriculture by Loudon [Loudon 1831]. Book I. ch. 7 & Book II. Ch. 8. …
  • … of Authors in Loudon’s Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] Dieffenbach Travels into the …
  • … end Herschel’s Introd to Nat. Philosophy [Herschel 1831] d[itt]o 2 d  time of Reading 62 …
  • … 1838] 14 Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. …
  • … ] to end of 1838. —— Youatt on the Horse [Youatt 1831] Library of Useful K. 1840 …
  • … 1780] Johnson. Tour to Hebrides by Boswell [Boswell 1831] Philip Van Artevelde [H. …
  • … H. Smith 1841] Dec. Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] (skimmed & abst) Jan 9 …
  • … skimmed.— 8 th  Cox’s Columbia River [Cox 1831] —— Anderson on Sheep [Pallas 1794]: …
  • … Sept 3 d  Brewster’s Life of Sir. I. Newton [Brewster 1831] —— 20 Franklins Narrative 1 st …
  • … July 11. Pistor Das Ganze Taubenzucht [Pistor 1831]. —— 15 Die Enten & Gansezucht. Ulm. …
  • … 1856] 30. Brehm Handbuch Vogel Deutschlands [Brehm 1831]. Sept 5 th  Prosper Lucas l …
  • … Dec. 29 th  Audubons Ornithological Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— [DAR 128: 23] …
  • … P. Mathhew on Naval Timber & Arboriculture [Matthew 1831] Bull. Bot. Soc. de France [ …
  • … Feb. 23 Sir D. Brewsters life of Newton [Brewster 1831] March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life …
  • … London.  128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9.  Ornithological   biography; or …
  • …  2 vols. London.  119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831.  The life of Samuel Johnson …   …
  • … Library.]  *128: 177 Brehm, Christian Ludwig. 1831.  Handbuch der   Naturgeschichte …
  • … the Swedish. London.  119: 13b Brewster, David. 1831.  The life of Sir Isaac Newton . …
  • …   Cowper . 2 vols. London. 119: 15b Cox, Ross. 1831.  Adventures on the Columbia River, …
  • … and appendix:  Proceedings of the second   expedition, 1831–6, under the command of Captain …
  • … 4v.; 119: 4a Herschel, John Frederick William. 1831.  A preliminary   discourse on the …
  • … landscape gardening . London.  119: 12a ——. 1831.  An encyclopædia of agriculture: …
  • … Paris. 1816–45.  *119: 13v. Matthew, Patrick. 1831.  On naval timber and   …
  • …   von Capitain   W. Wendt, in den Jahren 1830, 1831 und 1832.  3 vols. (Vol. 1, bk 2: …
  • … . 2 vols. Paris.  *119: 1 Pistor, C. M. Wilhelm. 1831.  Das Ganze der Feld- und   …
  • … . London.  *128: 173; 128: 12 Ryan, Michael. 1831.  Lectures on population, marriage and …
  • … *119: 13v.; *128: 157; 128: 22 Youatt, William. 1831.  The horse; with a treatise on   …
  • … Society of London . London. 1812–30. New series, 1831–48. [Abstract in DAR 74: 55–102.]  *119: 4v. …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … Letter 152 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., 3 Dec [1831] Darwin expresses confusion on …
  • … Letter 115 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, S. E., [4 Sept 1831] Darwin writes to his sister Susan. …

Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters

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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836.  They start with letters written as a new and…

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  • …  It was a letter, received unexpectedly in the summer of 1831, which led the somewhat aimless and …
  • … round the world on the surveying ship the  Beagle between 1831 and 1836.  They start with letters …

Robert FitzRoy

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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…

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  • … was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the …
  • … hoped, would mitigate the hardships of command. In September 1831 he was informed by Francis …
  • … Katharine Anderson, ed., Narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 , 4 vols. London: Pickering …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … time as she readily received instruction. By the summer of 1831, FitzRoy had spent £1,500 of his …
  • … . Yokcushlu left England in the Beagle on 27 December 1831. During the voyage, …

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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  • … century, the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of …
  • … little but Ross’ account of the situation from 1827 to 1831, it seems clear that the two men had …
  • … reference to Hare’s ‘Seraglio.’ Leaving the field in 1831, Hare died in Bencoolen in Sumatra at the …
  • … and Beagle , titled Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 . It was accompanied by an …

Syms Covington

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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…

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  • … When Charles Darwin embarked on the  Beagle  voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘ fiddler & …

Beagle voyage begins

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HMS Beagle sails

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  • … HMS Beagle sets sail from Plymouth with Darwin on board. What was supposed to be a two-year …

Darwin and the Beagle voyage

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In 1831, Darwin joined a voyage that he later referred to ‘as by far the most important event in my life’. Dive in to our 3D model of the Beagle and find out more about life on board and the adventures that he had.

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  • … around the world on his greatest adventure  In 1831, Charles Darwin joined a voyage that he …
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