From Edward Blyth 26 February 1856
Summary
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A126–A127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1833 |
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- … DCP-LETT-1833 …
From Robert FitzRoy [1833?]
Summary
List of mountains with their heights.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1833?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 40: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-194 |
From J. S. Henslow 31 August 1833
Summary
The [Megatherium] fossils were extremely interesting and were shown at the Geological Section of the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [1833].
The plants delight him; will work them out with W. J. Hooker.
CD should send every fossil he can find; minute insects will be nearly all new. Delighted with descriptions of the few animals alluded to.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-213 |
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- … From J. S. Henslow 31 August 1833 …
- … DAR 97(ser. 2): 14–15 John Stevens Henslow Cambridge 31 Aug 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Section of the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [1833]. The plants delight him; will work them …
- … Cambridge 31 Aug t 1833 My dear Darwin, I am afraid that I have been rather negligent in …
- … chairman of the Geological Section of the 1833 British Association meeting; William Clift …
- … College of Surgeons. The Report of the 1833 meeting makes no mention of CD’s Megatherium …
From R. W. Darwin 7 March 1833
Summary
Writes of the pleasure all feel in CD’s continued good health and joy in his voyage.
Tells of the banana tree he bought, which he sits under and thinks of CD "in similar shade".
CD’s financial accounts are correct.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-201 |
From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833
Summary
Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;
SD brings family news up to date.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 & 6 Mar 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-200 |
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- … From Susan Darwin 3–6 March 1833 …
- … DAR 204: 99 Susan Elizabeth Darwin Shrewsbury 3 & 6 Mar 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to Catherine Darwin, 22 May – 14 July 1833 ). Frances Julia Wedgwood. Church reform, which …
- … slave trade in the colonies in 1806. In August 1833 a law emancipating the slaves in the …
- … Shrewsbury March 3 d . 1833. Catherine who wrote last will have told you my very dear …
To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833
Summary
Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20–7] Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-216 |
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- … To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833 …
- … 19 DAR/1/1/19) Charles Robert Darwin Buenos Ayres [20–7] Sept 1833 John Stevens Henslow …
- … Buenos Ayres September 1833 My dear Henslow A Spanish friend in Entre Rios has promised to …
- … another, containing a specimen found later in 1833. From Lumb’s letter of 8 May 1834 , it …
From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833
Summary
Mainly news of the family and friends. Their joy at the abolition of slavery.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-219 |
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- … From Susan Darwin 15 October 1833 …
- … DAR 204: 101 Susan Elizabeth Darwin Shrewsbury 15 Oct 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … player represented by an exposed “hand” ’ ( OED ). Martineau 1833 . The bill abolishing …
- … in the colonies became law on 28 August 1833. A system of apprenticeship for seven years, …
- … Shrewsbury Oct 15 th . | 1833. My dear Charles. On October the 11 th . we got your very …
From Edward Lumb 13 November 1833
Summary
Sending shot or powder is illegal, but all CD’s goods and chattels have been sent. EL’s services to CD are what any Englishman should do for his country.
| Author: | Edward Lumb |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-231 |
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To Caroline Darwin 23 [October 1833]
Summary
Describes his trip to north of Santa Fé, his illness, and return by boat to Buenos Aires – which he found in the throes of a revolution. Covington is cut off from the town, which some expect to be plundered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 23 [Oct 1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-222 |
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- … To Caroline Darwin 23 [October 1833] …
- … them all sent to me at M. Video. ’ See also letter from Edward Lumb, 13 November 1833 . …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Buenos Ayres 23 [Oct 1833] Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline …
- … September’ has been deleted and ‘October 1833’ inserted, in what appears to be another …
To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833
Summary
Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-223 |
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- … To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833 …
- … MS 53 Fox 46c) Charles Robert Darwin Buenos Aires 25 Oct 1833 William Darwin Fox …
- … Buenos Ayres October 25 th . 1833 My dear Fox In less than a fortnight we shall be on our …
- … February 1832 and again on 15–21 January 1833 . CD received the letter of 6 February 1832 …
- … June 1832 ). The letter of 15–21 January 1833 arrived at Valparaiso on 24 July 1834 (see …
From J. S. Henslow 15–21 January 1833
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of two letters from CD and a box of specimens.
Mentions attendance at BAAS meeting and a gift to him of a small living near Oxford. Some political news.
Congratulates CD on the work he has done – the specimens are of great interest. Gives advice on packing, labelling, and future collecting and suggests that – as a precaution – CD send home a copy of his notes on the specimens.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 21 Jan 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-196 |
From Caroline Darwin 28 October [1833]
Summary
Finds CD’s journal very entertaining and interesting, but thinks his style in first part too much influenced by Humboldt.
Sends some books by Harriet Martineau and Archbishop Whately.
Rejoices that the more he sees of Negroes, the better he thinks of them.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-224 |
From Henry Stephen Fox 31 October 1833
Summary
Urges CD to visit Flores Island near Montevideo if he has not already done so. Describes formation of greenstone and the granite formations on small islands in the Uruguay channel.
Sends specimens from Pôrto Alegre [Brazil] for identification by CD.
| Author: | Henry Stephen Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39.1: 1–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-226 |
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- … From Henry Stephen Fox 31 October 1833 …
- … DAR 39.1: 1–4 Henry Stephen Fox Rio de Janeiro 31 Oct 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Plenipotentiary to Brazil in August 1833. CD preserved this letter among his geological …
- … Rio de Janeiro October 31 st : 1833 Dear Sir I have just learnt that the Packet Cockatrice …
Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1833. On the culture of the potatoe. [Read 19 March 1833.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 2d ser. 1 (1831–5): 415–18.
Martineau, Harriet. 1833. Poor Laws and paupers illustrated. London.
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- … Martineau, Harriet. 1833. Poor Laws and paupers illustrated. London. 5 …
Tapparelli, Massimo (Marchese d’Azeglio). 1833. Ettore Fieramosca, o la disfida di Barletta. Florence.
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- … Tapparelli, Massimo (Marchese d’Azeglio). 1833. Ettore Fieramosca, o la disfida di …
From Caroline Darwin 1–4 May 1833
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1–4 May 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-205 |
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- … From Caroline Darwin 1–4 May 1833 …
- … Darwin/Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood Shrewsbury 1–4 May 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Association took place in Cambridge, June 1833. Welshpool, Wales. William Clive was Vicar …
- … May 1 st | 1833. My dear Charles— I am afraid there is little chance of your getting this …
From T. C. Eyton 12 November 1833
Summary
Has been working hard on collecting English and foreign birds. Yarrell has written of new birds discovered in England.
News of work in progress by Leonard Jenyns, P. J. Selby, and John Gould.
Cautions CD to beware of insects when he sends any birds’ skins – otherwise there will be only feathers, beaks, and legs remaining when he returns.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-228 |
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- … From T. C. Eyton 12 November 1833 …
- … DAR 204: 118 Thomas Campbell Eyton Shrewsbury 12 Nov 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … a reference to volume two, Water birds (1833) of Selby [1818–]34. Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … Shrewsbury No vr 12 th 1833 Dear Darwin I have been writing to you for some time, and …
From Catherine Darwin 27 November 1833
Summary
Mentions letters sent in parcel and those from CD received by Fox and Henslow. Adds news of family and friends.
Appreciation of his journal. She hears that CD’s "theory of the Earth" is the same as Lyell’s in 3d volume [of Principles of geology (1833)].
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-232 |
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- … From Catherine Darwin 27 November 1833 …
- … Darwin/Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton Shrewsbury 27 Nov 1833 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of the Earth" is the same as Lyell’s in 3d volume [of Principles of geology (1833)]. …
- … Shrewsbury. Nov ber 27 th . | 1833. My dear Charles, I believe your Parcel is not yet gone …
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That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
Summary
Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…
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- … Abolition Act (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) was passed in August 1833 and came into force a year later. …
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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- … enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( Correspondence vol. 1): …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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…
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- … electric explosion ( from Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 ) During the voyage it was …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters: Letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 …
- … 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … signatures of the members . . . who met at Cambridge, June 1833. With a report of the proceedings . …
- … Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 …
- … de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833). Darwin Library–CUL ††. …
- … . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 369–93. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. (DAR 37.2: 797). …
- … ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). Maskelyne, Nevil. Tables …
- … of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar . . . 2 vols. London, 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). …
- … (Vols. 3–7 inscribed ‘Chas. Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, …
- … Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). Ulloa, A. de. See Juan, G. and …
- … London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March …
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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- … sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have read it. Ogleby Temminck. …
- … of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la …
- … Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in …
- … Darby’s Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil …
- … Lives of Kepler & Galileo. Drinkwater [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French …
- … Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de …
- … countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du …
- … 5 s 1834–43 1. Humming Birds, Vol. 1 [Jardine 1833]. 3. Humming Birds, Vol 2 …
- … 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes lives [Drinkwater 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of …
- … [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinson’s Egyptian remains [?J. G. …
- … 10 th Surville-Marion [Crozet 1783]. Fanning [Fanning 1833], Dixon [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages …
- … other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed …
- … (for second time) Whewell’s Bridgewater Treatise [Whewell 1833] March 1 st . Philosoph. …
- … —— 28 th Glöger Abanden der Vogel [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants …
- … Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou ]. Vols for 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842, 43, 44—not all …
- … ed. 1837], notes by W. Herbert, Rennie [J. Rennie] ed. 1833]. 6. H. Miller First Impressions …
- … very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th Thiers …
- … la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux ] Tom VI. & VII. 1833–1835 118 22 d . Bulletin …
- … Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom. I (lost). II 1833. III 1834. & IV 1835: …
- … 22] 1858 Hewitsons Oology [Hewitson [1833–42].— Nov. 12. Yarrell’s …
- … 18 The entries from ‘Volneys’ to [Temminck 1833] on page [5v.] are taken from the inside back …
- … Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert White’s Natural History …
- … ed. (1844) in Darwin Library.] 119: 8a ——. 1833. The hand. Its mechanism and vital …
- … of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of …
- … *119: 20v. Boisduval de Chauffour, Jean Alphonse. 1833. Faune entomologique de …
- … 16b [Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune, John Elliot]. 1833. Lives of eminent persons, …
- … and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 1833, 1834 . London. 119: 3a …
- … countries . Hereford. 119: 1a Fanning, Edmund. 1833. Voyages round the world: with …
- … Mrs. P. Sinnett. London. 119: 17b Finch, John. 1833. Travels in the United States of …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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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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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
George Keen
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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…
Adam Sedgwick
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One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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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- … 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R., 15 & 21 Jan [1833] Henslow acknowledges receipt of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … of the founders of the Entomological Society of London in 1833, and was president from 1849-50. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … east and west coasts of South America, in the years 1832, 1833, 1834, and 1835, with an account of a …
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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- … shoot and skin birds, Darwin employed him as his servant in 1833. Covington accompanied Darwin on …
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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- … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
Inland expeditions
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Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe
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- … Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe …
