From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
From W. W. Reade 20 May 1872
Summary
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8341 |
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- … of Langar, was the father of Samuel Butler (1835–1902), the anonymous author of Erewhon ([ …
From C. J. F. Bunbury 16 April 1856
Summary
Is interested by what CD tells him about his researches and speculations on species, variation, and distribution. Hopes he will not give up the idea of publishing his views. Advises CD on need for caution and candour. Raises some difficulties with "specific centre" theory of distribution.
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1854 |
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- … Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope from 1835 to 1845 ( DNB ). The number of CD’s …
From Caroline Darwin 30 September 1834
Summary
News of family and friends.
Word that William Clift thinks CD’s latest fossils are of much value.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-257 |
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- … eventually received them (see letter to Caroline Darwin, [19] July – [12 August] 1835 ). …
From William Branwhite Clarke [August 1861]
Summary
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
| Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3222 |
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- … the voyage. He settled in Australia in 1835, becoming a distinguished landscape painter. …
From J. O. Westwood 26 September 1861
Summary
Has found the reference to Charles Morren’s paper, "On the agency of insects in causing sterility in flowers" [Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1836): xliv–xlv].
Common white butterflies remove pollen-masses with their tarsi from plants of the Asclepiadaceae.
| Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3267 |
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- … appeared in the Horticulteur Belge about 1835 & of which an abstract was given in the …
From Catherine and Caroline Sarah Darwin [16 February 1837]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-344 |
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- … George Benvenuto Mathew was M.P. for Athlone, 1835–7 ( Stenton 1976 ). Richard Myddelton …
From Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865
Summary
Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.
HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].
He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756 |
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- … founded by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1835. CD had encouraged Bates to publish his …
From Otto Zacharias 23 February 1877
Summary
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10862 |
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- … changing thoughts about species origins: 1835–1837. Proceedings of the California Academy …
From J. M. Herbert 23 November 1872
Summary
Thanks for copy of Expression.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8644 |
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- … Herbert refers to Samuel Butler (1835–1902) and [S. Butler] 1872a. Samuel Butler analysed …
From J. D. Hooker [26 June or 3 July 1856]
Summary
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June or 3 July] 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1911 |
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- … travelled widely in Bhutan and Assam between 1835 and 1838 before becoming superintendent …
From A. R. Wallace [14 September 1868]
Summary
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6364 |
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- … dorycus was described by Boisduval in 1835 (see Index animalium ). The species, a longhorn …
From Charles Lyell 26 December 1836
Summary
Comments on [MS of] CD’s paper ["Elevation on the coast of Chili" (4 Jan 1837), Collected papers 1: 41–3].
Invites CD to dinner. "Don’t accept any official scientific place, if you can avoid it".
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1836 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell (1881) 1: 474–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-335 |
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- … as President of the Geological Society during 1835–6 and again in 1849–50. In 1830 John …
From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
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- … found in the Chonos Archipelago in January 1835. CD stated that the tubers, when cooked, …
From E. S. Galton 19 November 1879
Summary
Her brother-in-law, Edward Wheler, died on Sunday.
Sends some corrections for Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12337F |
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- … municipal corporations in England and Wales (1835), pp. 1851–2. ) In Erasmus Darwin , pp. …
From Elizabeth Wedgwood 10 November [1837]
Summary
Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.
Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-385 |
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- … about 1 4 inch deep—in the spring of 1835— In 1836 a slight sprinkling of soil was thrown …
From Catherine Darwin 25 July [– 3 August] 1832
Summary
Tells of the family’s pleasure in reading CD’s first two letters and his journal.
Comments on Shrewsbury politics, the cholera, and the family. Sedgwick calls often; Catherine thinks he is interested in Susan.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July [– 3 Aug] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-179 |
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- … See letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835 for the reaction of Robert FitzRoy and CD …
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
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- … 42–3. Port Natal was renamed Durban in 1835 ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). Figure A, …
From E. S. Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314 |
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- … I think at Osmaston. She did not die till 1835—aged 91— She lived upstairs, being unable …
From Sarah Williams 21 October 1833
Summary
News of Fanny Biddulph and other Owens; Susan Darwin has declined a marriage offer. Other gossip about Shrewsbury acquaintances.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-220 |
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- … two years from this time, & about December 1835 , I shall expect every rap at the door of …
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Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
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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- … elevation of the Chilean coast, makes clear that by April 1835, when he was still at Valparaiso, …
- … suggests that he was writing before the late summer of 1835, for about that time he adopted …
- … Darwin had begun reading about ‘the South Sea’ in May 1835. The Beagle library was well …
- … no. 1.17, written shortly after a visit to Lima in August 1835: ‘Corall rapidly growing in Low …
- … of both annular and barrier reefs. This was in November 1835 at Tahiti and the neighbouring reef of …
- … draft of his theory in a memorandum headed ‘Coral islands 1835.’ It is the first account of the …
- … was matched by the sinking of Pacific islands: 25 June 1835 . Darwin confides to his …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
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,…
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- … In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; …
Titus Coan
Summary
In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … Entomological Magazine.—? paper on Geograph. range [Anon. 1835] read Study Buffon on varieties of …
- … laws about sexes relative to the age of marriage [Quetelet 1835] Brown at end of Flinders [R. Brown …
- … 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d’Hist. Nat. [Virey 1835] read Marcel de Serres …
- … C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: plants [H. C. Watson 1835] read Hume’s Essay on Human …
- … & Medic. researches on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc …
- … Birds. 10 s 6 d . translated by Rennie [Bechstein 1835] Some facts on cross-bred animals, M r …
- … Pœppig Travels in S. America. German [Pöppig 1835–6].— Zoologie Generale. Iside. St Hilaire …
- … 1815]— Colon Library Hogarth Hist of Music [Hogarth 1835] Wilkinson Ægyptian [J. G. …
- … 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de Candolle 1835]: Lacordaire Introduction Entomologique …
- … ) on Dogs [C. H. Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// …
- … Hilaire Progress de un Naturalist [E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1835] (Gerard [Gérard 1844]) …
- … (Perry can give me order) Virey Philosoph [Virey 1835]. Forbes thinks worth reading Royal Soc …
- … kind [Jardine 1834b]. 9. Columbidæ (Pigeons.) [Selby 1835] 11. Ruminating Animals …
- … l’etude Botanique (Suite a Buffon) [A. de Candolle 1835] has many Geographical aphorisms & …
- … Trials [Feuerbach 1846] Godwins Work & Life [Godwin 1835] Brookes last Journal by …
- … 1849–57] Tocquevilles Democracy [Tocqueville 1835–40] Fellow’s Lycia (1 st Travels) …
- … de Beaumont 1830–8] & C Prevost on l’Ile Julie [Prévost 1835]. 1838 Oct 2 …
- … and 1830]— skimmed well Lutke’s voyage [Lütke 1835–6]— carefully read Reynold’s …
- … May 18 Stanley Familiar Hist. of Birds [E. Stanley 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy …
- … 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed Gleanings of …
- … 1757] Swainson Geograph. Distrib of Animals [Swainson 1835] I see Swainsons Book has notes at …
- … 1774] nothing Coleridges Table Talk [Coleridge 1835]. Campbell’s Poems [T. Campbell …
- … Simple Story. Sir. J. Mackintosh life [Mackintosh 1835]. reread Priestley Life & …
- … [T. Moore 1825] & Liebers remains of Niebuhr [Lieber 1835]. 8 Paley’s Evidence. of Christ …
- … & Morning [Bulwer-Lytton] 1841]; Rienzi [Bulwer-Lytton] 1835]: Barnaby Rudge [Dickens 1841] …
- … —— 15 th . Harlans Med & Phys. Researches [Harlan 1835] abstracted. Smith Moral …
- … 1844] Pœppig Reisen [Pöppig 1835–6]— } skimmed.— …
- … poor.— —— Visey Philosoph. d’Hist Nat. [Virey 1835] } Alder & Hancock. Nudibran …
- … (nothing) 21. Van Mons Arbres Fruitiers 2. Vols [Mons 1835–6] July 7 th N. C. …
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … to think about—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [9–12 August] 1835 ). Darwin’s doubts about orthodox …
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 282 - Darwin to Fox, W. D., [9 - 12 August 1835] Darwin discusses with Fox his …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … wall in Valparaiso, where he had witnessed an earthquake in 1835 ( letter from R. E. Alison, [March …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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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. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Scientific Networks
Summary
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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- … 272 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., [10–13] Mar 1835 Darwin tells Henslow the termination …
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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- … Claudius Loudon’s Encyclopedia of gardening (Loudon 1835), a copy of which Darwin signed in 1841 …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
The Galapagos
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The Beagle arrives in the Galápagos Islands
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- … The Beagle arrives in the Galápagos Islands …
Darwin & Geology
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The lessons Darwin learned from Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge, and in the field in North Wales, stood him in good stead during the Beagle voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two-thirds of his time ashore,…
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- … voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two …
Australia
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The Beagle arrives in Australia
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- … The Beagle arrives in Australia …
Leaves South America
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The Beagle sets sail from Peru
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- … The Beagle sets sail from Peru …
