To ? 10 July [1872–3]
Summary
Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 July [1872-3] |
| Classmark: | Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404F |
From B. J. Sulivan 23 January 1872
Summary
Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8175 |
From Ernst Haeckel 10 December 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Expression.
Describes work on Die Kalkschwämme and its principal conclusions.
The application of biogenetic law.
Notes variability among calcareous sponges.
Gastrula-like "Gastraea" as ancestor of multicellular animals.
Posits homology between Hydra, Olynthus of calcareous sponges, and initial germ layers of higher animals.
Comments on Lubbock’s Prehistoric times [1865]
and on David Strauss’s Der alte und der neue Glaube [1872].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 34, 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8669 |
From Briton Riviere 26 May 1872
Summary
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
| Author: | Briton Riviere |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8353 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
From Arthur Mellersh 25 January 1872
Summary
Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.
Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.
| Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8182 |
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- … his witnesses. King had settled in Australia in 1836. Mellersh, Sulivan, and John Clements …
From J. T. Gulick 27 July 1872
Summary
Mentions work he did in the Sandwich Islands. Asks to visit and bring shells.
| Author: | John Thomas Gulick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.421) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8428 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To Gerard Krefft 17 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for JLGK’s article [see 8331].
CD thinks it a pity that Owen shows so little consideration for the judgment of other naturalists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Date: | 17 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8416 |
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- … H.M.S. Beagle … during the years 1831 to 1836. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended …
To W. D. Fox 16 July [1872]
Summary
Is correcting proofs for Expression.
Family news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8413 |
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- … 1832 , [7–11] March 1835 , and 15 February 1836 ; Autobiography , p. 63). The Cambridge …
From H. H. Howorth 30 July 1872
Summary
Sends paper read before Anthropological Institute ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 1", J. Anthropol. Inst. 2 (1873): 21–40]. CD is his master, though they disagree.
Criticises Wallace’s "contemptuous phrases".
Is studying elevation and subsidence.
| Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8437 |
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- … Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & …
From D. Appleton & Co. 17 February 1872
Summary
Accepts CD’s proposal for new revised edition of Origin; will pay $50 [dollars or pounds!?] for casts of the plates and pay CD on sales.
Appleton edition of CD’s Journal of researches [1871] still selling well.
Also wants plates sent with CD’s new work on Expression. CD should arrange this with Murray’s.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8217 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1872]
Summary
Asks for address of a Mrs Barber somewhere in South Africa.
JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully quiet.
Severely criticises Owen’s conduct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 235–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8579 |
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- … at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1836 and curator of the Hunterian Museum from 1842 …
To J. T. Gulick 8 August [1872]
Summary
Discusses a paper JTG wanted to read at a BAAS meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thomas Gulick |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.423) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8457 |
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- … FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. 5 …
From D. F. Tyler 15 August 1872
Summary
Parallel quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Descent about absorption of heat by different colours; applies to winter and summer plumage of birds.
Reasoning power in dogs.
| Author: | Daniel F Tyler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8472 |
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- … works of Benjamin Franklin (Sparks ed. 1836–40). Coupe de soleil : sunburn (French). The …
To C. H. Morris 16 January [1872]
Summary
Is sending the requested photograph.
Mr Murray will send a copy of CD’s Journal of researches to L. S. Bouton [see 8107a].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Honoria Campbell; Caroline Honoria Morris |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) R920 DAR) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161A |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
From Charles Nordhoff 27 February 1872
Summary
Reports the case of a cockerel raised in isolation from other cocks which repeatedly attempted, but failed, to crow properly.
Also discusses behaviour in horses; one male will "look after" 20–25 females.
| Author: | Charles Nordhoff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8225 |
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- … of Captain FitzRoy, RN, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1839. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Gulick, J. T. | (2) |
| Campbell, C. H. | (1) |
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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,…
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…
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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- … Beagle letters (e.g. letter to Caroline Darwin, 29 April 1836 ) to the more considered and …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … no effect. ’ Darwin and Herbert spent Christmas 1836 together in Cambridge , indulging their …
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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- … Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] …
- … 1829] Prostitution of Paris [Parent-Duchâtelet 1836]. about licentiousness destroying their …
- … has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea Botany R. …
- … Col. le Couteur has written on wheat [Le Couteur 1836] Bechstein on Caged Birds. 10 s 6 d …
- … [?Heisch 1842] Coleridge. Literary Remains [Coleridge 1836–9] Inconsistency of Human …
- … and Duméril 1821] Encyclop of Anat & Phys [Todd ed. 1836–59] [DAR *119: 14] …
- … 36s.— Wiegmann. Archif fur Naturgeschicte. 33 1836. Meyen on distrib of plants in …
- … race-horse during past & present century. Hookham” [Anon. 1836]: worth looking at. Low has …
- … Königlichen Akad: der Wissen: Aus dem Jahre 1834.— Berlin 1836.— “Vergleich: Anat der Myxinoiden”. …
- … (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] [DAR *119: 19v.] …
- … Cattle, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 15. Parrots [Selby 1836]. 26. Honey Bees [Jardine ed …
- … Life of L d . Clive. by Malcolm [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … [DAR 119: 4a] Lessings Laocoon [Lessing 1836] Whewell inductive History [Whewell …
- … 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833 …
- … Sept. 25 th . Prichard. Physical Researches [Prichard 1836–47]. Volumes II with references at end …
- … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
- … Cyprinidae from the vol 19. Asiatic Researches [McClelland 1836].— References at end.—— …
- … 1823] & first 2 d 71 vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7] 26 th . Carlyle. Hero …
- … prolix —— 3 d vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. Giaour [Byron 1813] —— Some …
- … —— Col. le-Couteur on Wheat [Le Couteur 1836]. marked.— 25 Youatt on Sheep [Youatt 1837] d …
- … & Letters [Shelley 1840].— Some Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. —— Part of Waltons lives …
- … Mahons Hist. Peace of Utrecht to La Chapelle [Stanhope 1836–54] III Vols. —— 17 th Laing …
- … 1842] —— Finished Wordsworth 6 vols. [Wordsworth 1836–7] [DAR 119: 12a] …
- … [Drury 1729] —— 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836] 1844 Jan 7 th …
- … Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell [Hall 1836]. April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit …
- … Yarrell does not compare British with N. American [Yarrell 1836].— March I. G. St. Hilaire …
- … 1844] Jan 5 th . L d . Mahon History [Stanhope 1836–54] IV vol: 14 Thaleba by …
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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- … of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest …
- … FitzRoy, who commanded the Beagle from 1828 to 1836 during two surveying voyages to the southern …
- … When the Beagle docked at Falmouth on 2 October 1836, two years later than originally planned, …
- … !!!!!!! ’. He wed his long-term fiancée in December 1836—‘ a most inconvenient time to marry ’, …
- … but adamant in the importance of missionary work. In 1836, Darwin joined with FitzRoy in …
- … Instead, after marrying the pious Mary O’Brien in 1836, and publishing the account of the Beagle …
- … will be his end,’ Darwin wrote about FitzRoy in January 1836, ‘ under many circumstances I am sure, …
- … Anderson, ed., Narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 , 4 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … and the five years of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle . In 1836, the twenty-seven-year-old traveller …
- … society When Darwin returned to England in October 1836 it was with the firm intention of …
- … in the ornithological notes written during the summer of 1836, when, homeward bound, he was …
- … ‘Ornithological notes’ p. 262). In the winter of 1836 the question of the stability of …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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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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- … of a satirical account of the Beagle ’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the …
- … century, the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of …
- … the end of that Beagle voyage, over twelve days in April 1836 before the Beagle headed home via …
- … Beagle , titled Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 . It was accompanied by an …
- … before replacing Beechey as commander of HMS Sulphur in 1836. In Sulphur , he spent nearly …
- … Leisk was present when the Beagle visited the islands in 1836, and FitzRoy baptized the Leisk …
- … from a British ship that stopped at Cocos- Keeling in early 1836 en route from China to London; …
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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- … letter from Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [28 October 1836] , letter from Emma Wedgwood and …
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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- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836 . By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
- … the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, …
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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- … , p. 196). In another field notebook, at Cape Town in May 1836, he lists, probably with the …
- … some of his idiosyncratic spelling during the summer of 1836 (Sulloway 1982b, pp. 331–2, n. 13). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder, 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). ‡ …
- … ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836’). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 20). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 28). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 26). …
- … letter to the South African Christian Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 22–3). …
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…
Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … the Royal Academy in 1837, and therefore probably painted in 1836), also represents the Beagle …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 297 — Darwin, S. E. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Feb 1836 Darwin’s sister Sarah E. Darwin …
Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Some naturalists, such as Jean …
