To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
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- … To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [19 Feb 1840] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … The Scotsman of 15 February 1840 carried a report of an essay by William Kemp read to the …
- … in letter to Robert FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] ) on either Dr Holland’s diagnosis or …
- … was not published until May 1842. C. Lyell 1840 . Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg observed …
To Charles Lyell [12 March 1841]
Summary
Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.
Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595 |
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- … Agassiz’s book [ Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. …
- … the ledge of Niagara Falls ( C. Lyell 1840 , 1: 341–3). See also n. 11, below. Agassiz …
- … through which they fall ( L. Agassiz 1840 , pp. 199–200). Yet Lyell’s account led CD to …
- … the Niagara below the falls (see C. Lyell 1840 , 1: 343–5). ‘On the distribution of the …
- … remain in one place for long. L. Agassiz 1840 , p. 100. Agassiz had argued that the Alps …
- … researches , pp. 617–25; and L. Agassiz 1840 , pp. 304–6, 315–18. For Agassiz’s glacial …
- … in the Jura ( L. Agassiz 1838a , 1838b, and 1840, pp. 299–300). The ‘tails’ consist of …
To Charles Lyell 14 [June 1860]
Summary
Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.
Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.
Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.
Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832 |
To Charles Lyell [5 and 7 October 1842]
Summary
Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.
Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.
Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.
Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.
Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 and 7 Oct 1842 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-649 |
To Charles Lyell [March 1841]
Summary
Discusses the role of ice in determining the geological features of the Jura. Mentions view of Agassiz. Objects to idea of "a [sea of ice] carrying rocks". Notes Agassiz’s earlier view of "ice expanded in the line of the Great Swiss Valley". Comments on Pentlands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-592 |
To Charles Lyell [September–December 1842]
Summary
Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Sept–Dec 1842] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-605 |
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
To Charles Lyell 10 September [1861]
Summary
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3249 |
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
From Charles Lyell [c. 16 July 1841]
Summary
Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.
Returns charts on coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 16 July 1841] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-604 |
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- … letter to Emma Darwin, [3 July 1841] ). In 1840 J. F. W. Herschel had bought a country …
To Charles Lyell [21 February – 4 April 1841]
Summary
Answers a number of queries from Lyell concerning geography and geology of Chiloé Island and its relationship to the Cordilleras.
Asks about "perched rocks" on Jura and notes their relevance to Louis Agassiz’s theory. Discusses Agassiz’s view on Jura.
Mentions seeing Robert Brown.
Notes R. I. Murchison’s discovery of shells in central England.
Weakness of negative evidence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Feb – 4 Apr 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-590 |
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- … opposite CD’s question reads: ‘Vide p. 268 Agassiz [1840] on perched rocks of the Alps in …
From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
To Charles Lyell [24 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.
Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1056 |
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- … 14] September [1838] and [19 February 1840] . Joseph Dalton Hooker had been invited to …
From S. V. Wood Sr to Charles Lyell 30 September 1873
Summary
Sends proofs of pages on shells with revised species names. Discusses Crag Moll, Sutton and Butley Red Grag, and Scrobicularia beds. Son asks him to thank Lyell for extract from Darwin’s book.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6422-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077F |
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- … same & that I have reverted to my name of 1840 oblongoides . Tritonium carinatum you will …
To Charles Lyell 25 October [1859]
Summary
Discusses P. S. Pallas’ theory of origin of domestic dog breeds. CD believes domestic dogs descended from more than one aboriginal wild species but ultimately "we believe all canine species have descended from one parent and the only question is whether the whole or only part of difference in our domestic breeds has arisen since man domesticated them".
Races of man offer great difficulty. The doctrine of Pallas and Agassiz that there are several species "does not help us" in the least.
Hopes Henry Holland will not review Origin.
CD’s and CL’s difference on "principle of improvement" and "power of adaptation" is profound. Improvement in breeds of cattle requires neither. Urges him to reread first four chapters of Origin carefully. Natural selection is not to be contrasted with "improvement": every step involves improvement in relation to the conditions of life. There is no need for a "principle" to intervene.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.174) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2510 |
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- … CD had studied Pallas’s writings in detail in 1840 and 1844. His notes on Pallas 1780 are …
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1841]
Summary
Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-594 |
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- … Kilfinnin is marked by a single ‘road’. In 1840 Louis Agassiz visited the area with …
To Charles Lyell 8 October [1845]
Summary
Discusses American Negroes and their parasitic lice. Henry Denny’s need for lice specimens.
Discusses effects of racial crosses in man.
Describes his trip to Yorkshire.
Comments on Sedgwick’s review [of Vestiges of creation].
Mentions Humboldt’s Kosmos. Criticises Humboldt’s geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Oct [1845] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-919 |
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- … feet in length, which was completed in 1840. Sedgwick 1845, an attack on the transformist …
From William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie to Charles Lyell [14 February 1838]
Summary
Impressed by CD’s theory [of earthworm action].
Author: | William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [14 Feb 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402 |
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- … Geological Society of London 2d ser. 5 (1840): 505–9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 124– …
To Charles Lyell 22 February [1866]
Summary
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5015 |
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- … CD may refer to notes made in 1839 and 1840 (see Notebooks , Torn Apart Notebook, Frag 6 …
From Charles Lyell 6 and 8 September 1838
Summary
Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.
CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.
Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.
Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.
Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.
Comments on methods of work.
Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.
Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".
With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 8 Sept 1838 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-425 |
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- … Wilson 1972 , pp. 513–14; C. Lyell 1840 , 1: 304–15). According to CD, coral reefs were …
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Wood, S. V. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lindsay-Carnegie, W. F. | (1) |
Wood, S. V. | (1) |
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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- … 765. in Geograph. Soc?? Review of this in Edin. Phil Jour. 1840. June [Anon. 1840]. Report of …
- … 26—Account of Domestic & Foreign Bees [Jardine ed. 1840]: (Athenæum 1840 p. 195) …
- … A. Necker 1823] read Lindleys Horticulture [Lindley 1840]— Chapter on Races improvement of …
- … Admiral Von Wrangel’s Travels [Wrangel 1840].— Sir Ker Porter’s Travels in Caucasus [R. K. …
- … Instinct by D r . Alison [W. P. Alison 1847]. No 19. July. 1840 27 Annales des Sciences …
- … 12v.] Bowerbank’s Book on Fossil Fruit [Bowerbank 1840] must be studied Liebigs …
- … 1834] Royle on Indian Agricult. & Production [Royle 1840] Bennets. Whaling Voyage …
- … 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French Revolution 3 vols [Smyth 1840] Baber’s Biography. translat. …
- … II d . death [Hallam 1827] Ranke’s Popes [Ranke 1840].— Southeys life of Wesley …
- … reproductive system Encyclop of Rural Sports [Blaine 1840] (at Athenæum?) Book II Chapt. 4 on …
- … 1836].— Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. 1841 [Paxton 1840]— probably good—every plant cultivated in …
- … must study Whewell on Philosophy of Science [Whewell 1840].— Speculates on Instinct.— …
- … A. Alison on Population. 2 vols. Feb. 1842 [A. Alison 1840].— Youatt in Vet. says Blaine on …
- … to be good Papers on Sewalik Fossils in 1842 [Cautley 1840 and Cautley and Falconer 1840] The …
- … Sheep [Blacklock 1838]; good quotation in Royle [Royle 1840] Proceedings of Agricult. Soc …
- … Capt. Parsons quoted by Royle. Prod. Res. p. 170 [Royle 1840] (read) 37 Sweet has …
- … Parrots [Selby 1836]. 26. Honey Bees [Jardine ed. 1840]. Waterhouse has it??? Jacintes …
- … [DAR *119: 21v.] Gosse Canadian naturalist [Gosse 1840] in Entomolog. Soc. Duchesne …
- … Martineau 1821] (read) Letters of L d . Ward? [Ward 1840] [DAR *119: 22v.] …
- … July 8 th M.S. Voyage of Kolff to the Molucca Sea [Kolff 1840] 10 th Surville-Marion …
- … on the Horse [Youatt 1831] Library of Useful K. 1840 Jan 1 st Many numbers of …
- … India [Heyne 1814] d[itt]o [DAR 119: 7a] 1840 D r . Hollands Medical …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London ] from 1788 to 1840 —Abstracted— Maer Phil Transact. …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … cousin Emma Wedgwood; the one of Darwin is signed and dated 1840. Their style is characteristic of …
- … 1839. Josiah Wedgwood himself wrote to his daughter Emma in 1840, asking her to commission Richmond …
- … However, it seems that the pair of portraits dating from 1840 which is now at Down House had a …
- … finished watercolours rather than drawings, indicating the 1840 pair now at Down House. …
- … the dates of various Darwin family commissions. In 1840 there were indeed entries (unpriced) for …
- … data to the various copies or alternative versions of the 1840 portraits which exist. A watercolour …
- … the back of the frame, ‘Charles Robert Darwin age 31 March 1840’; but she mysteriously described it …
- … of her mother – the only one she knew about – to 1840. However, in Emma Darwin: A Century of …
- … Richmond; signed and dated bottom right ‘G. Richmond 1840’ date of creation March 1840 …
- … p. 134, says that Erasmus Darwin retained the 1840 watercolours in his own collection in London, and …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
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…
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- … Agassiz (see Barrett 1973, Rudwick 1974, and L. Agassiz 1840). In another paper, “On the …
- … My stomach as usual has been my enemy In 1840 the illness was different. As he wrote to …
- … life. ‘My stomach’, he wrote to FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] , ‘as usual has been my enemy—but D …
- … reasonable diagnosis (see Colp 1977). The illness of 1840 appears to have been the …
- … descendants, twelve letters from Darwin to Kemp in the years 1840 to 1843 have come to light; they …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … gives the first notice that he is going to cry. Feb 27. 1840 When nine weeks & three days …
- … vol. 2, letters to T. C. Eyton, [6 January 1840] , and Robert FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] . …
- … preceding sentence and the following text to ‘Feb 27. 1840’ on page 6 is in Emma Darwin’s hand. …
- … stayed with CD and Emma Darwin between 21 March and 2 May 1840 (Emma Darwin’s diary). If Emma Darwin …
- … December, rather than 4, and 28 days, not 29, in February (1840 was a leap year) when calculating …
- … Darwin’s parents Bessy and Josiah Wedgwood II, on 5 June 1840. They remained in Staffordshire and …
- … the role of bees in pollination, made in the summers between 1840 and 1842, are in DAR 46.2 and DAR …
Natural Science and Femininity
Summary
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 555 - Darwin to FitzRoy, R., [20 February 1840] Darwin discusses the development …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November 1840 ). The sexual relations of barnacles seemed …
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…
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. …
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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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
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.…
Richard Henry Corfield
Summary
Richard Henry Corfield was in his final year at Shrewsbury School when Darwin started there. It’s hard to say how well they knew each other, but fifteen years later Corfield appeared again in Darwin’s life as a surprisingly familiar face on the other side…
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- … named Mary in Exeter ( BMD : ( Marriage index )). In 1840 there was a notice in the London …
Darwin and Design
Summary
At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…
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- … Creation’. Eight volumes were produced between 1833 and 1840 by leading authorities in moral …
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … SOURCES Papers Darwin, C.R. 1840. On the formation of mould. Transactions of the …
Richard Matthews
Summary
Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … relationship between the missionaries and the Maoris. In 1840, the Church Missionary Society asked …
Leonard Jenyns
Summary
When Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage there was no-one available to describe the fish that he had collected. At Darwin’s request Jenyns, a friend from Cambridge days, took on the challenge. It was not an easy one: at that time Jenyns had only worked…
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- … of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle published between 1840 and 1842. The manuscript version …
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … wrote over the first set of writing. Before the Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. …
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 & boy …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…