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To Edward Cresy   26 [December 1843 – April 1846 or September 1855 – October 1860?]

Summary

Says Hooker does not want plant.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  26 [Dec 1843 - Apr 1846 or Sept 1855 - Oct 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 311
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13787

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From J. D. Hooker   [12 December 1843 – 11 January 1844]

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Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. Drimys winteri shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 206–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-723

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [12 December 1843 – 11 January 1844] …
  • … 104: 206–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … collected in Chile, 1828. J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp.  229–30. Berberis darwinii in W.  J. …
  • … to Hooker (see Correspondence vol.  3, letter to J.  D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). …
  • … Press. 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
  • … of the angiosperms (1818–21). In J.  D. Hooker 1844–7  the same arrangement is used. J.   …
  • … D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp.  5–6, 232–3. Carlo Guiseppe Luigi Bertero, who …

To William Kemp   7 December [1843]

Summary

Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  7 Dec [1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-720F

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  • … Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844). …
  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … Scotland, was published in Annals and Magazine of Natural History in February 1844 ( …
  • … Kemp 1844 ). See Correspondence vol.  2. Kemp had sent further details about the discovery …

To Henry Colburn   4 July [1843]

Summary

Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Colburn
Date:  4 July [1843]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-680

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  • … Ernst Dieffenbach’s translation was published in 1844 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  49). …
  • … of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844]. …

To William Kemp   22 November [1843]

Summary

CD is pleased with how good a case WK’s facts have made.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  22 Nov [1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/21) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-715F

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  • … The paper was published in Annals and Magazine of Natural History in February 1844 ( …
  • … Kemp 1844 ). For CD’s draft, with alterations, see Correspondence vol.  2, Appendix VI. …
  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … pp.  787–8. CD’s draft of the paper ( Kemp 1844 ) is in DAR 50: 1–6. It is primarily made …

From J. D. Hooker   28 November 1843

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Thanks for use of CD’s collection.

Comments and queries on the botany of the Southern Hemisphere.

Looks forward to seeing CD’s Galapagos plants.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Nov 1843
Classmark:  DAR 100: 1–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-717

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  • … of London 19: 37–43. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
  • … on the deciduous beech ( J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , p.  452). It would appear that CD was …
  • … Scytothalia Jacquinotii. See J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp.  456–7. Narrative 1: 49 reports …
  • … a rare Magellanic plant’ ( J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , p.  350). David Don described Juniperus …
  • … west coast of Patagonia]’ ( J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , p.  222). Peaks on Hermite Island. CD …
  • … Reeve Brothers. Hooker, William Jackson. 1844. Description, with a figure, of a new …

To Ernst Dieffenbach    4 July [1843]

Summary

CD gratified that ED wants to translate his Journal. Will send a copy of Coral reefs, which contains a fuller treatment of topic. Perhaps ED would insert a note to this effect. Can lend woodcuts from Coral reefs if ED wants. CD will send a few corrections; he wants to amend way he criticised Agassiz’s glacier theory.

He is also enclosing a questionnaire concerning differences between races or varieties and species, about which he intends to publish sometime.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:  4 July [1843]
Classmark:  Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt (Nachlass Künzel Br./3/VII/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-680A

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  • … researches . The translation appeared in 1844. A few pages of the translation, annotated …
  • … 3, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [3–17 February 1844] , in which CD told Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … of the German edition (Dieffenbach trans.  1844, pt 2: 300). ‘On the connexion of certain …
  • … translator’s preface (Dieffenbach trans.  1844, p.  x). CD refers to his criticism in the …
  • … one of the German edition (Dieffenbach trans.  1844, pt 1: 311, 312). An advertisement for …

To Smith, Elder & Co.   [14 January 1843]

Summary

Asks for account.

Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Smith, Elder & Co
Date:  [14 Jan 1843]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-658

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  • … October 1843. Richard Brinsley Hinds . The publication referred to is Hinds, ed. 1844 . …
  • … Bibliography Hinds, Richard Brinsley, ed. 1844. The zoology of the voyage of HMS Sulphur, …

To William Kemp   9 October [1843]

Summary

WK’s paper has reached him safely.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  9 Oct [1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/16b and 10252/17) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-701F

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  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … has been found. On the publication of Kemp 1844 , based on Kemp’s letters to CD, see …
  • … See Correspondence vol.  2, Appendix VI, and Kemp 1844 . The plant identifications from …
  • … VI, Correspondence vol.  2, and Kemp 1844 . CD and Kemp believed that identification of …

To Smith, Elder & Co.   [9 October 1843]

Summary

Says he is forwarding the Smith, Elder & Co. account to the Treasury. Discusses advertisements of Zoology and Coral reefs. Volcanic islands "is almost ready for press".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Smith, Elder & Co
Date:  [9 Oct 1843]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1979)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-702

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  • … Volcanic islands to the press until January 1844 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The reason for …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1844. Zoology : The zoology of the voyage of …

To Ernst Dieffenbach   19 July [1843]

Summary

Says Colburn will allow German publisher to use copperplate and woodcuts [for Journal of researches]. Has been delayed in corrections owing to death of a relative [Josiah Wedgwood II].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:  19 July [1843]
Classmark:  Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Gratz collection, case 12, box 7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-682

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  • … Refers to the 1844 German edition of Journal of researches (see letter to Henry Colburn, …

To Susan Darwin   [8 December 1843]

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Thanks father for loan. Explains difficulty of acquiring the land through which the approach to Down House now runs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:  [8 Dec 1843]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A14–15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-674

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  • … House MS) contains an entry for 14 February 1844 concerning a land purchase from W[illiam] …
  • … 1843 Dec 8 Half a years interest due 1 Jan y 1844 advanced this day £200’ (Down House MS). …

From R. B. Hinds   19 July [1843]

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CD will be gratified to learn that RBH has recognised a species of Cactornis as a native of Bow Island [Hao, Tuamotu Archipelago].

Author:  Richard Brinsley Hinds
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 July [1843]
Classmark:  DAR 205.3: 276
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-683

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  • … Bibliography Hinds, Richard Brinsley, ed. 1844. The zoology of the voyage of HMS Sulphur, …
  • … west of the Galápagos. See Hinds, ed. 1844 , 1: 42–3 and Plate 25. However, the plate is …

From William Kemp   24 November 1843

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Approves of the paper CD has drawn up concerning WK’s seed discovery.

Mentions article in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Author:  William Kemp
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1843
Classmark:  DAR 50: A18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-716

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  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … DAR 50: 1–6. The published version ( Kemp 1844 ) is, except for a few changes, a verbatim …

To J. D. Hooker   [13 or 20 November 1843]

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Congratulations on JDH’s safe return.

Henslow has sent CD’s S. American plants to JDH for examination.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [13 or 20] Nov 1843
Classmark:  DAR 114: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-714

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  • … Ultimately published as J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , 1853–5, 1860. CD read Hooker’s letters …
  • … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …

To William Kemp   7 April [1843]

Summary

CD will sent seeds to specialists for identification.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  7 Apr [1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/14) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-667F

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  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … a much-edited account in the Annals ( Kemp 1844 ). The account was drafted by CD based on …

To ?   23 January [1843–6 or 1856–69]

Summary

Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69]
Classmark:  Edward Ford (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13873

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  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Jan 1843 23 Jan 1844 23 Jan 1845 23 Jan 1846 23 Jan 1856 23 …

To William Kemp   [8 September 1843]

Summary

Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  [8 Sept 1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-691F

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  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … and Magazine of Natural History as Kemp 1844 . Letters to and from Robert Brown have not …

To William Kemp   [9 November 1843]

Summary

CD has been reflecting on John Lindley’s and C. C. Babington’s comments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  [9 Nov 1843]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/20) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-711F

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  • … Bibliography Kemp, William. 1844. An account of some seeds buried in a sand-pit which …
  • … The short statement was published as Kemp 1844 ; see Correspondence vol.  2, Appendix VI. …

To J. D. Hooker   [12 December 1843]

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Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [12 Dec 1843]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-722

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  • … of the ‘southern’ beech. J.  D. Hooker 1844–7 , p.  213, used this division. Probably …
  • … London 12: 483–513. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of …
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My most solemn request: To Emma Darwin, 5 July 1844

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  Alistair Sponsel talks about a touching letter Darwin sent to his wife Emma in 1844. Having just completed a sketch of his species theory, Darwin wrote detailed instructions about what to do with his manuscript in the event of his death. 

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  • … about a touching letter Darwin sent to his wife Emma in 1844. Having just completed a sketch of his …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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  • … published two books on geology,  Volcanic islands  (1844) and  Geological observations on South …
  • … edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in 1844 for a German translation of the first …
  • … Society of London, acting as one of four vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from …
  • … and refereed papers for all these organisations. Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten …
  • … others. Only two months after their first exchange, early in 1844, Darwin told Hooker that he was …
  • … murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). Nine months later, in his letter …
  • … , pp. 57–255), an expanded version, completed on 5 July 1844, of a pencil sketch he had drawn up …
  • … of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of the essay of 1844 to read (see  Correspondence  vol. …
  • … the natural history of creation , published anonymously in 1844. His old friend Adam Sedgwick …
  • … future, is that addressed to his wife Emma, dated 5 July 1844 , just after Darwin had completed …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … of his paper on Darwin.   THE SAND WALK: 1844 In which Darwin, at home in …
  • … and copied and communicated to Messrs Lyell and Hooker in 1844, being a part of [an …
  • … a murder. DARWIN:   7   January 1844. My dear Hooker. I have been …engaged in a …
  • … which is not written out much fuller in my sketch copied in 1844, and read by Hooker some dozen …
  • … 1846 7  C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8  C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 25 …

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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  • … he no longer believed in fixity of species [11 January 1844] ? And then there …

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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  • … 1841].— L d . Dudley’s Correspondence [Dudley 1844]. Hallam Constitut Hist: Hen VII …
  • … Hall’s voyage in the Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] …
  • … Observ. on Instinct [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker 1844. in Parts. cheap. 1.6 a part. 38 …
  • … Jesses new Book. (April 44) on Nat. Hist [Jesse 1844] must be studied. J. Jarves “Scenes in …
  • … Traite Elementair  Palæontologie M. Pictet [Pictet 1844–5]— Forbes?? Waterhouse has it— 1844— read …
  • … Hooker recommends order [Backhouse 1844] at Library …
  • … Vestiges of Nat: Hist: of Creation. Churchill: 1844. 7 s  ” 6 d . [Chambers] 1844] in which …
  • … in Taylors Scientific Memoirs—goes by sexes [Wartmann 1844] for (1844) Blofield Algeria. 1844
  • … on transmutation of shells [Haldeman 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. published Lib. Geological …
  • … Read Waterton’s last series on Nat: Hist: [Waterton 1844] tailess horses. Read “Bronn …
  • … [Bernhardi 1834] (M. Gerard. experiments on species [Gérard 1844].) read Sageret sur les …
  • … Travels to Khiva. 47  Residence in India [Sleeman 1844] L d  Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849 …
  • …  [Plymley 1808] Sleemans Residence in India [Sleeman 1844] Curiosities of Literature …
  • … [Lockhart 1828] 16 L d  Dudley’s Letters [Dudley 1844] Nov. 25 Finished 3 d  Part …
  • … 30. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843] 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— …
  • … 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836]   1844 Jan 7 th  Borrow’s Bible in Spain …
  • … April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit. & Pickwick [Dickens 1844 and 1837] July 20 th …
  • … Rome [Niebuhr 1828–42] [DAR 119: 14a] 1844 May 26 th  L d …
  • … Narr: of Visit to Mauritius & G. Good Hope [Backhouse 1844] very poor Oct 1 Owen on …
  • … Read. 6 vols: finished [DAR 119: 15a] 1844 & 5 Oct 20. Lloyd Field …
  • … —— Vestiges of the Nat. History of Creation [Chambers] 1844] Pœppig Reisen …
  • … nothing this seems all [DAR 119: 15b] 1844 & 5 Burne’s Bokhara (3. vols) …
  • … 1840] 30 th . Arnolds life 3 vols [A. P. Stanley 1844] Jan 5 th . L d . Mahon …

Divergence

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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…

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  • … beginning to think along these broad lines as early as 1844 , and was certainly investigating …

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.  They are a connecting thread that spans…

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  • … letter of all , Darwin wrote to Hooker in January 1844 of his growing conviction that species “are …
  • … a theory: Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] : Darwin cautiously reveals to Hooker, …

Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I

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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared.  Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…

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  • … enclosure to Gray , along with extracts from Darwin’s 1844 species essay , that was read to the …

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 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 Jan 1844] Darwin begins with an assessment …
  • … Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 23 Feb [1844] Darwin begins with a charming …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter of 11 January 1844 , Darwin revealed to Hooker that …

Before Origin: the ‘big book’

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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…

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  • … a theory of transmutation in a short pencil sketch, and in 1844, he once again committed his …
  • … published in the event of his sudden death . Later in 1844, he told the naturalist Leonard …
  • … of Creation caused a publishing sensation in October 1844, the public reaction to the …
  • … receive his views with open arms. Since its publication in 1844, the transmutationist work …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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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.…

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  • … University.   Leiden 16 July 1844 Heemstede 27 July 1903 …
  • … Utrecht University.   Utrecht March 1844 Leeuwarden 1920 …
  • … Chemistry.   Zierikzee 8 March 1844 Leiden 1897   …

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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  • … influential essay on classification (Milne-Edwards 1844). Like von Baer, Milne-Edwards recognised …
  • … paper on classification by Gaspard Auguste Brullé (Brullé 1844). In this work, Brullé argued that …
  • … of embryological development, as outlined in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57–255), …
  • … p. 45). See also the fuller discussion of this topic in the 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229).   …
  • … and body of a mammal.   ^5^ In his species essay of 1844, for example, CD stated: ‘The cause …
  • … CD had arrived at such a view of cirripede systematics by 1844, judging by statements in the essay …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … outlines of his ‘species theory’ (1842 Pencil sketch and 1844 Essay). In the course of …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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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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  • … from the day of his birth, 27 December 1839, until September 1844. Parallels in the development of …
  • … during this period but in far less detail. By September 1844, Henrietta Emma was one year old, and …
  • … possible unlike any other child I ever saw[55] Sep. 1844. Annie 3 years & ½ was looking …
  • … Etruria pottery works. Emma Darwin visited there on 31 May 1844. [58] Betley Hall, home of …

Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter

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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…

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  • … order to supplement views already expressed in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations ; Correspondence …

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…

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  • … during the autumn of 1843, and  Planariae, described in 1844. Another important specimen was the …
  • … W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. Hooker 1844–7, 1845, 1846, 1853–5, and 1860). In …
  • … true that, until he took J. D. Hooker into his confidence in 1844, Darwin does not appear to have …
  • … for Kemp, based on Kemp’s letters, and published in 1844 almost entirely as Darwin wrote it (see …

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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  • … to 1836.  By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1844.  [F272.] —What is the …
  • … Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 14 September 1844, pp. 628-9.  [ Shorter publications , pp.  …
  • … Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh  2 (1844-50): 17-18.  [ Shorter publications , pp.  …

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. …

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  • … University.   Leiden 16 july 1844 Heemstede 27 july 1903 …
  • … Utrecht University.   Utrecht March 1844 Leeuwarden 1920 …
  • … Chemistry.   Zierikzee 8 march 1844 Leiden 1897   …
  • … School.   Deventer 05 june 1844 Rotterdam 12 september 1891 …

Hunt for new letters: last chance!

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Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although we already know of more than 15,000 letters that Darwin exchanged with nearly 2000 correspondents around the world, letters continue to come to light in both…

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  • … Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although …
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