To J. G. Forchhammer 1 December [1849]
Summary
Inquires about parcel of cirripede specimens lost in transit. Asks him to tell Steenstrup about the loss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johan Georg Forchhammer |
Date: | 1 Dec [1849] |
Classmark: | University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1273 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
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- … 2 . 10 The 4 . 6 seems the only one out of the series L Darwin Top of letter : ‘1850— 78 . …
- … 1850 and 1853 and by 3,935 in the seven years between in 1853 and 1860 (see enclosure to letter …
- … figure for 1850. The census dates given by Coan were correct; see also letter from ? , [ …
- … letter : Year Native Population Annual percentage Decrease done (4 . 6)
✓ 1832 130,313 — 1836 108,579 1 . 969= 1 . 97 1850 …
From Emma Darwin [22–3 April 1851]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22–3 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1410 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [8] June [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
From the Ray Society [4–6 November 1850]
Summary
In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.
Author: | Ray Society |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–6 Nov 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366A |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 October [1850]
Summary
Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].
Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 11 Oct [1850] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369F |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 June [1850] , and letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] …
- … time this letter was written, reaching his 11th birthday on 27 December 1850; he entered …
- … letter to Susan Darwin, [19 March 1849] ). He visited Malvern again from 11 to 18 June 1850 ( …
- … Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] and n. 2. Sedgwick, in …
- … 1850 ) was expanded by a preface of 442 pages, longer than the original work, which, as reproduced in the fifth edition, runs to 322 pages. There is no record of the date on which CD read the first edition, although it was recommended to him by his sister Caroline Darwin in 1834 ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter …
From J. S. Bowerbank 1 August 1864
Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580 |
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- … de C. Sowerby, [12 or 19 August 1850] , and letter to J. S. Bowerbank, 10 September [ …
- … see Correspondence vol. 4, letters to J. S. Bowerbank, 19 January [1850] and [ …
- … 1850] ). Bowerbank is cited as a source of Pollicipes specimens from the Chalk and Gault deposits in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 54, 62–5, and 73–7. CD had sent some of the specimens to James de Carle Sowerby for illustration (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 21 May [1868]
Summary
JDH too severe on Duke of Argyll.
Pities JDH on [BAAS] address [see 6099]; Huxley feels JDH will do well and will not pity him.
Thinks Huxley will give an excellent and original lecture on geographical distribution of birds.
Has been working hard on sexual selection and correspondence about it.
Mignonette is sterile with its own pollen but any two distinct plants are fertile together. It is utterly mysterious and not even Pangenesis will explain it.
On Lyell’s book [Principles, 10th ed.].
Wallace’s wonderful cleverness, but he is not cautious enough. CD differs from Wallace on birds’ nests and protection.
A. Murray’s miserable criticism of Wallace [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 137–45].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6196 |
To W. J. Hooker 22 May [1850]
Summary
Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 22 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1331 |
To W. J. Hooker [January 1850]
Summary
Thanks WJH for information about J. D. Hooker; CD was very anxious to hear something about his safety.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1285 |
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 1 December [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 1 Dec [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1373 |
Morton, Samuel George. 1850. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, D.D., on the question of hybridity in animals, considered in reference to the unity of the human species. Charleston Medical Journal 5: 328–44.
To John Higgins 9 May [1850]
Summary
Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1326 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 17 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
Classmark: | University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1312 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 1 September [1850]
Summary
Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.
Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1351 |
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
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- … beyond, in retaliation for a later incident involving Hooker in 1850 ( letter to W. …
- … 1850] ). C. J. Muller , who lived in Darjeeling, contributed analyses of the soils of Sikkim to J. D. Hooker 1854, 2: 383–4. He also assisted Hooker by making meteorological observations during Hooker’s absence from Darjeeling (J. D. Hooker 1854, 2: 402–4). Hooker discussed the distribution of glaciers and the varying heights of the perpetual snow (‘P.S. ’ in the letter …
To Albany Hancock [26 January – March 1850]
Summary
Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | [26 Jan – Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1311 |
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Home and family in Commentary
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Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
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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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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …