To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 July [1851]
Summary
Sends completed MS [vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] with instructions for the printers; reviews number of plates and woodcuts, and offers to pay for extras and for excess corrections, if they occur. Hopes the Council [of the Ray Society] will print his second volume at the end of the ensuing year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 30 July [1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1447 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 July [1851] …
- … Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 July [1851] Edwin Lankester Ray Society …
- … book (Down House MS) shows a payment to the Ray Society of £1 1 s . on 24 July 1851. …
- … Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … Living Cirripedia (1851) includes a preface of 7 pages, 375 pages of text, and an …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [27 April 1851]
Summary
Thoughts on the death of Anne.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1423 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 10 September [1850]
Summary
New specimens have shown CD he has two distinct species under one name [in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. He adds new figures and suggests deletions. Will come to London when he has proofs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1354 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 6. All four were retained ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. III, fig. 3). …
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Scalpellum solidulum ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. I, fig. 8). For the source of the …
- … September [1850] , n. 2. The scutum was added ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. III, fig. …
- … 11a). Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. I, fig. …
To Emma Darwin [19 April 1851]
Summary
Detailed account of progress of Anne’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1402 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [19 April 1851] …
- … DAR 210.13: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Malvern [19 Apr 1851] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … See letter to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 19 April 1851 . See the …
- … second letter to Emma Darwin, [18 April 1851] . Hannah was a servant of …
- … from Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood, 28 [April 1851] ). Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, …
To J. D. Dana 24 February [1850]
Summary
Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … and one pistil. CD repeated this point in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 15, and …
- … in Living Cirripedia (1851): 248. Lyell had added a discussion of Dana’s views to C. …
- … of Scalpellum . See Living Cirripedia (1851): 215–81. Gideon Algernon Mantell . The …
- … of Chicago Press. 1977. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Goodsir, Henry D. S. 1843. On the sexes, …
- … 1847] , n. 3. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 55 n. , where CD made the same point. This …
- … and S. rutilum ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 183, 248, and 253). Plants with two stamens …
- … Journal 35: 88–104. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. South America : Geological observations on …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 19 January [1854]
Summary
Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1548 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bosquet 1854 . CD had sent the first two Cirripedia volumes, Living Cirripedia (1851) and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , to Bosquet in December 1852 (letter to J. A. H. de Bosquet, …
- … de Limbourg. Haarlem. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
- … The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. …
From Richard Thomas Lowe 19 September 1854
Summary
The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.
| Author: | Richard Thomas Lowe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 392 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1593 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
- … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … both recent and fossil land shells. Lowe 1851 , a reprinting of two papers originally …
- … intended to replace those parts of Lowe 1851 that dealt with the Mollusca ( Lowe 1854 , …
- … Ray Society. 1854. Lowe, Richard Thomas. 1851. Primitiæ et novitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ …
- … See App x . to my Primitiæ (Van Voorst 1851) pp. XIV, XV. In p. XIV observe that I now …
- … interest in Madeiran natural history. CD sent Lowe copies of Living Cirripedia (1851) and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (see MS attached to CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) in …
- … In the preface to Living Cirripedia (1851): vii, CD wrote: ‘To the Rev. R. T. Lowe I am …
To Albany Hancock 22 June [1851]
Summary
Thanks AH for assistance and Joshua Alder for his kindness. Ibla specimens offered would not aid him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 22 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1437 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Albany Hancock 22 June [1851] …
- … Special Collections DC AL 1/4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 June [1851] Albany Hancock …
- … The journal containing Lovén 1844 (see letter to Albany Hancock, 8 June [1851] ). See …
- … letter to Albany Hancock, 8 June [1851] , n. 5. This is probably a reference to CD’s …
From Emma Darwin [24 April 1851]
Summary
Her reactions to Anne’s death; hopes CD may soon return.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1414 |
Matches: 4 hits
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1844 – March 1882]
Summary
Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816A |
Matches: 12 hits
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- … Dec 1851 22 Jan 1852 22 Feb 1852 22 Mar 1852 22 Apr 1852 22 May 1852 22 June 1852 22 July …
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8132 |
Matches: 12 hits
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To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … by the reference to Living Cirripedia (1851) having been published a year previously (see …
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1852. Researches …
- … 1898–1903, 1: 194–6. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … November 1850, 28 April, and 10 November 1851. ] Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der …
- … see letter to T. H. Huxley, 17 July [1851] , n. 1). An unannotated reprint of …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Fossil Cirripedia (1851) had been announced in the Annales des …
- … Naturelles ( Zoologie) 3d ser. 15 (1851): 175, but later volumes were not noticed, even …
- … Only in 1856 was Living Cirripedia (1851) reviewed by Julius Viktor Carus in his survey of …
- … 9. Huxley did not review Living Cirripedia (1851) , but in one of his ‘Lectures on general …
To Erasmus Alvey Darwin 19 April 1851
Summary
Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1851 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1403 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 19 February [1851]
Summary
Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1851] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1391 |
Matches: 4 hits
To A. S. Horner 25 May [1851]
Summary
Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | 25 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1428F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To A. S. Horner 25 May [1851] …
- … lot 209) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May [1851] Anne Susanna Lloyd/Anne Susanna Horner …
- … 10-year-old daughter, died on 23 April 1851 ( Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix II). Horner’ …
- … found. Horace Darwin was born on 13 May 1851 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Anne Susanna …
From J. E. Gray [1846–54]
Summary
Lateral teeth in Arcadae.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1846–54] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13814 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … diagnostic feature in stalked barnacles in, for example, Living Cirripedia (1851) , p. 73. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of …
- … 1847 ). The works on living and fossil Cirripedia were published between 1851 and 1854 ( …
- … see Living Cirripedia (1851) , Fossil …
- … Cirripedia (1851) , Living Cirripedia (1854) , and Fossil Cirripedia (1854) ). The …
- … Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
To W. D. Fox [27 March 1851]
Summary
Sends condolences to WDF on the death of his father. Has brought his daughter [Anne] to J. M. Gully for the water-cure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1851] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1396 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To W. D. Fox [27 March 1851] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a) Charles Robert Darwin Malvern [27 Mar 1851] William Darwin Fox …
- … vol. 5, Appendix I) records that he left Down for Malvern on 24 March 1851. See …
- … letter to John Wickham Flower, 23 March [1851] , n. 3. Erasmus Alvey Darwin , CD’s …
- … meetings there. Samuel Fox died 20 March 1851 at Rendalls, Hertfordshire ( Darwin …
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [7 August 1851]
Summary
CD returns home Saturday and would like his servant to take his MS [of Living Cirripedia] to Adlard that morning; he does not have a copy and would on no account re-undergo the labour he has spent on it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1448 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [7 August 1851] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Park St, 7 [7 Aug 1851] Edwin Lankester Ray Society …
- … of the works of industry of all nations, 1851. Reports by the juries (London, 1852), pp. …
- … return to Down until Sunday, 10 August 1851. The president of the French Republic, Louis …
To Thomas Salt 24 December 1851
Summary
Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1851 |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1465F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Thomas Salt 24 December 1851 …
- … sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 Charles Robert Darwin 24 Dec 1851 Down Thomas Salt …
- … Down Farnborough Kent Dec r . 24 th . | 1851. My dear Sir Will you be so good, as to give …
- … Lieutenant Edward Muckleston died in June 1851. According to CD’s Investment book (Down …
To Richard Owen 17 July [1852]
Summary
Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 17 July [1852] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … his book [ Living Cirripedia , vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is …
- … Press. 1927–96. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1834–40. Histoire …
- … on the publication of Living Cirripedia (1851) , in which CD discussed the males of Ibla …
- … to fifty-five pages in Living Cirripedia (1851): 8–63 and included few illustrations of …
- … vertically from it. ’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 28). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, …
- … are discussed in Living Cirripedia (1851): 207–14, 231–44, and summarised on pp. 281–93. …
- … been obscure. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 25–8, and Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix …
- … Dana 1846 and Living Cirripedia (1851): 26 n. ). Dana also believed that, analogous to …
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with …
- … expired at Malvern at 1 Midday on the 23 d . of April 1851.— I write these few pages, as I …
- … her dear joyous face. Blessings on her.— April 30. 1851. Notes: 1 …
- … Darwin’s reaction to her sister’s death Aug. 1851. Etty nearly 8 years old. She appeared for …
- … Annie's illness and death To W. D. Fox, [ 27 March 1851 ] To Emma Darwin, [17 …
Our poor dear dear child: To Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851]
Summary
Marsha Richmond shares her experiences of editing the very moving letters Darwin wrote to his wife Emma about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10.
Matches: 1 hits
- … about the death of their daughter Anne Elizabeth Darwin in 1851, aged 10. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … he explained in the preface to Living Cirripedia (1851): vii, ‘to have described only a single …
- … In both volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an …
- … parts of the mature animal.’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 25). As a basis for his homologies, …
- … in the various genera of Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 286–7), which he later …
- … the highest classificatory value’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 285).^12^ For delineating …
- … the cement glands of the organism ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 20). This association suggested to …
- … feel no hesitation in advancing it. ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 37–8) In Living …
- … belonging to the same species!’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 293)—this discovery was unique in the …
- … devoted the first sixty-five pages of Living Cirripedia (1851), and a lengthy section in …
- … by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( Correspondence vol. 5), in …
- … mentioned both Coral reefs and Living Cirripedia (1851), but it was the latter work that …
- … to the analogy with plants in Living Cirripedia (1851): 214: ‘Although the existence of …
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: 24 hits
- … pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the …
- … from Parent to offspring of some Forms of Disease. 1851 [Whitehead 1851]. Packard. A Guide to …
- … [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— Southeys Life of Wesley [R. …
- … Humboldt 1849]. Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China …
- … Steenstrup on Hermaphroditismus [Steenstrup 1846]. 1851. Jan. 6 th . Pickering Races …
- … 1850].— April 5 Manual of Geology Lyell [Lyell 1851] —— 30 Annales des Sc. Phys. de …
- … nothing July 16 th Dixon. Pigeons [E. S. Dixon 1851].— Dec. 26. Count Odart’s …
- … Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR 119: 23b] 1851 Jan 27. M. Martineau. …
- … 1844]. good London Labour & London Poor [Mayhew 1851].— Missionary Life in Canada …
- … July 1 st . Edwardes Year in Punjaub [Edwardes 1851] good 16 Gleig’s Life of Clive [Gleig …
- … 15. Liebig Familiar letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Nov. 15 th Wilson Voyage. Scotland …
- … [DAR *128: 182] 83 Jury Report. Exhibition of 1851 on silk-worms & sheep, selection …
- … et de ses ràces ou varietes 8 o . 12. p. 1 Pl. Poitiers 1851. Chez H. Oudin [Mauduyt 1851] Read …
- … of Madeira with list of Birds ( some migratory ) [Harcourt 1851]. Yarrell has (read) Rev d …
- … Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read 96 …
- … 1852] grand illustrated work on Legumes [?Vilmorin-Andrieux 1851–7] 110 [DAR *128: 154] …
- … March 26. Gosse’s Sojourn in Jamaica [Gosse 1851] April 30 Journal of Horticultural Soc of …
- … 1852 . Feb. 1. Emigrants Manual [Burton 1851] March 10 th Hind’s Solar System …
- … Man’s Nature & Development [Atkinson and Martineau 1851] —— 25 Head. Home Tour …
- … of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia ] Vol I to V 1851 M. Edwards. Introduction …
- … —— 13 th Neale’s Residences in Siam [Neale 1851] 22 Sir J. Davis China during War and …
- … 1853] (excellent) —— 23 Howitts Victoria [Howitt 1851] part of (poor) Oct 7 th Sir …
- … 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … June 8 th Sketch of Madeira by E. Vernon Harcourt p. 1851 [Harcourt 1851] —— 11 Busk …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and …
- … made to the plates, but even close to publication in early 1851, Darwin told Sowerby, ‘ I like the …
- … books. ’ When the first fossil monograph appeared in June 1851, it was the third part of volume 5 …
- … of the living species; having finished writing in July 1851 , he corrected proof-sheets from …
- … the first volume of Living Cirripedia bears the date 1851, it did not appear until January …
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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- … confusing sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851 …
- … dioecious plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at …
- … he justified in a lengthy footnote (Living Cirripedia (1851): 293 n.). The problem that bothered …
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,…
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … the small impression that can be purchased.’ In 1851 the scope of the project was expanded …
- … in securing the Association’s decision to hold its July 1851 meeting in Ipswich. Furthermore, this …
- … When Prince Albert himself visited the Ipswich conference in 1851 amid great celebrations, he too …
- … Letter from Ransome to Michael Faraday, 6 June 1851, in Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), The …
- … of Science’, dated from Ipswich, Times (3 July 1851), p. 5. ‘Visit of Prince Albert to Ipswich’, …
Alexander Burns Usborne
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Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … branch. Waterhouse became keeper of mineralogy in 1851 and keeper of geology in 1856, where he added …
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…
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…
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. …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … publications, his barnacle books ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851 and 1854) and Living Cirripedia …
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.…
Horace Darwin born
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Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born
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- … Darwin's son, and ninth child, Horace is born …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … responsible for the magazine's success at that time. In 1851 she met the philosopher, writer …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Death of Annie Darwin
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The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma, heavily pregnant, has to stay behind at Down.
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- … The Darwins' 10-year old daughter, Anne Elizabeth, dies in Malvern. Charles is with her, but Emma …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … in his sense of loss when his daughter Annie died in 1851. Darwin was educated at the …
