To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1851 …
From Thomas Davidson 29 December 1856
Summary
His experience confirms CD’s view that some species and even some genera of Brachiopoda are consistently more variable than others, and that such variable forms are variable in all localities and at all periods. Similarly a species that shows a lack of variability does so at all points in time and space. Discusses the causes of variability. [See Natural selection, p. 106.]
Author: | Thomas Davidson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2024 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … the British fossil Brachiopoda ( Davidson 1851–86 ), published by the Palaeontographical …
- … Bibliography Davidson, Thomas. 1851–86. British fossil Brachiopoda. 6 …
- … Palæontographical Society. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, …
- … 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 two volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851) and (1854) were published under the title of …
- … to the society. Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and (1854) were also published by subscription by …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural …
From John Obadiah Westwood 23 November 1856
Summary
The Kentucky cave insects (Adelops) are evidently identical to European species of the same genus, some of which are cave insects, others found in damp, dark places.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1998 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Dana for information on the fauna of the Kentucky caves, as described in Agassiz 1851 and …
- … Silliman 1851 . See letter to J. D. Dana, 14 July [1856] , and letter from J. D. Dana, …
- … Nathaniel Wallich at a meeting of the Entomological Society of London on 6 January 1851 ( …
- … Wallich 1851 ). The paper is cited in CD’s discussion of cave animals in Origin , p. 138. …
- … Selskabs Skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk n.s. 2 (1851): 1–39. [Vols. …
- … 6,8] Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of …
- … 2d ser. 11: 332–9. Wallich, Nathaniel, trans. 1851. Specimen faunæ subterraneæ, being a …
- … Translated from the Danish. [Read 6 January 1851. ] Transactions of the Entomological …
To S. P. Woodward 3 June [1856]
Summary
Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].
Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 June [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1886 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Comments on SPW’s book [ Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)]. Mentions questions he has for SPW [ …
- … 1985–. Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary …
- … Dated by the reference to Woodward 1851–6 (see n. …
- … 2, below). Woodward 1851–6 . CD recorded having read this work on 5 June 1856 ( …
To Philip Henry Gosse 22 September [1856]
Summary
CD is working hard on variations.
Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.
Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 22 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1958 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … John Van Voorst. Gosse, Philip Henry. 1851. A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica. Assisted by …
- … in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon. Can he obtain a …
- … 1856] ). CD had read P. H. Gosse 1851 in 1852 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … of Jamaica is taken from P. H. Gosse 1851 , p. 441. No mention is made of the wild …
- … H. Gosse, 28 September 1856 . P. H. Gosse 1851 , p. 173. Gosse apparently kept one as a …
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 9 September [1856]
Summary
On JAHdeB’s discovery of Cretaceous Chthamalus. Cites his own acceptance of negative evidence about Chthamali in Fossil Lepadidae.
Comments on JAHdeB’s cirripede drawings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 9 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1952 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 5). A slip for ‘Lepadidae’. Lithotrya is figured on pl. 8 of Living Cirripedia (1851) . …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Jagt, John W. M. 1994. …
- … Maandblad) 83 : 142–4. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
- … The passage in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , p. 5, reads: No true Sessile Cirripede has …
To S. P. Woodward 15 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 15 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1875 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a …
- … Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount …
- … corroborated by the publication date of part three of Woodward 1851–6 (see n. 2, below). …
- … s Manual of the Mollusca ( Woodward 1851–6 ), entitled ‘Supplement to the rudimentary …
To James Dwight Dana 14 July [1856]
Summary
Asks whether the blind cave animals described by B. Silliman Jr [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 332–9] belong to genera found only on the American continent.
On geographical distribution of Crustacea, CD asks whether northern genera sent species to the Southern Hemisphere or did southern genera send species north?
Does he know of any author who has described fossil trees in South Shetland Islands?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 14 July [1856] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1925 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … B. Silliman Jr [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 332–9] belong to genera found only on the …
- … on coral islands and Australia. Silliman 1851 . Benjamin Silliman Jr , Dana’s brother-in- …
- … Press. 1975. Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American …
- … the insect genera found in the cave. Agassiz 1851 . Louis Agassiz had written to Benjamin …
- … of my family of Cyprinodonts’ ( Agassiz 1851 , p. 127). Dana 1853 . CD’s copy is in the …
To E. W. V. Harcourt 12 June [1856]
Summary
Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.
Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 12 June [1856] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 252–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1900F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … on Madeira, has not been found. See Harcourt 1851 , p. 121, and Harcourt 1855 , p. 437. …
- … Bibliography Harcourt, Edward Vernon. 1851. A sketch of Madeira; containing information …
- … their power of flight ( ibid. , pp. 84–5). Harcourt 1851 and Harcourt 1855 . CD’ …
- … of Harcourt’s Sketch of Madeira ( Harcourt 1851 ) is in DAR 71: 87–8. John Gould . See …
To S. P. Woodward 27 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."
Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 27 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1879 |
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … three times, and in his copy of Woodward 1851–6 , 3: 371, CD wrote next to this genus: ‘ …
- … certainly wrong. see p. 130. ’ Woodward 1851–6 , 1: 130, reads: ‘Australia and New …
- … following the description in Woodward 1851–6 , 2: 266. He also added a large exclamation …
- … Co. 1846. Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary …
- … noted in the margins of CD’s copy of Woodward 1851–6 , now in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … The page numbers refer to Woodward 1851–6 . Woodward wrote notes on the list and then …
From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
From Edward Blyth [3 April 1856]
Summary
Reports observations on Indian pigeons from David Scott at Hansi. EB adds remarks on Indian breeds he has encountered. Suggests Egypt, Turkey, and Syria would be good places from which to obtain specimens. Believes domestic races are all descended from Columba livia; their calls are all similar and they pair indiscriminately.
Guinea-fowl.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A140–A143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1849 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … East-India register and army list, for 1856 ). Dixon 1851 , p. 101, illustrates a nun, …
- … a barb, and a jacobin. Dixon 1851 , p. 100, quotes Coenraad Jacob Temminck’s description …
- … they are called Nonnains-Maurins . ’ Dixon 1851 , p. 86. W. G. Browne 1799 , p. 264: ‘ …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dixon, Edmund Saul. 1851. The dovecote and the aviary: being …
To T. H. Huxley 4 May [1856]
Summary
It seems improper that his advances to G. B. Sowerby Jr for payment of engravings should not have been mentioned to Council of Ray Society. His appreciation of the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1868 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. …
- … drawn the figures for Living Cirripedia (1851) and (1854), published by the Ray Society . …
- … Bowerbank, Ray Society , 28 September [1851] , and to John Lubbock , 10 [September 1853], …
To T. H. Huxley 9 December [1856]
Summary
Grateful for Siebold’s wonderful facts [C. T. E. von Siebold, On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1856), trans. by W. S. Dallas (1857)].
Vitality of spermatozoa.
Hybridisation of bees. Bees are in one respect his greatest theoretical difficulty.
CD still convinced about the relation of cement receptacles and ovarian tubes [in Crustacea].
Birth of C. W. Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 42, 374) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2017 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural …
- … 25 (pt 1): 355–64. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … the Cirripedes. In Living Cirripedia (1851) and (1854), CD had advanced these observations …
- … ovarian tube ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 34). Conchoderma aurita is a misspelling of C. …
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
Summary
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … antiquity of such faunas ( see Woodward 1851–6 , 3: 389). See letter to S. P. Woodward, [ …
- … London. Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary …
- … Edward Forbes were cited at length in Woodward 1851–6 , 3: 349–54 and 381–3, as Woodward’s …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker was cited in Woodward 1851–6 , 3: 406. A reference to Woodward’s …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [July 1856]
Summary
CD writing species sketch; must cite cases favouring multiple creations.
Requests details on species JDH listed as common to Chile and New Zealand. Notes their genera are mundane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1921 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 19 August [1856]
Summary
Asks to borrow C. L. Brehm’s book [Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831)]. Wants to see how far Brehm went in splitting species.
Took finches from Madeira to British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 19 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1451 |
To Henry Tibbats Stainton 13 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 13 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1853 |
To the Royal Society 8 October [1856?]
Summary
The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 8 Oct [1856?] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1970A |
letter | (39) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Woodward, S. P. | (3) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Woodward, S. P. | (4) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Woodward, S. P. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Dana, J. D. | (4) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (4) |
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.
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- … 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
Summary
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…
Matches: 3 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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. …
John Murray
Summary
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
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.…
Horace Darwin born
Summary
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 …