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Pritzel, Georg August. 1851. Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ omnium gentium. Leipzig.

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  • … Pritzel, Georg August. 1851. Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ omnium gentium. Leipzig. RB …

Springer, John S. 1851. Forest life and forest trees. New York.

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  • … Springer, John S. 1851. Forest life and forest trees. New York. 5 …

Studer, Bernhard. 1851–3. Geologie der Schweiz. 2 vols. Bern and Zurich.

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  • … Studer, Bernhard. 1851–3. Geologie der Schweiz. 2 vols. Bern and Zurich. 5 …

Thomson, William. 1851. On the dynamical theory of heat, with numerical results deduced from Mr Joule’s equivalent of a thermal unit, and M. Regnault’s observations on steam. [Read 17 March 1851.] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20 (1853): 261–88.

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  • … Thomson, William. 1851. On the dynamical theory of heat, with numerical results deduced …
  • … s observations on steam. [Read 17 March 1851. ] Transactions of the Royal Society of …

Victoria Government Gazette. Melbourne: published by authority. 1851–.

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  • … Government Gazette. Melbourne: published by authority. 1851–. WBG OP.14710.320.01 16 …

Wallich, Nathaniel, trans. 1851. Specimen faunæ subterraneæ, being a contribution towards the subterranean fauna, by J. C. Schiödte. Translated from the Danish. [Read 6 January 1851.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 1 (1850–1): 134–57.

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  • … Wallich, Nathaniel, trans. 1851. Specimen faunæ subterraneæ, being a contribution towards …
  • … Translated from the Danish. [Read 6 January 1851. ] Transactions of the Entomological …

Müller, P. W. J. (1771–1851)

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  • … Philipp Wilbrand Jacob Müller 1771–1851 German clergyman and entomologist. Of Odenbach in …
  • … Müller (*4. Oktober 1771 - 31. März 1851): ein bedeutender Insektenkundler aus Odenbach …

Thomson, A. C. (1823–79)

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  • … in the General Post Office, London, by 1851. Controller, Savings Bank Department, General …
  • … his death. Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record …

Mellersh, H. A. (1851–1936)

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  • … Henrietta Alice Mellersh 1851–1936 Daughter of Arthur and Henrietta Frances Mellersh. …

To Daniel Sharpe   16 October [1851]

Summary

Thanks DS for writing about his research on foliation and cleavage. Discusses nature of slate and metamorphic schists.

Makes suggestions for the paper DS is preparing for the Royal Society and raises questions for his consideration; CD hopes he can attend the Society meeting when the paper is read ["On foliation and cleavage of Scotland", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Sharpe
Date:  16 Oct [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1458

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  • … To Daniel Sharpe   16 October [1851] …
  • … Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Oct [1851] Daniel Sharpe …
  • … at the top of the letter: ‘Ans d 23 Oct 1851’. Sharpe’s reply has not been found. Sharpe …
  • … 1852 . The paper, received on 20 November 1851, was read on 12 and 19 February 1852 ( …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, [8 April 1851] . Sharpe 1852 , p.  457, specifically argues …

To William Harris   6 August [1850]

Summary

Reports on the fossil cirripedes sent him; several are new, some are "elegant".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Harris
Date:  6 Aug [1850]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1344

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  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Pollicipes semilatus ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  72–3). The location of Scalpellum (? ) …
  • … cretæ is so described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  45. …
  • … Scalpellum tuberculatum ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  43–4). Several specimens …
  • … the letter are described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  38, 43, 45, and 72. All are said to …
  • … 5, letter to William Harris, 4 March [1851] . From 10  to 16 August CD was at Leith Hill …

From Charles Moore   15 May 1879

Summary

Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.

Author:  Charles Moore
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 May 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 233
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12055

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  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Leftwich, A. W. 1973. …
  • … London: Constable. 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 …
  • … London: Ray Society. 1854. Moore, Charles. 1851. On the Aptychus. Proceedings of the …
  • … to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] and n. 2, and Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 3–5). …
  • … In ‘On the Aptychus’ ( C. Moore 1851 ), Moore argued that the Aptychus was part of the …
  • … and n. 12; see also Living Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 281–93, and Living Cirripedia (1854) , …

To C. S. Bate   1 April [1853]

Summary

Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.

Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Spence Bate
Date:  1 Apr [1853]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1511

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  • … and preserving cirripede specimens (see letter to C.  S. Bate, 18 August [1851] ). …
  • … Bibliography 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 …
  • … power of Lithotrya in Living Cirripedia (1851):  336–48. CD thought he was justified in …
  • … easily obtained. ’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  243 n. ). CD had earlier advised Bate in …

To C. S. Bate   10 January [1853]

Summary

Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Spence Bate
Date:  10 Jan [1853]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1471

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  • … Plate XXIX, p.  670. See letters to Edward Forbes , [1 May – 5 June 1851] , and to C.   …
  • … S. Bate, 13 June [1851] and …
  • … 18 August [1851]. …
  • … Bibliography Bate, Charles Spence. 1851. On the development of the Cirripedia. Annals and …
  • … is a synonym of Verruca stroemia . Bate 1851 . CD used Bate’s figures of the spermatozoa …

To Rowland Hill   6 January 1851

Summary

Drawings of the apteryx in three positions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Rowland Hill, 2d Viscount Hill
Date:  6 Jan 1851
Classmark:  Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (2006)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1385F

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  • … To Rowland Hill   6 January 1851
  • … New York (dealers) (2006) Charles Robert Darwin 6 Jan 1851 Rowland Hill, 2d Viscount Hill …

To T. H. Huxley   29 [September 1855]

Summary

Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  29 [Sept 1855]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1757

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  • … and sessile cirripedes ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  46 and Living Cirripedia (1854):  87). …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851):  57. The specimen may have been of Conchoderma aurita since much …
  • … 25 (pt 1): 355– 64. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … of the gland in Living Cirripedia (1851):  34: ‘The gland contains a strongly coherent, …
  • … yellow, tough cement. ’ Living Cirripedia (1851):  57. CD traced the ovarian tubes from …
  • … December 1846] . See Living Cirripedia (1851):  33. In the pedunculated barnacles, CD had …
  • … glands. He concluded ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  35): the gland itself is a part of an …
  • … ibid . , p.  134). See Living Cirripedia (1851) . The Russian naturalist August David …
  • … their nature. ’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  57–8). Huxley’s description of the structure …

To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet   17 December [1852]

Summary

At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.

Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:  17 Dec [1852]
Classmark:  Ripon College, Lane Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1493

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  • … 2d ser. 13, pt 3: 1–36. 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 …
  • … CD recorded that he sent Living Cirripedia (1851) and …
  • … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) to Bosquet (MS attached to CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1854) …

From J. D. Dana   [before 29 December 1850]

Summary

Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]

Author:  James Dwight Dana
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 29 Dec 1850]
Classmark:  Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1380A

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  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n. James Dwight Dana [before 29 Dec 1850] Charles Robert …
  • … London: Macmillan. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
  • … In CD’s copy of Living Cirripedia (1851):  15 n. ( Cambridge University Library), ‘ …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … the grand or external pair:’ ( Milne-Edwards 1851 , p.  253). At the top of the page CD …

To Emma Darwin   [17 April 1851]

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Reports the state of Anne Darwin’s health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [17 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1399

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  • … To Emma Darwin   [17 April 1851] …
  • … DAR 210.13: 8 Charles Robert Darwin Malvern [17 Apr 1851] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
  • … March ( letter to W.  D. Fox, [27 March 1851] , n.  9). He returned to Down on 31 March. …

To Emma Darwin   [18 April 1851]

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Reports on Anne’s condition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [18 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1401

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  • … To Emma Darwin   [18 April 1851] …
  • … DAR 210.13: 10 Charles Robert Darwin Malvern [18 Apr 1851] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin

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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.…

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  • … 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]

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  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

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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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  • … 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

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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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  • … 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

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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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  • … 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,…

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  • … to Darwin and to his contemporaries. Throughout 1851, Darwin concentrated on the pedunculated …
  • … details with the Ray Society for  Living Cirripedia  (1851) and with the Palaeontographical …

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…

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  • … 1842 he returned to surveying around the British coast. In 1851 his sister was living in Plymstock, …
  • … National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/276/2/21/36), 1851 (HO107/1877/160/2), 1861 (RG 9/1428 …

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…

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  • … when they had four children aged less than six years old in 1851, they employed eight servants …
  • … following the  death of his oldest daughter, Annie , in 1851. Seven years later he was again …

Bartholomew James Sulivan

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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…

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  • … with his wife in the Falklands where they remained until 1851 – their eldest son, James Young …
  • … never suited him, and following his return to England in 1851 Sulivan was frequently ill, but never …

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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  • …   Yokohama (Japan) 19 january 1851 Nijkerk 1 july 1915 …
  • … Leyden University.   Leiden 16 june 1851 Giethoorn 27 …
  • … School   Roermond 11 december 1851 Utrecht 1 may 1902 …
  • … School.   Utrecht 3 june 1851 Amsterdam 24 September 1933 …

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.…

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  • …   Yokohama (Japan) 19 January 1851 Nijkerk 1 July 1915 …
  • … Leyden University.   Leiden 16 June 1851 Giethoorn 27 …
  • … School   Roermond 11 December 1851 Utrecht 1 May 1902 …
  • … School.   Utrecht 3 June 1851 Amsterdam 24 September 1933 …

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 …

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…

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  • … on H.M.S. Rattlesnake in the South Pacific (1846–1851).  He pursued natural history alongside …
  • … marine invertebrates. Shortly after his return to England in 1851, he was elected a fellow of the …

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 …
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