To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
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- … To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853] …
- … Mss.B.D25.107) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 June [1853] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853]. Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture …
- … Scotland" [ Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82]. Mentions controversial election …
- … meeting of the Geological Society on 1 June 1853. Elizabeth Darwin , nearly 6 years old, …
- … London: Faber & Faber. Sutherland, P. C. 1853. On the geological and glacial phenomena of …
- … Society of London 7: 31–8. Trimmer, Joshua. 1853. On the origin of the soils which cover …
- … at the New York Industrial Exhibition of 1853 (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 187–8). This …
- … Lyell intended to visit the islands in the autumn of 1853 (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 188). …
- … 1854 (see letter to J. D. Dana, 6 December [1853] , n. 13). Peter Cormack Sutherland …
- … Arctic expeditions. His paper, Sutherland 1853 , was communicated to the Geological …
- … contributed the chapter on geology. Trimmer 1853 , the third part of Joshua Trimmer’s work …
- … The flints are described in Trimmer 1853 , pp. 289–90. For Roderick Impey Murchison’s …
- … nomination of fellows took place on 2 June 1853 ( Abstracts of the papers communicated to …
To Charles Lyell 24 March [1853]
Summary
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1508 |
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- … To Charles Lyell 24 March [1853] …
- … Mss.B.D25.105) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Mar [1853] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … The Geological Society met on 6 April 1853. CD’s Health diary (Down House MS) indicates …
- … of his Principles of geology , published June 1853, in which he introduced a discussion of …
To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].
Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.
Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].
Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.
Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].
Mentions receiving anonymous verses.
A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2806 |
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- … Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67]. Mentions receiving anonymous verses. …
- … in the Darwin Library–CUL. Godron 1853 . The verses have not been found. CD suspected …
- … Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51]. Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and …
- … Macmillan and Co. Schaaffhausen, Hermann. 1853. Über beständigkeit und Umwandlung der …
- … is to Broca 1858–9 . Schaaffhausen 1853 . There is an annotated copy in the Darwin …
- … development of organic life ( Schaaffhausen 1853 , pp. 423–4), possibly prepared for CD …
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
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- … University Press. 1910–11. Haughton, Samuel. 1853–4. On the depth of the sea deducible …
- … Academy 23: 35–140. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of …
- … notice published earlier ( Haughton 1853–4 ). Lyell refers to the first specimen of the …
- … in England. It was brought to London in 1853 by William Lobb , who collected plants in …
- … same as that of New Zealand in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: vii, or to Raoul Island, in the …
From Charles Lyell 4 October 1859
Summary
Response to Origin. Praise for summary of chapter 10 and chapter 11.
The dissimilarity of African and American species is ‘necessary result of “Creation” adapting new species to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’.
C. T. Gaudin writes of Oswald Heer’s finding many species common between Miocene floras of Iceland and Switzerland. Interesting for CD’s migration theory.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 81; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Notebook 241, pp. 75–90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3132 |
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- … of the transmutation of species ( C. Lyell 1853 , p. 567–77), Lyell explained Lamarck’s …
- … of how the orang-utan developed into the human species in C. Lyell 1853 , pp. 575–7. …
- … In C. Lyell 1853 , pp. 148–9, Lyell argued that the human race was distinguished from …
- … their means and faculties’ ( C. Lyell 1853 , p. 576). Verae causae : true conditions. …
- … the laws of inorganic nature (see C. Lyell 1853 , pp. 71–2, 181). Thomas Henry Huxley at …
- … Lyell visited Madeira and Porto Santo in 1853 and 1854 (L. G. Wilson ed. 1970, p. …
To Charles Lyell 14 [June 1860]
Summary
Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.
Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.
Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.
Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832 |
To Charles Lyell 4 November [1855]
Summary
Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].
CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.
Invites CL to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1772 |
From Charles Lyell 4 August 1867
Summary
Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.
His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5595 |
To Charles Lyell [21 January – 11 February 1855]
Summary
Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.
Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.
Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1633 |
To Charles Lyell 16 [June 1856]
Summary
Condemns theory of Edward Forbes and others that many islands were formerly connected to South America by now submerged continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1902 |
From Charles Lyell [before 20 November 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a land-bridge connecting Biscay with Ireland and the consequent occurrence in southern Ireland of Asturian plants which are absent from England.
Asks if Hooker or anyone has criticised Edward Forbes’ botanical migration of five floras in the British Isles ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 170.2: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2902 |
From Charles Lyell 16 July 1867
Summary
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1867 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5582F |
From Charles Lyell 24 November 1860
Summary
CL has calculated that elevation and subsidence of certain formations in Sweden and Norway take place at the rate of 2 1/2 feet per century. He now proposes to estimate the age of a bed by including a conjecture that pauses occur in the oscillations in the ratio of 4 periods of stasis to one of movement. Applying this formula to Scotland, the last subsidence and re-elevation would be 590,000 years and the age of the beds with human implements would be 20,000 years.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 40–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2996A |
From Charles Lyell 21 November 1859
Summary
Questions CD’s view in Origin that domestic dogs are not descended from a single stock. Occasional crossings of domestic stock with wild species could explain cases of reversion towards wild specific forms. CD’s views on hybridity do not then have to be contradicted in constructing an ancestral stock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/4: 195–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2540A |
To Charles Lyell 11 February [1857]
Summary
Discusses a proposed expedition to Australia. Urges collecting and investigating productions of isolated islands. Recommends dredging the sea-bottom.
Mentions keeping Helix pomatia alive in sea-water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.145) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2050 |
To Charles Lyell 6 June [1860]
Summary
Mentions Etty’s illness.
A "coarsely contemptuous" review of Origin by Samuel Haughton ["On the form of the cells made by various wasps and by the honey bee; with an appendix on the origin of species", Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dublin 3 (1860): 128–40].
Comments on reception of Malthus’ ideas.
Says William Hopkins does not understand him.
Discusses problem of term "natural selection".
J. A. Lowell’s review of Origin [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Relationship between instinct and structure.
Discusses blindness of cave animals.
The fallacy of Andrew Murray and others; the slight importance of climate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 June [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.215) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2822 |
From C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell 20 February 1866
Summary
Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5011F |
To Charles Lyell 10 September [1861]
Summary
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3249 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Lyell, Charles | (13) |
Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (25) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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…
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- … of the common barnacles (the Lepadidae and Balanidae) in 1853. Upon dissecting Alcippe and …
- … of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), Darwin …
- … received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1853, even before completing the second …
- … vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. have voted you the …
- … printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 355–6, mentioned both Coral reefs …
- … conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), …
Scientific Practice
Summary
Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
Summary
Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … about Yokcushlu was also shared with Simms Covington in 1853 . Yokcushlu was next heard 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…
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- … Martineau [H. Martineau 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells …
- … Land [Twamley 1852] Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s …
- … relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 9–11 89 1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in Gardeners Ch …
- … Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in …
- … Principles of Commerce & Commercial Law: Lectures [Stephen 1853] Warrens Diary of a …
- … Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex [Devereux 1853] M rs . Colin Mackenzie …
- … [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] …
- … W. Dunker in Zoolog. Proc. a paper on Limnea [Dunker 1853].— D r . Anthony will publish on F. W. …
- … (read) Pictet Paleontologie new Edition [Pictet 1853–7] Pliny Nat History, translated …
- … Generales 1851 120 [Milne-Edwards 1851]. 1853. Feb. 6. Schouw Bot. Geograph: in …
- … to Vol XII. 1840 (not much) [DAR 128: 5] 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D …
- … 2 & 3. } 20 th . Galtons Tour in S. Africa [Galton 1853] good Aug 23. Moore’s …
- … Nov. 11. Sir Hudson Lowe’s life and letters [H. Low 1853] very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores …
- … Society of London ] up to Vol II. Part IV. N.S. 1853 Sept. No s I–IV of Microscopical …
- … —— 5. Johnston Nat. History of E. Borders [G. Johnston 1853]. 20 Dana’s Crustacea [J. D. Dana …
- … Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, Black & White [Pulszky 1853] (moderate) [DAR 128: 8] …
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…
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 1533 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [27 September 1853] Darwin praises Dana’s latest …
Arthur Mellersh
Summary
Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…
Francis Galton
Summary
Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … a natural historical narrative of the journey (Galton 1853). Darwin enjoyed and admired Galton’s …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
Summary
Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … 1536 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, J. W. (b), 11 Oct [1853] Darwin gives his opinion to Sir …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … exhibited at the Victorian Fine Arts Society in Melbourne in 1853, the Paris Universal Exhibition in …
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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- … public recognition of his scientific achievements when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … In 1852 Darwin had asked about the gold rush and in 1853 he thanked Covington for his account …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he discovered that it contained …
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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- … with Huxley (see for example his letter of 23 April 1853), but he did not reveal his own theory of …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … the writing medium, except for the months of January-March 1853, when Darwin used bright blue ink, …