From George Peacock to J. S. Henslow [6 or 13 August 1831]
Summary
GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?
P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [6 or 13] Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-104 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Peacock, George Henslow, J. S. …
- … From George Peacock to J. S. Henslow [6 or 13 August 1831] …
- … DAR 97: B1–3 George Peacock London, Suffolk St, 7 6 Aug 1831 13 Aug 1831 John Stevens …
- … dear Henslow | Most truly yours | George Peacock *S 2 7. Suffolk Street | Pall Mall East …
- … S. Henslow, 24 August 1831 and from George Peacock , [ c. 26 August 1831] indicate that …
From George Peacock [c. 26 August 1831]
Summary
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Aug 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-106 |
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
To J. S. Henslow [20 June 1837]
Summary
Upon the advice of Captain Beaufort and with embarrassment to himself CD asks JSH whether he would be perfectly willing personally to take the letter requesting government assistance directly to Thomas Spring Rice [Chancellor of the Exchequer].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361A |
From J. S. Henslow 24 August 1831
Summary
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser.2):4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-105 |
To Susan Darwin [5 September 1831]
Summary
Wood has heard from FitzRoy, who seemed so much against CD’s going that CD and Henslow gave up. CD is in London; has seen FitzRoy, who is now ready to invite him. CD remains undecided. He likes FitzRoy. Gives details of prospective arrangements. They probably will be gone three years; "round the world" is not certain. Want of room is a serious objection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-117 |
To W. D. Fox 19 [September 1831]
Summary
Describes his appointment, the Beagle, his companions, and the objectives of the voyage. Gives his schedule before departure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 19 [Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-132 |
From J. M. Herbert [28 March] 1834
Summary
A letter full of news of Cambridge and friends: the BAAS meeting at Cambridge; charges of corruption in the University; the Cambridge petition on behalf of Dissenters.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar] 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-240 |
To George Gabriel Stokes 18 February [1868]
Summary
Wants to know how the colour of the eye of the peacock’s tail is produced, whether it depends upon colouring matter in the feathers or reflection, and whether any varying structural change will account for the series of colours surrounding it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add 7656: D73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5891 |
To Roland Trimen 16 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5790 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [January 1868]
Summary
Grieved by Wollaston’s troubles. Offers contribution of £100. "How foolish men are in their investments."
Delight about George’s success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Jan 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5804 |
To Albert Günther 27 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks AG for full answers to queries.
Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6913 |
From A. R. Wallace 19 March 1868
Summary
On sterility of natural species and natural selection. Closely allied forms from adjacent islands offer best chance of finding good species fertile inter se.
Problem of minute variations and sexual selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B59–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6024 |
Darwin, G. H. (1845–1912)
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Howard Darwin 1845–1912 CD and Emma Darwin’s son. Mathematician. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1868; fellow, 1868–78; re-elected in 1884. Studied law in London, 1869–72; called to the bar, 1872, but did not practise. Plumian Professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy, Cambridge University, 1883–1912. President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1905. Knighted, 1905. FRS 1879. For more information see: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/gender/2012/01/06/women-fashion-and-frivolity/ and http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/gender/2011/11/09/whats-the-difference-between-a-peacock- …
To A. R. Wallace 17 [March 1868]
Summary
On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Peacocks and sexual selection.
ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6018 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Peacock’s tail says that in the meadow brown butterflies there are infinite variations from a minute black spot to an eye elegantly shaded. This is a far better illustration than mine of pigeon wing-bars. ’ CD also discussed the variability of ocelli on the plumage of birds in Descent 2: 133–4. Oreina ligea is now Erebia ligea , the Arran brown butterfly. This information was given in the letter from Roland Trimen, 26 March 1868 . CD probably refers to notes on sexual differences in butterflies that he later received in the letter from George …
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Peacock, George | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Peacock, George | (2) |
| Trimen, Roland | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
