From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
From Leonard Jenyns 27 February 1868
Summary
On polygamous birds and the pairing of birds. Late singing of males. [see Descent 2: 107.]
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A14–15, DAR 84.1: 116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5944 |
To Louis Agassiz 19 August 1868
Summary
Thanks LA for information on sexual differences in the coloration of Amazonian fish. CD was anxious to know how the sexes differed because they are unusual in that the male has the largest share in looking after ova and young.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 278) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6323 |
From C. S. Bate 3 March 1868
Summary
Quotes information from Dr Power on colour of sexes of Crustacea in Mauritius [see Descent 1: 335].
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A65–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5973 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 May 1868
Summary
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 210–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6189 |
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- … letter from George Bentham, [before 22 April 1868] . Hooker apparently alludes to the ‘rag of protection’ to which Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam had objected in the bill for the repeal of the Corn Laws ( Annual register 1846, …
- … letter from Hooker is that of 7 April 1868, in which he announced that he was shortly going to north Wales with Thomas Henry Huxley . Hooker also refers to his sister Elizabeth Evans-Lombe , whose husband had been a medical practitioner at Bemerton, Torquay, from about 1867 ( Medical directory , s.v. Lombe, Thomas Robert ), and to William Pengelly . Pengelly had worked since 1846 …
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [16–20 February 1868]
Summary
Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16–20 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5882 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
From Fritz Müller 9 September 1868
Summary
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6359 |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Summary
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
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| Gray, J. E. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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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Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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Scientific Practice
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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…
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Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
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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John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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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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Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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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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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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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…
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Divergence
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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…
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Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … I naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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