To David Thomas Ansted 25 November [1846]
Summary
Encloses a set of proof sheets of the fossil shells in South America.
Also encloses some specimen sheets by G. B. Sowerby to disseminate as an advertisement.
Asks that E. A. Darwin’s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Hans A. O. Baumann (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032F |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [before 3 September 1846] . See letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 26 April …
- … 1846 . Charles Lyell evidently thought Edward Forbes’s reply was ‘sufficient’ and had no wish to enter into controversy with Forbes, see K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 105–13. CD refers to Hooker’s comment that Thomas Edmondston’s Galápagos collection contained some mainland species from Guayaquil, see letter …
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1846]
Summary
Observations on barnacles.
Would like to meet JDH in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1018 |
To Robert Hutton [April 1846]
Summary
Returns copy [of J. Hortic. Soc. Lond.]. Mentions article by William Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
| Date: | [Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-952 |
To J. S. Henslow [28–9] January 1836
Summary
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [28–9] Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-295 |
To [Robert Chambers?] 13 April [1861]
Summary
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (item 25007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117F |
To J. D. Hooker [24 March 1846]
Summary
C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 Mar 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-962 |
To George Grey 13 November 1847
Summary
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Grey |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1847 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1135 |
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
Summary
Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
To John Lindley [c. 10 October 1846]
Summary
CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lindley |
| Date: | [c. 10 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-999 |
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- … Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191) Charles Robert Darwin Down [c. 10 Oct 1846] John Lindley …
- … of South America in the letters to J. S. Henslow, [5 October 1846] , and to A. C. …
- … 1846 lists the date of publication as being between 14 and 30 October. In a report about the Agricultural Chemical Association, Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 6, 8 February 1845, p. 93. South America , p. 75, where CD erroneously cited the reference as Horticultural and Agricultural Gazette . See also letter …
From J. D. Hooker [before 3 September 1846]
Summary
Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.
Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-994 |
To T. C. Eyton 27 [August 1856]
Summary
Asks about strains of Herefordshire cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 27 [Aug 1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.136) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1946 |
To W. D. Fox 26 May [1876]
Summary
Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.
James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 26 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515 |
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 25 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
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 J. D. Hooker [16 April 1846]
Summary
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [16 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-974 |
To George Bentham 3 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2010 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 December [1854]
Summary
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 388–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1611 |
To W. C. Williamson 12 February [1848]
Summary
CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1156 |
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Darwin and barnacles
Summary
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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- … In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
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
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Barnacles
Summary
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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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Darwin and barnacles …
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…
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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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
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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for …
John Lort Stokes
Summary
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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- … John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
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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- … This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
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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- … The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University …
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…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
Dramatisation script
Summary
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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
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…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
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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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
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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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
Divergence
Summary
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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- … In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin , …
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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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
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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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'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
Summary
[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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