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To Henry Tibbats Stainton   13 April [1856]

Summary

Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:  13 Apr [1856]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1853

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To J. D. Hooker   10 [October 1853]

Summary

Returning JDH’s MS and books.

Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 [Oct 1853]
Classmark:  Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1535

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   10 [October 1853] …
  • … Galleries (dealers) (1984) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 [Oct 1853] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Returning JDH’s MS and books. Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853]. …
  • … Hooker’s manuscript of the introductory essay to J.  D. Hooker 1853–5 . Letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [9 October 1853] . …
  • … Ruth (1853), a novel in three volumes, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell . …
  • … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The …

To J. D. Hooker   [9 October 1853]

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Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [9 Oct 1853]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1529

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   [9 October 1853] …
  • … DAR 114: 149 Charles Robert Darwin Down [9 Oct 1853] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … voyage , pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, …
  • … n.s. 14: 102–12. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The …
  • … the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 10 [October 1853] , and which would have been written on 9  …
  • … sent to him by Hooker (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 25 September [1853] ). In J.   …
  • … D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xiv, Hooker discussed Bory de Saint-Vincent’s views. CD’s …
  • … elevation and subsidence in J.  D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxi–xxii n. : I am indebted to the …
  • … Agricultural Gazette , no. 34, 20 August 1853, p.  531, in which the possibility of hybrid …
  • … referred to hybrid ferns in J.  D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xv n. , there is no mention of John …
  • … and Oxalis magellanica ( J.  D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xix); instead he emphasised that the ‘ …
  • … they are too heavy to be borne in the air. ’ Discussed in J.  D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxxi. …
  • … Hooker kept these expressions in Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxxii. …
  • … See Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxii. …
  • … See Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xiii–xiv. …
  • … At the beginning of October 1853, Robert Jameson’s resignation as professor of natural …
  • … and Geikie 1861 , pp.  523–33). Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxiii. Hewett Cottrell Watson had …

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 Andrew Crombie Ramsay   9 April [1853]

Summary

Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:  9 Apr [1853]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1512

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To Andrew Crombie Ramsay   9 April [1853] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.106) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Apr [1853] Andrew Crombie Ramsay …
  • … his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79]. …
  • … Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1853. On the granitic district of Inverary, …
  • … Press. 1985–. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1853. On the physical structure and succession of …
  • … the Geological Society meeting of 6 April 1853, at which George Douglas Campbell , Duke of …
  • … of Inverary, Argyllshire’ ( Campbell 1853 ). Ramsay’s paper on the lower Palaeozoic rocks …
  • … model of the true mode of investigating the subject. ’ ( Ramsay 1853 , p.  172 n. ). …
  • … Ramsay 1853 , pp.  171–2. Ramsay concluded (p.  172) that: It is not intended to be …

To John Higgins   2–3 December [1853]

Summary

Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  2–3 Dec [1853]
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1541

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  • … To John Higgins   2–3 December [1853] …
  • … Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2–3 Dec [1853] John Higgins …
  • … new measure came into force on 11 October 1853, any receipt for a sum of £2 or more had to …
  • … if it was to be an admissible record of the transaction ( Annual Register (1853): 56; …
  • … Economist 11 (1853): 1127). CD’s next surviving letter to Higgins acknowledging the …
  • … London ( Post Office London directory 1853). CD recorded the receipt of £225 11 s . …
  • … 5 d . on 3 December 1853 in his Classed account book (Down House MS) for the rent from …
  • … William Ewart Gladstone in the budget of 1853, was the introduction of a penny duty to be …

To Francis Galton   24 July [1853]

Summary

FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.

Describes his health and life at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  24 July [1853]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1525

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  • … To Francis Galton   24 July [1853] …
  • … GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 24 July [1853] Francis Galton …
  • … of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1853. The narrative of an explorer in tropical …
  • … Galton 1853 . CD recorded this …
  • … work in his reading notebook on 20 July 1853 and commented: ‘good’ ( Correspondence vol.   …
  • … years (1850–2) on an expedition in south-west Africa, of which Galton 1853  is an account. …
  • … On 1 August 1853 Galton married Louisa Jane Butler and then toured with his wife in …

To Thomas Salt   15 March [1853]

Summary

Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Salt
Date:  15 Mar [1853]
Classmark:  Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1506F

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  • … To Thomas Salt   15 March [1853] …
  • … with Salt. See also this volume, Supplement, letter to Charles Wigley, 21 March 1853 . …
  • … Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Mar [1853] Thomas Salt …
  • … wrapper containing this letter, which is labelled ‘28 M ch 1853’ (see n. 3, below). Salt’s …
  • … letter to Thomas Salt, 31 January [1853] . There is a draft transfer in the Shropshire …
  • … 2, CD recorded an interest payment on 28 March 1853, but did not record any transfer fees. …

To John Higgins   14 June [1853]

Summary

Discusses account.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  14 June [1853]
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/65)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1519

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  • … To John Higgins   14 June [1853] …
  • … Archives (HIG/4/2/1/65) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 June [1853] John Higgins …
  • … amount. The payment in June 1853 of £206 3 s. 2 d. …
  • … a reduction of nearly 8 1 2 %. In December 1853 the full payment of £225 was made. …
  • … the receipt of £206 3 s . 2 d . on 10 June 1853 in his Classed account book (Down House …
  • … in agricultural prices. From May 1850 to June 1853 the accounts show a reduction of that …

To W. D. Fox   29 [July 1853]

Summary

Sympathises with WDF’s tribulations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  29 [July 1853]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 83)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1526

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  • … To W.  D. Fox   29 [July 1853] …
  • … D. Fox, 17 July [1853] , n.  12. …
  • … MS 53 Fox 83) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 29 [July 1853] William Darwin Fox …
  • … Fox , born 28 December 1850, died 29 July 1853. (The editors thank Anthony W.  D. Larkum …
  • … Darwin pedigree is incorrect. ) Letter to W.  D. Fox, 17 July [1853] . See letter to W.   …

To George Johnston   6 September 1853

Summary

Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.

Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Johnston
Date:  6 Sept 1853
Classmark:  DAR 146: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1531

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  • … To George Johnston   6 September 1853
  • … DAR 146: 7 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Sept 1853 George Johnston …
  • … specimens. Asks about their source. Comments on GJ’s book [ Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)]. …
  • … Bibliography Johnston, George. 1853. Terra Lindisfarnensis. The natural history of the …
  • … Cirripedia (1854):  221). G.  Johnston 1853 . A copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. John …
  • … Down, Bromley, Kent. Sept. 6, 1853. My dear Sir I am extremely much obliged to you for the …

To J. D. Dana   10 October [1853]

Summary

Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]

and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  10 Oct [1853]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1534

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  • … To J.  D. Dana   10 October [1853] …
  • … Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Oct [1853] James Dwight Dana …
  • … book. Letter to J.  D. Dana, 27 September [1853] . The illustrations of fossils in D.  D. …
  • … Cambridge University . CD’s copy of Dana 1853  is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Before …
  • … had borrowed Dana 1852 –3, which includes Dana 1853 , from John Lubbock ( letter to J.   …
  • … D. Dana, 27 September [1853] ). Only a few of CD’s …
  • … in CD’s presentation copy of Dana 1853 . There are further annotations throughout the …

From J. D. Hooker   [4 November 1853]

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Summary

Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.

Honoured for Coral reefs

and Cirripedia.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4 Nov 1853]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 186–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1539

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [4 November 1853] …
  • … DAR 104: 186–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [4 Nov 1853] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the …
  • … the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 5 November [1853] . The voting took place at the meeting of …
  • … I). When CD was first nominated on 2 June 1853, the works mentioned as the grounds for the …
  • … Society of London 1940, pp.  116–17). In 1853, however, only one Royal Medal was awarded …
  • … Hooker had given birth to her first child, William Henslow Hooker , on 24 January 1853. …
  • … other candidates for the Royal Medal in 1853 included: Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, …

To Josiah Wedgwood III   25 [April 1853]

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Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah Wedgwood, III
Date:  25 [Apr 1853]
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1379

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  • … To Josiah Wedgwood III   25 [April 1853] …
  • … DAR 210.10: 21 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [Apr 1853] Josiah Wedgwood, III …
  • … in n.  2, above. See also the postscript to the letter to E.  A. Darwin, 26 [April 1853] . …
  • … and the letter to E.  A. Darwin, 26 [April 1853] , are dated by their relationship to the …
  • … s Investment book (Down House MS), 1 May 1853 (p.  57). See Correspondence vol.  4, letter …
  • … recorded in CD’s Investment book on 1 May 1853 (Down House MS). Two mortgage loans which …

To John Lubbock   10 [September 1853]

Summary

Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  10 [Sept 1853]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1365

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  • … To John Lubbock   10 [September 1853] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 [Sept 1853] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
  • … and Living Cirripedia (1854). The total for 1853 was given as £57 12 s . 9 d . , less the …
  • … Bate (see letter to C.  S. Bate, 30 August [1853] ). Quatrefages de Bréau 1842. John …
  • … past year been studying the Crustacea. In 1853 he published three papers describing new …
  • … in Dana 1852 –3, pt 2, pp.  1382–91. See also letter to J.  D. Dana, 27 September [1853] . …
  • … In the last half of 1853, CD’s Account book (Down House MS) has several entries for …

Guépin, Jean Baptiste Pierre. 1853. Note sur l’hybridation des Orchidées. Annales de la Société Linnéenne d’Angers (1853): 52–82.

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  • … Guépin, Jean Baptiste Pierre. 1853. Note sur l’hybridation des Orchidées. …
  • … Annales de la Société Linnéenne d’Angers (1853): 52–82. RSCSP 9,13 …

Lewes, George Henry. 1853. The development hypothesis of the ‘Vestiges’. Leader (1853): 784–5, 812–14, 832–4, 883–4.

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  • … Lewes, George Henry. 1853. The development hypothesis …
  • … of the ‘Vestiges’. Leader (1853): 784–5, 812–14, 832–4, 883–4. Microfilm, P150 (22) 13,15 …

McAndrew Robert. 1853. On the geographical distribution of testaceous Mollusca in the north-east Atlantic and neighbouring seas. [Read 31 October 1853.] Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 8 (1853–4): 8–56. [Vols. 5,6,9]

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  • … McAndrew Robert. 1853. On the geographical distribution of testaceous Mollusca in the …
  • … north-east Atlantic and neighbouring seas. [Read 31 October 1853. ] Proceedings of …
  • … the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 8 (1853–4): 8–56. [Vols. 5,6,9] …

To Charles Wigley   21 March 1853

Summary

Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Wigley
Date:  21 Mar 1853
Classmark:  Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1507F

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  • … To Charles Wigley   21 March 1853
  • … Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Mar 1853 Charles Wigley …
  • … See also this volume, Supplement, letters to Thomas Salt , 31 January [1853] and …
  • … 15 March [1853] . CD was selling £600 of bonds issued by the Trustees of the Shrewsbury …

To J. D. Dana   27 September [1853]

Summary

Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.

Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  27 Sept [1853]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1533

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To J.  D. Dana   27 September [1853] …
  • … Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Sept [1853] James Dwight Dana …
  • … IV, 128: 6), CD recorded on 20 September 1853 having completed ‘Dana’s Crustacea’. The …
  • … of Crustacea’. This was also printed as a separate volume in 1853. Unknown to CD, Dana …
  • … already sent him a copy of this work ( Dana 1853 ), which arrived in Down by 10 October ( …
  • … letter to J.  D. Dana, 10 October [1853] ). …
  • … This copy of Dana 1853 , annotated by CD, is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Dana prepared …
  • … 3). John Lubbock published a series of papers in 1853 on new genera and sub-genera of the …
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Was Darwin an ecologist?

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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.

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  • … Entomologist  37: pp. 206-210 Lindley, John. 1853.  The vegetable kingdom; or, the structure …