Babbage, Charles. 1829. A letter to the Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances. Edinburgh Journal of Science n.s. 1 (1829): 85–104.
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 28 May 1873
Summary
He will keep the portrait of CD.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8926 |
From Henry Holland to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 24 February [1869]
Summary
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6632 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Bibliography Babbage, Charles. 1829. A letter to the Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay, on the …
- … and pencil Verso of letter: ‘Babbage Edinburgh Journal of Science I. 1829. p85–104 on …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] ). Holland refers to Sylvestre François Lacroix and Lacroix 1816 , and to Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace and Laplace 1814 . Holland may refer to Quetelet 1835 . CD refers to Charles Babbage and Babbage 1829 . …
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 10 May 1871
Summary
Paris is in the hands of "brigands and socialists", but one grows accustomed to sporadic bombardment,
and VOK is peacefully studying invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Reports on Paul Gervais’ successful cross between a Triton and an axolotl.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7752 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 2 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7796 |
To W. D. Fox 7 June [1829]
Summary
Has shipped a portmanteau and box of WDF’s things. Lists bills paid from funds sent.
"My success has been very splendid in the science" [entomology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 June [1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-66 |
To W. D. Fox [15 March 1829]
Summary
His routine days at Cambridge.
Entomology stopped for the present.
His reading, gambling, and parties. News of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-59 |
To W. D. Fox 12 [June 1828]
Summary
Account of insects he has collected, with figures drawn by sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 [June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-42 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … undergraduate at Queens’ College 1826–30. Letters to W. D. Fox, [7 January 1829] and [25– …
- … 1829] give support to this possibility. In both, CD asks to be remembered to ‘Hore’. Possibly Lewes (or Lewis) Garland . Stephens 1827–46 . Clivina collaris is listed in Mandibulata 1: 40, plate iii, fig. 3. On Cardigan Bay, Gwynedd, North Wales. CD spent the summer on a reading tour with some undergraduate friends and George Ash Butterton , of St John’s College, a private tutor in mathematics (see LL 1: 166, which quotes a letter …
To Edward Holland [after 12 July 1843]
Summary
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Holland |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1843] |
| Classmark: | John L. McDonald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-970 |
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 21 May 1873
Summary
Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.
There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8917 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … a copper cap (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [25–9 January 1829] ). …
- … letter from Fanny Owen, 1 March 1832 ). Mostyn-Owen probably refers to the portrait of CD that appeared in the Illustrated London News , 11 March 1871, p. 244 (see Correspondence vol. 19, p. 168). Mostyn-Owen refers to Descent . On a visit to Woodhouse in 1829, …
To John William Lubbock 6 September [1853]
Summary
Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1853] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1530 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
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| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Blyth, Edward | (4) |
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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 …
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 …
