McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.176]    Correspondence:   Adams Frank to Simpson James Crawford  [ny].09.30   photo postcard of the Old Study at Down House. Memo: Osler's teacher, W. A. Johnson, was brought up in this house.)   Text   Image

London- Sept- 30t Dear Prof Simpson, Mr Adams I today went down to Darwin's House (Down House) and had the pleasure of spending the afternoon there— We thought of you when looking at the places things so intimately connected with the life of this great naturalist. Among them Darwin's study— now just as it was in his life time was of special interest and I am sending you a photo of it. We sail for home the day after to-morrow— yours very sincerely Frank D. Adams [printed:] POST CARD British

EH88202326    Note:    1831--1836   Despoblado notebook   Text   Image

Mangroves like rank grass in Church Yard Swamps [unhealthy] Olinda Old Town Ill-natured Brazilians Did the metamorphosed gneiss at Bahia contain dike before metamorphic action? Textual notes to the Despoblado notebook [IFC] 1.6] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202326] English Heritage number, not transcribed. [1a] page written perpendicular to the spine. [5a-10a] pages partly excised. [11a] page written perpendicular to the spine. [IBC] written perpendicular to the spine. 12] added by

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Specimen Lists As has been explained by Duncan Porter in his article on 'The Beagle Collector and his Collections'1, the lists of zoological and botanical specimens collected on the Beagle by CD were entered in ink in six small notebooks, 7 by 4½ inches in size, now kept at Down House. For purposes of reference these are catalogued at the Cambridge University Library as Down House Notebooks 63.1-6. Notebooks 1-3 were used for specimens preserved in spirits in jars, and labelled with metal tags

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Down House Notebook 63.3 Catalogue for Specimens in Spirits of Wine 1347|-|1529 Jany. 1836 New S. Wales 1347 C F. W. Crab Tulid 1348 R Snake 1349 R Frogs [Cystignathus ocellatus TB] 1350 Frog [Hyla Peronii TB] 1351 Frog [Amph. Bib. Hyla fusca ??? too bad to determine TB] 1352 Frog [Amph. Bib. Cystignathus Georgianus genus, listed by TB in Zoology 5:33-4] 1353: R Lizards [Grammatophorus muricatus TB] 1354: Lizard [Tiliqua [?] (Cocteau) T. t niolata Gray TB] 1355 Lizard [Grammatophorus muricatus

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Down House Notebook 63.2 Catalogue for Specimens in Spirits of Wine. Nr 661-----1346 C.Darwin 1833 June Maldonado 661 F Fish. F Water lake; blueish silvery. [Hydrocyon hepsetus Cuv., Zoology 4:128-9. LJ] * 662 C Crust: Macrouri, grassy bank, colour blackish when alive. 663 R Coluber V 190 Copy 664 P Lycoperdium V 190 Copy 665 R Bufo V 194 Copy [Listed as Pleurodema Darwinii Mihi. in Zoology 5:36-7 (605, 676) TB] 666 R X Amphisbœna (2 species) [note opposite] one has vertical ridge on nose

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Down House Notebook 63.6 C.Darwin Printed numbers 3345 Red = 1000 + c Green = 2000 + c Yellow = 3000 + c c 1835 Octob. Galapagos Isds 3345 B X Tyrannus (M) [note opposite] I believe this species is certainly distinct from the Scarlet- breasted one (its yellow breasted female?) (3309). [listed as Pyrocephalus dubius Gould in Zoology 3:46] -346 B X Sylvia M. frequently near the Coast -347 B do. M [listed as Sylvicola aureola Gould in Zoology 3:86, NHM 1856.3.15.14, labelled 3347D] * -348 B do F

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Acknowledgements I am grateful to George Pember Darwin for permission to publish Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes, the lists of Specimens collected by him during the voyage of HMS Beagle, 1831-1836, and the portrait painted by George Richmond in 1840. I also thank the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library for making available MSS DAR 30 and 31 of the Zoology Notes and other papers, English Heritage for making available the Beagle Specimen Lists at Down House, the Cambridge University

EH88202330    Note:    1832   Rio notebook   Text   Image

possessing cleavage if mica slate was deposited in horizont layer this must have been a piece in middle projecting upward [without] any Rowlett1 about trousers Sea eggs2 50 fathoms off the Straight of Magellan 1 George Rowlett (d. 1834), Purser of the Beagle. 2 Sea urchins. Textual notes to the Rio notebook [FC] a faint word or number in pencil is now illegible. [IFC] 1.10.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202330] English Heritage number, not transcribed. [IBC] C. Darwin] ink. 1A] added

EH88202324    Note:    1832   Cape de Verds notebook   Text   Image

rippling of a brook Lofty trees white holes. the pleasure of eating my lunch on one of the rotten trees so gloomy that only shean of higher enters the profound. tops of the trees [entwined] cold damp feel Textual notes to the Cape de Verds notebook [IFC] page written perpendicular to the spine. C. Darwin] ink, written parallel to the spine. 1.4] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202324] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 13/4…35] written parallel to the spine. [1a] 2.8...32] written

EH88202329    Note:    1833--1834   Banda Oriental notebook   Text   Image

Textual notes for the Banda Oriental notebook [2] Charles Darwin] ink. 1.9] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202329] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 6] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [5] 12 ink marks on this page appear to be nib tests. [14] When Limestone...shells.] ink over other entries. [17] an ink mark after 'trouble' appears to be a nib test. [24] concretion Uruguay] ink. [33] Wheat Pubrilho] written over the preceding paragraph. [37] page in ink. [38] r

EH88202331    Note:    1833--1835   B. Blanca notebook   Text   Image

be nib tests. 60...400] blackish grey ink. [72a] 437.5...2336] in ink. [73a] 60...329] ink. [74a] Gr. ... behind] written perpendicular to the spine. [76a] (another...long] added ink. [82a] page in ink. [83a] Geotropes.] added ink. [IBC] 1.11.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202331] English Heritage number, not transcribed. C. Darwin] ink. qr Shoa…6 miles. ] in FitzRoy's handwriting. [1b] page in FitzRoy's handwriting. [5b-6b] lower half of leaf excised. [7b-8b] lower half of leaf excised

EH88202334    Note:    1833--1835   Falkland notebook   Text   Image

Textual notes to the Falkland notebook [FC] c...49] pencil. [IFC] 1.14.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202334] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 3] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [5a] a small mark in ink appears to be a nib test. [8a] (Is...migration)] added pencil. [14a] 22d...observ] added pencil in left margin. [18a] sketch drawn perpendicular to the spine. [19a] a small ink mark after 'lava' appears to be the testing of a nib. [29a] [illeg]] written over

EH88202338    Note:    1834--1835   Santiago notebook   Text   Image

Santiago Book. [50 P] Textual notes to the Santiago notebook [FC] 50] in pencil. [IFC] DUFOUR…PARIS] printed label. With 31 pp at end with draft for geol. papers good remarks. Santiago.] a white paper label pasted in, in pencil, not in Darwin's handwriting, not transcribed. 88202338] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 1.18] Down House number, not transcribed. 9] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [24-5] the pages were stuck together, then parted badly, so that much is

EH88202336    Note:    1835   Coquimbo notebook   Text   Image

Valparaiso to Coquimbo. Coquimbo valley 50P 44 Textual notes to the Coquimbo notebook [FC] 50P 44] pencil. [IFC] 1.16.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202336] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 10] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [27] page written perpendicular to the spine. [75] [Layer]...Porphyry] added in heavy pencil. [96-9] pages written perpendicular to the spine. [110] page written perpendicular to the spine. there is a watercolour stain on the page. [129

F1576    Periodical contribution:     Stoddart, D. R. ed. 1962. Coral islands by Charles Darwin: with introduction, map and remarks. Atoll Research Bulletin no. 88: 1-20.   Text   Image   PDF

Library from Down House, March-May 1961. Cambridge, University Library, mimeographed (29 p.). Two books were pre-eminent in his collection: Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' and Humboldt's 'Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent.' The first edition of the 'Principles,' used on the voyage, is now at Cambridge, together with editions 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11, all from Darwin's library. Volume 1 (1830) is inscribed Given me by / Capt F. R/ C. Darwin; Volume 2 (1832

F1577    Periodical contribution:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.   Text   Image   PDF

service after the Beagle's return to England. Darwin's handwriting begins at the bottom of MS., p. 1, with five lines and vertical marginal note. Specimen Numbers. Darwin recorded his specimens collected on the voyage, in all branches of natural history, as one numerical continuity, chronologically listed in Vols. 30 and 31, C.U.L. Handlist. The separate specimens in spirits were recorded in another series, entered in six notebooks labelled Cat. Specimens in Spirits , now preserved at Down

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

The Red Notebook is one of a series of notebooks kept by Charles Darwin during and immediately following his service as naturalist to the 1831-1836 surveying voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. It forms part of the collection of Darwin manuscripts at Down House in Kent, Darwin's former home, and, since 1929, a museum in his honour. The notebook came to Down House by arrangement with the Darwin family following Sir George Buckston Browne's purchase of the house for use as a museum.1 It is a well-made but

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

London address, notebooks '2' (the Red Notebook) and '5' ('St Helena Model') are partly of post-voyage date, and the others are field notebooks from the voyage. None of the twenty-four notebooks at Down House has previously been published in its entirety, but selections from all of them are contained in Nora Barlow, ed., Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle (London, 1945). For information relating to the deposit of the notebooks at Down House see Darwin MSS, Cambridge University Library

NationalArchivesCensus    Datasheet:    1841-1891   Census Returns of England and Wales. Entries relating to Charles and Emma Darwin   Text   Image

, and No. or NAME of HOUSE Houses NAME and Surname of each Person RELATION to Head of Family CONDITION Age of Rank, Profession, or OCCUPATION WHERE BORN Whether Blind, or Deaf-and-Dumb     Inha-bited Uninha-bited (U.) or Building (B.)       Males Females       13 Down House 1   Joseph Parslow Servant Mar 59   Butler Gloucestershire -         Margt Evans Do Unmar   39 House Keeper Salop Shrewsbury -         Eliz Chapman Do Unmar   48 House Maid Pembroke -         Sara Griffith Do Unmar   26 Kitchen

NationalArchivesCensus    Datasheet:    1841-1891   Census Returns of England and Wales. Entries relating to Charles and Emma Darwin   Text   Image

Census 1851 for Emma Darwin, Down House Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO). Class: HO107; Piece: 1476; Folio: 240; Page: 12; GSU roll: 87799 Parish or Township of Down     5 Village of Down       No. of House-holder's Schedule Name of Street, Place, or Road, and Name or No. of House Name and Surname of each Person who abode in the house, on the Night of the 30th March, 1851 Relation to Head of Family

PC-California    Note:    1844--1846   [Catalogue of trees and plants at Down House.]   Text   Image   PDF

apple with patterns of red]   6 Marie Louise (out of line) [Pyrus communis, pear] Seventh Line. Four Green Gages One Orleans standard Gausell Bergamott In S. West corner, two standard (Western one from Cattell Eastern one from Stoddolph Shropshire Damsons. [prune]  (3) (5) South of walk where Damsons Magnum Bonum stood in S Cattell, John, 1786/7-1860. Nurseryman of Westerham, Kent. CD often ordered seeds and plants from C. Many records in CD's Account book (Down House MS). 1860 CD to Maxwell

F1675    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1847. [Review of] A natural history of the Mammalia. [vol. 1, Marsupialia] By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., of the British Museum. Illustrated with engravings on wood and coloured plates. London, H. Baillière. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19 (January): 53-56.   Text   Image   PDF

-1888), mammalogist and entomologist. Keeper of Mineralogy and Geology at the British Museum (Natural History). A friend of Darwin's and often at Down House. Waterhouse wrote Mammalia 1838-1839. See Darwin to Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846] Correspondence vol. 3, p. 374. [page] 5

CUL-DAR157a.1-84    Note:    1855--1867   Experiment Book.   Text   Image   PDF

of male very variable. In one plant which was male by position of stamens, the pistil reached up to them; the style seemed thicker — the stigma was triangular [ Cattell, John, 1786/7-1860. Nurseryman of Westerham, Kent. CD often ordered seeds and plants from C. Many records in CD's Account book (Down House MS). 1860 CD to Maxwell Masters, the nurseryman CD generally dealt with. CCD8:147. (Paul van Helvert John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.] (55 Cowslips cupshaped, instead of globular. In

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. Helpful fellow scholars and friends include Loren Eiseley, John Brooks, William Steam, Bert J. Loewenberg, Thompson Webb, Jr, Thomas R. Buckman, the late Sir Gavin de Beer, Sten Lindroth, Mr O'Grady of the Linnean Society of London, and Mr Robinson of Down House. Friendly and indispensable fellow workers on the manuscript include as research assistants Elizabeth Nash, who made the original typed transcript of chapter 11, and Alice Guimond who transcribed all the other chapters except five (which

CUL-DAR108.57-60    Note:    1862.03.01   Mr Turnbulls Ch[inese] Primroses / There are 29 seedlings raised from a   Text   Image

8 spiral vessels in my short-styled, close to stigma.— 9th (or 10?) in some mid (?) long-styled (March 6. Sir J Lubbock 16 plants. (but many previously thrown away) all long-styled!) (Parslow looked at Cattells plants only 6 left, 1 long-styled 5 short-styled) These agree in shape of stigma roughness each with proper type. —) Cattell, John, 1786/7-1860. Nurseryman of Westerham, Kent. CD often ordered seeds and plants from C. Many records in CD's Account book (Down House MS). 1860 CD to Maxwell

F1727    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1863. [Letter on yellow rain]. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 28 (18 July): 675.   Text   Image   PDF

forms may arise. Indeed were not Fungi so much the creatures of peculiar atmospheric conditions, there would seem to be no limit to the diffusion of their species. M. J. B.6 1 A large genus of herbaceous thistles and thistle-like flowering plants. See Correspondence vol. 11, p. 515. 2 Mallows. 3 Darwin was writing from his home, Down House. 4 Sigismund Rucker (1809/10-1876), East and West India broker with premises in Great Tower Street, City of London who resided at West Hill, Wandsworth. 5

CUL-DAR77.29    Note:    1868.06.00   Formerly often noticed in rows of Sweet peas a false plant; Cattell   Text   Image

, Nurseryman of Westerham, Kent. Henry Lettington, Down House gardener 1854-1879

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

slopes steeply on one side — this was strewn thickly covered with great flints, while [illeg] under one's feet. I remember chunks more wd be covered — now How cd gallops [illeg] [Great Pucklands, a field to the west of Down House. The Darwins moved to Down in 1842.] [CUL-DAR64.2.5_002

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

1877?]. This is a reference to what is now so famous to visitors to Down House, the wormstone. [CUL-DAR65.3-6,6v_002

EH88202321    Note:    1874--1879   Notebook 1.1: "Ch. Darwin 6 Queen Street Cavendish Square"   Text   Image

C. Darwin 6 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Sq [Printed label on green paper:] HALLIFAX Co. Stationers, ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS. 315, OXFORD STREET, W. C. Darwin...Cavendish Sq] in pencil. [back cover] [The Down House notebook identifiers were re-set in January 2021 meaning the page counters were reset to 0

CUL-DAR271.8.1    Correspondence:   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood, Francis Darwin  [1877--1885]   55 letters from Emma Darwin to Francis Darwin   Text   Image

The day was blazing (as is today also) everything went off brilliantly─ Miss Burfoot was of the greatest use help; but made a mistake in starting Kiss in the ring, w. biggish boys Jackson of the party I shall forbid it at the school feast─ We settled to admit none of the delinquents; but Mrs Nash sent them a message that they shd come to Beckenham if she heard of their going on well [Jackson: William Jackson, manservant at Down House. / Mrs Nash: Louisa A'hmuty Nash, née Desborough. / School

CUL-DAR271.8.1    Correspondence:   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood, Francis Darwin  [1877--1885]   55 letters from Emma Darwin to Francis Darwin   Text   Image

trouble, that I feel I ought to see more of them─ They have got the old sledge out do a gt deal of driving w. 2 whips. I was amused to hear a dialogue between them John in which he made the most feeble attempts not to give them the whip Naw I cannot let you have that, I don't know as I've got another c─ but quite in vain─ They are a good deal w. him I am sure can learn no harm─ [John Skinner, Down House coachman.] [22b

CUL-DAR262.11.20    Correspondence:   [unidentified] to Osborne Henry  [1879.05.00?]   note [property valuation]   Text   Image

[Postmarked 30 Aug 1940] Dr. O. J. R. Howarth, Down House, Downe, Farnborough, Kent [Archivist note:] Darwin: Loose papers from Account book─ profits from sales of books, savings, etc

F3426b    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Letter to H. W. Crosskey and the Birmingham Philosophical Society, 1880]. Death of Charles Darwin, F.R.S. Birmingham Daily Post, (21 April): 4.

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 4 DEATH OF MR. CHARLES DARWIN, F. R. S. Science has lost one of its greatest men in Mr. Charles Darwin, who died at his residence, Down House, near Orpington, Kent, on Wednesday last, in the 74th year of his age. Darwin came of a family distinguished for thought. His grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, who was known in his neighbourhood as a friend of Priestley's and a member of the Lunar Society, is best remembered by his Botanic Garden, but he

F3398    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1972. [Letter to Lawrence Ruck and reminiscences of Darwin]. In Berta Ruck, Ancestral voices. London, pp. 223-6; 228-9.   Text

'Point is, there stood Father (young) all jacketed and buttoned up. Then—don't ask me how—it was managed! Whether it was an extra mastery of body, natural suppleness, or the forces of well-practised muscular contractions, I don't know. He never explained. . . He'd put his right hand up his left sleeve, up to his chest. . . he'd got the waistcoat off, crushed in his hand, and through the sleeve of his jacket, not a button unfastened! and dropped it on the terrace of Down House at the feet of

A2841    Printed:    1882   [Obituary and estate of Charles Darwin] and Memoir of Charles Darwin, by Prof. Alphonse DeCandolle.   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 159 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, died on the 20th inst., at his home, Down House, near Beckenham, England. The news comes at the moment of going to press, leaving us only time to make mere reference to the fact in the present number. [page] 22

A2854    Printed:    1882   Chas. Darwin, F.R.S.   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 168 OBITUARY.─ CHAS. DARWIN, F.R.S.─It is with deep regret we have this month to record the death of the author of the Origin of Species, which event took place at his residence, Down House, Kent, on Wednesday afternoon, 19th April; and we may safely say that we can ill spare such men, and that the whole civilized world thereby experiences a great loss. The name of Charles Darwin will always through future ages, be a landmark, indicating a new

A2855    Printed:    1882   Anon   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 25 OBITUARY. Mr. Charles Robert Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., died on Wednesday at his residence, Down House, Down, Kent. He had been ailing for some days, but was supposed to be recovering, when he had a relapse on Tuesday night. Mr. Darwin was in his seventy-fourth year. He first became known as a naturalist by his work on the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, which vessel he accompanied in her circumnavigation of the globe. His great work on the

A2907    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Robert Darwin. National Association of wool manufacturers, 12: 382-8. Boston.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 382 Obituary. CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. The cable announces the death of Charles Robert Darwin, the celebrated naturalist and scientist. It occurred at Down House, his picturesque residence near Orpington, in Kent. He had been ill for some days, but was supposed to be recovering. On Tuesday, however, he suffered a relapse, and never rallied. The high priest of modern biological science was in his own person one of the best possible illustrations

A2847    Printed:    1882   Anon   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 344 On Wednesday, the 19th inst., one of the greatest naturalists of the present century, MR. CHARLES DARWIN, died at his residence, Down House, near Farnborough, Kent, at the age of seventy-three. Mr. Darwin devoted much of his time to the study of plants as well as other branches of natural history, and a brief review of his life will doubtless be interesting to many. He was born on February 12th, 1809, at Shrewsbury. His father was Dr. R. W

A79    Periodical contribution:     Zacharias, Otto. 1882. Charles Darwin. Vom Fels zum Meer. Spemann's illustrirte Zeitschrift für das deutsche Haus 2: 348-53.   Text   Image

den Mittelpunkt ber behaglich-stillen Häuslichkeit zu Down-House. Jahre werden freilich erst vergehen müssen, ehe sich der herbe Schmerz um den Verlust des teuren Gatten, des liebevollen Vaters, des bewährten Wohlthäters und Menschenfreundes Charles Darwin sindern kann. Nicht bloss in der Wissenschaft, sondern auch in seiner Familie hat der Verstorbene eine Lücke hinterlassen, die niemand auszufüllen vermag. Eine unsägliche Leere, das Gefühl der Oede und Vereinsamung — eine solche, nicht näher

A1211    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Death of Chas. Darwin. New York Times (21 April): 5.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 5 THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE EMINENT NATURALIST. HIS ANCESTRY AND EDUCATION— EARLIEST SCIENTIFIC WORK— HIS PUBLICATIONS— THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE USE HE MADE OF IT. The announcement that Charles Robert Darwin died on Wednesday at his residence, Down House, near Orpington, will be read by very few individuals who have not some degree of acquaintance with the physical theories formulated and taught by this distinguished naturalist, however

CUL-DAR215.38b    Printed:    1882.04.21   Death of Charles Darwin `Liverpool Daily Post': [5].   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 5 DEATH OF CHARLES DARWIN. Mr. Charles Darwin, the naturalist and philosopher, breathed his last on Wednesday afternoon at his residence, Down House, Down, near Farnborough, Kent, at the age of seventy-three. He had been suffering for some little time past from weakness of the heart, but had continued to do a small amount of experimental work up to the last. He was taken ill on the night of Tuesday last, when he had an attack of pains in the

CUL-DAR216.19a    Printed:    1882.04.21   [Obituary notice of Darwin Charles Robert] `Morning Post'   Text   Image

Professor Charles Darwin, at his residence, Down House, Down, near Bromley, Kent, took place on Wednesday last at the age of 73. He had been suffering for some time past from weakness of the heart, but has continued to do a slight amount of experimental work up to the last. He was taken ill on the night of Tuesday last, when he had an attack of pain in the chest with faintness and nausea. The latter lasted with more or less intermission during Wednesday, and culminated in his death, which took

A645    Periodical contribution:     Marti, José. 1882. [Obituary of Darwin] Darwin ha muerto. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (17 May): p. 1.   Text   Image

dificultad se radicó en Down House, cerca de Londres, e instaló en su casa invernaderos, laboratorios, jardines y huertos para continuar sus investigaciones. 6 En esa época, cuando avanzaban las exploraciones por el interior de África, se corrían fabulaciones acerca de plantas carnívoras en ese continente que devoraban hasta a seres humanos. Fue precisamente Charles Darwin quien inició observaciones sistemáticas y ensayos sobre las plantas insectívoras —llamadas también carnívoras—, cuyos

A106    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1883. The Debt of Science to Darwin. Century Magazine 25, 3 January: 420-432.   Text   Image   PDF

DOWN HOUSE, FROM THE GARDEN. Origin of Species, —we must take a hasty glance at the progress of the science of natural history during the preceding century. Almost exactly a hundred years before Darwin, we find Linnaeus and his numerous disciples hard at work describing and naming all animals and plants then discovered, and classifying them according to the artificial method of the great master, which is still known as the Linnaean System; and from that time to the present day a large

CUL-DAR210.3.66    Correspondence:   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood to Darwin George Howard  [1883].01.30   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood to Darwin George Howard   Text   Image

down house thinks that the party wall will have to be rebuilt, which will come half on the tenants of No 4 — who is now a Miss Jeune, poor soul — Horace Ida went to the Quartette party on Tuesday — H. fell into talk w. Fawcett (the concert was at Mrs Anderson's house) He spoke warmly about you how infinitely you were the right person above Routh for the Prof. [8

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAIT, from a photograph by Captain Darwin     ...       Facing Title. MR. DARWIN'S BIRTH PLACE      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...              12 SHREWSBURY SCHOOL (where Mr. Darwin was educated)  ...  16 LAGOON-ISLAND               ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...                 32 DOWN HOUSE                    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...                37 THE GREENHOUSE AT DOWN       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...                 40 FACSIMILE LETTER

CUL-DAR140.3.1--159    Draft:    [1884]   'Reminiscences of My Father's Everyday Life' (partial fair copy)   Text   Image

etching by R. B. Lowe. 2 In a letter from Francis dated 9 July 1882, he mentions Haig's coming to Down: 'We have had a Swede called Axel Haig etching the study he has made a most capital rendering'. (CUL-DAR199). See Haig, A. H. 1882. [Engraving of Darwin's new study at Down House]. Image 34 = 19

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

the earth-worms in ploughing the soil and gradually changing much of the surface of the globe. In many parts of England a weight of more than ten tons per acre passes annually through their bodies; and the experiments at Down, which have been already mentioned, show that the mould was thrown up at an average rate of 22 inches in a hundred years. In December, 1842, part of a field near Down House was covered with broken chalk, and when a trench was dug in November, 1871, a line of white nodules

A254    Book:     Allen, Grant. 1885. Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image

Miss Emma Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, of Maer Hall; and, after three years of married life in London, he settled at last at Down House, near Orpington, in Kent, where for the rest of his days he passed his time among his conservatories and his pigeons, his garden and his fowls, with his children growing up quietly beside him, and the great thinking world of London within easy reach of a few minutes' journey. His private means enabled him to live the pleasant life of an English

A75    Book:     Bettany, G. T. 1887. Life of Charles Darwin. London: Walter Scott.   Text   Image

of Beagle ( Volcanic Islands and South America ); other geological papers; Darwin settles at Down House, near Beckenham, 1842; appears at Oxford meeting of British Association, 1847; contributes chapter on Geology to Herschel's manual of Scientific Enquiry; publishes great works on recent and fossil cirripedia, 1851-4; receives Royal Medal of Royal Society, 1853, and Wollaston Medal of Geological Society, 1859 51 CHAPTER IV. Confusion in description of species; labours of Professors Owen and

A75    Book:     Bettany, G. T. 1887. Life of Charles Darwin. London: Walter Scott.   Text   Image

Charles Darwin, 153 Descent of Man, 112-125 Digestion by plants, 137, 138 Discovery of extinct mammals, 39 Down House, 60, 101, 102, 147-150 E. Earle, Erasmus, 12 Earthquake experience, 44 [page] 17

A491    Periodical contribution:     Webster, A. D. 1888. Darwin's garden. Gardeners' Chronicle (24 March): 359-360.   Text   Image

Webster, A. D. 1888. Darwin's garden. Gardeners' Chronicle (24 March): 359-360. [page] 359 DARWIN'S GARDEN. THE grounds at Down House, the residence of the late Charles Darwin, have not only-been laid out with taste and care, but planted with a rich assortment of rare trees and shrubs, a few notes on which latter we jotted down the other day when on a long-wished-for visit to that remarkable place—remarkable as having for many years been the home of that once much-maligned but greatest of

A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF

. Beagle ; the first of that long series of investigations to which his life was devoted, and the publication of which revolutionised the study of biology, and gave to Darwin a position as a naturalist unparalleled in the history of science. In the same year, 1839, Mr. Darwin married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and retired to the secluded and beautiful district of Kent, where, in his country-house of Down House, near Orpington, more than forty years of his life were spent. The district is purely

A483    Periodical contribution:     Vignoles, O. J. 1893. The home of a naturalist. Good Words 34: 95-101.   Text   Image

Down House south side. View from the garden. on the chalk hills of Mid Kent have been gratefully acknowledged by the leaders of geological inquiry.* By the peculiarities of the South-Eastern train service, and by the unexpected kindness of the resident already referred to, I found myself at Down fully two hours earlier than the other members of our little congress; and here was a delightful opportunity of quiet hero-worship, far from the madding crowd, in the silent solitary shrine consecrated

A1107    Periodical contribution:     [Newman, George.] 1893. Darwin's house at Down. Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser (22 June): 5.   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 5 Thursday, June 15th, 1893. Notes DARWIN'S HOUSE AT DOWN. About two years ago, I had the pleasure of looking over the house and grounds owned by the late Charles Darwin, at Down, a village a few miles from Bromley, Kent. After a delightful walk from Hayes across the Common to Keston and through Holwood Park, we (for I had a genial companion), ascended a rather step to hill to Down (it was always up to Down). Down House is situated a short

F1548.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

difficult to find. Whether washing would do I know not; a gold-washer would succeed, I daresay. Letter 580. TO W.J. HOOKER. Testimonial from Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. and G.S., late Naturalist to Captain Fitz-Roy's Voyage. Down House, Farnborough, August 25th, 1845. I have heard with much interest that your son, Dr. Hooker, is a candidate for the Botanical Chair at Edinburgh. From my former attendance at that University, I am aware how important a post it is for the advancement of

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

. 216 Dicky (the fox terrier), ii. 271, 272, 282, 308 Disraeli, Benjamin. See Beaconsfield, Lord Doveleys, i. 43 n., 56, 58, 121 Down: house bought, ii. 72, 75; description of, ii. 75-78; move to, ii. 78; life at, ii. 154, 156, 163-165, 298 Drewe, Charlotte, Frank, and Louisa, i. 81 n., 103, 110, 120 Drewe, Edward: his Grange estate, i. 3, 80 n., 81, 233, 238, 239; goes to Geneva, i. 183, 184; description of, i. 193; engagement to Ad le [page] 31

A875    Book:     Bradford, Gamaliel. 1926. Darwin. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin.   Text   Image   PDF

DOWN HOUSE FROM THE GARDEN [page break

A543    Book contribution:     Skinner, A. J. 1927. [Letter of reminiscences of Darwin at Down House]. In L. F. Abbot, Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday, pp. 247-249.   Text   Image

Skinner, A. J. 1927. [Letter of reminiscences of Darwin at Down House]. In L. F. Abbot, Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday, pp. 247-249. [page] 247 One of the most striking tributes to Darwin's elemental goodness comes from an unexpected source which has not yet, I think, found its way into permanent literature.1 About three years ago there was a movement to purchase Darwin's home, Down House, as a permanent memorial. At that time I found in the New York Evening Post a remarkable

A543    Book contribution:     Skinner, A. J. 1927. [Letter of reminiscences of Darwin at Down House]. In L. F. Abbot, Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday, pp. 247-249.   Text   Image

graph to bring back a memory picture of Down House as I knew it, for the old mansion, the gardens and orchard, the paddocks and the long leafy walk, known as the sand-walk, leading to a little coppice and a summer house, are as familiar to me after nearly fifty years as my present surroundings. Another picture which also comes easily to mind is that of a tall, striking figure in Inverness cape and black, wide-brimmed, soft felt hat, striding along well-kept paths, followed by his inseparable

A876    Book:     Abbott, Lawrence F. 1927. Charles Darwin, the saint. In Ibid. Twelve great modernists. New York: Doubleday.   Text   Image   PDF

Beethoven's symphonies and showed discrimination in his appreciation of the style of different musical performers. A year before his death, Hans Richter, the celebrated German orchestral conductor, paid a visit to Darwin at his home, Down House, in the county of Kent, and Richter's playing on the piano aroused Darwin to unwonted enthusiasm. [page] 24

A1335    Periodical contribution:     [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London.   Text   PDF

DOWN HOUSE. The following important announcement was made1 to the General Committee of the Association, meeting in Glasgow on September 5 regarding Darwin's home, Down House, in the County of Kent. Mr. George Buckston Browne, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of the Society of Antiquaries, London, having acquired the property from Prof. Charles Galton Darwin, F.R.S., grandson of the naturalist, has transferred its possession to the British Association under the most

A1335    Periodical contribution:     [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London.   Text   PDF

the extent of the property and of the plan of Darwin's home. Fig. 1 shows the arrangement and extent of the grounds; the figures indicate the acreage of each part. Down House is seen to be situated at 565.7 feet O.D. The plantation with the sandwalk round it—Darwin's 'thinking path' — with the dry chalk valley beyond, are depicted; so, too, are the orchard, gardens and hot-houses. In Fig. 2 is given a plan of the ground floor of Down House, the dimensions of each room being indicated in feet. It

A1335    Periodical contribution:     [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London.   Text   PDF

husband has endowed an alms house for aged villagers in her memory. The History of Down2 House. It may not be amiss to recount some of the circumstances which led up to the appeal for the preservation of Darwin's home. Some years before his death the late Sir Arthur Shipley, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, where Darwin was an undergraduate, wrote to a member of the British Association as follows: 'It seems to me that Down House 2 On the Ordnance Survey maps the spelling is Downe, but as

A1335    Periodical contribution:     [Keith, Arthur]. 1929. Down House. British Association for the Advancement of Science Report of the ninety-sixth meeting...1928. London.   Text   PDF

through the Action of Worms. No single home in the world can show such a record. Truly from Down Charles Darwin shook the world and gave human thought an impress which will endure for all time. Down is a priceless heirloom not only for England but for the civilised world. One of the greatest men of all time lived there. As to the character of Down House, much is to be learned from the account which Sir Francis Darwin has given in his father's biography: 'On September 14, 1842, my father left

CUL-DAR262.6.1    Draft:    1929.10.24   This is the manuscript of a sermon by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] This is the manuscript of a sermon written by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, and preached at Westminster Abbey on the Sunday after the death of my father, Charles Darwin. It was sent to me by Mrs Inge, wife of the Dean of St Pauls, in the hope that it would be preserved at Down House. With it is a letter from the Reverend G. E. Goodwin, of St Mathew's [2

A871    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1932. Darwin at Down: the house and garden. The Times (19 April): 19.   Text

Anon. 1932. Darwin at Down: the house and garden. The Times (19 April): 19. [page] 19 DARWIN AT DOWN THE HOUSE AND GARDEN FROM A CORRESPONDENT On April 19, 50 years ago, Charles Darwin died in his home at Downe, Kent, where, as an inscription now records, he had thought and worked for forty years. Down House, as it is now spelt in deference to the usage of his time, has become within recent years a national memorial to his memory, being vested, to that end, in the British Association by Sir

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

been detailed in Sir Arthur Keith's foreword to this book. Down House and its grounds were handed over by Mr. Buckston Browne as a gift to the British Association ' in custody for the nation ', with an endowment to assure free access for the public, to whom it was formally opened on June 7,1929. The land which intervenes between the Down House property and the golf course in the valley to the west is now also mercifully preserved, and by the same hand which preserved Down House. It was acquired

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

CONTENTS Foreword. By Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S Acknowledgement I Site and Pre-history II The Early Manor III The Church and its Registers IV Some of the Ministers . V Parish Accounts and Assessments VI The People..... VII Some Early Families (the Mannings others) ..... VIII The Lubbocks, of High Elms IX The Darwins, of Down House Note on Chief Sources of Information [page iv

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

, which he annotated before it was delivered. It opened with a deep appreciation of Darwin's own work. It was the pupil's acknowledgement to his master. Darwin's influence upon Lubbock's scientific work, and indeed upon his outlook and character, was profound. It was exercised in the course of walks around Downe and visits to Down House: it was early stimulated by the gift of a microscope, which now has returned to Down House as a treasured possession in the collection of Darwiniana there

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

and he could think while walking, and one spot out of doors is above all associated with his thoughts upon the problems to which he set his mind. Many of our meadows are separated by narrow belts of wood and shrub—something wider than hedges— known as shaws, often masking a sloping bank between one meadow and the next. There must have been such a shaw between the southern part of the Down House estate and the adjacent meadow of Great Pucklands. This strip was widened by plantation in 1846, and

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

score of 44 not out on the home pitch at High Elms. He had there also a golf course and a fives court. He entertained extensively at High Elms: other great figures of his day were his frequent guests. Relations between High Elms and Down House were intimate. The story of them begins pleasantly with an incident in 1842, when Sir John William Lubbock came home one day with word of a great piece of news. He did not immediately disclose it: the child John wondered, could it be that he was to have a

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

it a clear-cut little view of Downe and Down House in 1842. The month was July. Position :—about J of a mile from the small village of Down in Kent—16 miles from St. Paul's—8 J miles from station (with many trains) which station is only 10 from London. This is bad, as the drive from [owing to] the hills is long. I calculate we are two hours going from London Bridge. Village about forty houses with old walnut trees in the middle where stands an old flint church and the lanes meet. Inhabitants

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

the appeal—which had re-awakened in him an old resolve—Sir Buckston Browne, instead of sitting down to breakfast, sallied out to the nearest post-office, where he dispatched a telegram to Leeds. That telegram, which has become famous, offered to purchase and endow Down House, and to convey it to the British Association as a national possession. Readers can imagine the feelings of pleasure and also of relief with which the telegram was received in Leeds by the officers of the British Association

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

. John Johnstone. One of the parties seems to have lived in the parish of the Blessed Mary of Bow in the ward of Cheap. There is no visible evidence of any connexion with the parish of Downe—unless, indeed, Colonel Johnson, who inhabited Down House early in the last century, had retained this record of some ancestor till he gave it to bind the register. The latest date visible in the deed is 1650. But the book itself is of more honourable age. The entries begin in 1538, and that is the earliest year

A540    Pamphlet:     Howarth, O. J. R. and E. K. Howarth. [1933]. A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. Southampton: Russell & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

place ' must be very dull to all visitors ', and tells how ' my brother, who detests the country, declared we ought to call the place Down-in-the-Mouth, but he is now with us and has rather altered his opinion'. As for Darwin's work at Downe, it suffices here to quote a report by Sir Arthur Keith to the British Association, made in 1928 after the house had been presented to the Association by Mr. Buckston Browne. Darwin, he wrote, worked continuously at Down for almost forty years. In that period

F1566    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

bulk of the letter is signed by Robt. FitzRoy; a considerable number of * Most of the books mentioned in the catalogue are now on long loan at Darwin's old home, Down House, Kent, including the volume, Philosophical Tracts, in which the above letter is bound up, without any clue to the name of the journal which gave it birth. [page] xxvi BIBLIOGRAPH

A2961    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1939. [Recollections of Darwin by George Sales and Bradley Osborne]. Weeded Darwin's garden: still lives in unchanged village. Evening Standard (6 May): 16.   Text

George Sales lived under the same roof as Darwin, because George's father, then, kept the Queen's Head, and when Darwin first came to the village he put up there while Down House was being got ready. Yes, and he walked all the way from London beside the furniture van—16 miles, added Mr. Sales. It is eloquent of how little Downe has changed that all laps, which lighted the Queen's Head then, were still in use there up to two years ago, when electricity first come to the village. There was no

A557    Book:     Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins.   Text   Image

Needs such trifling joys to raise His tail to a contented wagging. If we can provide these most of us must be content and leave the utter devotion to those who have deserved it. The first dog that I remember at all was Polly, a white terrier at Down. A stuffed simulacrum of her now rests in a basket in my grandfather's study at Down House and may some day, I trust, be removed. My grandfather was very weak about her and used to be harrowed by Parslow, the old butler, declaring that she was most

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69 [do] Mrs Ashworth 9.2.49 70 Mrs Ashworth to Secretary of Library 17.2.49 71 Note re 2 letters for Down House 72 Librarian to Curator of Down House 22.7.49 73 Curator of Down House to Librarian 23.7.49 74

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[68] [date stamped: 10 FEB.1949] British Association for the Advancement of Science. DOWN HOUSE, DOWNE, FARNBOROUGH, KENT. Feb. 9. 1949 Dear Mr. Creswick, On behalf of this Council I acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of Darwin's address book, list of silver, account of Down, and the doctor's 'revised directions.' Yours very sincerely, O.J. R. Howarth Curator 8

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[49] 32/S/Y                    4 January 1949 O.J.R. Howarth, Esq., Down House, Downe, Farnborough, Kent. Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of December 29 and the papers you sent with it. I will return your typescript after we have made use of it. When the Librarian comes back (about 12 January) we will send off the few items which we have suggested should be at Down House. I am very grateful to you for the reference to Prof. J. H. Ashworth. This links up to a vague recollection of Mr

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[41] 1558/S/Y                 15 December 1948 O.J.R. Howarth, Esq., British Association for the Advancement of Science Down House, Downe, Farnborough, Kent. Dear Sir, The Librarian asks me to thank you for your kindness in sending us the list of Darwin papers given you by the Pilgrim Trust in October'42. We have made a copy for our use and I return you the original as requested. Yours very truly, Secretary of the Library 4

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[74] [date stamped: 26 JUL.1949] British Association for the Advancement of Science DOWN HOUSE, DOWNE FARNBOROUGH, KENT. July 23, 1949 The Librarian University Library Cambridge. Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge with very many thanks the receipt of the two letters of Charles Darwin from 1842. I know of these from the Life and Letters but not of their whereabouts. Yours very faithfully O.J.R Howarth Curator 8

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[44] 2 These were listed under those marks in 1932 in a Catalogue of the Darwin MSS and papers at Gorringes, Kent, but when the Gorringes papers came to us (given in 1942) there were not among them. They may have been disposed of between 1932 and 1942 since so much of the surviving manuscripts of Charles Darwin is to be found here or with you, I should like to note in the catalogue the present location of any of the papers which are now neither in U.L.C. nor at Down House. Can you help with

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[43] 1558/S/Y                 21 December 1948 O.J.R. Howarth, Esq., British Association for the Advancement of Science, Down House, Downe, Farnborough, Kent. Dear Sir, We have lately been sorting the Darwin MSS which were given to us by the Pilgrim Trust some years ago., at which time certain kinds of papers went to Down House. The Librarian asks me to write saying that we have a few things which he considers should go to Down, and inviting your views on them. Charles Darwin's Address Book

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would like you to keep it till the end of the war, but perhaps you would arrange this with the secretary (O.J. R. Howarth, O.B.E., Down House, Kent.) The rest of the material is in several boxes at Bernard Darwin's house. I think he would like to hand it over to you at once. I am writing to him about it. You will remember that we wish to reserve the copyright of the Autobiography. Would you kind [sic] let me have a note that the syndics accept this condition? I propose to send the enclosed

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Library, it will always be available here if you or anyone else wishes to consult it. The Catalogue was complied in 1932. The manuscripts were given to Cambridge University Library and to the British Association in October 1942. Do you recollect whether, between those dates, any of the manuscripts were given elsewhere, or otherwise disposed of? I ask because there are certain items in the Catalogue which we have certainly not got. We have a list of the MSS which are now in Down House, and they do not

A291    Book:     Venn, J. A. ed. 1944. Alumni Cantabrigienses... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Part 2, vol. 2, pp. 228-9. [Darwin family entries only]   Text   Image

. [Grandson of Erasmus Darwin.] B. there Feb. 12, 1809. School, Shrewsbury (Dr Butler). Joined his brother, Erasmus, at Edinburgh University, 1826-8. Matric. Lent, 1828; B.A. 1832; M.A. 1837; Hon. L.L.D. 1878, on which occasion a monkey was let down in the Senate House. F.R.S., 1834. Medal of the Royal Society, 1853; Wollaston Medal of R.G.S., 1859; Knight of the Prussian Order Pour le M rite; C.M., Academy of Vienna; M.D. University of Leyden, 1875; C.M., French Academy of Science, 1878. J.P. for

F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF

the ardent but diffident young collector, to an old age of continuing work and established fame. Even those who know him well already, will I hope be further enriched in their love and understanding by the sincerity and deep worship of nature found in the pages of the note-books, and by the open gaiety and affection of his letters. I am indebted to the generosity of the British Association for the loan of both series of manuscripts. As is well known, this Association now holds Down House

F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF

, eldest sister of Charles, m. Henry Parker, 10 Darwin, Dr. Robert, Charles' father, 7, 8, 9 , factor in Charles' health, 9 , despair over Charles' career, 21 , disapproval of voyage, 24 26 , letters to, 52, 58 Darwin, Susan, character, 11, 14, 149 , letters to 41, 42, 44, 46, 49, 50, 71, 116, 126, 131, 144, 147 Darwin, Susanah, n e Wedgwood, Charles' mother, 8, 9, 10, 14 Darwin, Mount, 98 Darwin Sound, 176 Desire, Port, 219 Down House, 4, 11, 268 Earthquake, 113, 118, 135, 224, 238, 241, 245

CUL-DAR132.1    Printed:    [1946]   'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp   Text   Image

British Association for the Advancement of Science: Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House (35 pp.) (c. 1946?) [page 1] BRITISH ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science Historical and Descriptive CATALOGUE of the DARWIN MEMORIAL at DOWN HOUSE DOWNE, KENT 'Here Darwin thought and worked for forty years, and died, 1882' PRICE SIXPENSE [page 2

CUL-DAR132.1    Printed:    [1946]   'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp   Text   Image

BRITISH ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science Historical and Descriptive CATALOGUE of the DARWIN MEMORIAL at DOWN HOUSE DOWNE, KENT 'Here Darwin thought and worked for forty years, and died, 1882' [page]

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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION seeks to promote general interest in Science and its applications For particulars of the Association's work and publications apply to the CUSTODIAN, DOWN HOUSE, or to the BRITISH ASSOCIATION, Burlington House, London, W.I. No technical qualification or proposal is required for Membership or Associateship. For terms, apply as above Tel: FARNBOROUGH, KENT, 6. REGENT 2109

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*Down House garden through an archway formerly on the site of this room. By Julia Wedgwood. 2 Down House, north front, c. 1820 30 (the wing of which this room forms part being an addition by Darwin). 3 *Down House garden in 1886, by Julia Wedgwood, a niece of Darwin. 4 Dr. Erasmus Darwin, by an unnamed artist. East wall (facing garden): 5 Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786 1859), by an unnamed artist. One of the seven children of Dr. Erasmus and Elizabeth Darwin. Godfather to his nephew

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includes upwards of 100 names in addition to members of the Darwin family and Sir Buckston Browne. The Down House Committee of the British Association will welcome appropriate gifts to the collection. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne Co. Ltd., Colchester, London and Eton [back cover

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enjoyment to the person and the thing which have amused him.' To his wife and her constant care of him be owed more than can be told, and the world's debt to her can scarcely be less than to him, for without that care his work could hardly have been accomplished. Mrs. Darwin died in 1896. DOWN HOUSE Our earliest knowledge of the Down House property dates from 1681, when a Kentish yeoman family acquired [page]

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BRITISH ASSOCIATIONfor the Advancement of Science. DARWIN CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, whose name as a naturalist is among the most famous in the history of science and of human thought, was born at Shrewsbury on February 12, 1809, and died at Down House on April 19, 1882. His father was Dr. Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848) of Shrewsbury; his grandfather was Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), born at Elton near Newark, subsequently of Nottingham, Lichfield and Derby. Both were distinguished physicians

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weight and currency to the foolish notion which some have diligently propagated, but for which Mr. Darwin was not responsible, that there is a necessary conflict between a knowledge of Nature and a belief in God. . . .' *Darwin's notes on plants on the lawn at Down House and seeds in the Sandwalk. *Notes on his health and weight. Prescriptions. *Notes on the well at Down House. *The 'Worm Stone': measuring instrument designed by Sir Horace Darwin (1877) and used therewith; notebook of records

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, the tenth, Charles Waring Darwin, who died in childhood. Down House was thus the home of a large and most gifted family. During the forty years of his residence at Down, Darwin made the second abstract of his theory of evolution (1844; the first was made in 1842 before he came to Down); he wrote his researches on the Zoology of the Beagle, on Coral Reefs, and prepared a new edition of the Naturalist's Voyage. Before he settled down to work at Barnacles, to which he gave seven years (1847 54

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presidency being an annual office. A list of those shown will be found on p. 25. 24. Darwin's house in Gower Street, London (1838 42), after its destruction by enemy action, 1940. Since demolished. 25 Darwin: cast from bust by Horace Montford. Grandfather clock, by Joseph Bosley, London, in George II lacquer case. 26 Opening of Down House to the public, June 7, 1929. In the central photograph, Sir Buckston Browne is seen addressing the company of guests and members of the General Committee of

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spring, a navigation lock, a protractor, etc., remarks on a machine for perpetual motion, and memoranda on many other topics. The book was used by Darwin in compiling the life of his grandfather. *Darwin's notebooks kept at Down House and containing nature notes, prescriptions for children, etc. Below: *Albums presented to Darwin by men of science in Germany and in Holland on his birthday, 1877. Poem by Dr. Erasmus Darwin to Miss Seward's cat. Case C Darwin-Wallace celebration by the Linnean

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presidency being an annual office. A list of those shown will be found on p. 25. 24. Darwin's house in Gower Street, London (1838 42), after its destruction by enemy action, 1940. Since demolished. 25 Darwin: cast from bust by Horace Montford. Grandfather clock, by Joseph Bosley, London, in George II lacquer case. 26 Opening of Down House to the public, June 7, 1929. In the central photograph, Sir Buckston Browne is seen addressing the company of guests and members of the General Committee of

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spring, a navigation lock, a protractor, etc., remarks on a machine for perpetual motion, and memoranda on many other topics. The book was used by Darwin in compiling the life of his grandfather. *Darwin's notebooks kept at Down House and containing nature notes, prescriptions for children, etc. Below: *Albums presented to Darwin by men of science in Germany and in Holland on his birthday, 1877. Poem by Dr. Erasmus Darwin to Miss Seward's cat. Case C Darwin-Wallace celebration by the Linnean

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15 Darwin, about the age of 30, the time of his marriage. Reproduction of a drawing of unknown origin found in the Botany School, Cambridge, in 1929, closely identical with a watercolour by George Richmond, R.A. (1840), and probably his preliminary sketch (cf. p. 21). 16 Mrs Darwin: photograph taken subsequently to the death of Darwin. *Mrs. Darwin and her son Leonard: photograph. 17 *Darwin: photograph on verandah at Down House. 18 Sir George Howard Darwin, F.R.S., a son of Charles Darwin (p

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most of the land which it now includes, and probably built a farmhouse on it. Possibly some of the flint-built walls belong to this period. The central block of the house as it stands appears to date from the later part of the 18th century, but Darwin added the bay on the garden front, and, in 1877, the north wing with the verandah. At the Annual Meeting of the British Association in 1927 Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S., as President, made an appeal for the preservation of Down House as a memorial of

F2172    Book:     Raverat, Gwen. 1952. [Recollections of Darwin and family]. Period piece: A Cambridge childhood. London: Faber.   Text

In one of my mother's early letters there is a sad heart-cry: 'We are going to Down. Oh, you can't imagine how dull these English country-houses are! There is nothing at all to do there.' Down—now spelt Downe—in Kent, was my grandfather's house. He—Charles Darwin—had died in 1882, three years before I was born, and after his death my grandmother spent the winters in Cambridge and only the summers at Down House, where we all went for long visits. Sometimes, too, she lent us the house for the

F1595    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66.   Text   PDF

reason to believe he is trust­ worthy to the highest degree. 12 Upper Gower Street, London May 29, 1839. Charles Darwin' In Darwin's personal Journal5 under the date of 14 October 1842, just one month after settling into Down House, there is an entry to the effect that he had started on his manuscript of Geological observations on the volcanic islands visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (published in 1844) from the notes made by Covington. Covington was also an artist, and his daughter

A94    Pamphlet:     Anon. 1960. Handlist of Darwin papers at the University Library Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

PREFACE IN 1942 the Pilgrim Trust and the Darwin family presented to the University Library and to Down House the original papers of Charles Darwin. Those intended for Cambridge arrived at the Library after the war. They were in parcels each containing small packets of manuscript wrapped in tissue paper on which the subjects had been noted in Darwin's hand. They were presumably just as Darwin left them, and accordingly this arrangement was preserved when they were bound, the volumes now

A1036a    Book:     [Gautry, P. J.] 1961. Darwin library: list of books received in the University Library Cambridge March-May 1961. [Cambridge: unpublished typescript]. [Annotated copy in the Manuscripts Reading Room in Cambridge University Library]   Text   Image   PDF

Royal Soc. of London. Philos. Trans. Next to (D)/ Down House, case 34 Rutterford (HW) Catalogue of the Library of CD. 1908.      (BOT) Sachs (J.): Geschichte der Botanik 1875.                   (BOT) [page 23

A1036    Book:     [Gautry, P. J.] 1961. Darwin library: list of books received in the University Library Cambridge March-May 1961. [Cambridge: unpublished typescript].   Text   Image   PDF

DARWIN LIBRARY Books received in the University Library from Down House, March-May 1961.  Page 1. Abercrombie (J.): Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. 8th ed. 8°. London, 1838.  Adams (A.L.): Field and Forest Rambles, c.* 8°. London, 1873.  Page 2. Agassiz (L.): Nomenclatoris Zoological Index Universalis. 8°. Soloduri, 1848.  Agassiz (L.), L.A. A.A. Gould: Principles of Zoology. Part 1. Comparative Physiology.* 8°. Boston, 1848.  Agassiz (L.): Lake

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.                     *                                                                8o. London, 1864-82. Page 91. Zuckerkandl (E.): Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara...1857-59. Anthropologischer Theil, lte Abth., Cranien der Novara-Sammlung.                                                                4o. Wien, 1875. COPY OF LIST IN STACKS These are on shelves following DAR LIB. (PERS) Journals etc removed from Down House by Dr. Sydney Smith and P.J. Gautrey, transported to the University Library, Cambridge, 18 30 September, 1969. Allen

F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

1 'On the Formation of Mould', Geol. Soc. Proc., Vol. II, 1838, pp. 574-6; Geol. Soc. Trans., Vol. V, 1840, pp. 505-10. Darwin's volume, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, was not published until 1881. The worm-stone, designed by Charles's son Horace, which was used for measuring the subsidence owing to the action of worms, is still to be seen (1967) in the garden at Down House in Kent. 2 Thomas Drummond, R.E., 1797-1840; introduced

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subject of his engagement is here introduced (Letter 58, p. 148). At first, Charles and Emma settled in 114 Gower Street,1 where their first child was born; in 1842 they moved to Down House in Kent. Here Darwin lived with his growing family for the rest of his life, contending with increasing bouts of undiagnosed illness. Many suggestions have been made as to the cause of Darwin's ill-health, first mentioned in Letters 52 and 54 in this volume. Dr S. Adler of Jerusalem has suggested that he

F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

they bear to Snails is the most extraordinary thing of the kind I have ever seen. In the same genus 1 He kept a separate catalogue for all his geological specimens, now at Down House. See also Appendix III, p. 230. [page] 5

F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

.; geology of the Pampas, 110 Down House, Kent, D. moves to, 15-16; houses Darwin's Geological Catalogue, 58 and n.; its situation, 16; purchase of, 14; the worm-stone, 149 n.1 Draper, Professor, paper to British Academy (1860), 209 n.1 Drummond, J. C, The Englishman's Food, 156 n. Drummond, Thomas, lime-light, 149 and n.2 [page] 24

F1581    Periodical contribution:     Freeman, R. B. ed. 1968. Charles Darwin on the routes of male humble bees. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series vol. 3, pp. 177-189, one plate. Contains a [second] edition of no. 1580, with transcript of Darwin's original field notes.   Text   Image   PDF

Müller, who is a secondary school master in Liegnitz . Darwin's original must have been written in English, because he had little German, and it must have been accompanied by a sketch of the relevant parts of his grounds at Down House, because a plan with German captions accompanies the translation. I have not been able to trace the whereabouts of the original manuscripts, either in English or in German. This précis was translated from the German into English and published, with the German plan

F1829    Periodical contribution:     Banks, M. 1971. A Darwin manuscript on Hobart Town. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 105: 5-19.   Text   Image   PDF

University Library, the Curator of the Darwin Collection at Down House, and Miss E. Geddes, Librarian to the Royal Society of Tasmania. Mr R. F. Wise, British Museum of Natural History, kindly made available fragments of the matrix of some important Tasmanian fossils held therein and rubber moulds of some of these fossils. I would also like to acknowledge helpful criticism from Professor S. W. Carey, Mr D. E. Leaman and my wife. Memo on Hobart Town by Charles Darwin, transcribed by Maxwell R. Doris M

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

Plate I: Down House (Photo by Col. James Creedy) [Down Chapel in 1786

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over 900, which, in common with other deficits in recent years, has been written off against the Down House Endowment Fund. This Fund, originally of 20,000, is now reduced to less than 17,000, against which a further charge of several thousand pounds ought in fairness to be made in respect of payments by the Association from its general funds during the early years of possession of the property. 1 The further charge to which the Treasurer referred was, in fact, never made. A month earlier the

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

possession of the Cambridge University library, including most of those that are of scientific interest. The letters in the Down House archives are mainly those that are concerned with the social life of the family at Down House. The use of some of this material for the first time adds to our knowledge of Darwin and his family. The theme of the book is the history of the estate rather than just being a biography of one of its owners and an interesting part of the book is the later history after

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

cottage. So it was that on the valuation of Sir John Oakley, Buckston Browne bought Down House for 4,250, spending an additional 10,000 for repairs and endowing the estate with 20,000. The British Association bought out the remainder of Miss Ram's (the Schoolmistress) lease and, by gift, the property was handed over to the care of The British Association to be preserved in perpetuity as a Memorial to Charles Darwin. Through the agency of Sir Arthur Keith, Down House had been saved once more. (PL VIII

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later; widespread decay had set in, and Greater London, spreading into Kent, would have eaten up this retreat from which Darwin spoke to the great world of his day. All danger of such a fate overtaking one of the historical homes of England is now past. Mr. Browne has not only made Down House a national gift; he has repaired it, inside and out, top and bottom; at great personal pains and expense he has restored the chief rooms of the house to the state they were in when Darwin occupied them

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

a suspicious character is around, his hackles rise, he gives vent to a deep-throated bark and it is all one can do to restrain him from hurling 40lb. of dog at the unfortunate object of his wrath. As I write this in my library his head is resting on my foot and I know he would appreciate this slight commendation. What of the future? For the time being, perhaps for the whole of the 1970's, with luck even for part of the 1980's, Down House Estate and its Darwinian treasures are safely preserved

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

should like to thank The Curwen Press for their invariable co-operation and valuable advice. Down House July 1974 Royalties from the sale of this book will be devoted to the upkeep of The Down House Museum and Estate as a memorial to Charles Darwin [page]

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

had died within a few months of possession of the Stubbs and had lent it to the Tate. A reproduction of this picture now hangs in the Erasmus Darwin Room. Six months after the receipt of the letter from the Director of the Tate Gallery I was taking a Canadian family round the Museum at Down. When we came to the Erasmus Darwin Room one of the children exclaimed, Look, Mummy, that was the picture we saw in the Tate yesterday! Occasionally, very occasionally, the Down House Estate has a stroke of

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

what I have done for Down House: Purchased the property paying all expenses of valuation, law, etc. Restored the fabric (electric lighting plant 1000); Kitchen ranges, baths etc., etc., for Mr. Howarth and Robinson; Decorated, floored and furnished the lower part of the house. For example show case 120, portraits of Darwin and Huxley 250 etc., etc.; 20,000 endowment. 30,000 is very much under what I have really spent and I am very glad to have had the privilege of spending my professional

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

X: Income and Expenditure 1, Darwin Revalued, Arthur Keith, Watts, London, 1955, 225. All other material in this chapter is taken from the account books and manuscripts at Down House. Chapter XI: Fate Uncertain 1, 2, 3, 4, DH. Chapter XII: Downe House School 1, OW, 25; 2, 55; 3, 90; 4, 101. Chapter XIII: Buckston Browne to the Rescue 1, DH; 2, AK, 506; 3, 507; 4, 5, 6, 7, DH; 8, GBB, 112. Chapter XIV: A National Trust 1, 2, 3, DH. [page 128

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possession of Down House, where they lived together for the next forty years and where Charles produced those monumental and seminal works which changed the face of biological science and made Down House famous all over the world. In 1842 a coach drive of some twenty miles was the only means of access to Down; and even when the railways crept close to it, it was singularly out of the world, with nothing to suggest the neighbourhood of London, unless it were the thin haze of smoke that sometimes

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CHAPTER XII DOWNE HOUSE SCHOOL At the end of 1906 Mr. Whitehead decided to surrender his lease and the remarkable Miss Olive Willis established herself as chatelaine, and much else, of Down House. That Miss Willis competes for attention with the members of the Darwin family attests the unique qualities of her personality. She made Down House almost as well known for its school, called Downe House School (with an 'e') and now near Newbury in Berkshire, as it is for being the home of the Darwin

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

CHAPTER XIII BUCKSTON BROWNE TO THE RESCUE With the departure of Miss Willis on April 1st 1922, Down House once more became empty and the Darwin family was again faced with the problem of what to do with it. In May 1923 Sir Arthur Shipley, Master of Darwin's old college, Christ's College, Cambridge, writes to Arthur Keith, at that time Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons of England: My dear Keith, Mr. R. S-S. was at Down at Easter, and he tells me that Charles

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

lanes, where the trees met overhead, and there was a damp smell from the high earth banks on either side. The lanes were so narrow that it was often hard to pass a cart without stopping at a wider place. Then came the village and the wagonette rumbled round three sides of the churchyard which surrounds the humble little old flint church, before turning up past the blacksmith's shop and the pond and reaching Down House. And as soon as the door was opened, we smelt again that unmistakable cool

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

Charles thinks that he can assure for each of his sons a sum which would make them secure for life financially, but , as he ruefully observes, of course my income may fall off a little . In 1853 he had set up a Trust for Emma, who was to retain Down House and surrounding land for life. In 1881 his brother Erasmus died and Charles was again seriously concerned about the disposition of his estate. A black-edged letter dated 8th September from his banker son William from Bassett must have been

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

increasingly convinced that he and Emma must move away from London to some quiet place where he would be free from social distractions and the bustle of city life. So it was that he came to live at Down House in the county of Kent. As early as 1840 Charles and Emma were becoming disenchanted with London life and they were thinking of moving to the country. There were, however, clearly some problems. Charles' father was opposed to the idea of buying a house in the country until the young couple had

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

this chapter I should like to convey some idea of the effect which Down House exerts upon those who live there and love it, who love the rolling, wooded countryside still unspoilt when so much has been despoiled; a house which once again is a family home and where children and household pets can enjoy the sort of life that seems to spell for them, as it does for us, a serenity and security which in these hectic times is hard to find. This feeling has never been better expressed could not be better

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

Martha, and Mr. Hemmings. These three gave the children a rapturous welcome and one must suspect that they more often rang the backdoor bell than the front. This somewhat daunting character wore gloves indoors and out; black gloves for putting on coals and shaking hands with children and white gloves for more hygienic operations such as reading books. Although Emma mourned, there might have been a few sighs of well concealed relief when great-aunt Sarah died in Down House aged seventy-eight

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

the evidence for the theory of evolution and the mechanism by which it might be achieved, namely the Natural Selection of Favourable Variations. Principal amongst those who reacted so vehemently were most members of the Established Church and their champion was the renowned Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce. It is a far cry from Down House to the library of the museum at Oxford University, where at a meeting of the British Association in 1860 the battle was joined. Before an audience of over

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

, so engagingly described by the Darwin grandchildren, that we can picture more clearly. Apart from Madame Sismondi's eulogy and Sir Joseph Hooker referring to him as an integral part of the family , we learn very little about him. Some time during his period of service he married and in 1875 retired to a cottage in the village, from which he would make sporadic forays to Down House. [page] 7

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

furnished as he left them; or at any rate, as in the case of Shakespeare's house, be filled with memorials of him. In the cases of Voltaire's or Rousseau's houses all you expect to see (I am told, as I never saw either) are the rooms in which they wrote and thought and no other object is expected. In the case of Down it is there where a man worked with books, microscopes and specimens without these I would far rather visit the rooms as furnished by whoever inhabited the house. No doubt it is

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

perfect; any blemished or bird-pecked fruit had to be discarded. Mrs. Margaret Gibbs, after describing how her uncle Dr. Alexander Muirhead and Sir Oliver Lodge established a wireless telegraphy station in 1902 on Ditchfield, which is next-door to the Down House estate, goes on to describe how Mr. Capon used to run a service of horse-drawn buses to Orpington and Bromley. The Orpington 'bus used to leave Downe at 8 o'clock in the morning, and took many of the business men to Orpington station

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REFERENCES Abbreviations used in this section A K An Autobiography; Sir Arthur Keith Watts, London, 1950. C F L Emma Darwin, A Century of Family Letters; H. E. Litchfield, John Murray, London, 1904. Vol. II. D H Manuscripts and other material at Down House. G B B Sir George Buckston Browne; Jessie Dobson Sir Cecil Wakeley, Bt., Livingstone, London, 1957. H D P A History of Darwin's Parish; O. J. R. Eleanor K. Howarth, Russell, Southampton, 1933. L L The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin; Edit

A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF

similar to those of Murray. Also found on later Smith Elder editions of the geological works. LIBRARY HOLDINGS AND SYMBOLS For British libraries, only the collections in the British Library Reference Division, University Library Cambridge, Darwin family collection at Cambridge, and the Down House collection have been fully entered. Other libraries are only referred to for special copies not present in the above four, or where very few copies are known. A few items in the Bibliothèque Nationale

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easy to find in libraries, and all but a few are still common on the market. It is the later issues which are rare in libraries and hard to see, although many of them contain interesting introductory matter. These are of little commercial value, and will in consequence become more difficult to see as time goes on. Foreign translations are always poorly represented in libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, although, fortunately, there are a few collections, including that at Down House, which

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title page of this change and I have even seen a copy in Watts' case with Murray's dust wrappers. There is a New York reprint from stereos in the same year as the first English and a facsimile in 1972, but it does not seem to have been translated except for a recent Russian version of the autobiographical fragment and a description of Down House. ENGLISH 1548. 1903 London, John Murray. Darwin, Francis Seward, A. C. editors. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of

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Deutsch, André 361 Doubleday 156, 590, 594 Deutsche Rundschau 6 Dover Publications 1494 De Varigny, Charles August Hippolyte Dow, Hume 1505 Henry Grasnier 1441, 1442, 1514 Down Friendly Club 157-158, 1303, Developmental Medicine and Child 1304 Neurology 1308 Down. The home of the Darwins 19 De Vries, Eva 652 Down House 8 De Vries, Hugo 652 Državna Založba Sloveniĵe 248, 769 De Zulueta, Antonio 776, 778, 779, Düsseldorff 1197 783 Dunstan, George 83 Diana 786, 1131 Duszyńska, J. 742 Diary of the

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Aug.23 to Maer, Aug.26 to Birmingham for British Aassociation, Sep.12 to Shrewsbury, Oct.2 to London. 1840 Apr.3 to Shrewsbury, Jun.10 to Maer, Nov.10 to London. 1841 May 28 to Maer Shrewsbury, Jul.23 to London. 1842 May 7 17 Shrewsbury, May 18 Jun.14 Maer, Jun.15 to Shrewsbury, Jun.18 Capel Curig, Bangor, Caernarvon, Capel Curig, 10 days, Jul. 18 to London, Jul.24 CD ED first saw Down House slept at inn, Sep.14 ED slept at Down House, Sep.17 CD slept at Down House. 1843 Jul.8 Maer Shrewsbury

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Mount, Shrewsbury. Darwin, Martha Haskins see Du Puy. Darwin, Mary [I] see Healey. Darwin, Mary [II] see Howard. Darwin, Mary Dorothea see Wharton. Darwin, Mary Eleanor 1842 Sep.23 1842 Oct.16. 3c of CD. Born at Down House and died there. ED had moved into Down House on Sep.14. Darwin, Maud see Du Puy. Darwin, Mildred see Massingberd. Darwin, Monica see Slingsby. Darwin, Nigger see Charles Robert D. [page] 11

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in the purchase of Down House for the British Association and its later acquisition by the Royal College of Surgeons. K retired to Homefield, a small house on the w side of the Down House estate. 1942 A postscript to Darwin's Vegetable mould through the action of worms, Nature, Lond., 149:716. 1955 Darwin revalued, which contains a last chapter on the later history of Down House, as well as much other information which is not available elsewhere. Kelvin, Baron see Sir William Thomson. Kemp

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Questions about the Breeding of Animals [1839] 8 pp, [London], probably late Apr., certainly before May 5 (F262); facsimile 1968, wrongly dated [1840] (F263). See also J.Soc.Biblphy nat.Hist., 5220 225, 1969. Questions for Mr Wynne An earlier set of questions in mss about the breeding of animals. Transcribed by Paul H. Barrett in Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on man, 423 425, 1974 (F1582). Quiz A dog belonging to John Innes. 1862 Jan taken over by Down House. 1862 May Q was shot for biting. [page

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of the voyage he was fit and lived an extremely energetic life. During his residence in London, 1839 1842, 'I did less scientific work', 'This was due to frequent recurring unwellness, and to one long serious illness' LLi 69. Again he gives no symptoms. When he had moved to Down House, he explained that after entertaining company 'my health almost always suffered from the excitement, violent shivering attacks and vomiting being thus brought on' LLi 79. This condition continued for the rest of

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. 1852 Mar. Rules for the Club printed at CD's expense CD's mss accounts. 1877 To members of the Down Friendly Club, a single sheet printed for CD to dissuade members from disbanding (F1303). The annual general meeting was held at Down House every year, usually on Whit Monday. Downe House School Always spelt with an 'e'. Occupied Down House 1907 Feb. 1922 Apr.1. Headmistress Olive [page] 12

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tion of races of human lice Descent i 219, where he is not named. 'Worthless and slightly educated' Carroll 45. Martha Sister of Mrs Morrey. Servant to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood at Petleys, Downe, until the latter's death 1856. Martin, John Royle 1871 CD to R, asking for ten shares in Artisan's Dwelling Company for 100 Carroll 403. Martin, Septimus Son of the Rector of an adjoining parish to Downe. 1853 M dined at Down House. M had emigrated to Melbourne before this and was visiting N R 22

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reminiscences LLi 120. Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich 1834 1919. German biologist physician. 2s of Karl H Sethe. m1 1862 Anna Sethe dsp. m2 1867 Agnes Huschke 1s 2d. Prof. Zoology Jena 1865 . The apostle of darwinism in Germany. 1863 Mar. CD to Lyell, 'A first rate German naturalist (I now forget the name)' LLiii 16. 1867 CD complains to Huxley of excess of neonyms in H's Generelle Morphologie, 1866 MLi 277. 1868 CD to H 'your boldness sometimes makes me tremble' LLiii 105. 1866 Oct. H stayed at Down House

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scholar. Kt 1911. 1881 Oct. CD ED took tea with R in Cambridge. DNB. Ralfs, John 1807 1890. Surgeon botanist. R lived at Penzance, Cornwall and sent CD Pinguicula for Insectivorous plants from there. DNB. Ram, Miss 1927 Headmistress of an unsuccessful girls school at Down House for a brief period; the British Association bought out the remainder of her lease. Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie 1814 1891. Geologist. Kt 1881 FRS 1862. Director General Geological Survey 1871 . 1846 CD to Lyell, R was in

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); CD's first publication, except for beetle records in Stephens. Tait, Robert Lawson 1845 1899. Surgeon gynaecologist at Hospital for diseases of women, Birmingham 1871 1893. 1875 CD to T, about use of tails for sensory purposes by mice MLi 358. 1875 Apr.18 T stayed at Down House Carroll 465. 1876 T reviewed 2nd edition of Variation in Spectator, Mar.4 MLi 363. 1880 Jul.19 CD sent T 25 'for your scientific fund in Birmingham' N R 82. 1881 T to CD, T had spoken strongly in favour of Origin in his

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Barberio A large house bug (Triatoma infestans, Reduviidae) of South America; vector of Chagas' disease q.v., also lives in burrows of armadilloes. Also called benchuca. Barbier, Edmond Translator of CD's works into French. 1880 Summer B visited Down House for lunch. Barellien, Mlle 1865 B taught Elizabeth D French at Down House. Barlaston Shropshire. Home of Francis Wedgwood. 1852 CD ED visited on journey to Rugby, Betley Shrewsbury. 1878 Jun. CD ED visited. Barlow, Mrs 'My father used to

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. Beob, Miss 1865 Governess at Down House for 6 months. Berkeley Sound East Falkland Island. 1833 Mar.1 Apr.6, 1834 Mar.10 Apr.7 Beagle anchored at. CD there only in 1834. Berkeley, Rev. Miles Joseph 1803 1889. Mycologist. FRS 1879. Vicar of Sibbertoft, Northants. 1862 Jun.14 B reviewed Orchids in London.Rev. 1868 CD thanks B for sending a copy of his Presidential address to Section D of British Association at Norwich MLi 309 Dyer described B as 'the virtual founder of British mycology'. see

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signed by CD 24 others (F869), 1873 [Letter from P. L. Sclater containing text of 1866 Memorial], Nature, Lond., 9:41 (F870). 1875 British Museum (Natural History) established in Cromwell Rd, S. Kensington. Broderip, William John 1789 1859. Barrister conchologist. FRS 1828. B assisted Philip Parker King in description of molluses cirripedes from 2nd voyage of Beagle, printed in Zool.J., 1839 and Vol.III of Narrative, 545 556, 1839. DNB. Brodie ? 1873. Scottish nurse at Down House 1842 1851

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, 1861. Clapham Grammar School All CD's sons went there except William Erasmus D. 1834 Headmaster founder Charles Pritchard; George Francis educated by him. 1862 Headmaster Alfred Wrigley; Leonard Horace educated by him. Closed 1885. Clapham, Marianne Aunt of Laura Forster, known as Mone; wrote autobiography, with darwinian reference. Clark, Sir Andrew, Bart 1826 1893. Fashionable London physician. 1st Bart 1883 FRS 1885. 1873 C first attended CD. 1876 attended William Erasmus D at Down House for

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in 1872. 1881 Sep.8 William Erasmus D wrote to his father that the total estate was about 282,000 and that, calculated at 7 to 12, his daughters would inherit about 34,000 and sons 53,000.See also Down House, household expenditure. FUNERAL 1882 Apr.25 Mon., pm. CD's body was carried from Down House, in a hearse drawn by four black horses, accompanied by Francis, Leonard Horace D. Vigil in St Faith's Chapel, where they were joined by William George D. The undertakers were T. W. Banting The Times

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. Hope-Pinker, at University Museum, Oxford; model for at Down House. 16 n.d. Bust by Charles L. Hartwell, at Down House. Commissioned by Joseph Leidy. Inscription reads 'Presented by Dr. Joseph Leidy II of Philadelphia, to the British Nation in memory of those American naturalists who came to the support of Charles Darwin upon the publication of The origin of species in 1859'. Oils: 17 1875 by Walter William Ouless. CD sat for in Feb. Mar. In family; copy by the artist at Christ's College Cambridge

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Darwin, Nora see Emma Nora D. Darwin, Polly see Mary Darwin [II]. Darwin, Ras see Erasmus Alvey D. Darwin, Reginald 1818 ? eldest c of Sir Francis Sacheveral D. CD's half first cousin. 1879 lent CD documents, including a commonplace book, on Erasmus D [I], which CD used for his notice in E. Krause's Erasmus Darwin. The commonplace book now at Down House. Darwin, Richard? 1584. 3c of William D [III]. m before 1580 Margaret? 3s 1d. Inherited Torksey from his uncle and held Marton. 8th generation

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photographers of London, later incorporated in Bassano Vandyck Studios, now Bassano's Ltd. c1880 photographed CD on verandah at Down House: a. standing by pillar in cloak and hat. b. head and shoulders without cloak or hat. c. seated on verandah in tightly wrapped cloak and with hat. d. head and shoulders from same negative as a. All, especially a., have been often reproduced and a. was long available as a commercial photograph. 1909 Brit. Mus.(Nat.Hist.) exhibition showed four different E F

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, Johann Reinhold 1729 1798. FRS 1772, and his son Johann George Adam F 1754 1797. Both were naturalists on Commander James Cook's 2nd voyage, 1772 1775. 1857 CD's cognomen as Member of Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Germanica Naturae Curiosorum was Forster. Forster, Miss Laura May 1839 1924. A lifelong friend of Henrietta Emma D. 1879 Jun. F lent her house, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hanger, nr Dorking, Surrey to CD for a holiday. 1881 Mar. F stayed at Down House to recuperate from an

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Grant Maddison Bankers, Southampton. William Erasmus D a partner 1862 1902. Looked after CD's investments. Taken over by Lloyd's in 1902. Grant, Miss 1857 Governess at Down House for 6 months. Grant, Robert Edmond 1793 1874. Zoologist physician. FRS 1836. Prof. Zoology Comparative Anatomy University College London 1827 1874. G was with CD at Edinburgh and they collected on the sea-shore together. 1836 G was willing to examine Beagle corallines. 1861 G dedicated his Tabular view of the primary

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looked after specimens sent back from Beagle voyage. 1835 H edited CD's letters to him as Letters on geology, privately printed for members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Bi 3, Fl). 1830 CD to Fox, of Mrs H, 'she is a devilish odd woman, I am always frightened whenever I speak to her, yet I cannot help liking her'. 1836 CD at Sydney to H, 'my master in natural history' LLi 264. 1854 H visited Down House when Hooker was staying for a fortnight. 1855 CD paid little girls in H's parish

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succession to his father. H was CD's greatest personal friend and confidant, much more so than either Lyell or Huxley, and provided much plant material for CD from Kew. H preserved all CD's letters, see Janet Browne, J.Soc.Biblphy nat.Hist., 8:351 366, 1978. Often at Down House. CD and H first met 1839 in London, either in Park St or in Trafalgar Square. 1844 Sep. CD to Lyell, 'Young Hooker talks of coming here [to Down House]; I wish he might meet you, he appears to me a most engaging young man'

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record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters, 2 vols, London (F1548); facsimile 1972 (F1550). Foreign editions: USA (F1549) 1903; Russian, autobiographical fragment and account of Down House only (F1551) 1959. Moresby, Sir Fairfax 1786 1877. Naval Officer. GCB 1865. Admiral of the Fleet 1870. 1845 'Captain Moresby informs me about turtles, also about Chagos, Maldives Seychelles' J. Researches, 459. DNB. Morley, John, Viscount 1838 1923. Statesman man of letters. Viscount Morley

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at that time the only, Honorary Member MLii 436. Pictet de la Rive, Francois Jules 1809 1872. Swiss zoologist. Prof. Zoology Geneva 1835 1859. 1860 P was courteously anti-Origin, review in Arch.Sci.Biblioth que Universelle, Mar. LLii 184. Piano 1839 ED was given a piano from Broadwoods by her father, shortly after her marriage. It had belonged to Rev. Thomas Stevens, who had married Caroline Tollett. 1929 It was bought for Down House, for 20, from the Positivist Society Atkins 116. Pigeons The

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Hooker, his son; 3rd Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, J. D. H.'s son-in-law. CD visited and received much plant material from, for his botanical work. Royal College of Physicians of England CD awarded Baly Medal 1879. Royal College of Surgeons of England 1953 took over Down House and have administered it since. Their research station, on Little Pucklands field, marches with the Down House estate to the south. 1974 published, under Phillimore imprint, Atkins, Down, The home of the Darwins. Royal

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Schlesische Gesellschaft f r Vaterlandische Cultur Breslau. CD Honorary Member 1878s. Schmerling, Philippe Charles 1791 1836. French geologist. 1863 CD to Hooker, concerning antiquity of man, 'Falconer . . . does not do justice to . . . Schmerling' LLiii 19. Schomburk, Sir Robert Hermann 1804 1865. Kt 1844. Naturalist in West Indies. c1850 S visited Down House for weekend Carroll 69. c1862 S told CD about the three forms of Catasetum tridentatum which had been described as belonging to three

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Terrace, London house of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] Poulton, Darwin and the Origin, 213 246, which prints the letters. WWH. Tristram, Henry Baker 1822 1906. Anglican clergyman ornithologist. FRS 1868. 1859 T at first accepted Origin, but was later against. 1860 T to Newton, 'The infallibility of the God Darwin and prophet Huxley' Life of Newton 122. DNB. Trowmers House at Downe, N of Down House, earlier known as Trowmer or Trowmer Lodge, and later as Tower House, named after original family

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abstract of the Origin before the Victoria Institute, and as this is a most orthodox body, he has gained the name of the Devil's Advocate. The discussion which followed . . . is very rich from the nonsense talked' LLiii 69. Identification uncertain. Waterhouse, Alfred 1830 1905. Architect. 1865 W designed British Museum (Natural History). Atkins 89 suggests that W visited Down House, but in error for George Robert W. q.v. Waterhouse, George Robert 1810 1888. Mammalogist entomologist. Keeper of

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essay on religion and science by W which no good scientific journal would publish, 'there have been too many attempts to reconcile Genesis and science' Carroll 573. 1885 W visited Down House. ?1840 16 Upper Gower St, ?1849 42 Chester Terrace, 1868 4 Cumberland Place, 1879 31 Queen Anne St, all London. 1876 Hopedene, Surrey, a house lent to him. Wedgwood, Hope Elizabeth 1844 ? 6c of Hensleigh W. m Godfrey W as 2nd wife. CD's 1st cousin once removed. Wedgwood, James Mackintosh 1834 1864. 2c of

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, Thomas Josiah 1797 1862. 3c of John W. m 1836 Anne Tyler d.s.p. Known as Tom.CD's 1st cousin. Colonel in Scots Fusiliers. W fought as an Ensign at Waterloo EDi 68. St Mary's nr Tenby. Wedgwood, Tom see Thomas Josiah W. Weir, John Jenner 1822 1894. Naturalist accountant. Controller General H.M. Customs. 1868 Sep.12 Sat. W stayed at Down House, with Wallace and Mrs W, and Blyth; Bates was hoped for but probably not; Hookers came for Sunday lunch; 'A very good man' MLi 309. 1868 CD to W, 'I read

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Williams, Henry 1792 1867. Missionary in New Zealand, formerly a Naval Officer. W arrived at Waimate, Bay of Islands, N. Island in 1822. 1835 Dec. CD stayed at his house, 'He is considered the leading person among the missionary body' S.Afr.Christian Recorder, 231, J.Researches, 1845, 426. DNB. Williams, Margaret Susan see Wedgwood. Willis, Olive Margaret 1877 1964. Founder Headmistress of Downe House School, which was at Down House 1907 1922; at Cold Ash, Newbury, Berks 1922 . see Anne Ridler

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Kovalevsk i, Vladimir Onufrievich 1842 1883. Brother of A.O.K. Committed suicide. 1867 visited Down House and again in 1870. 1867 1868 K translated Variation into Russian. Krause, Ernst 1839 1903. German botanist. 1879 Feb. K's biography of Erasmus Darwin [I] appeared in Kosmos, the number being a Gratulationsheft for CD's 70th birthday. 1879 An English translation, with introductory matter by CD had K's own alterations to his part (F1319). It was this edition which so offended Samuel Butler

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throughout (F1416). First foreign editions: USA 1883 (F1419); French 1887 (F1429). see also Stauffer 1975. Anne Domestic servant at Down House ?1865 1879. Ansted, David Thomas 1814 1880. Geologist. FRS 1844. Prof. Geology King's College London. 1860 CD to about Origin and about Geological gossip, 1860, by A. MLi 175. Anthropologische Gesellschafte Vienna. 1872 CD Honorary Member. Ants 1873 [letter] Habits of ants, Nature, Lond. 8:244 (Bii 177, F1761); introducing a letter from James D. Hague. Ape

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CD and ED played 2 games every evening when they were at Down House for many years. He won most games, she most gammons. 1876 Jan.28 CD to Gray 'she poor creature has won only 2490 games, whilst I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2795 games!' EDii 221. Bacon Tobacconist of Cambridge. 1828 CD lodged over his shop in Sidney St, 'for a term or two' LLi 163. The shop is now in the Market. Baer, Karl Ernst, Ritter von, Edler von Huthorn 1792 1876. Embryologist. Born in Estonia of German parents who were

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Bowcher. Seven were awarded in that year, Wallace, Hooker, Haeckel, Weismann, Strasburger, F.Galton, Ray Lankester, in that order. FINANCE CD kept detailed accounts from the time of his marriage, as did ED for household expenditure. These, although preserved at Down House, have not been published in full. Extracts are given in Keith, Darwin revalued, 221 223, 1955, and in Atkins, Down the home of the Darwins, 95 100, 1976. Until his father's death in 1848, CD was wholly dependent on him, except

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Torquay for his health MLi 455. 1861 F offered a live Proteus anguinus to CD. 1864 F proposed CD for Copley Medal of Royal Society. Often at Down House on his return from India. 1868 Palaeontological memoirs, 2 vols. Falkland Islands British colony in S Atlantic. 1834 Mar.16 Beagle at Berkeley Sound in E Falkland, Port Louis at head of sound. CD explored and returned Mar.19. Port Darwin, at head of Choiseul Sound, named after CD; he crossed the isthmus near to it on Mar.17. Falkland Islands geology

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Darwin. CD's great-grandmother. Hill, John Of Sleaford, Lincolnshire. m Elizabeth Alvey. f of Elizabeth H. 4th generation ancestor of CD in male line. Hill, Major Richard Noel 1800 1861. 5th Baron Berwick 1848. A cousin of Capt. Owen of Woodhouse. A shooting companion of CD in the 1820s; took part in a shooting joke at CD's expense Barlow, Autobiography 54. Hills, Mrs 1887 ED to Henrietta Emma Litchfield, 'Old Mrs' H, a villager at Downe; ?wife of the next. Hills Gardener at Down House after

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visited Down House LLiii 29. 1860 CD to Huxley who had suggested K as possible translator of Origin into German MLi 139. 1861 Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der h heren Thiere, Leipzig. Koeniglich-Bayarische Akademie der Wissenschaften Munich. CD Foreign Member 1878. Koeniglich-Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin. CD Corresponding Member 1863, Fellow 178. Kollmann, Julius Constantin Ernst 1834 1918. 1876 K to CD on atavism and extra digits MLi 393, Variation I 459. Kongeligt

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) 1903. Upper Gower Street London. No.12, later 110 Gower St., first home of CD ED on marriage. 1838 Dec.31 CD moved in. 1839 Jan.29 ED moved in. They called it Macaw Cottage from the gaudy curtains. It was rented furnished, with a long thin garden backing on to Gower Mews North, later Malet Place. 1842 Sep.14 ED left for Down House; Sep.16 CD left. William Erasmus D and Anne Elizabeth D were born there. For many years the house was part of Messrs Schoolbred's warehouse system. It was bombed 1941

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remains information which I would like to have entered which has escaped me. Much of this is about people that Darwin saw almost every day of his life, sometimes for years, such as the domestic staff at Down House, but if Francis Darwin or his sister merely mention Mary or Maryann, it is impossible to go further. There are also a number of villagers in Downe who are in a similar position. Amongst relatives, there are some, particularly women, whose dates of birth are available because these are

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visits here [Down House] and we like him very much' LLiii 251. B told George D that he had never seen an experiment carried out except under anaesthesia LLiii 203. 1882 B was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. A treatise on comparative embryology, 2 vols, 1881. Bangor Caernarvonshire. 1831 Aug. CD visited on geological trip with Sedgwick. 1843 Jun. CD visited. Bar of sandstone off Pernambuco 1841 On a remarkable bar of sandstone off Pernambuco, on the coast of Brazil, Phil.Mag

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Buckley, Arabella Burton 1840 1929. Natural historian author. Later, before 1875, Mrs Fisher. Secretary to Lyell. 1871 Mar. visited Down House with the Lyell's LLiii 137. 1876 Feb.11 CD to B saying that he had enjoyed B's A short history of natural science, London 1871 LLiii 229. 1882 B was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Buckman, James 1816 1884. Agriculturist geologist. Professor of Botany Geology Royal Agricultural College Cirencester 1848 1863. 1857 CD to B on

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Carlyle, Thomas 1795 1881. Essayist historian. m 1836 Jane Baillie Welsh dsp. CD met several times at Erasmus Alvey D's and at C's in London. DNB. Carpenter, William Benjamin 1813 1885. Physician naturalist. FRS 1844. Prof. Physiology London. Registrar London University 1856 1879. 1859 CD sent 1st edition of Origin. 1860 Jan. C reviewed Origin in Nat.Rev., Apr. in Med.Chirurg.Rev. 1861 or later visited Down House. Carr, Anne Jane see Wedgwood. Carr, Ralph Edward 1833 1892. Colonel. m 1870 Ann

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. C visited Down House. 1882 C wrote of visit in Breslauer Zeitung Apr.23. Colaptes campestris 1870 Notes on the habits of the pampas woodpecker, (Colaptes campestris), Proc.zool.Soc.Lond., No. 47:705 706 (Bii 161, F1750). Colburn, Henry? 1855. Publisher of Great Marlborough St, London. Published 1st edition of Journal of researches 1839. Coldstream, John 1806 1863. Physician at Leith. Naturalist friend of CD at Edinburgh. DNB. Collier, Elizabeth 1747 1832. Natural daughter of Charles Colyear

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Conway Caernarvonshire. 1831 Aug. CD visited with Sedgwick for geology. Conway, Moncure Daniel 1832 1907. American Unitarian clergyman. Ardent abolitionist. Minister South Place Chapel, Finsbury, London 1863 1884. 1873 Jan. visited Down House. Sent Col. Higginson's Collected essays to CD LLiii 176. Cookson, Montague Hughes 1832 ? Barrister. QC 1875. Cambridge friend of CD's sons. 1882 C was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Cooper, Mr of 188 Strand, London. C cut woodblocks

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Health Order Homes Prize Iconography Religion Itinerary Society Membership Manuscripts Stamps Medals 1809 Feb.12 Sun. 1882 Apr.19 Wed.c4 pm. Naturalist. 4c of Robert Waring D. Born The Mount, Shrewsbury; died Down House, Downe, Kent. When CD was born he had only one grandparent living, Sarah Wedgwood his maternal grandmother who was ED's paternal grandmother. She died when CD was 5/6. His mother died when he was 7 and his father when he was 39. He had 1 brother 4 sisters one of whom, Caroline

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the details; for much of the time CD was ashore whilst the ship was surveying so that his whereabouts are by no means the same as hers. After 1838, all important visits from home are noticed in detail in his journal, except that some brief trips to London for a night or so may be omitted, or else he does not say where he stayed. After his move to Down House in 1842, CD was away from home for a considerable part of each year; much of the time was spent at hydropathic establishments, but there

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1882 CD did not leave Down House in this last year of his life. MANUSCRIPTS Much material which was left in manuscript at CD's death has been published since. Most of it was never intended for publication and is in note or abbreviated form, although some is from early drafts of what he hoped eventually to prepare for the press. The autobiographical manuscripts have been considered above and published letters will be found in the main sequence. Other mss material which has been published will

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. Qualified as a physician but did not practice. Known as Baccy, Frank Franky. Assisted CD with his botanical work, including drawing figures of Aldrovanda Utricularia for Insectivorous plants. Reader in Botany Cambridge. On first marriage lived at vicarage Downe. After 1st wife's death, moved into Down House with infant son. Wintered until 2nd marriage with ED in Cambridge, then 80 Huntingdon Rd. 1887 editor Life and letters (F1452); 1903 editor, with A. C. Seward, More letters (F1548); editor 1909

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Down House, have not been published in full. Keith, 221 232, and Atkins, 95 100, give extracts. The latter gives a detailed breakdown for 1867 1881. In 1867, when there were four dependent sons and two daughters, only the eldest son being away and employed, probably eight indoor servants and the garden staff, expenditure was as follows: meat 250, butter 5, cheese 18, candles 16, oil 7, bacon 10, soap 10, grocery 53, sugar 16, bread 63, fish game 20, servants 71, poultry 38, tea 27, coffee 11

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. Duck, Mr? 1875. 1866 A trustee of Downe Friendly Club Darwin-Innes 245. Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant 1829 1906. Politician. GCSI 1887 FRS 1901. Liberal MP for Elgin Burghs 1857 1881. Under Secretary for India 1868 1874. 1871 Jan. D visited Down House with Lubbock, Huxley R. Lowe, from High Elms. DNB. Dumbola Lodge Freshwater, Isle of Wight, a house owned by Julia Cameron. 1868 CD Family stayed there in summer. CD was photographed by Mrs Cameron on this visit. Duncan, Andrew 1773 1832

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, Sir John Eric, Bart 1818 1896. Surgeon. Bart 1895 FRS 1876. Prof. Surgery University College London. 1885 E was member of Vivisection Commission. DNB. Errera, L o Abram 1858 1905. Belgian botanist. 1877 CD to and from on heterostyly especially in Primula elatior Carroll 520 524. 1878 CD to and from, E had visited Down House, but CD was away Carroll 544, 545. 1879 CD thanks for offprint on heterostyly Carroll 563. 1879 E to CD sending photograph which CD had asked for; E asks for one in return

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3rd wife s.p. Author of Six plays, Cambridge 1921. Fiske, John 1842 1901. American evolutionist theoretical biologist. 1871 CD to F, with invitation to visit Down House when he came to England LLiii 193. 1874 F sent CD Outlines of cosmic philosophy, 2 vols, 'I never in my life read so lucid an exposition' MLi 333. 1879 Darwinism and other essays, London. 1884 Excursions of an evolutionist, London. 1884 The destiny of man viewed in the light of his origin, Boston. 1885 The idea of God as affected

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boulders transported by floating ice, Phil.Mag., 21:180 186 (Bi 163, F1660). CD visited Caernarvonshire in May June 1842. Gladstone, Helen 1849 1925. Youngest c of William Ewart G. Vice-Principal Newnham College Cambridge 1882 1896. 1882 G was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Gladstone, William Ewart 1809 1898. Statesman. FRS 1881. 1876 G visited Down House in company with Huxley, Lord Morley, Playfair, whilst staying at High Elms. How honoured CD was 'that such a great man

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, and also had his Atlantic essays, 1871. Of Newport, Rhode Island, USA. High Elms Home of, and rebuilt by, c1842 Sir John William Lubbock, and then of his son Sir John L, Baron Avebury. Estate of c3000 acres marched with Down House grounds. 'High Elms' Pseudonym of Edward Darwin [II] as an author. Hildebrand, Friedrich Hermann Gustav 1835 1915. Prof. Botany Frieburg. CD often praised H for writing German which was as clear as French. 1866 CD to H, on his papers on fertilisation of Fumariaceae and

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breakdown. All H's children were looked after by ED at Down House whilst he was away MLi 72. 1875 H was member of Vivisection Commission; he saw and agreed to Litchfield's draft for bill LLiii 204. 1880 H lectured to Royal Institution on The coming of age of the Origin, published in Nature, Lond. in Science Culture. CD sorry that he could not attend LLiii 240. 1882 CD left him 1000 in his will MLi 72. 1882 H was Pall Bearer at CD's funeral. 1887 H on the reception of Origin in 1859 1860, 'How

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Lychnos, 159 167. A useful source of information on CD's time at Edinburgh University. Jesse, George Anti-vivisectionist. 1881 J had written, very politely, to CD on the subject. 1881 J's pamphlet (F1356) reprints CD's letter to FrithiofHolmgren, which had appeared in The Times, Apr.18 (Bii 226, F1352). John Coachman at Down house in late 1880s. John see Edmonston. John see Jordan. Johnson, Charles Richardson ? c1882. Acting mate on return of Beagle from 2nd voyage. Vice-Admiral 1879 LLi 221

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members of the Society, by Cambridge University Press. The pamphlet is not dated, although the preface is dated Nov.16, 1835 (F1). A type facsimile, also for private distribution, was issued in 1960 (F4). The letters are printed in full in Darwin Henslow (F5, F1598), 1967. Foreign editions: German (F6) 1891; Russian (F7) 1959. Lettington Gardener at Down House 1854 1872. Alive 1895 Jul. L of CD 'He moons about in the garden, and I have seen him standing doing nothing before a flower for ten minutes

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. Lushington, Jane see Mowatt. Lushington, Vernon 1832 1912. County Court Judge for Surrey Berkshire 1877 1900. 4th s of Stephen Lushington 1782 1873. MP 1806 1840. m 1865 Jane Mowatt 2d. Judge of High Court of Admiralty 1838 1867. 36 Kensington Square, London, Borden, Hampshire. 1871 Spring 1881 Jul. L visited Down House with wife. c1869 Henrietta Emma D first met R. D. Litchfield, her future husband, at the L's London house. The L's and their 2 daughters remained family friends. Katherine (Kitty

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and Fanny Hensleigh by the CSs. 1851 M was a partisan of Mazzini EDii 143. 1878 M stayed at Down House, 'quite an invalid'. Mackintosh, Sir James 1765 1832. Philosopher statesman. Kt 1803. m1 1789 Catherine Stuart 3d. 1. Maitland, 2. Mary, 3. Catherine. m2 1798 Catherine Allen 1s 2d. 1. Elizabeth, 2. Frances, 3. Robert. M was related to the D's through 2nd marriage and some of the children were family friends. 14 Great Cumberland St and Ampthill Park. 1827 Sep. CD visited Journal. CD, 'The best

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Maull Fox Commercial photographers of London. c1854 photographed CD at Down House. Usual versions are a. check waistcoat and trousers, profile; b. dark embroidery waistcoat, dark trousers, full face. Both are seated. Maurice, John Frederick Denison 1805 1877. Anglican clergyman educationalist. Prof. English History Literature King's College London 1840 , Divinity added 1846, later dismissed for heterodoxy. Prof. Moral Philosophy Cambridge 1866 1872. M was a friend of Litchfield. 1863 Kingsley

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M ller (Bii 228, F1794). see also Power of movement in plants. Mowatt, Jane d of Francis Mowatt. m 1865 Vernon Lushington. Moxon, Walter 1836 1886. Physician of Guy's Hospital. 1882 Apr.19 M was sent for to Down House, but CD was dying when he arrived. M was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. M ller, Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von 1825 1896. Botanist of German origin. Baron of W rtenberg 1871, KCMG 1879 FRS 1861. Government Botanist of Victoria, Australia 1852 1896. 1861 M

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N spent Sunday at Down House LLiii 79. 1870 May 23 CD visited N at Cambridge Museum. 1881 CD ED took tea with N at Cambridge. 1882 N was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Biography: Wollaston 1921. DNB. Nichols Retired postman at Downe, aged 87 in 1851 Atkins 103. Nigger ED's nickname for CD Keith, Darwin revalued 275. Nilsson, Sven 1787 1883. Swedish naturalist anthropologist of Lund. 1868 N provided CD with information about growth of reindeer antlers Descent i 288, S

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-four, perhaps more than thirtyfive, were sent out inscribed by one of Murray's clerks; no copy inscribed by CD himself is known. The whereabouts of the following copies is known: Agassiz (Harvard); Butler (St John's College, Cambridge); Dana (Yale); Horner (British Museum (Natural History) ); Herschel (Texas); Innes (University of London); Jenyns (in the family); Lyell (Down House); Owen (Shrewsbury School); Prestwich (University Library, Cambridge); Sedgwick (Trinity College, Cambridge); Wallace

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sister Catherine. When the latter died in 1823, Sarah Elizabeth W went to Camp Hill. Parle N.Wales. 1826 Oct.30 CD visited on a riding tour with his sister Caroline Sarah D. Parr An old miserly squire of Lyth nr Shrewsbury. Parslow, Joseph 1809/1810 1898. Manservant at 12 Upper Gower St c1840 and Butler at Down House until 1875. Hooker described him as 'an integral part of the family, and felt to be such by all visitors to the house' LLi 318. Known by the family as 'the venerable P' after 'the

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dirty' EDii 248. Francis D 'according to my own view, neither the attitude nor the expression are characteristic of my father' LLiii 222. DNB. Richter, Hans 1843 1914. Hungarian pianist conductor. 1881 May R visited Down House LLiii 223. R wrote of his visit in Neue Tagblatt, Wien, republished in O. Zacharias, Charles R. Darwin, Berlin 1882. Ridge, The House at Hartfield, nr Tunbridge Wells, Sussex, on border of Ashdown Forest. Home of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] 1849 1868. Quarter of a mile

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family visited. Sandys, John Edwin 1844 1928. Classical scholar. Public Orator Cambridge 1876 1919. 1877 Nov.17 S gave oration on CD's Honorary LL.D. DNB WWH. 'Tu vero, qui leges naturae tam docte illustraveris, legum Doctor nobis esto' LLiii 222. Sandwalk Path in grounds of Down House, used regularly by CD for constitutional walk. 1846 S was laid down around woodland planted from pasture rented from Sir John William Lubbock. 1874 It was bought from Sir John L. Sandpit at S end was used for

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at Down House, and suggested that Hooker take him on at Kew. He left Edinburgh 'at what . . . he considered discouragement and slight'. CD met S once, between Mar. and May 1864. 1867 CD to Hooker, he had had a nice letter from S on acclimatization MLii 3. 1871 S offers to repay his fare; CD replies strongly that he 'a rich man' had given it as a present, not as a loan MLii 331. 1873 S helped with Expression, p.21 'The habit of accurate observation, gained by his botanical studies, has been

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. 1836 CD to Henslow, 'Also about fossil shells. Is Sowerby a good man? I understand his assistance can be purchased' Darwin-Henslow 120. 1844 S wrote appendix to CD's Volcanic islands. 1846 S wrote appendix to CD's South America. Sowerby, George Brettingham [II] 1812 1844. s of George Brettingham S [I]. 1851 1854 S drew illustrations for all CD's work on cirripedes. 1861 Oct.5 6 S was at Down House drawing orchids for Fertilisation of orchids 1862. Spanish First editions in: Journal of researches

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Strickland, Hugh Edwin 1811 1853. Naturalist. FRS 1852. Author of Strickland code of zoological nomenclature, 1863, published by British Association. 1849 CD to S, on difficulties in nomenclature in relation to his barnacle work LLi 372, MLi 68. S was killed by a train. DNB. Strickland, Sefton West 1839 1910. Barrister. Cambridge friend of William Erasmus D. S was often at Down House. 1882 S was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Struggle for Existence 1859 'We will now

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Wedgwood Life of Romanes 99, 100. 1881 Jul.23 Romanes spent day with T at Down Hall and called on CD, the last time they met. 1887 T was on 'Personal Friends invited' list for CD's funeral. Tegetmeier, William Bernhard 1816 1917. Ornithologist poultry fancier. T helped CD extensively with information for Variation. 'Correspondence began in 1855, and lasted to 1881' LLii 57. 1887 T called on ED at Down House. Tenby S Wales. South Cliff House; home of Harriet Surtees after death of husband 1827

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rolled on CD on Keston Common, bruising him badly. He had been riding when Anton Dohra visited Down House on 26 September. EDii 195, Carroll 369. Tony A male dog owned by Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II]. 1880, when she died, he was taken over by CD. Torbitt, James Agriculturalist of Belfast. 1876 1878 CD, with [page] 27

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, 'responded in a wonderfully kind manner, and has sent a lot of treasures' MLii 278. 1874 CD to W, thanking her for providing plants for Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia montana, which lives in moss on trees, unlike the usual species which are aquatic LLiii 327, Carroll 449. W called on CD at Down House but he was ill. CD called on W several times in London. Autobiography: Under five reigns, London 1910, 106 112, has [page] 28

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, 'that poor mad creature' FUL 96. Whitehead, Mr The first tenant of Down House after ED's death, leasing it 1900 1906. W owned the first motor car in Downe. 'Shadowy figure' Atkins 102. Whiteman, R. G. 1881 CD to W, explaining why he omitted the whale-bear story from 2nd and subsequent editions of Origin MLi 392. Whitley, Rev. Charles 1808 1895. Cousin of J. M. Herbert. Vicar of Bedlington, Northumberland. Reader in Natural Philosophy Durham. Hon. Canon of Durham. Intimate friend of CD at

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partridges on the first of September', he was putting a finger on an important ingredient in the Beagle's success. On 24 January 1839, Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and five days later he was married to his cousin Emma Wedgwood. The first three and a half years of their married life were spent in London at a house in Gower Street, but in the autumn of 1842 they were compelled by his persistent ill health to move to the quiet of the country at Down House, in the village of Downe

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Channel. C.M. No. 121.                            187 Fuegians and their canoes in Beagle Channel. C.M. No. 124.                     188 Second page of C.D.'s letter to his sister Catherine dated 6 April 1834. Down House Museum.          195 Patagonians at Gregory Bay. C.M. No. 96.                                                  197 Basalt Glen, Santa Cruz River, pencil sketch. C.M. No. 173.                     200 Hauling the boat up the Santa Cruz River. C.M. No. 193

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PREFACE Covington, was more competent in this direction, and I have chosen two of his pictures from the collection belonging to the Linnean Society of New South Wales that is lodged in the Mitchell Library. So much for the pictorial material. For the accounts of the voyage written on the spot, we are mainly dependent on Darwin, whose notebooks, diary and family letters are all at Down House. His first impressions were jotted down in note form in a series of 18 small notebooks. As may be seen

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acknowledged profound effect on Darwin during the voyage. The first volume was given to him prior to their leaving by Captain Robert Fitz-Roy (1805 1865), the second was sent to him by Henslow in 1832. When one reads Darwin's notes, letters, and diary written on the voyage, which are variously at the Cambridge University Library, Down House, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one cannot help but gain the impression that he was most interested in geology, somewhat so in zoology, and least so in

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. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Research for this paper was made possibly by a grant from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society and travel funds from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University Education Foundation. I am indebted to the directors and staffs of the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge University Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Down House for the opportunity of examining their collections of Darwiniana, Kew allowing me to quote from unpublished letters; Peter

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THIS GUIDEBOOK WAS REVISED IN 1981 BY THE CUSTODIAN OF DOWN HOUSE PHILIP TITHERADGE [page]

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. *Private ledger. *Cheques. *Darwin's reckoning of receipts from sales of his books. The total at the end of the year 1881 is 10,248. Notes on health and weight. *Prescriptions; notebooks with prescriptions for the children; nature notes. *Catalogue of Down House specimens. *Notes on plants on the lawn at Down House and seeds in the Sandwalk. *Notes on the well at Down House. *Notes on his will; letters from his son, William Erasmus Darwin, on the estate. *Charles Darwin's address book. Centre Table

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Macaulay, Lord Stanhope and George Grote, the historians, Sydney Smith and Thomas Carlyle, the essayists; and he attended the meetings of several scientific societies as well as acting as secretary to the Geological Society. It was on September 14th 1842 that Mr and Mrs Darwin and their two children, William and Anne Elizabeth, moved into Down House. For some years afterwards he made regular visits to London to attend meetings and meet his friends, but the remoteness of the village in those

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Darwin's handwriting, of specimens preserved in spirit of wine (3907 in all). The case was placed on loan to Down House in 1958 by kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History Section). Fireplace Wall On each side of the fireplace are shown various photographs of Down House and grounds. General Rosas, friend of Darwin in Argentina (See: 'Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle', edited by Nora Barlow. 1945). A copy of the portrait of Charles Darwin by the Hon. John

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party when we were joined by the Darwins. The more you can penetrate through the reserve of Kitty's character, the more you will see the beauty of it ' A Century of Family Letters. 1904. p. 109. (Edited by H. E. Litchfield). *The Mumbles, by John Syer, of Bristol. (1815-1885). North Wall - Above the Piano *The Itchen, by Albert Goodwin. Painted 1876 Down House; north front, c 1820-1830. The wing of which this room forms part was added by Darwin in 1858 and 1877. The 'Beagle': reproduction from

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Grandfather clock, by Joseph Bosley, London, in George II lacquer case. Portrait of Dr Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather. Photograph of Joseph Hooker of Kew. Charles Darwin and Richard Owen: cartoons from Vanity Fair. Two views of Down House, one showing the north and the other the east side. c 1820-1830. Alfred Russel Wallace. Photograph. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) O.M., F.R.S., naturalist, visited the Amazon with Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) during the years 1848 to 1852

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above. It too is at Down House. 3. Charles Darwin with his firstborn William Erasmus, 1839-1914 A modem copy from a daguerreotype which was taken on 23 August 1842; the photographer is unknown. It was taken less than a month before the family moved to Down House. This is the only portrait of Darwin with one of his young children. These first three are the only contemporary pictures of the Darwins when they lived in Upper Gower Street. 4. Number 110 Gower Street, earlier Number 12 Upper Gower Street

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book for specialists and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other. It was published on 6 November and 1,500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. Francis Darwin had moved back to Down House, with his infant son Bernard, after the death of his first wife. He acted as research assistant to his father for some years. [F1325]. 68. 1881 'The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits'. 8vo, London, John Murray. This, his last book, is

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Foreword Charles Robert Darwin was born at his father's house, The Mount, Shrewsbury, on 12 February 1809. He died at Down House on 19 April 1882, in the seventy fourth year of his age. He lived at Number 12 Upper Gower Street from 1 January 1839 until 16 September 1842. The house has gone but the site is a part of this College. To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his death, the Biological Sciences Building has today been renamed the Darwin Building. Professor Richard Darwin Keynes F.R

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17. Gwendolen Mary Darwin, 1885-1957 Miss Darwin, the eldest child of Sir George Darwin, was the first of the family who is known to have been at the College. She attended the Slade School of Fine Art between October 1908 and March 1911. She is better remembered by her married name, Mdme Jacques Raverat, as an illustrator. Her book Period piece, 1952, which she illustrated herself, is a most interesting and amusing study of Darwin's children and grandchildren at Cambridge and Down House. This

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Number 94, which had been Number 4 in Darwin's day and was built on exactly the same plan. A recent biographer of the Wedgwoods has described this house as 'a spacious house with light, well-proportioned rooms' and Hensleigh's private room as 'twenty-four feet by eighteen feet, on the first floor'. Perhaps Francis, used to Down and spacious Darwin houses in Cambridge, had never been inside Number 12. The house had a frontage of twenty-four feet, with a basement and area with steps. The ground

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exactly to Darwin's own wording in that catalogue. Thus only where this information was recorded in Darwin's notes was it preserved for later use. Darwin apparently recorded such information incidentally as part of the habitat description. For example, specimens 3363 and 3364 are followed by the comment: 'Small insects, sweeping; high up, central parts of Charles Island' ('Printed Numbers 3345[-3907]', Down House). In his section on advice to collectors, which appeared only in the first edition

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recorded localities. 33. See 'Zoological Accessions Aves, 1854-1873', pp. 34-35, 64: registry nos. 1856.3.15.4, 1857.11.28.247, and 1857.11.28.248; British Museum (Natural History), Sub-department of Ornithology, Tring. 34. On the propriety of formally recognizing trinomials for Geospiza magnirostris magnirostris and G. magnirostris strenua, see note 53. 35. See 'Printed Numbers 3345[-3907]', Down House, under specimen nos. 3312-19. 36. Darwin's specimen of Mimus parvulus ( = Nesomimus parvulus

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of the remaining seven married, only the portly and rather simple Elizabeth remaining single at home. Charles and Emma remained together there for forty years and after his death she continued to spend the summers there for a further fourteen. The only changes over the years, other than to their family, were considerable improvements to the house and grounds; these are detailed in Atkins (1974). There are two fallacies about their life at Down House which have been often repeated—that Downe was

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journals and these, with biographical matter added, were reprinted in five volumes in 1907-1916. His only popular work, The Tides, 1898, was the outcome of a lecture course given at Boston in the previous year. All his married life was spent at The Grange, later Newnham Grange, a large house on the river by the Silver Street bridge; it is now a part of Darwin College. Sir George had inherited Down House on his mother's death, but he never lived there. After a short private let, it was rented by

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an inventor, Darwin had a Da Vinci type of protean ingenuity. His Commonplace Book [now at Down House] is full of designs and speculations': canal lifts, speaking machines, steam carriages, even aircraft and submarines. Sir John Sinclair said of Darwin's Phytologia, which is dedicated to him, 'a most valuable performance...but on the whole it is too philosophical a description to be calculated for general use' and this statement could be more widely applied to most of Darwin's ideas. The Lunar

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folios designated DAR 29-42. They are apparently in the order in which they were left on Charles Darwin's death in 1882. 5. These are held at Down House. Downe, Kent, Darwin's home from 1841 until his death in April 1882, and of members of his family until the turn of the century. Down House is now the Charles Darwin Memorial. 6. Cambridge University Library Manuscripts (CULM) DAR 38.1/858. It is dated 'Tuesday'. The only Tuesday that the Beagle was at King George's Sound was 8 March 1836; quite

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London and at Down House, Kent, where Charles and his bride (and cousin) Emma (n e Wedgwood) were now living.80 Joseph Hooker read through the Essay of 1844 (he thought portions 'goodish' according to Charles own marginal annotations), and he acknowledged freely the assistance that Charles gave to his own botanical work on southern hemisphere floras and their relationship to the 'species theory', while they were sitting in the Old Study at Down, or walking round the Sandwalk, Charles' 'Thinking

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London and at Down House, Kent, where Charles and his bride (and cousin) Emma (n e Wedgwood) were now living.80 Joseph Hooker read through the Essay of 1844 (he thought portions 'goodish' according to Charles own marginal annotations), and he acknowledged freely the assistance that Charles gave to his own botanical work on southern hemisphere floras and their relationship to the 'species theory', while they were sitting in the Old Study at Down, or walking round the Sandwalk, Charles' 'Thinking

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On the whole, however, Darwin practiced what he preached. We know that he was well equipped for his mission: the geological hammer the used, along with some of his dissecting instruments, and a sample of the type of specimen-box he used may be inspected today at Down House (see footnote 5). He also had a microscope, and the cabin that he shared with Captain FitzRoy was stuffed with books: his copy of the first edition of Lyell's Principles of Geology, now preserved in Cambridge, is falling to