F1481    Book:     Anon. 1909. Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebrations held at Cambridge June 22-June 24, 1909. With a sketch of Darwin's life. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

2 days. You cannot imagine how gloriously delightful my first visit was at home; it was worth the banishment. Dec. 13. Went to live at Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Street). 1837 On my return home [in the Beagle] in the autumn of 1836 I immediately began to prepare my journal for publication, and then1 saw how many facts indicated the common descent of species....In July (1837) I opened my first note-book for facts in relation to the origin of species, about which I had long reflected, and never ceased

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

1836 Oct. 4. Reached Shrewsbury after absence of 5 years and 2 days. You cannot imagine how gloriously delightful my first visit was at home; it was worth the banishment. Dec. 13. Went to live at Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Street). The only evil I found in Cambridge was its being too pleasant. 1837 On my return home [in the Beagle] in the autumn of 1836 I immediately began to prepare my journal for publication, and then saw how many facts indicated the common descent of species...In July (1837) I

McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.2]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel to Sidney C. Cockerell  1909.01.06   autograph note by A. R. Wallace, about the missing MS. of his 1858 paper on empty manila envelope, postmarked JY 6, 1909   Text   Image

S. C. Cockerell, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [postmark:] BROADSTONE B JY 6 0

F3515    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1910. [Manuscript facsimile: 'the percentage system takes no account of relationship of organisms, when all species different']. In T. D. A. Cockerell, The Darwin celebration at Cambridge. The Popular Science Monthly 76 (January): 23-31.   Text   Image   PDF

[Photograph:] FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, where the Chancellor's reception was held. him. In the few words I had with him, he recalled with pleasure his botanical trip to Colorado with Asa Gray. Old as he is, he has by no means given up botanical work; a paper describing new Asiatic species of Impatiens appeared only the other day. [Photograph:] SENATE HOUSE (to the left of picture), where the addresses were presented and the honorary degrees conferred. [page] 2

A553    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1911. Darwin's lodgings. Christ's College Magazine Easter Term: 248-50.   Text   Image   PDF

there. Besides his rooms over Bacon's Darwin also occupied lodgings at No. 22, Fitzwilliam Street, the houses there being, in his time, nearly new. We hope that Mr J. E. Foster, who has kindly supplied most of the facts here narrated, will be able later on to give some further information concerning the house In Fitzwilliam Street

A554    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, Francis. 1914. [Obituary of] William Erasmus Darwin. Christ's College Magazine 29: 16-23.   Text   Image

I am very glad that you like King's it used to be a great pleasure to me. You have to see the beautiful pictures in the Fitzwilliam. The backs of the Colleges (N.B. not Colledges as some people spell it) are indeed beautiful: I do not think there is anything in Oxford to equal them. Remember to let me know in good time before you run short of money, and I do earnestly beg you keep accounts carefully, which as far as I am concerned shall be quite private Your affect. C. DARWIN. William spent

A2094b    Book:     Hooker, J. D. 1918. [Recollections of Darwin]. In L. Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London: John Murray, vol. 2.   Text

strong personal link with his name was kept up by the active work in the University of his distinguished sons. The proceedings extended over three days, the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of June; 1500 invitations were sent out. The first evening there was a reception by the Chancellor, Lord Rayleigh, in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Next morning, a presentation of addresses by delegates of Universities, Colleges, Academies, and Learned Societies, in the Senate House; in the afternoon, a garden party at Christ's

A874    Book:     Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts.   Text   Image   PDF

to the treasures of the Fitzwilliam Gallery to serve his apprenticeship as a connoisseur of engravings, and to King's College Chapel for the exquisite music that used to send a shiver down his backbone. Strange that the response to music evoked thus, or by the playing of his friends, should have been so deep in one who was really destitute of musical ear, and unable to perceive a discord or hum a tune correctly a state which his musical friends soon detected, and used to amuse themselves now and

A555    Book:     Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147.   Text   Image   PDF

two months later, on 13th December, Darwin settled again in Cambridge, but only for three months. He took lodgings in Fitzwilliam Street, in a house on the northern side, now bearing a tablet which records his residence, and spent his time in unpacking and distributing the collections which he had made on his South American voyage. He was apparently a good deal in College, and was evidently made a Member of the Room, for his name occurs frequently in the Combination Room wine book. This book

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

career. 'He left England untried and almost uneducated for science, he returned in 1836 a successful collector, a practised and brilliant geologist, and with a wide knowledge of zoology gained at first hand in many parts of the world.' Coming back to Cambridge he lived for some months at 22, Fitzwilliam Street, a fact which is commemorated by a plaque affixed there. 'And thus it was that within a year of his return he could begin his first note-book on evolution the first stone, in fact, of the

F1497    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins.   Text   Image   PDF

But I am glad to think that I had many other friends of a widely different nature. I was very intimate with Whitley1, who was afterwards Senior Wrangler, and we used continually to take long walks together. He inoculated me with a taste for pictures and good engravings, of which I bought some. I frequently went to the Fitzwilliam Gallery, and my taste must have been fairly good, for I certainly admired the best pictures, which I discussed with the old curator. I read also with much interest

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

them. 'I dare say that the British Museum would receive them', he wrote1 to Henslow on 4 October 1836, 'but I cannot feel, from all I hear, any great respect even for the present state of that establishment'. It is in this light that the first of the following letters is written. It is included here by the courtesy of the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The remaining letters, preserved in the Owen Correspondence in the General Library of the British Museum (Natural History) and

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

.' 132 From Voyages of the Beagle (1839), vol. II, p. 171. R. FitzRoy. 'Breast ploughing at Chiloe.' 133 From Voyages of the Beagle (1839), vol. I, p. 287. P. P. King. John Stevens Henslow, F.L.S., by T. H. Maguire, 1849. (From Ipswich Museum Portraits, published c. 1850.) 148 Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Charles Robert Darwin, F.R.S., by T. H. Maguire, 1849. (From Ipswich Museum Portraits.) 149 Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of 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

that, tone deaf as he appears to have been, he ever delighted in what Sir Thomas Beecham called the noise music makes. That this was genuine there can be no doubt. We know little of Charles' views on the graphic arts, but I would suspect that his taste was a little severe. At Cambridge he made friends with an undergraduate called Whitley, who was eventually Senior Wrangler and afterwards a Canon. With him Charles would visit the Fitzwilliam Museum, where he spent hours studying the line engravings

A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF

an undergraduate student at Edinburgh, and Cambridge, and for almost 5 years when on the Beagle. On his return, he stayed in Cambridge with Henslow or in lodgings in Fitzwilliam St, and in London with his brother Erasmus Alvey D at 43 Great Marlborough St. In 1837, Mar. 13, he took furnished rooms at 36 Great Marlborough St with his secretary servant Syms Covington: this house can perhaps be regarded as his first personal home. After his engagement to ED, he rented a furnished house, 12 Upper

F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text

working with his toe to perform some difficult task.— Aug. 12th. When in National Institution1 not feeling much enthusiasm, happened to go close to one smelt the peculiar smell of Picture. association with much pleasure immediately thrilled across me, bringing up old indistinct ideas of FitzWilliam Musm.2 I was amused at this after seven years interval. Augt. 15th. As child gains habit «or trick» so much more easily than man, so may animal obtain it far more easily, in proportion to variableness or

F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text

specimen of the Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, Conybeare, in the collection of Viscount Cole. Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5:515−35. C72 1841a On the anatomy of the southern Apteryx (Apteryx australis, Shaw). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 2:257−301 [Communicated 10 April 1838]. C3 D35 1841b Description of the Lepidosiren annectens. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 18:327−61. [Read 1839.] E168 Owen, William Fitzwilliam *1832 Some remarks relative to the geography of the Maldiva Islands. J. R. Geogr. Soc. 2:81−92. A128

A347    Periodical contribution:     Keynes, Milo. 1998. The Portland Vase: Sir William Hamilton, Josiah Wedgwood and the Darwins. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 52 (2) (July): 237-259.   Text   Image

Josiah I in 1789, is complicated. It was not one of the two copies that belonged to Charles, Erasmus's grandson by his first marriage, in 1757, to Mary Howard (1740-1770), and Charles's wife, Emma.55 When Erasmus died in 1802, 'the first perfect copy', descended over three generations in his third family by his marriage, in 1781, to the widow, Elizabeth Pole (1747-1832), before passing to his first family and then to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. After belonging to the second daughter of his

A27b    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.   Text

brilliantly depicted in Gwen Raverat's Period Piece, 1952. Apart from his residence as an undergraduate, for which see Cambridge University, CD was in Cambridge on the following occasions: 1831 Sep. 2-4, 19, staying with Henslow when preparing for Beagle voyage. 1836-1837 1836 Dec. 13-1837 Mar. 6, staying with Henslow and in Fitzwilliam St, sorting Beagle material. He had two short trips to London during this period. 1838 May 10-12 to visit Henslow. 1870 May 20-24, to visit his sons, Francis

A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF

DECEMBER 13, Cambridge DECEMBER 16 MARCH 6, 1837, lived in lodgings, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge 1837 JANUARY, in Cambridge arranging specimens, finished last part of Journal manuscript JANUARY 3, visited London and probably consulted with Richard Owen about fossils JANUARY 4, read paper on elevation of Chile to Geological Society of London FEBRUARY 17, attended Geological Society meeting FEBRUARY 27, discussed fused sand tubes at meeting of Cambridge Philosophical Society MARCH 6, moved to