CUL-DAR112.A74-A75    Correspondence:   King Philip Gidley to Darwin Francis  1882.09.08   King Philip Gidley to Darwin Francis   Text   Image

King, Philip Gidley. 1882.09.08. [Recollections of Darwin.] CUL-DAR112.A74-A75 [74] [in another hand] P.G. King Adelaide, Sept. 8/ 82 My dear Sir You will find my name amongst the officers of the Beagle and you will then know that I was the shipmate of your most revered father - Some years ago he sent his photograph taken as he said by one of his sons, and I have had several notes from him during the last 20 years. Professor Liversidge has just informed me that you are anxious to [74v

CUL-DAR112.A10-A12    Correspondence:   Butler Thomas to [Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])?]  1882.09.13   Butler Thomas to [Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])?]   Text   Image

teeth we buried them in order to catch some beetles which we found a week or more afterwards upon the spot, dark with reddish patches on their Elytra: but our party consisted of 7 or 8 men we were most of us anxious to get to mountain tops spots of remarkable scenery he was not very often of our party. I did not see him again until his return from the Beagle expedition when I traveled with him Southey in a stage coach from Birmingham to Shrewsbury. He was then obviously very ill looking like a

CUL-DAR207.17    Correspondence:   Usborne Alexander Burns to [Litchfield Henrietta Emma née Darwin?]  1882.09.15   Usborne Alexander Burns to [Litchfield Henrietta Emma née Darwin?]   Text   Image

with us in the Beagle, and at all times of his amicability. He was a dreadful sufferer from seasickness, and at times when I have been officer of the watch, and reduced the sails on the ship, making her more easy, and relieving him; I have been pronounced by him to be a good officer and he would resume his microscopic observations in the poop cabin. He was a general favorite on board and dubbed the Philosopher , but we never anticipated he would have become so distinguished a man, as he

CUL-DAR112.A54-A55    Correspondence:   Hamond Robert Nicholas to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])  1882.09.19   Hamond Robert Nicholas to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])   Text   Image

South American Emissary meeting when one of the secretaries mentioned a conversation which had passed between your father and a distinguished naval officer who was also in the Beagle, knowing this anecdote from the mouth of the same officer [55v

CUL-DAR112.B93    Printed:    1882.10.22   'Letter read by Dr B.W Richardson F.R.S. at his lecture on Charles Darwin': [5pp]   Text   Image

as they presented themselves naturally from day to day. Mr. DARWIN was at that time a great sufferer from dyspepsia of an aggravated character, brought on, as he always supposed, by the extreme sea-sickness he underwent in the course of his voyage round the world in H. M. S. Beagle, to which expedition he had been appointed Naturalist. In the course of a long professional experience I have seen many cases of violent indigestion, in its many forms, and with the multiform tortures it entails, but

CUL-DAR198.85    Correspondence:   Haliburton Sarah Harriet to Darwin Emma née Wedgwood  [1882].11.12   Haliburton Sarah Harriet to Darwin Emma née Wedgwood   Text   PDF

whole bed of them — he had the most hearty laugh I ever remember, had the knack of interesting us in his pursuits — Very great was our sorrow, when he departed on his Beagle Expedition but my father lived to see him return, I believe read every word of his Narratives – So upright, so modest, so simple minded, oh, when shall his like be seen again – But these recollections, precious as they are, to those who loved him, would not be understood by the outside world – I know you will kindly return me

A314    Pamphlet:     Miall, L. C. 1883. The life and work of Charles Darwin: a lecture delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 6th, 1883. Leeds: Richard Jackson.   Text   Image   PDF

other men the zoological and botanical results of his voyage to work out, reserving the geology for himself; and his memoir on Coral Reefs, which belongs to natural history at least as much as to geology, was published as part of the Geology of the Beagle. The Beagle was finally disposed of in 1846, and the next great piece of work which Darwin undertook brought him back to Zoology. This was the memoir on the Cirripedia, published by the Ray Society, in two volumes of more than a thousand

A314    Pamphlet:     Miall, L. C. 1883. The life and work of Charles Darwin: a lecture delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 6th, 1883. Leeds: Richard Jackson.   Text   Image   PDF

del Fuego, and the comparison, point by point, with Western Europe. Then the Beagle sailed into the Pacific, and the Andes appear as the next scene in this fine panorama. Earthquakes and their traces, elevation and subsidence of the land, the absence of denuding power in deep water, contrasts of vegeta- B (*) Descent of Man Chap. xxi. [page] 18 THE LIFE AND WOR

A314    Pamphlet:     Miall, L. C. 1883. The life and work of Charles Darwin: a lecture delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 6th, 1883. Leeds: Richard Jackson.   Text   Image   PDF

Such undertakings may suitably be left to establish the fame of great though lesser men: it would have been a calamity in the history of our race if Charles Darwin had been tempted by his own ability to become a comparative anatomist. We now come to the Origin of Species the great centre of Darwin's scientific work. Suggested by the voyage of the Beagle, and long meditated, it was not publicly mentioned till 1858, and only a happy accident forced on its publication so early as 1859. Perhaps no

A572    Book contribution:     Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. 1883. Discurso en honor de Darwin (30 May 1882). In Discursos populares. Buenos Aires: Imprenta Europea, pp. 408-429. [Translated by Thomas F. Glick]   Text

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. 1883. Discurso en honor de Darwin (30 May 1882). In Discursos populares. Buenos Aires: Imprenta Europea, pp. 408-429. [Translated by Thomas F. Glick] [pages 410, 413] I have been familiar with Darwin's name for forty years when, embarked on the Beagle under FitzRoy's command, he visited the extreme south of the continent, for I knew the ship and its crew and, later on, [from] The Journal of researches which I had to cite not a few times with reference to

CUL-DAR200.3.37    Printed:    1883   'Inaugural address to Abernethian Society 5 October 1882' London Adlard: 20pp   Text   PDF

excursions, Professor Henslow offered to Mr. Darwin the post of naturalist on the Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy. The offer was gladly accepted, and in this capacity Darwin started on a voyage round the world, which furnished him with many of the facts, and partly suggested the ideas which astounded the world when published in his 'Origin of Species.' During this voyage he suffered much from sea sickness, and this, along with occasional privations in his journeys, laid the

CUL-DAR112.A85b-A85d    Correspondence:   Minching W. to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])  1883.01.09   Minching W. to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913])   Text   Image

- He knew Dr R. W. Darwin well, both professionally otherwise; but did not know your father until his return to England in the Beagle - when he met him at Dr Darwin's house, at the channel, in Shrewsbury. - If he can in any way assist in the enquiries you are making, I am sure that you will hear from him. I regret that my enquiries have not proved more successful - that I do not, at present, think of [85dv

CUL-DAR200.3.39    Printed:    1883.05.02   'Anniversary address to Royal Society of New South Wales, 2 May 1883' Sydney: 17pp. Offprint.   Text   Image   PDF

naturalist was to be chosen to accompany the surveying expedition of her Majesty's ship Beagle in 1831, Darwin was recommended to Captain Fitzroy and the

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

to leave the Beagle and retire from the expedition when he thought proper, and that he should pay a fair share of the expenses of my table. 1 Captain Fitzroy, in proposing the appointment of a scientific man, and Professor Henslow, in fixing upon Darwin for the post, did good service to the world, for, during the voyage of the Beagle seeds were sown in Darwin's fertile mind which bore fruit in his greatest works, and indeed in nearly all the work of his life. He told us long afterwards how the

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

common cause. So early had Mr. Darwin, then a young man of twenty-nine, taken his place among the leading geologists of his time. In 1842 the first of three volumes by Mr. Darwin on the Geology of the Beagle was published under the title of the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; in 1844 appeared Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle, together with some Brief Notices on the Geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope ; and in 1846 the

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

but with his high spirits, love of society and love of sport I dare say that all manner of fun lay more from home than at Shrewsbury, and therefore getting away was merely [to] get more fun. His fondness for his home brothers at home comes out strongly in his letters from the Beagle. [illeg] The only recollection of his mother is mentioned in the autobiography. His affection for Uncle Ras had something pathetic in it as if he always recollected Uncle Ras's solitary life, and the touching

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

and, writing to Admiral Sullivan (who accompanied Captain Fitzroy in the Beagle), he said— I had always thought the civilization of the Japanese the most wonderful thing in history, but I am now convinced that what the missionaries have done in Tierra del Fuego, in civilizing the natives, is at least as wonderful. Not content with expressing his admiration, Mr. Darwin sent a donation to the South American Missionary Society by which the work was accomplished; and amongst the tributes paid to

A77    Periodical contribution:     Hague, J. D. 1884. A reminiscence of Mr. Darwin. Harper's new Monthly Magazine. 69, Issue 413 October: 759-763.   Text   Image

opportunity for observation who did not regret his imperfect qualifications. It was my own experience. If I could only go now, with my head sixty years old and my body twenty-five, I could do something. Then he said that his visit to the Pacific, or rather his voyage in the Beagle, was the beginning of his scientific career; that he had not before given much serious attention to science, or studied with a definite purpose; that when the Beagle was fitting out he was a young man, fond of sport

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

He had a surly dog who was devoted to him but unfriendly to every one else, when he came back from the Beagle voyage the dog remembered him but in a curious way which me father was fond of telling. He went into the yard shouted to the dog in his old way the dog ran out went a walk without any signs of pleasure, just as if he had been out with him the day before. In my memory there were only two dogs which were anything to my father. One was a large black white half bred retreiver [sic

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

that he had been attached to the Beagle, the old gentleman said Then I know who you are,— you're Bino the surgeon, — when he heard father's name he exclaimed, Why God bless my soul I've read you're books. He left shop without discovering divulging his own name. He drank very little wine, but enjoyed and was revived by the little he did drink. I have a recollection his saying Das ist gut after a glass of sherry. Bill Marshall1 reminded me of my father saying after a luncheon (probably after a

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

same continent between the dead and the living will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on the earth, and their disappearance from it, than any other class of facts. We have here the germ of the great law of the long-enduring, but not immutable, succession of the same types within the same areas, which is set forth in the Origin of Species. When the Beagle reached Tierra del Fuego, and the natives advanced to the shore, Mr. Darwin saw, without

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

The quiet life at Down was varied occasionally by journeys in England and Wales, but Mr. Darwin never travelled much after his long voyage in the Beagle. He visited Snowdonia, attracted there by Buckland's account of ice-action, and the result appeared in a paper of great value (1843) on British Glaciers. Years after, we believe, he delivered a lecture before the members of the Literary Institute at Tenby, where some of Mrs. Darwin's relations were then living; but he was little seen in public

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

having only a fringe of dark hair behind which was generally rather irregular untidy; His hair was cut by my mother. I remember the words [ ]I really must get Mammy to cut my hair. — When [on] the Beagle he grew his beard which was nearly black and long enough to project well beyond his hand when he seized it in his hand. Professor Newton used to say it was a thousand pities he ever grew his beard as the expression of his mouth was so sweet. His body was very hairy and this I remember because

CUL-DAR112.A99-A108    Correspondence:   Sulivan B J to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) (Sir [1913])  1884.12.12   Sulivan B J to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) (Sir [1913])   Text   Image

Sulivan, B. J. 1884.12.12. [Recollections of Darwin and the Beagle.] CUL-DAR112.A99-A108 99 T. Bournemouth Dec 12/ 84 My dear Mr Darwin The old ten gun brig class, which Beagle belonged to on her first voyage, got the name of coffins chiefly from several having been lost as Packets in winter voyages from Halifax during the time the Admiralty had the Falmouth packet under [99v

CUL-DAR112.A99-A108    Correspondence:   Sulivan B J to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) (Sir [1913])  1884.12.12   Sulivan B J to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) (Sir [1913])   Text   Image

them instead of the Post Office as before. They were very deep waisted , that is had high bulwarks for their size, so that a heavy sea breaking over them was the more dangerous; yet the Beagle for five years was employed in the most stormy region in the world, under Commander Stokes and 100 FitzRoy without serious accident. When recommissioned in 1831 for another five years in the same stormy region, she was found to be so rotten that she had to be really rebuilt except a few floor timbers. It