Question.

Yourself.

Christian name and surname of your father and your mother.

Designation & principal scientific titles of?

Darwin, Charles Robert Esqr. M.A. F.G.S. – F.L.S. – Hon. F.R.S.E. & M.R.I.A. Ord. Boruss. "Pour la Merite" Eq: Acadd. Imp. Reg. Sci. Vindob. Reg. Sci. Brux. et Soc. Asiat. Beng. Corresp. Acadd. Imp. Sci. Petrop. Reg. Sci. Berol. et Holm. Soc. Reg. Sci. Upsal. Acad. Caes. Nat.-Cur. Dresd. Soc. Sci. Neoc. et Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Soc. Honor.  

Down, Beckenham, Kent.

Your father and your mother are they respectively, English, Welsh Scotch Irish Jewish or foreign? If foreign of what country?

(Make no entry in this space.)

 " "  " wholly or in what degree?

( ditto )

Was either your father or your mother descended from persons persecuted for political or religious opinions, or from political or religious refugees? If so state the precise relationship – mention whether their political or religious opinions became traditional in the family?

(Make reply in this space to the last paragraph only of question).

Date of the birth?

1809.

Place of the birth of: (if you do not remember that of either your father or mother, state where he or she resided in early life).

Occupation or profession of?

Your Father.

Your Mother

Robert Waring Darwin M.D. F.R.S.

Enter here your mothers maiden name} Susanna Wedgwood.

The entry here is to refer to the father of your mother} Josiah Wedgwood Manufacturer

English.

English.

Wholly.

Wholly.

No.

No.

May 30th 1766.

Lichfied.

Etruria Staffordshire.

Physician

The entry here is to refer to the father of your mother. } Manufacturer of Pottery.

Question.

Yourself.

Specify any interests that have been very actively pursued (in addition to the above mentioned regular occupation or profession) by

Science, & Field sports to a passionate degree during youth

Religion?

Nominally to Church of England

Politics?

Liberal or Radical.

Health?

Good when young.— bad for last 33 years.

Height &c?

Height?

Figure? &c.?

Measurement round inside of hat.

6 ft.

Spare, whilst young rather stout.

You have got this 22 ¼.

Colour of Hair?

Complexion?

Brown.

Rather sallow.

Temperament?

Somewhat nervous.

Energy of body, &c.?

Energy shown by much activity, & whilst I had health, power of resisting fatigue. I and one other man were alone able to fetch water for a large party of officers & sailors utterly prostrated. Some of my expeditions in S. America were adventurous. An early riser in the morning.

Memory?

Memory very bad for dates, and for learning by rote; but good in retaining a general or vague recollection of many facts.

Your Father.

Your Mother.

0

0

Nominally to Church of England.

Unknown.

Liberal.

Good throughout life, except from gout.

Height?

Figure &c.?

Height?

Figure &c.?

6ft 2.

Very broad & corpulent.

Rather tall.

Thin.

Colour of Hair?

Complexion?

Colour of Hair?

Complexion?

Brown.

Ruddy.

Brown.

Sallow.

Sanguine.

Great power of endurance although feeling much fatigue, as after consultations, after long journeys  very active not restless very early riser  no travels- My father said his father suffered much from sense of fatigue, that he worked very hard.

Habitually very active mind- shown in conversation with a succession of people during the whole day.

Wonderful memory for dates. In old age he told a person

reading aloud to him a book only read in youth

Question.

Yourself.

Studiousness?

Very studious, but not large acquirements.

Independence of Judgment?

I think fairly independent; but I can give no instances. I gave up common religious belief almost independently from my own reflections-

Originality, or Eccentricity?

George thinks this applies to me I do not think so- i.e. as far as eccentricity. I suppose that I have shown originality in science, as I have made discoveries with regard to common objects.

Special talents?

None, except for business as evinced by keeping accounts, replies to correspondence, & investing money very well. Very methodical in all my habits.

Steadiness—great curiosity about facts and their meaning. Some love of the new and marvellous.

Steadiness—great curiosity about facts and their meaning. Some love of the new and marvellous.

Your Father.

Your Mother.

Not very studious or mentally receptive, except for facts in conversation — great collector of anecdotes.

Free thinker in religious matters. Liberal, with rather a tendency to Toryism.

Original character, had great personal influence, and power of producing fear of himself in others. He kept his accounts with great care in a peculiar way, in a number of separate little books, without any general ledger.

Practical business — made a large fortune and incurred no losses.

Said to have been very agreable in conversation.

Strong social affection and great sympathy in the pleasures of others. Sceptical as to new things. Curious as to facts. Great foresight. Not much public spirit—great generosity in giving money and assistance.

Strong social affection and great sympathy in the pleasures of others. Sceptical as to new things. Curious as to facts. Great foresight. Not much public spirit—great generosity in giving money and assistance.

Question

Are any peculiarities either very uniformly developed, or else very irregularly developed among =

Yourself your brothers & sisters?

My brother had a taste for chemistry & mathematics, but none of my sisters had any scientific tastes.

Degree of Relationship.

State the No. of your Relatives in each of these degrees who have attained 30 years or thereabouts.

Names of Relatives in each degree who have occupied prominent positions.

Males

Females.

Grandparents {

The father & mother of your father.

The father & mother of your mother.

1

1

Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S.
Poet & Scientific Man.

1

1

Josiah Wedgwood. F.R.S.

Uncles & Aunts. {

The brothers & sisters of your Father.

Ditto   of your mother

*6

*(including Chas. D. who died elat 21)

3

Chas. Darwin

3

3.

Your own brothers & sisters-

1

4.

1st Cousins.{

The sons & daughters of the brothers of your father.

The — ditto ——— sisters of your father.

2.

3

8

6 or 7.

4.

6.

Fras. Galton.

Hensleigh Wedgwood.

Nephews & Nieces. {

The sons & daughters of your sisters.

4

4.

In other more remote degrees of Relationship {

Specify the Degree of Relationship.
Grandfathers (Eras: D). brother.

Mr Hadley (D or E) whom Geo: H. D.  has been informed was son of the illegit: son of Eras. D. the poet was tutor of St Johns Coll. Cam. & a good mathematician, he died about 6 years ago.

*Incorrect

Robt. Waring Darwin of Elston.

* in all F.G.'s Handwriting. [Francis Galton]

The Family of your Father?

The family of your Mother.

My fathers brother Erasmus had a great taste for genealogies and statistics.

My Mothers brother Thomas fond of Chemistry & Metaphysics — John published on Horticulture, but not an able man.

State their principal achievements.

Mention Biographies & Notices of them.

Relatives whose abilities in any respect was considerable but who did not become Public characters: (Vide schedule)

Author of Botanic Garden — Loves of the Plants. Zoonomia.

Miss Sewards & Dr Richardsons Lives.

Eras D.  F

"Father of English Pottery"

Miss Meteyards Life.

Josiah W.  F

Eminent Physician at Shrewsbury. Author of paper in Phil: Transactins. 

Robt. W.D.  E

Discoverer of distinction between pus & mucus(?) & very eminent as a medical student at Edinburgh.

Mentioned in sevl. Biographe Dictionaries

I suppose my uncle Charles ought to be included-
(Pencilled).

Miss

Miss Meteyards  Group of Eminent men.

Thos. Wedgwood – Discoverer of Photography.  D or E

7th Wrangler; Author of Entymolog. Dicty & Origin of Languages - Written on Metaphysics & a System of Geometry. (Trübner).

Henry Parker. Fellow of University Coll: Oxford. Distinguished classic good artist. & chemist – bad health.

Work on Botany. Principia Botanica 3rd Edit. 1810.

Brief notes concerning hereditary peculiarities of any kind in your family bodily or mental, would be acceptable.

Private

See the case in Domestic Animals vol II foot of p. 6 which refers to myself & daughter.

Four of my children suffered when young from curious feelings of the nervous system & heart which I believe to have been hereditary. Three sons suffer more or less from weakness of digestion from the same cause.

Pencilled Note.

[illeg] my son George, 2nd Wrangler & 2nd Smith's Prizeman and author of paper on the derivation of    to be included.

[illeg] Leonard always 2nd man in the very severe examination for Royal Engineers to be included.

Name.

Age

From To

What taught.

How long at small school?}

Large school?

Universities?

[Deane] School at Shrewsbury.

Shrewsbury

Edinburgh & Cambridge.

8.

9.

16.

9.

16.

22.

Elementary Classes & I suppose writing & arithmetic.

Classics & a very little arithmetic & Euclid

At Edinburgh Science & Medicine by Lectures.

At Cambridge a very little classics, and a little mathematics and a very little science.

Older than yourself

Younger than yourself

How many brothers had you?

1.

0

How many sisters had you?

3.

1.

Education?

How taught?

I consider that all I have learnt of any value has been self taught

Conducive to or Restrictive of habits of observation.

Respective of observation being almost entirely classical.

Conducive to health or otherwise?

Yes.

Peculiar merits?

None whatsoever

Chief omissions

No mathematics or modern languages nor any habits of observation or reasoning.

Has the religious creed taught in your youth had any deterrent effect on the freedom of your researches?

No.

Do your scientific tastes appear to have been innate?

Certainly innate.

Were they determined by any and what events?

My innate taste for natural history strongly confirmed & directed by the voyage in the Beagle

Descendants.

Have you been married?

Yes.

Maiden name of your wife

Emma Wedgwood

Year when?

1839

Number at all ages of living

Sons

Daughters.

5.

2.