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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Encloses diagram illustrating difference between Chthamalus and Balanus. Specimens sent. Finds no Chthamalus in WT’s collection.
Has read with much interest WT’s book [The natural history of Ireland, vol. 1 (1849)].
Recommends E. S. Dixon’s book [Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)].
CD is obliged to put off his journey to Paris because of ill-health, but this will give CD more time to study the specimens.
Values HM-E’s opinion on CD’s barnacle work more than any man’s in Europe.
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
Reports progress with water-cure. Describes the treatment.
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
Reports on developments in recent years, his father’s death, his own poor health, publications, and work on barnacles. Asks SC to collect some specimens, if he lives near the sea.
News of FitzRoy and B. J. Sulivan.
On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".
Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.
Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.
CD believes that floating ice and glaciers produce indistinguishable effects in actions such as scoring or polishing rocks.
Comments on his account.
CD’s vexation at the serious printer’s error in his "Geology" [Collected papers 1: 227–50].
Appreciates what Murray and the printer are doing to rectify the error [transposition of pages of text in "Geology"]. But if the responsible person will be fined heavily, CD would want to "make some present".
Thanks JFWH for the trouble he has taken to correct printing error in "Geology".
Discusses Dr Gully’s water-cure.
Mentions illness of Emma Darwin.
Comments on CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849].
His water treatment by J. M. Gully.
CD’s contribution ["Geology"] to J. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry [(1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50].
Declines to canvass for Richard King.
Water-cure has benefited health.