Charles Darwin in 1854

The British naturalist Charles Darwin had correspondence with numerous other scientific luminaries of his age and members of his family. These provide historians with an insight into the man's character and the development of his scientific ideas. Charles Darwin in 1854, 5 years after he published The Origin of Species. ... -1... Charles Darwin, about the same time as the publication of The Origin of Species. ... Correspondence may refer to: In the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, correspondence is the relationship between spiritual and physical realities. ... Darwins family tree The Darwin -- Wedgwood family was a prominent English family, descended from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, the most notable member of which was Charles Darwin. ...

Significiance

Charles Darwin corresponded with many other naturalists, rarely travelling, illness. The letters throw light on his ideas on evolution and botany. Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolutionary theory In the life sciences, evolution is a change in the traits of living organisms over generations, including the emergence of new species. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

List of persons with whom Darwin corresponded

Template:Expandlist Asa Gray Joseph Dalton Hooker Thomas Huxley Charles Lyell Alfred Russell Wallace

History

It Darwin's custom to file all letters received, and when his slender stock of files ("spits" as he called them) was exhausted, he would burn the letters of several years, in order that he might make use of the liberated "spits." This process, carried on for years, destroyed nearly all letters received before 1862. 1862 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

In 1887, five years after Darwin's death, Darwin's son Francis Darwin published The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin in 2 volumes, to accompany the publication of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. This was later followed by two volumes of More Letters of Charles Darwin published in 1902. 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... Sir Francis Darwin, F.R.S. (August 16th 1848 - 19th September 1925) was the botanist son of Charles Darwin. ... The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1974 the Darwin Correspondence Project was founded at Cambridge University by Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith. Cambridge University owns 9,000 letters and has obtained copies of another 6,000 held in private collections. New letters are being discovered at around 60 per year and photocopies of new finds should be sent to the project, who will eventually publish them online. 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). ... This article is about Sydney Smith, the English writer and wit. ...

References

• Project Gutenberg: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin vol 1 (ed by Francis Darwin) (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2087)
• Project Gutenberg: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin vol 2 (ed by Francis Darwin) (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2088)
• Project Gutenberg: More Letters of Charles Darwin vol 1 (ed by Francis Darwin) (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2739)
• Project Gutenberg: More Letters of Charles Darwin vol 2 (ed by Francis Darwin) (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2740)

External links

• Darwin Correspondence Project (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/)