The Invention of Nature

‘great confederation’: Report on letter from AH to Royal Society, 9 June 1836,

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

, vol.3, 1830–37, p.423; see also O’Hara 1983, pp.49–50.

84

almost two million observations: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.1, p.178; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.1, p.197.

85

‘economy of nature’: AH, Speech at Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 28 November 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.277; for AH’s call for global climate studies see p.281.

86

AH returned money: AH to Cancrin, 17 November 1829, ibid., p.215; Beck 1983, p.159.

87

‘natural history cabinet’: AH to Theodor von Schön, 9 December 1829; for vase and sable, see AH to WH, 9 December 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.237.

88

looked rather ‘picturesque’: AH to Cancrin, 24 December 1829, ibid., p.257.

89

‘contradictory theories’: Ibid.

90

‘steaming like a pot’: Carl Friedrich Zelter to Goethe, 2 February 1830, Bratranek 1876, p.384.

Chapter 17: Evolution and Nature

1

‘wretchedly out of spirits’: Darwin, 30 December 1831, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.18.

2

Darwin seasick: Darwin, 29 December 1831, ibid., pp.17–18; Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.201.

3

poop cabin: Thomson 1995, p.124ff.; HMS

Beagle

sketch of poop cabin by B.J. Sulivan, CUL DAR.107.

4

Darwin’s books on

Beagle

: Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, Appendix IV, pp.558–66.

5

Darwin on Lyell: Darwin 1958, p.77.

6

‘You are of course’ (footnote): Robert FitzRoy to Darwin, 23 September 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.167.

7

‘My admiration of his’: Darwin to D.T. Gardner, August 1874, published in

New York Times

, 15 September 1874.

8

passed Madeira: Darwin, 4 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.19; Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.201.

9

‘for cheering the heart’: Darwin, 31 December 1831, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.18.

10

‘Oh misery, misery’: Darwin, 6 January 1832, ibid., p.19; see also Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.201.

11

‘Already can I understand’: Darwin, 6 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.20; see also Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.201–2.

12

‘like parting from a’: Darwin, 7 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.20.

13

‘wildest Castles’: Darwin, 17 December 1831, ibid., p.14.

14

‘subsist with some comfort’: Darwin 1958, p.46.

15

Darwin at university: Ibid., p.56ff.

16

Darwin and beetles: Ibid., pp.50, 62.

17

‘stirred up in me a’: Darwin wrote that he read AH’s

Personal Narrative

‘during my last year in Cambridge’, Darwin 1958, p.67–8

18

Darwin, Henslow and reading aloud: Ibid., pp.64ff., 68; Browne 2003a, pp.123, 131; Thomson 2009, pp.94, 102; Darwin to Fox, 5 November 1830, Darwin Correspondence vol.1, p.110.

19

‘I talk, think, &’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 7 April 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.120.

20

‘I cannot hardly sit’: Darwin to Caroline Darwin, 28 April 1831; see also Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 11 May 1831 and 9 July 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.122, 123, 124; Darwin 1958, pp.68–70.

21

‘gaze at the Palm trees’: Darwin to Caroline Darwin, 28 April 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.122.

22

‘read and reread Humboldt’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 11 July 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.125–6.

23

‘I plague them’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 11 May 1831, ibid., p.123.

24

‘to fan your Canary’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 11 July 1831, ibid., p.125.

25

‘I have written myself’: Darwin to Caroline Darwin, 28 April 1831, ibid., p.122; for Spanish expressions, see Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 9 July 1831, ibid., p.124.

26

Henslow bailed out: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 1 August 1831, ibid., p.127; see also Browne 2003a, p.135; Thomson 2009, p.131.

27

FitzRoy looked for naturalist: John Stevens Henslow to Darwin, 24 August 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.128–9.

28

‘a wild scheme’: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 31 August 1831, ibid., p.133; see also Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 30 August 1831; Robert Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood, 30–31 August 1831; Josiah Wedgwood II to Robert Darwin, 31 August 1831, ibid., pp.131–4; Darwin 1958, pp.71–2; Darwin 31 August–1 September 1831, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.3; Browne 2003a, p.152ff.

29

Darwin’s father savvy investor: Browne 2003a, p.7.

30

‘If I saw Charles’: Josiah Wedgwood II to Robert Darwin, 31 August 1831; Darwin’s father agrees to expedition, Robert Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood II, 1 September 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.134–5.

31

lighter clothes: Darwin, 10 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.21; see also Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.202.

32

crew on

Beagle

: Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, Appendix III, p.549.

33

Captain FitzRoy: Browne 2003a, pp.144–9; Thomson 2009, p.139ff.

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