The Invention of Nature

‘bordering on insanity’: Darwin 1958, p.73ff.; Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.203; see also Thomson 1995, p.155.

35

‘The hold would contain’: Darwin, 23 October 1831, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.8; for

Beagle

and supplies, see also Browne 2003a, p.169; Darwin to Susan Darwin, 6 September 1831, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.144; Thomson 1995, pp.115, 123, 128.

36

first landfall Santiago: Darwin, 16 January 1832 and following entries, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.23ff.

37

‘perfect hurricane of delight’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, May 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.232.

38

‘heavily laden with’: Darwin, 17 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.24.

39

Darwin like child: Robert FitzRoy to Francis Beaufort, 5 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.205, n.1.

40

‘like giving to a blind’: Darwin, 16 January 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.23.

41

‘if you really want’: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832; see also Darwin to William Darwin Fox, May 1832, ibid., pp.204, 233.

42

‘much struck by the justness’: Darwin, 26 May 1832; see also 6 February, 9 April and 2 June 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, pp.34, 55, 67, 70.

43

Darwin on Lyell: Darwin 1958, p.77.

44

Darwin reading rocks at Santiago: Thomson 2009, p.148; Browne 2003a, p.185; see also Darwin 1958, pp.77, 81, 101.

45

‘I shall be able to’: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 10 February 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.206; see also Darwin 1958, p.81.

46

like

Arabian Nights:

Darwin to Frederick Watson, 18 August 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.260.

47

‘My feelings amount’: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, ibid., p.204.

48

‘I formerly admired Humboldt’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 18 May–16 June 1832 ibid., p.237.

49

‘rare union of poetry’: Darwin, 28 February 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.42.

50

walking in a new world: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.202ff.

51

‘I am at present red-hot’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 18 May–16 June 1832, ibid., p.238.

52

‘make a florist go’: Darwin, 1 March 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.43.

53

‘I am at present fit’: Darwin, 28 February 1832, ibid., p.42.

54

‘a great wanderer’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 25 October 1833, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.344.

55

routine

Beagle

: Browne 2003a, p.191ff.

56

‘everything is so close’: Darwin to Robert Darwin, 8 February–1 March 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.202.

57

dinner in mess-room and food: Browne 2003a, pp.193, 222.

58

‘Philos’ and ‘flycatcher’: Thomson 2009, pp.142–3.

59

others helped with collections: Browne 2003a, p.225

60

‘damned beastly bedevilment’: Thomson 1995, p.156.

61

collections to Henslow: Browne 2003a, p.230.

62

Darwin asked for AH’s books: Darwin to Catherine Darwin, 5 July 1832; see also Erasmus Darwin to Darwin, 18 August 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, pp.247, 258.

63

southern stars: Darwin, 24, 25, 26 March 1832, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.48.

64

‘new sensations’: AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.6, p.69.

65

‘very refreshing, after being’: Darwin, 12 February 1835, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.288.

66

‘one instant is sufficient’: AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.3, p.321.

67

‘an earthquake like’: Darwin, 20 February 1835, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.292.

68

‘spreads life’: AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.6, p.8.

69

Darwin on kelp: Darwin, 1 June 1834, Darwin 1997, pp.228–9.

70

‘that you had, probably’: Caroline Darwin to Darwin, 28 October 1833, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.345.

71

‘vivid, Humboldt-like’: Herman Kindt to Darwin, 16 September 1864, ibid., vol.12, p.328.

72

animals Galapagos Islands: Darwin, 17 September 1835, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.353.

73

‘There never was a Ship’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 15 February 1836, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1. p.491.

74

‘most dangerous inclination’: Darwin to Catherine Darwin, 14 February 1836; for dreaming of England, Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 9 July 1836 and Darwin to Caroline Darwin, 18 July 1836, ibid., pp.490, 501, 503.

75

longing for horse chestnut: Darwin to Susan Darwin, 4 April 1836, 1, p.503

76

‘zig-zag manner’: Ibid.

77

‘I hate every wave’: Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 15 February 1836, ibid., p.491.

78

‘All mine were taken’: Darwin, after 25 September 1836, Darwin Beagle Diary 2001, p.443.

79

Beagle

arrived at Falmouth: Darwin, 2 October 1836, ibid., p.447.

80

fields greener: Darwin to Robert FitzRoy, 6 October 1836, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.506.

81

‘looking very thin’: Caroline Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, 5 October 1836, ibid., p.504.

82

Darwin to London: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 6 October 1836, ibid., p.507.

83

Darwin and Geological Society: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 9 July 1838, ibid., p.499.

84

‘The voyage of the Beagle’: Darwin 1958, p.76.

85

‘resemble on a humbler scale’ (footnote): Darwin to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April 1837, Darwin Correspondence, vol.2, p.16.

86