The Invention of Nature

Darwin worked on journal: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 28 March and 18 May 1837; Darwin to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April 1837, ibid., pp.14, 16, 18; Browne 2003a, p.417.

87

Voyage of the Beagle:

Darwin’s account was the third volume of

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle

, which was a four-volume account of the

Beagle

voyages written by FitzRoy. Darwin’s volume proved so popular that it was reissued in August 1839 as a separate publication called

Journal of Researches

. It became known as the

Voyage of the Beagle

.

88

‘for I know no more’: Darwin to John Washington, 1 November 1839, Darwin Correspondence, vol.2, p.241.

89

‘they might ever be present’: Darwin to AH, 1 November 1839, ibid., p.240.

90

‘excellent and admirable book’: AH to Darwin, 18 September 1839, ibid., pp.425–6.

91

‘one of the most remarkable’: AH, 6 September 1839,

Journal Geographical Society

, 1839, vol.9, p.505.

92

‘Few things in my life’: Darwin to John Washington, 14 October 1839, Darwin Correspondence, vol.2, p.230.

93

Darwin honoured: Darwin to AH, 1 November 1839, ibid., p.239.

94

‘I must with

unpardonable

’: Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 3–17 February 1844, ibid., vol.3, p.9.

95

‘I cannot bear to’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 21 January 1838, ibid., vol.2, p.69.

96

‘flurries me’: Darwin to John Stevens Henslow, 14 October 1837; for heart palpitations, see also 20 September 1837, ibid., pp.47, 51–2; Thomson 2009, p.205.

97

Darwin and transmutation: Darwin started thinking seriously about transmutation in late spring 1837. By July 1837 he began a new notebook devoted to the transmutation of species (Notebook B), Thomson 2009, p.182ff.; see also Darwin, Notebook B, Transmutation of species 1837–38, CUL MS.DAR.121.

98

Darwin and Galapagos: Thomson 2009, p.180ff

99

Lamarck and transmutation: Lamarck’s

Système des animaux sans vertèbres

(1801) and

Philosophie zoologique

(1809).

100 row at Académie: between Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, see Päßler 2009, p.139ff.; for AH whispering comments, see Louis Agassiz about AH, October–December 1830, Beck 1959, p.123.

101 ‘gradual transformations of’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.112; AH Views 2014, p.201; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.135 (this is not in the German 1808 edition of Views of Nature but similar p.185); already in his Essay on the Geography of Plants, Humboldt had discussed how accidental varieties of plants might have transformed into ‘permanent ones’, AH Geography 2009, p.68.

102 ‘must also have been subjected’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.20; AH Views 2014, p.163.; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.25; see also AH Ansichten 1808, p.185.

103 ‘key-stone of the’: Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 10 February 1845, Darwin Correspondence, vol.3, p.140.

104 similar plants across continents: AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.3, pp.491–5; Darwin highlighted this in his copy.

105 similar climate not always similar plants: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.112; AH Views 2014, p.201; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.136.

106 ‘In Humboldt great work’ (footnote): Darwin, Notebook B, Transmutation of species 1837–38, pp.92, 156, CUL MS.DAR.121.

107 tigers, birds and crocodiles: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.5, pp.180, 183, 221ff. CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301.

108 ‘like Patagonia’: Ibid., vol.4, pp.336, 384 and vol.5, pp.24, 79, 110.

109 ‘When studying Geograph’: Ibid., vol.1, endpapers; Darwin, Notebook A, Geology 1837–1839, p.15, CUL DAR127; Darwin, Santiago Notebook, EH1.18, p.123, English Heritage, Darwin Online

110 ‘Nothing respect to’: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.6, endpapers, CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301

111 Darwin and species migration: ibid., vol.1, endpapers; see also Werner 2009, p.77ff.

112 ‘how transported was’: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.1, list at back, CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301.

113 ‘so dispersed’: Ibid., vol.5, p.543.

114 ‘the investigation of the origin’: Ibid., p.180; see also vol.3, p.496 (Darwin underlined both).

115 ‘the shape of our’: AH Views 2014, pp.162–3; AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.19; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.24.

116 ‘veritable rubbish’: Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 10–11 November 1844, Darwin Correspondence, vol.3, p.79.

117 Darwin read Malthus: Darwin 1958, p.120; Thomson 2009, p.214.

118 AH on turtle eggs: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.4, p.489, CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301.

119 ‘a theory by which’: Darwin 1958, p.120.

120 ‘limit each other’s’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.114; AH Views 2014, p.202; AH Ansichten 1849, p.138.

121 ‘long continued contest’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.114; AH Views 2014, p.202; AH Ansichten 1849, p.138; see also AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.4, p.437.

122 ‘fear each other’: AH Personal Narrative 1814–1829, vol.4, pp.421–2.