Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (naturalist)
Biography
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82), naturalist and writer, was born in Shrewsbury and died at Down House, Downe in Kent in. The most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century, he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1831. A grandson of Erasmus Darwin of Lichfied and of Josiah Wedgwood, he early in life showed an interest in collecting and natural history but it was to read medicine that he entered the University of Edinburgh in 1825, intending to follow his father Robert's career as a doctor. However, Darwin found himself uninspired and in some areas repelled by his studies, including that of geology, and left Edinburgh without graduating in 1827. With the intention of entering the church, Darwin came up to Cambridge in 1828, and though not finding the formal studies any more to his taste than those at Edinburgh he formed a friendship with the Professor of Botany, John Stevens Henslow, and enthusiastically began to study the subject. Having graduated, Darwin was recommended by Henslow to Robert Fitzroy, commander of HM Sloop 'Beagle', as a naturalist to sail on a circumnavigational voyage Fitzroy was planning. Returning from the Beagle voyage in 1836, Darwin enjoyed a publishing success with his volume "Journal of Researches" drawn from his collecting and observations undertaken during the Voyage of HMS Beagle. He married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and in 1842 moved to the Kent village of Down, where he spent the rest of his life. It was at Down House that Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection", 1859, and a series of monographs in botany, entomology and anthropology of the greatest importance.
The catalogue to the Charles Darwin Papers: http://darwin.amnh.org/browse.php?mode=uc&pid=72001
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Robert Darwin: Correspondence to J. Gould, Lucy Wedgwood, and Sophia Wedgwood
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Charles Robert Darwin: juvenilia and Darwin family letters, c.1818-1959
A collection of juvenilia and Darwin family letters. Includes early letters and school notes from a young Charles Darwin, letters from Charles and Emma Darwin to their son, Francis Darwin, letters to Francis from his first wife, Amy Ruck, and family letters and drawings from Bernard Darwin.
Charles Robert Darwin: Letter to unidentified correspondent
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Correspondence of James Dixon (1813-1896), 1849-1884
Correspondence, in various hands. The letters deal for the most part with printers' and other errors discovered by James Dixon in the published works of the various correspondents. The correspondents include J. Dixon; T.B. Macaulay, Lord Macaulay; J.B. Marsden; R. Martineau; Mrs Gaskell; W. Whewell; J. Hutchison; F.O. Morris; W.E.H. Lecky; J. Bigelow; J. Morley, Viscount Morley; M. Pattison; C.R. Darwin; M. Arnold; E. Dowden; A. Austin; G.A. Sala; J.A. Froude; M. Napier; and H.Anstey.
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