Darwin and the Barnacle
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gutta percha, 1, 2
Hancock, Albany, 1, 2, 3 4 and Alcippe, 1, 2
barnacle specialist, 1
and Darwin, corresponds with, 1, 2
meets, 1
Hare, William, 1
Harvey, William, 1, 2
Heaman, Peter, 1
Heathorn, Henrietta, 1
Hegel, Frederick, 1
Heidelberg University, 1
Hellyer, Edward, 1, 2
Henslow, Frances, (later Frances Hooker), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Henslow, Professor, 1, 2 and Darwin, children, 1
Darwin’s suggestion, 1
mentor to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
microscopes, 1
Hooker proposes to daughter, 1
hermaphrodites, see under barnacles, gender
Hermitage House, 1
Hill, Rowland, 1
Himalayan Journals (James Hooker), 1
Histoire Générale et Particulière des Anomalies (Geoffroy St Hilaire), 1
Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck), 1
History of the French Revolution (Thomas Carlyle), 1, 2, 3
History of the French Revolution (Louis Their), 1
Holland, Dr Henry, 1, 2, 3
Holmfirth Reservoir, 1
Hooker, Frances, see Henslow, Frances
Hooker, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
birth of son, 1
bored with barnacles?, 1, 2
classification problems, 1, 2
and Darwin advises on microscopes, 1
congratulates, 1
corresponds with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
at Down House, 1, 2
sworn to secrecy on Origin of Species, 1
fixity of species and, 1
in Himalayas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and Mr Arthrobalanus, 1
in Paris, 1
proposes, 1
Royal Society party, 1
Hooker, Sir William, 1, 2
Howitt, William, 1
Hulme, Peter, 1
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Huxley, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and Darwin, given reference by, 1
impressed by, 1
meets, 1
reviews Vestiges, 1
‘Hypotheses non fingo’ (Isaac Newton), 1
hypothesis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Lamarck’s, 1
Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1
interbreeding, 1
Ireland, 1, 2
Jameson, Robert, 1, 2, 3
Jane Eyre, (Currer Bell aka Charlotte Bronte), 1
Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1, 2
jellyfish, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jemmy Button (Fuegian), 1
Jenyns, Revd Leonard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Journal (Charles Darwin), 1
Jurassic Period, 1
Kay, William, 1, 2
kelp, 1
Kennington Common, London, 1
Kew Gardens, see Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
King, Philip Gidley, 1, 2
King, Philip Parker, 1, 2
King’s College, London, 1
Knole House, 1
Knox, Robert, 1
Koelliker, Dr Rudolf Albert von, 1
Koh-i-noor Diamond, 1, 2
Labidocera, 1
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 an influence on Grant, 1
on invertebrates, 1
Lamb, Henry, 1
lamp-baths, 1
Lankester, Edwin, and Darwin, corresponds with, 1
Darwin’s manuscript, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
in Paris, 1
Laslett, Isaac, 1
Leech, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4
Leidy, Professor Joseph, 1
Leith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Leith Glassworks Company, 1, 2
Leith Hill Place, 1, 2
Leith Juvenile Bible Society, 1
Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development (Harriet Martineau), 1
Lewis John, 1, 2, 3
Liebig, Justus von, 1, 2
Lightning (ship), 1
limnoria, 1
Lincoln Cathedral, 1
Lincolnshire, 1, 2
Linnaen Society, 1
Linnaeus 1, 2
Livingston, Dr David, 1
Loligo sagittata, 1
London, 1, 2, 3, 4
London buses, 1
Lothian Street, Edinburgh, 1
Louis Napoleon, 1, 2, 3, 4, see also Napoleon III
Louis Philippe, 1
Loven, Professor Sven, 1, 2
Lowe’s Harbour, Chonos Archipelago, 1
Lubbock, John, 1, 2, 3 and Darwin, at Down House, 1
taught by, 1, 2, 3, 4
drawings of, 1
Lycia, 1
Lyell, Lady, 1, 2
Lyell, Sir Charles 1, 2, 3 and Darwin, corresponds with, 1
Darwin’s debt to, 1
at Down House, 1
geological work of, 1, 2
time metaphor, 1
Maastricht, 1
Mackay, Mrs, 1
Mackenzie, William, 1
maleness, 1
Malthus, Thomas, 1
Malvern, 1, 2
Marseillaise, 1
Martin-Saint-Ange, Gaspar Joseph, 1
Martineau, Harriet, 1, 2, 3
Marx, Karl, 1, 2
Matthews, Richard, 1
McCormick, Robert, 1, 2
Melville, Herman, 1
metamorphosis, 1, 2, see also shapeshifting
microscopes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Bate, 1
and Darwin, comparison with Hooker’s, 1
orders new one, 1
purchases, 1
puts to use, 1
recommends Smith & Beck, 1
Mill, John Stuart, 1
Milne Edwards, Henri 1, 2, 3
mind and body, 1
Mission House, Passy, 1
Moby Dick (Herman Melville), 1
Mollusc Room, Cambridge Zoology Museum, 1
Monsters & Co., see Histoire Générale & Particulière des Anomalies
Montpelier University, 1
Montreal House, Malvern, 1, 2
Müller, Johannes Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4
Munday, Godfrey Charles, 1
Munro, Dr, 1, 2
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1
Musselburgh, 1
mutation, 1, 2, 3, 4, see also transmutation
Napoleon III, 1, see also Louis Napoleon
National Census, 1
Natural History Museum, Stockholm, 1
Naval and Military Gazette, 1
‘navvies’, 1
‘Neptune’s Girdle’, 1
Neptunism, 1
New Monthly Magazine, 1
New River, London, 1
New Zealand, 1
Newhaven, 1, 2
Newman, Cardinal, 1
Newman, Francis, 1, 2
Newport, George, 1, 2, 3
Newton, Sir Isaac, 1
Northern Lights, 1
Notebook D (Charles Darwin), 1
octopus, 1, 2
On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (Charles Darwin), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
d’Orbigny, Alcide, 1
origin of species, theory of, 1, see also under Darwin, species theory essay
Oserno, Mt., 1
Oughtershaw Hall, Yorkshire, 1
Our Antipodes … with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields (Godfrey Charles Munday), 1
Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens), 1
Overland Mail, 1
Ovid, 1
Owen, Richard, 1, 2, 3 corresponds with Darwin, 1, 2, 3
stipend of, 1
views on God, 1
oysters, 1, 2, 3
Palaeontographical Society, 1
pancreases, 1
Paradise Lost (John Milton), 1
parasites, 1
Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Parslow (butler), 1, 2, 3, 4 as Bath Man, 1
and Darwin’s manuscript, 1
and George’s
kite, 1
Patagonia, 1
pear trees, 1
pearly nautilus, 1
Philippines, 1
Pholas condida, 1
phosphorescence, 1
Physalia physalis, 1, 2
Piedmont, 1
plants, distinguishable from animals, 1, 2, 3, 4
Plas Edwarde, Wales, 1
Plinian Natural History Society, 1, 2, 3
Pliny, 1
Plymouth Brethren, 1
Pontobdella muricata, 1
Poor Law Bill, 1834, 1
Port Philip, Australia, 1
Portobello, 1
Portuguese man-of-war, 1, 2
post offices, 1
postal system, 1, 2, 3, 4
potatoes, 1
Prestonpans, 1, 2, 3
Prestonpans, Battle of, 1
Principles of Geology (Charles Lyell), 1, 2
Psalm 1, 2
Quail Island, 1
Quarterly, 1
railways, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ramsgate, 1
Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1
Rattlesnake (ship), 1, 2, 3
Raverat, Gwen, 1
Ray, John, 1
Ray Society, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reform Act 1832, 1
Rome, 1
Ross, Sir James, 1
Rosse, Lord, 1
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1, 2
Royal College of Surgeons, 1
Royal Medal, 1
Royal Polytechnic Institution, 1, 2
Royal Society, 1
Rugby (school), 1, 2, 3
Russia, 1
Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell), 1
Salt & Sons, 1
Sand Walk, Down, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 dawn on, 1
designed and built, 1
flanked by trees, 1
sanitation, 1
scarlet fever, 1
scissors, dissecting, 1, 2
sea anemone, 1
sea mouse, 1, 2
sea slugs, 1
sea sponges, 1, 2, 3
sea squirts, 1
sea wash ball, 1
sea-mat, 1
Sea-Side Book (William Harvey), 1
Seafield Baths Edinburgh, 1
seaside towns, 1, 2
seawater, 1, 2
seeds, 1, 2
Sebastopol, 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1
sepia, 1
shapeshifting, 1, 2, see also metamorphosis
Shell-Fish: Their Ways and Works (Edward Forbes), 1
Shrewsbury, 1, 2, 3
Sikkim Rajah, 1, 2, 3
Sismondi, Jessie, 1
slides (glass), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Smith & Beck, 1, 2
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1
South Cliff House, Tenby, 1
Sowerby, George Brettingham Jnr, 1, 2, 3
Sowerby, James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
species theory essay, 1, 2, 3, 4
Specimen 1, 2
speculation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 chain of ideas, 1
collective, 1
dangers of, 1
Darwin’s approach, 1
a definition, 1
derivation of word, 1
financial, 1
Holland and, 1
Jenyns on, 1
origins of earth, 1
railways, 1, 2, 3
requirements for, 1
transmutation of species, 1
Zoonomia dismissed as, 1
Spirit Store, Cambridge Zoology Museum, 1, 2
Spongia compressia, see sea sponges
St Jago, 1
St Mary Church, Devon, 1
St Petersburg, 1
Star Hotel, Edinburgh, 1
starfish, 1
Steenstrup, Japetus, 1, 2, 3
Stock Exchange, London, 1
Stokes, John Lort, 1, 2
Strickland, Hugh, 1
Sulivan, Falkland, 1
Sulivan, Lieutenant (later Admiral), 1, 2 Christmas off Chile, 1
at Down House, 1
family of, 1
military manoeuvres on Chobham Common, 1
on national security, 1
reports for duty, 1
Sulivan, Mrs, 1, 2
Summary on the Nature and Relations of the Males and Complemental Males, in Ibla and Scalpellum (Charles Darwin), 1
Surtees, Harriet, 1
Sutchbury, Samuel, 1, 2
Sydney, 1
Syme, Patrick, 1
Tahiti, 1, 2
taxonomies, see classification
Tenby, 1, 2
Tenerife, 1
Tennyson, Alfred, 1, 2
The Adventures of Baron Münchausen (Rudolf Eric Raspe), 1
The Annals of Natural History, 1
The Book of the Seasons or the Calendar of Nature (William Howitt), 1
The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, 1
The Chimes (Charles Dickens), 1
The Edinburgh Ladies’ & Gentlemen’s Pocket Souvenir for 1826, 1
The Magazine of Zoology and Botany, 1
The Philosophy of the Inductive Science (William Whewell), 1
The Philosophy of Zoology (John Fleming), 1
The Soul (Francis Newman), 1
The Times, reports 1848 uprisings, 1, 2
Annie’s death, 1
Great Exhibition, 1
Hooker’s capture, 1
navvy riots, 1
on speculation, 1, 2
The Water Cure in Chronic Disease (Dr Gully), 1
The White Whale (aka Moby Dick by Herman Melville), 1
Their, Louis, 1
Thompson, John Vaughan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Thomson, Thomas, 1
Thorley, Miss, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Three Weeks in Wet Sheets (Joseph Leech), 1
Thynne, Anna, 1
Tiedemann, Frederick, 1
Tierra del Fuego, 1, 2
Timbs, John, 1
Tour in South Africa (Francis Galton), 1
transmutation, 1, 2, 3, see also mutation
Treuttel, Wurtz & Richter, Soho Square, London, 1
‘Trotty’, see Henrietta Darwin
Turton William, 1
Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 1
variability, 1
vegetable, distinguishable from animal, 1, 2, 3, 4
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,
(Robert Chambers, originally Anon), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft), 1
vital materialism, 1
Waghorn, Thomas, 1
Waite, Mr, 1
Wakley, Thomas, 1
Walford House, Prestonpans, 1
‘Water Cure, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
water fleas, 1
water tanks, 1
Wedgwood, Emma, see Darwin, Emma
Wedgwood, Fanny, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wedgwood, Harry, 1
Wedgwood, Hensleigh, 1
Wedgwood, Jessie, 1
Weiss & Co., 1, 2
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1, 2
Wernerian Natural History Society, 1, 2
Westminster Review, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wharton, Revd, 1
Whewell, William, 1
Wickham, Lieutenant, 1
Williams, Thomas, 1
Wilson, Dr, 1, 2
Windmill Street Anatomical School, London, 1
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1
Woodd, Henry Lardner, 1
Worcester, 1
Worthing, 1
York Minster (Fuegian), 1, 2
Zambesi, R., 1
Zoological Gardens, London, 1, 2
Zoological Researches and Illustrations, or a Natural History of Nondescript or Imperfectly Known Animals (John Vaughan Thompson), 1
Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life (Erasmus Darwin), 1, 2, 3, 4
zoophytes, 1, 2, 3, 4
About the Author
Rebecca Stott is a writer, academic and radio b
roadcaster. She teaches in the English Literature Department of Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge and is an affiliated scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. She has no aquarium and enjoys seafood. She lives in Cambridge and no longer dreams of barnacles.
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