Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist

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Surname:	Darwin
Forenames:	Charles Robert
Gender:	Male
Date:	1809-1882
History:	Naturalist, who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution. Born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury. In 1831, he joined a five year scientific expedition on the survey ship HMS Beagle. On his return to England in 1836, he proposed a theory of evolution occurring by the process of natural selection; he worked on his theory for 20 years and in 1859 he published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. Darwin died on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.
Biography:	ODNB link for Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882), naturalist
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P276194 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P151142 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Charles Robert Darwin

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	From 2009: Darwin 200 Website	The National Archives, Kew	PF 95
2	1825-82: corresp and papers	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS DAR	NRA 11458 Darwin See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3	1831-36: corresp and papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to Royal College of Surgeons of England		NRA 22849 Darwin
4	1837-82: letter book	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS DAR	NRA 39164
5	corresp and notebooks (copies) incl journal of a voyage in HMS Beagle	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS DAR B C D E F	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
6	1860-82: letters (36) to Henry Walter Bates	Case Western Reserve University Library
7	1837-77: letters (30) to Leonard Blomefield	Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution	Jenyns Corresp	NRA 41808 Blomefield
8	corresp with Sir John Burdon-Sanderson (38 items)	University of British Columbia: Woodward Biomedical Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1979-80
9	1868-81: letters (41) to Lord Farrer	Linnean Society of London
10	c1850: letters (16) to Robert Fitch	Norwich Castle Museum		NRA 9528
11	letters to Sir WH Flower	John Innes Foundation Historical Collections		NRA 949 Innes
12	1828-78: letters (155) to William Darwin Fox	Cambridge University: Christ's College Library
13	letters (44) to Sir Francis Galton	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	GALTON	NRA 19968 Galton
14	1860-62: letters to George Gordon	Elgin Museum	NRA(S)1989	NRA 22745 Gordon
15	1855-81: letters (155) to Asa Gray	Harvard University: Arnold Arboretum		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
16	1860-81: letters (30) to Albert Gunther	Shrewsbury School Library
17	1849-54: letters (12) to Albany Hancock	New York Botanical Garden Library
18	1831-1837: This record has no title	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
19	1843-66: corresp with Sir Joseph Hooker (3 vols)	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		NRA 25004 See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
20	1851-82: letters (176) to Thomas Huxley	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	B/HUXLEY	NRA 8194 Huxley
21	1846-81: letters (27) to JB Innes	Case Western Reserve University Library
22	1858-82: letters (46) to Ernest Krause	Huntington Library		See NUC MS 61-2466
23	1846-56: letters (11) to Sir John Lubbock	Royal Society	LUB
24	1837-74: letters (c450) to Sir Charles Lyell	American Philosophical Society Library		NRA 9728 American Philosophic
25	c1833-82: corresp, mainly with Ralph Meldola (some copies)	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History		NRA 42507 Oxford
26	1859-78: letters (copies) to Andrew Murray	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS MUR	See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
27	1863-77: letters (11) to Alfred Newton	Cambridge University: Department of Zoology Balfour and Newton Libraries
28	1839-60: letters (11) to John Phillips	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History	John Phillips Archive/Box 43	NRA 42482
29	1874-82: letters (87) to George Romanes	American Philosophical Society Library		NRA 9728 American Philosophic
30	1839-74: letters (13) to Royal Geographical Society	Royal Geographical Society	RGS/CB
31	1868-71: letters (copies) to Osbert Salvin	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS SALV	See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
32	1860-62: letters (15, copies) to Philip Sclater	British Library, Manuscript Collections	M/441
33	letters (22) to Richard Strachey	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 60631
34	1855-81: corresp with W Tegetmeier	New York Botanical Garden Library
35	1873-81: letters to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		NRA 25004 See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
36	1863-71: letters to Roland Trimen and related papers	Royal Entomological Society	Box 21/54-97	See Berit Pedersen, Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society (2002)
37	letters (35) to John Tyndall	Royal Institution of Great Britain		NRA 9522
38	1857-81: corresp with Alfred Russel Wallace	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46434
39	1846-62: estate corresp	Lincolnshire Archives	HIG	NRA 18982 Higgins
40	c1870-82: letters (73)	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
41	1857-81: letters (23)	Linnean Society of London
42	1837-1913: letters (150) to and from associates, incl Browne, Hooker, Huxley and Lyell	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	Kohler Darwin Collection	See Annual Return 2006
43	1837-1913: autograph letters (150) to and from Charles Darwin and his associates, including Browne, Hooker, Huxley, Lyell	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	[Kohler Darwin Collection]	See Annual Return 2006
44	1871: letter to his son George Darwin, with ms of The Persistence of Forms of Life in the Depths of the Sea	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS DAR 185:152	See Annual Return 2018

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Darwin, William Erasmus, (1839-1914), subject of a study in child psychology	father and son	1839-1882	Family
2	Litchfield, Henrietta Emma, (1843-1927), editor, daughter of Charles Robert Darwin		Father	Family