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Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.  They are a connecting thread that spans…

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  • … in 1843 when Hooker, just returned from James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition, and already an …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … 4 vols. [Pictet 1844–5] 24 Hooker’s Antarctic Botany [Hooker 1844–7] Dec 1. Girou de …
  • … Thompson 1842] Part I. Sept. 17. Sir J. Ross. Voyage Antarctic Voyage [Ross 1847]. Oct …
  • … Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of  The botany of the   Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships   …
  • … of discovery and   research in the   southern and Antarctic regions, during the   years 1839 …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … tides and two only; both moving from East to West in the Antarctic Ocean – at twelve hours – or 180˚ …
  • … of the Chinese – the Indonesian – the Indian – and the Antarctic Seas be omitted – and with that …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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  • … who had just returned from accompanying James Clark Ross’s Antarctic surveying expedition and who …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … of the South Pole on one of the large icebergs in the Antarctic oceans, from where the highly …
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