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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

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  • … own practical and personal achievements in gaining access to Tibet and previously closed areas of …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … completed an expedition through the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. Letter 4139  - Darwin …

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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  • … 13b Thomson, Thomas. 1852.  Western Himalaya and Tibet; a   narrative of a journey …
  • … of an embassy to the court   of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet . London.  *119: 3v. Twamley, …
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