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From Edward Harris   April 1877

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Wishes to bring CD his trained cockatoo.

Author:  Edward Harris
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  Apr 1877
Classmark:  DAR 166: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10920
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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … feet (DAR 210.7).    ^14^ See Foundations , pp. 40–1, 238.    ^15^ This phenomenon …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … climatologie asiatiques.  2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a). Darwin …

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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  • … rewritten in Origin 4th ed., p. 402. 40.  p. 401. 41.  p. 403. This substitution …
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