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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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  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • Bartrams [?W. Bartram 1791] well reread Bruces Travels & Appendix [Bruce 1790] (d[itt]o) …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • 8] 1854 Jan 15. Seemans Narrative of H.M.S. Herald [Seeman 1853]. Feb 6. …
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November
  • Belcher, Edward. 1848Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S.   Samarang during the years 184346; …
  • Bernier, François. 1826Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D.   16561668 . Translated by Irving
  • Bethune, John. 1840Poems by the late John Bethune; with a   sketch of the authors life by his
  • eds.]  119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838A treatise on sheep; with the   best means
  • Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. 1824Canine pathology; or, a   full description of the diseases of
  • … ——. 1840An encyclopædia of   rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical,   …
  • 1844Algeria, past and present.   Containing a description of the countrywith a review of   …
  • Artaud. 2 vols. Metz128: 24 ——. 1807A short system of comparative anatomy . …
  • Africa, Egypt and   Syria . London119: 4a Bruce, James. 1790Travels to discover
  • Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in H.M.S.   Sulphur,   183642 . 2 vols. …
  • … . Pt 1 of  The botany of the   Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships   Erebus and Terror in
  • Beete. 1847Narrative of the surveying voyage   of H.M.S. Flyin the Torres Strait, New
  • Keppel, Henry. 1846The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S.   Dido for the suppression of piracy; …
  • … ——. 1853A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M.S.   Mæander, with portions of the private
  • Macgillivray, John. 1852Narrative of the voyage of   H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late
  • … … Together with a narrative of the operations of   H.M.S. Iris.  2 vols. London.  *119: 22
  • shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar;   performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta . Edited

What did Darwin believe?

Summary

What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…

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  • … and religious believers. The questions have taken on a new relevance in light of controversies over …
  • … design in schools, the resurgence of fundamentalism as a political force, and the combative rhetoric …
  • … silent on religion. His  Autobiography  contains a short discussion of his religious views, …
  • … It should not therefore be read (although it often is), as a neutral account of the development of …
  • … often seeking direction for their own. Mary Boole’s letter In December 1866 Darwin …
  • … Dear Sir Will you excuse my venturing to ask you a question to which no one’s answer but your …
  • … … with the following belief: That God is a personal and Infinitely good Being … That …
  • … of Science & the promises of religion. See the letter Boole, like a number …
  • … meeting point should still be far off. See the letter In his response to Boole …
  • … feeling. But he does not venture into such territory in this letter to a stranger. Emma …
  • … description of my state of mind. See the letter In this letter, Darwin is …
  • … & I cannot help being open with you. See the letter We know from Darwin’s …
  • … means so in eternity. There is a marked tension in Emma’s letter between reason and feeling, and …
  • … as a guide to moral conduct, as in his remarks on Paul’s letter to Galatians, chapter six: ‘read …
  • … it derive from inner feelings or instincts? In a letter written to Charles several months …
  • … trying to learn the truth, you cannot be wrong … See the letter Yet she is concerned …
  • … … the first fashionable view. Letter from T. H. Huxley to H. A. Heathorn, October 1847. …
  • … of entire surrender to the will of God.’ (Letter from T. H. Huxley to C. Kingsley, September 1860.) …
  • … 3 Feb 2007 . Also see  Darwin would love this debate , Bruce Chapman and Stephen C. Meyer, …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

Summary

The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result,  Descent , like  Variation , …
  • … the material on emotion; it would eventually appear as a separate book in 1872 ( Expression of the …
  • … Lyell, ‘thank all the powers above & below, I shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding …
  • … anything which has happened to me for some weeks’  ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
  • … corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’  ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
  • … eighteen years of age. Darwin clearly expected her to make a considerable contribution, instructing …
  • … He worried that parts of the book were ‘too like a Sermon: who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn …
  • … abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
  • … looking exclusively into his own mind’, and himself, ‘a degraded wretch looking from the outside …
  • … how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
  • … side of human descent. On 7 March 1870, Darwin made a note on the shape of human ears: ‘W. has seen …
  • … made drawings of ears of monkeys & shortly afterwards he saw a man with tip & instantly …
  • … in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence  vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
  • … patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
  • … is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). Darwin very …
  • … able to say that I  never  write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). St …
  • … if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ). In his letters …
  • … out seven devils worse than that first!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 22 June 1870 ). In the …
  • … highly important for the welfare of mankind’ ( letter to [H. H. Vivian?], [April or May 1870?] ). …
  • … dark to me and to every one else I suspect’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 2 August 1870 ). …