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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Atkin, J. R. (1) Atkinson, Edward (4) …
- … A. D. (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) …
- … Blyth, E. K. (1) Blyth, Edward (64) …
- … Thomas (2) Bradford, Edward (1) …
- … Carden, Robert (1) Cardwell, Edward (4) …
- … Crawte, G. F. (1) Cresy, Edward (1) …
- … Emery, Woodward (1) Enfield, Edward (1) …
- … George (1) Frankland, Edward (44) …
- … Fry, C. E. (1) Fry, Edward (1) Fry, …
- … Harris, C. (1) Harris, Edward (1) …
- … Hewett, Joseph (1) Hewitt, Edward (4) …
- … Charles (1) Hitchcock, Edward (1) …
- … Holder, J. B. (1) Holland, Edward (2) …
- … William (2) Horsman, Edward (1) …
- … Jones, A. H. (2) Jones, Edward (1) …
- … Ludwig, Rudolph (1) Lumb, Edward (4) …
- … Samuel (6) Newman, Edward (1) Newman …
- … Charles (1) Nicholson, Edward (1) …
- … Charlotte (1) Parfitt, Edward (2) …
- … Sabine, E. J. (1) Sabine, Edward (9) …
- … Stanley, E. H. (4) Stanley, Edward (1) …
- … Vines, S. H. (9) Vivian, Edward (2) …
- … Wagner, Moritz (2) Walford, Edward (2) …
- … Wilson, E. B. (2) Wilson, Edward (8) …
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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- … John Stevens Henslow, Leonard Horner, Leonard Jenyns, Edward Forbes, and Richard Owen shows. These …
- … Edinburgh Review (1845), while other colleagues like Edward Forbes ridiculed the theories employed …
- … editors: at first he proposed any one of Lyell, Henslow, Edward Forbes, William Lonsdale, Hugh Edwin …
- … of volcanic rocks prompted an exchange with James David Forbes on the analogous structure of glacier …
- … marshalled the resources of experts such as palaeontologists Edward Forbes and George Brettingham …
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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- … . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Surveyor of Her Majesty’s …
- … Johnstons Maps [A. K. Johnston 1848] separately—Forbes is going to publish one. 45 Gosse. …
- … Greece [Mitford 1784–1818] 3 d . 25 th Forbes Alps [J. D. Forbes 1843] —— …
- … U.S. Expedition [J. D. Dana 1849] 1850 March Forbes Cystideæ & Asteridæ [E. Forbes …
- … (read) [DAR *128: 173] Introduction to Forbes & Hanley Mollusca [E. Forbes and …
- … Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom I–IV Ap. 20 Forbes History of Brit. Star fishes [E …
- … Gnami [Andersson 1856] —— 26 Slightly skimmed Forbes & Hancock British Shells [Forbes and …
- … from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has …
- … 44 Probably Francis Boott. 45 Edward Forbes provided sketches and notes for the …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 15; 119: 22b Belcher, Edward. 1848. Narrative of the voyage …
- … domesticorum . Hafniæ. *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837. The natural history …
- … … [By Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR …
- … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Bevan, Edward. 1827. The honey-bee; its natural …
- … collected in Melville Island. Appendix XI in Parry, William Edward, A supplement to the …
- … and 12 atlases. Paris. *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835. …
- … Trilobites. Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray Society. …
- … ser. 6: 142–214. *119: 21v.; 119: 18a Clarke, Edward Daniel. 1810–23. Travels in …
- … of Oxford. London. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Eyre, Edward John. 1845. Journals of …
- … [Darwin Library.] 119: 18b; *128: 178 Forbes, Edward. 1841. A history of British …
- … London 2, pt 2: 483–534. 119: 22a Forbes, Edward and Hanley, Sylvanus. 1849–53. A …
- … etc. 2d ed. Tiguri. 128: 16 Gibbon, Edward. 1776–88. The history of the decline and …
Caroline Kennard
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Kennard’s interest in science stemmed from her social commitments to the women's movement, her interests in nature study as a tool for educational reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a…
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- … Lyon, Andrew Preston Peabody, Samuel Edmund Sewall, and Edward Stearns. And in 1897 Kennard gave an …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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…
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … on the hypothetical land bridges suggested by the naturalist Edward Forbes. Darwin declared to …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … a biographical sketch in a volume edited by Lovell Reeve and Edward Walford, Portraits of men of …
- … migration by means of continental extension, as proposed by Edward Forbes and others. He favoured …
- … lobby for the criminal prosecution of the colonial governor Edward John Eyre. In his efforts to …
