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Books on the Beagle

Summary

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

Matches: 26 hits

  • Captain FitzRoy in the  Narrative  (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
  • … . . . There will be  plenty  of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831
  • theimmense stockwhich CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an
  • on board the  Beagle §  —  mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board
  • Naturelle  3 (1834): 84115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
  • dhistoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 182231. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 1521 January [1833]). …
  • a report of the proceedings . .  . Cambridge, 1833.  (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
  • of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and
  • … . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: 162v.). Colnett, JamesA voyage to the South Atlantic and
  • 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin LibraryDown. Cook, JamesVoyages  (editions unidentified; …
  • residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
  • 33: 254). § EuclidElements of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
  • The philosophy of zoology . . .  2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October
  • 7e, etc.). Darwin LibraryCUL ††. Horsburgh, JamesDirections for sailing to and from the
  • to the mountain barometer.  2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831
  • de lordre des polypiers.  Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7
  • Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7 November
  • … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
  • and La Plata . . .  2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
  • JohnParadise lost.  ( ’Beaglediary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
  • account of several late voyages.  2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7
  • introducton to . . . mineralogy . . .  London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834;  …
  • 32.1: 7). Darwin LibraryCUL † (vol.2). Stephens, James Francis. Description of  …
  • the Cambridge Philosophical Society  4 (1833): 20917. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July7
  • 1803, and 1804 . . .  London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoys letter to the  South African Christian
  • of the world . . .  Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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…

Matches: 25 hits

  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Fox’s Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d  Guizot …
  • … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
  • … 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 1–3 & Last …
  • … notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … de   Neuchâtel . 47  Possibly a slip for James Abbott,  Narrative of a journey …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 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 …
  • …  This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilson’s work on the origin of …
  • … Dominique François Jean. 1839.  Historical eloge of   James Watt … Translated … with additional …
  • … Harriet Martineau. London.  128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9.  Ornithological …
  • … methods of catching them . With notes by the translator [James Rennie]. London.  *119: 7v. …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • … Lord   Clive . London.  119: 23b Glöger, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert. 1833.  Das …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …
  • … Sotheby. London. [Other eds.]  *119: 19v. Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf de. 1787 …