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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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  • … 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
  • … —— Lewis & Clarke [Lewis and Clark 1814]— skimmed half way through—probably nothing —— …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
  • … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • … to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk …
  • … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps …
  • … the page. 54  The text from page [1a] to half way down page [5a] is in Emma Darwin’s …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860.  Gatherings of a naturalist in   …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 22b ——. 1860.  The woman in white . New York and London …
  • … nature of country, population, nature of   food, and way of life on the disposition and temper, …
  • … vols. London.  *119: 5v.; 119: 13b Necker, Louis Albert. 1823. Mémoire sur les oiseaux des …
  • … 71: 149.]  *128: 173; 128: 18 Samuelson, James. 1860.  The honey-bee; its natural history …
  • … feeding, and medical treatment of swine . London. [2d ed. (1860) in Darwin Library.]  *119: 22v. …
  • … companion) . London. 1848–61. [Nos. from 1855, 1856, and 1860 in Darwin Library.]  *128: 153 …
  • … series, 1847–51. Fourth series, 1852–9. New series, 1860–.  *128: 151 Scientific Memoirs …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’.  Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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  • … without first carrying out the duties necessary to make his way in the world. In short, Hooker …
  • … Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, he was far more upset by Rudolf Albert von Kölliker’s negative review; …