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4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … < Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American …
- … the first twelve chapters of the book are exclusively about Darwin’s carefree youth and about his …
- … by Meredith Nugent that illustrate the story. We see Darwin ‘finding a vampire bat biting a horse’ …
- … it’ until it threw him off. In these scenes the youthful Darwin looks like an American frontiersman …
- … Life and Work strikes a different note. Titled ‘Darwin and the squirrels’, it alludes to a passage …
- … by the author of an article titled ‘Boyhood of Charles Darwin’ in The Boy’s Own Paper in 1893, …
- … and bibliography Charles Frederick Holder, Charles Darwin: His Life and Work , in the ‘Leaders …
- … frontispiece and illustrations facing pp. 32, 52, 78 and 108. These loosely relate to Darwin’s …
- … ed. (London: John Murray, 1845), pp. 22, 90, 182, and 384. Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and …
3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah
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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…
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- … < Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of …
- … While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises Darwin’s benign but penetrating gaze, the …
- … photographs taken by the firm of Elliott and Fry, showing Darwin on the verandah of Down House - …
- … of the image. How far these qualities truly represent Darwin’s prevailing mood, or are, rather, a …
- … by Gustav Kruell to serve as the frontispiece to volume 3 of Francis Darwin’s Life and Letters …
- … photograph from this group, which belonged to Henrietta Darwin and is now in the Darwin archive, was …
- … dating, and it is not clear on what basis the photograph of Darwin seated on the verandah is dated …
- … out that the cold autumn of 1881, following the death of Darwin’s brother Erasmus, may be a likely …
- … 1881, echoed in another to B.J. Sulivan of 1 December 1881, Darwin complained of feeling very old, …
- … All these Elliott and Fry photographs were reissued after Darwin’s death as ‘cartes’ and ‘cabinet’ …
- … references and bibliography letters from Darwin to Hooker, 15 June 1881 (DCP-LETT-13207) and to B …
- … Sciences de la Bibliothèque Universelle , 7 (May 1882). Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and …
- … History), Special Guide no. 4, Memorials of Charles Darwin , 2 nd ed. (London: Trustees of the …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. While it is likely that Darwin …
- … are not found listed here. The description given by Francis Darwin of his father’s method of …
- … Darwin Library (AC.34). Darwin’s books were bequeathed to Francis Darwin, who, in 1908, gave all but …
- … to be available to scholars using the archive. Books that Francis Darwin had kept were left to his …
- … 1828] 31 An analysis of British Ferns. G. W. Francis 4 s [Francis 1837]— plates of …
- … Conside. sur les Cereales (Bouchard Huzard) 108 pages (read) Partie practicale. et exp. pages 248. 8 …
- … sea-side Book [Lewes 1858]. G. Tollet says very amusing 108 The Dog in health & …
- … Naudin on Nat. Selection [Naudin 1852] (read)—refers p. 108 to Vilmorin [Vilmorin 1852] grand …
- … work is listed again on p. [22]. 44 Probably Francis Boott. 45 Edward …
- … CD marked this entry “[SYMBOL]” in pencil. 108 CD marked this entry with ‘O’ in …
- … Africa . London. *119: 18v.; 119: 14a Bacon, Francis. 1825–36. The works of Francis …
- … ed. London. [Darwin Library.] 128: 12 Castelnau, Francis, Comte de. 1846. M. de Castelnau …
- … of Linnæus . n.p. 119: 4a Davis, John Francis. 1852. China, during war and since …
- … the Second. London. [Other eds.] 119: 17b Francis, George William. 1837. An analysis …
- … of J. Galt . 2 vols. London. 119: 21b Galton, Francis. 1853. The narrative of an …
- … Cowper . 4 vols. London. 119: 5a Head, Francis Bond. 1834. Bubbles from the Brunnens …
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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed …
- … , it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet when this study …
- … anomalous. Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwin’s study of cirripedes, far from …
- … classification using the most recent methods available, Darwin was able to provide a thorough …
- … his views on the species question (Crisp 1983). Darwin’s interest in invertebrate zoology …
- … Robert Edmond Grant. In his Autobiography (pp. 49–50), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and …
- … numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, …
- … marine organisms was exercised during the Beagle voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm …
- … earlier researches in Edinburgh on the ova of invertebrates, Darwin was particularly well prepared …
- … In 1835, in the Chonos Archipelago off the coast of Chile, Darwin found ‘most curious’ minute …
- … In the zoological notes made during the Beagle voyage, Darwin recorded: ‘The thick shell of some …
- … the absence of a shell and its unusual parasitic nature, Darwin recognised that it differed greatly …
- … Such a revaluation had not been undertaken when, in 1846, Darwin began to examine several …
- … of as many genera as I could procure.’ For fourteen months Darwin pursued an anatomical study of …
- … British Museum and himself a cirripede expert, suggested to Darwin that he prepare a monograph of …
- … and advised him on procuring other collections. At the time Darwin committed himself to this study, …
- … his attention for the next seven years. To appreciate why Darwin would have undertaken such a study, …
- … and nineteenth-century naturalists (Knight 1981). Many of Darwin’s contemporaries—Edward Forbes, …
- … (Desmond 1982; Richards 1987; Winsor 1969). Darwin’s views on classification were tempered …
- … in arranging groups (S. Smith 1965; Ospovat 1981, p. 108). Darwin’s frequent discussions with Owen …
- … the common design perceived among organisms. Within Darwin’s maturing evolutionary perspective, the …
- … 1969, p. 83). By the early 1840s, then, Darwin’s ideas on classification were well …
- … [26 July 1843] ( Correspondence vol. 2), for example, Darwin confidently proclaimed his …
- … to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s philosophical anatomy, Darwin incorporated the concepts of analogy and …
- … from a similarity in their basic plan of organisation, for Darwin homology revealed actual …
- … can be seen in the collection of slides that, through Francis Darwin, he gave to the University …
