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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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  • … published two books on geology,  Volcanic islands  (1844) and  Geological observations on South …
  • … edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in 1844 for a German translation of the first …
  • … Society of London, acting as one of four vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from …
  • … and refereed papers for all these organisations. Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten …
  • … John Stevens Henslow, Leonard Horner, Leonard Jenyns, Edward Forbes, and Richard Owen shows. These …
  • … others. Only two months after their first exchange, early in 1844, Darwin told Hooker that he was …
  • … murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). Nine months later, in his letter …
  • … , pp. 57–255), an expanded version, completed on 5 July 1844, of a pencil sketch he had drawn up …
  • … of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of the essay of 1844 to read (see  Correspondence  vol. …
  • … the natural history of creation , published anonymously in 1844. His old friend Adam Sedgwick …
  • … future, is that addressed to his wife Emma, dated 5 July 1844 , just after Darwin had completed …
  • … 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 …
  • … 1841].— L d . Dudley’s Correspondence [Dudley 1844]. Hallam Constitut Hist: Hen VII …
  • … Hall’s voyage in the Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] …
  • … Observ. on Instinct [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker 1844. in Parts. cheap. 1.6 a part. 38 …
  • … Jesses new Book. (April 44) on Nat. Hist [Jesse 1844] must be studied. J. Jarves “Scenes in …
  • … Traite Elementair  Palæontologie M. Pictet [Pictet 1844–5]— Forbes?? Waterhouse has it— 1844— read …
  • … Hooker recommends order [Backhouse 1844] at Library …
  • … Vestiges of Nat: Hist: of Creation. Churchill: 1844. 7 s  ” 6 d . [Chambers] 1844] in which …
  • … 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 …
  • … 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. …

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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  • … a theory of transmutation in a short pencil sketch, and in 1844, he once again committed his …
  • … published in the event of his sudden death . Later in 1844, he told the naturalist Leonard …
  • … of Creation caused a publishing sensation in October 1844, the public reaction to the …
  • … on the hypothetical land bridges suggested by the naturalist Edward Forbes. Darwin declared to …
  • … receive his views with open arms. Since its publication in 1844, the transmutationist work …

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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  • … of disarray in the taxonomy of the group. Late in 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the zoological …
  • … (Knight 1981). Many of Darwin’s contemporaries—Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, Louis Agassiz, William …
  • … influential essay on classification (Milne-Edwards 1844). Like von Baer, Milne-Edwards recognised …
  • … paper on classification by Gaspard Auguste Brullé (Brullé 1844). In this work, Brullé argued that …
  • … of embryological development, as outlined in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57–255), …
  • … p. 45). See also the fuller discussion of this topic in the 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229).   …
  • … and body of a mammal.   ^5^ In his species essay of 1844, for example, CD stated: ‘The cause …
  • … CD had arrived at such a view of cirripede systematics by 1844, judging by statements in the essay …

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,…

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  • … order to supplement views already expressed in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations ; Correspondence …
  • … animals and plants with Hooker who, with Charles Lyell and Edward Forbes, was one of the most public …
  • … him. In this regard, the naturalist and museum curator Edward Blyth figures most prominently. Blyth …