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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,…
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already …
- … congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a second year, this time without …
- … at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations, one on a child, but I rushed away before they were …
- … days of chloroform. The two cases fairly haunted me for many a long year. ( Autobiography …
- … and in January 1828 he went up to Cambridge to read for a degree that would enable him to be …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made a list of some books he had been reading …
- … in 1825. Some of the books are suitable reading for a medical student: John Abernethy was a …
- … close connections of Edinburgh’s intellectual community. A translation of the principal geological …
- … of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh. Hugh Blair, although not a scientist, first …
- … in 1759, and in 1760 the University of Edinburgh created a professorship of rhetoric for him, the …
- … as well as two books of arctic exploration there is also a book of arctic zoology. Two titles …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … in 1804. On rereading this work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst …
- … to be published in English. The Rambler was a magazine of essays, many of a philosophical …
- … fare. Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) died aged 21 while a student at Cambridge: his verse became …
- … most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal …
- … 2 Cochrane 1825. 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly annotated copy in the Darwin …
- … ( ODNB ; Desmond and Parker 2006). 8 Blair 1790. 9 Abernethy 1819a; CD perhaps …
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…
