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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,…
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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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- … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
- … de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec celle de l’Homme,” by Dr. Pierquin, published in Paris …
- … [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v.] …
- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on Annals of Nat. Hist. …
- … Hist. genérale et Particulière des Anomalies de l’organization des hommes & des Animaux by Isid. …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … of the Agricultural Association meeting at Oxford. paper by L d Spencer on gestation of animals …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil [Wied …
- … of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read) Berkeleys Works …
- … 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in …
- … round world 1803–6 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyell’s Elements of Geology [Lyell 1838] …
- … J 57 Browne’s Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyell’s Book III 5th Edit 58 [Lyell 1837] …
- … 1809]— references at end of each Chap. June 1. King & FitzRoy’s Voyages [King 1839 and …
- … 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard II ; King Henry IV ] …
- … Lear [Shakespeare: Julius Caesar ; Coriolanus ; King Lear ] Sept. 26 Shelleys Essays …
- … Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 vo (Much on Distribution of …
- … 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] Moores …
- … Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 [Belon 1555] p 264 Quails at sea with seeds.— See for …
- … 1859]. (goodish) 1 The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
- … Erskine. 2 vols. London. *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839. Primitiæ floræ …
- … of Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845. Insect life . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King shared the working space with CD. …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin …
- … the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and letter …
- … 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John. The narrative of …
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
- … London, 1823. (DAR 30.1: 41). ‡ Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle. A description of active and …
- … with Notes. London, 1824. (DAR 36.2: 522; Stoddart 1962, p. 14). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ De la …
- … 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de Freycinet, L. C. see Freycinet, L. C. Desaulses de …
- … d’histoire naturelle. See Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M., ed. Dictionnaire des …
- … corvette . . .La Coquille 1822–5. Zoologie par MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., atlas. …
- … § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, …
- … Hereford, 1774. (DAR 31.1: 207v.). Fitton, W. See King, P. P. Narrative of a survey of the …
- … sur les recherches d’histoire naturelle faites dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831. Annales …
- … (Vols. 1 and 2, in one, 3d edition, inscribed from J. S. Henslow to CD ‘on his departure’, September …
- … 1806. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘Rob t FitzRoy to Charles Darwin’; Red notebook , pp. 75, 105e, …
- … Zoological Journal 5 (1832–4). (Inscribed ‘Charles Darwin Esq from the Author Dunheved Jan 26 1836 …
- … Johann von (Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fédorovich). Atlas de l’Océan Pacifique dressé par M. de …
- … pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’Atlas de l’océan Pacifique. 2 vols. St Petersburg, 1827 …
- … (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * Lyell, Charles. Principles of geology . . . …
- … ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … address in the fifth edition was that of the engineer Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin. Darwin had been …
- … structures of the South American cordillera ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 May 1869 ), and fossil …
- … continued to grow and diversify in 1869. A gardener to the king of Prussia, Adolf Reuter, sent …
