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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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Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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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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- … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the …
- … Lib. Geological Society (read) Goulds Kangaroos [Gould 1841–2]— Birds of Himalaya [Gould 1834 …
- … J. Ross. Voyage Antarctic Voyage [Ross 1847]. Oct 5. Gould Introduct. to Birds of Australia …
- … Visit to America [Lyell 1849] July 20. Agassiz & Gould Principles of Zoology Vol I. …
- … in Journals June 10 th Goulds Birds of Australia [Gould 1848]. —— 20 D r Holland …
- … ‘O’ in pencil. 103 Hugh Cuming. John Gould Anthony published Description of new …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … as a result of thinking about the significance of John Gould’s and Richard Owen’s identifications of …
- … of Darwin’s findings had been spread by the publication by J. S. Henslow and Adam Sedgwick of …
- … results of the Beagle voyage. With the help of J. S. Henslow, William Whewell, and other …
- … Mammalia , by G. R. Waterhouse; Birds , by John Gould; Fish , by Leonard Jenyns; and …
- … beetles were described by F. W. Hope, G. R. Waterhouse, and C. C. Babington; the Chalcididae by …
- … were neglected. During the voyage Darwin had expected that J. S. Henslow would describe his …
- … and classification (see Henslow 1837a and 1838; W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. …
- … . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] ). …
- … filled, with facts It is true that, until he took J. D. Hooker into his confidence in …
- … to convince anyone that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had …
- … all crosses between all domestic birds & animals dogs, cats &c &c very valuable—' …
- … on literature in this field and on friends like Henslow, T. C. Eyton, and W. D. Fox, who were …
- … distributed ( Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix V). As P. J. Vorzimmer has pointed out (Vorzimmer …
- … to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [ c. February 1839] ). These are not …
- … so-called ‘science of morphology’, first set forth by J. W. von Goethe. Though widely accepted in …
- … relation of fossil with recent. the fabric falls!' (Notebook C : 76–7). …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
