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George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a …
- … Calculus , in 1816, adding over 100 pages of notes. Peacock published his Treatise on Algebra …
- … philosophy and logic to the study of algebra. Peacock’s energy and commitment to the …
- … parallel to his busy and influential scientific career, Peacock was ordained as deacon, then priest …
- … and improved sanitation in Ely. In August 1831 Peacock wrote to John Stevens Henslow, telling …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … and observers like Henry Walter Bates, Benjamin Dann Walsh, George Thwaites, Robert Swinhoe, John …
- … It appeared in 1871. The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze on it, …
- … is missing) seems to have asked Brent specifically about the peacock's tail. The seeming …
- … of beauty in nature, used by Darwin’s opponents, such as George Douglas Campbell, the duke of Argyll …
- … Brent gave it as his opinion that the spreading of the peacock's tail was a 'sexual ask& …
- … stretcher' to believe that sexual selection had formed the peacock's tail but, believing …
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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- … Benson, W. H. (2) Bentham, George (66) …
- … Browne, Walter (6) Brownen, George (1) …
- … Bush, John (3) Busk, George (18) …
- … Claus, C. F. (9) Clendon, George, Jr (1) …
- … Crookes, William (1) Cross, George (5) …
- … Cupples, A. J. (2) Cupples, George (56) …
- … Alexander (1) Dickie, George (3) …
- … Fox, W. D. (225) Francis, George (1) …
- … F. S. B. (10) Fraser, George (3) …
- … Gibbons, W. H. S. (1) Gibbs, George (1) …
- … Gordon, C. G. (1) Gordon, George (a) (3) …
- … Grenville, G. N. (1) Grey, George (3) …
- … Grove, G. (1) Grove, George (1) …
- … Gull, W. W. (1) Gulliver, George (3) …
- … Harris, G. E. (2) Harris, George (5) …
- … Hensgen, Carl (1) Henslow, George (37) …
- … Friedrich (39) Hill, George Birkbeck (1) …
- … Hoddick, Fritz (1) Hodgskin, George (1) …
- … Hooker, W. J. (9) Hookham, George (1) …
- … F. B. (1) Johnston, George (2) Jones …
- … King, Frederick (2) King, George (17) …
- … Maudsley, Henry (3) Maw, George (29) …
- … Morris, John (1) Morrish, George (1) …
- … Newman, H. W. (1) Newport, George (2) …
- … Pattrick, R. S. (1) Paul, George (1) …
- … Frederick (7) Ransome, George (3) …
Leonard Jenyns
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When Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage there was no-one available to describe the fish that he had collected. At Darwin’s request Jenyns, a friend from Cambridge days, took on the challenge. It was not an easy one: at that time Jenyns had only worked…
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- … When Captain FitzRoy approached his friend George Peacock, then a Fellow of Trinity College, to …
- … be fit and willing to accompany him on HMS Beagle, Peacock thought first of John Stevens Henslow …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … his discussion with Gove about potential careers to his son, George. While scientific work might …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … the brightly coloured wings of male butterflies, the male peacock’s elaborate tail, the large horns …
- … in Society and History 45: 815–42. Stocking, George. 1868. Race, culture, and evolution: …
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 *128: 172] D r . Young’s Life by Peacock [Peacock 1855] praised by Erasmus.— Read …
- … Notes to Jardine & Jesses Selbourne [E. Jesse ed. 1849] George’s Copy Aug. St. Hilaire. …
- … L. Ossoy [Walpole 1848] 1 st vol. —— History George III [Walpole 1845]. 1. vol. —— …
- … May 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … in Paraguay [Mansfield 1856] Dec. Young’s life of Peacock [Peacock 1855] Thackeray …
- … 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851. Letters …
- … etc. 2 vols. London. *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860. Gatherings of a naturalist in …
- … Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826. Catalogue des plantes …
- … ou peu connues . Paris. *128: 159 Berkeley, George. 1784. The works of George Berkeley …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or …
- … sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III . 3 pts. London. 119: 21b …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 3a Browne, William George. 1799. Travels in Africa, Egypt and …
- … and London. 119: 9a Bubb, afterwards Dodington, George. 1784. The diary of the late …
- … atlases. Paris. *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835. Rienzi, …
- … and reason. Edinburgh. *119: 11v. Busk, George. 1852–4. Catalogue of marine …
- … 1835 to 1847 . 2 vols. London. 128: 8 Byron, George Gordon Noel. 1813. The Giaour, a …
- … England from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV. 7 vols. London. *119: 22, …
- … and French. 2 vols. London. 128: 16 Catlin, George. 1841. Letters and notes on the …
- … 3 vols. Paris. [Other eds.] 119: 9a Chesterton, George Laval. 1856. Revelations of …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 164–5.] 119: 15a Combe, George. 1828. The constitution of man …
- … of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II by Oliver Goldsmith. The 11th …
- … trees . Philadelphia. *119: 4v. Crabbe, George. 1807. Poems . London. [Other eds.] …
- … les mêmes parages . Paris. 119: 5a Culley, George. 1786. Observations on live stock, …
- … London. 119: 7a, 13a Cumming, Roualeyn George Gordon. 1850. Five years of a hunter …
- … . London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 22a Dixon, George, ed. 1789. A voyage round the world; …
- … plants known in Britain . London. *119: 14v. Peacock, George. 1855. Life of Thomas …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … adding a prologue, while his brother Erasmus proposed that George Darwin, Darwin’s son and a keen …
- … Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little consolation that George Darwin wrote on 13 July to say …
- … ‘Journal’). Nor did Darwin mention it when he told George Romanes on 14 September that he had …
- … whose explanation of phenomena like the display of the peacock Darwin had long thought to be ‘mere …
Correspondence with women
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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … Lyell are some of the most fascinating in the volume. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites …
- … he readily admitted to Gray: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
