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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,…
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … of his day (including the famous Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz ), that each organism was …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring Gray Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, etc… The …
- … of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of …
- … reprinted in Silliman’s Journal, as a nut for [Professor] Agassiz to crack. Darwin and Gray …
- … characteristic. Instead of learning caution from experience, Agassiz goes on faster than ever, in …
- … book GRAY: 78 The theory of Agassiz regards the origin of species and their …
- … such conclusions. I believe Horace is a prophetic type, as Agassiz would say, of future naturalists. …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … as he realised that it made plausible the theory of Louis Agassiz, who had proposed that a glacier …
- … which—with his Glen Roy argument—was later superseded by Agassiz’s glaciation theory. A third …
- … what Christian Leopold von Buch and Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont called …
- … no doubt strengthened by his own widening interest and by Louis Agassiz’s opinion that such a …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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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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- … [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works Comparative …
- … number & size of sporules of Fungus. March 4 th Agassiz etudes sur les Glaciers …
- … Lyell Second Visit to America [Lyell 1849] July 20. Agassiz & Gould Principles of Zoology …
- … Aug. 16 Harvey Sea-side Book [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov …
- … History of Brit. Star fishes [E. Forbes 1841]. —— Agassiz Report sur les Poissons Fossiles …
- … the French. London. [Darwin Library.] *119: 13v. Agassiz, Louis. 1835. Rapport sur les …
- … . Boston. [Darwin Library.] 119: 22a Agassiz, Louis and Gould, Augustus Addison. 1848. …
- … . 2 vols. London. 128: 23 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. 1791. Natural …
- … 12: 305–9. *119: 16v. Céran-Lemonnier, Louis. 1837. Atlas de la géographie des …
- … 19v. Cuvier, Georges. 1830. Éloge historique de Louis-François-Élisabeth Baron Ramond. …
- … [Other eds.] *128: 178; 128: 9 Desmoulins, Louis Antoine. 1822. Mémoire sur la …
- … Armand Petit and Élie de Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce. 1830–8. Mémoires pour servir …
- … Montpellier. *119: 9v. Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis. 1764. The elements of …
- … of London 21: 53–4. *128: 163 Duperrey, Louis Isidore. 1825–30. Voyage autour du …
- … 119: 10a Élie de Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce. 1845. Leçons de géologie …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 2a Girou de Buzareingues, Louis François Charles. 1828a. De la …
- … and Garnot, Prosper. 1826–30. Zoologie . In Duperrey, Louis Isidore, Voyage autour du monde, …
- … 119: 3a, 4a, 16b, 17b Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Jean Louis Auguste. 1842–3. Considérations …
- … 3: 1–29. *119: 22v. Marquis, Alexandre Louis. 1810. Fragmens de philosophie …
- … 3 vols. London. *119: 5v.; 119: 13b Necker, Louis Albert. 1823. Mémoire sur les oiseaux …
- … France 2: 91–124. 119: 3a Prévost, Jean Louis and Dumas, Jean Baptiste André. 1824. …
- … Library.] 128: 13 Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1854. Souvenirs d’un …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 5v. Ramond de Carbonnières, Louis François Élisabeth. 1799–1801. …
- … . 16 vols. Göttingen. *119: 15v. Reynier, Jean Louis Antoine. 1818. De l’économie …
- … in DAR 205.4: 53–6.] 119: 21a Rouvroy, Louis de, Duke de Saint-Simon Vermandois. 1857. …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Charles Lyell about the views of the Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz and the philosopher Francis …
- … you an account of the very absurd lengths to which Bowen & Agassiz—each in their own way—are …
- … to a community of origin,—are all autochtonal. Agassiz (foolish man) admits that the derivation of …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … authorities, such as George Cuvier, Richard Owen, and Louis Agassiz (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 9 …
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…
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 Darwin’s contemporaries—Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, Louis Agassiz, William Sharp Macleay, James …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … transmutation theory against the prominent Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, whose Methods of study …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … corrections or contributions. A German emigrant in St Louis claimed that new races arriving …
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…
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
