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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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  • … on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on …
  • … 1834–9] Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] (read) Keppells(?) voyage to Borneo …
  • … Exploring Expedition towards the Rocky Mountains [Frémont 1845]. (amusing extracts). perhaps for …
  • … America  by A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good …
  • … [DAR *119: 22] Eyeres Travels [E. J. Eyre 1845] very amusing Tschudi’s Travels in …
  • … Campbells Lives of Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] last vol. Ludlows Memoirs …
  • … Murchisons Russia [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works …
  • … Wilkes Expedition.  £ 3. 3 s  [Wilkes 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of …
  • … Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] …
  • … [ Le Bon Jardinier ] 1829. d[itt]o Sir. Ch. Bell Anatomy of Expression [Bell 1806]. …
  • … [DAR *128: 161] Bells British Quadrupeds [T. Bell 1837]. (read) Pictet Paleontologie …
  • … 1 (1847) in Darwin Library.] *128: 179 Arnold, Thomas. 1838–43.  History of Rome . 3 …
  • … de   Pekin . 16 vols. Paris.  128: 18 Beale, Thomas. 1839.  The natural history of the …
  • … [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.]  119: 5a Bell, Thomas. 1837.  A history of British …
  • … Croker. 5 vols. London.  119: 4a, 9b Boteler, Thomas. 1835.  Narrative of a voyage of …
  • … of natural history . London.  119: 20a Browne, Thomas. 1643.  Religio Medici . First …
  • … 125–7.]  *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857.  History of civilization in …
  • … the native tribes.  London.  119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839.  The physiology or …
  • … of   the Trilobites.  Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray …
  • … *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848.  Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell   Buxton, Baronet. With …
  • … . 3 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 23b Campbell, Thomas. 1828.  The poetical works of …

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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  • GouldFish , by Leonard Jenyns; and  Reptiles , by Thomas Bella total of nineteen quarto
  • 2). Darwins crustacean specimens, originally entrusted to Thomas Bell, subsequently purchased by
  • and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. Hooker 18447, 1845, 1846, 18535, and 1860). In 1980, two