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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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  • … Transactions of the   Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the cultivation of Fruit …
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
  • … to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • … increase in the numbers of mankind, being an answer to   Mr. Malthus’ essay on that subject. …
  • … of Count   de Grammont.  Translated from the French by Mr. Boyer. London. [Other eds.] 119: 22b …
  • … *119: 21v. Gray, Thomas. 1775.  The poems of Mr. Gray. To which are   prefixed memoirs …
  • … A concise and genuine account of the dispute   between Mr Hume and Mr Rousseau: with the letters …
  • … from the   Amœnitates Academicæ, a supplement to Mr. Stillingfleet’s   tracts relating to …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … Low … and illustrated with   plates from drawings by Mr. W. Nicholson … reduced from a   series …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …
  • … 205.3: 156–7.]  128: 8 Wallace, Ellen. 1848.  Mr. Warrenne . London.  119: 21b …
  • … The lives of D r  John Dunne, Sir Henry   Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert . 4 pts …
  • … 1820.  Remarks on the improvement of   cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
  • … or, monthly journal of veterinary science.  Edited by Mr Percivall. London. 1828–.  *119: 16v.; …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … to obtain such a one I was (in a manner) compelled to take Mr Darwin on a far too independent …
  • … a text with which he disagreed: “I know that when Mr Ross saw it (Brochure and all) he elevated his …
  • … to other readers, the publisher Colburn, a ghost writer (“Mr. Literary Fag”), fictional compositors …
  • … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
  • … as “my brother Knight” or “the Knight.” Mr. William C. Leisk ( ?-1867) was one of the …
  • … Studies 54 (2012): 227-53. [i] Russell Jones, “Earl, Logan and ‘Indonesia,’” …