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Interview with John Hedley Brooke

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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…

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  • … Darwin’s close scientific colleague and friend, Alfred Russell Wallace becomes interested, and …
  • … to the fear displayed by monkeys. He writes about this in a letter in 1881 to William Graham : …
  • … press one’s heterodoxy onto others. And you refer to a letter from Joseph Hooker to Darwin in 1865 …
  • … century by a more aggressive stance ? one typified, say, by Thomas Huxley or Ernst Haeckel ? are …

Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … and these can be accessed online by searching for a letter and clicking on the translation tab on …
  • … 8 V Patrick Matthew's letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • … 9 IX Letters between Thomas Francis Jamieson and Charles Lyell on the geology …
  • … V Reports from the Scottish press on Thomas Henry Huxley’s Edinburgh lectures …
  • … 17 IV Thomas Henry Farrer's notes on Passiflora and Tacsonia …
  • … 21 V Draft subscription list for Thomas Henry Huxley …

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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  • … [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 …
  • … 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 …
  • … 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 …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles 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 …
  • …   Irish famine . Belfast.  119: 22b Carlyle, Thomas. 1834.  Sartor Resartus.  London. …
  • … of the   Mancha . Translated from the Spanish [by Thomas Shelton]. London. [Other eds.]  119: …
  • … la mer du sud,   commencé sous les ordres de M. [Nicolas Thomas] Marion [du   Fresne] … Cette …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 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 …

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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  • … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
  • … British Lieutenant-Governor of Netherland East Indies, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Raffles …
  • … Studies 54 (2012): 227-53. [i] Russell Jones, “Earl, Logan and ‘Indonesia,’” …