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Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • M r  Hicks [Hickson 1849] Published separately Taylor & Walton HeadedMalthus” [Hickson 1849] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • 1 & 2 vols: I do not think much for me.— —— W. Waltons Treatise on Peruvian Sheep [W. …
  • 18367]. —— Part of Waltons lives [I. Walton 1670].—— Oct. 25. Emersons Essay
  • 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2126 [A. Murray
  • …  Hinds Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th  William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt
  • 7  Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph
  • In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogles translation of Aristotle
  • Notebooks ). 19  According to the  DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both
  • is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alisons article which was
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • listing the volumes in the Naturalists Library edited by William Jardine, a forty-volume series on
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • 66  The bibliography provides the titles of the works by William Shakespeare that CD recorded
  • CDs collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See  …
  • …  edited by Robert Bentley Todd, was issued in parts. William Pulteney Alisons article first
  • 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832A letter in vindication of   the principles of
  • by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter fromJ.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. VigorsPhilosophical
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of
  • und Feinde . Giessen. [Darwin Library.]  128: 13 Walton, Izaak. 1670The lives of D r

Darwin’s observations on his children

Summary

Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • he closely observed the development of his first child, William Erasmus, the stages of his
  • son’[7] —to such a degree that on occasion he refers to William asit’. Darwin possessed the
  • and his children. Darwin maintained his record of Williams development from the day of his
  • smiling, etc., as was the focus of Darwins attention on William and Anne, she noted curious
  • our door N o  12 and N o  11 is in the slit for the Letter box.— he decidedly ran past N o  11
  • has learned them from my sometimes changing the first letter in any word he is usingthus I say
  • March 23 d . Doddy looking at full-face likeness of Isaac Walton in frontispiece of the Angler,[47
  • … , pp. 1312. [6Correspondence  vol. 2, letter from Emma Wedgwood, [23 January 1839] . …
  • Manuscript alterations and comments section. [10William Erasmus was Emma and CDs first
  • the verso of page 3 and opposite the preceding passage about William smiling; ‘Henrietta . . . …
  • not 29, in February (1840 was a leap year) when calculating Williams age (see, for example, the
  • until November. [30Doddy was a pet name for William Erasmus Darwin. [31Possibly
  • … [46Robert Waring Darwin. [47Izaak Waltons  The compleate angler; or the contemplative