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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds to Darwin’s …
- … February 1867] Mary Barber responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression from …
- … wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression …
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
- … and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - …
- … passes on brief observations of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - …
- … Letter 4823 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, H. E., [May 1865] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, …
- … 8144 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [5 January 1872] Darwin asks his niece, Lucy, …
- … Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 8169 - Wedgwood, L. to Darwin, [20 January, 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, gives the …
- … 8427 - Darwin to Litc hfield, H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8153 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William …
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second half of …
- … been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a …
- … The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, to …
- … led Darwin to the self-assessment, ‘as for one’s body growing old there is no help for it, & I …
- … The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. …
- … August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that Clark’s dietary treatment would ‘do wonders’, but as …
- … in London, his son George organised a séance at Erasmus’s house. The event was led by the medium …
- … 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, another Williams séance was held at the home of …
- … report to Darwin with the spirit-busting conclusion that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( …
- … to get the two men on each side of him to hold each other’s hands, instead of his, ‘& that he …
- … first three months of the year and, like many of Darwin’s enterprises in the 1870s, were family …
- … for the book may have been increased by the publication in 1872 of Corals and coral islands , by …
- … Cupples, a Scottish deerhound expert who forwarded Darwin’s queries about the numbers of males and …
- … vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To Darwin’s relief, Murray replied …
- … of Hooker’s and Huxley’s representations ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1874] ). Huxley …
- … vol. 20, letter to Hubert Airy, 24 August 1872 ). The passage took twelve weeks aboard the …
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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- … 8] 1854 Jan 15. Seeman’s Narrative of H.M.S. Herald [Seeman 1853]. Feb 6. …
- … Philosophie Positive G Lewes [Lewes 1853] (curious) Williams Missionary in T. del Fuego …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
- … . Vol. 37 in Jardine, William, ed., The naturalist’s library . 40 vols. Edinburgh. 1843. *119: …
- … caractères physiologiques des race humaines considérés dans leur rapports avec l’histoire . …
- … Amazon, including a residence at Pará . (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. *119: 23 …
- … Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, in 1840–1, including an account of …
- … of wheat . Jersey and London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1872) also in Darwin Library.] *119: 7v.; …
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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- … to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help; he also ordered a selection of …
- … a variety of antacids and purgatives, and limited Darwin’s fluid intake; this treatment differed …
- … also marked by the award to Darwin of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal; he had been nominated for …
- … in Britain. Challenging convention Darwin’s concern about the acceptance of his theory …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his observations and …
- … in January 1865. Climbers and twiners Darwin’s paper divided plants into different …
- … as good species as a man & a Gorilla Darwin’s interest in species, hybrids, and …
- … of flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
- … 14, collected specimens of Echium vulgare . Darwin’s daughter Henrietta was often at his side in …
- … of Pulmonaria officinalis from her family’s home in Surrey; Darwin incorporated these into …
- … in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin’s eldest son and a banker in Southampton. Their …
- … much pollen work as ever you like’. Comments on William’s findings, along with other household news, …
- … Crüger, head of the botanic garden in Trinidad. Darwin’s exhilaration is apparent in his reports to …
- … of Catasetum pollen adhering to a humble-bee’s back, illustrating the force behind the ejection …
- … [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed by Crüger’s discovery of the unique bucket-like labellum …
- … the 1866 edition of Origin . He communicated Crüger’s paper to the Linnean Society, in addition …
- … in the year from Roland Trimen in South Africa. Darwin’s work with orchids continued to inspire the …
- … 1877. These publications were partly inspired by Crüger’s work, and by Darwin’s continuing …
- … the orchid Acropera . Darwin communicated one of Scott’s papers on the orchid Oncidium to the …
- … the Linnean Society (Scott 1864a); other papers of Scott’s followed, reporting the results of …
- … the most troublesome In March, Darwin and Scott’s typically technical and detailed …
- … of attaining a foreign appointment. Convinced of Scott’s talent and his ‘burning zeal for science’, …
- … for The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872). The Copley medal …
