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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … to Darwin’s. Others, like Hugh Falconer , couldn't wait to buy 'the wicked book' …
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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- … 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845 …
- … 1812 and 1825] (poor) Coleridge Sept 3 d IV & V Vols of Campbell’s Chancellors [J. …
- … Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray 1866] Wollaston Coleoptera Atlantidum 1. 1. 0 …
- … 1747–69] 1855. Wollastons Insecta Maderensia [Wollaston 1854] —— Johnston Physical …
- … on Conchology [S. P. Woodward 1851–6] —— Wollaston on Variation [Wollaston 1856] F. …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … to injurious action of salt-water. ’ It was only when T. V. Wollaston sent Darwin several hundred …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin receiving the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society …
