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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838 …
- … [DAR *119: 2v.] White’s regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindley’s …
- … 8 vo p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian …
- … in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: …
- … Wiegman has pub. German pamphlet on crossing oats &c [Wiegmann 1828] Horticultural …
- … in Library of Hort. Soc. [DAR *119:5v.] M c .Neil 16 has written good article …
- … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith …
- … John Davies. China during the War and Peace [J. F. Davis 1852]. read Books Read, 1838–51 …
- … [Southey 1834–47]. Poor. skimmed Books to be Read, 1852–60 [DAR *128: Cover] …
- … of 1851 on silk-worms & sheep, selection & crossing [R. Owen 1852]. Also hybrid-wheat …
- … & Triticum 84 Knox on Anatomy & Art [R. Knox 1852]. London Library (read) …
- … Work on Hybridism reviewed in Gardeners Chronicle in 1852. by Wagner? [Unger 1852] 85 Read …
- … 1848. Memoirs of the life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. 2 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: …
- … by Richard Owen. Vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
- … Robert. 1843. Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
- … Peacock, George. 1855. Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S. London. *128: 172; 128: 21 …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … the work of collecting, and the construction of theory. Darwin was not simply a gentleman naturalist …
- … of the most advanced laboratory methods and equipment. Darwin used letters as a speculative space, …
- … Specialism and Detail Darwin is usually thought of as a gentleman naturalist and a …
- … across and drew together different fields of knowledge. But Darwin also made substantial …
- … discussion was often the starting point for some of Darwin's most valuable and enduring …
- … Letter 1495 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, 25 Dec [1852] Darwin discusses the capacity …
4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…
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- … < Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a …
- … album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning on a lectern with …
- … At bottom left is an inscription, ’Science – Proff r Darwin’. Frederick Sem was French …
- … are accompanying letters to Croker, variously dated between 1852 and 1877, which provided samples of …
- … on the basis of the allusions in their inscriptions to c.1880-1, i.e. some years later than the …
- … singly represents a field of activity and achievement. Darwin is ‘Science’, Carlyle ‘Philosophy’, …
- … in the 1870s is certainly the most likely in the case of the Darwin cartoon, given its joking …
- … date of creation unknown; probably mid-1870s to c. 1880 medium and material pencil and …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 …
- … 25 Zierikzee 14 december 1852 Vlissingen 25 may 1898 …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 3 june 1852 Rotterdam 5 january …
- … Society. Rhoon 10 january 1852 7 april 1778 …
- … Explorations. 26 december 1852 Rotterdam 18 may 1938 …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in …
- … Died just a few months after the album was sent to Charles Darwin at the age of 53 …
- … 25 Zierikzee 14 December 1852 Vlissingen 25 May 1898 …
- … Geologist, Economist an Darwinist. Corresponded with Darwin and translated The descent of Man in …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 3 June 1852 Rotterdam 5 January …
- … Society. Rhoon 10 January 1852 7 April 1778 …
- … Explorations. 26 December 1852 Rotterdam 18 May 1938 …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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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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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the …
- … is available below . As with much of his other work, Darwin gathered additional information on the …
- … lunatics, the blind, and animals. And as early as 1839 Darwin had begun to collect information on …
- … the expression of emotions. As the following transcript of Darwin’s notes reveals, he closely …
- … William Erasmus, the stages of his development suggesting to Darwin those expressions which are …
- … The tone of the manuscript reflects an aspect of Darwin’s character clearly perceived by Emma during …
- … “What does that prove”.’[6] For in these notes, Darwin’s deep scientific curiosity transcends his …
- … that on occasion he refers to William as ‘it’. Darwin possessed the ability to dissociate …
- … memories.[8] Yet, though the dissociation was essential for Darwin’s scientific goal, the notes here …
- … However, at this point the record breaks off until January 1852, by which time the Darwin family had …
- … the onset of frowning, smiling, etc., as was the focus of Darwin’s attention on William and Anne, …
- … of logical thought and language. On 20 May 1854, Darwin again took over the notebook and, …
- … all the notes until July 1856, when the observations ceased. Darwin’s later entries, like Emma’s, …
- … Transcription: 1 [9] W. Erasmus. Darwin born. Dec. 27 th . 1839.—[10] During first week. …
- … of muscles, without a corresponding sensation. D r . Holland[12] informs me children do not …
- … trowsers. Emma one morning put on an unconspicuous bonnet of C. Langton,[52] W. instantly observed …
- … to change “Yours is larger than mine Annie.” Jan. 1852 Lizzy 4½ years old.[60] She has always …
- … she added an s to the end of every word “Ettis & Bettis &c afterwards all the ws were turned …
- … goed dawn to the willage”. Fish for Smith. Kaw for cow. &c. Lenny[61] 2 years old speaks …
- … any thing with my egg. Miss Th. Shall I cut up y r meat? L. I don’t care whether you do or …
- … “But I could not help it”— I said “Lenny you c d help it, don’t say that”. “I could not help it a …
- … written in pencil by CD and subsequently overwritten by Emma Darwin. The transcription throughout …
- … [15] ‘Annie . . . fortnight’ was written by Emma Darwin on the verso of page 3 and opposite the …
- … The name and address of a Mrs Locke are noted in Emma Darwin’s 1843 diary. [16] The following …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of …
- … which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following …
- … edition of On the Origin of Species (the fourth) in 1866. Darwin made substantive changes to every …
- … was only the latest statement of a common argument against Darwin’s theory, one he had dealt with …
- … on as he prepared a fourth edition of the book. Darwin began with the argument that ‘the idea …
- … selection as another instance of beauty-with-a-purpose, Darwin turned to the plant world and …
- … … or are they? Towards the end of September 1866 Darwin received a letter from Fritz Müller, …
- … composite of letter from Müller to Darwin, 2 Aug 1866, in Darwin’s experimental notebook"," …
- … file-default"}}]] What interested Darwin so much was something that had been on his mind …
- … great distance.— Fritz Müller to Charles Darwin, 2 Aug 1866. Darwin …
- … seeds, to see if they were covered with any thing which c d prove attractive to birds. I rec d …
- … whole case seems to me rather a striking one. Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 25 …
- … beset with brilliant red pearls. By the time he received Darwin’s letter he had found yet more …
- … ) or other birds.’ ( see the letter ) By this time Darwin had already sent some of the seeds …
- … will give you some idea of the difficulties. Darwin picked up on Müller’s suggestion and …
- … old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; at least I c d . not find them during 48 o in his …
- … them. The case is a sore puzzle to me.— Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 10 Dec [1866] …
- … how far it is a prey to birds. Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 14 Dec 1866 …
- … about half the seeds he tried to eat, possibly confirming Darwin’s suggestion of accidental …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed …
- … , it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet when this study …
- … anomalous. Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwin’s study of cirripedes, far from …
- … classification using the most recent methods available, Darwin was able to provide a thorough …
- … his views on the species question (Crisp 1983). Darwin’s interest in invertebrate zoology …
- … Robert Edmond Grant. In his Autobiography (pp. 49–50), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and …
- … numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, …
- … marine organisms was exercised during the Beagle voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm …
- … earlier researches in Edinburgh on the ova of invertebrates, Darwin was particularly well prepared …
- … In 1835, in the Chonos Archipelago off the coast of Chile, Darwin found ‘most curious’ minute …
- … In the zoological notes made during the Beagle voyage, Darwin recorded: ‘The thick shell of some …
- … the absence of a shell and its unusual parasitic nature, Darwin recognised that it differed greatly …
- … Such a revaluation had not been undertaken when, in 1846, Darwin began to examine several …
- … of as many genera as I could procure.’ For fourteen months Darwin pursued an anatomical study of …
- … British Museum and himself a cirripede expert, suggested to Darwin that he prepare a monograph of …
- … and advised him on procuring other collections. At the time Darwin committed himself to this study, …
- … his attention for the next seven years. To appreciate why Darwin would have undertaken such a study, …
- … such questions as yours,—whether number of species &c &c should enter as an element in …
- … from common stocks— In this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of those …
- … metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c states that in Crust, antennæ & …
- … subsuming the group within another sub-class (Milne-Edwards 1852) or elevating it to a separate …
- … as a distinct class between the Crustacea and the Annelida (R. Owen 1855).^7^ Darwin, however, with …
- … spirits Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which …
- … CD’s specimen has remained unique. (The editors thank Drs R. W. Ingle and G. Boxshall of the British …
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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- … obtain such a one I was (in a manner) compelled to take Mr Darwin on a far too independent footing. …
- … fond of Natural History”… Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are …
- … in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the only coral atoll Darwin observed first-hand. The satire, …
- … didn’t meet them personally, Ross took bitter exception to Darwin and FitzRoy’s later accounts of …
- … Anderson John Clunies Ross’ satire, written c.1848, is a fascinating document. It is …
- … captain, Robert FitzRoy and his naturalist companion Charles Darwin. Ross’ unique perspective on the …
- … foreman on the one hand and the texts written by FitzRoy and Darwin on the other. We can certainly …
- … but by no means least, the coral reef theories of Charles Darwin. (For that particular concern see …
- … interest. Ross’ picture of both FitzRoy and Darwin on this voyage is unlike any others we …
- … influenced Ross’ own enterprises. His attitude to Darwin was somewhat less resentful, but still …
- … at home. Finally, according to Ross, neither man wrote well: Darwin was trite and conventional , …
- … in FitzRoy’s voice, but some footnotes are signed “J.C.R.” and there are editorial interventions in …
- … and are marked in roman numerals. Others relate to Darwin’s 1839 or 1845 volumes and Belcher’s …
- … He went to sea first in a Greenland whaler aged thirteen, c.1800. In 1812, aged 25, while on a …
- … until the late twentieth century. Alexander Hare (c.1770-1834) was a British merchant who …
- … as John Murray’s publication of the new edition of Darwin’s Beagle journal was achieving success …
- … to depression and died by suicide in 1865. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) A young naturalist, …
- … prone to rash speculations. Ross was conscious that Darwin was a rising star in the scientific world …
- … Voyage of HMS Beagle Around the World . At Cocos Keeling, Darwin was keenly interested in the …
- … criticism of his account of Cocos Keeling seems fair: Darwin did write in a highly conventional …
- … his naval career with an unsuccessful Arctic expedition in 1852. Belcher visited Cocos-Keeling more …
- … to his death. Capt. Alexander Albert Sandilands, R.N. (c.1786-1832) of HMS Comet …
- … Gleanings in Science . Capt Francis Harding, R.N. (1799 - 1875) In HMS Pelorus , …
- … to Bencoolen in his ship Harriet . Joseph C. Raymond, a seaman from a British ship …
