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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
  • immortality of Soul. amongst Ancients [Toland 1704] Adam Smith Moral Sentiments [A. Smith
  • 1824] Humes Essay [?Hume 17412] J. Taylor Art of Dying [J. Taylor 1651] …
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • News. by M r  Hicks [Hickson 1849] Published separately Taylor & Walton HeadedMalthus” …
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [DAR 119: 2a] Scientific Memoirs pub. by Taylor [ Scientific Memoirs ] Mag. of
  • by Boswell [Boswell 1831] Philip Van Artevelde [H. Taylor 1834]. reread Macaulay Art. …
  • 1843] /Oct 1 st / 2 d  & 3 d  Vol Sept 5 W. Taylors life & Corresp. [Robberds
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • Buffon [Milne-Edwards 183440]. March 5 th  St. Johns Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8
  • … ] 12. Sedgwicks Discourse on Study of Univers [Sedgwick 1850] 28 Steenstrup on
  • English Poets [Thackeray 1853] Haydons Life by T. Taylor [Haydon 1853] Sir B. Lowes
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] (excellent) …
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • …   islands . London. *128: 172 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1812The friend; a series of
  • Eliot, Georgepseud . (Marian Evans Cross). 1859Adam   Bede . 3 vols. Edinburgh. [Other
  • … . London. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection.]  119: 1a Sedgwick, Adam. 1850A discourse on
  • …   and conduct.  London128: 27 Smith, Adam. 1759The theory of moral sentiments. …
  • 7 vols. (Vol. 7Account of the   life and writings of Adam SmithAccount of the life and   …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s  Origin of species , …
  • … learn that the book was on sale even in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January …
  • … the book, thinking that it would be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). …
  • … he told Hooker, did not at all concern his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] …
  • … his theory would have been ‘ utterly  smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A …
  • … twelve months after its publication make an impressive list. Adam Sedgwick, not surprisingly, …
  • … track, the only track that leads to physical truth’ (Sedgwick 1860) that most wounded Darwin. Having …
  • … to deflect such criticism. ‘I can perfectly understand Sedgwick or any one saying that nat. …
  • … from right principles of scientific investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). …
  • … a theory solely by explaining an ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). …
  • … phenomena it comes in time to be admitted as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] …
  • … . Fawcett asserted that Darwin’s theory accorded well with John Stuart Mill’s exposition of the …
  • … natural selection did not necessarily lead to progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 …
  • … considered it more a failure than a success ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 February [1860] ). …
  • … naturalists because more accustomed to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). …
  • … two physiologists, and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like …
  • … tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] ). By the …
  • … favour of change of form’, namely those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). …
  • … his study of the geographical distribution of species ( see letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 …
  • … ‘man is in same predicament with other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he …
  • … book had become ‘topics of the day’ at the meeting in a letter from Hooker written from Oxford. …
  • … to hear Samuel Wilberforce, the bishop of Oxford, reply to John William Draper’s paper giving a …
  • … Darwin ‘master of the field after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other …
  • … that ‘this row is best thing for subject.—’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). Further …
  • … I shall improve the Book considerably.—’ ( letter to John Murray, 5 December [1860] ). Although he …
  • … to convert people under 20 year,’ he told his friend John Innes, ‘though firmly convinced  now …
  • … good judge coming some little way with me.’ ( letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860] ). …