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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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  • … (1) Allen, Thomas (2) Allman, G. J. …
  • … Vienna (1) Appleton, C. E. C. B. (2) …
  • … Austin, A. D. (2) Austin, C. F. (1) …
  • … Batalin, A. F. (2) Bate, C. S. (21) …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … atrociously’, Darwin wrote to Alfred Russel Wallace on 2 February , ‘I meant to say exactly the …
  • … 17 July 1869 ). He exchanged letters with Carl Friedrich Claus in Marburg, who was working on …

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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  • … seems probable. Letter 5173 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. R., 2 Aug 1866 Müller …