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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
- … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
- … in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by …
- … Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the ‘awful job …
- … my frame of mind’, he told the botanist and entomologist Henry Edwards on 1 March, before going on …
- … He revelled in the praise heaped on Francis by George Henry Lewes for an article on the snail’s …
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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- … scientific books in Darwin’s library were catalogued in 1875, and this manuscript catalogue is in …
- … W. F. Eduards sur les characteres de races Humaines [W. F. Edwards 1829]; read Letter to M. Therry …
- … on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith 1793] …
- … Reptiles [Duméril and Bibron 1834–54]: Crustacea Milne Edwards [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]: In Portfolio …
- … [Catlin 1841] Edwardes. Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847].— Cunningham Life of …
- … Huntsmans life [Cumming 1850] Edwards Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847] …
- … on Domestic Pigeons [J. Moore] 1765] Ap 5 D r Edwards on Influence of causes [W. F. …
- … Barrow’s Travels [Barrow 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793 …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or, the …
- … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt, pseud. (Henry Vizetelly). 1849. Four months among the …
- … the gold districts . London. 119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839. Dissertations on …
- … 71: 125–7.] *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of …
- … tribes. London. 119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839. The physiology or mechanism …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829. Observations on the breeding …
- … observations . London. 119: 7a Cockburn, Henry. 1852. Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a …
- … [Other eds.] *128: 180; 128: 5, 21 Coke, Henry John. 1852. A ride over the Rocky …
- … talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry Nelson Coleridge]. 2 vols. London. …
- … of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Collected and edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. 4 vols. London. …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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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- … came from some of those whose support he most wanted: Thomas Henry Huxley, William Benjamin …
- … of his scientific method by the young Cambridge fellow Henry Fawcett in the December issue of …
- … some of the most fascinating in the volume. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites questioned Darwin …
- … were considered in future editions of Origin . William Henry Harvey wondered, in addition to …
- … 12 December [1860] ). This work was not published until 1875, when Insectivorous plants …
