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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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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … Potonié, Henry (3) Powell, Baden (3) …

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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  • 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwins  Origin of species , printing off
  • But it was the opinion of scientific men that was Darwins main concern. He eagerly scrutinised each
  • did not at all concern his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] ). …
  • principles of scientific investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). Above
  • were inexplicable by the theory of creation. Asa Grays statement in his March review that natural
  • it comes in time to be admitted as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] ). This
  • fellow Henry Fawcett in the December issue of  Macmillans Magazine . Fawcett asserted that Darwin
  • Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To this and Lyells many other queries he responded carefully
  • that were seemingly identical to one another. Harveys letters reveal aspects of Darwins theory
  • offspring should be infertileinter se ,’ Darwins theory would remain unproven (T. H. Huxley
  • groups could give rise to new species, Darwin found Huxleys lecture irritating and ultimately
  • relatively advanced forms of life. Many singled out Darwins own discussion of the absence of
  • forms to have evolved into the multitude of the earths present inhabitants. Darwin agreed, for
  • two physiologists, and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like
  • … ‘master of the field after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other
  • as the approval of the scientifically literate clergymen Baden Powell and Charles Kingsley attested. …
  • …  rather than against Darwins book per se . Prodded by Henslows defence of the integrity of
  • were already proved) to his own views.—’ ( letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1860
  • these visits have led to changed structure.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 April [1860] ). Tracing
  • months later, ‘just as at a game of chess.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 [July 1860] ). With the
  • substance from non=nitrogenised substances.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [August 1860] ). Relying

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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  • … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardsons Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 182937] …
  • Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on
  • worth studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with
  • to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19  : …
  • what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290
  • chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith
  • Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature
  • … [Gaertner 178891] (Plates on all seeds) R. Soc Henslow says there is a grand book with
  • Von. J. Metzger. Heidelberg 1841 [Metzger 1841] Read Henslow in Botanist 36  has written on
  • 1834]— d[itt]o d[itt]o d[itt]o. d[itt]o. 15 th  Henslows Botany [Henslow 1837].— d[itt]o d
  • … ] 4. Vol. references at End Feb. 23 rd . Henslow Pamph. on Wheat [Henslow 1841]— fact about
  • or Review in a Medical Journal which Hooker has & lent to Henslow Huxley [DAR *128: 178
  • … ) [Harcourt 1851]. Yarrell has (read) Rev d  Baden Powel on the Unity of Worlds [Powell
  • Physiolog. Comparee [Colin 18546].— Jan. 10. B. Powell. Unity of Worlds [Powell 1855]. …
  • Botanist , 5 vols. (183741), edited by John Stevens Henslow and B. Maund. 37  See
  • years 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR 71: 512.]  …
  • years 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: …
  • ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et   variétés darbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet   …
  • sur la distribution géographique des animaux vertébrés, moins les oiseauxJournal de Physique 94
  • Drury, Robert. 1729Madagascar; or, Robert Drurys   journal, during fifteen   years
  • … [Vols. 3 and 4 in Darwin Library.]  119: 3a Dugès, Antoine. 1832Memoir sur la
  • augmentée dun grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 11v.; 119: 10b Powell, Baden. 1855Essays on the spirit of the