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Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but throughout these …
- … species and varieties. In contrast to the received image of Darwin as a recluse in Down, the letters …
- … Down House was altered and extended to accommodate Darwin’s growing family and the many relatives …
- … The geological publications In these years, Darwin published two books on geology, Volcanic …
- … edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in 1844 for a German translation of the first …
- … Society of London, acting as one of four vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from …
- … and refereed papers for all these organisations. Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten …
- … 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, n. 1). Darwin's inner circle: first …
- … not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable Darwin’s earlier scientific friendships …
- … John Stevens Henslow, Leonard Horner, Leonard Jenyns, Edward Forbes, and Richard Owen shows. These …
- … others. Only two months after their first exchange, early in 1844, Darwin told Hooker that he was …
- … murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). Nine months later, in his letter …
- … , pp. 57–255), an expanded version, completed on 5 July 1844, of a pencil sketch he had drawn up …
- … of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of the essay of 1844 to read (see Correspondence vol. …
- … the natural history of creation , published anonymously in 1844. His old friend Adam Sedgwick …
- … editors: at first he proposed any one of Lyell, Henslow, Edward Forbes, William Lonsdale, Hugh Edwin …
- … on the choice of the right person. The names of Lonsdale, Forbes, and Owen were deleted, Henslow’s …
- … of volcanic rocks prompted an exchange with James David Forbes on the analogous structure of glacier …
- … marshalled the resources of experts such as palaeontologists Edward Forbes and George Brettingham …
- … with drawings of his first dissection. The barnacle—‘M r Arthrobalanus’ in Hooker’s and Darwin’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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- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Surveyor of Her Majesty’s …
- … 1841].— L d . Dudley’s Correspondence [Dudley 1844]. Hallam Constitut Hist: Hen VII …
- … Hall’s voyage in the Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] …
- … Observ. on Instinct [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker 1844. in Parts. cheap. 1.6 a part. 38 …
- … Elementair Palæontologie M. Pictet [Pictet 1844–5]— Forbes?? Waterhouse has it— 1844— read …
- … by Hooker) Foreign & British Med. Review by D r Forbes [ British and Foreign Medical …
- … Johnstons Maps [A. K. Johnston 1848] separately—Forbes is going to publish one. 45 Gosse. …
- … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith …
- … Greece [Mitford 1784–1818] 3 d . 25 th Forbes Alps [J. D. Forbes 1843] —— …
- … [Hillhouse 1818] —— 7 th Lieut. Spratt & Forbes, travels in Lycia [Spratt and Forbes …
- … from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has …
- … 44 Probably Francis Boott. 45 Edward Forbes provided sketches and notes for the …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 15; 119: 22b Belcher, Edward. 1848. Narrative of the voyage …
- … domesticorum . Hafniæ. *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837. The natural history …
- … … [By Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR …
- … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Bevan, Edward. 1827. The honey-bee; its natural …
- … collected in Melville Island. Appendix XI in Parry, William Edward, A supplement to the …
- … 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. …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the …
- … day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles ( Darwin's Journal ). He had long …
- … a theory of transmutation in a short pencil sketch, and in 1844, he once again committed his …
- … he acknowledged, ‘ like confessing a murder ’. While Darwin recognised he had far more work to do …
- … published in the event of his sudden death . Later in 1844, he told the naturalist Leonard …
- … of Creation caused a publishing sensation in October 1844, the public reaction to the …
- … of Vestiges to him. It took another ten years before Darwin felt ready to start collating his …
- … six months before he started sorting his species notes, Darwin had worried that the process would …
- … I shall feel, if I when I get my notes together on species &c &c, the whole thing explodes …
- … immutability of species ’, he told his cousin William Darwin Fox. Experimental work …
- … set up to provide crucial evidence for his arguments. Fox, Darwin assumed, would have bred pigeons …
- … intensely bred to exaggerate particular characters, would, Darwin believed, clearly exhibit the …
- … amusement’ and be a ‘ horrid bore ’. Contrary to Darwin’s expectations, however, the pigeon …
- … Henrietta . In April 1855, at the same time as Darwin began his pigeon breeding programme, …
- … Hoping to benefit from Hooker’s botanical expertise, Darwin inquired: ‘ will you tell me at a …
- … on the hypothetical land bridges suggested by the naturalist Edward Forbes. Darwin declared to …
- … geograph. distribution, geological history—affinities &c &c &c.. And it seems to me, …
- … receive his views with open arms. Since its publication in 1844, the transmutationist work …
- … and a half chapters were edited and published in 1975 by R. C. Stauffer under the title Charles …
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 …
- … of disarray in the taxonomy of the group. Late in 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the zoological …
- … (Knight 1981). Many of Darwin’s contemporaries—Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, Louis Agassiz, William …
- … 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 …
- … influential essay on classification (Milne-Edwards 1844). Like von Baer, Milne-Edwards recognised …
- … paper on classification by Gaspard Auguste Brullé (Brullé 1844). In this work, Brullé argued that …
- … metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c states that in Crust, antennæ & …
- … of embryological development, as outlined in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57–255), …
- … 1852) or elevating it to a separate class altogether (R. Owen 1855). Milne-Edwards and Owen also …
- … 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 …
- … p. 45). See also the fuller discussion of this topic in the 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229). …
- … and body of a mammal. ^5^ In his species essay of 1844, for example, CD stated: ‘The cause …
- … CD had arrived at such a view of cirripede systematics by 1844, judging by statements in the essay …
- … CD’s specimen has remained unique. (The editors thank Drs R. W. Ingle and G. Boxshall of the British …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The …
- … life but I trust happy The anguish felt by Darwin is painfully expressed in letters …
- … speak of her again. Yet the family gradually recovered, Darwin’s monographs were printed, and Darwin …
- … to the cirripedes. Before turning to his species work, Darwin somewhat ruefully recorded in his …
- … monographs by natural history societies, though welcomed by Darwin, did not run smoothly. …
- … the Correspondence describes the major achievements of Darwin’s cirripede work as a whole and …
- … societies, which were supported by subscriptions, was that Darwin’s volumes were not publicly …
- … in Germany at the forefront of work in invertebrate zoology, Darwin began a correspondence with …
- … provided the foundations for a relationship with Darwin that soon developed into a valued friendship …
- … April 1854, when his cirripede study was drawing to a close, Darwin re-entered London scientific …
- … with lots of claret is what I want Perhaps Darwin’s decision to take a more active …
- … to substantiate it is manifest in the correspondence. Darwin’s friends and colleagues were …
- … outspoken young naturalists like Huxley, reacted eagerly to Darwin’s suggestions, although not …
- … for the geographical distribution of animals and plants. Darwin began a series of researches on the …
- … order to supplement views already expressed in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations ; Correspondence …
- … with the effects of known changes in climate and geology. Darwin boldly rejected the popular idea of …
- … Some of the most interesting letters in this volume set out Darwin’s practical researches and …
- … him. In this regard, the naturalist and museum curator Edward Blyth figures most prominently. Blyth …
- … classification Hybridism, domestic animals & plants &c &c &c) to see how far they …
