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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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Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Juan Ignacio. Compendio de la historia geografica natural y civil del Reyno de Chile. Part 1. …
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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- … 1842, 1843b, 1844a, 1844c] March 7 th M rs . Thompson Life of Duchess of Marlborough [K. …
- … 1828] May. Blanco White. Auto-biography [Blanco y Crespo 1845].— 24 Improvisatore …
- … on Instinct [W. P. Alison 1847]. 79 Art. Generation [A. Thompson 1839] Encyclop. of Anat & …
- … Müllers Physiology [Baly and Kirkes 1848] 17 th Thompson’s Birds of Ireland [W. Thompson …
- … de Reaumur. 1749 [Reaumur 1749]. Marc 3 d Thompson’s Nat. Hist of Ireland [Thompson 1849 …
- … [R. Knox 1850] a curious Book. (Blyth). in London Lib y .— (read) From Nott & Gliddon …
- … 20 Dana’s Crustacea [J. D. Dana 1852–3] 27. Thompson’s Himmalaya [T. Thomson 1852] …
- … 8] 1854 Jan 15. Seeman’s Narrative of H.M.S. Herald [Seeman 1853]. Feb 6. …
- … Belcher, Edward. 1848. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843–46; …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 14v.; 119: 13a Blanco y Crespo, José Maria (Joseph Blanco …
- … Histoire naturelle de la Provence, contenant ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable dans les …
- … Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836–42 . 2 vols. …
- … . Pt 1 of The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in …
- … Beete. 1847. Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly … in the Torres Strait, New …
- … Keppel, Henry. 1846. The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the suppression of piracy; …
- … ——. 1853. A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M.S. Mæander, with portions of the private …
- … Macgillivray, John. 1852. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late …
- … Compendio de la historia geografica, natural y civil del reyno de Chile . Translated into …
- … … Together with a narrative of the operations of H.M.S. Iris. 2 vols. London. *119: 22 …
- … shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta . Edited …
- … Berthold Carl. 1853. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845–51, under …
- … Shoberl. 5 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Thompson, Allen. 1839. Generation. In vol. …
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…
