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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. …
- … (1) Austen, J. T. (5) Austin, A. D. …
- … H. (7) Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert …
- … (8) Beneden, Édouard van (5) Bennet, C. A. (b) …
- … (1) Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas …
- … (2) Boner, Charles (5) Bonham-Carter, Alice …
- … (2) Bookseller. (5) Boole, M. E. (3) …
- … (29) Brace, C. L. (5) Bradfield, Thomas …
- … (3) Canby, W. M. (5) Candolle, Alphonse de …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second half of …
- … been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a …
- … The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, to …
- … led Darwin to the self-assessment, ‘as for one’s body growing old there is no help for it, & I …
- … The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. …
- … August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that Clark’s dietary treatment would ‘do wonders’, but as …
- … in London, his son George organised a séance at Erasmus’s house. The event was led by the medium …
- … another Williams séance was held at the home of Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood. Those present …
- … to get the two men on each side of him to hold each other’s hands, instead of his, ‘& that he …
- … first three months of the year and, like many of Darwin’s enterprises in the 1870s, were family …
- … Cupples, a Scottish deerhound expert who forwarded Darwin’s queries about the numbers of males and …
- … Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). The technical nature of Huxley’s argument prompted him to add, ‘Put my …
- … Academy (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. 644–5) . The affair rolled on into January …
- … apprenticeship with the engineering firm Easton and Anderson of Erith, Kent. After a month’s trial …
- … nothing is known of George’s experiments ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 27 May [1874] ). However, the …
- … Spencer’s work, and sent a copy to Darwin ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 10 July 1874 ). After a …
- … insane, as we all are occasionally’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1874] ). The influence of …
- … famous as the Belfast address ( letter from John Tyndall, 5 August 1874 ). It discussed the …
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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- … de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v.] 6 …
- … p. 290 “Thacker” [Thacker 1834–5] p. 291 Athenæum 1839. p. …
- … Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in N. …
- … The Philosoph. of Instinct & Reason by S. Bushnan. Longman. 5 s [Bushnan 1837]—dedicated to L …
- … Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] History of …
- … Naturelle” (Cuvier Paper on Domestication) [F. G. Cuvier 1825] Agricola’s Husbandry (to see …
- … 8 th Cox’s Columbia River [Cox 1831] —— Anderson on Sheep [Pallas 1794]: Culley on live …
- … the Culture of the Apple & Pear [Knight 1797] ——Anderson Tour to Hebrides & Report on …
- … J. Andersons Recreation in Agriculture & Nat. Hist. [J. Anderson 1799–1803] 3 first volumes Read …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
