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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. …
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 problems …
- … frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet when this study is …
- … Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwin’s study of cirripedes, far from being merely …
- … on the species question (Crisp 1983). Darwin’s interest in invertebrate zoology stemmed …
- … references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, presented …
- … from common barnacles. It was perhaps Darwin’s further discovery of developing eggs within …
- … Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan Thompson’s account of the developmental history of …
- … mantle cavity contained sea-water (Winsor 1969). Thompson’s sequential observations of the …
- … him with his own collection, arranged access to the museum’s specimens, and advised him on procuring …
- … naturalists (Knight 1981). Many of Darwin’s contemporaries—Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, Louis …
- … to reveal, among other things, how an individual’s conception of the order of nature shaped the …
- … 1982; Richards 1987; Winsor 1969). Darwin’s views on classification were tempered by his …
- … its emphasis upon analogy and affinity in arranging groups (S. Smith 1965; Ospovat 1981, p. 108). …
- … the common design perceived among organisms. Within Darwin’s maturing evolutionary perspective, the …
- … 1969, p. 83). By the early 1840s, then, Darwin’s ideas on classification were well …
- … 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 …
- … Receptive to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s philosophical anatomy, Darwin incorporated the …
- … then, that homology played such a prominent role in Darwin’s classification of the cirripedes. …
- … from another previously existing form. Darwin’s evolutionary interpretation of the meaning …
- … in France, the substance of Karl Ernst von Baer’s work on embryological development began to enter …
- … considerations through his reading of Milne-Edwards’s influential essay on classification (Milne …
- … new to Darwin, he was particularly struck by Milne-Edwards’s formulation. In the lengthy abstract …
- … re-emerged within the specific context of Darwin’s treatment of the natural history and systematics …
- … metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c states that in Crust, antennæ & …
- … is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( …
- … spirits Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which …
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … from the key players in the drama surrounding Origin’ s publication: Alfred Russel Wallace , …
- … and Joseph Hooker , the two men who arranged for Darwin’s and Wallace’s ideas to be made public …
- … less well-known scientific collaborators who became Darwin's correspondents, Mary Treat , an …
- … Henrietta , Francis , Leonard, and Horace. Francis’s fiancée, Amy Ruck, was co-opted as an …
- … me on rising William Darwin Fox , Charles’s cousin and another friend, compared …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer George Cupples H. C. Watson J. J. Weir H. W. Bates …
