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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 …
- … voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
- … 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). …
- … 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 …
- … metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c states that in Crust, antennæ & …
- … was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
- … (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
- … Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
- … latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
- … and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
- … spirits Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
- … ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
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 …
