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List of correspondents

Summary

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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  • … Crüger, Hermann (6) Cuming, Hugh (3) …
  • … Daly, J. (1) Dalziel, Hugh (1) Damon …
  • … Faivre, Ernest (3) Falconer, Hugh (53) …
  • … Miller, Howard (1) Miller, Hugh (1) …

1.19 John Collier, oil in NPG

Summary

< Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the Linnean Society, Darwin’s eldest son William decided to commission a replica to add to the family collection of pictures, which he had inherited. The new…

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  • … one being for the Athenaeum Club in 1924. Sir Buckston Browne commissioned one for Down House in …
  • … of Portraits (London: the Royal Society, 1980), pp. 78-9. Hugh Tait and Richard Walker, The …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • 1696] Congo Expedition Zaire [Tuckey 1818]— except Brownes Appendix [Brown 1818] excellent
  • … [Landor 18249]— very poor Sir J 57  Brownes Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyell
  • Evelyns Sylva [Evelyn 1664]— skimmed stupid Brownes travels in Africa [W. G. Browne 1799]— …
  • … [Lamb 1837] July 18 th  Schools &amp; Schoolmasters by Hugh Miller [H. Miller 1854] …
  • arranged to borrow copies of this rare journal from Royle. Hugh Falconer was in London at this time. …
  • this entry withOin pencil. 103  Hugh Cuming. John Gould Anthony published  …
  • subjects of natural history . London119: 20a Browne, Thomas. 1643Religio Medici . …
  • … *119: 16v. Cautley, Proby T. and Falconer, Hugh. 1840. Notice on the remains of a fossil
  • … . Padua. [Other eds.]  *119: 12v. Falconer, Hugh. 1852Report on the teak forests of
  • in Darwin Library.] 119: 3a Lawless, Valentine Browne. 1849Personal recollections of
  • 1859On liberty . London128: 25 Miller, Hugh. 1841The Old Red Sandstone; or, …