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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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- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
- … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … ] Linnæan Transact [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ] Wernerian d …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … —— 20 Franklins Narrative 1 st Expedition [Franklin 1823] Oct 4 Drinkwater Siege of …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … their allies . London. [Other eds.] *119: 13v. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a …
- … the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir J. Franklin, 1853, 1854, 1855. 2 vols. …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … A narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions . London. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … of the discovery ships under the command of Sir John Franklin . 2 vols. London. 119: 22a …
- … three cruises to the Arctic regions in search of Sir J. Franklin. 2 vols. London. [Abstract in …
- … Jared, ed. 1850. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin . London. 119: 23b [Spence …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh. Hugh Blair, although …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … Provenance: DAR 271.1: 5 Notes 1 Franklin 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 …
- … 12 Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society . Vols 1–8i (1808–39). 13 …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
- … Archives of Natural History 33: 202–13. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to …