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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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  • … 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 …