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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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- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … James (c) (3) Anderson-Henry, Isaac (17) …
- … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
- … A. A. van (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) …
- … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
- … E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, Henry (1) …
- … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
- … Charles (2) Bradshaw, Henry (1) …
- … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
- … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
- … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
- … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
- … A. A. L. P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) …
- … Cohn, F. J. (22) Colburn, Henry (3) …
- … Denison, C. L. (3) Denny, Henry (13) …
- … Dorrell, Mr. (2) Doubleday, Henry (13) …
- … Edwards, Ernest (1) Edwards, Henry (5) …
- … Farrer, William (1) Faulds, Henry (2) …
- … Gill, T. N. (1) Gillman, Henry (2) …
2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … < Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was …
- … supporters in Oxford. The Professor of Physiology John Burdon Sanderson wrote to Tylor to suggest, …
- … the entry to the museum court on the west. Professor Sir Henry Acland, who had initiated and …
- … vision of the building and its functions that Acland and John Ruskin had conceived half a century …
- … Oxford University originator of image Henry Richard Hope Pinker date of …
- … commission for the Oxford Museum (ditto, HRHP/LPM/UVW49). Henry W. Acland and John Ruskin, The …
- … (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 1, p. 38. Anon., …
- … 1896, to consider places in the Museum for the Bust of Sir Henry Acland and for the proposed Statue …
- … Sanderson to Tylor, Bodleian Library, MU 3/8/15. Letter from Henry Acland to the Vice-Chancellor of …
- … 7 and 9. ‘Unveiling the Darwin statue at the Museum’, Jackson’s Oxford Journal , 17 June 1899, p. …
- … Press, 1909), pp. 118–120. Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin, 2 nd ed . , 2 vols …
- … an economic model for the careers of Edward Onslow Ford and Henry Hope Pinker through their works’, …
- … Museum of Natural History, 2020), pp. 136, 148–149. John Holmes, Temple of Science: The Pre …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … intended for publication in Variation , to Thomas Henry Huxley for evaluation, and persuaded his …
- … on a paper on Verbascum (mullein) by CD’s protégé, John Scott, who was now working in India. …
- … voyage, committed suicide at the end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal …
- … also a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and Charles Lyell . These …
- … Appendix II). In May, he invited a new doctor, John Chapman, to Down and began a course of Chapman’s …
- … July 1865] ). In July, he consulted the physician Henry Bence Jones, who put him on a strict …
- … Variation . In March Darwin wrote to his publisher, John Murray, ‘Of present book I have 7 …
- … forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In …
- … will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early …
- … ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not …
- … references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The …
- … questions and suggesting new lines of research. John Scott A similar, though not so …
- … effort took place in the beginning of the year when John Scott, a protégé of Darwin’s whom Darwin …
- … varieties (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had …
- … in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ), and wrote …
- … 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). This may have …
- … would take up the work again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at the …
- … health had been particularly bad, Darwin sent Thomas Henry Huxley a fair copy of a manuscript in …
- … serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though he had sent …
- … 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice against John Scott, who had worked under Balfour …
- … At the end of May, the dispute between Charles Lyell and John Lubbock over alleged plagiarism by …
- … a throat infection, and Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker, who also caught it, rapidly …
- … now ready to make observations for him in India (John Scott) and Brazil (Fritz Müller). Although not …
- … George Henslow, the son of Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow, from John Traherne …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … and expanded his thinking. Stung by a reported comment from Richard Owen that 'we do not want …
- … itself became a place for skirmishes over priority with Richard Owen . In contrast to the …
- … and a series of letters with the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey. Darwin remained …
- … Many of these were made in response to discussions with Henry Walter Bates, friend and travelling …
- … feet, and a sly dig at his old foe and former friend, Richard Owen (see the 'historical …
- … by the science-writer, and partner to George Eliot, George Henry Lewes . And he took the …
- … a larger target audience were also made. Darwin persuaded John Murray to include a glossary of …
- … through his assistant, Arabella Buckley ), Thomas Henry Huxley , Osbert Salvin , Abraham …
- … criticisms published by the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. Responding cost Darwin a …
- … appetite for vengeance had already been whetted by Thomas Henry Huxley’s review of Mivart: ‘I have …
- … that after all, Truth doesn’t die. Thomas Henry Huxley, 28 September 1871 …
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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- … Adam Smith Moral Sentiments [A. Smith 1759] Jackson Four Ages [Jackson 1798] Stewart, …
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph Dalton …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence …
- … British Association for the Advancement of Science (1854). Richard Owen gave the same paper at the …
- … and the ‘O’ in pencil. It is not clear which of William Jackson Hooker’s journals is meant here: the …
- … is confused; the citation given is actually that of Richard Owen’s paper on Dinornis rather than …
- … all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers . Revised by Richard Bradley. London. *119: 19v.; 119: …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 13, 22; 119: 22b Beste, John Richard. 1855. The Wabash; or, …
- … in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or, the …
- … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt, pseud. (Henry Vizetelly). 1849. Four months among the …
- … the gold districts . London. 119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839. Dissertations on …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 143–51.] 128: 6 Dana, Richard Henry. [1840]. Two years before …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … the medium Charles E. Williams, and was attended by George Henry Lewes and Marian Evans (George …
- … George Darwin, the psychic researcher Frederick William Henry Myers, and Thomas Henry Huxley, who …
- … of ape and human brains that had raged between himself and Richard Owen since the 1860s. Darwin had …
- … Quarterly Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. It …
- … to check population’. The review was by St George Jackson Mivart, one of the most severe …
- … of anonymous reviews. Its proprietor was none other than John Murray, Darwin’s publisher. So …
- … to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George …
- … anonymous reviews. While staying with Hooker over Christmas, John Tyndall, professor at and …
- … as ‘the natural outflow of his character’ ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 ). …
- … to purchase the wooded land, which he had been renting from John Lubbock, led to a straining of …
- … the sale was agreed in April for £300 ( letter from John Lubbock, 2 April 1874 ), a high price …
- … for about a week ( letter from E. E. Klein, 14 May 1874 ). John Burdon Sanderson sent the results …
- … of other insect-eating plants. The surgeon and botanist John Ralfs sent Utricularia from …
- … in order to work on its difficult structures ( letter to John Ralfs, 13 July [1874] ). The …
- … a printed appeal for funds, raising £860 ( Circular to John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, …
- … support the election of his nephew, the fine-art specialist Henry Parker ( letter from E. A. Darwin …
- … authority on marriage customs in Descent ( see letter John Murray, 9 May [1874] ). He …
- … of the ornithologist and senior assistant curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe for promotion at the …
- … to do—It is enough to kill anyone’, and asked Thomas Henry Farrer to attempt to influence the …
- … for Darwin’s last years. The young physiologist George John Romanes wrote a long letter to Herbert …
- … established by Michael Foster. He then studied under John Scott Burdon Sanderson at University …
- … August in Belfast, several papers featured Darwin’s work. John Tyndall asked Darwin to glance over …
- … seems to me excellent, & as clear as light’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … to spread my views’, he wrote to his publisher, John Murray, on 30 January , shortly after …
- … he wrote to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 …
- … Mivart enclosed a copy of an article replying to Thomas Henry Huxley’s scathing review of Genesis …
- … disintegration of his relationship with the palaeontologist Richard Owen: ‘your several articles’, …
- … as that on the origins of music provided by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. …
- … Hooker’s cause was taken up by his friends, in particular John Lubbock and John Tyndall, as one …
- … to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 …
- … widen. Wallace’s favourable review of the physiologist Henry Charlton Bastian’s recent book on the …
- … photographic plates with his overseas publishers, and with John Murray’s assistant, the excitable …
- … of the booksellers, encouraged an originally cautious John Murray to gamble on the book’s success: & …
- … attractive dishes in his `Literary Banquet’ (letters from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and 9 …
- … to supply comparative observations, and Darwin’s protégé John Scott, now employed as a curator in …
- … younger correspondents, Huxley’s seven-year-old son, Henry ( letter from Henry Huxley, 17 and 20 …
- … a copy of Expression to another old Cambridge friend, John Maurice Herbert, who when they were …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … leading roles in creating a private memorial fund for Thomas Henry Huxley, and in efforts to …
- … Thomas Lauder Brunton, a specialist in pharmacology, and John Scott Burdon Sanderson, a professor at …
- … climates but not in others. He encouraged research by Thomas Henry Farrer on a complex floral …
- … “for Heaven knows when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping …
- … ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The zoologist Henry Reeks suspected the habit of …
- … the advance of civilisation and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). …
- … with leading physiologists such as David Ferrier and John Hughlings Jackson. Darwin declined to …
- … Instinct In February, Darwin received a letter from John Traherne Moggridge on the nature of …
- … to borrow a large sum in his own name. Together with Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin drafted an appeal …
- … A group of Huxley’s close friends, including Hooker, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, John Tyndall, …
- … your own power & usefulness”, citing the examples of John Stuart Mill and Charles Lyell, who …
- … from Ernst Meitzen, 17 January 1873 ). A poor-law officer, John Farr, wrote: “Faith like Species, …
- … more permanent than species are permanent” ( letter from John Farr, 7 July 1873 ). Further …
- … closer to home, when he was graced by an invitation from John Jenner Weir to act as a patron of the …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If any man wants to …
- … domestication . Having been advertised by the publisher John Murray as early as 1865, the two …
- … in three parts in the Pall Mall Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s …
- … profound contempt of me. I feel convinced it is by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard …
- … me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace …
- … R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John Robertson, a Scottish journalist …
- … facts that they hoped might be of interest. Charles Henry Binstead, a civil engineer in Yorkshire, …
- … a letter of thanks to the naturalist and customs offcial John Jenner Weir for a paper on apterous …
- … On 11 February , Darwin wrote to the entomologist Henry Walter Bates, ‘I have just found that I …
- … depends on the actions of the female’, and of rats, John Bush observed on 30 March that two …
- … September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday that contained a …
- … expression of natives faces as I meet them,’ wrote George Henry Kendrick Thwaites on 1 April …
- … Darwin began a long correspondence on orchids with Thomas Henry Farrer, permanent secretary to the …
- … the whole System is sustained.’ The former Down clergyman, John Brodie Innes, passed easily over …
- … letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ), his replacement, John Warburton Robinson, proved no …
- … and joy. Satisfaction in one’s children, Darwin wrote to John Price on 26 November , was ‘the …
- … the ascendant. His great public defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September …
- … poets, and men of science, including Adam Sedgwick, John Stevens Henslow, and William Jackson Hooker …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … of reading Lyell, Darwin also received a copy of Thomas Henry Huxley’s new publication, Evidence …
- … ‘ordained becoming of living things’ as proposed by Richard Owen: ‘oh what a delicious sneer,’ he …
- … . There were some signs of nerves: it was certain, he told John Murray, to ‘excite attention & …
- … so he went back to correspondents like Fritz Müller and Henry Bates. While he was at it, he also …
- … a barrage of questions from Darwin , the entomologist Henry Stainton not only sent a long reply …
- … of moths back to Trimen to check the wording. Henry Bates read a whole packet of manuscript …
- … to ‘ have a say so much ’. In October 1869 John Murray advertised a forthcoming ‘New Work …
- … arguments . Misrepresentation of his views by St George Jackson Mivart in particular forced him to …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). Thomas Henry Huxley marvelled that Darwin had …
- … expressed by Darwin’s old friend, the former vicar of Down John Brodie Innes. Darwin and Innes had …
- … ‘a windbag full of metaphysics & classics’ ( letter to John Murray, 13 April [1871] ). …
- … Gazette , and wrote to its author, who turned out to be John Morley, a leading advocate of …
- … and transmitted by culture, not biology ( letter from John Morley, 30 March 1871 ). …
- … by his wife and children. William offered his assessment of John Stuart Mill’s theory of …
- … most vexing critic for Darwin was the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. An expert on primates and …
- … he suspected that very few would actually sell (letters to John Murray, 17 August [1871] and …
- … George Busk, T. H. Huxley, Osbert Salvin, and William Henry Flower all provided Darwin with …
- … her journal for part of 1871 . Henrietta’s husband was Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister, …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … books were kept in the poop cabin where CD worked and slept. John Lort Stokes and Philip Gidley King …
- … . . compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . . by Richard Walter . London, 1748. ( …
- … Antoine de. A voyage round the world. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1772. ( …
- … Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert …
- … etc. London, 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John. Travels in the interior of …
- … 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). Byron, John. The narrative of the Honourable …
- … Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s …
- … 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. Meteorological essays and …
- … 23v., 26). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ De la Beche, Henry Thomas. A selection of the geological …
- … 1962, p. 14). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ De la Beche, Henry Thomas. A geological manual. …
- … and western coasts of Australia. Fleming, John. The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. …
- … atlas. London, 1814. (DAR 30.1: 30v.). Forster, John Reinhold. Observations made during a …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37.1: 662). Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages …
- … 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library–Down. ‡ Henslow, John Stevens. Geological description of …
- … essay on the kingdom of New Spain. Translated by John Black. 2 vols. New York, 1811. (Inscription, …
- … de. A voyage to South America . . . Translated by John Adams. 2 vols. 4th ed. London, 1806. …
- … (see Jones, T.)). Darwin Library–CUL †. * Mawe, John. Travels in the gold and diamond …
- … 3 vols. London, 1820. (DAR 32.1: 51v.). Michell, John. Conjectures concerning the cause . . …
- … notebook, p. 80). Darwin Library–CUL †. Miers, John. Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . …
- … 28 August 1834). Darwin Library–CUL †. Milton, John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , …
- … 1831’). Darwin Library–CUL †. § Narborough, John. An account of several late voyages. 2 …
- … Darwin Library–CUL, 4th ed., 1837. ‡ Playfair, John. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory …
- … 1821. (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin Library–CUL. Thompson, John Vaughan. Zoological researches and …
- … world in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 , in Hawkesworth, John An account of the voyages . . . …
- … 1836, Collected papers 1: 26). Webster, William Henry Bayley. Narrative of a voyage to …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … apparently as a result of thinking about the significance of John Gould’s and Richard Owen’s …
- … . The work comprises five parts: Fossil Mammalia , by Richard Owen; Mammalia , by G. R. …
- … entrusted to Thomas Bell, subsequently purchased by John Obadiah Westwood, first Hope Professor of …
- … Towards the end of 1843, he increasingly hoped that William Jackson Hooker or his son Joseph might …
- … , and letter from R. E. Alison, 25 June 1835 ). Henry Holland did not find the cause, nor …
