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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … thus completing the work he had started on the genus in 1862. His varied botanical observations and …
- … act. In his ongoing quest to confirm the statement in his 1862 book on orchids that nature ‘abhors …
- … Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a letter regarding the …
- … it ‘quasi a commentary’ to the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt …
- … had it translated by a former governess at Down House, Camilla Ludwig. From Ernst Haeckel, Darwin …
- … and Book of Joshua critically examined (Colenso 1862–79). After reading extracts from Colenso’s …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). A declaration that Erasmus …
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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- … du rire. In–8. A. Durand . 3 fr. 117 [Dumont 1862] Goethe. — Œuvres d’histoires …
- … à Buffon.) Paris. *119: 14v. Dumont, Léon. 1862. Des causes du rire. Paris. *128: …
- … Review 18: 1–46. 119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859. Cousin Stella; or, …
- … *128: 182 Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August Ludwig Philipp. Sketches of German life, and …
