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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,…
Matches: 24 hits
- … G. S. (1) Anderson, James (1) …
- … Frederic (1) Bateman, James (1) …
- … Buckley, A. B. (21) Buckman, James (2) …
- … Burn, Robert (1) Burningham, James (1) …
- … C., W. S. (1) Caird, James (9) …
- … Carter, R. B. (2) Cartmell, James (1) …
- … H. (1) Crichton-Browne, James (40) …
- … Crocq, Jean (1) Croll, James (16) …
- … Dawson, J. W. (1) Dawson, James (2) …
- … Dickie, George (3) Dickson, James (1) …
- … Dixon, E. S. (2) Dixon, James (2) …
- … Druitt, Thomas (3) Drummond, James (a) (5) …
- … Edwards, [– ?] (1) Egan, James (2) …
- … Fraser, George (3) Fraser, James (1) …
- … Archibald (12) Geikie, James (13) …
- … Society of London (18) Gibb, James (1) …
- … J. M. (2) Grant, James (3) Grant, R. …
- … Heckel, Édouard (7) Hector, James (1) …
- … Hewitt, Edward (4) Heywood, James (1) …
- … Rowland (b) (1) Hilton, James (1) …
- … Humphry, G. M. (1) Hunt, James (a) (1) …
- … Jacobson, Miss (1) James, Constantin (1) …
- … Lambert, C. S. (1) Lamont, James (4) …
- … Martindale, William (1) Martineau, James (1) …
Julia Wedgwood
Summary
Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, and Fanny Mackintosh, the favourite child of Sir James Mackintosh, the Scottish …
- … best then available to a young woman. She attended Rachel Martineau’s school in Liverpool for a year …
- … and Bedford Colleges in 1848 and 1849. Her teachers included James Martineau, Frederick Denison …
- … she knew leading women writers like Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, who …
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
Summary
The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … In fact Spencer was forced to defend his term too when James Martineau, in his article ‘The place of …
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…
Matches: 20 hits
- … History of Greece [Grote 1846–56]. Miss. Martineau Society in America [H. Martineau 1837] …
- … Geography [M. Somerville 1848] Trials Martineau [J. Martineau 1821] (read) Letters of …
- … Character by D’Israeli [D'Israeli 1795]. Miss Martineau Travels in N. America [H. …
- … 1777] with corres: with Rousseau [Hume 1766] Miss Martineau’s How to observe [H. Martineau …
- … [DAR 119: 10b] Dec. 10 th The Hour & Man. H. Martineau [H. Martineau 1841] —— …
- … to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Fox’s Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d Guizot …
- … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
- … [DAR 119: 22b] 1849 Feb. 5 th . Miss Martineau. Eastern Travels [H. Martineau …
- … Rochejacquelin 1816], moderate March 14 th . Miss Martineau Retrospect of W. Travels [H. …
- … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
- … 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 1–3 & Last …
- … notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert …
- … de Neuchâtel . 47 Possibly a slip for James Abbott, Narrative of a journey …
- … This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilson’s work on the origin of …
- … referrred to in Darwin’s reading notebooks Abbott, James. 1843. Narrative of a journey from …
- … by Mary Howitt. London. 119: 15b Anderson, James. 1785. An account of the present state …
- … Dominique François Jean. 1839. Historical eloge of James Watt … Translated … with additional …
- … Harriet Martineau. London. 128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9. Ornithological …
- … and Sark. London. *119: 6v. Backhouse, James. 1843. A narrative of a visit to the …
- … methods of catching them . With notes by the translator [James Rennie]. London. *119: 7v. …
What did Darwin believe?
Summary
What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…
Matches: 3 hits
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 7 hits
- … . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: 162v.). Colnett, James. A voyage to the South Atlantic and …
- … 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; …
- … 7e, etc.). Darwin Library–CUL ††. Horsburgh, James. Directions for sailing to and from the …
- … Darwin Library–CUL † (vols. 1 and 2). Mackintosh, James. The history of England. Volume …
- … 32.1: 7). Darwin Library–CUL † (vol.2). Stephens, James Francis. Description of …
- … (DAR 32.1: 7; Red notebook , p. 33e). Weddell, James. A voyage towards the South Pole …
- … tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL. § Wood, James. Elements of algebra. 8th ed. Cambridge, 1825. …
