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Women’s scientific participation

Summary

Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

Matches: 16 hits

  • … Editors and critics  |  Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
  • … Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
  • … silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
  • … observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
  • … to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
  • … wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression …
  • … expression of emotion in her pet dog and birds. Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. …
  • … is making similar observations for him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. …
  • … dogs with Emma Darwin. Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] …
  • … and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - …
  • … of her pet cats. Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 July 1873] Mary …
  • Letter 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza …
  • … Women: Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] …
  • … in Pennsylvania. Letter 3681  - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] …
  • … exposed places”. Letter 10439 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [3 April 1876] Mary …
  • … species of waterlily. Letter 12389 - Johnson, M. to Darwin, [January 1880] …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

Matches: 27 hits

  • Captain FitzRoy in the  Narrative  (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
  • would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoys own: ‘You are of course welcome to take
  • … . . . There will be  plenty  of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831
  • … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbings charge, and lent to the officers, without
  • However, from the  Beagle  correspondence, CDs diary, field notebooks, and the extensive
  • theimmense stockwhich CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an
  • are almost always in ink, usually written with CDs favourite Brahma pens. References to books in
  • examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierres  Paul et Virginie  and to characters in
  • to do so. For example, two references to Felix Azaras works in notes made during 1833 cite
  • have been found (DAR 42: 73) that are taken from Griffiths edition of Cuviers The animal kingdom
  • Dictionnaire  and could only have come from that authors  Exposition   méthodique  (1821). …
  • one might expect many of his references coincide with CDs. However, since FitzRoys account was
  • on board have been searched for such cases. Considering CDs normal practice of citing his sources, …
  • living on shore. It is possible, for example, that Nuñezs book was borrowed from Edward Lumb, the
  • on board the  Beagle §  —  mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board
  • Naturelle  3 (1834): 84115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
  • dhistoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 182231. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 1521 January [1833]). …
  • a report of the proceedings . .  . Cambridge, 1833.  (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
  • of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and
  • … †. Byron, George Anson, 7th BaronVoyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands,   in
  • also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoys letter to the South African Christian
  • residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
  • 33: 254). § EuclidElements of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
  • The philosophy of zoology . . .  2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October
  • 17991804 . . . translated into English by Henrietta Maria Williams.  7 vols. London. 181429. …
  • … *  New Testament  (German). (SignedC. Darwin H.M.S. Beagle’. Copy examined by Sydney Smith  c. …
  • … (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin LibraryCUL. Thompson, John VaughanZoological researches and