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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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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … (1) Austen, J. T. (5) Austin, A. D. …
  • … H. (7) Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert …
  • … (1) Beaufort, Francis (5) Becher, A. B. …
  • … (8) Beneden, Édouard van (5) Bennet, C. A. (b) …
  • … (1) Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas …
  • … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • Darwins work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems
  • … , it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwins species work. Yet when this study
  • anomalous. Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwins study of cirripedes, far from
  • classification using the most recent methods available, Darwin was able to provide a thorough
  • his views on the species question (Crisp 1983).    Darwins interest in invertebrate zoology
  • with Robert Edmond Grant. In his Autobiography (pp. 4950), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and
  • references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwins first scientific paper, presented
  • larvae of the leech Pontobdella ( Autobiography , p. 50; Hodge 1985; Sloan 1985).    …
  • from common barnacles.    It was perhaps Darwins further discovery of developing eggs within
  • such questions as yours,—whether number of species &c &c should enter as an element in
  • from common stocksIn this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of those
  • andhighnessin particular groups, and, finally, (5) that embryology, by revealing homological
  • metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c  states that in Crust, antennæ & …
  • as outlined in his essay of 1844 ( Foundations , pp. 57255), accorded well with the views put
  • 1852) or elevating it to a separate class altogether (R. Owen 1855). Milne-Edwards and Owen also
  • as a distinct class between the Crustacea and the Annelida (R. Owen 1855).^7^ Darwin, however, with
  • placed among the Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 5278).^1^1^    Both Alcippe
  • are quite aborted . . . ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 5623)    Indeed, Proteolepas
  • is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( …
  • spirits  Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which
  • CDs specimen has remained unique. (The editors thank Drs R. W. Ingle and G. Boxshall of the British