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Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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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- … Martineau [H. Martineau 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells …
- … of Dublin ] Vol 1.— abstracted. Nov. Some vols. of Gardeners’ Magazine [ Gardener's …
- … Novum organum.— Work on Hybridism reviewed in Gardeners Chronicle in 1852. by Wagner? [Unger …
- … Land [Twamley 1852] Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s …
- … relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 9–11 89 1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in Gardeners Ch …
- … Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in …
- … Principles of Commerce & Commercial Law: Lectures [Stephen 1853] Warrens Diary of a …
- … Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex [Devereux 1853] M rs . Colin Mackenzie …
- … [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] …
- … in Nat. Hist. (Kippist) Linn. Soc. 95 The Gardeners Magazine of Botany [ Gardener& …
- … W. Dunker in Zoolog. Proc. a paper on Limnea [Dunker 1853].— D r . Anthony will publish on F. W. …
- … (read) Pictet Paleontologie new Edition [Pictet 1853–7] Pliny Nat History, translated …
- … Generales 1851 120 [Milne-Edwards 1851]. 1853. Feb. 6. Schouw Bot. Geograph: in …
- … to Vol XII. 1840 (not much) [DAR 128: 5] 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D …
- … 2 & 3. } 20 th . Galtons Tour in S. Africa [Galton 1853] good Aug 23. Moore’s …
- … experiments performed by Lord Arthur Hervey in 1843 in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural …
- … Unger’s book on hybridism was reviewed in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 32 …
- … of H. Lecoq's work on Mirabilis ]. Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 31, …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … public recognition of his scientific achievements when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the …
- … Hooker, and various readers of the popular journal the Gardeners’ Chronicle into the study. He …
- … like the results of the seed-soaking experiments, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle describing his …
