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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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  • … 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns …
  • … [DAR 119: 13a] 1843 Feb 20 th . L. Jenyns notes to White’s Selbourn [Jenyns ed. …
  • … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
  • … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
  • … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
  • … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
  • … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
  • … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
  • … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
  • … (many novels) Dec: Dana to Cuba & back [R. H. Dana 1859] —— Cruize in Japanese …
  • … on Maladies of Silk-worm [Quatrefages de Bréau 1859] Owen Lecture on Classification [R. Owen …
  • … March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 MacClintocks Narrative …
  • … eds.] [Abstract in DAR 91: 13.]  119: 9b Horner, Leonard, ed. 1843.  Memoirs and …
  • … or,   conflict . 3 vols. London.  128: 25 Jenyns, Leonard. 1838. Further remarks on the …
  • … dit jardin.  Augsbourg.  128: 16 [Knapp, John Leonard]. 1829.  Journal of a   …
  • … waters.  Philadelphia.  128: 8 Staunton, George Leonard. 1797.  An authentic account of …
  • … 2a ——.  See also  E. T. Bennett ed. 1837, Jenyns ed. 1843, Jessie ed. 1849, and [J. …

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…

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  • … sudden death . Later in 1844, he told the naturalist Leonard Jenyns that he had been ‘steadily …
  • … Darwin’s prediction was correct. He did not publish until 1859, but he had no idea that it would not …
  • … would be published as the Origin of Species in November 1859. Legacies Despite the …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … 1842 is, to a surprising degree, present in the version of 1859. Young author Darwin’s …
  • … G. R. Waterhouse;  Birds , by John Gould;  Fish , by Leonard Jenyns; and  Reptiles , by Thomas …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • and relationship when he was asked to contribute to Leonard Jenynss  Memoir of the Rev. John
  • units, and, for a breif period after their formation in 1859, membership carried with it great