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Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • activities for building and maintaining such connections. Darwin's networks extended from his
  • when strong institutional structures were largely absent. Darwin had a small circle of scientific
  • section contains two sets of letters. The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. …
  • about Hookers thoughts. Letter 729Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 Jan 1844] …
  • confessing a murder”. Letter 736Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 23 Feb [1844] …
  • Darwin and Gray Letter 1674Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 25 Apr [1855] Darwin
  • species. Letter 1685Gray, Asa to Darwin, C. R., 22 May 1855 Gray recalled
  • flora in the USA. Letter 2125Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 20 July [1857] Darwin
  • information exchange. Letter 1202Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] …
  • name. Letter 1220Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 In this gossipy
  • species descriptions. Letter 1260Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 12 Oct 1849
  • Letter 1319Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 6 & 7 Apr 1850 Hooker apologises for the
  • Letter 272Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., [10–13] Mar 1835 Darwin tells Henslow the

Suggested reading

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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …

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  • There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested
  • al ., eds. 2008. Evolution: selected letters of Charles Darwin 18601870 . Cambridge: Cambridge
  • on scientific correspondence and letter-writing On Darwins correspondence: …
  • New Perspectives in British Cultural History , edited by R. Crone. Cambridge Scholars Press. …
  • Reception and Appropriation, in The reception of Charles Darwin in Europe , edited by Thomas
  • Studies 23 : 30117. Spary, E. C. 2000. Utopias garden: French natural history from
  • Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 1529. Chartier, R. 1997. An ordinary kind of writing: model