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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … wall in Valparaiso, where he had witnessed an earthquake in 1835 ( letter from R. E. Alison, [March …
  • … of science ( Correspondence  vol. 23,  letter from Charlotte Papé, 16 July 1875 ). She now …
  • … nothing was too great and nothing too small’ (letter from Charlotte Papé to Francis Darwin, 21 April …

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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  • … Entomological Magazine.—? paper on Geograph. range [Anon. 1835] read Study Buffon on varieties of …
  • … laws about sexes relative to the age of marriage [Quetelet 1835] Brown at end of Flinders [R. Brown …
  • … 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d’Hist. Nat. [Virey 1835] read Marcel de Serres …
  • … C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: plants [H. C. Watson 1835] read Hume’s Essay on Human …
  • … & Medic. researches on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc …
  • … Birds. 10 s  6 d . translated by Rennie [Bechstein 1835] Some facts on cross-bred animals, M r …
  • … Pœppig Travels in S. America. German [Pöppig 1835–6].— Zoologie Generale. Iside. St Hilaire …
  • … 1815]— Colon Library Hogarth Hist of Music [Hogarth 1835] Wilkinson Ægyptian [J. G. …
  • … 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de Candolle 1835]: Lacordaire Introduction Entomologique …
  • … ) on Dogs [C. H. Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// …
  • … Hilaire Progress de un Naturalist [E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1835] (Gerard [Gérard 1844]) …
  • … (Perry can give me order) Virey Philosoph [Virey 1835]. Forbes thinks worth reading Royal Soc …
  • … kind [Jardine 1834b]. 9. Columbidæ (Pigeons.) [Selby 1835] 11. Ruminating Animals …
  • … l’etude Botanique (Suite a Buffon) [A. de Candolle 1835] has many Geographical aphorisms & …
  • … Trials [Feuerbach 1846] Godwins Work & Life [Godwin 1835] Brookes last Journal by …
  • … 1849–57] Tocquevilles Democracy [Tocqueville 1835–40] Fellow’s Lycia (1 st  Travels) …
  • … de Beaumont 1830–8] & C Prevost on l’Ile Julie [Prévost 1835]. 1838 Oct 2 …
  • … and 1830]— skimmed well Lutke’s voyage [Lütke 1835–6]— carefully read Reynold’s …
  • … May 18 Stanley Familiar Hist. of Birds [E. Stanley 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy …
  • … 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed Gleanings of …
  • … 1757] Swainson Geograph. Distrib of Animals [Swainson 1835] I see Swainsons Book has notes at …
  • … 1774] nothing Coleridges Table Talk [Coleridge 1835]. Campbell’s Poems [T. Campbell …
  • … Simple Story. Sir. J. Mackintosh life [Mackintosh 1835]. reread Priestley Life & …
  • … [T. Moore 1825] & Liebers remains of Niebuhr [Lieber 1835]. 8 Paley’s Evidence. of Christ …
  • … & Morning [Bulwer-Lytton] 1841]; Rienzi [Bulwer-Lytton] 1835]: Barnaby Rudge [Dickens 1841] …
  • … DAR 91: 73.]  *119: IFC, 19v.; 119: 16a [Brontë, Charlotte]. 1847.  Jane Eyre. An   …
  • … Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. 1857.  The life of Charlotte   Brontë . London.  128: 21 …
  • … of extracts from the letters of K. W.   von Humboldt to Charlotte Diede.  Edited by Arthur Helps. …