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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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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins alterations. The spelling and
  • book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been
  • a few instances, primarily in theBooks Readsections, Darwin recorded that a work had been
  • to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838
  • … [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindleys
  • 8 vo  p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian
  • 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. Alison 1848]— (read) Montagus Translat of Visa
  • 1834] (& of Europe?) [Gould 18327] & of Australia [Gould 1848]; well worth studying for
  • … [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs  Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & …
  • … [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming
  • 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44  (read) Bethunes
  • Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] Lambs Letters [Lamb 1837] (read) …
  • … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith
  • … ) [Harcourt 1851]. Yarrell has (read) Rev d  Baden Powel on the Unity of Worlds [Powell
  • 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White [Collins 1860] } Hensleigh [DAR *128: 151] …
  • Physiolog. Comparee [Colin 18546].— Jan. 10. B. Powell. Unity of Worlds [Powell 1855]. …
  • … (Liebig 1851). 50  Probably Elizabeth Wedgwood. 51  This note is a
  • withXin brown crayon. 101  Fanny Hensleigh, i.e., Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood. …
  • 1848Memoirs of the life of William   Collins, Esq., R.A.  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: …
  • by Richard Owen.  Vol. 4 of  The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
  • Robert. 1843Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
  • Peacock, George. 1855Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.  London.  *128: 172; 128: 21
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 11v.; 119: 10b Powell, Baden. 1855Essays on the spirit of the