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Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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  • … Letter 1514 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H., 11 Apr [1853] Darwin offers to send zoologist T …
  • … Letter 1480 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H., 23 Apr [1853] Letter 1587 — Darwin, C …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … larval-adult homologies in a letter to Dana in December 1853 . Preparing for publication …
  • … at first promised by the end of 1852 then the summer of 1853 was only sent in manuscript form …

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 …
  • … 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] …
  • … 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 …
  • … Nov. 11. Sir Hudson Lowe’s life and letters [H. Low 1853] very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores …
  • … Society of London ] up to Vol II. Part IV. N.S. 1853 Sept. No s  I–IV of Microscopical …
  • … —— 5. Johnston Nat. History of E. Borders [G. Johnston 1853]. 20 Dana’s Crustacea [J. D. Dana …
  • … Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, Black & White [Pulszky 1853] (moderate) [DAR 128: 8] …