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The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … ’s appearance, but there is a fascinating scrap from 1857 comparing his views on species to …
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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- … correspondence. Other contacts such as William Bernard Tegetmeier and George Frederick Cupples, …
- … Letter 2125 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 20 July [1857] Darwin writes a challenging letter …
- … of the ephippium”, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100]. Darwin and Müller …
- … correspondence with the poultry expert William Bernard Tegetmeier and the Scottish gardener John …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … of other cells. (Letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 14 April 1857 .) In a later letter …
- … .) By now not only Waterhouse but William Bernhard Tegetmeier (who had helped Darwin with his …
- … Darwin made notes for their discussion in a memorandum to W. H. Miller, [15 April 1858] , …
- … Such were the views entertained many years back by Mr. W., and published by him in the ‘Penny …
- … with two other cells, and was rounded elsewhere. Mr. Tegetmeier remarked that he possessed a small …
- … peculiarities. Darwin quickly arranged to look at Tegetmeier’s piece of honeycomb (letter …
- … correctly described their manner of building’ (letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] .) To …
- … proceedings?’ (Huber 1841, p. 269.) Darwin asked Tegetmeier to observe the beginning of the …
- … and was thinking of ordering another hive from Tegetmeier, and buying a swarm (letter to W. B. …
- … the least possible expenditure of wax, but in September 1858 Tegetmeier was able to give Darwin …
- … 15lb of sugar was consumed in the secretion of 1lb of wax. Tegetmeier also confirmed Darwin’s …
- … the application of geometry. His observations, and those of Tegetmeier and others, had proved that …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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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- … The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824] at Maer? W. F. …
- … “Ancient & Modern Tattle” on Fish [Badham 1854]. M r Tegetmeier says very curious.— …
- … 112 Jukes. “Students Manual of Geology” [Jukes 1857]— published a few years ago, good on …
- … 1854] [DAR 128: 14] 1855 Sept. Tegetmeier on Poultry [Tegetmeier 1856–7 …
- … Lucas l’Heredite Naturelle [Lucas 1847–50] 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami …
- … Thackeray English Humourists [Thackeray 1853] 1857 Jan. Cockburn life of Selby [ …
- … 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [1854–6]: Quits [Tautphoeus] 1857] 29 Lutfullah. Life of …
