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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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  • presented here makes this information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading
  • about the works were later additions to the notebook text. A number of entries in theBooks to be
  • the scientific works listed on the left-hand pages (labelledain the transcript) and the non
  • numbered as follows: the verso of the pages of DAR *119, theapages of DAR 119, the odd-numbered
  • identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is given in
  • until the shelves overflowed, and then, with much lamenting, a day was given up to the cataloguing. …
  • to be Read Humboldts New Spainmuch about castes [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardsons
  • … (Hooker 923) 7  read Decandolle Philosophie [A. P. de Candolle 1821] Decandolle
  • … } what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290
  • to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Foxs Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d  Guizot
  • … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
  • 112 Jukes. “Students Manual of Geology” [Jukes 1857]— published a few years ago, good on
  • … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
  • Lucas lHeredite Naturelle [Lucas 184750] 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami
  • Thackeray English Humourists [Thackeray 1853] 1857 Jan. Cockburn life of Selby [ …
  • 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [18546]: Quits [Tautphoeus] 1857] 29 Lutfullah. Life of
  • 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 13 & Last
  • notes for both William Bennetts edition (1837) and for James Rennies edition (1833) of Gilbert
  • de   Neuchâtel . 47  Possibly a slip for James AbbottNarrative of a journey
  • …  This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilsons work on the origin of
  • referrred to in Darwins reading notebooks Abbott, James. 1843Narrative of a journey from
  • natural religion . [Other eds.]  119: 6a Hunt, John. 1806Anatomical reflections on