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Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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  • … Letter 2814 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 22 May [1860] Darwin writes to Gray about the …
  • … Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 July [1860] Darwin writes to Gray and tells him …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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  • … plant,  Drosera . As he had at Eastborne in the summer of 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8), Darwin …

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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  • … 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
  • … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • … to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk …
  • … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860.  Gatherings of a naturalist in   …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 22b ——. 1860.  The woman in white . New York and London …
  • … 71: 149.]  *128: 173; 128: 18 Samuelson, James. 1860.  The honey-bee; its natural history …