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Referencing women’s work

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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…

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  • … Letter 2395 - Darwin to Holland, Miss, [April 1860] Darwin writes to Miss Holland to …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … or where to begin’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 21 [January 1860] ). Darwin’s former mentor at …
  • … when we meet’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 29 January [1860] ). Origin would bring Darwin much …
  • … to value great minds’ ( letter from Aleksander Jelski, [1860–82] ). In 1863, the final blow …

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 …
  • … feeding, and medical treatment of swine . London. [2d ed. (1860) in Darwin Library.]  *119: 22v. …
  • … companion) . London. 1848–61. [Nos. from 1855, 1856, and 1860 in Darwin Library.]  *128: 153 …
  • … series, 1847–51. Fourth series, 1852–9. New series, 1860–.  *128: 151 Scientific Memoirs …