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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.…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … Darwin had sent the manuscript to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that …
- … Record. Dallas had begun the work in November 1867 and had expected to complete it in a fortnight. …
- … Edmund Langton wrote from the south of France to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood on 9 Novembe r, …
- … emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867, was circulated to remote parts of …
- … Africa, Darwin received from Hooker an account by Mary Elizabeth Barber of local variations in the …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … questioning his numerous scientific correspondents and, in 1867, by preparing a printed …
- … until September 1844. Parallels in the development of Anne Elizabeth, born 2 March 1841, were also …
- … had increased by five: George Howard, born 9 July 1845; Elizabeth, born 8 July 1847; Francis, born …
- … 35 & to take a crust, when their pudding was finished.— Elizabeth[45] remarked him careful …
- … flower garden perceived them, said they were not Dziver’s (Elizabeth’s) flowers. ie were not natural …
- … very contradictory; by mistake he one day graciously gave Elizabeth a kiss, but repenting said …
- … to Anne and Henrietta were added considerably later; Anne Elizabeth was born in 1841 and Henrietta …
- … by Emma Darwin. [29] Caroline Sarah Wedgwood, Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood, and Josiah Wedgwood …
- … by CD or Emma Darwin. It is perhaps in the hand of Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood who, …
- … Nonsense words— shyness with me—’. [45] Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s …
- … , 2: 80–1). According to Freeman 1978, her full name was Elizabeth Harding, but no source for this …
- … as a child (H. E. Litchfield papers, CUL). [60] Elizabeth Darwin, born 1847. She was always …
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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- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867), and Darwin summarised them in …
- … Wales rented by the Hensleigh Wedgwoods for the summer, and Elizabeth was evidently attending school …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, CD’s ‘Journal’, Appendix I). Wedgwood and Darwin relatives visited Down …
