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Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … by Gallesio. Pisa 1816 [Gallesio 1816]— quoted by D r . Holland [Holland 1839] (p. 27) as good— …
- … Hort. Soc Journal of a Hort. Tour through Flanders & Holland in 1817 [Neill, Hay, and …
- … French Translat. [Meckel 1828–38] in Royal Soc D r . Holland says facts about reproductive system …
- … 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 1868–9] (an …
- … 7a] 1840 D r . Hollands Medical Notes [Holland 1839]— have added notes from 2 …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … Birds of Australia [Gould 1848]. —— 20 D r Holland Chapters on Mental Phys: [Holland 1852] …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or, the …
- … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt, pseud. (Henry Vizetelly). 1849. Four months among the …
- … the gold districts . London. 119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839. Dissertations on …
- … 71: 125–7.] *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of …
- … tribes. London. 119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839. The physiology or mechanism …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829. Observations on the breeding …
- … observations . London. 119: 7a Cockburn, Henry. 1852. Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a …
- … [Other eds.] *128: 180; 128: 5, 21 Coke, Henry John. 1852. A ride over the Rocky …
- … talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry Nelson Coleridge]. 2 vols. London. …
- … of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Collected and edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. 4 vols. London. …
- … white . New York and London. *128: 152 Colman, Henry. 1848. The agriculture and rural …
- … in DAR 205.3: 143–51.] 128: 6 Dana, Richard Henry. [1840]. Two years before the mast. A …
- … by W. Hazlitt.] 3 vols. London. 119: 12b Holland, Henry. 1839. Medical notes and …
- … 2 vols. London. 119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 1868–9. Guide to the study of …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis’, was published in 1868 in his book, Variation of …
- … friends for comment. They were not enthusiastic. Thomas Henry Huxley was worried that its …
- … shall wait, before he expresses his opinion. . . Old Sir H. Holland says he has read it twice & …
- … some other name. ( to J. D. Hooker, 23 February '1868] ) And took …
- … hardly possible. ( from A. R. Wallace, 24 February 1868 ) Darwin’s …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
