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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 7 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a second German …
- … corrections and additions was imminent, or whether Darwin would like to make any such changes to the …
- … had appeared, published in April 1861, containing, as Darwin told Bronn, ‘a considerable number of …
- … with the alterations from the second edition. In addition, Darwin referred to ‘a few new M.S. …
- … has not been found, although they were returned to Darwin for possible use in a new American edition …
- … should correspond to the additional alterations sent by Darwin to Bronn. Many of these additions and …
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 18 hits
- … from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief …
- … is of four kinds: There are volumes now in the Darwin Library in Cambridge that contain …
- … notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University …
- … and symbols are used: DAR — Darwin Archive CUL — Cambridge University …
- … , conveys the following information: CD’s copy, now in Darwin Libary–CUL, was used on board. The …
- … 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the Darwin Archive. The copy in the Darwin …
- … . 2 vols. Strasbourg, 1819. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘C. Darwin HMS Beagle’; DAR 32.1: 61). Darwin …
- … 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 1832 Philadelphia …
- … Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § Blainville, Henri …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § Bougainville, Louis …
- … Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL. § British …
- … 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Buch, Leopold von. …
- … . . . by Robert Jameson. London, 1813. (DAR 30.2: 154). Darwin Library–CUL. Bulkeley, John …
- … 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; Red notebook , p. 86). Darwin Library–Down †. Byron, George …
- … ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James. …
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
- … * New Testament (German). (Signed ‘C. Darwin H.M.S. Beagle’. Copy examined by Sydney Smith c. …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Editions Plants always held an important place in Darwin’s theorising about species, and …
- … his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close friend …
- … way to continuous writing and revision, activities that Darwin found less gratifying: ‘I am slaving …
- … bad.’ The process was compounded by the fact that Darwin was also revising another manuscript …
- … coloured stamens.’ At intervals during the year, Darwin was diverted from the onerous task of …
- … zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and early May, Darwin was occupied with a heated …
- … chapter of the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous …
- … on 12 January , breaking off all future communication. Darwin had been supported during the affair …
- … Society of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwin’s friends had to find ways of …
- … pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have defended me’, Darwin wrote on 6 January , ‘You have also …
- … in public. ‘Without cutting him direct’, he advised Darwin on 7 January , ‘I should avoid him, …
- … & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered taking up …
- … , ‘I feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwin’s ire was not fully spent, however, …
- … in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. Darwin raised the matter at the end of the …
- … to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a memorial …
- … Hensleigh and Frances Wedgwood. She had corresponded with Darwin about the evolution of the moral …
- … could not sign the paper sent me by Miss Cobbe.’ Darwin found Cobbe’s memorial inflammatory …
- … memorial had been read in the House of Lords (see ' Darwin and vivisection '). …
- … medical educators, and other interested parties. Darwin was summoned to testify on 3 November. It …
- … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. 183). Darwin learned of Klein’s testimony …
- … agree to any law, which should send him to the treadmill.’ Darwin had become acquainted with Klein …
- … am astounded & disgusted at what you say about Klein,’ Darwin replied to Huxley on 1 November …
- … red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). …
- … of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the …
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
