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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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  • the University of Cambridge. These works, catalogued by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library
  • Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 183647] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory S t
  • 1822] Falconers remark on the influence of climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v. …
  • … [Dampier 1697] Sportsmans repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains much on dogs
  • Read M r  Bennetts & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of
  • … [DAR *119: 8v.] A history of British Birds by W. Macgillivray [W. Macgillivray 183752].— I
  • The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824] at Maer? W. F. …
  • … [Royle 1840] Bennets. Whaling Voyage [F. D. Bennett 1840] [DAR *119: 13] …
  • … (nothing) Ray Soc. Oct 3 d . Whites Selbourn by Bennett [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837], notes by
  • Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village
  • DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both William Bennetts edition (1837) and for James Rennie
  • design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.]  119: 5a
  • mammalium domesticorum . Hafniæ.  *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837The
  • Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR 71: 29
  • Archipelago, etc.  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860Gatherings of a
  • Bernier, François. 1826Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D.   16561668 . Translated by Irving
  • Bethune, John. 1840Poems by the late John Bethune; with a   sketch of the authors life by his
  • eds.]  119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838A treatise on sheep; with the   best means
  • Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. 1824Canine pathology; or, a   full description of the diseases of
  • … ——. 1840An encyclopædia of   rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical,   …
  • 1844Algeria, past and present.   Containing a description of the countrywith a review of   …
  • Artaud. 2 vols. Metz128: 24 ——. 1807A short system of comparative anatomy . …
  • 17946Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay   towards a natural history of British song birds . 2

Movement in Plants

Summary

The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • research while he was away from home. Although Darwin lacked a state of the art research institute
  • general law or systemIn the early 1860s, at a time when his health was especially bad, …
  • of climbing in all its forms. It was quickly reproduced as a small book, giving it a much wider
  • the topic within an evolutionary framework. He received a wealth of information from correspondents
  • at one point Darwin had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, …
  • was the plant equivalent of digestion or reflex action at a physiological level? Was there a
  • in the diversified movements of plants was stimulated by a phenomenon seemingly unrelated to
  • He suspected that drops of water standing on the surface of a leaf might act like a lens focusing
  • water they appear as if encased in thin glass. It is really a pretty sight to put a pod of a common
  • We find watering most prejudicial in the hot sun. It is a splendid subject for experiments ’.  …
  • he asked his son George to calculatewhat inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to
  • on Balfours now missing reply, and mused, ‘ As such a multitude of plants get their leaves wetted, …
  • between 45 o  & 90 o  to the horizon ’. By May 1874, Thiselton-Dyer had observed some
  • FranksTransversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from WEDarwin10 February [1880] ). …
  • … ‘ I am very sorry that Sachs is so sceptical, for I w drather convert him than any other half
  • aslittle discsandgreenish bodies’ ( letter to WTThiselton-Dyer29 October 1879 ). …
  • that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to WTThiselton-Dyer20 November 1879 ). …
  • pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w dbe over £40’; he suggested