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Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed George Bentham, ‘I am experimenting on a …
  • … of orchids are quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he …
  • … ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to have arisen when …
  • … with new & related matter. ( To J. V. Carus, 19 March [1874] ). A year later, Darwin still …
  • … heights would be useful. He asked his mathematician son George whether it would be ‘an easy …
  • … ( To G. H. Darwin, 8 January [1876] ). George explained the difficulties of lumping different …
  • … Most published reviews that appeared were also positive, but George Henslow, in his review in …

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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  • … Life [Chesterton 1856] } [DAR *128: 159] Bentham has published list of Pyrenes …
  • … Notes to Jardine & Jesses Selbourne [E. Jesse ed. 1849] George’s Copy Aug. St. Hilaire. …
  • … L. Ossoy [Walpole 1848] 1 st  vol. —— History George III [Walpole 1845]. 1. vol. —— …
  • … May 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
  • … 1841 . Oxford.  119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851.  Letters …
  • … design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.]  119: 5a …
  • … etc.  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860.  Gatherings of a naturalist in …
  • … . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826.  Catalogue des plantes …
  • … ou peu connues . Paris.  *128: 159 Berkeley, George. 1784.  The works of George Berkeley …
  • … [Abstract in DAR 71: 150–1.]  128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843.  The Bible in Spain; or …
  • … sketches of statesmen who   flourished in the time of George III . 3 pts. London.  119: 21b …
  • … London. [Other eds.]  119: 3a Browne, William George. 1799.  Travels in Africa, Egypt and …
  • … and London.  119: 9a Bubb, afterwards Dodington, George. 1784.  The diary of the   late …
  • … atlases. Paris.  *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835.  Rienzi,   …
  • … and   reason.  Edinburgh.  *119: 11v. Busk, George. 1852–4.  Catalogue of marine …
  • … 1835 to 1847 . 2 vols. London.  128: 8 Byron, George Gordon Noel. 1813.  The Giaour, a …
  • … England from the earliest   times till the reign of King George IV.  7 vols. London.  *119: 22, …
  • … and French. 2 vols. London.  128: 16 Catlin, George. 1841.  Letters and notes on the …
  • … 3 vols. Paris. [Other eds.]  119: 9a Chesterton, George Laval. 1856.  Revelations of …
  • … [Abstract in DAR 71: 164–5.]  119: 15a Combe, George. 1828.  The constitution of man …
  • … of England, from the   earliest times to the death of George II by Oliver   Goldsmith. The 11th …
  • …   trees . Philadelphia.  *119: 4v. Crabbe, George. 1807.  Poems . London. [Other eds.] …
  • … les mêmes parages . Paris.  119: 5a Culley, George. 1786.  Observations on live stock, …
  • …  London.  119: 7a, 13a Cumming, Roualeyn George Gordon. 1850.  Five years of a   hunter …
  • … . London. [Darwin Library.]  119: 22a Dixon, George, ed. 1789.  A voyage round the world; …
  • … which is prefixed a sketch of his life . Edited by George Bentham and John Lindley. London. *119: …