To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869]
Summary
Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Scientific Opinion |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6442 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Scientific Opinion …
- … To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869] …
- … Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. …
- … Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 20 Oct 1869] Scientific Opinion …
- … of publication of the letter in Scientific Opinion , 20 October 1869. Federico Delpino’s …
- … into English, appearing in parts in Scientific Opinion ( Delpino 1869a and 1869b). Delpino …
From Federico Delpino 28 February 1870
Summary
Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.
Looking forward to publication of Descent
and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7120 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and genealogy of the Marantaceæ. Scientific Opinion 3: 111–12, 135–7. Descent : The …
- … della S.V. i due numeri della “scientific opinion”, ove Ella si è piaciuta di far …
- … of the Marantaceae that appeared in Scientific Opinion on 2 and 9 February 1870 ( Delpino …
- … Your Honour, the two numbers of the “scientific opinion”, where you pleased to publish, in …
To R. F. Cooke 23 June [1869]
Summary
He told Giovanni Canestrini that stereotypes [for Variation] would cost £10.
Reminds RC of his suggestion that a copy [of Origin, 5th ed.] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 23 June [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 203–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6798 |
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- … suggestion that a copy [of Origin , 5th ed. ] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review. …
- … my suggestion of a copy for Review to “Scientific Opinion” My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | …
From Federico Delpino 1 November 1869
Summary
Comments on Hermann Crüger’s paper, sent by CD, on fertilisation of orchids [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
Observations on dichogamy in grasses (wheat, rye, barley).
Has not yet read CD’s reply to his article on Pangenesis [Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6965 |
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- … dovere di rassegnarla alla S.V. Della “Scientific opinion” non mi è pervenuto che il primo …
- … Issue 48 (29 September 1869) of Scientific Opinion included the first part of Delpino …
- … s criticism in the letter to Scientific Opinion , [before 20 October 1869]; this was …
- … s translation of CD’s letter to Scientific Opinion , [before 20 October 1869], appeared in …
- … received only the first issue of “Scientific Opinion”, that is N o . 48. I came to know by …
To T. H. Huxley 30 September [1871]
Summary
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7976 |
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- … 1869 ( [Mivart] 1869 ). The editor of Scientific Opinion was Henry Lawson . The footnote …
- … or something to that effect. — In Scientific Opinion the Editor inserted foot-note to the …
To Federico Delpino 14 October 1869
Summary
Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.
T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.
Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.
Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6938 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … send the succeeding numbers of “Scientific Opinion”, I will send them to you if you will …
- … and 13 October 1869 issues of Scientific Opinion. CD mentioned Delpino’s review and …
- … Delpino 1869b , see the letter to Scientific Opinion , [before 20 October 1869]. For CD’s …
To J. D. Hooker [22 January 1869]
Summary
No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD’s shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 114—15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6568 |
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- … D. Hooker, 18 January 1869 and n. 8. Scientific Opinion was a weekly popular-science …
- … I hope you take in, to encourage, “Scientific Opinion”: some articles have interested me a …
From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
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- … His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s. Encloses some notes on …
- … soon develop more liberality of scientific opinion than he shows. We have been reading …
To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
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- … n. 16. On the weekly newspaper Scientific Opinion , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … periodicals, including poor “Scientific Opinion”, & I think higher than you do of “ …
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … on the biology and genealogy of the Marantaceæ. Scientific Opinion 3: 111–12, 135–7. …
- … paper appeared in two parts in Scientific Opinion in the issues dated 2 and 9 February …
To Francis Darwin 17 July [1878]
Summary
Discusses sleep movements of Porlieria.
Has read an abstract of Julius Wiesner on heliotropism and geotropism ["Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche", Anz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien 15 (1878): 137–40] which seems important but is puzzling.
Gives details of his observations on climbing plants with reference to comments by Julius Sachs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11615 |
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- … and genealogy of the Marantaceæ. Scientific Opinion 3: 111–12, 135–7. Insectivorous …
- … into English and published in Scientific opinion ( Correspondence vol. 18, letter from …
To Federico Delpino 24 and 25 August [1869]
Summary
Thanks FD for his three publications.
CD is pleased that FD has discussed Pangenesis, although he does not favour the hypothesis. Will seek English publisher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 24 and 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.376) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6869 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … September, 6 October, and 13 October 1869 issues of Scientific Opinion ( Delpino 1869b ). …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [September 1869]
Summary
Asks JDH to consult colleagues learned in physiology for answer to query: when a large piece of bark is removed from a tree, does the bark ever regrow in isolated points [separate] from the growing margin of the surrounding bark? Query bears on Pangenesis and on power of repair in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 153–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6896 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … regrowth of bark in his letter to Scientific Opinion , [before 20 October 1869], drawing …
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860]
Summary
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 83–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2389 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against …
- … Vestiges were in discussion the opinion of scientific people was that there was not. As …
From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and genealogy of the Marantaceæ. Scientific Opinion 3: 111–12, 135–7. Müller, Hermann. …
From Fritz Müller 15 June 1869
Summary
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B115; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 215/175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6783 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … reviews in the “Athenæum” and the “Scientific Opinion”, which you have kindly sent me. I …
- … in the 21 April 1869 issue of Scientific Opinion (Anon. 1869) was positive, but the one …
To Richard Owen 13 December [1859]
Summary
Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2580 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … sh d . be a dolt not to value your scientific opinion very highly. If my views are in the …
From H. M. Westropp 20 April [1871]
Summary
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
Author: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … On cromlechs and megalithic structures. Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 3. Westropp, Hodder …
To James Croll 6 February [1869]
Summary
Consoling to CD that JC gives "a little more age to the world".
Cites article by Henry Moseley ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
Mentions article by A. R. Clarke on shape of the globe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 6 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6603 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I read Mr Moseley’s article in “Scientific Opinion” about 3 or 4 weeks ago; I have had the …
To W. D. Fox 14 August [1875]
Summary
Can WDF recall the sex of the deaf white cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 14 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (29 August 2019, lot 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10121F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26 February 1868, p. 771, and in Scientific Opinion , 7 July 1869, p. 113, claiming that …
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Essay: Evolution & theology
Summary
—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…
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- … —by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Interview with Randal Keynes
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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…
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- … Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
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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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford, June–July 1860 …
Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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- … Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … - by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal …
Gaston de Saporta
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The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
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- … The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular …
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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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …