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Darwin's health

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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

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  • wonderfully & I am gaining vigour .’ (letter to JDHooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why
  • attacks ofperiodical vomitingin a letter to W. D. Fox, [7 June 1840] ( Correspondence vol
  • 1849] , andvomiting every weekin his letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 March 1849 ( …
  • … (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6 May 1864] ). According
  • decision to consult John Chapman.  In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( …
  • pp. 428-9. On his difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and 27 [or
  • suffered from gout (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [25-9 January 1829] , and
  • in Colp 1977, pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( Correspondence
  • Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . …
  • … (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1849] , and
  • several years (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 , and Colp
  • Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863] , and Appendix
  • chronic vomiting ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …

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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  • the University of Cambridge. These works, catalogued by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library
  • 4  [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r  L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v. …
  • 1811] Richardsons Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 182937] Entomological Magazine.—? …
  • on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 183647] Lawrence [W. …
  • Teneriffe. in Pers. Narr. [A. von Humboldt 181429] D r  Royle on Himmalaya types [Royle
  • 1822] Falconers remark on the influence of climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v. …
  • reference to authors about E. Indian Islands 8 consult D r  Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] …
  • sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie dHist. Nat. [Virey 1835] read
  • of Reid Smith & giving abstracts of their views [Stewart 1829] Prostitution of Paris
  • … [Dampier 1697] Sportsmans repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains much on dogs
  • 338 Schiede in 1825 [Schiede 1825] & Lasch. Linn in 1829 [Lasch 1829] has given list of
  • Crawford Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] …
  • … [Temminck 181315] read Temminck has written Coup d’œil sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et
  • Read M r  Bennetts & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of
  • read 19  : French [? Annales de la Société Impériale d'Horticulture ] or Caledonian
  • … [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. …
  • of Seed [Parmentier 1789] referred to by Oberlin [Oberlin 1829] Hog. on Culture of Carnation. …
  • 1759] Richardson. Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 182937]— all Vols. Marshalls Rural
  • in work on Ava give case & man & child hairy [Crawfurd 1829] Farmers Mag. [ Farmer& …
  • Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in Canada [G. Head 1829] Grotes History of Greece
  • th  Keppells Expedition to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Foxs Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] …
  • and London128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848Journal of a residence at   the
  • and use of natural history . London119: 14a Fox, Charles James. 1808A history of

Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … 29v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 2d edition, 5 vols., Paris, 1829–30, vols. 4, 5,  Crustacés , etc. par …
  • … six years on the South Sea Islands . . .  2 vols. London, 1829. (DAR 37.2: 798; Stoddart 1962, pp. …
  • … naturelle des mollusques et leurs coquilles.  Paris, 1829. (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin Library–CUL. …
  • … concerning a future state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.].  London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline …