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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. …
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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- … varieties. In contrast to the received image of Darwin as a recluse in Down, the letters show him to …
- … came to stay; and, with his father’s advice, Darwin began a series of judicious financial …
- … and extensively revised his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845, having already …
- … 1844 and remaining on the council from 1845 onwards; he was a conscientious member of the Royal …
- … 1200 letters between the two men survive, fully documenting a life-long friendship. …
- … & plants & on the question of what are species; I have a grand body of facts & I think I …
- … stocks. I know how much I open myself, to reproach, for such a conclusion, but I have at least …
- … in the year both Jenyns and Hooker were invited to read a manuscript essay on his species theory …
- … it was not until the beginning of 1847 that Hooker was given a fair copy of the essay of 1844 to …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1847]). Darwin can be seen as a cautious strategist, sometimes …
- … would be published in the event of his death and stipulated a sum of money to be bequeathed, …
- … that Hooker was by far the best man for the task and added a note on the cover to that effect. …
- … Emma may, perhaps, as some scholars have thought, indicate a reluctance to take the responsibility …
- … islands visited during the Beagle voyage was based on a wide range of rock and mineral specimens …
- … tracts of land relative to the sea. Darwin put forward a new explanation of the origin of so-called …
- … land could best be explained by elevation. Darwin presented a wholeheartedly Lyellian picture of the …
- … of Lyell’s Principles of geology (1830–3) and a commitment to Lyell’s idea of gradual geological …
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