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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … question (Crisp 1983). Darwin’s interest in invertebrate zoology stemmed from his years as …
- … zoology, and I often accompanied the former to collect animals in the tidal pools, which I dissected …
- … May 1833 ( Correspondence vol. 1): The invertebrate marine animals, are however …
- … collections. After writing two papers, one on the marine invertebrate Sagitta and another on the …
- … similar circumstances, (compare Plancental & Marsupial animals) w^d^ be similarly or parallely …
- … of the structure, economy, and zoological relations of these animals, and given a systematic …
- … external characters, but of the internal structure of the animals in question, in specimens obtained …
- … within the limits of the same species, is a new fact amongst animals, it is far from rare in the …
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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- … class of varieties.’’ He extends the same view to animals. The Dean believes that single species of …
- … in Scotland, and of bears in Norway, &c. Thirdly, as far as animals are concerned, some species …
- … extreme simplicity of its structure closely approaches the invertebrate classes. But mammals and …
- … in the case of the Amphioxus must lie with members of the invertebrate classes. The three lowest …
- … not highly developed, would stand very high in the scale of invertebrate animals, if judged by the …
- … present day there were fifty thousand kinds of vertebrate animals, and if we had reason to believe …
- … as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals, or that the poison secreted by …
- … incredible that from some such intermediate production both animals and plants might possibly have …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … particularly those in Germany at the forefront of work in invertebrate zoology, Darwin began a …
- … in the field and with their work. His general knowledge of invertebrate anatomy and taxonomy and his …
- … possible mechanisms for the geographical distribution of animals and plants. Darwin began a series …
- … of seeds and ova by fish, birds, insects, and other animals. These investigations were part of his …
- … researches and forceful arguments for the dispersal of animals and plants with Hooker who, with …
- … into the lengthy tabulation of various catalogues of animals and plants in an attempt to ascertain …
- … researches into the origins and variations of domesticated animals. His correspondence reveals the …
- … monuments for representations of the domesticated plants and animals of earlier civilisations. Blyth …
- … Leopold Layard, whose first-hand knowledge of the plants and animals of particular regions proved …
- … fanciers. His reading expanded to include works on domestic animals by Edmund Saul Dixon and others, …
- … relative William Darwin Fox, who kept a wide assortment of animals at his ‘Noah’s ark’ in Delamere …
- … palæontology, classification Hybridism, domestic animals & plants &c &c &c) to see …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … In 1846, Darwin switched focus from geology to invertebrate zoology, a subject which had interested …
- … he was ‘going to begin some papers on the lower marine animals,’ which, he thought, would last him ‘ …
- … began as a plan to write ‘some papers on the lower marine animals’ was slowly moving towards a much …
- … the thoracic segments would be seen as homologous parts. For animals that undergo significant …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … often forgotten that Lamarck was extremely respected as an invertebrate zoologist. Well, the …
- … second half of the century worked essentially on colonies of animals. That is, they worked on …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … of 1837 reads, ‘a well-defined natural group of marine invertebrate animals, whose place in the …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. He says invertebrate marine animals are his …
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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- … [Anon. 1835] read Study Buffon on varieties of Domesticated animals—see if laws cannot be made out. …
- … [Temminck 1827–41]— Has account of variation in animals in the different isl ds of E Indian …
- … by Rennie [Bechstein 1835] Some facts on cross-bred animals, M r Yarrell has it?? Walker …
- … meeting at Oxford. paper by L d Spencer on gestation of animals [Spencer 1840]. read All …
- … Advertised . David Low “Treatise on Domestic Animals”; also Illustrations of the Domestic animals …
- … Youatt ‘Essay on the Obligations of man to the inferior animals’ [Youatt 1839] discusses their minds …
- … paper describes anomalies in muscles & bones of man & animals.— (Read) Buckland …
- … Newby [Blofeld 1844]. Athenæum says account of domestic animals. Boston Nat: Hist: Soc: …
- … Columbidæ (Pigeons.) [Selby 1835] 11. Ruminating Animals (Deer, Antelopes, &c.) [Jardine …
- … Comparative Osteology. Morphology of Vertebrate animals 54 folio Plates. Maclise 2”12.6. …
- … on Instinct [Wells 1834] Cline on the breeding of animals [Cline 1829] Spallanzani’s …
- … of Religion [Hume 1757] Swainson Geograph. Distrib of Animals [Swainson 1835] I see Swainsons …
- … skimmed parts; ought to be studied for comparison of man & animals—derives all from sympathy …
- … Wanderings [Waterton 1825] 15. Low’s Domesticated Animals [D. Low 1845]. 30. Webb & …
- … old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) …
- … important 92 The Geographical Distrib. of Plants & Animals by C. Pickering Chapman …
- … Agricultural Report for J. Wilson origin of Domestic animals. 94 Lloyd Scandinavian …
- … of New York ] by looking at index— about breeding of animals— Sir J. Lubbock. member …
- … Low’s Illustrations of the breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands would be …
- … Jardine, a forty-volume series on the natural history of animals published in Edinburgh from 1834 to …
- … that James Wilson’s work on the origin of domestic animals was mentioned in the Highland …
- … Lake Superior: its physical character, vegetation, and animals, compared with those of other …
- … distribution, and natural arrangement of the races of animals, living and extinct . Part I. …
- … illustrative of the manners and economy of animals . London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 7a …
- … Observations on the breeding and form of domestic animals . London. 119: 4a Cobbett, …
- … of instinct deduced from the habits of British animals . London. 119: 21a Cowper, …
- … the best breeds of the most useful kinds of domestic animals. London. 119: 7a, 13a …
- … on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals . 2 vols. London. 119: …
- … on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals . 2d ed. London. [Darwin …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … in response to The expression of the emotions in man and animals , published the previous year. …
- … on the role of inherited and acquired characteristics in animals. The subject was brought closer to …
- … which seemed analogous to muscular contraction in animals: “a nerve is touched … a sensation is felt …
- … analogous experiments on the muscle and nerve tissue of animals. Burdon Sanderson visited Darwin at …
- … such as curare and colchicine that had known effects on animals. To test whether the plants had a …
- … book. Full of observations of infants and anecdotes of zoo animals and family pets, it was judged …
- … of the evidently pleasurable rubbing and scraping that animals performed all over their bodies, …
- … Darwin about recent experiments on cerebral localisation in animals that promised to link brain …
- … wrote Darwin, “as I believe no one has ever observed an invertebrate animal realising danger by …
- … to human speech, and went so far as to assert that animals, in lacking the power of language, also …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … of the major part of what was to become The variation of animals and plants under domestication …
- … information on variation in domesticated plants and animals in order to write the first of a …
- … Variation included discussions of other domesticated animals, and of cultivated plants. The second …
- … confounded pile, two volumes I much fear) of “Domestic Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( …
- … lancelet, then classified as a primitive fish, would have an invertebrate as its closest competitor …
- … the printers a great bundle of M.S for a book on “domestic animals”.’ …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … seemed likely to establish the systematic relations of these animals. He attempted to show how the …
- … At Birmingham, Darwin made the acquaintance of the invertebrate taxonomist Albany Hancock, and …
