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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Page 12, par. 1, line 18, substitute for ‘animals’: 7 …
- … Some of the many kinds of animals which live on the beach between high and low water …
- … Page 334, par. 3, line 3, substitute for ‘not one oceanic island’: 37 …
- … of the climate, in the degree of humidity, &c.; and various animals and plants will have …
- … Although New Zealand is here spoken of as an oceanic island, it is in some degree doubtful whether …
- … this island, as before remarked, can only be classed as oceanic with some doubt Page 443, …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … be received in my unapproachably Philosophical Essay on the Oceanic Tidal movements – for which at …
- … but their houses were ransacked and burnt – and all their animals were driven away – those of the …
- … Elevation part of your Geological Theory – the Gallapagos animals &c &c It happened …
- … produce – and that ^they^ might rear further stock or any animals that could be reared and of all …
- … and dressed up Baboons, or some other outlandish sort of Animals. No! No! No! clearly I could not – …
- … she left England to accompany her [he] Sailor to their Oceanic home – nor ever since – hath she …
- … for the price that I paid for each of these “five animals” Vide licet – four shillings and four …
- … tell them – they could ^not^ divine the cause for these animals doing so – which is this – Altho’ …
- … an M.A. and over ears in love with fossil bones of the lower animals – as for the high – the genus …
- … to the Old Bailey – Newgate – the Hulks and the Trans-oceanic lands – in the latter to become …
- … – which that Gentleman supplied to me – that on the Oceanic tidal movements above mentioned …
- … it seems have laid aside “their extreme dislike to those animals”) I understand that my beKnighted …
- … to be remarked – That – altho’ in the year 1825 these animals frequented the beaches and ^were to be …
- … [ f.230r p.163 ] was to be expected – the sale of the animals being monopolized by Mr Ross for …
- … would have willingly sold at his own prices – but the animals being as abovementioned – far away on …
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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- … 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 …
- … land-bridges between continents, and between continents and oceanic islands, and proposed transport …
- … 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 …
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’ ( …
- … solution of many of the most puzzling phenomena’ that oceanic islands presented. Hooker also …
- … the printers a great bundle of M.S for a book on “domestic animals”.’ …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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- … investigations of pigeons, poultry, and other domesticated animals. As Darwin explained to Lyell, …
- … little encouragement to send prolix memorandums on domestic animals in India and elsewhere. William …
- … attempted to test ideas emerging from his work on domestic animals by conducting experiments on …
- … Many of Darwin’s conclusions about the variation of animals and plants under domestication were …
- … used the manuscript when compiling The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868 …
- … published source for many of Darwin’s views on domestic animals and plants and this, since it was …
- … to know where, how, and in what way variations appeared in animals and plants. Making the fullest …
- … or horticulturists were roughly comparable to domestic animals: did they ever run wild? What …
- … against the existence of former land connections between oceanic islands and their neighbouring …
- … begun in 1855 a series of researches designed to explain how animals and plants might have been …
- … their designated meals, he filled up the carcases of small animals with seeds and fed them to ocean …
- … the possible means of transport of live ova or newly hatched animals such as land snails. Further to …
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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- … Darwin was thrilled to discover an inhabitant of a group of oceanic islands who was not only a …
- … mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all …
- … their employees to search for fossils of other terrestrial animals and plants, Darwin told the …
- … wicked prosecution’ under the terms of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act ( letter to T. L. Brunton, …
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