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4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … boy had picked up rice that Simms and his wife fed to the squirrels. He received a suspended …
Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist
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Mauro Galetti solved Darwin’s puzzle of the ‘bright seeds’. This is what he told us about becoming an ecologist.
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- … and time to watch other organisms in the forest, such as squirrels, birds, capuchin monkeys and, of …
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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- … sea-mammals and fish, between flying possums and flying squirrels, etc. Bates has recently reported …
