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Alexander von Humboldt
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The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … his London years. The book that encouraged him to pursue a scientific voyage in the first place was …
- … and his associates in the German Romantic literary and scientific movement, and trained with Abraham …
- … of data through the enthusiastic use of a staggering load of scientific instruments carried by their …
- … World.’ It was a talisman that no philosophically inclined traveller could afford to be without. As …
- … matter, and its many references to the ‘illustrious traveller,’ the published version of Darwin’s …
- … that you are fully right in calling Humboldt the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived,’ …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … of H.M.S. Beagle . In 1836, the twenty-seven-year-old traveller returned to England and to an …
- … and Thomas Campbell Eyton, among others, illustrate the scientific pursuits of the clergy and the …
- … And it was Henslow who, encouraging Darwin to broaden his scientific horizons, persuaded him to …
- … ability he had of persuading others to help him in his scientific pursuits. In September 1828 he had …
- … the voyage progressed, became wholly committed to a life of scientific enquiry. Coupled with this …
- … his volume of the Narrative in 1839. London scientific society When Darwin …
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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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working …
- … established and confident naturalist at the heart of British scientific society, travelling often to …
- … the community of savants as well as in its philosophical and scientific pursuits. At home, time was …
- … of Beagle plant specimens by the young botanist and traveller, Joseph Dalton Hooker. More than …
- … confessing a murder) immutable Darwin’s earlier scientific friendships were not neglected …
- … turned to when he wished to discuss the problems and various scientific issues that arose out of his …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … words to celebrate what would have been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th …
- … of marriage’, in which he suggested that modern scientific views of inheritance might lead to …
- … of Darwin’s evolutionary views and the ethics of scientific conduct (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … of view, Mivart had violated codes of friendship and of scientific conduct by attacking Darwin’s …
- … plants , this work drew on methods from a variety of scientific fields, especially physiology and …
- … The Zoological Station at Naples Mindful of the scientific assistance he received from so …
- … to Eugène Desmarest, 4 March 1874 ). He featured in the scientific worthies series in Nature ( …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … how best to prepare, preserve, and ship them. And the scientific world first took notice of a young …
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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- … (DAR 120) is a catalogue, arranged alphabetically, of the scientific books read from 1838 through …
- … his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific from the non-scientific books, …
- … reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, should …
- … notebooks. For example, Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of …
- … by Francis Darwin of his father’s method of handling the scientific books and pamphlets he read …
- … my industry.’ ( Autobiography , p. 119). †The scientific books in Darwin’s library were …
- … Collect. (Anonymous) Wartmann on Daltonism in Taylors Scientific Memoirs—goes by sexes …
- … 1820]— [DAR 119: 2a] Scientific Memoirs pub. by Taylor [ …
- … III Vols. —— 17 th Laing notes of a Traveller 1 vol [Laing 1842] —— Finished …
- … that this list was pinned into CD’s Catalogue of the scientific books in the library of the Royal …
- … 67 From this date, CD began to note the non-scientific books read on the right-hand pages of the …
- … pencil. 88 Samuel Highley, proprietor of a scientific library, museum, and publishing …
- … to the Royal College of Surgeons.” His catalogue of scientific equipment and books issued in 1852 …
- … because he had added it by mistake to his list of non-scientific books. READING NOTEBOOKS …
- … of America and Canada, containing some account of their scientific institutions, and a few …
- … A sketch of Madeira; containing information for the traveller, or invalid visitor . London. …
- … nature, in different lands and different climates; with scientific elucidations . Translated by …
- … eds.] 119: 15b ——. 1842. Notes of a traveller on the social and political state of …
- … Ceurs de philosophie positive of A. Comte . (Bohn’s Scientific Library.) London. 128: 9 …
- … 1828. Sketches of Persia, from the journals of a traveller in the East . 2d ed. 2 vols. …
- … from the German by Leonora and Joanna B. Horner. (Bohn’s Scientific Library.) London. 128: 3 …
- … Royal Society of London. 1839. Catalogue of the scientific books in the library of the Royal …
- … Translated and edited by Arthur Henfrey. (Bohn’s Scientific Library.) London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … 9 Wartmann, Élie. 1844. Memoir on Daltonism. Scientific Memoirs, selected from the …
- … 1852–9. New series, 1860–. *128: 151 Scientific Memoirs, selected from the transactions …
Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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- … as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer …
- … day a man was taken up on that very spot for robbing some Traveller. Dr. D. had the curiosity to go …
- … came to regard 'Darwinism' and 'Darwinists' as a new form of scientific elite …
- … about science & turns everything into ridicule. He hates scientific men '. Krause wanted …
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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- … got in touch, and, for all his fears, Darwin found several scientific topics to pursue. …
- … old and new when revising his essay on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific work, and that Darwin had …
- … in newspapers and literary periodicals rather than the scientific press, the Darwins consulted the …
- … kindness’, and to state how gratified he was that so many scientific men had so good an opinion of …
- … Cooke on 31 July , ‘& if Mr. Murray really thinks that a scientific work would sell …
- … evolution and the animal origin of humans as the orthodox scientific belief. However, he objected …
- … Keeping up In addition to the stream of unsolicited scientific material Darwin received, he …
- … of it’ ( letter to Alexander Agassiz, 5 May 1881 ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree …
- … whether he could call Alexander von Humboldt the greatest scientific traveller, as it was ‘the …
- … stimulus, stating that he thought Humboldt ‘the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived ... …
- … ‘the Prince of Wales may meet quietly some of the chief scientific visitors’, he felt obliged to …
- … The success of Horace’s recently established Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company led Darwin to …
- … November [1881] ). Darwin was as solicitous about his least scientific son as his most brilliant …
- … of how the book would come to be used to demonstrate the scientific method in future science classes …
- … respect for them’. Darwin also decided to give more to the scientific community during his lifetime. …
- … surplus income, ‘I shall ... probably give away more for scientific purposes, so that a less sum …
- … that he asked for no more. Darwin also offered funds to scientific institutions and causes. After …
- … any other contributor. His most important gift and enduring scientific legacy was his pledge in 1881 …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … as the geologist David Forbes and receiving a visit from the traveller, anthropologist, and …
- … of his ambition was to secure a favourable mention in a scientific journal: `I think that ambition …
- … The year brought a number of accolades from Darwin’s scientific colleagues, including the offer of …
- … fellow workers’ to be 'far the highest reward to which any scientific man can look’ ( letter …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … about science & turns everything into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst …
- … 1879] ). Darwin, however, continued to focus on the scientific benefits of Francis’s being …
- … than Emma Darwin, and Bernard proved to be a ‘capital traveller … neither cross nor ennuied’ (Emma …
- … surprising because Darwin and Farrer had corresponded on scientific topics since 1868 and after …
- … various honours in the form of diplomas and fellowships from scientific institutions around the …
- … disciple’. Other correspondents, many of whom were not scientific investigators, also claimed to be …
- … to be troubled about the differences between ecclesiastics & scientific men’, Darwin wrote in …
- … nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious …
- … worth defending his views from attacks that were not made on scientific grounds. Evidently concerned …
- … some faint praise, condemned Guthrie’s work as ‘a pseudo-scientific criticism of a pseudo-scientific …
- … long letter of 13 December that although Spencer was not a scientific discoverer, and his physical …
- … to accept evolution, ‘long before there could be any scientific knowledge of the modus operandi …
- … felt’. This, Moulton believed, was work that ‘true scientific discoverers’ always refused to do …
- … Support for evolutionists Throughout the year, scientific scholars and acquaintances …
- … Darwin confessed, ‘For many years I have quite doubted his scientific judgment, though admiring …
- … could help to place ‘the practice of Agriculture upon Scientific principles’ and prevent ‘Cattle …
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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- … the work soever completed &c – has been received by the scientific world – I have not as yet …
- … of the term. If it be received with due approbation by the Scientific world I shall then declare …
- … that profound respect which is due to his high character, scientific abilities, and truly valuable …
- … set down – and – after being visited once or twice by a traveller from the West Isle he removed to …
- … above-mentioned – yet ^that^ it was no pleasant trip for a traveller to make from the West Isle …
