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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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- … species There is Horticultural & Agricultural Soc in Bengal— Have they published? [ …
- … & transmut.— 19 th Journal of Asiatic Soc of Bengal [ Journal of the Asiatic …
- … Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. Asiatic Researches of Bengal Soc [ Asiatick Researches ] 5. …
- … [Godron 1854] (read) Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal [ Journal of the Asiatic Society …
- … 1853. June 10 th Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal [ Journal of the Asiatic …
- … Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the …
- … in the Dakhan. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1: 161–7. (Reprinted from the …
- … in the Dakhan. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3: 418–23, 536–43, 597–9, 639–49. …
- … 4 Asiatick Researches; or Transactions of the Bengal Society instituted for inquiring …
- … 6v.; 119: 20a Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . Calcutta and London. 1832–. …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … his results in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867), and Darwin summarised …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Blyth, curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, sends specimens and bird observations …
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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- … continued to refuse – finally – when about leaving for Bengal – they informed him that the case …
- … offices ^on Borneo^ altogether – He then sent an Agent to Bengal – but the government demanded …
- … of the recorded slur cast upon his character by the Bengal Government. With respect to Mr …
- … Knowing the strength of the S.W. monsoon in the Bay of Bengal in August it was not desirable to …
