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Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
The Darwin and Human Nature film series
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We chose four films to cover a broad chronology from the early 19th to the early 20th century; and a range of themes, including teaching Darwinism, slavery and race, degeneration in Victorian society, the boundaries between normal and abnormal in the…
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- … Director: David Lebrun. Starring: Marian Seldes, Corey Burton, Richard Dysart. USA 2004. 60 mins …
Volume 29 (1881) is published!
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In October 1881, Darwin published his last book, The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. A slim volume on a subject that many people could understand and on which they had their own opinions, it went…
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- … selection, had been successful. Wallace’s friend Arabella Burton Buckley had suggested the …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
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1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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- … of evolution by natural selection. With the help of Arabella Burton Buckley and Thomas Henry Huxley, …
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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- … [H. Martineau 1838b] Burtons Life of David Hume [Burton 1846] Society in America. Miss …
- … by Sir F. B. Head [F. B. Head 1846] —— 16 th Burton’s Life of D. Hume [Burton 1846]— …
- … [Newman 1849] Nov. 4 th Burtons life of Hume [Burton 1846] (poor) —— 1 Vol. of D …
- … 128: 3] 1852 . Feb. 1. Emigrants Manual [Burton 1851] March 10 th Hind …
- … dialect . Kilmarnock. [Other eds.] 119: 7a Burton, John Hill. 1846. Life and …
