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Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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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- … p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian Islands 8 consult D r Horsfield …
- … except Browne’s Appendix [Brown 1818] excellent table of Canary island Plants Home’s Hist. of …
- … [D. Low 1845]. 30. Webb & Berthelot. Geograph. Bot of Canary isl ds . [Webb and …
- … of the breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands would be published in parts from …
- … sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and …
- … during the years 1843–46; employed surveying the islands of the Eastern Archipelago … With notes …
- … New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral islands . London. [Abstract in DAR 71: …
- … natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas Islands . English and French. 2 vols. …
- … ——. 1856. Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands . London and Edinburgh. 128: 21 …
- … and California, with a glance at some of the tropical islands . London. *128: 172 …
- … the Isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape …
- … of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands: with notices of their other …
- … On the Cystideæ of the Silurian rocks of the British Islands. Memoirs of the Geological Survey …
- … Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands . London. *119: 2v. …
- … Jackson. 1843. Scenes and scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a trip through Central America …
- … Fly … in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, 1842–1846, …
- … Landt, Jønrgen. 1810. A description of the Feroe Islands, containing an account of their …
- … The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands described by David Low … and …
- … 1845. On the domesticated animals of the British Islands: comprehending the natural and …
- … Charles. 1849. On the vegetable colonisation of the British Islands, Shetland, Feroe, and Iceland. …
- … 22b Sloane, Hans. 1707–25. A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. …
- … in the relative levels of the land and sea in the British Islands. Edinburgh New Philosophical …
- … Maderensia; being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group . London. …
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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- … increased by the publication in 1872 of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an …
- … on female infanticide and disease in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 …
- … accurately attacking the nectaries of cowslips but his canary indiscriminately eating every part of …
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,…
