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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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  • … reading. Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— …
  • … Zoological Journal ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
  • … the Wernerian Natural History   Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the …
  • … Schlegel Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib & …
  • … 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of Edinburgh Transactions [ Transactions of …
  • … Natural   History Society ] Ed. New Phil Jour [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
  • … Dobrizhoffer’s Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ. [ Edinburgh New …
  • … of Edinburg Phil. Journal. & L’Institut for 1839 [ Edinburgh Philosophical Journal  and  L& …
  • … Translat: [Michaux 1805] very poor. 20 th  Botanic Garden & Temple of Nature [E. Darwin …
  • … Nat. 116  [ Annales des Sciences Naturelles ] Edinburgh New Philosoph [ Edinburgh New …
  • … series on the natural history of animals published in Edinburgh from 1834 to 1843. Only those titles …
  • … 82  CD refers to a translation published in the  Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal  in which …
  • … The military life of John Duke of   Marlborough . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15 …
  • … the evidence given before the Committee of   Fisheries . Edinburgh.  119: 14a ——. 1799 …
  • … Anon. 1839a. Loudon’s  British trees and shrubs .  Edinburgh   Review  69: 384–405.  *119: 8v …
  • … 1840. Review of S. G. Morton,  Crania Americana .  Edinburgh New Philosophical Review  29: 111 …
  • … and its moral influence on the progress of civilisation . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers.  …
  • … delineations of American scenery and   manners . 5 vols. Edinburgh. [Darwin Library. Abstract in …
  • … 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845.  Insect life . Edinburgh and London.  119: 16a …
  • … in the   life of an Italian [i.e., Giovanni Ruffini] . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 …
  • … of the author’s life by his brother (Alexander Bethune) . Edinburgh. [Other eds.]  119: 21b …
  • … Boutcher, William. 1775.  A treatise on forest trees . Edinburgh.  119: 7a, 13a …
  • … years   1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773.  5 vols. Edinburgh and London.  119: 9a …
  • … 18v.; 119: 22a [Darwin, Erasmus]. 1789–91.  The botanic garden; a poem, in   two parts …
  • … seu   dissertationes variæ physicæ, medicæ, botanicæ antehac   seorsim editæ, nunc collectæ et …

List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … Eck, F. A. (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
  • … (4) Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden (1) …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’.  Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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  • … sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and professor of …
  • … daughter Henrietta was often at his side in the hothouse or garden, taking notes by dictation. His …
  • … and an article on orchids from Hermann Crüger, head of the botanic garden in Trinidad. Darwin’s …
  • … had been initiated by Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a …
  • … by a short note from Scott stating that he had left the botanic garden at Edinburgh, where he had …
  • … him fairly, and he could see no future for himself at the garden and no hope of attaining a foreign …
  • … the staff he supervised as assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. He noted, for example, …
  • … to make enquiries with his contacts in forest departments, botanic gardens, and plantations. Darwin …
  • … Hooker learned that Thomas Anderson, the director of the botanic garden at Calcutta, had need of a …
  • … Melastomataceae from Robert Thomson, a gardener at the new botanic garden in Castleton, Jamaica. …

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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  • … was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The year was marked by …
  • … of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. Hooker’s …
  • … to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he should …
  • … he had recently accepted the position of curator of the botanic gardens at Calcutta. Scott …
  • … of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin . Like …
  • … December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a really curious …
  • … John Scott, who had worked under Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, was compounded by …
  • … Hooker had been offered the directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( letter from F. H. …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had initiated …
  • … different response in Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he …
  • … Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director of the Peradeniya botanic gardens in Ceylon. Closer to home, …
  • … was often at her father’s side in the hothouse and garden. Henrietta took an interest in science, …
  • … from John Goodsir, professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, indicate that Darwin had …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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  • … from Huxley, triumphant over the response to his recent Edinburgh lectures (his audience applauded, …
  • … John Scott, foreman of the propagating department at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, began writing …
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