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Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
  • …  Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
  • …   of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
  • … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
  • … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
  • … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th  Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
  • … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
  • … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
  • … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
  • … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
  • … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
  • … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
  • … copious directions for propagating the   breed of canaries: also goldfinch and linnet mules . …
  • … Primitiæ floræ   sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel   Islands of Jersey, …
  • … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln.  Annalen der Wien …
  • … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed.,  Select …
  • … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69.  Flora Sibirica sive   historia plantarum …
  • … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7.  Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of  The botany of the …
  • … Library.]  128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817.  Flora Anomoia. A general view of   the …
  • … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen.  Flora  31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8.  *128: 177 …
  • … London.  119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853.  A flora and fauna within living   animals. …
  • … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803.  Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris.  *119: …
  • … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
  • … natural history of the Himalayan   mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
  • … and physick. To   which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.]  119: 11a …
  • … . London.  128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784.  Flora Japonica . Lipsiae.  *119: 6v. …
  • … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43.  A flora of North   America: containing   …
  • …  Zurich.  *128: 169 ——. 1824–6.  Flora Suecica . Upsalla.  *128: 169 Walker, …
  • … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825.  Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena.  *119: 7v …
  • … Sabin. 1836–50.  Histoire naturelle des Iles   Canaries . 3 vols. (9 pts) and atlas. Paris. …
  • … the Coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and   Canaries.  London. *128: 149 …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

Summary

Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … before the Glacial period of a pleistocene equatorial flora and fauna, fitted for a hotter climate …
  • … and reduced in number, will then have formed the equatorial flora. There will also probably have …
  • … or four other species are confined to this island and to the Canaries.    Page 423, par. 2, …
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