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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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  • … She keeps a canary in her house and “cannot keep these flowers in the room” without the birds …
  • … of moths which seem attracted to brightly-coloured flowers on their wallpaper. While at church, …
  • … [2 April 1868] Casparay details his experiments on submerged flowers. He describes …

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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  • … of a willow-looking species bearing clusters of curious flowers at their extremities dipping into it …
  • … at large – avers – “the Cocos would long ago have been submerged into the profound depths of the …
  • … which I applied to the Islets – merely as so many verbal flowers for the ornamenting of my language …
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