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Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species , the full transcripts …
- … members to support Lankester’s application at the next meeting. Emma must have despaired: his visits …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … . According to the minutes of a Linnean Society Council meeting held on 30 January 1908, Edward …
- … who received his medal (uniquely cast in gold) at a great anniversary meeting on 1 July 1908, widely …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … securing the Association’s decision to hold its July 1851 meeting in Ipswich. Furthermore, this date …
- … edition, was issued as a set for general sale at the BAAS meeting and across the nation. Hence they …
- … visit noted that the BAAS, then celebrating its twenty-first anniversary, had ‘done much . . . to …
- … of East Anglia, 2002), pp. 309–331. Louise Miskell, Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … for the Advancement of Science. Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. …
- … 1819. (DAR 32.2: 77) Greenough, George Bellas. Anniversary address (1834). Proceedings of …
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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- … of the condition prevented him from attending the Cambridge meeting of the British Association for …
- … In view of this, he prescribed strict conditions for a meeting with John Lubbock: ‘if you could … …
- … what did Darwin think of his argument, put forward in his anniversary address to the Geological …
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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- … another chance to sharpen his claws when Sabine’s anniversary address was delivered at the Royal …
- … Huxley’s suspicions, and when he described events at the meeting to Hooker in a letter of 3 …
- … theory. Darwin himself did not attend the meeting at which the award was announced, fearing …
