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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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- … & Reason— In Athenæum Library. Volneys 18 Travels in Syria [Volney 1787].—vol I. p. 71 …
- … transitu at analogia commentatia [Fries 1825] Clarkes Travels [Clarke 1810–23]. at most Index …
- … [DAR *119: 10v.] Maximilien Newuied is publishing Travels into interior of N. America [Wied …
- … [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in N. America [Kalm 1770–1]— much Nat. …
- … 1803].— M r Nuttall has written naturalist travels in Arkansas [Nuttall 1821].— …
- … 26 merely advertisement Admiral Von Wrangel’s Travels [Wrangel 1840].— Sir Ker …
- … by Flourens [Flourens 1839] (read) Index of Clarkes Travels [Clarke 1810–23].— one volume I …
- … of Malthus 1826 [Malthus 1826]— (read) Pallas’ Travels [Pallas 1802–3]— Hookker (623 no) read …
- … plates of every species—treats of varieties Pœppig Travels in S. America. German [Pöppig 1835 …
- … Zorab the Hostage [Morier] 1832] La Vaillant. Travels [Levaillant 1790] at Maer.— …
- … Animaux sans Vertebrès [Lamarck 1815–22].— Travels in the Himalayan Provinces by W. Moorcroft …
- … 100/41/—dull—but perhaps good for me. Dillon’s Travels in Spain [Dillon 1780]: Livingston on …
- … Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] Dieffenbach Travels into the interior of New Zealand …
- … has it— 1844— read Blackhouse travels in Australia } Much …
- … ] must be read . Hooker. read Fortune’s Travels in China [Fortune 1847] read …
- … & laws consult. [DAR *119: 22] Eyeres Travels [E. J. Eyre 1845] very amusing …
- … Monarchy [Newman] 1847] Berniers Travels [Bernier 1826] } …
- … of Curran [C. Phillips 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44 …
- … Prescotts Peru [W. H. Prescott 1847] Sleemans Travels to Khiva. 47 Residence in India …
- … [Tocqueville 1835–40] Fellow’s Lycia (1 st Travels) [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 …
- … by D’Israeli [D'Israeli 1795]. Miss Martineau Travels in N. America [H. Martineau 1838b] …
- … and Annals of Natural History ] Von Buch’s Travels [Buch 1813]— skimmed White’s …
- … 1837–8] except 5 th vol. 19 Mungo Parks travels [Park 1799] Feb 12 Sir H. Davy …
- … life of Napoleon [Lockhart] 1829] Bartram’s travels in N. America [W. Bartram 1791] …
- … 1817]. Cain [Byron 1822] 18 th . Bossu & Loefflings Travels Louisiana [Bossu 1771] …
- … 1826] 19 th . Read well Mackenzie’s excellent Travels [G. S. Mackenzie 1811]. 26 th …
- … way through—probably nothing —— Lichtensteins Travels [Lichtenstein 1812–15]— well skimmed …
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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- … ‘immense stock of instruments & books . . . in books all travels, & many natural history …
- … Library–CUL ††. ‡ Buch, Leopold von. Travels through Norway and Lapland . . .Translated . . …
- … 1743. (DAR 36.1: 447). Burchell, William John. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa …
- … 206; 35.1: 235v.). ‡ Caldcleugh, Alexander. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 …
- … * Humboldt, Alexander von. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new …
- … T.)). Darwin Library–CUL †. * Mawe, John. Travels in the gold and diamond districts of …
- … Library–CUL. Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, …
- … p. 80). Darwin Library–CUL †. Miers, John. Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . 2 vols. …
- … Baptist von and Martius, Carl Frederick Philip von. Travels in Brazil in the years 1817–1820. 2 …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … to read over some proof sheets for Stokes’ account of his travels , later published as …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … to the North. Pole. 2 Vol. 8 Vo. 1 Cochrane Travels in Columbia. 2 2 Vol. 8 Vo …
- … Brambletye House 20 3 Vos 12 mo Clarkes travels 21 5 Vols. 4to. Provenance: …
- … Cradock and Joy. Clarke, Edward Daniel. 1810–23. Travels in various countries of Europe, …
- … Charles Stuart. 1825. Journal of a residence and travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and …
Alexander von Humboldt
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The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … was the Personal Narrative of Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in Central and South America …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle , …
- … turned his mind to the task of preparing an account of his travels. He decided to approach close and …
- … held their interest. ‘I am not in general a good reader of travels’, Hensleigh confessed, ‘ but I …
Gaston de Saporta
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The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
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- … Beccari, Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo: Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … of Humboldt's Narrative , a much loved account of earlier travels in South America that …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … geology at Edinburgh University; as a result of his own travels in Europe he produced a series of …
Darwin And Evolution
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What is evolution? What did Darwin discover and how did he come to his conclusions?
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- … of evolution. Specimens brought back from Darwin’s travels, his letters, his study of pigeons and …
Inland expeditions
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Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe
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- … Darwin travels overland to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … partly due to the recollections they inspired of his own travels in the tropics. Even before he left …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … object. He discusses the possibilities for how the stimulus travels in the plant. The rest of the …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … I Martens compiled four sketchbooks during his travels. He later gave these to his …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … They describe his dramatic and frequently dangerous travels through the mountains. Hooker writes of …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
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- … wanted about Reindeer Antlers &c f2 But as the post travels very slowly between here and …
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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- … Ruskin, whom he assisted as a draughtsman and companion on travels through Europe. His pleasant …
