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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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  • … Books to be Read 3 “Traité de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec celle de l …
  • … 1821] Decandolle on Geograph distrib:— in Dict: Sciences Nat. [A. P. de Candolle 1820] in …
  • … Chap. 39. tom. 4. p. 273. Latreille Geographie des Insectes 8 vo  p 181 [Latreille 1819]. …
  • … with African. Hist. genérale et Particulière des Anomalies de l’organization des hommes & …
  • … at most Index.—see infra Temminck Hist. Nat. des Pidgeons et Gallinac [Temminck 1813–15] read …
  • … of N. America [Conrad 1838] Atlas de la Geographie des trois Regnes de la nature. Paris. 6: …
  • … a 2 d  Edit preparing in 1841.— Lesson Hist Nat des Mammiférs [Lesson 1827] Haller’s …
  • … Smith 1839–40] 24 Flourens “Resume analytique des observations par F. Cuvier sur l …
  • … mentioned. Histoire Générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et …
  • … et pathologique, les rapports généraux, les lois et causes des Monstruosités, des variétés et vices …
  • … P. Alison 1847]. No 19. July. 1840 27 Annales des Sciences 1840. Octob & Jan. Papers …
  • … one volume I tried unreadable Annales des Sciences [ Annales des Sciences Naturelles ]. …
  • … 16 th  Excellent Paper on Zoosperms in Annales des Sciences no. 1: 1841: [Prévost and Dumas 1824] …
  • … Tasmanian Journal [ Tasmanian Journal of Natural   Sciences, Agriculture, …
  • … présentés   pars divers Savans à l'Académie des Sciences ] Vol. V. and VI. —— 28 th …
  • … Kultiverten Kohlarten [Metzger 1833] 25 Annales des Sciences Nat. [ Annales des Sciences   …
  • …   Naturelle ] Tom. V. & VII —— Annales des Sciences 3 d  series Tom VI. Bot p. 142 to …
  • … April 3 d . Annal. des Sc. Nat: [ Annales des Sciences   Naturelles ] Second Series all Tom I …
  • … th . Mem. de l’Acad. Imp. de Lyon [ Memoires de   l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Belles …
  • … 1821. The memoir was not printed in the  Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences , but was …
  • … du Sud.  Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Academie   des Sciences  22: 1002–4.  …
  • … Comptes rendu hebdomadaires des   Séances de l’Academie des Sciences  25: 865–70.  *128: 165 …
  • … une migration de Cassenoix (Nucifraga).  Bulletins de l’Academie Royale des   Sciences et Belles …

Darwn's letters from 1878 online

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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…

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  • … elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government …
  • … was elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences. The accolade came after five …

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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  • … de.  Conchyliologie et malacologie  in  Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches.  2e …
  • … Brongniart, Alexandre. Rapport fait à l’Académie Royale des Sciences, sur les travaux de M. Gay.  …
  • … selection of the geological memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines . . .  Trans. with Notes. …
  • … Plates for Crustacea, Zoea, etc. In  Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles.  Paris, 1816–30. (DAR …
  • … de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M., ed. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Par plusieurs …
  • … dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831.  Annales des Sciences Naturelles  28 (1833): 369–93. …
  • … Alexander von.  Essai géognostique sur le gisement des roches dans les deux hémisphères.  2d ed. …
  • … Lacordaire, Jean Théodore. Mémoire sur les habitudes des coléoptères de l’Amérique méridionale.  …
  • … Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de.  Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres.  7 vols. …
  • … Lamouroux, Jean Vincent Félix.  Exposition méthodique des genres de l’ordre des polypiers.  Paris, …
  • … Rang, Sander.  Manuel de l’histoire naturelle des mollusques et leurs coquilles.  Paris, 1829. …
  • … el rico mineral de Pasco, pp. 70–101 of  Memoriales des ciencias naturales  (DAR 37.1: 690). …
  • … Albin-René.  Le pilote du Brésil, ou description des côtes de l’Amérique méridionale . . .  Paris, …
  • … arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences . . .  2d ed. Edinburgh, 1821. …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • …   Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work,  The …

ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks

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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802   Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …

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  • … London. His main research concentrates on the physical sciences in the late eighteenth and …
  • … Membre Effectif of the Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences and a Liveryman of the …
  • … index at the Wroblewski library of the Lithuanian academy of sciences was issued in 1953. …
  • … , Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences   Marco Segala, ‘ …

Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep

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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…

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  • … after rejecting him five times in succession, the Académie des sciences in Paris had finally elected …
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