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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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … a few odd entries, the record ends. Both notebooks consist of two different sections, headed ‘Books …
- … 1821] Decandolle on Geograph distrib:— in Dict: Sciences Nat. [A. P. de Candolle 1820] in …
- … r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. …
- … 1802–13]— facts about close species. Wilson’s American Ornithology [A. Wilson 1808–14] …
- … [Anon. 1840]. Report of the Agricultural Association meeting at Oxford. paper by L d …
- … according to Hooker has written on topography of N. American plants. [?Michaux 1803].— M r …
- … 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 ]. …
- … Agricult. Journ [ Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts ] Highland Agricult. Journal …
- … History [Waterton 1838] d[itt]o Trans. of Royal Irish Academy [ Transactions of the …
- … Sonnets ] 66 Silliman’s Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ] all from 1 to …
- … (& p. 397 to 452 Bought) 30 th Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts …
- … of Philosoph. Soc. of Philadelphia [? Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of …
- … delivered at the first evening discourse of the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the …
- … 1778. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the president. London. [Other eds.] …
- … of the ichtyology of New Zealand. Report of the 12th meeting of the British Association for …
- … London. 1834–42. *128: 171 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … admired in his youth: ‘I have always looked on him as one of the greatest men the world has ever …
- … to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused …
- … takes everything more quietly, as not signifying so much. And … one looks backwards much more than …
- … Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and sceptics Darwin excused …
- … of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an American zoologist, geologist, and leading …
- … 1874 ). Huxley stepped in, shunning Mivart at an evening meeting and communicating the ‘swell’ of …
- … review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie in the Academy (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. …
- … address to the department of botany and zoology at the meeting of the British Association for the …
- … with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American correspondent Mary Treat sent …
- … April 1874 ). Asa Gray forwarded a letter from the American physicist and painter Ogden Rood …
- … ( letter from James Ross, September 1874 ). The American philosopher Chauncey Wright sent a …
- … letter from Chauncey Wright, 3 September 1874 ). The American lawyer Samuel Whitaker …
- … his studies at Cambridge from mathematics to natural sciences. He stayed on after graduating to work …
- … quarters. He was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( …
- … and the evolution of inter-species alliances. At the meeting of the British Association for …
- … off admirably— but Huxley’s was the magnum opus of the meeting’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 …
- … intending from day to day to congratulate you on the Belfast meeting, on which occasion you and your …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If any …
- … claimed that sexual selection was ‘the most powerful means of changing the races of man’ …
- … among breeders of domestic animals. His contacts, old and new, were often extremely generous, …
- … Information on crying infants, weeping elephants, and pouting chimpanzees flooded in from leading …
- … eventually swell to two separate books, Descent of man and Expression of the emotions in man …
- … other entomologists who had been present at the society’s meeting. Darwin circulated his query about …
- … the name of “attachment” or “love”’, wrote the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 …
- … March, ‘you force public attention to bear on the natural sciences and they can only gain from this. …
- … 3 April , ‘your works are destined to renew the natural sciences entirely.’ Gaston de Saporta …
- … second in the entrance examination for the Royal military academy at Woolwich. ‘I shall burst with …
- … that had crept over the British Association meeting, with Darwinian theory appearing even in a …
- … on him, including the order of merit of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which …
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