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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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  • … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
  • … Transact 15  [ Transactions of the   Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
  • … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
  • … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural   Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
  • … & Birds [Sykes 1834]. Zoolog. Proceedings & Journal of Asiatic Soc. Vol. II & Vol. III …
  • … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs   of the Caledonian …
  • … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
  • … in Library of Institute. Perhaps Bailliere has it. British Museum Traite Elementair …
  • … in which species are shown to be not immutable see Brit. Museum Collect. (Anonymous) Wartmann …
  • … B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle” (Cuvier Paper …
  • … A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good H. Watson …
  • … [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] Mem: du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
  • … [ Journal of the Royal   Geographical Society ] Asiatic Journ. of London to end of 1837 [ …
  • …  Volume d[itt]o. & transmut.— 19 th  Journal of Asiatic Soc of Bengal [ Journal of the …
  • … of Science [ Gleanings in Science ]. being first part of Asiatic Journal [DAR 119: 6a] …
  • … Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. Asiatic Researches of Bengal Soc [ …
  • … 4 th  Edit Macclelland. on Cyprinidae from the vol 19. Asiatic Researches [McClelland 1836].— …
  • … [DAR 119: 18a] 1847. Jan 14 th  Mem: du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
  • … de Genève ]. Tom I to 10. —— Annales du Museum [ Annales du Muséum d'Histoire …
  • … 25. Dixon on Poultry [E. S. Dixon 1848] Memoires du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
  • … 4 to  Pamphlet [Godron 1854] (read) Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal [ Journal of the …
  • … by Gaudin—with additions [Heer 1854]. Archives du Museum [ Archives du Muséum d' …
  • … [Schouw 1852].— Feb. 19 th  Nouvelles Annales du Museum d’Hist. Nat. [ Nouvelle Annales du …
  • … 128: 6] 1853. June 10 th  Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal [ Journal   of …

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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  • … [22 February 1858] Edward Blyth, curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, …
  • … the giant Diornis skeleton which he plans to show in his museum in Canterbury, New Zealand. …
  • … from Miss Bateman, the first woman admitted to Linnean Society. Men: Letter 1836 …
  • … James Tenant, keeper of the aquarium at the Zoological Society’s gardens, sends Darwin the results …
  • … Darwin seeks to decline the Secretaryship of the Geological Society. Once his writing skills and …

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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  • … – who by the bye are not quite the best disposed of the Asiatic races for being so kept. …
  • … who is – or has been, Secretary to the Grand Geological Society and will most probably be, in due …
  • … residence, has a charm for some minds, but the loss of Society – the numerous privations and the …
  • … of the Genuine Classical taste – which preferred masculine society and beauty – to feminine – and …
  • … St Paul in the Atlantic were deposited by me in the British Museum – where if any curious visitor …
  • … Malays (with the same sort of propriety that continental Asiatic apply the name of Franks – to all …
  • … the Beagle. If a Christian Minister belonging to the Society of Friends or to that of the …
  • … carries it to maturity. *[32] As the Religious Society in England can testify – two of …
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