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Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … request permission to describe the collection in the British Museum, a request, which under normal …
  • … that month wrote to request specimens from the Geological Museum of Copenhagen University and to …
  • … that he would soon ‘ receive a lot of fossils from Copenhagen-chalk, named by Beck & Steenstrup …
  • … habits of living species, rather than on the sole basis of museum specimens. With the first fossil …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • … S. sea Botany R. Brown has various coloured maps by Copenhagen Botanists [?Schouw 1823] of …
  • … 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' …
  • … [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' …
  • … 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 …
  • … III 1834. & IV 1835: Extracted March 18. Archives du Museum d’Hist. Nat. [ Archives du …
  • … 88  Samuel Highley, proprietor of a scientific library, museum, and publishing company at 32 …
  • … of marine Polyzoa in the   collection of the British Museum.  Edited by J. E. Gray. 2 pts. London …
  • … 1825. Sur la domesticité des mammifères.  Mémoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle  13: 405–55.  …
  • … über die Flora der Südseeinseln.  Annalen der Wien Museum der Naturgeschichte  1: 129–90.  …
  • … of the Geological Survey of Great   Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London  2, …
  • … of the Geological Survey of Great   Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London  2, …
  • … Catalogue of the specimens of   Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: Ungulata Furcipeda …
  • … expedition undertaken for the Trustees of   the British Museum . London.  *119: 23 Le …
  • … Catalogue of British Hymenoptera   in the British Museum . Pt I:  Apidæ—Bees . Edited by John …
  • … and Vespidæ, in the collection of the British   Museum . London. [Abstract in DAR 205.11(2): 83–5 …
  • … of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of   the Museum of Economic Geology in London . …
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