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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (1) Bibliographisches Institut (1) Biddulph, F …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … of Sciences (through the various names it took: the Institut , you know, it was? the Academy of …
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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- … des observations par F. Cuvier sur l’instinct”—L’Institut 1839. p. 408 [Flourens 1839] read …
- … Jan 1 st Many numbers of Edinburg Phil. Journal. & L’Institut for 1839 [ Edinburgh …
- … Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de l’Institut de France . Histoire de l’Académie …
- … W. J. Hooker. London. 1849–57. *128: 171 L’Institut; Journal des Académies et Sociétés …
- … par divers Savans à l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France; ou, collection des …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … this matter the Belgians have taught the members of the Institut de France a lesson,’ he wrote. ‘May …
