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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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- … [ Procés-Verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Ile Maurice ] Sykes has …
- … [ Journal de Physique, de Chimie, et de l'Histoire Naturelle ] Art. Hyb. in …
- … Mauritius [ Procés-Verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Ile Maurice ]. many …
- … 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' …
- … Nat. de Paris [ Mémoires de la Sociéte d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris ]. All VII (nothing) …
- … [ Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève ]. Tom I to 10. …
- … 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 …
- … London. 119: 4a ——. 1803. Manuel d’histoire naturelle . Translated from the German by …
- … formant avec les œuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d’histoire naturelle . 26 separate …
- … Sur la domesticité des mammifères. Mémoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle 13: 405–55. *119: …
- … publications dans les Mémoires et Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris. *119: 20v. …
- … Baptiste Georges Marie, ed., Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. …
- … Victor Dessalines d’, ed., Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle , vol. 5, pp. 428–52. …
- … Charles Victor Dessalines d’, ed., Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle . 13 vols. …
- … London. 119: 18b, 22b ——. 1837. Oeuvres d’histoire naturelle … comprenant divers …
- … Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed., Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … were not on board. The Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle was a much cited …
- … M. Alcide d’Orbigny. . . Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR …
- … Genevieve Marcellin, ed. Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31 …
- … 1816–30. (DAR 30.2: 122). Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle. See Bory de Saint …
- … 31.1: 206v.). Gay, Claude. Aperc~u sur les recherches d’histoire naturelle faites dans l …
- … Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. 7 vols. …
- … 1962, p. 14). Rang, Sander. Manuel de l’histoire naturelle des mollusques et leurs …
- … not been located. Administration du Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle. Instruction pour les …
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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- … topic by Frédéric Gérard in the Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle , noting, ‘ I am not …
- … 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 …
- … habits of living species, rather than on the sole basis of museum specimens. With the first fossil …
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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- … done in the Jardin des Plantes : in the natural history museum in Paris. Now, of course, no-one …
- … Saint-Vincent was the editor of the Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle (the Classical …
- … 1854 and 1855, in Paris, working at the Natural History Museum and working in the huge …
- … He says, no French collection can now equal the British Museum. Not only that, but he goes through …
- … because, he says, we the professors of the Natural History Museum are the only ones entitled to …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … studies to Charles Naudin, a botanist at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, whose experiments on …
- … but he was nonetheless irritated by Owen’s lectures at the Museum of Practical Geology in May. As he …
