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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … "A child of God" (1) …
- … (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
- … Ambrose, J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences …
- … (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
- … Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
- … Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
- … Chance, Frank (3) Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) …
- … (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … (1) Geological Society of London (18) Gibb, …
- … Houk, E. P. T. (1) House of Commons (1) …
- … Jones, R. O. (1) Journal of Horticulture (15) …
- … (1) Librarian, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Mellersh, Arthur (5) Member of the Athenaeum Club (1) …
- … Artis Magistra (Artis). (1) Natural History Review (1) …
- … (1) Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (1) …
- … (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … William (1) Registrar of Friendly Societies (1) …
- … Britain (1) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1) …
- … (1) Société des sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel (1) …
- … Society (1) secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia …
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 …
- … were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119) …
- … 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 …
- … and Horticultural Society of India ] read Natural Hist Soc of Mauritius. published? [ …
- … 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 ]. …
- … ] Loudons. Journal of Nat Hist Z & B [ Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of …
- … ] read Charlesworth. Journ. [ Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, …
- … ] Wernerian d[itt]o [ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society ]— read …
- … 8vo., 9 s . 6 d . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, …
- … Boston Nat: Hist: Soc: Journal of [ Boston Journal of Natural History ].— must be read. …
- … History [Waterton 1838] d[itt]o Trans. of Royal Irish Academy [ Transactions of the …
- … 16 th Excellent Paper on Zoosperms in Annales des Sciences no. 1: 1841: [Prévost and Dumas 1824] …
- … Tasmanian Journal [ Tasmanian Journal of Natural Sciences, Agriculture, …
- … 1842] —— Transactions of Amer. Philosoph Soc. Philadelphia [ Transactions of the American …
- … getting others. 12 Journal of Philosoph. Soc. of Philadelphia [? Journal of the Academy …
- … and South Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida . Philadelphia. 119: 5a, 9a …
- … of the Tertiary formations of the United States . Philadelphia. *119: 7v. Cooper, …
- … 1817. A view of the cultivation of fruit trees . Philadelphia. *119: 4v. Crabbe, …
- … 1778. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the president. London. [Other eds.] …
- … London. 1834–42. *128: 171 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia …
- … 119: IFC, 13a Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy . Dublin. 1787–. 119: 3a …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
- … son Bernard, occasionally comparing the mental faculties of the two-year-old with those of a monkey. …
- … ‘must be left the extending & fortifying the principles of Evolution’. After completing his two …
- … book’ on species (published in 1975 under the title Natural selection ), but he gladly turned …
- … rejecting him five times in succession, the Académie des sciences in Paris had finally elected him a …
- … is funny’, he wrote to Huxley on 11 August , ‘the Academy having elected a man as Corr member in …
- … ). When a wealthy businessman tried to commission a Royal Academy sculptor (Henry Pinker) to make a …
- … later made a statue of Darwin for the Oxford Museum of Natural History; he used a photograph, so …
- … portrait-painter George Arthur Gaskell, who suggested that natural selection would be superseded by …
- … of Linum : ‘Mr Meehan in a paper lately read before the Philadelphia Soc. says in a somewhat …
- … to be accurate himself.’ Darwin considered writing to the Philadelphia Society, but instead took up …
- … work in astronomy & mathematics; a third son is devoted to natural science & aids me in my …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray …
- … respect Craig Baxter's right to be identified as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of …
- … to aid public reading. If you want to see the full texts of the letters that have been used here, …
- … There are three actors who predominantly read the words of the following: Actor 1 – Asa Gray …
- … the original text not, necessarily, a pause in the delivery of the line. A forward slash (/) …
- … one of the few who fought manfully for the very citadel of natural theology. JANE GRAY: …
- … tentatively expresses his original and dangerous theory of natural selection to his friend, the …
- … spot where I shall end it. GRAY: [His] doctrine of Natural Selection… was drawn up in the …
- … you cannot imagine how pleased I am that the notion of Natural Selection has acted as a purgative on …
- … ago it occurred to me that – whilst otherwise employed on Natural History – I might perhaps do good …
- … Wallace has developed his own strikingly similar theory of natural selection. Also, Darwin’s infant …
- … if by any chance you have my little sketch of my notions of natural Selection and would see whether …
- … copies of his book ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ and provokes strong …
- … the formation of organs – the making of eyes, etc. – by natural selection. Some of this reads quite …
- … supernatural; that of Darwin, as equally derivative, equally natural. The ordinary view – rendering …
- … most favored by facts will be developed and tested by ‘Natural Selection,’ the weaker ones [will] be …
- … We have had an awful fight at the British Association about [natural selection] – into which I was …
- … Express are most rare. I never saw them … ‘Blood’, a Philadelphia penny-post carrier, is more common …
- … MARCH 1873 3 A GRAY. MEMOIR OF DARWIN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, …
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