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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … joining state institutions and universities, or national and colonial authorities. In the nineteenth …
- … about Darwin. Peacock offered the Beagle naturalist appointment first to Leonard Jenyns, who …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … and suggesting the diffculty of observing emotions in a colonial setting. ‘I have got quite into the …
- … … in combating the idea of “Creation”’, and whose appointment as the association’s president …
- … still held the offce of vicar and was responsible for the appointment of the local curate. On 15 …
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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- … company at 32 Fleet Street, London, was “bookseller by appointment to the Royal College of Surgeons. …
- … including a residence at Pará . (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. *119: 23, 24; 128: …
- … German and French by Lady Duff Gordon. (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. 119: 16b …
- … Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere]. (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. *119: 24; 119: 23b …
- … [Spence, Catherine Ellen]. 1856. Tender and true. A colonial tale . 2 vols. London. 128: 21 …
- … Translated from the German. (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. 119: 22b …
- … von Ense by Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. 119: 18b …
