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Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … Charles, who was only sixteen and had not found his years at Shrewsbury School very enjoyable or …
- … on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations …
- … he meant that the list began when he returned to his studies at the beginning of 1826. The position …
- … and then added all the books he had read since starting at Edinburgh in 1825. Some of the …
- … in 1759, and in 1760 the University of Edinburgh created a professorship of rhetoric for him, the …
- … written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) died aged 21 while a student at Cambridge: his verse became popular …
- … have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a …
- … 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: …
- … by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … who had emigrated to Britain and who eventually obtained a professorship at Oxford. In a series of …
- … evolve gradually, or did it emerge rapidly or even all at once in some now extinct progenitor of the …
- … 1861. Lectures on the science of language delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in …
- … theory. In Open fields: science in cultural encounter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 95-114. …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … for Elizabeth Garrett’s candidacy for the position of Professorship of physiology at Bedford College …
- … their walk they had stumbled across Prof. Rollerston from Oxford with whom she spent “an interesting …
