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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … paragraphs of Origin , Darwin had predicted that a ‘revolution in natural history’ would result …
- … 1980. Darwinian impacts: an introduction to the Darwinian revolution . Milton Keynes: Open …
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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- … [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French Revolution 3 vols [Smyth 1840] Baber’s …
- … 1837]— marginal notes 20 th Carlyles French Revolution 3 vols [Carlyle 1837] 26 …
- … [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th Thiers French Revolution [Thiers 1838] dull & poor …
- … eds.] 119: 10b ——. 1837. The French revolution: a history. 3 vols. London. [Other eds …
- … 119: 13b ——. 1838. History of the English revolution, from the accession of Charles I …
- … of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688 . A new edition, …
- … George. 1805. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II. …
- … on history. Second and concluding series. On the French revolution . 3 vols. Cambridge. *119: …
- … Louis Adolphe. 1838. The history of the French revolution . Translated by F. Shoberl. 5 vols. …
Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters
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The Darwin Correspondence Project goes to New York! Until 5 August, New York Public Library is hosting an exhibition about Darwin's life and work to celebrate the completion of the Darwin Correspondence Project.
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- … whose ideas and indefatigable research launched a scientific revolution. …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
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- … from a running horse. We witness slavery, political revolution, and epidemic disease, and share the …
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
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- … Utopia’s garden: French natural history from old regime to revolution . Chicago: University of …
Darwiniana – Preface
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—by Asa Gray These papers are now collected at the request of friends and correspondents, who think that they may be useful; and two new essays are added. Most of the articles were written as occasion called for them within the past sixteen years, and…
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- … that volume, which, it was then foreseen, was to initiate a revolution in general scientific opinion …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … this aim was explicit. ‘Biology has undergone a complete revolution by Mr. Darwin’s great work’, he …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … the hypothesis that they were satellites, not thrown off by revolution, like the moons of Jupiter, …
- … hypothesis drawing from the position and times of the revolution of the world, so originated direct …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … at several Jewish schools, he actively took part in the revolution of 1848/49 and later obtained a …
