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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) …
- … information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading notebooks (Vorzimmer 1977) …
- … they were written. The reader should keep in mind that many of the comments about the works were …
- … Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of …
- … Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119: 1] …
- … on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord Brougham Dissert. …
- … Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the Royal Society of …
- … [ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ]. Zoolog. Soc. [DAR *119: 12v …
- … 2”12.6. [Maclise 1847] good for woodcuts. (Roy. Coll. of Surgeons) M.M Turpin & Poiteau …
- … Paper [ Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society ]. 1 st to 8 th vol. …
- … 18 th . 7 th & 8 th . Vol of Hume’s England [Hume 1763]— Admirable —— Skimmed Sir. …
- … [Belsham 1806] & one of D r . Cootes History of England from Ann to G. IV [Coote 1819]. …
- … Prof. Benddz [Bendz 1850]— Plates very expensive Coll. of Surgeons? M r Highley. 88 1852 …
- … and Gliddon 1854] (read) A Lecture by Owen before College of Surgeons on Mankind [R. Owen …
- … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
- … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
- … London, was “bookseller by appointment to the Royal College of Surgeons.” His catalogue of …
- … Lectures on surgical pathology, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England . 2 vols. …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
- … ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
- … with the challenges presented by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, …
- … Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s Evidence as to man …
- … vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
- … was commonly accepted was based on recent discoveries in England and France of primitive stone tools …
- … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer …
- … the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England Darwin was also …
- … the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England.’ He added that Bates had ‘spoken …
- … real downright believers in modification of Species in all England … who dare speak out’ ( letter …
- … included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
- … in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of the Royal Society voted instead for the …
- … failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
- … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of Origin , that in order …
- … the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
- … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 ). In England, Darwin asked Philip Henry …
- … and Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
- … that a note of Gray’s sounded ‘very savage against England’ ( see letter to Asa Gray, 20 April …
- … to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …
