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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
  • in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London 1839) has been heavily marked, and quite a
  • Pierquin, published in Paris (in 2 vols.), so long ago as 1839 4  [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. …
  • 181429] D r  Royle on Himmalaya types [Royle 1839] (read) Smellie Philosophy of
  • 12  by Owen in Encyclop. of Anat. & Physiology [R. Owen 1839] Dampier probably worth
  • on subjects of science connected with Nat. Theol: [Brougham 1839] on instinct & animal
  • 1808] Brit. & Foreign Medical Rev. N o  14. Ap 1839 [Anon. 1839b] Rev. on Walker on
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith 1793] …
  • Reptiles [Duméril and Bibron 183454]: Crustacea Milne Edwards [Milne-Edwards 183440]: In Portfolio
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … [Catlin 1841] Edwardes. Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847].— Cunningham Life of
  • Huntsmans life [Cumming 1850] Edwards Voyage up Amazon [W. H. Edwards 1847] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the
  • correspondence that Darwin undertook throughout his lifetime. His close friend and botanist  Joseph
  • It is a Daguerreotypea process invented in France in 1839 by Louise Jacque Mandé Daguerre and
  • to the copy he had sent five years previously in his 1860 letter to Hooker , Darwin exclaimed
  • In 1867, he was approached by a photographer named Ernest Edwards, who is now primarily known for
  • London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Ernest Edwards, NPG x5939, © National
  • gaze. These photographs were rarely included in a Darwin letter, save for perhaps a very few close
  • probably continued to send the  cartes  made by Ernest Edwards. Image: Charles Darwin, …
  • taken for public consumption. Responding to  a letter from a German translatorAdolph
  • can be procured at Messrs Elliot & Fry, or Messrs Edwards & Bult both residing in Baker St
  • which you do me the honour to wish to possess.” As the letter and photograph had to travel from Down
  • a new photograph of Darwinprobably one of the Ernest Edwards portraitsthatI was not a
  • News  used various earlier portraits, including the Ernest Edwards  cartes from 17 years earlier. …