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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
- … Dwight Dana, Henri Milne-Edwards, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg—undertook a taxonomic study of …
- … such questions as yours,—whether number of species &c &c should enter as an element in …
- … from common stocks— In this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of those …
- … noted all the major topics discussed by Milne-Edwards (DAR 72: 117). In his commentary, Darwin …
- … help illustrate particular points: p 77. remarks on the difficulty caused by …
- … & so no wonder little accordance with Geolog. History. (B) p 77. considers Ornithorhyncus as …
- … this discussion, leave out the term higher & lower.— (DAR 72: 117–19v.) When …
- … metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c states that in Crust, antennæ & …
- … assumed their forms, when the legs begin to appear. (DAR 72: 123 and v.) Darwin’s own …
- … class between the Crustacea and the Annelida (R. Owen 1855).^7^ Darwin, however, with his particular …
- … of parts in related organisms, the loss of useless organs (e.g., the abdominal segments and the …
- … genera of Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 286–7), which he later supplemented with …
- … was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
- … (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
- … Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
- … latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
- … and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
- … spirits Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
- … ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
- … has remained unique. (The editors thank Drs R. W. Ingle and G. Boxshall of the British Museum …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … Fossil Mammalia , by Richard Owen; Mammalia , by G. R. Waterhouse; Birds , by John Gould; …
- … of publications. The beetles were described by F. W. Hope, G. R. Waterhouse, and C. C. Babington; …
- … classification (see Henslow 1837a and 1838; W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. …
- … letters have suffered an even more severe loss. In a letter to Lyell’s sister-in-law, Katharine …
- … of fact . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] …
- … that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had called the ‘mystery …
- … about searching for evidence to support his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838 …
- … all crosses between all domestic birds & animals dogs, cats &c &c very valuable—' …
- … on literature in this field and on friends like Henslow, T. C. Eyton, and W. D. Fox, who were …
- … on the practice of systematists. As the correspondence with G. R. Waterhouse during the 1840s shows, …
- … just the same, though I know what I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July …
- … there were no doubts as to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [ c. February 1839] …
- … for several months (See Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , …
- … notebook). See also Allan 1977, pp. 128–30). The letter, on ‘Double flowers’ to the …
- … relation of fossil with recent. the fabric falls!' (Notebook C : 76–7). …
