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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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- … pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the …
- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
- … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
- … from Parent to offspring of some Forms of Disease. 1851 [Whitehead 1851]. Packard. A Guide to …
- … [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— Southeys Life of Wesley [R. …
- … Humboldt 1849]. Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China …
- … Macleay’s Hora Entomologica [Macleay 1819–21] Ray’s Wisdom of God [Ray 1692].— Reference at …
- … or Geograph. Distrib:” [Gérard 1844–5] Dec. 10 Ray. Society. Vol I. Reports [Ray Society 1845 …
- … [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. [Ray Society 1846] Nov. 12. Mem. of …
- … th . Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] May 5. Ray’s Memorials of [Ray 1846] —— …
- … ]; skimmed. 24 th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] Physio …
- … Steenstrup on Hermaphroditismus [Steenstrup 1846]. 1851. Jan. 6 th . Pickering Races …
- … 1850].— April 5 Manual of Geology Lyell [Lyell 1851] —— 30 Annales des Sc. Phys. de …
- … nothing July 16 th Dixon. Pigeons [E. S. Dixon 1851].— Dec. 26. Count Odart’s …
- … Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR 119: 23b] 1851 Jan 27. M. Martineau. …
- … 1844]. good London Labour & London Poor [Mayhew 1851].— Missionary Life in Canada …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society of London for his contributions to …
- … to Darwin and to his contemporaries. Throughout 1851, Darwin concentrated on the pedunculated …
- … and plates and settling publication details with the Ray Society for Living Cirripedia (1851) …
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again published by the Ray Society and the Palaeontographical …
- … developed into a valued friendship. London scientific society As letters in this …
- … as revealed in a series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and …
- … He also offered his work to the recently established Ray Society (minutes of council meeting, 4 …
- … Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray Society to publish his work on both living and …
- … Scott Bowerbank, who had founded the Palaeontographical Society in 1847. ‘With respect to …
- … would have to be restricted to British species since the society’s brief was to publish work on …
- … cirripedes volume was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the …
- … made to the plates, but even close to publication in early 1851, Darwin told Sowerby, ‘ I like the …
- … books. ’ When the first fossil monograph appeared in June 1851, it was the third part of volume 5 …
- … of Balanus. ’ A month later, told Edwin Lankester of the Ray Society that his manuscript on living …
- … with the volumes on living cirripedes, destined for the Ray Society, were just beginning. New …
- … and range to a separate section in the volumes of the Ray Society. He also worried about the …
- … of the living species; having finished writing in July 1851 , he corrected proof-sheets from …
- … the first volume of Living Cirripedia bears the date 1851, it did not appear until January …
- … summer of 1853 was only sent in manuscript form to the Ray Society at the beginning of 1854 , …
- … part of the eighth volume produced by the Palaeontographical Society; the monograph itself was …
- … correspondence, but he wrote to the Palaeontographical Society in February 1854 and the society …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … against the blackballing of a young zoologist, Edwin Ray Lankester, who was up for election to the …
- … Mivart was a distinguished zoologist, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a secretary of …
- … respecting codes of conduct and communication in scientific society. Huxley chose journalism, …
- … was hampered by his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart in public. …
- … the chance arose. On 28 January , he sent a note on Royal Society business to Edward Burnett …
- … getting more precise details about an operation performed in 1851 on her sister. He had described …
- … had been opened in the village, and a local temperance society had been established by a Down …
- … 15 July [1875] ). Such visitors from the upper ranks of society could be especially taxing. As Emma …
- … paper in October and asked Darwin to submit it to the Royal Society on his behalf. Darwin …
- … had to break the news to the author in 1876 that his Royal Society ambitions had been frustrated. …
- … he showed surprising vigour in taking up the cause of Edwin Ray Lankester, who had been blackballed …
- … in 1875, Lankester had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and had been appointed professor …
- … Hooker, who attributed it to political squabbles within the society, especially among botanists who …
- … Darwin spent the next weeks canvassing members of the society to support Lankester at the next …
- … Buckley. Lyell had helped to introduce Darwin to scientific society in London, and offered much …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … confusing sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851 …
- … dioecious plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at …
- … he justified in a lengthy footnote (Living Cirripedia (1851): 293 n.). The problem that bothered …
- … Down Coal Club and helping to establish the Down Friendly Society for which he also acted as …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray Lankester was blackballed at the …
- … scientific reputation, but also to save the Linnean Society from the ‘utter disgrace’ of …
- … school at Cambridge University. The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by …
- … what action to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write …
- … on leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin because he …
- … ). Darwin recognised scientific skill in all levels of society. He not only offered to propose the …
- … Francis Maitland Balfour, for fellowship of the Royal Society, but also signed a petition for a …
- … Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. The decision by the Royal Society of London to reject a paper by …
- … left Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the …
- … April [1876] ). Darwin could not have been surprised by the society’s decision. He already knew …
- … last for my life’, he told George Stokes, secretary of the society, on 21 April, confessing, ‘as I …
- … of George’s work but intended to present it to the Royal Society. He was pleased that Horace was off …
- … his oldest daughter Annie, who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at …
