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Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. …
  • … & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. …
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … ] Von Buchs Travels [Buch 1813]— skimmed Whites Nat. Hist. of Selbourne [G. White
  • notes Mitchells Australia [Mitchell 1838] Walter Scotts life [Lockhart 18378] 1 st
  • 13a] 1843 Feb 20 th . L. Jenyns notes to Whites Selbourn [Jenyns ed. 1843]. Ref
  • be read —— Whites Regular Gradation of Man [C. White 1799] —— The Bee (by Anderson) [ …
  • Crawfords Embassy to Siam [Crawfurd 1828] May. Blanco White. Auto-biography [Blanco y Crespo
  • Vol III & IV [J. Harris 1844] 28 Lockart Life of Walter Scot [Lockhart 18378] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White [Collins 1860] } Hensleigh
  • 1854 Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, Black & White [Pulszky 1853] (moderate) [DAR
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November
  • design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.]  119: 5a
  • 1834Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir   Walter Scott, Bart.  London. [Other eds.]  …
  • 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832A letter in vindication of   the principles of
  • de Physique 94: 1961128: 12 Devereux, Walter Bourchier. 1853Lives and letters of
  • and Colonial Library.) London119: 16b Landor, Walter Savage 18249Imaginary
  • by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter fromJ.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • 13b ——. 18378Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott,   Bart . 7 vols. Edinburgh
  • …   between1811 and 1821In six letters to Sir   Walter Scott, Bart.  4 vols. London.  *119: …
  • of the Kite . London.  *119: 14; 119: 18b Scott, Walter. 1808The life of John Dryden
  • Jessie ed. 1849, and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833. White, Walter. 1855A Londoners walk to Lands

Descent

Summary

There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … ‘New Zealanders’, scribbled down by the civil servant Walter Mantell who noted that in one area ‘ …
  • … 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of ‘ dying a white male pigeon magenta … and seeing …
  • … to us should so much resemble one ’. Darwin saved the letter to show Henrietta . *** ‘ …
  • … enemy into a jelly ’. By the beginning of April 1874 the corrected edition was ready to go …