Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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Institute of Astronomy Library, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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Balfour Library, University of Cambridge. NOW: CUL MS Add.9839/1D/53–65
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Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, England
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Darwin Archive, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Ruth Cramond and David Cramond (private collection) NOW: Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252)
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Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Harvard University, Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Balfour, F. M. (1851–82)
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Historical register of the University of Cambridge: The historical register of the University of Cambridge, being a supplement to the Calendar with a record of university offices, honours, and distinctions to the year 1910. Edited by J. R. Tanner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1917.
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Brooke, Christopher N. L. 1993. A history of the University of Cambridge, 1870–1990. Vol. 4 of A history of the University of Cambridge, general editor Christopher N. L. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Clark, John Willis. 1904. Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
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Brooke, Christopher N. L., ed. 1988–2004. A history of the University of Cambridge. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Porter, James (1827–1900)
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Goodacre, F. B. (1829–85)
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Evolution in Commentary
Divergence
Summary
In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…
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- … In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin , …
Abstract of Darwin’s theory
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There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…
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- … There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … When I was in spirits I sometimes fancied that my book w d be successful; but I never even …
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
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Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … This term is the plain expression of the facts,—Nat. selection is a metaphorical …
