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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Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England
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Darwin Archive, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England
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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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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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- … and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. ODNB : Oxford …
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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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- … and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. …
- … and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. 21,23,26,27,28,30 …
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Life sciences in Commentary
Biodiversity and its histories
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…
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Getting to know Darwin's science
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One of the most exciting aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the opportunity it gives to researchers to ‘get to know’ Darwin as an individual. The letters not only reveal the scientific processes behind Darwin’s publications, they give insight…
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Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; at least I cd. not …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … Earthworms featured in the news announcement in May 2014 that a citizen science project had …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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Insectivorous plants
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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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- … Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, …
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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Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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