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Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … , in Cambridge or London kept you away— I know when a Beetle is in the case every other paltry …
- … dont you—it is fit for vulgar souls —not Beetle Hunters —and Paint brush Drivers !!! ’ …
- … 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), referring to Darwin as a Beetle Hunter and herself as a Paint …
- … in taking out an instrument of death for a Beetle’ he ‘ would have called to mind the …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
4.1 Albert Way, comic drawings
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< Back to Introduction The earliest identifiable comic drawings of Darwin are these pen sketches by his Cambridge undergraduate friend Albert Way of Trinity College, which must date from c. 1828-30. They refer to his passion for beetle-collecting – a…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … & happy: & if he is a Naturalist and has the “Diamond Beetle”, ave Maria; I do not know what …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … 3 April by Henry Doubleday that contained a deathwatch beetle: ‘I held a tapping conversation with …
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … it in the sense? He’s classifying it as he might a beetle that he dissects, but at the same time all …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he cannot identify. He is …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … together, and had shared an enthusiasm for hunting and beetle collecting. Fox had become a country …
