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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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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- … men of scientific eminence, such as Charles Lyell and Henri Milne-Edwards, for the Copley Medal and …
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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- … . 2d ed. London. *119: 4v. Beyle, Marie Henri. 1817. The life of Haydn … Followed by …
- … . Montpellier. *119: 9v. Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis. 1764. The elements of …
- … 205.3: 55–7.] 119: 1a Dutrochet, René Joachim Henri. 1837. Mémoires pour servir à l …
- … 1842. Botanique . In Jussieu, Adrien de, Milne-Edwards, Henri, and Beudant, F. S., eds., Cours …
- … in Darwin Library.] *119: 7v.; 119: 11a Lecoq, Henri. 1845. De la fécondation naturelle …
- … Empire . 3 vols. London. 119: 9b Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1834–40. Histoire naturelle des …
- … *119: 22v.; 119: 22a [Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernadin de]. 1773. Voyage à l’Isle …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 1a [Saint-Simon, Maximilien Henri, Marquess de]. 1768. Des …
- … London. *128:154 Tocqueville, Charles Alexis Henri Maurice, Clérel de. 1835–40. …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … prompting an extended debate. The nomination was made by Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de …
