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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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- … (read) Goulds Kangaroos [Gould 1841–2]— Birds of Himalaya [Gould 1834] (& of Europe?) …
- … 1824] 23 d Moorcraft & Trebeck’s travels in Himalaya [Moorcroft and Trebeck 1841] …
- … [Müller 1837] 20 th Royle Illust. of Botany of Himalaya [Royle 1839]. 23 d . …
- … Gerard, Alexander. 1841. Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya , etc. Edited by G. Lloyd. …
- … 19v. ——. 1834. A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains . London. *119: 19v. …
- … of a journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo Pass in the Himalaya Mountains, via Gwalior, Agra …
- … die Verbreitung der Vegetation in den grössten Höhen des Himalaya und in Hoch-Peru. Archiv für …
- … 119: 13b Thomson, Thomas. 1852. Western Himalaya and Tibet; a narrative of a journey …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … access to Tibet and previously closed areas of the Sikkim Himalaya. In the midst of all this …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … having recently completed an expedition through the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. Letter …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … India, as I hear from Dr. Falconer, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya, which have been imported from …
