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From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

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  • … an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241]. Fauna horse, English …
  • … scientific description breeding behaviour descent fauna humanity humanity …

6430_10256

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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1   25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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  • … , vol. 4. Fauna reindeer Name …
  • … Scientific physical ‘external’ characters fauna geographical distribution structural …

Leonard Jenyns

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When Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage there was no-one available to describe the fish that he had collected. At Darwin’s request Jenyns, a friend from Cambridge days, took on the challenge. It was not an easy one: at that time Jenyns had only worked…

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  • … When Captain FitzRoy approached his friend George Peacock, then a Fellow of Trinity College, to …

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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  • … about castes [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
  • … read Temminck has written Coup d’œil sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck …
  • … voyage to Senegal [Adanson 1759] Richardson. Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37]— all Vols …
  • … Cover of Suites a Buffon.— Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— …
  • … & the Loch [Colquhoun 1840] Jan 29 th  Richardson Fauna Americana [J. Richardson 1829 …
  • … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
  • … ] Vol I. 1814 nothing (Royal Soc.) Aug. 2 d . Lows Fauna orcadensis 1813 [G. Low 1813]. …
  • … 1657 Pigeons & Fowls [Jonstonus 1657] —— Linnæus Fauna Suecica [Linnaeus 1746] d[itt]o …
  • … 119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853.  A flora and fauna within living   animals.  Washington. …
  • … 23; 119: 22b Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). 1746.  Fauna Suecica . Stockholm. [Other eds.]  …
  • … of twenty years … with some account of the   northern fauna.  2 vols. London. [Abstract in DAR 71 …
  • … [Darwin Library.]  119: 16a Low, George. 1813.  Fauna Orcadensis; or, the natural   …
  • … 119: 21a Richardson, John. 1829–37.  Fauna Boreali-Americana; or   the zoology of   …
  • … Siebold, Philipp Franz Balthasar von. 1833–50.  Fauna   Japonica . 6 vols. in 4. (Vol. 3:  …
  • … du Japon . In Siebold, Phillip Franz Balthasar von,  Fauna Japonica . 6 vols. in 4. Leyden. 1833 …

New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … inhabitants of the same or some other quarter, the eocene fauna or flora would certainly be beaten …

Biogeography

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…

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  • … different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most vivid experiences …

Essay: What is Darwinism?

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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…

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  • … He set before himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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  • … visiting scientists from all nations could study marine fauna at first hand, enjoy optimal …

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…

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  • … of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. This extensive …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his sister …

The Letters

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Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…

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  • … and naturalists, who provided him with observations on the fauna, flora, and peoples of the world. …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … the Glacial period of a pleistocene equatorial flora and fauna, fitted for a hotter climate than any …
  • … But Mr. Bates, who has studied with such care the insect-fauna of the Guiano-Amazonian region, has …
  • … during the Glacial period of a pleistocene equatorial fauna adapted for greater heat than any now …

A tale of two bees

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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…

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  • … insect & I wish M r . Wilson would leave the Australian fauna alone.’  No doubt many …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • … supply Darwin with much information about the rich flora and fauna of the country. Fritz had been …

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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  • … species. The general fact, however, that the fossil fauna of each period as a whole is nearly …

Essay: Natural selection & natural theology

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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…

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  • … of examination, to reconstruct in a catalogue the flora and fauna of our day, that is, from the …
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