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Suggested reading

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  Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…

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  • … ,  (London, 1912). Hooker, J. D.,  On the flora of Australia: Its origin, affinities and …
  • … Schteir, A. B.,  Cultivating women, cultivating science: Flora’s daughters and botany in England, …

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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  • … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
  • …  Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
  • …   of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
  • … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
  • … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
  • … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th  Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
  • … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
  • … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
  • … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
  • … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
  • … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
  • … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
  • … Primitiæ floræ   sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel   Islands of Jersey, …
  • … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln.  Annalen der Wien …
  • … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed.,  Select …
  • … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69.  Flora Sibirica sive   historia plantarum …
  • … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7.  Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of  The botany of the …
  • … Library.]  128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817.  Flora Anomoia. A general view of   the …
  • … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen.  Flora  31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8.  *128: 177 …
  • … London.  119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853.  A flora and fauna within living   animals. …
  • … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803.  Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris.  *119: …
  • … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
  • … natural history of the Himalayan   mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
  • … and physick. To   which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.]  119: 11a …
  • … . London.  128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784.  Flora Japonica . Lipsiae.  *119: 6v. …
  • … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43.  A flora of North   America: containing   …
  • …  Zurich.  *128: 169 ——. 1824–6.  Flora Suecica . Upsalla.  *128: 169 Walker, …
  • … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825.  Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena.  *119: 7v …

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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  • … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s  On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I have …
  • … and hearty admiration. [Your paper on the Statistics of the flora of the northern United States] …
  • … and flatter myself I now appreciate the character of your Flora… One of your conclusions makes me …
  • … I presume he has been urging you to finish your great Flora, before you do anything else. Now, I …
  • … GRINDING AWAY: 1888 In which Gray grinds away at his Flora before suffering a stroke and …
  • … 212   My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] ‘Flora’ but, like the mills of the gods, I grind slowly, …

2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal

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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…

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  • … and autodidact, with a special interest in mosses; his Flora of Warwickshire (1891) was based on …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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  • … Darwin’s forthcoming book and Hooker’s essay on the flora of Australia, which formed the …
  • … and theories of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Wallace.' The flora of Australia, Hooker stated, …

Marianne North

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Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…

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  • … home and began travelling with the aim of painting the flora of different countries. Between 1871 …
  • … in 1881, to show the Darwins her paintings of Australian flora. Back in England she approached Kew …

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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  • … Volcanic islands and sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general, …
  • … facts on variation and questions Gray on the alpine flora of the USA. He sends a list of plants from …
  • … ]. He discusses the distribution and relationships of alpine flora in the USA. Letter …

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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  • … himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? . . . …

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

ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks

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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802   Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …

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  • … from the area.  He published several editions of a flora of his county; he also served as a United …
  • … specimen exchanges.  Once Darlington had published his flora, he had a book to send his …

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

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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  • … before the Glacial period of a pleistocene equatorial flora and fauna, fitted for a hotter climate …
  • … and reduced in number, will then have formed the equatorial flora. There will also probably have …

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

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

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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  • … 1859, Dr. Hooker published his Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora: in the first part of this …
  • … of the same or some other quarter, the eocene fauna or flora would certainly be beaten and …

1.11 Laura Russell, oil

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< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…

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  • … 1869, when Laura was eight months pregnant with her daughter Flora. They visited Down House several …

Search tips

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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…

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  • … care.  We have manually coded some group identifiers (“flora” eg),  index terms such as people, …

Before Origin: the ‘big book’

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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…

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  • … work. When Darwin had read the introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • … to Hooker. Indeed, when Hooker was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he …
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