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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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  • … of text DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291 Physcial description ALS 5pp † Sends …
  • … J. Place Falklands Scientific information, …

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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  • … | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections …
  • … as Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray, who were at leading scientific institutions and who carried …
  • … structures were largely absent. Darwin had a small circle of scientific friends with whom he shared …
  • … ties could be built gradually through the exchange of scientific knowledge and the free expression …
  • … and vegetable kingdoms, even in hermaphrodites. Information exchange This …
  • … He notes that barnacles are becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences …
  • … Tegetmeier sends some replies to Darwin’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and …
  • … themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but “scientific horticulture”. Letter 4471 — …
  • … of letters provides a window into his interaction with scientific women. Letter 4170 — …
  • … his wife Emma. The letter is a combination of personal and scientific matters. He reports on his …

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…

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  • … work can be viewed as having perfected his understanding of scientific nomenclature, comprising both …
  • … to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, presented before the …
  • … by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and tentatively identified this …
  • … notion of ‘affinity’), a particular application of the data of comparative anatomy, and an archetype …
  • … as a simple logical process, i.e. a means of conveying much information through single words—    …
  • … homological relations became more than simply tools for description. Whereas for many naturalists …
  • … that comparative embryogenesis could be used to yield information about systematic relationships. …
  • … of the Cirripedia, with a different interpretation of the information homology provided. Milne …
  • … (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an introductory section to a description of the metamorphosis of …
  • … it for four years, until he completed the systematic description of the common barnacles (the …
  • … homologies for Darwin’s monograph comes from his description of the organs which served to transform …
  • … section in Fossil Cirripedia (1851), to a detailed description, among other things, of the …
  • … living parts attached. In addition, he provided a thorough description of the anatomical characters …
  • … text is here reprinted in full to illustrate what Darwin’s scientific peers considered to be the …
  • … of these animals, and given a systematic arrangement and description of the different species. In …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … a professional man with official responsibilities in several scientific organisations. During these …
  • … of work. Starting a family Busy as he was with scientific activities, Darwin found …
  • … a working hypothesis he immediately set himself to collect data and to make notes on any lines of …
  • … he called ‘natural selection’. Seventeen more years of data collecting and the fuller development of …
  • … in terms of both energy and time was the publication of the scientific results of the Beagle …
  • … Darwin’s discoveries was therefore eagerly awaited by the scientific community (Rudwick 1982). …
  • … Henslow, William Whewell, and other prominent members of the scientific establishment, he obtained a …
  • … drawing upon his field notes for geological and geographical data and for the descriptions of the …
  • … Lyell wrote to one another are full exchanges of views and information about their geological work, …
  • … problem were carried out mainly by putting questions to scientific colleagues and to anyone else he …
  • … would not have thought of as likely to provide worthwhile scientific conclusions. This was the …
  • … of his transmutation hypothesis and designed to provide data relevant to it or to answer questions …
  • … were directed to correspondents who might be able to supply information on domesticated animals …
  • … his religious position as one that was consistent with his scientific beliefs—a theism in which God …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … with the plan. It would no doubt do if we had proper data to go by, but don’t think we have got that …
  • … worked hard on Darwin’s behalf, sending a steady stream of information on the proportion of the …
  • … at the British Museum in London, supplied extensive data on differences between male and female fish …
  • … in South Africa and John Jenner Weir in London sent more information on male and female butterflies, …
  • … sent a lengthy reply, adding: ‘Should the sort of information which I have sent prove of any service …
  • … had ambitions to make the asylum at Wakefield a centre of scientific research, and toward this end …
  • … classes, and had attracted some interest from members of the scientific community as well. Wallace …
  • … which he viewed as a wholly natural phenomenon, subject to scientific investigation and explanation. …
  • … Detailed discussion of pangenesis had been scarce in scientific literature, and the appearance of …
  • … our hypothesis with all its imperfections’ ( letter to  Scientific Opinion , [before 20 October …
  • … 1869 ).  Darwin was uniformly pleased. ‘I like all scientific periodicals’, he wrote to Hooker, …
  • … New correspondents Yet despite his enthusiasm for scientific journals, Darwin’s most …
  • … own.  Darwin advised and encouraged the younger man in his scientific work, much as he had done with …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … a well-known naturalist and an accepted member of the scientific community. The years …
  • … the species. By 1846, he had also published over twenty-five scientific papers, almost all of them …
  • … much time lost by illness!’ On that same day, he began a description of an interesting barnacle that …
  • … as they grew up, became active participants in Darwin’s scientific work. Even at an early age he …
  • … numerous letters were concerned with this search for data relevant to the species question, though …
  • … for facts and specimens. His most important source of both information and critical discussion of …
  • … any learned journal, despite the omission of much supporting data and sources. The result was the  …

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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  • … co-authored with Ernst Krause, whose essay on Erasmus’s scientific work complemented Darwin’s …
  • … in engaging a critic outside the medium of correspondence or scientific publishing, a critic whom he …
  • … December 1879. His observations differed, however, from the description of germination in the genus …
  • … Gray replied on 3 February , but he affirmed his original description. Darwin was puzzled: ‘If my …
  • … to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But Gray had based his description of Megarrhiza on specimens …
  • … and schoolteacher in California, Volney Rattan, whose description agreed with Darwin’s ( letter …
  • … his final book, Earthworms . ‘My essay will be barely scientific’, he pretended, ‘but the subject …
  • … members and friends of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association were received in the …
  • … existence’ ( Proceedings of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association (1880): 19–20). In …
  • … in early December and signatures were gathered from leading scientific figures. Hooker agreed to …
  • … regular destination for Charles and Emma, and also a site of scientific observation for the Wedgwood …
  • … London. The children returned his support and affection with scientific assistance, editorial advice …

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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  • are prevailing and likely to prevail, more or less, among scientific men, I have thought it
  • completely tired. GRAY: He was seldom seen even at scientific meetings, and never in
  • geographical distributions of plants. The men exchange information, criticism, photographs and
  • work14   You have been so very kind in giving me information of the greatest use to me; that
  • though mortified to find that I can so seldom give you the information you might reasonably expect… …
  • drawing positive conclusions from imperfect or conjectural data, confident that he reads Nature
  • to what I imagine Hooker has been writing and to your own scientific conscience. I presume he has
  • dog! Intrigued, Gray goes fishing for more informationDarwin is wary, concerned he has
  • …   71   [I] consider the transmutation theory a scientific mistake, untrue in facts, unscientific
  • that specieshave no secondary cause.’… Surely the scientific mind of an age which contemplates the
  • disturb the harmony of opinion that ought to prevail among scientific men. 87   [Here, …
  • But if so inclined, I should be very glad to have a little information on any cases of dimorphism, …
  • sooner mended about the war and your  slightly animated! description of John Bulls opinions and
  • surprise. Although he had addressed himself simply to scientific men, and had no thought of arguing

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … It is remarkable as a rare glimpse of one of the most famous scientific voyages of the nineteenth …
  • … a rather unskillful observer who cheerfully stole others’ data and insights, while protected by a …
  • … of Good Hope. The Cocos-Keeling visit was designed to gather information on coral islands as …
  • … Ross was conscious that Darwin was a rising star in the scientific world, and had copies of both the …
  • … (1799-1877) Belcher was, like FitzRoy, one of Beaufort’s scientific naval officers in the extensive …
  • … more than once, but Ross strongly objected to Belcher’s description of Cocos Keeling that was …
  • … Ross held him responsible for sharing surveys and other information too freely with FitzRoy and, …
  • … Anderson, Katharine. “Reading and Writing the Scientific Voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … about science & turns everything into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst …
  • … 1879] ). Darwin, however, continued to focus on the scientific benefits of Francis’s being …
  • … advanced stage. ‘Herbert Spencer says in his new book ‘Data of Ethics’, that the ever present idea …
  • … surprising because Darwin and Farrer had corresponded on scientific topics since 1868 and after …
  • … various honours in the form of diplomas and fellowships from scientific institutions around the …
  • … disciple’. Other correspondents, many of whom were not scientific investigators, also claimed to be …
  • … to be troubled about the differences between ecclesiastics & scientific men’, Darwin wrote in …
  • … nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious …
  • … but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.’ …
  • … worth defending his views from attacks that were not made on scientific grounds. Evidently concerned …
  • … some faint praise, condemned Guthrie’s work as ‘a pseudo-scientific criticism of a pseudo-scientific
  • … long letter of 13 December that although Spencer was not a scientific discoverer, and his physical …
  • … to accept evolution, ‘long before there could be any scientific knowledge of the  modus operandi …
  • … felt’. This, Moulton believed, was work that ‘true scientific discoverers’ always refused to do …
  • … Support for evolutionists Throughout the year, scientific scholars and acquaintances …
  • … 6 June [1879] ). In addition, after receiving Müller’s description and photograph of a new species …
  • … Darwin confessed, ‘For many years I have quite doubted his scientific judgment, though admiring …
  • … could help to place ‘the practice of Agriculture upon Scientific principles’ and prevent ‘Cattle …
  • … Although Farrer was willing to help and passed information to Lord Sandon, minister for the Board of …
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