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Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … | Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than …
- … and the construction of theory. Darwin was not simply a gentleman naturalist and broad theorist. He …
- … laboratory methods and equipment. Darwin used letters as a speculative space, trying out theories …
- … and Detail Darwin is usually thought of as a gentleman naturalist and a scientific …
- … [ Living Cirripedia , vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it, …
- … in domestic settings. Darwin used his house and garden as a site of experiment, often studying …
- … This collection of letters between Darwin and a variety of correspondents shows his perspective on …
- … R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. He says invertebrate marine …
- … J. D., [6 Nov 1846] Darwin tells Hooker, if he pays him a visit, to bring some work and if he …
- … to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Letter 1167 — …
- … Darwin ends by suggesting that if Henslow is starting off a young naturalist with tools, he …
- … In this collection of letters, Darwin corresponds with a variety of people to secure specimens and …
- … 1262 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, [29–30 Oct 1849] Darwin thanks Hancock for specimens …
- … with “one so rich from one locality”. This one contains a new species of genus which, to Darwin’s …
- … in the world. Letter 1251 — Darwin, C. R. to Gould, A. A., 20 Aug [1849] Darwin …
- … Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 Hooker sends Darwin “a yarn about …
- … Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 12 Oct 1849 Darwin writes to Hooker about his …
- … plan for barnacle work over his theoretical species work had a great influence on him deciding on …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic …
- … and dated in the image, bottom right, ‘T.H. Maguire, 1849’. date of creation 1849 …
- … ‘Our weekly gossip’, Athenaeum , no. 1141 (8 Sept. 1849), pp. 913–914. ‘Review. Portraits of …
- … Secretary’, Gardeners’ Chronicle , 42 (20 October 1849), pp. 662–663. Letters from Darwin 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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- … Lib. Geological Society (read) Goulds Kangaroos [Gould 1841–2]— Birds of Himalaya [Gould 1834 …
- … Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] & Chantry [G. Jones 1849]. Grote’s History of Greece …
- … Universelle ou traité des Cepages Comte Odart 1849” [Odart 1849] read very good . Rivers …
- … Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray [C. W. G. Saint-John 1849] (read) Knox. Ornithological …
- … on Pop. praised by Daily News. by M r Hicks [Hickson 1849] Published separately Taylor & …
- … J. Ross. Voyage Antarctic Voyage [Ross 1847]. Oct 5. Gould Introduct. to Birds of Australia …
- … Visit to America [Lyell 1849] July 20. Agassiz & Gould Principles of Zoology Vol I. …
- … eds.] 119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838. A treatise on sheep; with the best means …
- … ——. 1840. An encyclopædia of rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical, …
- … 1844. Algeria, past and present. Containing a description of the country … with a review of …
- … Artaud. 2 vols. Metz. 128: 24 ——. 1807. A short system of comparative anatomy . …
- … 1794–6. Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds . 2 …
- … 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … Including a journal of a tour to the Hebrides . A new …
- … eds.] 119: 13a Boutcher, William. 1775. A treatise on forest trees . Edinburgh. 119: …
