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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed …
  • … central court of this remarkable building. Darwin’s statue was the only one that represented a …
  • … this very building that he and Huxley had defended Darwin’s theories from Bishop Wilberforce’s …
  • … calm’ and magnanimity. Tylor thought that Hope Pinker’s ‘speaking likeness’ of Darwin’s face would …
  • … endowed the chair in zoology, formed the core of Oxford’s entomological collections, to which some …
  • … had been added; and Hope himself had been among Darwin’s early coadjutors in entomological study. …
  • … among Oxford biologists: he defended and developed Darwin’s theories, and exemplified them through …
  • … and the Theory of Natural Selection (1896), to Cassell’s popular ‘Century Science’ series, and …
  • … at Oxford, partly funded by the proceeds from Poulton’s book, was a very public affirmation of faith …
  • … identified with his name.’ Others suggested that Darwin’s statue should be paired with that of Isaac …
  • … Institution was rejected by the Darwin family. Darwin’s son William had been deputed to appraise the …
  • … the Natural History Museum statue of Darwin. Hope Pinker’s statue at Oxford is indeed …
  • … explains the effect of inexpressive blankness in Darwin’s cape, which contrasts painfully with his …
  • … Thomas Fowler, noted at the unveiling of Darwin’s statue, the intellectual breadth of his researches …
  • … They believed that investigations of the workings of God’s unitary creation could lead not, as many …
  • … particular experiments and researches, Hope Pinker’s Darwin has none, and this presentation of him …
  • … W. Acland (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1894). Edward B. Poulton’s correspondence with William Flower, …
  • … the Museum’, Jackson’s Oxford Journal , 17 June 1899, p. 8, accessible via Darwin Online, F2169. …

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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  • … 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
  • … on Fisheries [J. Anderson 1785]; nothing June 25. Woodward Shipwreck on Celebes [Woodard 1804 …
  • … Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 [Belon 1555] p 264 Quails at sea with seeds.— See for …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
  • … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • … June 5. Woodwards Rud Treatise on Conchology [S. P. Woodward 1851–6] —— Wollaston on …
  • … to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk …
  • … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860.  Gatherings of a naturalist in   …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 22b ——. 1860.  The woman in white . New York and London …
  • … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et   variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet   …
  • … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
  • … . Vol. 37 in Jardine, William, ed.,  The naturalist’s library . 40 vols. Edinburgh. 1843.  *119: …