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John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin039;s most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection …
- … 1859, the year of the publication of Origin . Darwin’s son Francis described how his father filed …
- … at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his …
- … John Murray, to open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray …
- … ( Letters 857 , 875 ). It was published in Murray’s Home and Colonial Library in three monthly …
- … have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
- … of scientific enquiry prepared for the use of Her Majesty’s Navy: and adapted for travellers in …
- … & make the poor workman some present’ (12 June [1849] Letter 1245 ). Darwin’s next …
- … his ‘big species book’; on 18 June 1858, he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace with the …
- … was driven by natural selection. In order to ensure Darwin’s priority, his friends Charles Lyell and …
- … asked Lyell to act as his intermediary with John Murray ( Letter 2437 ), who, without even reading …
- … not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a retail …
- … proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all Murray’s …
- … – and a second edition was immediately called for ( Letter 2549 ). In the end Murray paid Darwin …
- … Subsequently Darwin commissioned a translation from William Dallas, who prepared the indexes for …
- … ‘it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’ (11 April 1877 Letter …
- … decided to have this translated into English by William Dallas and published with an introduction of …
- … profits ( Letter 12219 ), and the book was published in 1879. The following year Darwin …
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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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- … [Dampier 1697] Sportsman’s repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains much on dogs …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … 9 CD did not follow his own advice. In 1879, he stated that he had unbounded respect for …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 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: …