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Interview with John Hedley Brooke

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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…

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  • John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as …
  • … religion. My name is Paul White and with me here today is John Hedley Brooke, who has written a very …
  • … religion at Oxford? and it’s very nice to have you here, John. Thank you for coming. Prof. …
  • … Darwin’s close scientific colleague and friend, Alfred Russell Wallace becomes interested, and …
  • … It’s striking, I think, that scientists like Charles Lyell , for example, felt, also, that there …
  • … how individuals react. In Belfast, for example, in 1874, John Tyndall , [a] well-known physicist, …
  • … were leading Anglican reformers and liberal theologians ? Charles Kingsley was one, …
  • … to the fear displayed by monkeys. He writes about this in a letter in 1881 to William Graham : …
  • … heart, here, of some very sensitive issues between Emma and Charles himself. You ask, were …
  • … press one’s heterodoxy onto others. And you refer to a letter from Joseph Hooker to Darwin in 1865 …
  • … your own power & usefulness. And then he refers George to Lyell, of whom he says, Lyell is …
  • … natural philosophers like Robert Boyle, for example ? even John Locke ? could not be demonstrative …
  • … Well, that’s a very nice way to end. Thanks so much, John. Prof. Brooke: Well, it’s been …

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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  • by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil [Wied
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read) Berkeleys Works
  • The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • 1844] L d  Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • round world 18036 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyells Elements of Geology [Lyell 1838] …
  • J 57  Brownes Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyells Book III 5th Edit 58  [Lyell 1837] …
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • Buffon [Milne-Edwards 183440]. March 5 th  St. Johns Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores life by Lord J. Russell [T. Moore 18536] [DAR 128: …
  • … (detestable) Nov. 27 th . Moores Life by Lord J. Russell [T. Moore 18536] Vol VI
  • 1859]. (goodish) 1  The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • Erskine. 2 vols. London.  *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839Primitiæ floræ   …
  • of Useful Knowledge.) London.  *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845Insect life . …
  • … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806Essays on the anatomy of
  • of the London Clay . London.  *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852Hungary in 1851: …
  • life from 1838 to the present   time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London128: 9
  • …  [Paris]. [Other eds.]  119: 19a Hind, John Russell. [1852].  The solar system: a   …

Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted …
  • … and these can be accessed online by searching for a letter and clicking on the translation tab on …
  • … 7 V Death of Charles Waring Darwin 7 VI …
  • … 8 V Patrick Matthew's letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • … Letters between Thomas Francis Jamieson and Charles Lyell on the geology of Glen Roy, Scotland …
  • … 10 IX Diplomas presented to Charles Darwin   …
  • … 11 V Donald Beaton’s responses to Charles Darwin’s letters to the Journal of …
  • … 17 V Portrait of Charles Darwin by Laura Russell …
  • … 25 VI German poems presented to Charles Darwin in February 1877 …