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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 8 hits
- … Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds to Darwin’s …
- … wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression …
- … similar observations for him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. to Darwin, …
- … and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - …
- … passes on brief observations of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - …
- … wife of naturalist John Lubbock, responds to Darwin’s request that she make observations of her pet …
- … of orchids made by his son, George. He details George’s findings and celebrates his son’s …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 26 hits
- … the preparations for the voyage, refers to FitzRoy’s ‘immense stock of instruments & books . . . …
- … would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course welcome to take …
- … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbing’s charge, and lent to the officers, without …
- … However, from the Beagle correspondence, CD’s diary, field notebooks, and the extensive …
- … are almost always in ink, usually written with CD’s favourite Brahma pens. References to books in …
- … examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Paul et Virginie and to characters in …
- … to do so. For example, two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite …
- … have been found (DAR 42: 73) that are taken from Griffith’s edition of Cuvier’s The animal kingdom …
- … Dictionnaire and could only have come from that author’s Exposition méthodique (1821). …
- … one might expect many of his references coincide with CD’s. However, since FitzRoy’s account was …
- … on board have been searched for such cases. Considering CD’s normal practice of citing his sources, …
- … living on shore. It is possible, for example, that Nuñez’s book was borrowed from Edward Lumb, the …
- … there were probably other works about voyages in FitzRoy’s collection which he does not mention. …
- … — Down House, Downe, Kent * — CD’s copy contains evidence of use on board the Beagle …
- … frequently cited during the voyage † — CD’s copy annotated (†† indicates numerous …
- … de géognosie , conveys the following information: CD’s copy, now in Darwin Libary–CUL, was used on …
- … the book on folio 61 (recto) in part 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the …
- … Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831 …
- … 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * Boitard, …
- … naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin …
- … meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and letter from J …
- … Containing a faithful narrative of the loss of his Majesty’s ship the Wager , etc. London, 1743. …
- … †. Byron, George Anson, 7th Baron. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in …
- … 1799–1804 . . . translated into English by Henrietta Maria Williams. 7 vols. London. 1814–29. …
- … * New Testament (German). (Signed ‘C. Darwin H.M.S. Beagle’. Copy examined by Sydney Smith c. …
- … (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin Library–CUL. Thompson, John Vaughan. Zoological researches and …