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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…
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- … Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwin’s queries about Expression …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
- … 3715 - Claparède, J. L. R. A. E. to Darwin, [6 September 1862] Claparède acknowledges …
- … March 1863] Darwin secretly passes on Henrietta’s insightful comments on Lyell’s …
- … Jnr. seeks Darwin-family support for Elizabeth Garrett’s candidacy for the position of Professorship …
- … selection for debates about marriage. Since reading Darwin’s work a “flood of questions” have …
- … to as such questions “seem almost out of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8079 - …
- … L., [18 October 1881] Darwin advises his niece’s friend, Mrs Forsyth, on how best to …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those …
- … variety of women had access to, and engaged with, Darwin's published works. A set of letters on …
- … May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over Hooker’s suggestion that his writing style might …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … H. E., [8 February 1870] Darwin seeks Henrietta’s editorial help with chapters three and …
- … got hold of it first. Darwin’s female readership Letter …
- … with which to work. She has transcribed parts of Darwin’s papers, including diagrams, to share with …
- … "epistolary acquaintance" of his, Sara Hennell . Hennell's writings show a " …
- … range of evidence in order to raise questions about Darwin’s conclusions, in particular his …
- … - Barnard, A. to Darwin, [30 March 1871] J. S. Henslow’s daughter, Anne, responds to …
- … The poet Emily Pfeiffer responds critically to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. She has read …
- … selection for debates over marriage. Since reading Darwin’s work a “flood of questions” have …
- … to as such questions “seem almost...out of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8778 …
- … a fight between boatmen, which reminded her of Darwin’s comments on anger and the showing of teeth …
- … Charlotte Pape responds to Darwin and Galton’s works on heredity. She is investigating whether …
- … Insectivorous Plants . Darwin responds to Sophia’s questions and is pleased that his work has …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … from this, the editing of excerpts from Fritz Müller’s letters on climbing plants to make another …
- … to comment on a paper on Verbascum (mullein) by CD’s protégé, John Scott, who was now working in …
- … and, according to Butler, the bishop of Wellington. Darwin’s theory was discussed at an agricultural …
- … significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of Darwin’s and prominent supporter of (though not a …
- … of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. Hooker’s father, died in August. There was also a …
- … letters. The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests …
- … same age as Darwin himself. Falconer had seconded Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the …
- … 12). In early January Falconer had written to Darwin’s brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, to reassure …
- … transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance Darwin’s response to the news of Falconer’s death …
- … influenza, wrote to Darwin at some length about Falconer’s life and death, concluding gloomily: ‘The …
- … 1865 ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by Hooker’s account of Falconer’s last sufferings, responded …
- … in my happiness’. At the end of April, Darwin’s condition worsened to the extent that he felt …
- … getting better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October …
- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
- … on Hooker’s behalf, ‘He asks if you saw the article of M r . Croll in the last Reader on the …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, CD’s ‘Journal’, Appendix I). Wedgwood and Darwin relatives visited Down …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … for building and maintaining such connections. Darwin's networks extended from his family …
- … recalled meeting Darwin three years earlier at Hooker’s. Gray has filled up Darwin’s paper [see …
- … reform, Darwin opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name. Letter 1220 — …
- … relates personal matters. Hooker has received Darwin’s earlier letter [ 1202 ]. He thanks …
- … to Darwin and Lyell for Athenæum . He mentioned Darwin’s work on complemental males in barnacles …
- … Darwin took up a difficult group like barnacles. Darwin’s theories have progressed but Hooker is not …
- … He writes on Himalayan stratigraphy. He believes Hooker’s observations of glacial action are the …
- … impressed with variation. Here we see the effect of Darwin’s species sketch on Hooker’s view of …
- … or inspiring whole research programmes. Darwin’s Mentors This collection of …
- … He talks of being a sort of Protégé of Henslow’s and it is Henslow’s “bounden duty to lecture me”. …
- … Letter 3800 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., [11 Nov 1862] Scottish gardener John Scott notes …
- … Letter 3805 — Darwin, C. R. to Scott, John, 12 Nov [1862] Darwin thanks Scott for bringing …
- … Catherine’s and his own. He also notes that Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will …
Virginia Isitt: Darwin’s secretary?
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In an undated and incomplete draft letter to a “Miss I.”, Emma Darwin appears to be arranging for Miss I. to come to Down for a trial period as a secretary. When the letter first came to light, no one had heard of the mysterious “Miss I.” and, as far as we…
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- … to make fair copies of his manuscripts. His children’s German governess helped with translations, …
- … I dare say R [Richard Buckley Litchfield, Henrietta’s new husband] knows her. . . . We put Miss …
- … Isitt had been both governess to the son of Tennyson’s sister, Emily Jesse, and headmistress at the …
- … the Darwin connection. Additionally, he told us that between 1862 and 1863 Miss Isitt had studied …
- … There is no further mention of Virigina Isitt in Darwin’s correspondence, nor has anything further …
- … how the experiment worked out. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Miss Isitt arrived on 18 September …
- … Scott, but we just don’t know. Possibly Darwin’s intense desire for privacy made the trial …
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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- … du rire. In–8. A. Durand . 3 fr. 117 [Dumont 1862] Goethe. — Œuvres d’histoires …
- … 1854 Jan 15. Seeman’s Narrative of H.M.S. Herald [Seeman 1853]. Feb 6. Wallace …
- … 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 …
- … à Buffon.) Paris. *119: 14v. Dumont, Léon. 1862. Des causes du rire. Paris. *128: …
- … . Vol. 37 in Jardine, William, ed., The naturalist’s library . 40 vols. Edinburgh. 1843. *119: …
- … caractères physiologiques des race humaines considérés dans leur rapports avec l’histoire . …
- … Amazon, including a residence at Pará . (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. *119: 23 …
- … Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, in 1840–1, including an account of …
