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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 …
  • … - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds to Darwin’s …
  • … 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 - …
  • … of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, …
  • … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …

List of correspondents

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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,…

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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … (3) Alglave, Émile (8) Alice (2) …
  • … (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, …
  • … (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) Beneden, Édouard …
  • … (2) Blackley, C. H. (8) Blackwall, John …
  • … (1) Gould, John (8) Gower, W. H. (1) …
  • … Vance, R. A. (3) Vaughan Williams, M. S. (2) …

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.

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  • the preparations for the voyage, refers to FitzRoysimmense stock of instruments & books . . . …
  • would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoys own: ‘You are of course welcome to take
  • … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbings charge, and lent to the officers, without
  • Books are to be taken, or returned in morning before ½ past 8. Books are never on any account
  • However, from the  Beagle  correspondence, CDs diary, field notebooks, and the extensive
  • are almost always in ink, usually written with CDs favourite Brahma pens. References to books in
  • examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierres  Paul et Virginie  and to characters in
  • to do so. For example, two references to Felix Azaras works in notes made during 1833 cite
  • have been found (DAR 42: 73) that are taken from Griffiths edition of Cuviers The animal kingdom
  • Dictionnaire  and could only have come from that authors  Exposition   méthodique  (1821). …
  • one might expect many of his references coincide with CDs. However, since FitzRoys account was
  • on board have been searched for such cases. Considering CDs normal practice of citing his sources, …
  • living on shore. It is possible, for example, that Nuñezs book was borrowed from Edward Lumb, the
  • there were probably other works about voyages in FitzRoys collection which he does not mention. …
  • … —  Down House, Downe, Kent *  —  CDs copy contains evidence of use on board the  Beagle
  • frequently cited during the voyage †  —  CDs copy annotated (†† indicates numerous
  • de géognosie , conveys the following information: CDs copy, now in Darwin LibaryCUL, was used on
  • the book on folio 61 (recto) in part 1 of volume 32 of CDs geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the
  • Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beerings   Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831
  • Annales du Muséum dHistoire Naturelle  3 (1834): 84115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow
  • naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 182231. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 1521 January [1833]). Darwin
  • London, 18224. ( Voyage , p. 182Red notebook , p. 86). Darwin LibraryDown †. Byron, …
  • unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoys letter to the South
  • round the world.  London, 1697. ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10;  ‘Beaglediary , p. 407). …
  • 17991804 . . . translated into English by Henrietta Maria Williams.  7 vols. London. 181429. …
  • … *  New Testament  (German). (SignedC. Darwin H.M.S. Beagle’. Copy examined by Sydney Smith  c. …
  • … (DAR 30.1: 30). Darwin LibraryCUL. Thompson, John VaughanZoological researches and