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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. …
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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- … the University of Cambridge. These works, catalogued by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library …
- … Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory S t …
- … 1822] Falconers remark on the influence of climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v. …
- … [Dampier 1697] Sportsman’s repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains much on dogs …
- … Read M r Bennetts & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— notes to White Nat. Hist of …
- … [DAR *119: 8v.] A history of British Birds by W. Macgillivray [W. Macgillivray 1837–52].— I …
- … The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824] at Maer? W. F. …
- … [Royle 1840] Bennets. Whaling Voyage [F. D. Bennett 1840] [DAR *119: 13] …
- … (nothing) Ray Soc. Oct 3 d . Whites Selbourn by Bennett [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837], notes by …
- … Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village …
- … DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie …
- … mammalium domesticorum . Hafniæ. *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837. The …
- … Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR 71: 29 …
- … Archipelago, etc. 2 vols. London. *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860. Gatherings of a …
- … Bernier, François. 1826. Travels in the Mogul Empire A.D. 1656–1668 . Translated by Irving …
- … Bethune, John. 1840. Poems by the late John Bethune; with a sketch of the author’s life by his …
- … eds.] 119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838. A treatise on sheep; with the best means …
- … Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. 1824. Canine pathology; or, a full description of the diseases of …
- … ——. 1840. An encyclopædia of rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical, …
- … 1844. Algeria, past and present. Containing a description of the country … with a review of …
- … Artaud. 2 vols. Metz. 128: 24 ——. 1807. A short system of comparative anatomy . …
- … 1794–6. Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds . 2 …
- … Library.] 119: 2a ——. See also E. T. Bennett ed. 1837, Jenyns ed. 1843, Jessie ed. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … from manuscripts. If the manuscript was inaccessible but a photocopy or other facsimile version was …
- … text has been enclosed in italic square brackets. A major editorial decision was to adopt the …
- … amendments made in transcription, and also where part of a letter has been written by an amanuensis; …
- … often indicate excitement or haste and may exhibit, over a series of letters, a habit of …
- … In some instances that are not misspellings in a strict sense, editorial corrections have been made. …
- … words, the editors consider that this is most unlikely to be a misspelling but must be explained …
- … alterations and comments. If the only source for a letter is a copy, the editors have …
- … accordance with conventional practice. Where the author of a letter has indicated greater emphasis …
- … indicated in the letters. Darwin and others sometimes marked a change of subject by leaving a …
- … unclear. Occasionally punctuation marking the end of a clause or sentence is not present in …
- … to set it off from the following text. Additions to a letter that run over into the margins, …
- … read. The placement of such an addition is only recorded in a footnote if it seems to the editors to …
- … original text. Where it was necessary to reduce the size of a diagram or enhance an outline for …
- … are recorded in footnotes. The location of diagrams within a letter is sometimes changed for …
- … transcription on the website. Some Darwin letters and a few letters to Darwin are known only …
- … recipient of the letter and its date. The date is given in a standard form, but those elements not …
- … layout of the source, although no attempt is made to produce a type-facsimile of the manuscript: …
- … of the manuscript order. If no address is given on a letter by Darwin, the editors have supplied one …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … considerably improved. His increased vigour was apparent in a busy year that included two trips to …
- … of special creation on the basis of alleged evidence of a global ice age, while Asa Gray pressed …
- … the details of Hooker’s proposed talk formed the basis of a lengthy and lively exchange of letters …
- … responded philosophically to these deaths, regarding both as a merciful release from painful illness …
- … yet much taste for common meat,’ he continued, ‘but eat a little game or fowl twice a day & eggs …
- … approval to increase his intake of coffee to two cups a day, since coffee, with the ‘10 drops of …
- … of flatulence. Jones replied in encouraging terms, enclosing a revised diet, which unfortunately …
- … plants and animals in order to write the first of a projected three volumes detailing the evidence …
- … was getting on with his ‘everlasting volume’, and began a series of detailed queries and …
- … in, for example, the reproductive organs, or the tissues of a bud. Darwin had submitted a …
- … there are over 200 medallions of Papa made by a man from W ms photo in circulation amongst the …
- … is a case of dimorphic becoming diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ). …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … research while he was away from home. Although Darwin lacked a state of the art research institute …
- … general law or system’ In the early 1860s, at a time when his health was especially bad, …
- … of climbing in all its forms. It was quickly reproduced as a small book, giving it a much wider …
- … the topic within an evolutionary framework. He received a wealth of information from correspondents …
- … at one point Darwin had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, …
- … was the plant equivalent of digestion or reflex action at a physiological level? Was there a …
- … in the diversified movements of plants was stimulated by a phenomenon seemingly unrelated to …
- … He suspected that drops of water standing on the surface of a leaf might act like a lens focusing …
- … water they appear as if encased in thin glass. It is really a pretty sight to put a pod of a common …
- … We find watering most prejudicial in the hot sun. It is a splendid subject for experiments ’. …
- … he asked his son George to calculate ‘ what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to …
- … on Balfour’s now missing reply, and mused, ‘ As such a multitude of plants get their leaves wetted, …
- … more than 1 leaf per day; but if it dies, I shall feel like a murderer. I am pretty well convinced …
- … Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 10 February [1880] ). …
- … ‘ I am very sorry that Sachs is so sceptical, for I w d . rather convert him than any other half …
- … as ‘little discs’ and ‘greenish bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 ). …
- … that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 November 1879 ). …
- … pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w d . be over £40’; he suggested …
