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Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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 …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … [Royle 1840] Bennets. Whaling Voyage [F. D. Bennett 1840] [DAR *119: 13] …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … (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 …
- … 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 . …
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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- … authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is …
- … 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 …
- … of ‘l’. When the editors are satisfied that the intended letter was ‘l’ and not ‘t’, as, for example …
- … 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 …
- … to set it off from the following text. Additions to a letter that run over into the margins, …
- … is unclear. Enclosures are transcribed following the letter. The hand-drawn illustrations and …
- … are recorded in footnotes. The location of diagrams within a letter is sometimes changed for …
- … edition. In many cases, too, it is possible to view the full letter on Cambridge University …
- … was in 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter from A. W. Bennett, 12 July 1873). ‘Fertilisation’ …
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 …
- … Pound foolish, Penurious, Pragmatical Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But …
- … 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 …
- … able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
- … 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 …
- … once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
- … see you out with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 …
- … work doing me any harm—any how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). …
- … production of which Tegetmeier had agreed to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January …
- … of “Domestic Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] …
- … there are over 200 medallions of Papa made by a man from W ms photo in circulation amongst the …
- … teleological development ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). Also in …
- … species was ‘merely ordinaryly diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 May – 11 June 1866] ). On …
- … is a case of dimorphic becoming diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ). …
- … I am well accustomed to such explosions’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 22 June [1866] ). He urged …
- … natural selection, and with special creation ( letter from W. R. Grove, 31 August 1866 ). Hooker …
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 …
- … , a plant that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July …
- … the woodblock using photography for scientific accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December …
- … lost colour, withered, and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February …
- … how their observations could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 …
- … the botanist Gaetano Durando, to find plants and seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 …
- … only the regulator & not cause of movement ’. In the same letter, Darwin discussed terminology, …
- … to replace 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 …
- … experiments and devised a new test, which he described in a letter to his mother, ‘ I did some …
- … 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 …