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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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- … Émile (8) Alice (2) Alison, R. E. …
- … (1) Allen, Thomas (2) Allman, G. J. …
- … (1) Appleton, C. E. C. B. (2) Appleton, T. G. …
- … (5) Austin, A. D. (2) Austin, C. F. …
- … (7) Axon, W. E. A. (2) Aylmer, I. E. …
- … (3) Baldwin, J. D. (2) Balfour, F. M. …
- … (1) Baranoff, W. (2) Barber, M. E. …
- … (1) Barnard, Anne (2) Barnes, K. S. …
- … (1) Barrois, J. H. (2) Bartlett, A. D. …
- … (1) Batalin, A. F. (2) Bate, C. S. …
- … (1) Bates, Frederick (2) Bates, H. W. …
- … (1) Baumhauer, E. H. von (2) Baxter, E. B. …
- … (3) Beale, L. S. (2) Beall, T. B. (1 …
- … B. (1) Beck, John (2) Becker, L. E. …
- … Octavian (3) Blomefield, Leonard (42) …
- … Darwin, Horace (30) Darwin, Leonard (37) …
- … Horner, K. M. (5) Horner, Leonard (13) …
- … Ruck, M. A. (2) Rudd, Leonard (2) …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … the Government grant was exhausted ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October …
- … Lyell, George Robert Waterhouse, John Stevens Henslow, Leonard Horner, Leonard Jenyns, Edward Forbes …
- … by Darwin’s heterodox opinions and later in the year both Jenyns and Hooker were invited to read a …
- … which formed the basis of discussions with Charles Lyell and Leonard Horner in letters in this …
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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- … Stoke’s Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119 …
- … de l’Homme,” by Dr. Pierquin, published in Paris (in 2 vols.), so long ago as 1839 4 …
- … 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns …
- … 1829]; read Letter to M. Therry [Broughton 1832]— a 2 d Edit preparing in 1841.— Lesson …
- … [DAR 119: 13a] 1843 Feb 20 th . L. Jenyns notes to White’s Selbourn [Jenyns ed. …
- … eds.] [Abstract in DAR 91: 13.] 119: 9b Horner, Leonard, ed. 1843. Memoirs and …
- … or, conflict . 3 vols. London. 128: 25 Jenyns, Leonard. 1838. Further remarks on the …
- … dit jardin. Augsbourg. 128: 16 [Knapp, John Leonard]. 1829. Journal of a …
- … waters. Philadelphia. 128: 8 Staunton, George Leonard. 1797. An authentic account of …
- … 2a ——. See also E. T. Bennett ed. 1837, Jenyns ed. 1843, Jessie ed. 1849, and [J. …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … G. R. Waterhouse; Birds , by John Gould; Fish , by Leonard Jenyns; and Reptiles , by Thomas …
- … and corals by William Lonsdale ( Collected papers , 2). Darwin’s crustacean specimens, originally …
- … that he had printed and distributed ( Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix V). As P. J. Vorzimmer has …
- … his engagement (transcribed in Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix IV). During the same period he …
- … in an autobiographical fragment ( Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix III). The letters that Emma and …
- … been many thousands of years old. At the time when volume 2 of The Correspondence was published, …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … and relationship when he was asked to contribute to Leonard Jenyns’s Memoir of the Rev. John …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … the marine invertebrates himself (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April …
- … with abortive stamens or pistils ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 …
- … committee on which both had served ( Correspondence vol. 2, letters to H. E. Strickland). Darwin …
- … a large family (three more children, Elizabeth, Francis, and Leonard, were born during this period) …
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,…
