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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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  • … whom his work brought him into close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return, Darwin …
  • … be as they are (Kohn 1980). Between April 1837 and September 1838 he filled several notebooks with …
  • … had been spread by the publication by J. S. Henslow and Adam Sedgwick of excerpts from his letters, …
  • … it (in his referee’s report to the Society of 9 March 1838), had been developed by Darwin from a …
  • … by all the leading geologists of England—among them Charles Lyell, Sedgwick, and Buckland (see the …
  • … of his  Beagle  work, and it too was in geology. In 1838 he set out on a geological tour in …
  • … Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle  from February 1838 to October 1843. The correspondence …
  • … C. Babington; the Chalcididae by Francis Walker; spiders by Adam White; infusoria by C. G. Ehrenberg …
  • … plant distribution and classification (see Henslow 1837a and 1838; W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott …
  • … lists of Darwin’s plants (see D. M. Porter 1981). Charles Lyell In the extensive …
  • … correspondent, both scientifically and personally, was Charles Lyell. The letters Darwin and Lyell …
  • … material for her  Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart.,  Darwin informs her that …
  • … to Lyell had called the ‘mystery of mysteries’ (see Babbage 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the  …
  • … his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838] , he wrote: 'I have lately been …
  • … generation, fecundity, and inheritance. After mid-September 1838, when he had his ‘theory to work by …
  • … of Comte’s  Philosophie positive ([Brewster] 1838; see also Manier 1978, pp. 40–5) which …
  • … In 1840 the illness was different. As he wrote to Charles Lyell, [19 February 1840] , “it is now …
  • … the task Darwin had set for himself when, in the spring of 1838, he wrote in his notebook: ' …