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Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 1514 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H., 11 Apr [1853] Darwin offers to send zoologist T …
- … Letter 1480 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H., 23 Apr [1853] Letter 1587 — Darwin, C …
- … John Franklin. Letter 1262 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, [29–30 Oct 1849] …
- … Letter 1495 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, 25 Dec [1852] Darwin discusses the capacity …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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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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- … Martineau [H. Martineau 1837] Layards Babylon [Layard 1853] Vol. V of Campbells …
- … Land [Twamley 1852] Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s …
- … relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 9–11 89 1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in Gardeners Ch …
- … Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in …
- … Principles of Commerce & Commercial Law: Lectures [Stephen 1853] Warrens Diary of a …
- … Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex [Devereux 1853] M rs . Colin Mackenzie …
- … [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] …
- … W. Dunker in Zoolog. Proc. a paper on Limnea [Dunker 1853].— D r . Anthony will publish on F. W. …
- … (read) Pictet Paleontologie new Edition [Pictet 1853–7] Pliny Nat History, translated …
- … Generales 1851 120 [Milne-Edwards 1851]. 1853. Feb. 6. Schouw Bot. Geograph: in …
- … to Vol XII. 1840 (not much) [DAR 128: 5] 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D …
- … 2 & 3. } 20 th . Galtons Tour in S. Africa [Galton 1853] good Aug 23. Moore’s …
- … Nov. 11. Sir Hudson Lowe’s life and letters [H. Low 1853] very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores …
- … Society of London ] up to Vol II. Part IV. N.S. 1853 Sept. No s I–IV of Microscopical …
- … [Andersson 1856] —— 26 Slightly skimmed Forbes & Hancock British Shells [Forbes and …
- … vols. London. 128: 16 Alder, Joshua and Hancock, Albany. 1845–55. A monograph of …
