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Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society of London for his contributions to …
- … and plates and settling publication details with the Ray Society for Living Cirripedia (1851) …
- … cirripedes and culminated in Living Cirripedia (1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again …
- … developed into a valued friendship. London scientific society As letters in this …
- … as revealed in a series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his …
- … indicated by his comment in a letter to Hooker on 29 [May 1854] : ‘Very far from disagreeing with …
- … Back to species theory In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle …
- … do as I wish it Throughout the correspondence of 1854 and 1855, the overwhelming …
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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- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
- … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
- … [Wellesley 1832] Sir. W. Nott’s Life [W. Nott 1854].— [DAR *119: 15v.] From …
- … Macleay’s Hora Entomologica [Macleay 1819–21] Ray’s Wisdom of God [Ray 1692].— Reference at …
- … or Geograph. Distrib:” [Gérard 1844–5] Dec. 10 Ray. Society. Vol I. Reports [Ray Society 1845 …
- … [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. [Ray Society 1846] Nov. 12. Mem. of …
- … th . Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] May 5. Ray’s Memorials of [Ray 1846] —— …
- … ]; skimmed. 24 th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] Physio …
- … de la Boheme [Barrande 1852–1911] must be deeply studied 1854 The Zoologist by E. Newman [ …
- … [Pepys 1825] (Read).— Sir W. Notts life [W. Nott 1854] read [DAR *128: 177] …
- … r . Nott & Gliddon: Trübner & Co [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] (read) A Lecture by …
- … not published but reported fully in Literary Gazette Sept 30 1854 91 Agricult. Journal …
- … d’un Naturaliste A. de Quatrefages [Quatrefages de Bréau 1854]. (light reading) (??) read …
- … Domestic animals. 94 Lloyd Scandinavian Adventures 1854 [L. Lloyd 1854]. praised in …
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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- … on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on …
- … He also offered his work to the recently established Ray Society (minutes of council meeting, 4 …
- … Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray Society to publish his work on both living and …
- … Scott Bowerbank, who had founded the Palaeontographical Society in 1847. ‘With respect to …
- … would have to be restricted to British species since the society’s brief was to publish work on …
- … cirripedes volume was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the …
- … it was the third part of volume 5 of the Palaeontographical Society’s publications. As his …
- … of Balanus. ’ A month later, told Edwin Lankester of the Ray Society that his manuscript on living …
- … with the volumes on living cirripedes, destined for the Ray Society, were just beginning. New …
- … and range to a separate section in the volumes of the Ray Society. He also worried about the …
- … summer of 1853 was only sent in manuscript form to the Ray Society at the beginning of 1854 , …
- … to tell his friend Thomas Henry Huxley in early September 1854, ‘ My second volume on the …
- … part of the eighth volume produced by the Palaeontographical Society; the monograph itself was …
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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- … sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851, 1854). …
- … spermatozoa’ attached to the female (Living Cirripedia (1854): 23). Darwin had previously worked out …
- … from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to …
- … Down Coal Club and helping to establish the Down Friendly Society for which he also acted as …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … able to finance another extended voyage to Malaysia. Between 1854 and 1862, he travelled some 14,000 …
- … initially in a joint paper with Wallace to the Linnean Society, and then in Origin of Species …
- … out in details I had never thought of, years before I had a ray of light on the subject, & my …
