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From Edmund Alexander Parkes   8 April 1862

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Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.

Author:  Edmund Alexander Parkes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Apr 1862
Classmark:  DAR 174.1: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3498
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … have become in some degree acclimatised.    Page 408, par. 1, line 22, substitute for ‘But I …
  • … would be rash. So I am forced to believe    Page 408, par. 1, line 23, insert after ‘tropics’ …
  • … in Origin 4th ed., pp. 447–8. 44.  p. 408. A similar passage also appears, with further …

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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  • … par F. Cuvier sur l’instinct”—L’Institut 1839. p. 408 [Flourens 1839] read Quarterly Review …