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Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza Story-Maskelyne …
  • … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall sends …
  • … 9606 - Harrison, L. C. to Darwin, [22 August 1874] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, sends a …
  • … Letter 9616  - Marshall, T.  to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall details …
  • … 4139  - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a recent …
  • … Letter 9485 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [8 June 1874] Mary Treat details her experiments …
  • … 23rd 1887]: Emma Darwin tells her eldest son, William, that her third eldest son, Francis, …
  • … 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin updates her son, William, on family news. Henrietta has …
  • … W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William for checking the proofs of a new, …
  • … to Clarke, W. B., [25 October 1861] Darwin asks William Clarke to pass on information on …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … The year opened with Darwin, helped by his eldest son William, going over the final proofs for the …
  • … anthropologist, and outspoken supporter of Darwinism, William Winwood Reade, Darwin was revising his …
  • … in particular Donders and the ophthalmic surgeon William Bowman, both of whom he consulted on the …
  • … Darwin and his family went to stay with his eldest son, William, in Southampton, but his peace was …
  • … over Ayrton’s head direct to the Liberal prime minster, William Gladstone.  May all your …
  • … Galton, had with some interest been following the career of William Crookes, an investigator of …
  • … Expression . He resumed his correspondence with Donders and Bowman on the contraction of orbicular …
  • … Ruck, the sister of an old schoolfriend; he married Amy in 1874.  Francis, still a medical student …
  • … and other chemicals, ordered from Darwin’s usual chemist, William Baxter, were not in this case for …
  • … his cousin and fellow beetle-enthusiast from student days, William Darwin Fox.  The two had not met …