To Charles Lyell 23 September 1874
Summary
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9654 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 September 1874
Summary
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 224–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9655 |
From Auguste Forel 23 September 1874
Summary
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
| Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9656 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Forel, Auguste | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Forel, Auguste | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … making. British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle …
