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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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  • … on affinities of species There is Horticultural & Agricultural Soc in Bengal— Have they …
  • … Phil Jour. 1840. June [Anon. 1840]. Report of the Agricultural Association meeting at Oxford. …
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … useful arts ] Highland Agricult. Journal [ Scottish Agricultural   Journal ].— …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … & Hort. Soc of India Serampore [ Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural   Society …
  • … of R. Agricult Soc. of England [ Journal of   the Royal Agricultural Society of England ] Vol I …
  • … of Agricult & Hort. Soc. of India [ Transactions of the Agricultural and   Horticultural …
  • … not know title not published but reported fully in Literary Gazette Sept 30 1854 91 …
  • … Geograph. Botany [Pitton de Tournefort 1718] (read) Agricultural work, on percentage of nat. …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
  • … to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
  • … Hervey in 1843 in  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 33 (1844), p. 555. These …
  • … was reviewed in  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 32 (1852), p. 502. CD marked …
  • … Mirabilis ].  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette  no. 31, p. 483.  *128: 179 …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …

Biogeography

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…

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  • … 1855. "Does sea-water kill seeds?" Gardners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
  • … Nature 25:529-530. Letters Letter Packet: Biogeography …
  • … which seeds will be easily killed in salt water. Letter 1669 —Charles Darwin to JD …
  • … particular make-up of a specific plant community. Letter 1680 —Charles Darwin to JD …
  • … seed experiment than the question of germination. Letter 1681 —Charles Darwin to JD …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics.  Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…

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  • … F1660.] —Remarks on the preceding paper, in a letter from Charles Darwin, Esq., to Mr. …
  • … salt on carbonate of lime.  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 14 September 1844, pp. …

Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'

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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…

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  • … an illustration of how selection might work in nature ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, n. …
  • … the real structure of varieties’, he remarked to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 September [1856 …
  • … ‘& I mean to make my Book as perfect as ever I can.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 8 February [1857] …
  • … plants, he asked Asa Gray, vary in the United States ( letter to Asa Gray, 2 May 1856 )? What …
  • … plants pretty effectually’ complained Darwin in 1857 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 May 1857] ). …
  • … John Lubbock that his method of calculation was wrong ( letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1857] ). …
  • … ‘Darwin, an absolute & eternal hermaphrodite’ ( letter to to T. H. Huxley, 1 July [1856] ), …
  • … about the problem in  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette  in October 1857, to be …
  • … which the bird had naturally eaten have grown well.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1856] …
  • … he wrote to Syms Covington in New South Wales ( letter to Syms Covington, 9 March 1856 ). …
  • … his work on species and the preparation of his manuscript ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 1 May 1857 ) …
  • … a preliminary sketch was apparently first made in a letter written by Lyell from London on 1–2 May …
  • … and went up to London to see Lyell to discuss it further ( letter to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] ) …
  • … Hearing about the party afterwards, Lyell reported in a letter to his brother-in-law that, ‘When …
  • … so far, and not embrace the whole Lamarckian doctrine.’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856, …
  • … in his views to explain them in explicit detail in a long letter to Asa Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, …