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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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- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 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] …
- … Thomson 1839] 14 th Arnolds lectures on History [Arnold 1842] —— History of …
- … Harris 1844].— Aug 15 th . Arnolds Rome 3. vols [Arnold 1838–43] Sept 3 d …
- … [Carlyle 1845]. Sept 9 th Arnolds Roman History [Arnold 1838–43] two last vols: Oct …
- … [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 …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
- … . Vol. 37 in Jardine, William, ed., The naturalist’s library . 40 vols. Edinburgh. 1843. *119: …
- … caractères physiologiques des race humaines considérés dans leur rapports avec l’histoire . …
- … Amazon, including a residence at Pará . (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) London. *119: 23 …
- … 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 …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Plants always held an important place in Darwin’s theorising about species, and botanical research …
- … the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in …
- … V). Darwin remained bitter and dissatisfied with Mivart’s attempts at conciliation, and spent weeks …
- … On 8 January , he told Hooker: ‘I will write a savage letter & that will do me some good, if I …
- … of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwin’s friends had to find ways of coming to …
- … the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s anonymous essay had appeared. ‘I told …
- … to the Editor … Poor Murray shuddered again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January …
- … feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwin’s ire was not fully spent, however, for he …
- … The vivisection issue was a delicate one within Darwin’s family, and he tried to balance his concern …
- … paper sent me by Miss Cobbe.’ Darwin found Cobbe’s memorial inflammatory and unfair in its …
- … on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on Cobbe’s memorial had been read in the House of Lords …
- … on vivisection , p. 183). Darwin learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : …
- … medicine in London. Klein had assisted in some of Darwin’s botanical research and had visited Down …
- … Poisons, plants, and print-runs Darwin’s keen interest in the progress of physiology …
- … of protoplasm. He added the details of Brunton and Fayrer’s experiments to Insectivorous plants , …
- … offered to pay the costs for printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). …
- … the most enthusiastic responses came from the Swiss botanist Arnold Dodel, an instructor at the …
- … & bless the day That ever you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 …
- … that the originally red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 …
- … pp. 188–90). He drew attention to this discussion in a letter to George Rolleston, remarking on 2 …
- … Darwin wrote, ‘I beg ten thousand pardon & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February …
- … signed himself, ‘Your affect son … the proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875 …
- … both critical and reverential. On 16 July he received a letter from an advocate of women’s …
- … her presentation copy of Insectivorous plants ( letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875] ). Such …
- … of my house within the short time I can talk to anyone’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] ). …
- … and had agreed to see him at Down with Thiselton-Dyer ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1875 …
- … lay of hair in eyelashes and on arms, a typically lengthy letter full of personal observations, …
