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From H. N. Moseley   5 April 1882

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Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Apr 1882
Classmark:  DAR 171: 264
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13759
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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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  • … make any such changes to the existing German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 …
  • … number of small corrections & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] …
  • … that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he …
  • … possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche …
  • … it appears also that there are clear traces    Page 405, par. 1, line 18, insert after …
  • … also occurs in Origin 4th ed., p. 443. 42.  p. 405. This passage, with further additions, …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … letters have suffered an even more severe loss. In a letter to Lyell’s sister-in-law, Katharine …
  • … of fact . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] …
  • … that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had called the ‘mystery …
  • … about searching for evidence to support his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838 …
  • … positive ([Brewster] 1838; see also Manier 1978, pp. 40–5) which Darwin read in August 1838 …
  • … just the same, though I know what I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July …
  • … there were no doubts as to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [  c.  February 1839] …
  • … for several months (See  Correspondence  vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , …
  • … notebook). See also Allan 1977, pp. 128–30). The letter, on ‘Double flowers’ to the  …