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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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- … whom his work brought him into close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return, Darwin …
- … in London and at the end of the year their first child, William Erasmus, was born. In September 1842 …
- … of thinking about the significance of John Gould’s and Richard Owen’s identifications of his bird …
- … be as they are (Kohn 1980). Between April 1837 and September 1838 he filled several notebooks with …
- … had been spread by the publication by J. S. Henslow and Adam Sedgwick of excerpts from his letters, …
- … This explanation of a “new Geological Power”, as William Buckland called it (in his referee’s report …
- … by all the leading geologists of England—among them Charles Lyell, Sedgwick, and Buckland (see the …
- … of his Beagle work, and it too was in geology. In 1838 he set out on a geological tour in …
- … of the Beagle voyage. With the help of J. S. Henslow, William Whewell, and other prominent …
- … . The work comprises five parts: Fossil Mammalia , by Richard Owen; Mammalia , by G. R. …
- … C. Babington; the Chalcididae by Francis Walker; spiders by Adam White; infusoria by C. G. Ehrenberg …
- … Towards the end of 1843, he increasingly hoped that William Jackson Hooker or his son Joseph might …
- … lists of Darwin’s plants (see D. M. Porter 1981). Charles Lyell In the extensive …
- … correspondent, both scientifically and personally, was Charles Lyell. The letters Darwin and Lyell …
- … material for her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Darwin informs her that …
- … Henslow, Jenyns, Waterhouse, and his second cousin, William Darwin Fox—knew, as he said to Henslow, …
- … to Lyell had called the ‘mystery of mysteries’ (see Babbage 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the …
- … selection preserved from this period are the exchanges with William Herbert, Dean of Manchester, a …
- … In 1840 the illness was different. As he wrote to Charles Lyell, [19 February 1840] , “it is now …
- … the correspondence about the vitality of seeds discovered by William Kemp of Galashiels in a …
