Vivian, W. G. (1823–1912)
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- … William Graham Vivian 1823–1912 Industrialist and poultry fancier. …
Marsh, R. J. (1823–1911)
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- … Rosamond Jane Marsh Marsh-Caldwell 1823–1911 Daughter of the novelist Anne Marsh- …
Sutton, E. M. T. (1823–57)
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- … Elizabeth Mary Turner Sutton Hodges Blyth 1823–57 Born Elizabeth Mary Turner Sutton in …
Darwin, W. W. (1823–35)
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- … William Waring Darwin 1823–35 Second born son of William Brown Darwin of Elston and his …
Wedgwood, Kitty (1774–1823)
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- … Catherine Wedgwood Kitty 1774–1823 Daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I and his wife, Sarah. CD’s …
Hardwicke, Thomas (1756/7–1835)
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- … p. 2 East-India register 1835 [Philippart] 1823–6. 6 Bengal Military Establishment Indian …
Heber, Reginald (1783–1826)
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- … writer, and poet. Bishop of Calcutta, 1823–6. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary …
Johnson, Henry (b) (1823–85)
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- … Henry Johnson 1823–85 Civil and mining engineer. Worked on the stratigraphy of the south …
Radcliffe, Ann (1764–1823)
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- … Ann Radcliffe 1764–1823 Novelist. ODNB Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national …
Stecki, Henryk (1823–95)
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- … Henryk Stecki 1823–95 Polish nobleman, also known as Stecki Olechnowich. Numismatist, …
Veitch, R. T. (1823–85)
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- … Robert Toswill Veitch 1823–85 Farmer and nurseryman. Farmed on the Cape of Good Hope. …
Henderson, J. A. (1823–83)
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- … James Alexander Henderson 1823–83 Irish newspaper publisher. Edited the Belfast News …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … Provenance: DAR 271.1: 5 Notes 1 Franklin 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 …
- … bound with Abernethy 1819a, Abernethy 1819b and Abernethy 1823. The volume has ‘Erasmus Darwin’ on …
- … 1819a; CD perhaps refers to Abernethy 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. …
- … used in Lister 1826 for younger sons. 17 Henry 1823. Volume 2 is in the Darwin Library–CUL …
- … Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1823. Introductory lectures, exhibiting some …
- … of a residence and travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824 . 2 vols. London: H. Colburn …
- … of Natural History 33: 202–13. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the shores …
- … 21, and 22 . London: John Murray. Henry, William. 1823. The elements of experimental …
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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- … has various coloured maps by Copenhagen Botanists [?Schouw 1823] of range of plants. 13 …
- … Flanders & Holland in 1817 [Neill, Hay, and Macdonald 1823] These three last books quoted in …
- … Geneva— Mem. de la Soc. Genev. Tom II p. 29 [L. A. Necker 1823] read Lindleys Horticulture …
- … 15 th ) 13 th . Minor poems of Milton [Milton 1823] & first 2 d 71 vol of …
- … Tour by Deput. Caledon. Soc [Neill, Hay, and Macdonald] 1823] Ref at end Godwins answer to …
- … 20 Franklins Narrative 1 st Expedition [Franklin 1823] Oct 4 Drinkwater Siege of Gibraltar …
- … 12 th Necker. Mem. les Oiseaux de Geneve [L. A. Necker 1823] —— Owen on pearly Nautilus [R …
- … [Sévigné 1801] Quentin Durward [W. Scott] 1823]. Veronica [Zschokke 1845b]. G. Gurney [Hook] …
- … Physique, de Chimie, et de l’Histoire Naturelle (1794–1823). 71 CD wrote “1 st ” …
- … Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 13v. Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the …
- … ——. 1830. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823 . . . 1826 . 2 vols. Weimar. 119: 3a …
- … . Paris. [Darwin Library.] 128: 4 Milton, John. 1823. The minor poems of John Milton . …
- … *119: 5v.; 119: 13b Necker, Louis Albert. 1823. Mémoire sur les oiseaux des environs de …
- … [Neill, Patrick, Hay, John, and Macdonald, James]. 1823. Journal of a horticultural tour through …
- … *128: 179; 128: 8 Schouw, Joakim Frederik. 1823. Pflanzengeographische Atlas zur …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 12b [——]. 1823. Quentin Durward . 3 vols. London. [Other …
- … Lamétherie and H. M. Ducrotay de Blainville. Paris. 1794–1823. *119: 13v.; 119: 10a …
- … la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris . Paris. 1823–34. 119: 19a Mémoires de l …
- … Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture of New York . New York. 1823–6. 119: 19a; *128: 167 …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … went on to become a fellow and then tutor of the college in 1823. During his time at Cambridge he …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … parasitism, mutualism, aposematism or exaptation?’, pp. 182–3. See the paper One of the …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
