Darwin in the Archives

Edited by E. C. Nelson & D. M. Porter

CONTENTS

D. M. Porter, Darwin in the Archives: an introduction.

STUDIES OF ERASMUS DARWIN

J. W. T. Moody, Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S.: a biographical and iconographical note. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4 (4): 210–213 (1964)]

M. McNeil, Nature, poetry and medicine in late eighteenth century England: a unified perspective of Erasmus Darwin. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 7 (4): 537 (1976)]

GEOLOGICAL JOURNEYS

P. Lucas, Jigsaw with pieces missing: Charles Darwin with John Price at Bodnant, the walking tour of 1826 and the expeditions of 1827. [Archives of natural history 29 (3): 359–370 (2002)]

M. B. Roberts, I coloured a map: Darwin’s attempts at geological mapping in 1831. [Archives of natural history 27 (1): 69–79 (2000)]

S. Herbert & M. B. Roberts, Charles Darwin’s notes on his 1831 geological map of Shrewsbury. [Archives of natural history 29 (1): 27–30 (2002)]

M. B. Roberts, Darwin’s dog-leg: the last stage of Darwin’s Welsh field trip of 1831. [Archives of natural history 25 (1): 59–73 (1998)]

P. Lucas, “A most glorious country”: Charles Darwin and North Wales, especially his 1831 geological tour. [Archives of natural history 29 (1): 1–26 (2002)]

THE BEAGLE SPECIMENS

D. M. Porter, Charles Darwin’s plant collections from the voyage of the Beagle. [Archives of natural history 9 (4): 515–525 (1980)]

G. Chancellor, A. DiMauro, R. Ingle & G. King, Charles Darwin’s Beagle collections in the Oxford University Museum. [Archives of natural history 15 (2): 197–231 (1988)]

K. G. V. Smith, Supplementary notes on Darwin’s insects. [Archives of natural history 23 (2): 279–285 (1996)]

D. M. Porter, More Darwin Beagle notes resurface. [Archives of natural history 11 (2): 315–316 (1983)]

W. R. P. Bourne, FitzRoy’s foxes and Darwin’s finches. [Archives of natural history 19 (1): 29–37 (1992)]

DARWIN’S DATA GATHERING: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BREEDING OF ANIMALS

G. De Beer, Charles Darwin. Questions about the breeding of animals. [1840]. [Sherborn Fund Facsimile number 3 (1968)]

C. Darwin, Questions about the breeding of animals. [Sherborn Fund Facsimile number 3 (1968)]

R. B. Freeman & P. J. Gautrey, Darwin’s Questions about the breeding of animals. With a note on Queries about expression. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5 (3): 220–225 (1969)]

R. B. Freeman & P. J. Gautrey, Charles Darwin’s Questions about the breeding of animals, [1839]. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8 (2): 184 (1977)]

J. Browne, Darwin again. [Archives of natural history 13 (1): 98 (1986)]

D. M. Porter, Charles Darwin and ‘ancient seeds’. [Archives of natural history 13 (2): 165–168 (1986)]

NATURAL SELECTION AND AFTER

J. W. T. Moody, The reading of the Darwin and Wallace papers: an historical “non-event”. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5 (6): 474–476 (1971)]

T. Lie, The reception of Darwinism in Norway: the early years 1861–1900. [Archives of natural history 12 (1): 153–159 (1985)]

G. Kritsky, Darwin’s Archaeopteryx prophecy. [Archives of natural history 19 (3): 407–410 (1992)]

R. B. Freeman, Offprints of Darwin’s “Climbing plants”, 1865. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6 (4): 293 (1973)]

A.-K. Mayer, Note on the Fritz Muller–Charles Darwin correspondence. [Archives of natural history 26 (2): 293–295 (1999)]

R. B. Freeman & P. J. Gautrey, Charles Darwin’s Queries about expression. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 7 (3): 259–263 (1975)]

J. W. Valentine, The early American printings of Darwin’s Descent of man . . . . [Archives of natural history 24 (1): 145–148 (1997)]

K. G. V. Smith & R. E. Dimick, Darwin’s American neighbour. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8 (1): 78–82 (1976)]

B. Coleman, Samuel Butler, Darwin and Darwinism. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 7 (1): 93–105 (1974)]

H. P. Moon, Charles Darwin at Glenridding House, Ullswater, Cumbria. [Archives of natural history 10 (3): 509–514 (1982)]

R. B. Freeman, Darwin in Chinese. [Archives of natural history 13 (1): 19–24 (1986)]

P. J. P. Whitehead, Darwin in Chinese: some additions. [Archives of natural history 15 (1): 61–62 (1988)]

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN DARWIN STUDIES

J. Browne, The Charles Darwin–Joseph Hooker correspondence: an analysis of manuscript resources and their use in biography. [Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8 (4): 351–366 (1978)]

T. Veak, Exploring Darwin’s correspondence: some important but lesser known correspondents and projects. [Archives of natural history 30 (1): 118–138 (2003)]

M. A. Di Gregorio, Unveiling Darwin’s roots. [Archives of natural history 13 (3): 313–324 (1986)]

 
 
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