A Natural Calling Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and Wi
This book provides new factual material on Charles Darwin, following many years of research into Darwin’s relationship to his cousin William Darwin Fox. It is a biographical and historical account of the letters exchanged by these two men and the diaries
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Charles Darwin in 1849. Pastel Drawing by Samuel Laurence. Copyright: English Heritage Photo Library, with permission.
Daguerrotype of William Darwin Fox. Taken in 1848 by William Kilburn, London. Copyright: Gerard Crombie and the Sydics of the University of Cambridge, with permission.
Anthony W. D. Larkum
A Natural Calling Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox
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Prof. Anthony W. D. Larkum University of Sydney School of Biological Sciences Sydney NSW 2006 Australia [email protected]
For permission to reproduce transcripts of the letters and diaries, the following are acknowledged and thanked: the Master and Fellows of Christ’s College, Cambridge; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library for material from the University Library (Darwin Archive – DAR); the Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project for access to their transcripts of Darwin/Fox letters; the Woodward Library, University of British Columbia; the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; The Sandown Museum, Isle of Wight, UK; and Mr Gerard Crombie, Norwich, UK. For permission to reproduce drawings, paintings and photographs, the following are acknowledged and thanked: the Master and Fellows of Christ’s College, Cambridge; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library for a drawing and a daguerrotype in the University Library (Darwin archive – DAR 204 and 250); the Woodward Library, University of British Columbia; The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; the Property of the Darwin Heirloom Trust, by permission of the Master and Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge (Erasmus Darwin and Robert Darwin Portraits); English Heritage; and Mr Gerard Crombie, Norwich. ISBN 978-1-4020-9232-9
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9233-6
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9233-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009920102 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
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Preface
From 1965–1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Later in 1981, when I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and renewed my contacts with Christ’s College, my friend and colleague David Coombe, a Fellow of Christ’s College, informed me that a collection of letters of Charles Darwin had just been uncovered in the Library storeroom, underneath the College. I had always maintained an interest in Charles Darwin, from the early age of thirteen, when I had first read his books, with I might say some difficulty! This
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