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EH88202575 Note: 1839--1882 Charles Darwin's Address Book. Text Image

Newton Prof. A. 10 Beaufort Gardens. S.W. Alfred Newton (1829-1907), zoologist and ornithologist. On Personal Friends invited list for Darwin's funeral. Norman. A. M Rev. Burnam Rectory Fence House Co. Durham Alfred Merle Norman (1831-1918), clergyman and invertebrate zoologist. See Albany Hancock to Darwin 25 July 1869. Correspondence vol. 17. Norman E. Mr 11 St. John's Road New Cross. {24. 11. Ashmead Rd. Upper Lewisham Rd. S.E. St. John's New Cross S.E. Lewisham High Rd S.E. Ebenezer Norman

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EH88202575 Note: 1839--1882 Charles Darwin's Address Book. Text Image

Robert Burch, agent, sold collection cabinets, specimen containers etc. in 1855. Nicholson Thos. Esq. M.D. Antigua W. Indies Thomas Nicholson (1799-1877), Scottish ship's surgeon, naturalist and botanist, cited in Variation 1: 46 and 98. No known correspondence with Darwin extant. Norman Eb. (copyist) 1000 words for 1s 4d = 4 or 3 folio pages The word rate of Darwin's main copyist from 1856, Ebenezer Norman, listed twice below. Dickson Chester (nursery gardens good for rare plants) Dickson Co

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CUL-DAR15.2.78 Note: [Undated] Decandolle vol 10 / Separate & name & add up orders Borragineae & Text Image

[page crossed, in the hand of Ebenezer Norman, Darwin's copyist.] Vol. 10. Page 108 Vars: marked differently — I have reckoned 1 Var. ― 434A Genus without species. ― 585Also

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CUL-DAR15.2.77 Note: [Undated] Vol 12 Pages 296 and 348 / all right / Vol 10 Page 108 Vars marked Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [77] [in the hand of Ebenezer Norman, Darwin's copyist.] Vol. 12. Pages 296 and 348. all right Vol. 10 Page 108. Vars: marked differently (I have counted 1 var:) ― 434 Name of Genus, but no species ― 585 Also — At end of some of Orders there are some doubtful Genera wh. I have not counted (All corrected) [77v

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CUL-DAR16.255a-255b Note: [[1842--1859]] Koch / Genera with 11 species & upwards / Genera with 10-5 inclusive Text Image

[Instructions for Ebenezer Norman] Koch Do Dicotyledons alone (do not send Monocots sp up to p. 11. You have already total for species genera with 5 6 species at p. 11. Then make list — (Then make list pick out from big side all genera with 7, 8, 9, 10 species — ( so add these to those with 5 6— so you will have list of genera with 10 to 5 species both included. Also subtract the total of the genera, with 7, 8, 9, 10 species from the total— at. p. 11 viz total / 1659 / : 327 /— 657 / p. 11

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CUL-DAR11.1.(1-127) Draft: 1857 'Natural selection' chapter 7 (Laws of variation; varieties and species compared) Text Image

[in the hand of Ebenezer Norman] (3 actual time is not referred to in any of these cases; only relative time one organ being compared with another; for, as is well known, the heart of the chick arrives at the same stage of development with that of a mammal in a far shorter actual period of time. (4

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CUL-DAR11.1.(1-127) Draft: 1857 'Natural selection' chapter 7 (Laws of variation; varieties and species compared) Text Image

[in the hand of Ebenezer Norman] (1 11 M. Brullé in a memoir on the embryonic transformations of the Articulata (Annales des Sci. Nat. 3rd Series Zoolog. Tom. 2 page 273 282-285) insists qu'un appendice se montre d'autant plus tot, qu'il doit acquerir un development plus complet . In another part he strongly reurges the truth of this proposition, asserts that the converse holds good. It would almost appear according to this view as if more time were required for the growth of a part which has

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CUL-DAR11.1.(1-127) Draft: 1857 'Natural selection' chapter 7 (Laws of variation; varieties and species compared) Text Image

[in the hand of Ebenezer Norman] (2 organs in question are most developed in any class, the earlier they appear in the embryo in that class: thus he contrasts the circulatory system in the Vertebrata, in which it is so highly perfected, with the same in Annelids. Indeed the main basis of all affinities, so strongly insisted on by Milne Edwards in this paper elsewhere, (Annal. des Science. Nat. 3rd Series Zoolog. Tom. I p. 65) seems to hang on the same principle,—namely that the more widely two

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GHL-HU-gra00078-48 Correspondence: Darwin Charles Robert to Asa Gray 1857 Abstract of species theory sent to Asa Gray. Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] [in the hand of Ebenezer Norman:] I. It is wonderful what the principle of Selection by Man, that is the picking out of individuals with any desired quality, and breeding from them, and again picking out, can do. Even Breeders have been astonished at their own results. They can act on differences inappreciable to an uneducated eye. Selection has been methodically followed in Europe for only the last half century. But it has occasionally, and even

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F350 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. and A. R. Wallace. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. [Read 1 July] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3 (20 August): 46-50. Text Image PDF

portion of a Chapter entitled, On the Variation of Organic Beings in a state of Nature; on the Natural Means of Selection; on the Comparison of Domestic Races and true Species. 4 De Candolle, in an eloquent passage,5 has declared that all nature is at war, one organism with another, or with external nature. 1 Darwin drafted this memorandum (CUL-DAR6.51) and had a fair copy made by his copyist the school teacher Ebenezer Norman. The fair copy was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857. See

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CUL-DAR78.72-111 Note: 1866--1872 Ipomoea purpurea / convolvulus [comparison of crossed and self-fertile Text Image

[In the hand of copyist Ebenezer Norman] [calculations not transcribed] I have made the next two calculations on the supposition that the measurements are expressed in feet inches, though not so marked. [calculations not transcribed] [10Cv

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CUL-DAR157.29 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch 6" folio 45 Text Image

[In the hand of Ebenezer Norman:] thrown on the production of the differently coloured races. With the colour of the skin there is good reason to believe that the odour habitually emitted, and perhaps the texture as well [text excised] the hair are likewise correlated

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CUL-DAR157.21 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent,"Ch I" folio 21, "The muleteers in S. America" Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [21] [slip of paper pasted on in the hand of Ebenezer Norman:] The muleteers in S. America, as Humboldt remarks, * say I will not give you the mule whose step is easiest, but la mas racional.— the one that reasons best; and Humboldt *(11) he adds, this popular expression, dictated by long experience, combats the system of animated machines, better perhaps than all the arguments of speculative physiology. philosophy

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CUL-DAR157.20 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch I" folio 21 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [20] (21 Chapt. I succeed in bringing over both at once; she then deliberately, though never before known to ruffle a feather, deliberately killed the one, brought over the wounded bird, returned for the dead one. Col. Hutchinson relates that two partridges were shot at once; one being killed the other wounded; the latter ran away was caught by the retriever, who on her return came across the dead bird; she stopped, evidently greatly puzzled; , after

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CUL-DAR157.31 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [31] (2 Ch. II. if one of these these higher apes were could be improved civilised as much as a dog has been in comparison with its parent-stock, a form, the wolf or jackal. [slip of paper pasted on, in the hand of Ebenezer Norman, with corrections by Darwin, CUL-DAR157.32:] catch civilized like dogs. The Fuegians rank amongst the lowest barbarians; but I was continually struck with surprise how closely the three Fuegians natives on board H.M.S Beagle

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CUL-DAR157.7 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch I" p. 8 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [7] 8 Chapt. I characteristic of most wild animals. We see in our dogs, how they vary in timidity in its opposite courage. Everyone knows how liable many most animals are to furious rage, how plainly they exhibit it. Many anecdotes, probably true, have been given by various writers on the revenge, sometimes long delayed artful, of animals: the account Rengger Brehm *(3) give instances with give precise statements to this effect with respect to

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CUL-DAR157.32 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch II" p. 2 "The Fuegians rank amongst the lowest barbarians" Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [32] [slip of paper pasted on CUL-DAR157.31 in the hand of Ebenezer Norman, with corrections by Darwin:] catch civilized like dogs. The Fuegians rank amongst the lowest barbarians; but I was continually struck with surprise how closely the three Fuegians natives on board H.M.S Beagle who had lived some years in England could talk a little English, resembled us in disposition in most of their our our mental faculties. If no other organic organic being

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CUL-DAR157.18 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch I" folio 20 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [18] (20 Ch. I (So many facts have been recorded in various works showing that animals possess some degree of reason, that I will here give only two or three instances, authenticated by Rengger relating to mo American monkeys. which stand [slip of paper pasted on, in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin, CUL-DAR157.19:] trap. Rengger He states *that when he first gave eggs to his monkeys eggs, they smashed them, and thus lost much of

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CUL-DAR157.19 Draft: [1868--1870] Draft of Descent, "Ch I" p. 20, Paragraph concerning Rengger Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [19] [slip of paper pasted on, in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin:] trap. Rengger He states *that when he first gave eggs to his monkeys eggs, they smashed them, and thus lost much of the contents; afterwards they gently hit one end against some hard body, and picked off the bits of, shell with their finger. After only once cutting themselves only once with any tool, they would not touch it again or would handle it with great

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CUL-DAR209.5.208-210 Draft: [1878].07.02--[1878].07.06 Maize / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation Text Image

draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman and corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 393.] [210

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F1573 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21. Text Image PDF

Southampton, on the 12th to Portsmouth coast of Isle of Wight, on 13th to Winchester S. Cross, on 14th Netley Abbey Southampton Common. 17th Home. September 22d. With Em Susan to Knole Park.11 1847. Feb. 19th to Shrewsbury March 5th Home June 22nd to Brit. Assocn at Oxford; Blenheim, Nuneham; Dropmore, Burn- 1 Mr. Fletcher: unidentified. later Darwin employed Ebenezer Norman, appointed schoolmaster in the village of Downe in 1854, to copy manuscripts for him. 2 Charles Darwin: An Account of the fine

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F876 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1872. Queries about expression. In Freeman, R. B. & Gautrey, P. J. eds., Charles Darwin's Queries about expression. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (historical series) 4 (1972): 205-219, 1 plate. Text Image PDF

subject, which has been wholly overlooked. The only satisfactory method to collect information is to make notes at the time. [These queries are deleted]. Are the young of the Wild Pigs at the Falkland Islands striped lengthways on the back when first born? What colour are the calves of the white cattle with red ears, on the Falkland Islands? Mr. Norman Write on both sides of paper. The copyist was Mr Ebenezer Norman, at one time schoolmaster at Downe; he transcribed for Darwin for many years. His