“Communities of Blood”: The Natural History of Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses some correspondence between Robert Schomburgk (1804–1865) and Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876). Four letters survive, containing information about the history of Schomburgk's collection of fishes and plants from British Guiana, and his herbarium specimens from Dominican Republic and southeast Asia. A study of these letters has enabled us to confirm that Schomburgk supplied the collection of fishes from Guiana now in the Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The letters of the German naturalist are an interesting source of information concerning the practice of sale and exchange of natural history collections in the nineteenth century in return for honours.

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CONWAY, Jill, with the assistance of Linda Kealey and Janet E. Schulte, THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA: A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN

Journal of Comparative Family Studies ◽

10.3138/jcfs.18.3.498 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 498-500

Author(s):

Marian C. McKenna

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

American Women ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

History Of ◽

Female Experience

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A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America, and: The History of White People

African American Review ◽

10.1353/afa.2010.0037 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 522-525

Author(s):

Elizabeth R. Schroeder

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

African American ◽

Historical Writing ◽

White People ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

History Of

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The Legacy of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians’

Evolution Before Darwin ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445788.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 156-195

Author(s):

Bill Jenkins

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Medical Student ◽

Natural History ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

History Of ◽

The City

The penultimate chapter looks at the longer-term impact of the efflorescence of evolutionary speculation in early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh on later generations of natural historians. First it examines the evangelical reaction against progressive models of the history of life and its role in the eclipse of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians.’ Next it examines to the evolutionary theory proposed by Robert Chambers in his anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) to assess its possible debt to the Edinburgh transformists of the 1820s and 1830s. Finally it turns to the important question of the possible influence of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians’ on Charles Darwin during his time as a medical student in Edinburgh in the years 1825 to 1827, during which period he rubbed shoulders with many of the key proponents of evolutionary ideas in the city.

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Introduction

Evolution Before Darwin ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445788.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Bill Jenkins

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

Natural History ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Evolutionary Theories ◽

Evolutionary Thought ◽

History Of

The introduction sets the scene by exploring the role of Edinburgh as a centre for the development and propagation of pre-Darwinian evolutionary theories. It gives essential background on natural history in the Scottish capital in early nineteenth century and the history of evolutionary thought and outlines the aims and objectives of the book. In addition, it explores some of the historiographical issues raised by earlier historians of science who have discussed the role of Edinburgh in the development of evolutionary thought in Great Britain.

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