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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … education in the city, in close collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, and in …
- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
- … to Christ’s College, Cambridge, and he led the American delegation to the Darwin centenary …
- … 1859 1909’. The installation of the bust in the American Museum of Natural History related …
- … (April 1909), pp. 315f. ‘The Darwin celebration’, The American Museum Journal (March 1909). …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … they were returned to Darwin for possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter …
- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
- … all, and this is highly surprising, is related to a South American form. But frozen and …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
- … else. Having been impressed by Gray’s review in the American Journal of Science and Arts , Darwin …
- … about species change) previously printed in the German and American editions. In light of the …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
- … from the Old World not long ago. There was no wild American stock. Yet in the times of the mastodon …
- … we have read with attention—1. An article in the North American Review for April last; 2. One in …
- … great work, by a publication of them in advance in the American Journal of Science for July. …
- … which have been elaborately urged, almost exclusively by the American reviewers. The North British …
- … advanced by Agassiz, and to most of those urged by the other American critics, against Darwin …
- … objections amount to, we must needs begin with the American reviewers, and with their arguments …
- … and have to be confronted upon any theory. The North American reviewer also has a world of …
- … other extreme. The Examiner inclines toward, the North American reviewer fully adopts, the third …
- … other no contrariety remains. And so, concludes the North American reviewer, ‘a proper view of …
- … glance at a subsidiary philosophical objection of the North American reviewer, which the Examiner …
- … of the leap be increased by practice? The North American reviewer’s position, that the higher …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … long period. ‘Nineteen years (!) ago’, he wrote to the American botanist Asa Gray in July 1857, …
- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the American scholar’s side in an ongoing …
- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …
- … year, Darwin received word of the death of one his most avid American supporters, the philosopher …
