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John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring …
- … two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives. Lubbock's father, John William …
- … banking family, and the family seat of High Elms, which Lubbock inherited in 1865, was at the heart …
- … wide-ranging studies in anthropology and prehistory, John Lubbock’s childhood interest in natural …
- … must come some Sunday to Mahomet. ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] ) The …
- … leave in the documentary record, it is clear that John Lubbock played a significant part in Darwin& …
- … and strategist. As early as 1857 Darwin wrote to thank Lubbock for saving him from a 039; …
- … on variation. Darwin made constant requests of Lubbock, bombarding him with questions and …
- … me on general issue, or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) …
- … In the weeks immediately after publication, Darwin wrote to Lubbock not once but twice demanding to …
- … opinion of men like you & Hooker & Huxley & Lyell’. Lubbock spoke in Darwin039 …
- … Darwin039;s supporters) in 1864. Pre-historic Times (1865), Lubbock's account of human …
- … to humans. After his election as MP for Maidstone in 1870, Lubbock tried at Darwin’s request to …
- … such as James Torbitt039;s research into potato blight. Lubbock was one of those consulted on …
- … Descent In Descent of man , Darwin referred to Lubbock’s published work on the secondary …
- … (see Descent p. 94). But the most important aspect of Lubbock’s work for Darwin was the support …
- … from a single common ancestor ( Descent p. 233). Lubbock’s Origin of civilisation , …
- … from a natural state of civilisation. Darwin used Lubbock's counter-argument in Descent …
- … must modify what I have written Other aspects of Lubbock’s book were less welcome. ‘I …
- … interest for the good of my internal viscera’ ( to John Lubbock, 21 July [1870] ). It seems what …
- … or scrupled to carry off anothers wife? ( from John Lubbock, 18 March [1871] ). It was …
- … that he remained 039;not a little in the dark039; ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] ). …
- … a banking career, and Darwin039;s last known letter to John Lubbock, sent shortly before his …
- … of Emma039;s, as an archaeologist. Relations between Lubbock and Darwin’s children were …
- … with Darwin were not always easy. In 1874 Darwin asked Lubbock to sell him the piece of land …
- … the sandwalk around a spinney where he walked every day. Lubbock temporised on the grounds that the …
- … thought the price was rather high. A year later Lubbock’s intervention in a dispute between …
- … life Darwin provided a letter of introduction for Lubbock's brother Montague, and in August …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and Charles Lyell . These events …
- … 12). In early January Falconer had written to Darwin’s brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, to reassure …
- … the end of May, the dispute between Charles Lyell and John Lubbock over alleged plagiarism by …
- … in Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix V. In 1865, Lubbock published Prehistoric times , …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. He requested a …
- … Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. It included an …
- … the wooded land, which he had been renting from John Lubbock, led to a straining of relations with …
- … with lawyers over a doubt that it may have been included in Lubbock’s marriage settlements, the sale …
- … printed appeal for funds, raising £860 ( Circular to John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. …
- … Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker reported that ‘Lubbock’s Lecture went off admirably— but …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … Spencer, who was visiting Darwin’s neighbour, Sir John Lubbock. In February, Darwin received a …
- … regime led to Darwin’s being teased by his neighbour, John Lubbock, about the prospect of riding to …
- … our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More …
- … Henry Walter Bates’s article on mimetic butterflies, Lubbock’s observations of diving Hymenoptera …
- … Henrietta, to London, staying for two weeks with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin. Owing to …
- … him to regard ‘the negro’ as well as ‘the ape’ as a brother. ‘I am glad to hear from Spencer’, …
- … was frequently enjoyed during her visits to Darwin’s brother, Erasmus, in London. When her death …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … his childhood, and yet both young Charles and his older brother Erasmus were christened in the …
- … supportive of his desire to enter the Anglican Church. His brother, however, wrote to the contrary: …
- … children Mary and Charles were buried; later Darwin’s brother Erasmus, Emma’s sister Sarah, Emma …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … Darwin’s gloominess was compounded by the decline of his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, who, after …
- … ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree. Both John Lubbock and Hooker asked for Darwin’s …
- … of wind transport in the growth of soil, while his brother James Geikie told Darwin on 10 October …
- … that Carlyle’s friend Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Darwin’s brother, had ‘got through the fire without …
- … stated in his recollections that Carlyle’s sketch of his brother’s character had little truth and no …
- … and wrote immediately , reminding Darwin, ‘It was in your brother’s house, near Park Lane, that I …
- … told Thomas Farrer on 28 August , ‘The death of my brother Erasmus is a very heavy loss to all of …
- … his valuation, Darwin had not only inherited the bulk of his brother’s property but also knew that …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … for a burial in St Mary’s churchyard in Down, where his brother Erasmus had been interred in 1881. …
- … and its role in the selection of mates. ‘Will not your brother-artists scorn you for showing …
- … Marian. He returned the joke: ‘I am in hopes that my brother artists will not read the work in …
- … adjourned as a small tribute of respect’ (letter from John Lubbock to Francis Darwin, 20 April 1882 …
- … drew substantially on his theory. In 1869, Hermann Müller (brother to Fritz) sent Darwin his recent …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … queries that Darwin, describing himself as ‘a broken-down brother-naturalist’, sent to Daniel Oliver …
- … News from France was more ambiguous in 1864. Darwin’s brother Erasmus sent notice of an article by …
- … from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of Darwin’s brother; Beck admitted to never having read …
- … some of his correspondents in 1864. Early in the year, his brother Erasmus told him of a …
- … that a Neanderthal race once extended across Europe. John Lubbock mentioned his forthcoming volume …
- … was received by George Busk and deposited with Darwin’s brother, Erasmus, who remarked that it was …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
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< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder brother became the ninth Duke of Bedford …
- … Darwins themselves were frequent visitors there. Sir John Lubbock and his family were further …
- … In 1882, Arthur Russell would be among the signatories to Lubbock’s petition for Darwin to be buried …
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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- … the book in the Academy , 24 July 1875, by Ellen Frances Lubbock: ‘in Utricularia they are …
- … That ever you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875). Back …
- … properties of seeds, using an instrument designed by his brother Horace, who was doing an …
- … in parish affairs (see Correspondence vol. 21). Lubbock tried to bring about a …
- … also you intended to slight him.’ Darwin assured Lubbock that he never meant to show …
- … Darwin had hoped to arrange for the meeting to take place at Lubbock’s home, High Elms, so that he …
- … horror was great’, Henrietta Emma Litchfield wrote to her brother Leonard on 14 September, ‘& …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … Ornithological Ramble in Sussex. 7. 6. [A. E. Knox 1849] J. Lubbock has & will lend me— …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … Ireland [Thompson 1849–56]. Vol. I. II & 3 May. St. John’s Tour in Sutherlandshire [Saint …
- … Bethune; with a sketch of the author’s life by his brother (Alexander Bethune) . Edinburgh. …
- … 1808. Letters on the subject of the Catholics, to my brother Abraham, who lives in the …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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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- … than usual, staying on three occasions in London with his brother Erasmus, a week in Surrey and at …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…