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List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
  • … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
  • … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
  • … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
  • … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
  • … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
  • … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
  • … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
  • … Coldstream, John (2) Cole, William (3) …
  • … Cooper, W. B. (1) Cooper, William (1) …
  • … Croll, James (16) Crookes, William (1) …
  • … la Beche, H. T. (3) Dealtry, William (1) …
  • … Farr, John (2) Farr, William (7) …
  • … Farrer, T. H. (137) Farrer, William (1) …
  • … Graham, C. C. (3) Graham, William (5) …
  • … Green, Thomas (1) Green, William (2) …
  • … Hardy, R. P. (4) Hardy, William (1) …
  • … Harris, J. (2) Harris, William (2) …
  • … Harte, Richard (1) Harte, William (1) …
  • … Henslow, J. S. (147) Henty, William (3) …
  • … Herbert, M. A. (1) Herbert, William (4) …
  • … Hopkins, A. N. (1) Hopkins, William (3) …
  • … Horner, Susan (1) Horsfall, William (2) …
  • … Hough, Arthur (1) Houghton, William (1) …
  • … A. A. W. (3) Huggins, William (2) …
  • … Jackson, Julian (4) Jackson, William (1) …
  • … Hyacinth (4) Jardine, William (1) …
  • … Jenkins, H. M. (1) Jenner, William (8) …
  • … Thompson, William (b) (1) Thomson, A. C. (1) …

4.9 'Graphic', cartoon

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< Back to Introduction A cartoon which appeared in the Graphic in 1871 was unusual, in that it pictured a serious scientific challenge to Darwin’s theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of…

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  • a serious scientific challenge to Darwins theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a
  • to launch an attack on Darwinism. As a devout Christian, Thomson claimed ex cathedra that the
  • ever-acting Creator and Ruler’. Already in the late 1860s, Thomson had been embattled with the
  • through natural selection to occur. In a lecture of 1868 Thomson wasdriven to the conclusion . . . …
  • by natural selection”.’ The key role of a waning sun in Thomsons hypothesis sharpens the satire of
  • light, but about to be blotted out by the floating head of Thomson, while a tartan-clad Scotsman
  • … , 4:91 (26 August 1871), p. 197, and cf. p. 195. Sir William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin), ‘On the
  • August 1871 (London: John Murray, 1872), ‘Address of Sir William Thomson . . . President’, pp. …

Climbing plants

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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…

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  • … Cucurbitaceæ & Viniferæ ’. To his son William he enthused, ‘ My hobby-horse at present is …
  • … tendrils in different plant families were derived. His son William had noticed what appeared to be …
  • … tendril, which he was dissecting and drawing. Darwin sent William’s drawing to Oliver, commenting, ‘ …

How old is the earth?

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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…

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  • … geologists and physicists , most notable among whom was William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin. The …
  • … In 1863, when Origin was in its third edition, Thomson calculated from its assumed rate of …
  • … years. By the time Darwin was working on the fifth edition, Thomson had concluded that 100 million …
  • … crust could have formed more rapidly on cooling than Thomson allowed, thus pushing back in time …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • edition appeared at the end of 1866 and had told his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have
  • of the age of the earth much greater than that calculated by William Thomson, but he did point out, …
  • February 1869 ).  Darwin did not directly challenge Thomsons estimate, but he added more on
  • his long-time correspondent, the pigeon and poultry fancier William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who sent
  • lusitanicum  that had been painstakingly collected by William Chester Tait in Portugal. Darwin
  • since its publication in 1862. Darwin asked his son William to examine the British orchid  …
  • in order to better ascertain its manner of pollination. Williams contribution, and those of many
  • was probably the one he commissioned and paid for himself: William Sweetland Dallass edition of
  • from Adolf Reuter23 September 1869 ). The physiologist William Thierry Preyer enclosed a paper

2.24 Herbert Hampton statue, Lancaster

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< Back to Introduction The monument to Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, is one of many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public projects that featured Darwin among the great men of history – often, as here, in the context of…

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  • … on the west side, among the scientists and writers – William Turner, Edward Frankland, Joseph Lister …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief. In May, William Darwin suffered a serious …
  • … cannot bear to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours …
  • … ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 ). William Dallinger from Liverpool, who planned …
  • … with the referee. Darwin gave in, admitting to William Thiselton-Dyer on 26 April that Tait’s …
  • … before going on to confuse him with another entomologist, William Henry Edwards. The promise in …
  • … home, they had experienced a further calamity. On 10 May, William suffered serious concussion after …
  • … James Paget advised complete rest for three months, but when William developed symptoms of …
  • … he explained to Andrew Clark, who travelled to Down to give William ‘the very devil of an …
  • … by Amy. In contrast, Darwin’s letter to his oldest son William sought comfort. He expressed his …
  • … daughter Annie, who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at the time of …
  • … on his parents. Darwin’s affection for and reliance on William was clear as he ended his letter in a …
  • … respect. ‘She is always able to speak’, Emma told William, before acknowledging, ‘I shall always …
  • … Emma and Darwin had made a trip to Southampton to visit William, who was still recuperating, and, …
  • … observations carried by out by Darwin’s oldest son William (see Correspondence vol. 12 and the …
  • … effects on science. On hearing that Charles Wyville Thomson told his students in Edinburgh that the …

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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  • … 1841]. 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
  • … th  M rs . Thompson Life of Duchess of Marlborough [K. Thomson 1839] 14 th  Arnolds …
  • … [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray …
  • …  Hind’s Solar System [Hind 1852] April 20 th  William Humboldts letters [K. W. von Humboldt …
  • … [J. D. Dana 1852–3] 27. Thompson’s Himmalaya [T. Thomson 1852] [DAR 128: 7] …
  • … 7  Probably a reference to the private library of William Jackson Hooker and his son, Joseph …
  • … In February 1882, however, after reading the introduction to William Ogle’s translation of Aristotle …
  • … Notebooks ). 19  According to the  DNB , William Herbert provided notes for both …
  • … is presumably the date and number of the part containing William Pulteney Alison’s article which was …
  • … from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has …
  • … listing the volumes in the Naturalist’s Library edited by William Jardine, a forty-volume series on …
  • … 66  The bibliography provides the titles of the works by William Shakespeare that CD recorded …
  • … CD’s collection is a presentation copy from the author to William Jackson Hooker. See  …
  • …  edited by Robert Bentley Todd, was issued in parts. William Pulteney Alison’s article first …
  • … crayon and the ‘O’ in pencil. It is not clear which of William Jackson Hooker’s journals is meant …
  • … and London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15 Alison, William Pulteney. 1847. Instinct. In vol. 3, pp …
  • … influence on the progress of civilisation . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers.  119: 22a …
  • … written by himself . Translated by John Leyden and William Erskine. 2 vols. London.  *119: 14 …
  • … ed. (1864) in Darwin Library.]  *128: 165 Baird, William. 1850.  The natural history of …
  • … Ray Society. [Darwin Library.]  128: 4 Baly, William and Kirkes, William Senhouse. 1848.  …
  • … Müller,  Elements of   physiology . Translated by William Baly. 2 vols. London. 1837.) [Darwin …
  • …   advanced age . London.  119: 18b Bartram, William. 1791.  Travels through North and …
  • … and   discoveries . Translated from the German by William Johnston. 4 vols. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … . 7 pts. Paris.  *128: 173; 128: 12 Belsham, William. 1806.  History of Great Britain to …
  • … and Dublin. [Other eds.]  *119: 15 Bernard, William Dallas. 1844.  Narrative of the …
  • … of comparative anatomy . Translated from the German by William Lawrence. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … 3 vols. London. [Other eds.]  119: 13a Boutcher, William. 1775.  A treatise on forest …
  • … French. 6 vols. Paris.  128: 16, 18 [Broderip, William John]. 1839. Beale on the natural …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • … and plants under domestication . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he …
  • … the book was further delayed by the time it took William Sweetland Dallas to prepare the index. John …
  • … J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 ). In a letter to his son William, Darwin confided, ‘Mamma has …
  • … Charles Fleeming Jenkin, who had recently collaborated with William Thomson on experiments on …

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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  • … Darwin with his now famous beard, had been taken by his son William in April, when Darwin was …
  • … for him to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help; he also ordered a …
  • … In the same month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, professor of clinical medicine at …
  • … the two previous years. As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 …
  • … The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin’s eldest son and a banker …
  • … shape and size, indicated fertility between dimorphic forms. William participated in the detailed …
  • … can do as much pollen work as ever you like’. Comments on William’s findings, along with other …
  • … wife, Emma, or by Henrietta. Darwin’s own replies to William disclose his delight in discovering the …
  • … As in earlier years, Darwin consulted Charles William Crocker about his crossing experiments with …
  • … his brother Erasmus told him of a subscription fund for John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, South …

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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  • … to 1836 voyage, committed suicide at the end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the …
  • … there are a number of letters to and from the poultry expert William Bernhard Tegetmeier concerning …
  • … contracted a throat infection, and Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker, who also caught it, …
  • … All the children living away from home made frequent visits. William was working as a banker in …
  • … triumphs . In non-fiction, they had read or were reading William Lecky’s  History of the rise and …
  • … Researches into the early history of mankind , and William Gifford Palgrave’s  Narrative of a year …
  • … in Mentone, sending orchid specimens, from Frederick William Farrar, writing on language, and from …
  • … atmosphere. However, Darwin wrote poignantly to his son William on 30 November [1861]: ‘Mamma is in …

Essay: What is Darwinism?

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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…

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  • … view of Dr. Hodge through those of such men as Sir William Thomson, Herschel, Argyll, Owen, Mivart, …
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