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From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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  • … (including philosophy) assessments causation embryology pangenesis reception of …

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … of classification also explains why he readily adopted embryology as a methodological tool for …
  • … ‘highness’ in particular groups, and, finally, (5) that embryology, by revealing homological …
  • … a classification based on homologies established through embryology as well as anatomy would best …
  • … point again illustrates how much his methodology relied upon embryology and the assumption that …
  • … views of naturalists in such areas as comparative anatomy, embryology, and palaeontology. This …

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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  • … geographical distribution, classification, homology, and embryology—which were inexplicable by the …
  • … of facts in favour of change of form’, namely those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 …
  • … could explain the basis for the correlation of the facts of embryology, homology, morphology, and …
  • … Darwin took some comfort from news that the doyen of embryology, Karl Ernst von Baer, had expressed …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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  • … of evolution. Comparative morphology, physiology and embryology were to be complemented by first …
  • … “Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn” and the history of embryology’, International Journal of …

Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter

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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…

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  • … anatomy and taxonomy and his commitment to developmental embryology as a basis for classification …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … for him, articles showing the close link between German embryology and Saint-Hilaire and monitoring …

New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … has just been remarked, we have in the laws of homology and embryology, &c., some distinct …

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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  • … heavily annotated his copy of Alexander’s paper on the embryology of ascidians (A. O. Kovalevsky …

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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  • … species of insects, Fritz Müller’s research on crustacean embryology, and Alfred Russel Wallace’s …

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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  • … Claus in Marburg, who was working on barnacle morphology and embryology and examining some of the …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … the role of Darwinian theory in the growth of experimental embryology, which he read when it was …

Review: The Origin of Species

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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…

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  • … then a fitting chapter upon classification, morphology, embryology, etc., as viewed in the light of …
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