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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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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
- … words to celebrate what would have been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th …
- … Fox, to reminiscence about their university days together, and the long-abandoned pleasures of …
- … takes everything more quietly, as not signifying so much. And … one looks backwards much more than …
- … Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and sceptics Darwin excused …
- … house. The event was led by the medium Charles E. Williams, and was attended by George Henry Lewes …
- … the psychic researcher Frederick William Henry Myers, and Thomas Henry Huxley, who sent a long …
- … over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent consumed the first three …
- … he applied first to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( …
- … written’ parts of the draft sent to Smith, Elder & Co, and he was able to tackle the proofs only …
- … came out in June with the later chapters on the formation and distribution of coral-reefs …
- … have been increased by the publication in 1872 of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana …
- … fully account for the absence of coral-reefs in some areas, and a volcano cannot affect the whole …
- … for the communication of a surprising number of new facts and remarks’ ( Descent 2d ed., p. v). …
- … who forwarded Darwin’s queries about the numbers of males and females born into, and preserved in, …
- … essay appeared in the Quarterly Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and …
- … a three-year apprenticeship with the engineering firm Easton and Anderson of Erith, Kent. After a …
- … Horace’s illness: ‘My son is most desirous to enter your works; & I am sure he will never …
- … as not to bind him to long hours of work’ ( letter to Easton and Anderson, 4 May [1874] ). …
- … proposed to bring out an edition of his collected works in German. Darwin’s books were selling well …
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