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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
- … ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
- … the first part of his presidential address at the Linnean Society of London to British and foreign …
- … colony, paid tribute to Darwin’s work when he spoke to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in …
- … ). Darwin was subsequently elected an Honorary Member of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, …
- … an honorary member of the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club ( see letter from George Maw, 19 …
- … in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
- … in species of Linum ’) was read before the Linnean Society. In the paper, Darwin presented …
- … the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
- … communicated Scott’s Primula work to the Linnean Society in a paper that was read in February …
- … Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he read his orchid paper, …
- … and Herschelea Darwin communicated to the Linnean Society ( see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 …
- … On the way to Malvern Wells, Darwin stopped in London overnight to consult George Busk, former …
- … Brinton, a stomach specialist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 …
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 …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … admired in his youth: ‘I have always looked on him as one of the greatest men the world has ever …
- … The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. …
- … opportunity to contact the spirit world. While Darwin was in London, his son George organised a …
- … John Tyndall, professor at and superintendent of the Royal Institution of Great Britain was informed …
- … suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. Hooker, 29 …
- … of June, Darwin’s fourth son, Leonard, who had joined the Royal Engineers in 1871, went to New …
- … he had with Hubert Airy, the son of the Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy, to help Leonard gain …
- … Ruck, the sister of a friend of Leonard Darwin’s in the Royal Engineers, on 23 July 1874. The newly …
- … by botanists from Kew and around the country, and by London chemists and animal physiologists. …
- … physiologists at the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution in London, who performed comparative animal …
- … Dionaea (Venus fly trap) to help with his lecture at the Royal Institution ( letter to J. S. …
- … Balfour; Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see …
- … subjects during his time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( …
- … the colour of their surroundings to the Entomological Society of London ( letter from H. W. Bates, …
- … Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to the Geological Society of London and an annual medal ( …
- … February 1874 ), and honorary member of the Entomological Society of France ( letter to Eugène …
- … through a historical survey of scientists’ engagement with philosophical materialism, including a …
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