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Offer of a lifetime
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When Charles Darwin was 22 he was offered an exciting opportunity to join a sea voyage that would take him around the world. The journey would change Darwin’s life and the course of science - but he nearly didn’t go at all!
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- … explore different writing styles, from writing a job description to writing diary entries and …
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…
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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…
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- … work ’ he told Hooker. ‘I hated the thought of the job’, he confessed, but now appreciated that …
- … horror often to me, of what a thing it would be & what a job it would be for the next Edition of …
- … three chapters was sufficient for Murray to confirm his offer on 10 April . But then there was a …
- … I have done my best. Others might, I have no doubt, done the job better, if they had my materials; …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … within the limits of this one species!! … A nice job, Heaven knows whether my patience will last; …
- … February 1864 that he wrote up his results. ‘ The first job which I shall do is to draw up result …
- … generally sterile, & are often dwarfs, so that they offer the closest analogy with Hybrids; the …
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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- … year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, observations, and …
- … lead him to reject what we should feel it a privilege to offer” ( letter from E. F. Lubbock, …
- … soon complained to Hooker, “[it] turns out a truly awful job, from the innumerable criticisms, …
- … work for pay. Darwin assured his fellow naturalist that the job was “dull & tedious”, and that …
- … having been Henrietta. A family affliction The job also suited George’s current …
- … [after 7 June 1873] ). Darwin did accept an offer closer to home, when he was graced by an …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … overwhelmed with my notes & almost too old to undertake the job which I have in Hand—ie …
- … given the task of cutting up the text and rearranging it—a job, he was sure, she could do ‘very …
- … wrote on 10 January to ask whether Darwin could find him a job in a British geological establishment …
- … little suspected that Darwin, knowing that the prospect of a job or grant was hopeless, would offer …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … [20 September 1837] Darwin takes Henslow up on his offer to proofread one of his …
- … Wallace reassures Darwin that he his happy to pass on the job of editing the second edition of …
- … Darwin would be more satisfied if his son was to take on the job. Letter 9157 - …
- … [28 November 1843] Hooker thanks Darwin for his offer of assistance with the examination of …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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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- … the terms under which it would be published. Murray’s offer of their usual arrangement (two-thirds …
- … this experimentally. ‘If I were wise I shd. throw up the job; but I cannot endure to do this’, …
- … ). The degree of Darwin’s distress prompted Murray to offer to publish as soon as the stereotypes …
- … Geikie, on 11 November , ‘This leads me to make an offer ... namely to subscribe £100 or £200, if …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … asked me to put in my oar – but what of that – when my offer could not be politely refused! …
- … he has kindly volunteered, and I have gladly accepted the offer to – jointly with me – re-write the …
- … for having in this case fulfilled on my behalf the wish of Job" Oh that mine enemy had written …
- … settling his family on the Cocos and to go make the offer which they felt sure would be gladly …
- … within a moderate distance – he would proceed and make the offer – at the time he thought it …
- … rice of which you [ f.190r p.87 ] receive a part.) I offer her on the following conditions …
- … value – accounts of her building and “equipment.” This offer he accepted and Mr R supplied a crew …
- … her Mr Leisk returned but the crew getting an advantageous offer to proceed to Australia embraced it …
- … being married in England declined, but Mr Ross accepted the offer and with a Manilla Seacunny for …
- … be paid by all employers of labour to all employees (who may offer themselves for such work) as the …
- … and certificate of being a freeman. Not one accepted the offer but all desired to be taken back to …
- … labourers for him to superintend – he would find the job of raising such another House from the …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
