From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … in medallions (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863 , …
- … D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 11, and letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 and …
- … Crawfurd . See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 April [1863] and …
- … pp. 216, 219, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 ). …
- … both regions (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 …
- … letter from Hugh Falconer in the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p. 586). There was much discussion in CD’s 1863 correspondence regarding the controversy (see Correspondence vol. 11); …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … December 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 …
- … 6476)). See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 …
- … 22 March 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] ). …
- … Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] , …
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 1861] and n. 9, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] ). …
- … him from Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] …
- … 437–9; see also Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] …
- … 1863, aged 6 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September …
- … Hooker , aged 11. For Hooker’s recent discussion of his son William, see the letter from …
- … formation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 11) and to Andrew …
- … n. 10, and letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and nn. 10 and 11. There is …
From J. D. Hooker [15 August 1864]
Summary
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 232–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4590 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and …
- … natural selection (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 , …
- … In 1864, the first Monday after 11 August was 15 August. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 August [1864] . …
- … August [1864] and n. 6. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 August [1864] and n. 4. See …
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1864
Summary
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 238–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4608 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n. 11, and letter to J. D. Hooker, [9 May 1863] . …
- … between this letter, the letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] , and the letter to J. …
- … Wednesday was 13 May. See letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] , and letter from Osbert …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VIII). Bates 1863 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … 1852, and 1854). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [9 May 1863] and n. 11. The reference is …
- … and 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n. 11). Mann married Mary Anne …
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of both (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Charles Lyell , 12–13 March [1863] and …
- … Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] , …
- … address, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from George Bentham , [ c. 14 April 1863], …
- … 11), and had largely finished writing the draft of ‘Climbing plants’ on 13 September 1864 after four months’ work (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). See also letter …
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Zealand glaciers (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1863 …
- … 1986 . See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1863 and …
- … ed, pp. 442–3 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 …
- … and 11), and was an enthusiastic supporter of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Lyell 1863a , see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . …
- … one myself! ’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [ …
- … 1863a ). See Correspondence vol. 11 and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 …
- … inserting the note on page 11 of C. Lyell 1863c (see letter from Charles Lyell to J. …
- … majus (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and n. 11). All the surviving …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and n. 7). In June 1865, John Lubbock was 31 and Charles Lyell was 67. Hooker is probably referring to the ‘Hippocampus controversy’, the public argument over differences between human and ape brains that lasted from about 1860 to 1862 with Huxley and Richard Owen as the principal disputants. See Correspondence vols. 8, 9, 10, and 11; …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 9). There is no preface to the first edition of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ). The prefaces to the second edition ( C. Lyell 1863b ) and to the first printing of the third edition ( C. Lyell 1863c ), make no mention of Lubbock 1861 . In a footnote in the second chapter ( C. Lyell 1863a , p. 11), …
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … January 1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] ). …
- … Thomas Woolner (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
- … see Correspondence vols. 11 and 12, and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [22 …
- … Press. 1910–11. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. …
From J. D. Hooker 16 February 1864
Summary
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 183–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4408 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868
Summary
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 233–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6349 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1866]
Summary
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5093 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 234–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4600 |
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Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (148) |
Darwin, C. R. | (144) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a second …
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
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 …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
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- … The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 …
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…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings Darwin's first reflections on human progress were …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
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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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the …
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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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …