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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 …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
- … ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in a letter in …
- … Darwin and Hooker repeatedly exchanged regrets about Falconer’s action towards Lyell, with Darwin …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were already engaged in a …
- … discovered fossil elephant should have priority. When Falconer’s account of the elephant appeared in …
- … Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer: ‘You would laugh, if you could have …
- … and I shall watch for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ) …
- … essential elements of the Jurassic fossil. When informed by Falconer of Owen’s ‘slip-shod and hasty …
- … Owen, as a punishment for his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and …
- … transitional form between reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). …
- … gap had been filled in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). …
- … criticisms from supporters or near-supporters of his theory. Hugh Falconer suggested that a ‘law of …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 May [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of Darwin’s and …
- … and discussed them in their letters. The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter …
- … tone was enthusiastic and energetic. However, on 31 January, Hugh Falconer died after a sudden …
- … person (see Correspondence vol. 12). In early January Falconer had written to Darwin’s brother, …
- … to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, …
- … content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). …
- … a bout of influenza, wrote to Darwin at some length about Falconer’s life and death, concluding …
- … ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by Hooker’s account of Falconer’s last sufferings, responded with an …
- … Scott had evidently started his crossing experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 ). However, probably the most enthusiastic …
- … that Lyell in his Antiquity of man , published in 1863, had made unacknowledged use of Lubbock’s …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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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- … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
- … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
- … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
- … 4 One area of controversy centred around claims by Hugh Falconer that Lyell had failed to credit …
- … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
- … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
- … when he expressed support for Lyell’s recent response to Falconer’s accusation, which had just …
- … this initial period of controversy, Lubbock also urged Falconer to tone down his attack on Lyell and …
- … originally argued that Lyell had done ‘an injustice’ to Falconer and Prestwich. 11 In the …
- … 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from Falconer, who reiterated his version of …
- … note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
- … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
- … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
- … evidence appealed to. 53 Harley Street: November 1863 Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
- … in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had …
- … 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
- … of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence …
- … , see Grayson 1985. 5. For two interpretations of Hugh Falconer’s attack on Charles Lyell …
- … that though Lyell had failed to give ‘due prominence’ to Falconer and Prestwich, his omission was …
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.: Falconer, Hugh. 1863. Letter. Athenaeum , …
- … Lyell’s … the Antiquity of man : the roots of Hugh Falconer’s attack on Lyell. Archives of …
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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- … the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
- … from that of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] …
- … leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found that he could still continue …
- … to any thing from him except á la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The …
- … scientific debate. He had begun taking the journal in April 1863 and was an enthusiastic subscriber. …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] ). When Hugh Falconer noted that the award of the …
- … as the latest ‘outburst of bigotry’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 8 November [1864] ). …
- … and their predecessors had continued to grow following the 1863 publication of Huxley’s Evidence …
- … descent than he had the previous year, particularly when Hugh Falconer suggested in his letter of …
- … failure to win the award in the two preceding years. An 1863 letter from the president of the Royal …
- … IV). With the help of supporters on the Council, including Hugh Falconer and George Busk, who had …
- … had taken so much interest on his behalf ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 4 November [1864] ). …
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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- … part of his popular exposition of Darwin’s theory (Rolle 1863; see letter to Friedrich Rolle, 17 …
- … [1862] ). However, his confidence was ill-founded. He told Hugh Falconer, who wondered when he …
- … trembling; that I dread coming up to London’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 14 November [1862] ). …
- … was the paper sent to Darwin by one of Owen’s adversaries, Hugh Falconer, concerning the fossil and …
- … blackguard friend of yours and mine’ ( see letter from Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] ). …
- … rubbish’, the ‘frame-work’ would stand ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] ). As he put it …
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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- … uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam …
- … of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
- … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
- … JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161 TO ASA GRAY 13 …
- … 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165 A Gray TO C Darwin …
- … APRIL 1866 173 C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO …
- … STAY 1881 192 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
