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Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … determined to keep his resolution of ‘ not wasting more time on the origin ’, and saw the second …
- … of the fittest' in the fifth and sixth editions. His ‘ historical sketch ’, first added to …
- … .) Principal among those additions was Darwin’s ‘historical sketch’, the backstory of …
- … was frustrated that Harvey, who had clearly spent a lot of time on the book, seemed so utterly to …
- … a critique of his own, was in preparation at much the same time as the US edition and Darwin built …
- … I am, as it were, reading the “Origin” for the first time, for I am correcting for a 2 nd . French …
- … is tough reading & I wish it were done.— By the time Darwin was told in February 1866 …
- … at his old foe and former friend, Richard Owen (see the 'historical sketch' written …
- … by Charles Darwin F.R.S. By the time he had finished the corrections for the …
- … Jackson Mivart. Responding cost Darwin a great deal of time and energy and resulted in the addition …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin …
- … he told Joseph Dalton Hooker that he was preparing a ‘historical sketch’ for Origin that cited …
- … to that hypothesis which supposes the species living at any time to be the result of the gradual …
- … which living beings have undergone during geological time is but very small in relation to the whole …
- … selection to act on and accumulate. In no case, perhaps, has time sufficed for the utmost possible …
- … and brachiopods—swarmed in numbers; at the present time, both these orders have been greatly reduced …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … burying her face in her handkerchief & crying all the time. Whilst the Mission was in progress …
- … them & said, No, stop now— Now is the appointed time. But she was eventually let off on a …
- … he comes as I think he comes. It is a happy waiting today— Time does not seem to drag its weary way …
- … service—& then I feel that its having been hallowed by time makes it a sort of inheritance— it …
- … sentiments common to humanity & its religion is a legacy of time. My conscience does …
Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … for one’s health.— [16] but terrible loss of time . — My[17] God, it is intolerable to …
- … & anxiety of children— perhaps quarelling— Loss of time . — cannot read in the Evenings— …
- … about no Society—morning calls—awkwardness—loss of time every day. (without one’s wife was an angel, …
- … [1838]. [2] Presumably CD is looking forward to the time when he will have completed his work …
- … seems clear that he had no definite prospect in mind at the time of writing, but in a letter to …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … The 'Appeal' should be set in the context of two historical movements in Victorian Britain …
- … are much less frequently witnessed now than they were some time ago. This is no doubt owing to the …
- … Some who reflect upon this subject for the first time will wonder how such cruelty can have been …
Vivisection: Darwin's testimony to the Royal Commission
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Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. 4661. (Chairman.) We are very sensible of your kindness in coming at some sacrifice to yourself to express your opinions to the Commission. We attribute it to the great…
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- … of them. I had occasion to read them over lately at the time when this subject was beginning to be …
Vivisection: first sketch of the bill
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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …
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- … granted under this act shall remain in force for a longer time than five years from the date thereof …
- … may be granted and remain in force for and during such time as he may continue to hold his …
- … of any lecture or lesson given by him, or an any other time, to subject an animal to an experiment …
Darwiniana – Preface
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—by Asa Gray These papers are now collected at the request of friends and correspondents, who think that they may be useful; and two new essays are added. Most of the articles were written as occasion called for them within the past sixteen years, and…
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- … writer’s freely-expressed thoughts upon the subject at the time; and to many readers there may be …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. …
- … not the one taken by his son William Darwin at that time, which he mentions fondly in a footnote. No …
- … ‘J.D.’), ‘Photograph of Charles Darwin taken about the time of the publication of the Origin. …
- … the very few images that showed Darwin as he looked at the time of the publication of Origin. …
- … Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge …
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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- … of exploitations – discoveries – naval theories, and Historical sketches &c &c – which I …
- … of space” prevented me from clearing them up at the time) sundry difficulties of the nature of …
- … foot of lee-way – in the 24 hours – or – as much more time as might be required in the case. To make …
- … of an uncommon height – and that too – “at the very time – when but for these two auxiliaries to …
- … at once – though not in the central parts at the same time.” That “the tides at the Cocos are …
- … – an event which shall most certainly take place when the time comes wherein calves unfailingly obey …
- … until approved by the Master – or his substitute for the time being. This System would …
- … by Indian aggression (retaliation) *[1] ” but since that time, they have been kept in continual …
- … more than a thousand Indians attacked the Settlement at one time – and the inhabitants retreated to …
- … – where now there is not even a calf. For since that time – the frequent predatory excursions of …
- … necessarily placed these recollections in abeyance for the time. – Perchance those motives, being of …
- … and one who should have been " However, I shall in due time explain myself on this point …
- … – the power of advancing one’s interest at some future time.” The wreck of H.M.S. Challenger …
- … done – that on the day before "Observations were got for time." which – by the majority – …
- … she had run down 24 at 8 o'clock – and going from that time at the rate of four knots" She …
- … one. If he has remembered to forget – that between the time of my survey – and that of my said …
- … scarcely any surf on the reefs and nearly low water at the time – owing to which circumstances – …
- … – the coral was visible and she put about – just in time to save herself and stood out and round by …
- … must have been steering aside from the Isles during the time between 10 a.m. and nearly 6 p.m. …
- … – I know – and the reconciliation shall in due time be clearly effected. Meanwhile I trust the …
- … in coming to my aid (as they imagined) just in the nick of time – thereby intending to preserve me …
- … select this group of Islands for such an examination as our time and means would admit of – and as …
- … in all the Oceans on the Globe. Happening some time afterwards to see in “The United Service …
- … their contents in a paper to be published – at some future time. In that paper he declared …
- … that when Mr Ross saw it (Brochure and all – for the first time) he elevated his shaggy overhanging …
- … Plagiarism – Piracy – &c – he however altho’ at the time unaware of the laudable motives by …
- … – before I made a copy of it. Intending as I did at the time pass that off for being the result of …
- … width of page] I knew it not at the time – Mr Ross made a certain particular …
- … in its organized and inorganized divisions also on its historical – political and religious aspects …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
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- … his autobiography (Wallace 1905, 1: 361–3): At the time in question I was suffering from a …
- … hot fits had to lie down for several hours, during which time I had nothing to do but to think over …
- … of preserving existence, that variety must inevitably in time acquire a superiority in numbers. …
- … population of the parent species, and those which would in time obtain and keep a numerical …
- … new, improved, and populous race might itself, in course of time, give rise to new varieties, …
- … so, and even causing the extinction of the newer and, for a time, superior race, while the old or …
- … works is so vast—the numbers of individuals and periods of time with which she deals approach so …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … that grand succession which in the slow lapse of geological time has emerged, constituting the life …
- … Turning from these purely physiological considerations to historical proof, and selecting the only …
- … are favourable, and then only in a definite way; that the time for psychical change corresponds with …
- … any better. He would, however, express his conviction, that time was not an essential element in …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … as Asa Gray had put it, not ‘very perfect’. This was a time when an exchange of signed photographs …
- … portrayal of him which Maull and Polyblank produced a short time later. The first, …
- … Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … is only by slow degrees. Wherefore, in Galileo’s time, we might have helped to proscribe, or …
- … Investigations about the succession of species in time, and their actual geographical distribution …
- … good to old beliefs. Foreseeing, yet deprecating, the coming time of trouble, we still hoped that, …
- … suggests a closer association of our ancestors of the olden time with ‘our poor relations’ of the …
- … and chipping out flint knives and arrow-heads in the time of the drift, very many ages ago—before …
- … things with great in a homely illustration: man alters from time to time his instruments or machines …
- … be propagated, like those of domestic cattle. In course of time the old ones would be worn out or …
- … comes in to rebut the objection that there has not been time enough for any marked diversification …
- … for a theory of derivation of one sort from another, nor time enough even to account for the …
- … of some of the present races of men upon these early historical monuments and records. But …
- … years ago; at a place in Suffolk they have been exhumed from time to time for more than a century; …
- … upon most interesting questions, belong to the present time. To complete the connection of these …
- … .’ In plain language, these workers in flint lived in the time of the mammoth, of a rhinoceros now …
- … not inevitable, to infer that, if the aurochs of that olden time were the ancestors of the aurochs …
- … likely to suppose that the Equus and Bos of that time, different though they be, were the …
- … descent from the drift period down to the present, and allow time enough—if time is of any account— …
- … species. Whatever might have been thought, when geological time was supposed to be separated from …
- … of species between the teritiary period and the present time, through natural agencies or secondary …
- … geological changes in a quiet and easy way, only give them time enough, so connecting the present …
- … quaternary period than between the latter and the present time. So far, the Lyellian view is, we …
- … down into the quaternary, and many of them to the present time. A goodly percentage of the earlier …
- … why not this stock from the auroch, which has had all the time between the diluvial and the historic …
- … to what are held to be specific may arise in the course of time, so that one species may at length …
- … many of the species which flourished apparently at the same time in all or in the most widely …
- … of the glacial period within a comparatively recent time. Let it be noted also that those tertiary …
- … true one. Perhaps the author is more familiar with natural-historical than with philosophical …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … of your Series’, as requested, but he could not spare the time to go to Edwards’s photographic …
- … Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge …
3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah
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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…
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- … physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises Darwin’s benign but …
- … Darwin recollected his father’s air of sadness at that time. In a letter to Hooker of 15 June 1881, …
- … to begin any investigation lasting years’, but at the same time ‘despondent’ about himself owing to …
- … Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge …
The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
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Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
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- … was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he …
- … quite lately she would when poorly fondle for any length of time one of Emma’s arms. When very …
- … in the most elegant way, her dear face bright all the time, with the sweetest smiles. …
- … Aug. 1851. Etty nearly 8 years old. She appeared for some time to have lost the distressing feelings …
- … then said a little prayer after me. Aug. 24. At bed time. E. Will you help me to be …
- … E. But you are always with somebody. Aug. 25 Bed time. E. (whispering) do you think I …
- … is not quite dead, but will come back again sometime. Some time ago she cried in great distress & …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … in August 1868, ‘How about Photographs? Can you spare time for a line to our dear M rs Cameron? …
- … Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … demolished. The appearance of the complex at about the time of Darwin’s death, showing the four …
- … least some plants for the new hothouse from Cattell at this time. (Usually, purchases of plants from …
- … of the species that he had been anxious to obtain at this time, and as such is a useful indication …
