Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
8 Items
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
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…
Matches: 9 hits
- … 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 …
- … of illness. Variation , which he had begun in January 1860, and which was intended to explain his …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 16 hits
- … vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
- … ’ ( 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 …
- … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer …
- … 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] ). …
- … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of Origin , that in order …
- … and Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
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…
Matches: 17 hits
- … implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, 1: 51). …
- … book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition …
- … completed and set in type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for …
- … 4 One area of controversy centred around claims by Hugh Falconer that Lyell had failed to credit …
- … 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 …
- … well as the Swiss lake-dwellings, was originally written in 1860 for the sixth edition of the ‘ …
- … discoveries and conclusions which had been made before 1860; but I gladly took advantage of the …
- … to them, or to any authors of later date than the summer of 1860, I must have expanded the plan of …
- … , 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 , …
- … expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860 15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by …
- … Lyell’s … the Antiquity of man : the roots of Hugh Falconer’s attack on Lyell. Archives of …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … plant, Drosera . As he had at Eastborne in the summer of 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8), Darwin …
- … [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 …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … to any thing from him except á la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The …
- … 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] ). …
- … descent than he had the previous year, particularly when Hugh Falconer suggested in his letter of …
- … 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] ). …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 4 hits
- … uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam …
- … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
- … in the long run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument …
- … 1859 70 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 5 JANUARY 1860 71L AGASSIZ, JULY 1860 …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 21 hits
- … 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
- … Falconers remark on the influence of climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v.] …
- … on Sewalik Fossils in 1842 [Cautley 1840 and Cautley and Falconer 1840] The Haras. Vet. Journ …
- … 1840] Proceedings of Agricult. Soc of India. 1838. Falconer says Royle will probably have it …
- … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
- … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
- … 9. 10. 11. 12. (1843). not much except Blyth. Aug 11. Falconer on Tenasserim Forests [H. …
- … [Lamb 1837] July 18 th Schools & Schoolmasters by Hugh Miller [H. Miller 1854] …
- … to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk …
- … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps …
- … arranged to borrow copies of this rare journal from Royle. Hugh Falconer was in London at this time. …
- … this entry with ‘O’ in pencil. 103 Hugh Cuming. John Gould Anthony published …
- … 2 vols. London. *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860. Gatherings of a naturalist in …
- … 292–304. *119: 16v. Cautley, Proby T. and Falconer, Hugh. 1840. Notice on the remains of …
- … 2 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: 22b ——. 1860. The woman in white . New York and London …
- … . Padua. [Other eds.] *119: 12v. Falconer, Hugh. 1852. Report on the teak forests of …
- … 1859. On liberty . London. 128: 25 Miller, Hugh. 1841. The Old Red Sandstone; or, …
- … 71: 149.] *128: 173; 128: 18 Samuelson, James. 1860. The honey-bee; its natural history …
- … feeding, and medical treatment of swine . London. [2d ed. (1860) in Darwin Library.] *119: 22v. …
- … companion) . London. 1848–61. [Nos. from 1855, 1856, and 1860 in Darwin Library.] *128: 153 …
- … series, 1847–51. Fourth series, 1852–9. New series, 1860–. *128: 151 Scientific Memoirs …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
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…
