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The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with …
- … his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to prepare the …
- … appropriate. The correspondence shows that at any one time Darwin was engaged in a number of …
- … The chapter on instinct posed a number of problems for Darwin. ‘I find my chapter on Instinct very …
- … ). In addition to behaviour such as nest-building in birds, Darwin intended to discuss many other …
- … celebrated as a classic example of divine design in nature. Darwin hypothesised that the instinct of …
- … of construction as it took place in the hive. As with Darwin’s study of poultry and pigeons, many …
- … founder and president of the Apiarian Society, provided Darwin with information and specimens. His …
- … For assistance with mathematical measurements and geometry, Darwin called upon William Hallowes …
- … from the Beagle voyage; on his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin; and his son William. Even his …
- … of smaller genera? The inquiry was of great importance to Darwin, for such evidence would support …
- … of the statistics was still problematic. Hooker thought that Darwin was wrong to assume that …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the last …
- … upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book (letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ (letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … (letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ (letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only Leonard Horner gave his unqualified …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural …
- … Russel Wallace. This letter led to the first announcement of Darwin’s and Wallace’s respective …
- … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the …
- … exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwin’s work was being discussed in …
- … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w d …
- … hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). This transformation in Darwin’s personal …
- … The 'big book' The year 1858 opened with Darwin hard at work preparing his ‘big …
- … his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to prepare the …
- … appropriate. The correspondence shows that at any one time Darwin was engaged in a number of …
- … The chapter on instinct posed a number of problems for Darwin. ‘I find my chapter on Instinct very …
- … ). In addition to behaviour such as nest-building in birds, Darwin intended to discuss many other …
- … celebrated as a classic example of divine design in nature. Darwin hypothesised that the instinct of …
- … of construction as it took place in the hive. As with Darwin’s study of poultry and pigeons, …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin …
- … 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15 (1859): xxv). One of the most …
- … theory. As he wrote in his introductory essay (Hooker 1859, p. ii): 'In the present Essay I …
- … to test such a theory. His essay, published in December 1859, was the first serious study of the …
- … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
- … D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only Leonard Horner gave his unqualified …
- … illhealth revived as first Henrietta and then Elizabeth and Leonard suffered similar symptoms. With …
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 – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig …
- … as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of the Darwin Correspondence Project to be identified …
- … correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring …
- … Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin Actor 3 – In the dress of a modern day …
- … Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of John Stuart Mill, Emma Darwin, Horace Darwin… and acts as a sort …
- … the play unfolds and acting as a go-between between Gray and Darwin, and between the audience and …
- … this, he sends out copies of his Review of the Life of Darwin. At this time in his life, Asa …
- … friends in England, copies of his ‘Review of the Life of Darwin’… pencilling the address so that it …
- … Joseph D Hooker GRAY: 3 Charles Darwin… made his home on the border of the little …
- … are kept in check by a constitutional weakness. DARWIN: A plain but comfortable brick …
- … by every blessing except that of vigorous health… DARWIN: 4 My confounded stomach …
- … pursuits and the simplicity of his character. DARWIN: 5 I am allowed to work now …
- … own house, where he was the most charming of hosts. DARWIN: 6 My life goes on …
- … being a part of [an unpublished] manuscript. Darwin settles down to write. His tone is …
- … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
- … In which Gray, while continuing to provide stamps for Leonard Darwin’s collection, fails to be …
- … 12 OCTOBER 1857 60 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, SUMMER 1859 61 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather …
- … a natural historical narrative of the journey (Galton 1853). Darwin enjoyed and admired Galton’s …
- … into an entirely new province of knowledge’ ( 9 December 1859 ). He soon became interested in …
- … Hereditary Genius (1869), which contained an entry on the Darwin family, including the “author of …
- … for subjects of natural history”. Shortly after Darwin published his preliminary hypothesis …
- … on rabbits to test the theory. He reported regularly to Darwin on these experiments, which involved …
- … Royal Society claiming that his results tended to disprove Darwin’s theory (Galton 1871). This …
- … 1871 ). His views on inheritance continued to diverge from Darwin’s, however. He studied cases of …
- … Galton shared his views in several lengthy letters, but Darwin struggled with the abstract reasoning …
- … and infirmities, with the aim of improving the population. Darwin was less optimistic about such a …
- … ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his contemporaries, Darwin continued to believe in the …
- … men of science: their nature and nurture (Galton 1874), Darwin insisted that he had no particular …
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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- … of whom took immediate action to mediate a solution. Charles Darwin had close ties with both men and …
- … In the concluding paragraphs of Origin , Darwin had predicted that a ‘revolution in natural …
- … but his views were generally derided. 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in …
- … that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited …
- … Thomas Henry Huxley, Busk, and several other supporters of Darwin in editing the Natural History …
- … in French, earlier reports written in Danish (Morlot 1859, Forchhammer et al. 1851–5); Lubbock …
- … for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 Another controversy arose …
- … aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in correspondence …
- … spoke out publicly about any controversial aspect. Darwin’s chief complaint about the book …
- … he thought about ‘the derivation of Species’. 8 Darwin continued to feel aggrieved about …
- … to the Athenæum . 9 In the same letter, Darwin touched on an area of public …
- … accusation, which had just appeared in the Athenæum . Darwin had not advised Falconer personally, …
- … 11 In the same review Lubbock expressed publicly what Darwin had said privately; that is, that …
- … given that ‘the whole tenor of his argument’ supported Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). …
- … of all three letters to a number of friends, including Darwin. 22 Just before he …
- … who had also been sent copies of the letters, wrote to Darwin to ask what he thought of the affair ( …
- … as ‘rude & insulting’ and, in part, hardly intelligible. Darwin responded that, while he thought …
- … its appearance in print; first in French, dated Berne, Sept. 1859, in the ‘Mémoires de la Société …
- … zoologist M. Claparède had also conversed with me in 1859 on the researches of the best Danish …
- … gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred me chiefly to ‘Oversigt …
- … and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. 1859. On the occurrence of works of …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes géologico-archéologiques en …
- … struggle for life . By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape …
- … and London: University of Chicago Press. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1996a. Brixham Cave and …
- … Archives of Natural History 23: 79–97. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 2002. A scientific libel: …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life …
- … chance for what share of happiness this world affords." ( Darwin to H.W. Bates , 26 …
- … and they partook in his scientific endeavours. One of Darwin's defining characteristics …
- … through his correspondence. Letters written to and from Darwin, as well as those exchanged between …
- … provides into the bright and engaging personalities of the Darwin children and of family life in the …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species . 1859. London: John …
- … Dining at Down House Letter 259 —Charles Darwin to Caroline Darwin, 13 October …
- … South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his sister Caroline …
- … while ill. Letter 465 —Emma Wedgwood (Emma Darwin) to Charles Darwin, [30 December 1838] …
- … agreeable” for her sake. Letter 3626 —Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton, 28 June [1862] …
- … behalf to his American publisher, T. G. Appleton. Darwin, who is too ill to write himself, wishes to …
- … cod liver oil and moderate work, among other things, for Darwin’s complaints. Emma Darwin …
- … suffers a bout of “rocking & giddiness”. Emma Darwin to Henrietta Darwin, [5 September …
- … and is “absolutely gloating over puddings”. Leonard Darwin to George Darwin, 8 February …
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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- … 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a reflection on his debt …
- … ). The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, to …
- … from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such reminiscences led Darwin to the self-assessment, ‘as for one …
- … I feel very old & helpless The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to …
- … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
- … ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor health so frequently in …
- … 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and sceptics Darwin excused himself for reasons of …
- … by George Henry Lewes and Marian Evans (George Eliot), but Darwin excused himself, finding it too …
- … the month, another Williams séance was held at the home of Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood. Those …
- … imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all imposture’ …
- … stop word getting to America of the ‘strange news’ that Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his …
- … the first three months of the year and, like many of Darwin’s enterprises in the 1870s, were family …
- … 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble in …
- … and letter to Charles Lyell, [13 January 1874] ). Darwin blamed his illness for the …
- … . In his preface ( Coral reefs 2d ed., pp. v–vii), Darwin reasserted the priority of his work. …
- … for the absence of coral-reefs in certain locations. Darwin countered with the facts that low …
- … whole coastline of a large island. Dana also thought that Darwin had seen fringing reefs as proof of …
- … in sympathy: ‘If anybody tries that on with my boy Leonard the old wolf will shew all the fangs he …
- … [1874] ). At the end of June, Darwin’s fourth son, Leonard, who had joined the Royal …
- … son of the Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy, to help Leonard gain the commission ( …
- … took twelve weeks aboard the immigrant ship Merope . Leonard joined a colourful collection of …
- … son Francis married Amy Ruck, the sister of a friend of Leonard Darwin’s in the Royal Engineers, on …
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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- … in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time …
- … this second photograph is not precisely dated. An entry in Darwin’s account book for February 1858 …
- … be dated to a few years later. It may be the photograph that Darwin was promising to order and post …
- … had given him such an ‘atrociously wicked’ expression. Darwin also wrote to Asa Gray in April 1861: …
- … commercially produced, not the one taken by his son William Darwin at that time, which he mentions …
- … than Maull and Polyblank are known to have been employed by Darwin before the second half of the …
- … It must have been available before April or May 1862, when Darwin’s brother Erasmus solicited some …
- … Other early sources support an approximate dating of late 1859 or 1860. During the period when the …
- … version of the image: one reads ‘original taken about 1859’, and the other (in a different hand, …
- … that followed the publication of Origin in late November 1859. In his letter of spring 1862, …
- … and Polyblank, rather than just a supply of prints to the Darwin family for presentation to selected …
- … to volume 1 of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), edited by Francis Darwin (with a …
- … in Annals of Botany in 1899, to illustrate an article on Darwin’s botanical work by Francis …
- … of 1903. It was also, alas, one of the portrayals of Darwin ‘Exhibited by William E. and Leonard …
- … the fact that it was one of the very few images that showed Darwin as he looked at the time of the …
- … by many readers and publishers. Ernst Haeckel, writing to Darwin in January 1866, thought it was …
- … he much preferred the little photograph taken by Darwin’s son William. Darwin in reply confirmed …
- … ‘List of Exhibits . . . Exhibited by William E. and Leonard Darwin’, First International Eugenics …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
- … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
- … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
- … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
- … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
- … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
- … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
- … eds.] [Abstract in DAR 91: 13.] 119: 9b Horner, Leonard, ed. 1843. Memoirs and …
- … conflict . 3 vols. London. 128: 25 Jenyns, Leonard. 1838. Further remarks on the …
- … dit jardin. Augsbourg. 128: 16 [Knapp, John Leonard]. 1829. Journal of a …
- … waters. Philadelphia. 128: 8 Staunton, George Leonard. 1797. An authentic account of …
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 …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him …
- … formal bust portrait was not a public commission. It was Darwin’s close friend Joseph Hooker who …
- … or perhaps for display at Kew. In January 1864 Hooker told Darwin, ‘I am very anxious to get Woolner …
- … are not pleasing’. This enterprise came to nothing – was Darwin wary of authorising the creation and …
- … the project was revived, it was as a commission on behalf of Darwin’s brother Erasmus, presumably …
- … undertaken in November 1868, not for Erasmus but for Charles Darwin himself, and his immediate …
- … oil portrait of Charles’s famous grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. An inventory of the contents of Down …
- … and awestruck visitors to Down, and apparently where Darwin carried out his duties as a magistrate. …
- … dynastic or social pretension; and Woolner’s portrayal of Darwin, analogously, falls somewhere …
- … modern dress. It is significant, therefore, that the bust of Darwin is all’antica , resembling …
- … head and an effect of classical drapery. When the bust of Darwin was exhibited at the Royal Academy …
- … finely modelled’, especially ‘his remarkable one of Mr. Darwin. In this Socrates like head, with its …
- … as some others did, that ‘One could not converse with Darwin without being reminded of Socrates’ and …
- … attacks. Moreover, a physical resemblance between Darwin and Socrates was evident in the short …
- … philosopher’s head. Similarly, Woolner has emphasised Darwin’s finely shaped forehead, and the …
- … is inscribed in capitals on the front of the base ‘Charles Darwin’, and signed on the side ‘T. …
- … a poet as well as a sculptor - whose lively conversation, Darwin said, relieved the tedium of posing …
- … , and he was among the ‘personal friends’ invited to Darwin’s funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1882. …
- … working on a bust of Tennyson, shows a model for the bust of Darwin on the shelf nearby, next to one …
- … Picture Gallery. Yet it was not accounted a success by the Darwin family. Darwin himself, according …
- … the New York Academy of Sciences, sought guidance from the Darwin family as to the best model for a …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one …
- … a family Busy as he was with scientific activities, Darwin found time to re-establish family …
- … close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return, Darwin became engaged to his cousin, …
- … daughter, Anne Elizabeth, moved to Down House in Kent, where Darwin was to spend the rest of his …
- … his greatest theoretical achievement, the most important of Darwin’s activities during the years …
- … identifications of his bird and fossil mammal specimens, Darwin arrived at the daring and momentous …
- … in species. With this new theoretical point of departure Darwin continued to make notes and explore …
- … 1842 is, to a surprising degree, present in the version of 1859. Young author Darwin’s …
- … the Beagle had returned to England, news of some of Darwin’s findings had been spread by the …
- … great excitement. The fuller account of the voyage and Darwin’s discoveries was therefore eagerly …
- … suitable categories for individual experts to work upon, Darwin applied himself to the revision of …
- … of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle. Darwin’s volume bore the title Journal …
- … visited by H.M.S. Beagle . Also in November 1837, Darwin read the fourth of a series of papers to …
- … to the Society of 9 March 1838), had been developed by Darwin from a suggestion made by his uncle, …
- … Sedgwick, [after 15 May 1838] ). The new research Darwin undertook after 1837 was an …
- … time, the parallel terraces, or ‘roads’, of Glen Roy. Darwin had seen similar formations on the …
- … roads of Glen Roy’, Collected papers 1: 88–137). Darwin later abandoned this view, calling it a …
- … contemporaneous unstratified deposits of South America”, Darwin continued to defend his and Lyell’s …
- … 1842, having heard of evidence of glaciation in North Wales, Darwin made a tour there in order to …
- … more satisfactorily than any alternative explanation. Darwin eventually relinquished this theory and …
- … the Beagle voyage In addition to his work on geology Darwin undertook to provide a …
- … The correspondence provides a nearly complete record of Darwin’s arrangements with the Treasury, his …
- … G. R. Waterhouse; Birds , by John Gould; Fish , by Leonard Jenyns; and Reptiles , by Thomas …
- … and habitats of the species. Mr Arthrobalanus Darwin had originally planned to include …
- … Archipelago off the coast of Chile. These unexpectedly led Darwin to devote eight years (1846–54) …
- … As the correspondence from these years shows, that work put Darwin in communication with most of the …
- … and corals by William Lonsdale ( Collected papers , 2). Darwin’s crustacean specimens, originally …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Editions Plants always held an important place in Darwin’s theorising about species, and …
- … his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close friend …
- … way to continuous writing and revision, activities that Darwin found less gratifying: ‘I am slaving …
- … bad.’ The process was compounded by the fact that Darwin was also revising another manuscript …
- … coloured stamens.’ At intervals during the year, Darwin was diverted from the onerous task of …
- … zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and early May, Darwin was occupied with a heated …
- … chapter of the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous …
- … on 12 January , breaking off all future communication. Darwin had been supported during the affair …
- … Society of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwin’s friends had to find ways of …
- … pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have defended me’, Darwin wrote on 6 January , ‘You have also …
- … in public. ‘Without cutting him direct’, he advised Darwin on 7 January , ‘I should avoid him, …
- … & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered taking up …
- … , ‘I feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwin’s ire was not fully spent, however, …
- … in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. Darwin raised the matter at the end of the …
- … to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a memorial …
- … Hensleigh and Frances