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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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- … but in February he began to feel more weak than usual. To Lawson Tait, he remarked, ‘I feel a very …
- … H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, and letter to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , …
- … 20 March [1882] ; see also letter from T. L Brunton, 12 February 1882 , and letter to T. L. …
- … & it is a consolation to me to think that the last 10 or 12 years were the happiest (owing to …
- … ’ ( Correspondence vol. 17, letter from F. M. Malven, 12 February [1869] ). An extract from …
- … the same class with his’ ( letter to F. M. Malven, [after 12 February 1869] ). Accompanying this …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (1) Agassiz, Alexander (12) Agassiz, Louis …
- … (1) Berkeley, M. J. (12) Berlin (1) …
- … (1) Gaudry, Albert (12) Geach, F. F. …
- … (3) Geikie, Archibald (12) Geikie, James …
- … (1) Grove, W. R. (12) Groves, Henry …
- … (3) Hooker, F. H. (12) Hooker, Hyacinth …
- … (2) Judd, J. W. (12) Jukes, J. B. (9 …
- … (2) Koch, Eduard (12) Koch, Heinrich …
- … (3) Layton, Charles (12) Le Couteur, John …
- … (1) Mackintosh, Daniel (12) Maclaren, Charles …
- … (1) McLennan, J. F. (12) McNeill, Archibald …
- … (1) Meehan, Thomas (12) Meitzen, August …
- … (9) Rolle, Friedrich (12) Rolleston, George …
- … (1) Whitley, C. T. (12) Whitney, W. D. …
- … (2) Zacharias, Otto (12) Zeuschner, E. L. …
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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- … silly to deserve an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 ). Others questioned …
- … ). Darwin also had cause to regret his generosity to Lawson Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. …
- … Nepenthes , considered the morphological part of Tait’s work to be ‘trash’ and thought the paper …
- … for one so poor at figures as I am’, Gray conceded on 12 November , although he could reassure …
- … Darwin’s oldest son William (see Correspondence vol. 12 and the Supplement to vol. 24). By the …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … with blue eyes’ were ‘invariably deaf’ ( Origin , p. 12; see also p. 144). Moreover, although he …
- … eyes are generally deaf’ ( Origin 3d ed. , p. 12). He had refined it yet further by the 4 th …
- … a further complication to the example of cats, one observer, Lawson Tait, later claimed that it was …
- … the book ( Variation 2d, 2: 322 n. 24). By this stage Lawson Tait was a frequent and, as Darwin …
- … and those with long beaks large feet ’ ( Origin p. 12). While he had first-hand knowledge …
- … alone have a good chance of living." ( Origin 3d ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more …
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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- … than insectivorous plants. As he confessed to Hooker on 12 December , ‘I have not felt so angry …
- … from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all future …
- … of a bill that was presented to the House of Commons on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on …
- … The author, Fritz Schultze, contacted Darwin himself on 12 June , describing the aims of his book …
- … Darwin began corresponding with the Birmingham surgeon Lawson Tait, a specialist in gynaecology. …
- … analogous to the spiral form of twining plants (letters from Lawson Tait, 16 March [1875] and …
- … scientific Socy. has done in my time,’ he told Hooker on 12 December . ‘I wish that I knew what …
