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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 13 hits
- … price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely …
- … because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Darwin's …
- … he felt particular anxiety, with another German zoologist, August Weismann, and was delighted to …
- … turn into an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). Darwin and …
- … context, led Darwin to a second rare public intervention in August. Alfred Russel Wallace had been …
- … in Wallace’s defence ( letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] ). Although the two men …
- … are daily turning up’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). Other correspondents …
- … of Wallace’s position ( letter from Anton Dohrn, 21 August 1872 ). Dohrn requested for the new …
- … Darwin gladly agreed to donate ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 24 August [1872] ). Exerting …
- … own father, Sir George ( letter to Hubert Airy, 24 August 1872 ). In January, Darwin wrote …
- … at last been satisfactorily commissioned and executed, by August Darwin had become embroiled in a …
- … them have it for love!!!’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 August 1872 ). It had been decided …
- … he needed no encouragement to do himself. On 23 August, the day after he finished going over …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 13 hits
- … means of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864 …
- … Darwin was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter …
- … in Victoria, Australia ( letter from R. B. Smyth, 13 August 1868 ); lengthy replies were received …
- … The British envoy in China, Robert Swinhoe, remarked on 4 August that Darwin’s queries had …
- … the lepidopterist Adolf Speyer and the plant geographer August Röse were ‘ardent followers of …
- … Molendo and Alexander Walther addressed themselves on 5 August to ‘the Reformator of Natural …
- … ‘scientifically reborn’ through Darwin’s writings. August Weismann sent Darwin a copy of his …
- … of Darwinian theory (Weismann 1868; letter to August Weismann, 22 October 1868 ). To the …
- … Darwin’s concluding paragraphs in Variation on 31 August : ‘The Theological diffculty of the …
- … defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September on ‘the terrible “Darwinismus …
- … against’ ( letter from G. D. Hinrichs, [before 13 August 1868] ). Finally, Darwin was induced to …
- … house all in love with you’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 August [1868] ). merely a …
- … had done nothing for his health ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1868] ), but it did result in …
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) …
- … Dunker, Wilhelm (4) Dupré, August (2) …
- … (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 …
- … Wissenschaften (3) Kanitz, August (1) …
- … (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 …
- … K. A. (1) Müller Beeck, August (1) …
- … (9) Rolle, Friedrich (12) Rolleston, George …
- … Robert (1) Schleicher, August (1) …
- … Weir, J. J. (72) Weismann, August (10) …
- … (1) Whitley, C. T. (12) Whitney, W. D. …
- … (2) Zacharias, Otto (12) Zeuschner, E. L. …
