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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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
- … some of whom took immediate action to mediate a solution. Charles Darwin had close ties with both …
- … his views were generally derided. 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in France …
- … belief that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he …
- … such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; …
- … the age of the human species. The visits by both Lyell and Lubbock reflected the growing interest, …
- … to establish the age of the human race. In 1861, Lubbock joined Thomas Henry Huxley, Busk, …
- … recent geologico-archaeological researches in Denmark’ (Lubbock 1861) for the October 1861 issue. …
- … Lubbock reviewed the literature on the topic and noted that Charles Adolphe Morlot had summarised, …
- … many of the ‘details’ for his article (Lubbock 1861, p. 494). Meanwhile, Lubbock continued his work …
- … also added the following note on page 11: *Mr. John Lubbock published, after these sheets …
- … partly inspired by the controversies associated with it. 4 One area of controversy centred …
- … his celebrated work on the ‘ Antiquity of man ,’ Sir Charles Lyell has made much use of my earlier …
- … me from any such inference. The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his …
- … wrote to Henrietta Emma Darwin, ‘whereas after talking to John, he thought him not wrong, after …
- … avoiding any mention of the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No …
- … on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (original version) *Mr. John Lubbock published, after these sheets …
- … on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (revised version) *Mr. John Lubbock published, in the October …
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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- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … (1) Alberts, Karl (4) Alberts, Maurice …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
- … (1) Atkinson, Edward (4) Aubertin, J. J. …
- … Edwards & Co. (1) Babbage, Charles (10) …
- … (1) Bailey, W. W. (4) Baillie, A. F. …
- … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
- … (1) Bary, Anton de (4) Bashford, Frederick …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
- … (1) Behrens, Wilhelm (4) Beke, C. T. …
- … (1) Bianconi, G. G. (4) Bibliogr. Inst. …
- … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
- … (7) Blair, R. H. (4) Blake, C. C. (3 …
- … Bond, Frederick (2) Boner, Charles (5) …
- … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
- … Edward (1) Bradlaugh, Charles (2) …
- … Brayley, E. W. (1) Breese, Charles (1) …
- … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
- … Samuel (b) (14) Buxton, Charles (2) …
- … Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. (2) …
- … Crawfurd, John (3) Crawley, Charles (2) …
- … Virginius (3) Dallas, Charles (1) …
- … Dixie, Florence (3) Dixon, Charles (1) …
- … Lydekker, R. (1) Lyell, Charles (277) …
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring …
- … two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives. Lubbock's father, John William …
- … banking family, and the family seat of High Elms, which Lubbock inherited in 1865, was at the heart …
- … and wide-ranging studies in anthropology and prehistory, John Lubbock’s childhood interest in …
- … mountain must come some Sunday to Mahomet. ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] ) …
- … meetings leave in the documentary record, it is clear that John Lubbock played a significant part in …
- … and strategist. As early as 1857 Darwin wrote to thank Lubbock for saving him from a ' …
- … on variation. Darwin made constant requests of Lubbock, bombarding him with questions and …
- … with me on general issue, or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) …
- … In the weeks immediately after publication, Darwin wrote to Lubbock not once but twice demanding to …
- … , ‘but for the opinion of men like you & Hooker & Huxley & Lyell’. Lubbock spoke …
- … Darwin's supporters) in 1864. Pre-historic Times (1865), Lubbock's account of human …
- … to humans. After his election as MP for Maidstone in 1870, Lubbock tried at Darwin’s request to …
- … such as James Torbitt's research into potato blight. Lubbock was one of those consulted on …
- … Descent In Descent of man , Darwin referred to Lubbock’s published work on the secondary …
- … (see Descent p. 94). But the most important aspect of Lubbock’s work for Darwin was the support …
- … of Lubbock’s book were less welcome. ‘I have read 4 or 5 Chapters with extreme interest,’ Darwin …
- … a daughter? or scrupled to carry off anothers wife? ( from John Lubbock, 18 March [1871] ). …
- … complained that he remained 'not a little in the dark' ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] …
- … in a banking career, and Darwin's last known letter to John Lubbock, sent shortly before …
- … children were strained. ‘I am afraid our feeling to Sir John’ Francis Darwin later wrote ‘did not …
- … He signed himself, with unusual formality, “My dear Sir John, yours sincerely”. By this stage …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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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…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
- … by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, the respected geologist, and …
- … Britain’s scientific circles following the publication of Lyell’s and Huxley’s books. Three …
- … Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the …
- … will be thrown on the origin of man and his history’ (p. 488). Since the publication of Origin …
- … with animals now extinct had been rapidly accumulating. Lyell’s argument for a greater human …
- … as well as on evidence collected earlier in the century. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s …
- … that of inferior animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin …
- … out that species were not separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public …
- … you, as my old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
- … stronger statements regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The …
- … his criticisms in a letter in the Athenæum , on 4 April, concluding with an invitation to Lyell …
- … form, into which life was first breathed’ ( Origin , p. 484). Owen preferred Jean Baptiste de …
- … second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in April, in which Lyell …
- … were himself, Hooker, Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and John Lubbock. Honours abroad …
- … of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, 12 November 1863 ). …
- … that he had started the previous year ( letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). The results were …
- … year with the Hertfordshire nurseryman Thomas Rivers. John Scott Darwin had found a …
- … of hybridity and sterility at the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal …
- … the results of which were published in 1868 ( see letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] ). …
- … hoped would counteract Huxley’s criticism ( letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] ). Darwin …
- … as anything in orchids’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). He acquired tropical …
- … (Cambridge University Library DAR 117 and DAR 186: 43). Many of his observations were later cited in …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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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…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … on a paper on Verbascum (mullein) by CD’s protégé, John Scott, who was now working in India. …
- … also a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and Charles Lyell . These …
- … claimed, important for his enjoyment of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , …
- … Appendix II). In May, he invited a new doctor, John Chapman, to Down and began a course of Chapman’s …
- … improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until …
- … Variation . In March Darwin wrote to his publisher, John Murray, ‘Of present book I have 7 …
- … forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In …
- … will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early …
- … ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not …
- … from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published …
- … and those of Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, and Charles Bonnet; Darwin wrote back: ‘I do …
- … the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin . Like Charles Lyell, who wrote to Darwin on …
- … for existence (ibid., pp. 276–81). Darwin responded to Lyell’s account in some detail ( see letter …
- … to high scientific account’ (A. Gray 1865–6, pp. 273-4). Darwin had also written to Gray on 19 …
- … the correspondence. At the end of May, the dispute between Charles Lyell and John Lubbock over …
- … for him to read attentively ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). The fact that …
- … do it if it ever can be done’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ); the hard work of …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
- … the book was on sale even in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860] ). By …
- … . Fawcett asserted that Darwin’s theory accorded well with John Stuart Mill’s exposition of the …
- … current knowledge could not illuminate this ‘mystery’. Charles Lyell worried, among other things, …
- … did not necessarily lead to progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To …
- … of reasoning about global change. Darwin also knew that Lyell was a powerful potential ally. Indeed, …
- … plant species and varieties than from animal breeding. With Lyell also questioning how interbreeding …
- … perfected structure as the eye. As Darwin admitted to Lyell, Gray, and others, imagining how …
- … Certainly this was a major difficulty standing in the way of Lyell’s acceptance of the theory, as …
- … explicitly in Origin — only one sentence, he told Lyell, showed that he believed ‘man is in same …
- … to hear Samuel Wilberforce, the bishop of Oxford, reply to John William Draper’s paper giving a …
- … adjourned, leaving Darwin ‘master of the field after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 …
- … Darwin about further, less dramatic incidents, including John Lubbock’s retort to Wilberforce on the …
- … of the scientifically literate clergymen Baden Powell and Charles Kingsley attested. Moreover, …
- … (like Lyell) to retract their support altogether (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and …
- … different opposers view the subject’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1860] ); later he …
- … better fun observing is than writing.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12 September [1860] ). Despite …
- … & not amuse myself with interludes.—’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 24 November [1860] , and to …
- … daughter Anne’s fatal illness never far from their minds, Charles and Emma did whatever they could …
- … I shall improve the Book considerably.—’ ( letter to John Murray, 5 December [1860] ). Although he …
- … to convert people under 20 year,’ he told his friend John Innes, ‘though firmly convinced now …
- … good judge coming some little way with me.’ ( letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860] ). …
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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- … at Erasmus’s house. The event was led by the medium Charles E. Williams, and was attended by George …
- … friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder …
- … at a much reduced price of nine shillings, in line with Charles Lyell’s Student’s elements of …
- … Quarterly Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. It …
- … as displaying ‘amazing ignorance’ ([Mivart] 1874b, p. 45). He also circuitously implicated Darwin in …
- … of anonymous reviews. Its proprietor was none other than John Murray, Darwin’s publisher. So …
- … to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George …
- … anonymous reviews. While staying with Hooker over Christmas, John Tyndall, professor at and …
- … as ‘the natural outflow of his character’ ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 ). …
- … to long hours of work’ ( letter to Easton and Anderson, 4 May [1874] ). At the end of June, …
- … to purchase the wooded land, which he had been renting from John Lubbock, led to a straining of …
- … with lawyers over a doubt that it may have been included in Lubbock’s marriage settlements, the sale …
- … by her canaries ( letter from T. M. Story-Maskelyne, 4 May 1874 ). In a second letter to Nature …
- … printed appeal for funds, raising £860 ( Circular to John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. …
- … Sharpe, 24 November [1874] ). He wrote in admiration of Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to …
- … Society of France ( letter to Eugène Desmarest, 4 March 1874 ). He featured in the scientific …
- … Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker reported that ‘Lubbock’s Lecture went off admirably— but …
- … of both Huxley’s and Tyndall’s addresses, Charles Lyell, who had spent his career distancing geology …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now …
- … of scientific admirers at Down, among them Robert Caspary, John Traherne Moggridge, and Ernst …
- … [1866] ). Darwin began riding the cob, Tommy, on 4 June 1866, and in a letter to his …
- … regime led to Darwin’s being teased by his neighbour, John Lubbock, about the prospect of riding to …
- … with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More …
- … On 21 February Darwin received notification from John Murray that stocks of the third edition of …
- … Henry Walter Bates’s article on mimetic butterflies, Lubbock’s observations of diving Hymenoptera …
- … in which he strenuously opposes the theory’ ( Origin 4th ed., p. xviii). Glacial theory …
- … in correspondence throughout the year, as in his remark to Lyell, ‘I quite follow you in thinking …
- … in this volume), drawing Darwin, Hooker, and the botanist Charles James Fox Bunbury into the …
- … [28 February 1866] ). Darwin also ventured to inform Lyell that he did not support Lyell’s theory …
- … George Henslow, the son of his Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, stayed for two days in April …
- … In June, Darwin was visited by the orchid specialist John Traherne Moggridge, whose work on the self …
- … ( C. multiflorus ) in his botanical notebook (DAR 186: 43). His drawings of C. scoparius , sent …
- … is known on the subject’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). And on the next day: …
- … good, & we have been at it many a long year’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] ). …
- … he had sounded the charge’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 September 1866] ). 'Natural …
- … loneliness’ ( letter from E. C. Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin, [6 and 7? January 1866] ), and …
- … borne it better than we c d have hoped’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] ). Susan …
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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- … Müller, 1 January 1882 , and letter to Fritz Müller, 4 January 1882 ). These were topics that …
- … In January, Darwin corresponded with George John Romanes about new varieties of sugar cane produced …
- … (see Correspondence vol. 23 and Variation 2: 357–404), but they had met with little success. …
- … in apposition’, was read at the Linnean Society on 4 May, but not published. Darwin carried …
- … Quarterly Review , owned by Darwin’s publisher John Murray, carried an anonymous article on the …
- … or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The author …
- … of the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice looked to Darwin to …
- … Darwin had a less heated discussion with the painter John Collier on the topic of science and art. …
- … himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had …
- … be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February 1882 ; T. H. Huxley …
- … Jamaica ‘for complete rest’ ( letter to Anthony Rich, 4 February 1882 ). Horace had settled in …
- … to take his daily strolls (Henrietta Emma Litchfield, ‘Charles Darwin’s death’, DAR 262.23: 2, p. 2) …
- … and admirers. One of the most touching was from John Lubbock, whose interest in natural history at …
- … we adjourned as a small tribute of respect’ (letter from John Lubbock to Francis Darwin, 20 April …
- … snakes, centipedes, and spiders. The instructions were from Charles Lawrence Hughes, a fellow pupil …
- … Holland, she mentions his warm reception on arrival: ‘Charles is as well as possible & in gayer …
- … recommendations for annual medals. He strongly supported Charles Lyell for the Copley, the Royal …
- … that the future Historian of the Natural Sciences, will rank Lyell’s labours as more influential in …
- … point of view I think no man ranks in the same class with Lyell’ ( letter to William Sharpey, 22 …
- … November [1864] ). Writing to the clergyman and naturalist Charles Kingsley, he was more gloomy: …
- … men whom I should have liked to have known’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 2 June [1865] ). …
Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online …
- … of the letters . The year 1875 was a busy one for Charles Darwin; he published a new book, …
- … been blackballed by the Linnean Society. John Burdon Sanderson, Edward Emanuel …
- … made this possible ( Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Agitation for a …
- … in the vestry of having made false statements ( Letter to John Lubbock, 8 April 1875 ) …
- … of Down, George Sketchley Ffinden, continued to be poor. John Lubbock, another local landowner and …
- … without much success. Emma Darwin was happy to report to John Brodie Innes, the former vicar, that …
- … including one of his oldest and dearest friends, Charles Lyell. Lyell had helped to introduce …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … Butler, as he told his daughter Henrietta Litchfield on 4 January , ‘would like its publication …
- … as for its success’, Darwin told Arabella Buckley on 4 January . Buckley had suggested …
- … ‘500 more, making 2000’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January 1881 ). Unlike Darwin’s other …
- … publish, although he was sending his printers ‘in 3 or 4 weeks the M.S. of a quite small book of …
- … eager to send his draft to the printers without delay, asked John Murray, his publisher, to make an …
- … laboratory. The Lake District may have reminded Darwin of John Ruskin, who lived there. Sending the …
- … pointing out that in science he considered ‘2nd, 3rd and 4th rate men of very high importance’. …
- … ‘an excellent Journal’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 July [1881] ). In these ways, Darwin kept up …
- … ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree. Both John Lubbock and Hooker asked for Darwin’s …
- … about the year 1840(?) on all our minds’ ( letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] ). When …
- … [1881] ). Feeling ‘awfully guilty’ for doing so, on 4 August Hooker sent Darwin a list of queries …
- … ‘I was a fool to go,’ he told William Darwin on 4 August , ‘but I could hardly have declined.’ He …
- … on 27 May . Romanes assured Darwin that the artist, John Collier, Huxley’s son-in-law, was ‘such a …
- … method in future science classes, the American entomologist Charles Riley praised Darwin for not …
- … in plants. A critical study of the work of the same name by Charles Darwin, together with new …
- … loss of a close friend were prompted by the publication of Charles Lyell’s Life, letters, and …
- … year ended with the happy news of a birth. On 7 December, Charles and Emma Darwin’s second …
- … Darwin told his old Cambridge University friend John Price on 27 December . As Darwin rejoiced in …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … presented in Origin . Having learned from his publisher John Murray in November 1860 that a new …
- … notably his faithful ‘barometer’ of scientific opinion, Charles Lyell ( see letter to Charles Lyell …
- … out for praise in 1861. He had been disappointed to learn of John Frederick William Herschel’s …
- … Moreover, Darwin found an important philosophical ally in John Stuart Mill. Through Henry Fawcett, a …
- … a favourable opportunity’ ( letter from Joseph Leidy, 4 March [1861] ). However, the publication …
- … to Nat. History.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 4 April [1861] ). He also advised that the public …
- … recommended that Bates offer the manuscript to the publisher John Murray with a view to obtaining …
- … like Cuthbert Collingwood and laymen such as the physician Charles Robert Bree and the Scottish …
- … consolation to his friend Hooker whose father-in-law, John Stevens Henslow, died after a brief …
- … to contribute to Leonard Jenyns’s Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (see Correspondence …
- … ). Later in the year, he went even further, writing to John Lindley on 17 October: ‘Orchids have …
- … volume that would reach a wider public. Having approached John Murray with some hesitation, and …
- … and poultry. As he frequently admitted to friends such as Charles Lyell and interested supporters …
- … prominently in the correspondence of 1861. Here, it was Charles Lyell who continued to act as Darwin …
- … subsidence, and glaciation in Europe. Through his letters, Lyell involved Darwin in his …
- … he had published a major paper twenty years earlier. Both Lyell and Darwin encouraged the young …
- … had been ‘one long gigantic blunder’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 September [1861] ). The …
- … Erasmus. Late in May, Darwin’s young friend and neighbour, John Lubbock, a partner with his father …
- … network in support of his son. On 1 August he wrote to Charles Lyell to ask whether he could suggest …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … extract anything valuable from his letters to Darwin and Lyell for Athenæum . He mentioned Darwin …
- … Mentors Darwin's close relationship with John Stevens Henslow, the professor of botany …
- … he mentored. The first is between Darwin and his neighbour, John Lubbock and the second is between …
- … Letter 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he …
- … Letter 1979 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, 27 Oct [1856] Darwin provides detailed …
- … expert William Bernard Tegetmeier and the Scottish gardener John Scott, illustrate how the rigid …
- … Letter 3139 — Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 May [1861] Tegetmeier sends some replies …
- … him to publish in his journal. The debate about John Scott Letter 3800 — …
- … Letter 3805 — Darwin, C. R. to Scott, John, 12 Nov [1862] Darwin thanks Scott for bringing …
- … flowers germinate in the anthers. Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr …
- … day with Henslow; much had to be done. His friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has written to Capt. …
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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- … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
- … published in Paris (in 2 vols.), so long ago as 1839 4 [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to …
- … 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory …
- … et anim: on sleep & movements of plants £ 1 ..s 4. [Dutrochet 1837] Voyage aux …
- … observations on increase & decrease of different diseases 4 to . 1801 [Heberden 1801] quoted …
- … worth reading [Dampier 1697] Sportsman’s repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains …
- … Audubons Ornithol: Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— 4 Vols. well worth reading [DAR *119: 4v.] …
- … Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil [Wied …
- … of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read) Berkeleys Works …
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … 1844] L d Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest scenes in …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … round world 1803–6 [Lisyansky 1814]— nothing Lyell’s Elements of Geology [Lyell 1838] …
- … J 57 Browne’s Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyell’s Book III 5th Edit 58 [Lyell 1837] …
- … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … ] by looking at index— about breeding of animals— Sir J. Lubbock. member Ferguson on Poultry …
- … 1859]. (goodish) 1 The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
- … Erskine. 2 vols. London. *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839. Primitiæ floræ …
- … of Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845. Insect life . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of …
- … of the London Clay . London. *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852. Hungary in 1851: …
- … life from 1838 to the present time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London. 128: 9 …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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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…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
- … of Dimorphism’ in Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May …
- … of a paper by another of his orchid correspondents, John Traherne Moggridge, who in June sent him …
- … of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again Much of Darwin’s …
- … plight of another of Darwin’s fellow orchid-experimenters, John Scott. Their correspondence had been …
- … five years. Scott felt that his superiors, James McNab and John Hutton Balfour, no longer treated …
- … indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker met …
- … support ‘on the grounds of science’ ( letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ), but Scott declined …
- … and animal-breeders. As in earlier years, Darwin consulted Charles William Crocker about his …
- … curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles Wright, a plant collector in Cuba …
- … la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The French botanist, Charles Victor …
- … using such a periodical to defend himself, Hooker and Lyell discouraged him, and he decided to avoid …
- … bearded this lion in his den’ ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] ). Walsh also supported …
- … 1864 ). A notably rambling and long letter arrived from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of …
- … by a merciful deity for the use of humankind ( letter from John Beck, 6 October 1864 ). …
- … his brother Erasmus told him of a subscription fund for John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, South …
- … when Colenso was in England in 1864, socialising with Charles Lyell and other members of the London …
- … again, to Ramsay’s view for third or fourth time; but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the …
- … Huxley’s Evidence as to man’s place in nature and Lyell’s Antiquity of man , and that the …
- … that a Neanderthal race once extended across Europe. John Lubbock mentioned his forthcoming volume …
- … [May 1864] ). He added that he wished Wallace had written Lyell’s section on humans in Antiquity …
- … been any failure of justice’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 4 November 1864 ). Huxley …
- … of moral courage which is so small still’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 4 November 1864 ); in …
- … so little degree the Council’s award’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 21 December [1864] ). In letters …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … accounting, Darwin reckoned that he had started writing on 4 February 1868, only five days after the …
- … proofs of Descent in December, he wrote to his friend Charles Lyell, ‘thank all the powers above …
- … in Paris. Quatrefages had just completed a book, Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français …
- … the mother and foetus during pregnancy. As a case in point, John Jenner Weir described the offspring …
- … also discussed recent experiments by Louis Pasteur and John Tyndall that provided evidence for the …
- … a memorandum. He asked his neighbour, the naturalist John Lubbock, who was now MP for Maidstone, to …
- … reference to mankind of much importance ’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 17 July 1870 ). The motion to …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist …
- … 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund and Charles, write to Emma Darwin’s sister, …
- … 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July 1869] John Scott responds to Darwin’s queries …
- … Letter 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, …
- … through the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. Letter 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 …
- … - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments he is undertaking …
- … J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John Murray, to forward a manuscript copy of …
- … - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments he is undertaking …
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…