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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
  • … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June
  • of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the
  • by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, the respected geologist, and
  • put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxleys book described the
  • anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his
  • Britains scientific circles following the publication of Lyells and Huxleys books. Three
  • Origin had (see  Correspondence  vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the
  • with animals now extinct had been rapidly accumulating. Lyells argument for a greater human
  • as well as on evidence collected earlier in the century. Lyells  Antiquity of man  and Huxleys  …
  • origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first
  • bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts
  • in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely
  • that of inferior animals made himgroan’ ( 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
  • letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
  • bookfrom which he hadgained nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 1213 March [1863] ). …
  • that the Public shall see how far you go’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] ). …

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; …
  • … regarding the age of the human species. The visits by both Lyell and Lubbock reflected the growing …
  • … Lubbock reviewed the literature on the topic and noted that Charles Adolphe Morlot had summarised, …
  • … Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865).  By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition of …
  • … Antiquity of man (see below, ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, …
  • … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton.   In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
  • … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3  By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
  • … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
  • … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
  • … 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 …
  • … note on p. 11.  Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
  • … it therefore did not ‘justify so severe an attack on Sir Charles Lyell’. 32  Darwin’s …
  • … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
  • … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
  • … evidence appealed to.  53 Harley Street: November 1863  Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
  • … Stocking 1987, and Van Riper 1993. 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 …
  • … 5. For two interpretations of Hugh Falconer’s attack on Charles Lyell, see Bynum 1984 and L. G. …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted …
  • … experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in …
  • … mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was …
  • … a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). Even before work on the …
  • … plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues …
  • … to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his …
  • … have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list …
  • … a school-boy’ (letter to J. D.  Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew …
  • … like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
  • … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other …
  • … on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous …
  • … each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin’s aesthetic appreciation of …
  • … of the tropics ( Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). …
  • … which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants …
  • … worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwin’s hothouse became an …
  • … foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the …
  • … book gives an entry under ‘Science’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought …
  • … not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with …
  • … this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list …
  • … (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is headed ‘Stove …
  • … to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed …
  • … from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants …
  • … at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory  1863). 2.  John Cattell was a florist, …
  • … p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. 9.  Catasetum …
  • … with premises at Clapton, London. After Low’s death in 1863 the firm was conducted by his son, …

Charles Lyell

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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…

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  • As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's
  • than that allowed for by traditional Biblical criticismLyell believed, however, that the subject
  • that could be viewed in action at the present timeIn Lyell's view, this ruled out any sudden
  • to keep up with the subsidence of the ocean floorAlthough Lyell had originally suggested a
  • Darwin always believed that his books 'came half out of Lyell's brains'. The
  • against the transmutation of one species into another. (Lyell even suggested that looking for long
  • the incomplete character of the fossil record.) Darwin told Lyell of his species work in a letter
  • later, in 1856Despite his distaste for transmutation, Lyell immediately encouraged Darwin to
  • Alfred Russel Wallace did propose similar views, Lyell (with Joseph Hooker) engineered the &#039
  • in 1858. Darwin's views posed a terrible paradox for LyellIn his view, what set humans
  • from other forms of lifeAfter an agonized struggle, Lyell did come round to accepting a limited

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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  • the book was on sale even in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860] ). By
  • current knowledge could not illuminate thismystery’. 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 Lyells acceptance of the theory, as
  • explicitly in  Origin  — only one sentence, he told Lyell, showed that he believedman is in same
  • of the scientifically literate clergymen Baden Powell and Charles Kingsley attested. Moreover, …
  • any new converts or even cause earlier proponents (like Lyell) to retract their support altogether
  • he received, in letters to his closest confidants Hooker, Lyell, and Gray. Initially he found it
  • hostile critique of his geological argument, he wrote to Lyell on 6 June [1860] : 'I am
  • husbands current enthusiasm, Emma Darwin wrote to Mary Lyell: ‘At present he is treating Drosera
  • time on the  Drosera  study in particular, admitting to Lyellhow much better fun observing is
  • … & not amuse myself with interludes.—’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 24 November [1860] , and to
  • daughter Annes fatal illness never far from their minds, Charles and Emma did whatever they could

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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  • … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and …
  • … know you have been miserably uncomfortable. Emma to Charles Darwin, 1861. …
  • … think about the derivation of Species … Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. …

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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  • … 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by …
  • … from the correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, …
  • … following: Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin Actor 3 – In the dress …
  • … the botanist, Joseph D Hooker GRAY:   3   Charles Darwin… made his home on the border …
  • … the year 1839, and copied and communicated to Messrs Lyell and Hooker in 1844, being a …
  • … at the expense of Agassiz. DARWIN:   20   Lyell told me, that Agassiz, having a …
  • … – to be false… Yours most sincerely and gratefully Charles Darwin. CREED AND FEVER: 1858 …
  • … forgetfuless of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which …
  • … and officially die. And then publish books ‘by the late Charles Darwin’. Darwin takes up …
  • …   173   Ever yours cordially (though an Englishman) Charles Darwin. GRAY:  174   …
  • … at an unexpected and probably transient notoriety… Charles Darwin died on the 19th April …
  • … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99  C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
  • … GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 18 FEBRUARY 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 …
  • … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
  • … JULY 1864 160  C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161  TO ASA GRAY 13 …
  • … 1862 164  C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165  A Gray TO C Darwin …
  • … APRIL 1866 173  C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO …
  • … STAY 1881 192  C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193  TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST …

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 Darwins mind was the writing of  The variation of animals and
  • dispute between two of Darwins friends, John Lubbock and Charles Lyell . These events all inspired
  • claimed, important for his enjoyment of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , …
  • Scott had evidently started his crossing experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence  vol. 11, …
  • 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. 27681). Darwin responded to Lyells account in some detail ( see letter
  • vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 ). However, probably the most enthusiastic
  • the correspondence. At the end of May, the dispute between Charles Lyell and John Lubbock over
  • human antiquity, adding a note to his preface asserting that Lyell in his  Antiquity of man , …
  • inadvertence’. Though Lubbock had raised the matter with Lyell before publishing, this statement, …
  • sent to Darwin and its enclosures have not been found, so Lyells letter to Hooker, which must have
  • Correspondence vol. 13. Hooker, while acknowledging Lyells fault, thought Lubbocks
  • of his must also have made the crisis particularly painful. Lyell had been to some extent his mentor
  • set up to support FitzRoys children ( see letter from Charles Shaw, 3 October 1865 ). …
  • are letters commenting on Origin , including two from Charles Lyell, who had been sent the proof

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 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
  • … Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin, [16 July 1863] Hildebrand writes to …
  • … 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund and Charles, write to Emma Darwin’s sister, …
  • … Letter 4235 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [8 July 1863] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a …
  • … Letter 4139  - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a …
  • … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
  • … 4233  - Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, [29 June - 7 July 1863] Tegetmeier updates Darwin …
  • … 3896 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H, [before 25 February 1863] Darwin offers the results of …
  • … Letter 4010 - Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, [25 February 1863] Huxley praises Henrietta’s …
  • … in the future. Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • up each edition to the existing standard of science’ ( to Charles Layton, 24 November [1869] ). …
  • edition published May 1862 2d German translation, 1863 2d French translation 1865
  • expansionin many places’ . Chief among these was Charles Lyell, instrumental in shaping both
  • last one was a welcome endorsement from the religious author Charles Kingsley, a chaplain to the
  • Black Pigs in the Everglades  delights  me If Lyell was Darwins key correspondent for
  • … (With a glossary of scientific terms??) by Charles Darwin F.R.S.   …
  • many of his old friends and former correspondents, including Lyell ( now approached through his
  • ed. , pp45061). Despite continuing scepticism from Charles Lyell, who was staying with the

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
  • 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 Lyells theory
  • by Heinrich Georg Bronn, had been published in 1860 and 1863 by the firm E. Schweizerbartsche
  • fresh opportunity for intense debate. As Darwin remarked to Lyell earlier in the year: ‘a squabble
  • good, & we have been at it many a long year’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] ). …
  • had been a subject of long discussion in previous years with Lyell, Gray, and Hooker. Wallace
  • their fathers death in 1848 until Catherine married in 1863. Catherine had written shortly before
  • loneliness’ ( letter from E. C. Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin, [6 and 7? January 1866] ), and

Referencing women’s work

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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…

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  • … Orchids . Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • …   Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large …
  • … of Argyll, and an anonymous review by an engineer, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, challenged …
  • … Vorlesungen über den Menschen  (Lectures on man; Vogt 1863) from German into French. With a …
  • … hypothesis of pangenesis’. Such was the case, reported by Charles Victor Naudin, of a fan palm, …
  • … anxious about the reception of pangenesis. He was happy that Charles Lyell had a positive response, …
  • … will be a somewhat important step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). …
  • … on the anatomy of expression by medical experts such as Charles Bell and Guillaume Benjamin Amand …
  • … and ‘clever’, but with certain weak parts ( letter to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1867] ). Charles
  • … as one who feels himself likely to be beat’ ( letter from Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 ). Darwin …
  • … c d  hardly come into a scientific book’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …
  • … the most telling Reviews of the hostile kind’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …
  • … & botany, before writing about them’ ( letter from Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 ). The …
  • … than those with beaks shorter than average’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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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…

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  • … in the preparation of translations of his books. When Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard informed him …
  • … part of his popular exposition of Darwin’s theory (Rolle 1863; see letter to Friedrich Rolle, 17 …
  • … also sent presentation copies of his botanical studies to Charles Naudin, a botanist at the Muséum d …
  • … Darwin was glad that Glen Roy was ‘settled’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1862] ), he …
  • … palaeontologist who believes in immutability’, he told Lyell ( letter to Charles Lyell, 1 October …

How old is the earth?

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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…

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  • … or botanist, especially in his early years, and followed Charles Lyell in pointing to the slow pace …
  • … of an early three-way conversation with Joseph Hooker and Charles Lyell .  ‘I cannot think how …
  • … Russel Wallace weighed in at various times. In 1863, when Origin was in its third …

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
  • the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin
  • from that of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] …
  • leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found that he could still continue
  • of Dimorphismin  Menyanthes  ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May
  • 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
  • Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The French botanist, Charles Victor Naudin, wrote a gracious
  • scientific debate. He had begun taking the journal in April 1863 and was an enthusiastic subscriber. …
  • when Colenso was in England in 1864, socialising with Charles Lyell and other members of the London
  • again, to Ramsays view for third or fourth time; but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the
  • and their predecessors had continued to grow following the 1863 publication of Huxleys  Evidence
  • … [May 1864] ). He added that he wished Wallace had written Lyells section on humans in  Antiquity
  • failure to win the award in the two preceding years. An 1863 letter from the president of the Royal
  • have been particularly heartened when his former mentor, Lyell, congratulated him by saying thatan
  • of moral courage which is so small still’ ( letter from Charles Lyell, 4 November 1864 ); in

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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  • to take his daily strolls (Henrietta Emma Litchfield, ‘Charles Darwins death’, DAR 262.23: 2, p. 2) …
  • 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 Lyells labours as more influential in
  • point of view I think no man ranks in the same class with Lyell’ ( letter to William Sharpey, 22
  • … ( letter from Aleksander Jelski, [186082] ). In 1863, the final blow was dealt to Darwins
  • a fallen enemy!’ ( letter to T. F. Jamieson, 24 January [1863] ). From 1863 to 1865, Darwin
  • 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] ). …
  • curious to read what you will say on Man & his Races’, Lyell wrote. ‘It was not a theme to be
  • theory for the whole of the organic world ( letter from Charles Lyell, 16 July 1867 ). In the same
  • and I must not make you my father confessor. ( Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 .) …
  • complete With volume 30, the  Correspondence of Charles Darwin  is now complete. In the

Darwin and Down

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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842.   The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow.  The village combined the…

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  • … To E. C. Darwin,  [24 July 1842] Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, …
  • … Origin of species’ On plant sensitivity: To Charles Lyell,  24 November [1860] : …
  • … species in the world’. To J. D. Hooker,  25 [June 1863] : describing the light-sensing …

Floral Dimorphism

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…

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  • … Letter 4053 - Darwin to Asa Gray, 20 March 1863 Darwin discusses dimorphic plants with …
  • … Reading Endersby, Jim. "Sympathetic Science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Booker, and the …
  • … for this week’s experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he …
  • … and fertility” of their offspring.[2] [1] Charles Darwin, The Different Forms of Flowers …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … concealed it . Just weeks after publication he wrote to Charles Lyell, ‘ I show that I believe man …
  • … is in fact impossible to doubt it ’. At the time, Lyell was himself writing about human …
  • … human origins, see Darwin’s Life in Letters, 1863 . ***The contents of Darwin’s …
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