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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 work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … Jean Jacques Moulinié, had been personally recommended by Carl Vogt and had translated Vogt’s own …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … Darwin had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … sent to him, he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … , and Fritz Schultze had all sent Darwin their works. Carl du Prel had even tried to apply …
- … Eduard Koch took over as Darwin's German publisher in 1867 and published a multi-volume …
- … produced works on the moral implications of Darwinism. Carl Vogt had corresponded about atavism …
- … why. One of Darwin's ' most enthusiastic followers ', Carl Friedrich Claus, had …
- … ) The professor of zoology at Würzburg, Carl Gottfried Semper, who had disputed Darwin …
- … ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an agricultural scientist from …
- … kindly incorporate it in the German album ( Letter from Carl Kraus , 10 February 1878 ) …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … 1842, attributed to Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797–1867), Dar 225:129, ©Cambridge University …
- … Rejlander). These two images are the first – and, until 1867, the only – photographs Darwin was …
- … requests he was receiving for copies of his photograph. In 1867, he was approached by a photographer …
- … was an increase in the number of images he sent out between 1867 and 1869. For example, when …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … for many years to come. Revising Origin Carl von Nägeli and perfectibility …
- … was a response to a critique of natural selection by Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, a Swiss botanist and …
- … Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
- … W. B. Dawkins, 17 July 1869 ). He exchanged letters with Carl Friedrich Claus in Marburg, who was …
- … on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), as well as on the German translation …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
