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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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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
- … on insectivorous plants. A vicious dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin …
- … intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, …
- … and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such reminiscences led Darwin to …
- … much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel very old & …
- … old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor …
- … on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, …
- … and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all …
- … perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting …
- … at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New …
- … Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 …
- … In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary Review ‘On beneficial restrictions to …
- … 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the Quarterly Review discussing works on …
- … of vice in order to check population’. The review was by St George Jackson Mivart, one of the …
- … previous anonymous attacks ([Mivart] 1869; 1871c). In his review, Mivart criticised both son and …
- … 'scurrilous libel' As the authorship of the review became known within Darwin’s …
- … essay. Mivart’s attack had been published in the Quarterly Review , one of the most …
- … in my position, and imagine me to be the proprietor of a review in which according to your own …
- … why he had written to Murray and not the editor of the Quarterly : ‘I cannot expect fair …
- … your Son’s letter as it stands in the next number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter …
- … apology’ and sent a retraction to the editor of the Quarterly Review . Huxley concluded: ‘our …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
- … restrictions to liberty of marriage’ in the Contemporary Review (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In this …
- … granted divorce on very slight causes. Mivart's review George’s article appeared …
- … Murray, his own publisher and also the proprietor of the Quarterly Review. George took advice …
- … Darwin send it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, …
- … to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin provided a draft of the …
- … laws’. Darwin’s main objection to the Quarterly Review article was the suggestion that …
- … were mentioned in the text Darwin wanted to quote from the review, and, if George did not repudiate …
- … a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 . George and Darwin were also …
- … was to ask Murray to publish George’s letter in the Quarterly. George was anxious not to bring …
- … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
- … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
- … 1874. Sir, In the July number of the ‘Quarterly Review’ of the present year reference …
- … to an essay by me, published in the ‘Contemporary Review’ for August 1873, and entitled ‘On …
- … | George Darwin. To the Editor of the Quarterly Review. Nothing could …
- … Darwin thanked Murray for sending him the issue of the Quarterly Review including these letters, …
- … reviewed. When I wrote out, at Dresden, my MS for the Quarterly, I unhappily trusted to my …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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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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- … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … some of his anger toward John Murray, the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s …
- … had also considered taking up the issue with Murray in 1874, even threatening to break off future …
- … whose anthropological work had been reviewed in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. …
- … laid to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a …
- … botanical research and had visited Down House in April 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letters …
- … plants lured insects to their death were described in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 …
- … A scientific friendship had developed between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s …
- … white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). Testing Pangenesis …
- … articles for leading periodicals such as the Contemporary Review . Having just emerged from the …
- … marriage, he was embroiled in another as the result of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on …
- … in letters (see Correspondence vol. 21), and George’s review prompted Max Müller to write to …
- … that ‘Mr Darwin, jun.’ had used the pretext of a review of Whitney to defend his father. He compared …
- … of Darwin’s theories. In August, he published a favourable review of Insectivorous plants for …
- … Darwin pleaded that the paper not be referred to him for review. In the end, it was firmly rejected …
- … had learned of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was …
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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- … Correspondence vol. 29, Appendix V). The conservative Quarterly Review , owned by Darwin’s …
- … the highest admiration for those researches themselves’ ( Quarterly Review , January 1882, p. 179) …
- … payment for an article in his journal, North American Review . Darwin nearly always declined such …
- … father confessor. ( Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 .) Darwin’s fame continued …
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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- … Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— there are …
- … Man. Mentioned by Athenæum 1839 p. 765. in Geograph. Soc?? Review of this in Edin. Phil Jour. 1840. …
- … 1839. p. 408 [Flourens 1839] read Quarterly Review 1839. p. 336 [Broderip] 1839]. M r …
- … in Lib. Useful Knowledge [Bacon 1827] Num 41. Ed. Review. Sir. J. Mack. on Deaf & Dumb …
- … [DAR *119: 15v.] From Herschel’s Review Quart. June /41/ [Herschel 1841] I see I must …
- … par August. de Saint-Hilaire [Saint-Hilaire 1841]: review annal. des Scien. p. 100/41/—dull—but …
- … species (alluded to by Hooker) Foreign & British Med. Review by D r Forbes [ British …
- … Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] Review of D[itt] o in Quarterly [Fleming …
- … [T. Gray 1775] Jeffrey. art. on Alison Taste. Ed. Review [Jeffrey] 1811] Maer. 68 …
- … living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in a Medical Journal which Hooker …
- … Field Sports [Williamson 1807] recommended by Blyth in Review 107 M. de Castelnau, Cattle …
- … to Nicholas Aylward Vigors about John Fleming, and the review was by Fleming (see Notebooks , p. …
- … Loudon’s British trees and shrubs . Edinburgh Review 69: 384–405. *119: 8v. …
- … design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.] 119: 5a …
- … Containing a description of the country … with a review of its history . London: T. C. Newby …
- … on the natural history and fishery of the sperm whale. Quarterly Review 63: 318–41. *119: 9v. …
- … methods in natural history , by J. E. Bicheno, Esq. Quarterly Review 41: 302–27. 119: 1a …
- … [——]. 1841. Whewell on the inductive sciences. Quarterly Review 68: 177–238. *119: 15v. …
- … . London. 119: 6a Hickson, William Edward. 1849. Review of Thomas Robert Malthus, An …
- … The true law of population etc. Westminster Review 52: 133–201. *119: 22v. ——. …
- … [Jeffrey, Francis]. 1811. Alison on taste. Edinburgh Review 18: 1–46. 119: 9b …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
