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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
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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- … of a number of scientific admirers at Down, among them Robert Caspary, John Traherne Moggridge, and …
- … Pound foolish, Penurious, Pragmatical Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But …
- … theory featured in the presidential address by William Robert Grove at the annual meeting of the …
- … able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
- … once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
- … see you out with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 …
- … work doing me any harm—any how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). …
- … production of which Tegetmeier had agreed to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January …
- … Gray, the nurseryman Thomas Rivers, and the German botanist Robert Caspary. Darwin was particularly …
- … of “Domestic Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] …
- … good deal I think, & have come to more definite views’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December …
- … ‘I quite follow you in thinking Agassiz glacier-mad’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September …
- … ten times more than the belief of a dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] …
- … past few years. Emma described the Royal Society event in a letter to George: ‘Your father … entered …
- … you—& told me to worship Bence Jones in future—’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 May 1866 ). …
- … 3 calls! & then went for ¾ to Zoolog. Garden!!!!!!!!!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1866 …
- … delighted to come on those terms so you are in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c . 10 May …
- … act as intermediary between Darwin and the German botanist Robert Caspary, who wished to visit Down …
- … very much to see him, though I dread all exertion’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 May 1866] ). …
- … to Madeira. His visit to Down House is described in a letter from Henrietta to George: ‘when first …
- … most magnificent eulogium which it has ever received’ ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 18 August [1866] …
- … like myself weak in his Greek, is something dreadful’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] …
- … progressive, teleological development ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). …
- … His drawings of C. scoparius , sent to Darwin with his letter of 8 May [1866] , allowed …
- … initial state of dimorphism’ (Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 ). …
- … an invitation from the president of the association, William Robert Grove, to speak ‘on the …
- … in another speech at the Nottingham meeting. William Robert Grove had approached Hooker in May for …
- … of his religious views, replying to the educator Mary Everest Boole, who asked whether he thought …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … Despite the difference in language between Darwin’s letter and the modern scientific paper quoted …
- … daresay very well, & for coining new words.’ See the letter The word first appeared …
- … behind ideas from, for example, Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Robert Malthus about the inevitability of …
- … for atheism, but as Darwin himself acknowledged in a letter to Mary Boole, it was more satisfactory …
- … as a result of the direct intervention of God. See the letter We may contrast Darwin’s …
- … sucks it, must have! It is a very pretty case.’ See the letter Darwin was confident …
- … nature as she really is.’ It seems from Haeckel’s letter that what most struck him about …
- … of his great discovery is by contrast extremely modest. In a letter written in 1864 and …
- … reformer of scientific nomenclature. Malthus, Thomas Robert. Clergyman and political economist …
- … additional genera. London: Bradbury & Evans. McIntosh, Robert P. 1985. The background of …
- … in Ecology & Evolution 13 : 259–60. Richards, Robert J. 2008. The tragic sense of …
- … by H. M. Ward. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Stauffer, Robert C. 1957. Haeckel, Darwin, and ecology …
