To Asa Gray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s Japan memoir [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1857–9): 377–452]. Does not think AG’s arguments for a warm post-glacial period are sufficient, but will not be sorry to be proved wrong.
Believes natural selection explains many classes of facts which repeated creation does not.
Writes of some responses to the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2599 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To Asa Gray 24 December [1859] …
- … Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Dec [1859] Asa Gray …
- … also letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [December 1859] . In his letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [ …
- … and implied this in A. Gray 1858–9 . See letters to John Murray , 22 December [1859] and …
- … 24 December [1859] . …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to Asa Gray , 21 December [1859] , and to John …
- … Murray ,22 December [1859]. A. Gray 1858–9 . There is an annotated copy of the paper in …
- … with Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker,[20 December 1859] ), and with Gray (see letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] ). …
- … of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston in January 1859 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] ). A. …
- … Gray 1859 , pp. 447–8. …
- … In a letter to Asa Gray, 31 May 1859 (Gray Herbarium, Harvard University), Hooker praised …
- … A. Gray 1859 but stated: ‘Your Geological distribution we cannot follow at all, & …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … Sciences n.s. 6: 377–452. Gray, Asa. 1859. On the coiling of tendrils. American Journal of …
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … breakdown in his health. He had written to CD in December 1859 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 7, letter to Charles Lyell, 29 [December 1859] ). See also letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 1 January [1860] . Hooker 1859 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [ …
- … references to Gray 1858–9 and Hooker 1859 . Gray had sent CD a copy of his description of …
- … 7, letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). Several months earlier CD had read proof- …
- … 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] ). There is a copy of the work in the Darwin …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … in detail in letters to Gray and to Hooker in 1859. See Correspondence vol. 7, letters …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] and …
- … 28 [December 1859] , and to Asa …
- … Gray , 11 November [1859] and …
- … 24 December [1859]. Gray had based his geological arguments on information given to him by …
To Asa Gray 21 December [1859]
Summary
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2592 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Asa Gray 21 December [1859] …
- … Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Dec [1859] Asa Gray …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … letter has not been found, but see letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] . CD sent …
- … Gray a copy of Origin in November 1859 ( letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 11 November [1859] ). Given that the United States did not recognise foreign …
- … see letter to John Murray, 22 December [1859] . He soon learned, however, that two New …
To Asa Gray 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin for comments.
Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2520 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Asa Gray 11 November [1859] …
- … University (17) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley Down letterhead 11 Nov [1859] Asa Gray …
- … the letter to Charles Lyell,25 September [1859] . A. Gray 1858–9 . The section of A. …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] ). CD refers to his letter to Asa Gray, 11 …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
To Asa Gray 24 February [1860]
Summary
Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2713 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … period, see Correspondence vol. 7, letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] , and to Asa …
- … Gray , 24 December [1859]. Brewster 1855 , 2: 284–5. See letter to Charles Lyell, 23 …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Gray, Asa. 1859. On the coiling of tendrils. American …
- … to a paper on the flora of Japan ( Gray 1859 ), in which Gray proposed that there had been …
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and, in this volume, letter to W. B. …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1860. Sur …
- … n.s. 7: 233–55. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1859–[67]. A dictionary of English etymology. 3 vols. …
- … s Dictionary of English etymology ( Wedgwood 1859–65 ) in the Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): …
To Asa Gray 28 January [1860]
Summary
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2665 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Origin US ed. : On the origin of species by …
- … sheets of the second English edition of Origin late in 1859 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … 7, letter to John Murray, 22 December [1859] ). For some of the corrections CD made to the …
- … vol. 7, letter from John Murray, 1 April 1859 . See also letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [ …
- … history at Glasgow University. On 23 December 1859, he wrote to his brother William Barton …
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Origin of species." Macmillan’s Magazine 1 (1859–60): 142–8. Origin 2d ed. : On the origin …
- … Herbarium, Harvard University). The December 1859 issue of Macmillan’s Magazine contained …
- … 1: 557), read ( Macmillan’s Magazine 1 (1859–60): 157): Rumours there were and ominous …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Origin US ed. : On the origin of species by …
To Asa Gray 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2676 |
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- … in the Saturday Review (Dec. 24th, 1859), shows that I have been rash. I have not …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Origin US ed. : On the origin of species by …
- … York: D. Appleton. 1860. [Smith, William]. 1859. Bunsen’s Egypt and the chronology of the …
- … were thrown into doubt ( [W. Smith] 1859 ), CD substituted in the revised American …
To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
To Asa Gray 8 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].
Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.
Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
To Asa Gray 3 April [1860]
Summary
Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.
Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],
but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2743 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
To Asa Gray 11 December [1860]
Summary
The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.
Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3017 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of …
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
The writing of "Origin"
Summary
From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Matches: 21 hits
- … hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the last …
- … upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book (letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ (letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … (letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ (letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859 , ‘the case of Man and his Races …
- … to their mercies’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
- … without good cause.’ (letter to John Murray, 2 December [1859] ). At Murray’s trade sale …
- … had made’ (letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 ). This and the two references to the …
- … try to make out truth’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people …
- … on our side.—’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
- … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the …
- … exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwin’s work was being discussed in …
- … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w d …
- … hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). This transformation in Darwin’s personal …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin …
- … 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15 (1859): xxv). One of the most …
- … theory. As he wrote in his introductory essay (Hooker 1859, p. ii): 'In the present Essay I …
- … to test such a theory. His essay, published in December 1859, was the first serious study of the …
- … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
- … upon Lyell for advice ( letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book ( letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ ( letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … ( letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ ( letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859, ‘the case of Man and his Races & …
- … to their mercies’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
Summary
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…
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 11 Nov 1859 Darwin writes to Sedgwick to tell …
- … Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, C. R., 24 Nov 1859 Adam Sedgwick thanks Darwin for …
- … Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 26 Nov [1859] Darwin says Sedgwick could not …
- … Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. R., 12 Nov 1859 Owen says to Darwin he will welcome …
- … Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [10 Dec 1859] Darwin discusses with King' …
- … Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, 13 Dec [1859] Darwin responds to Owen’s remarks …
On the Origin of Species
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … into an entirely new province of knowledge’ ( 9 December 1859 ). He soon became interested in …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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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- … or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) When Origin was …
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
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 October [1859] Letter to Charles …
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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- … but his views were generally derided. 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in …
- … that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited …
- … in French, earlier reports written in Danish (Morlot 1859, Forchhammer et al. 1851–5); Lubbock …
- … for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 Another controversy arose …
- … its appearance in print; first in French, dated Berne, Sept. 1859, in the ‘Mémoires de la Société …
- … zoologist M. Claparède had also conversed with me in 1859 on the researches of the best Danish …
- … gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred me chiefly to ‘Oversigt …
- … and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. 1859. On the occurrence of works of …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes géologico-archéologiques en …
- … struggle for life . By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape …
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … [after September 20 1847] To A.C. Ramsay, 1 July [1859] From Thomas Jamieson, …
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 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John …
- … Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …
- … Letter 2475 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [2 July 1859] Darwin returns the manuscript of …
- … Letter 2501 - Lyell, C. to Darwin, [3 October 1859] Lyell offers praise and …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … across tropics ’. When Hooker’s essay was published in 1859, it was one of the first publications …
- … as by far the most capable judge in Europe. ’ By April 1859, he was able to tell Wallace that ‘ …
- … Abstract ’ would not be finished until around April 1859. But this was an optimistic estimate. …
- … of favoured races” ’, he told Lyell. On 31 March 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray describing his work …
- … the work of correcting proofs continued over the summer of 1859, Darwin had to take the water cure …
- … never shirked a difficulty’, he told Lyell on 20 September 1859, ‘ I am foolishly anxious for your …
- … of Science meeting held in Aberdeen from 14 to 21 September 1859. Darwin was confident that in time …
- … and negative, to his work flowed in. By early December 1859, he admitted that he needed to ‘ think …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
- … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
- … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
- … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
- … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
- … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
- … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
- … (many novels) Dec: Dana to Cuba & back [R. H. Dana 1859] —— Cruize in Japanese …
- … on Maladies of Silk-worm [Quatrefages de Bréau 1859] Owen Lecture on Classification [R. Owen …
- … March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 MacClintocks Narrative …
- … Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften . In 1859 he was the coauthor, with E. Desor, …
- … des progrès de la géologie de 1834 à 1845(–1859) . 8 vols. Paris. [Vol. 1 (1847) in Darwin …
- … at sea . New York. [Other eds.] 128: 25 ——. 1859. To Cuba and back. A vacation voyage …
- … Eliot, George, pseud . (Marian Evans Cross). 1859. Adam Bede . 3 vols. Edinburgh. [Other …
- … (1849): 381–420. [Separately printed in 2 vols. (Paris, 1859) in Darwin Library.] *128: 177 …
- … 119: 16a Hodson, William Stephen Raikes. 1859. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in …
- … 1–46. 119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859. Cousin Stella; or, conflict . 3 …
- … Library.] 119: 9a Macclintock, Francis Leopold. 1859. The voyage of the “Fox” in …
John Murray
Summary
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…
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- … natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who …
- … cousin and business partner, the earliest letters date from 1859, the year of the publication of …
- … you may not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a …
- … & proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all …
