To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1859]
Summary
Book finished some two weeks.
Feeling much better at Ilkley.
Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.
Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2504 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 23 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 15 Oct [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … Hooker 1859 . See letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, [14 October 1859] . CD recorded that …
- … Finished proofs’ of Origin on 1 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 7, Appendix …
- … s letters has been found. See letter from Charles Lyell, 3 October 1859 . CD had asked …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 25 September [1859] , for Lyell’s opinion of his discussion of …
To J. D. Hooker 25 [December 1859]
Summary
CD will not write to L. Descaisne to defend his priority over C. V. Naudin.
Feels success of theory depends on acceptance and application by good and well-known workers, like JDH, Huxley, and Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2602 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 31 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Victor Naudin ( Naudin 1852 ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] and23 [ …
- … The letter has not been found, but see the letter to Charles Lyell, 22 [December 1859] . …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … December 1859]. Hooker had, earlier in the year, read the manuscript copy of CD’s two …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). In 1856, he had read CD’s previous chapter …
- … vol. 4). CD received a copy of Hooker 1859 on 22 December (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] ). He refers to cutting open the pages of the volume so that …
- … the meeting of the club on 22 December 1859 (see Bonney 1919 , p. 147); the minutes of …
From J. D. Hooker [21 November 1859]
Summary
JDH’s congratulations on Origin.
Lyell believes S. P. Woodward wrote review in Athenæum.
Lyell’s and Huxley’s positive responses.
JDH has only plunged into a few chapters.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 135–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2539 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [21 November 1859] …
- … DAR 100: 135–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Athenaeum Club [21 Nov 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1847–59. Cybele …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] . CD had asked Hooker whether he knew who …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , n. 2). John Lindley was the editor of …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 12 November 1859, pp. 911–12. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] . Thomas Henry Huxley delivered an evening lecture ‘ …
From J. D. Hooker [20 December 1859]
Summary
Forwards letter from Asa Gray.
Bentham is very agitated by Origin. CD over-emphasises natural selection. His theory accounts for too much and would be improved by unburdening it of natural selection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2589 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [20 December 1859] …
- … DAR 104: 180–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [20 Dec 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bentham 1863 ). See n. 1, above, and letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 December [1859] . …
- … Philosophical Club on Thursday, 22 December 1859, and by the relationship to the letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] . The enclosure was a letter from Asa Gray that …
- … with Gray’s theories of climatic change. See letters to Asa Gray , 21 December [1859] and …
- … 24 December [1859] . George Bentham many years later told Francis Darwin , in a letter …
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1859]
Summary
Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.
Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;
CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2432 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Mar [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … a better chance of ranging widely. Hooker 1859 . See Origin , pp. 394–5. See ‘Journal’ ( …
- … Hooker’s comments have not been found. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 5 [ …
- … March 1859] , and …
- … 11 March [1859] . Although CD had previously written out a long section of his argument …
- … life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Ospovat, Dov. 1977. Lyell’s theory of …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [December 1859]
Summary
Received JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
Criticism of C. V. Naudin’s descent theory.
Asks that Lyell be allowed to see letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2595 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 23 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 32 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … A presentation copy of Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. It was extensively …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 22 [December 1859] . CD repeated most of these comments in …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859]
Summary
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2461 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 15 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 May [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to John Murray, 5 April [1859] . Frances Harriet Hooker had probably read the …
- … for his comments (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). See letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] and …
- … 6 May [1859] . CD refers to proof-sheets of A. Gray 1858–9 , on the flora of Japan, which …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … later (see letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). In the paper, Gray referred to Darwin …
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859] …
- … DAR 100: 137–8 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [12 Dec 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … Alvey Darwin’s house from 7 to 9 December 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The Monday after …
- … equivalent material prepared for Origin (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] ). …
- … English Churchman , 1 December 1859, p. 1152. George …
- … and Charles Cardale Babington . Hooker 1859 . The Hookers were repainting their house, …
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859]
Summary
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2401 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859] …
- … highest award. CD received the medal by proxy at the anniversary meeting in February 1859. …
- … DAR 115: 2 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Jan [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of the Geological Society in 1858 and 1859. The Wollaston Medal, named after William Hyde …
From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859]
Summary
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2428 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859] …
- … DAR 100: 152–3 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [9 Mar 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … s ‘note on embryology’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . The sentences that CD wished to add to his discussion on the …
- … J. D. Hooker, 22 November 1856 . Hooker 1859 . CD’s notes on classification were kept in …
To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859]
Summary
Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2446 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 9 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Apr [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … was a mutual friend of CD and Hooker. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [8–11 April 1859] . …
- … to publishing Origin with John Murray . See letter from John Murray, 1 April 1859 . See …
- … letter to John Murray, 2 April [1859] . The context of this and surrounding letters to …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
To J. D. Hooker 1 September [1859]
Summary
All but last two chapters of Origin proofs corrected.
Praise for JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Very ill and sick of work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Sept [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2485 |
Matches: 4 hits
From J. D. Hooker [8–11 April 1859]
Summary
Lyell has been strongly urging John Murray to publish CD’s book [Origin]. JDH feels Lyell overestimates the public interest in such works.
Gives examples of plants showing most marked varieties on the edge of their range.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8–11 Apr 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2444 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [8–11 April 1859] …
- … DAR 100: 127 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [8–11 Apr 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … geographical range is given in Hooker 1859 , p. v. CD’s portfolio number 3 contained notes …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 April [1859] . Francis Boott , a close friend of Hooker’s, …
- … essay to the Flora of Tasmania ( Hooker 1859 ). The case of a well-marked variety of …
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1859]
Summary
Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].
Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2440 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 94 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Mar [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 March [1859] . Roderick Impey Murchison had included a letter from CD ( …
- … Estimates, Session 3, February–19 April 1859, 14: 61). CD’s letter particularly singled …
To J. D. Hooker 28 January [1859]
Summary
CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.
More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2406 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 28 January [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 4 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Jan [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 January [1859] . The letter from Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 January 1859 . Griffith 1847 . William Griffith had been …
- … recorded having read this book on 29 January 1859 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1844 – March 1882]
Summary
Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816A |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 22 July 1858 22 Aug 1858 22 Sept 1858 22 Oct 1858 22 Nov 1858 22 Dec 1858 22 Jan 1859 22 …
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- … Dec 1859 22 Jan 1860 22 Feb 1860 22 Mar 1860 22 Apr 1860 22 May 1860 22 June 1860 22 July …
From J. D. Hooker 25 January 1859
Summary
Relieved by Wallace’s letter.
At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.
JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2404 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 25 January 1859 …
- … DAR 100: 131–2 Joseph Dalton Hooker Swansea 25 Jan 1859 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] . The family of Lewis Weston Dillwyn lived …
- … and William Jackson Hooker . Hooker 1859 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 December [ …
To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1859]
Summary
CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.
Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2583 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 29 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Dec [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1859] . Hooker and Asa Gray had corresponded at …
- … species throughout the summer and autumn of 1859, with Gray expressing agreement with many …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1859] , in which Hooker mentioned the illness of …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1859]
Summary
CD wants JDH to make clear in introduction to Flora Tasmaniae that remarks on CD’s theory refer to his 1858 paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2478 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 [January 1860]
Summary
CD preparing historical sketch, which will go into second American edition of Origin.
Asks JDH to copy out Naudin’s line on finality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2671 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … What was date of publication December 1859 or Jan. 1860? Please answer this. — My …
- … of Hooker 1855–60 . It was available in December 1859 ( Wiltshear 1913 ) and was also …
- … issued as an independent volume, ( Hooker 1859 ). …
- … CD gave the date as December 1859 in Origin US ed. , p. xi. See letters to J. L. A. de …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Origin US ed. : On the origin of species by …
- … for the third English edition (1861). Late in 1859 Hooker had drawn CD’s attention to the …
- … vol. 7, letters to J. D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] and 23 [December], and …
- … to Charles Lyell , 22 [December 1859]. In the historical sketch included in Origin US …
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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…
Matches: 25 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
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…
Francis Galton
Summary
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
Summary
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
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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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- … 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
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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…
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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 …