From C. L. Sutherland 12 September 1872
Summary
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Author: | Charles Leslie Sutherland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8518 |
From M. T. Masters 4 November 1872
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8597 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Bert, Paul. 1867–72. Recherches sur les mouvements de la sensitive ( Mimosa …
- … de l’anatomie et de la physiologie 4 (1867): 534–52; 8 (1872): 201–33. Climbing plants 2d …
- … Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 180; see Bert 1867–72 , p. 551). The editor of the Popular …
- … de l’anatomie et de la physiologie ( Bert 1867–72 ). CD later cited a remark by Bert in …
From G. J. Allman 13 April 1872
Summary
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Author: | George James Allman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8269 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye …
- … Bibliography Malm, August Wilhelm. 1867. Bidrag till kännedom af Pleuronektoidernas …
- … Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 7 (1867–8): (4th paper) 1–28. Milne-Edwards, …
- … flatfishes by August Wilhelm Malm ( Malm 1867 ). The translation, which appears to be in …
From Alfred Tylor 8 June 1872
Summary
AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".
Author: | Alfred Tylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8376 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 22: 463–8. Tylor, Alfred. 1867. On the Amiens …
- … gravel. [Read 6 November 1867. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London …
- … DAR 242)). In a series of papers read in 1867 and 1868, Alfred Tylor theorised that early …
- … of higher than normal rainfall (A. Tylor 1867 , 1868a, 1868b, 1868c). John Morris was …
- … result of flooding ( A. Tylor 1866 and 1867; see also A. Tylor 1872 , pp. 498–9). A …
From ? [1872–5?]
Summary
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1872 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13888 |
From L. H. Jeitteles 3 November 1872
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
Author: | Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8594 |
To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8506 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD rebuked Haeckel for the severity of his criticisms in 1867 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 15, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 12 April [1867] and n. …
- … 6, and letter from Ernst Haeckel, 12 May 1867 ). CD refers to Rütimeyer 1868 . See also …
- … vol. 15, letter to Ludwig Rütimeyer, 4 May [1867] and nn. 2 and 3. CD refers to Henry …
From Asa Gray 31 May 1872
Summary
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8363 |
From John Ball 31 January [1872]
Summary
Expands on a letter to Nature concerning the probability of the survival of a new variety in a given species. Differs with [F. Jenkin’s] argument, to which CD had agreed to a greater extent than JB feels it deserved.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 196–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8190 |
To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 130–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8609 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 July [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 22 October 1872
Summary
Samuel Pozzi has been proposed by C. Martin and Paul Broca as translator of Expression.
First volume of Descent has sold 1200 copies.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8571 |
To Gaston de Saporta 8 April 1872
Summary
Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 8 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8282 |
From William Green 30 January 1872
Summary
Calls CD’s attention to Andrew Jackson Davis’ work on the origin of man,
philosophy of evil,
the mode of producing rain at pleasure,
and who and what is God.
Author: | William Green |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 222–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8189 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 October [1872]
Summary
Requests the address of F. F. Geach so that he may send him his book [Expression].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8581A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 15, letter from F. F. Geach, June 1867, and Correspondence vol. 16, letter from …
From J. F. Mackenzie 8 February 1872
Summary
An engineer in India, who has read Descent, sends observations on native racial characters.
Author: | John Finlayson Mackenzie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8202 |
From A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872]
Summary
Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright
and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.
Author: | Alfred Henry Garrod |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8399 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 23 December 1872
Summary
Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.
Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.
Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8692 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy. …
To Charles Lyell 1 June 1872
Summary
Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June 1872 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8366 |
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Allman, G. J. | (1) |
Ball, John | (1) |
Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Denny, John | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Garrod, A. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Green, William | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Jeitteles, L. H. | (1) |
Mackenzie, J. F. | (1) |
Major, C. I. F. | (1) |
Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
Marshall, William | (1) |
Martin, J. R. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Murie, James | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Sutherland, C. L. | (1) |
Tylor, Alfred | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
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 …
- … 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 …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … 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 …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
John Lubbock
Summary
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…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
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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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
A tale of two bees
Summary
Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
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…
Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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…
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,…
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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Religion
Summary
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…
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
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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …