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From E. A. Darwin   12 November [1860–8]

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Sends the tithes.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov [1860-8]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4340

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  • … Nov 1863 12 Nov 1864 12 Nov 1865 12 Nov 1866 12 Nov 1867 12 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … in his Account books (see n.2, below); after 1868, they were entered in months other than …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   17 April [1860]

Summary

Sends queries for "Fanciers"

and asks about the mating of the queen bee.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  17 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2762

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … II). Variation was not published until 1868. It appears that Tegetmeier did not publish …

To J. D. Hooker   11 December [1860]

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On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.

Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 Dec [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 80, 78E
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3019

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  • … in its entirety. CD abandoned the plan after the appearance in 1868 of Variation . …
  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To P. L. Sclater   22 May [1860–81]

Summary

CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:  22 May [1860-81]
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (1987)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13839A

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  • … 22 May 1865 22 May 1866 22 May 1867 22 May 1868 22 May 1869 22 May 1870 22 May 1871 22 May …

To W. D. Fox   18 June [1860]

Summary

Has WDF ever observed musk ducks laying eggs in high places? The case bears on retention of aboriginal habits.

Also wants data on period of gestation of dog breeds. [See Variation 1: 30.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  18 June [1860]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 129)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2836

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To T. C. Eyton   18 June [1860]

Summary

Asks about the period of gestation in dogs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:  18 June [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.218)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2835

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To John Innes   11 September [1860]

Summary

Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.

Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  11 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2912

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To [Mary Holland]   [April 1860]

Summary

Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Holland
Date:  [Apr 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2395

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To ?   19 March [1860–1?]

Summary

Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  19 Mar [1860–1]
Classmark:  King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13770G

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  • … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wallich, Nathaniel, trans. 1851. Specimen faunæ …

To F. M. Wedgwood   5 March [1860–9]

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Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood
Date:  5 Mar [1860–9]
Classmark:  Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5984F

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  • … A close family member dated the letter 1868. Pholas is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs. …

To T. H. Huxley   21 [January 1860]

Summary

Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.

Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  21 [Jan 1860]
Classmark:  Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2660

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … of this project, Variation , appeared in 1868. The second and third parts were ultimately …

From William Masters   8 May 1860

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Observations on hybrids from crossed cabbage varieties.

Author:  William Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 May 1860
Classmark:  DAR 76 (ser. 2): 166–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2792

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   30 July [1860]

Summary

Thanks for information on pigeon hatching

and on drones.

Believes occasional crosses indispensable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  30 July [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2883

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To John Innes   6 September [1860]

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Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.

Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".

Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  6 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2907

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

From John Medows Rodwell   31 October 1860

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Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.

Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.

Author:  John Medows Rodwell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Oct 1860
Classmark:  DAR 47: 167–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2970

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To Francis Galton   13 May [1860]

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Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  13 May [1860]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2799

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To Albert Way   7 April [1860]

Summary

Asks AW about archaeological evidence concerning the first appearance of dray horses.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albert Way
Date:  7 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.205)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2748

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To W. D. Fox   18 October [1860]

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The hybrid case is most curious, if true. So many have tried to get hybrids from hare and rabbit.

Has done little regular work – correspondence on Origin has been gigantic.

Has amused himself working on power of Drosera to catch flies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  18 Oct [1860]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2953

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To William Bernhard Tegetmeier   20 January [1860]

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Gives the results of crossing experiments; some interesting and curious facts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  20 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2656

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To T. H. Huxley   7 May [1860]

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Observations on changes in physical proportions of pigeons.

The Saturday Review of 5 May has a defence of CD and THH by "a jolly good fellow".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  7 May [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 117)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2786

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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  • …   On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
  • … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
  • … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
  • … and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ). My book is horribly …
  • … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
  • … look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, replying on …
  • … fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such worries were laid to …
  • … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
  • … not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace commiserated: ‘I am …
  • … to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John …
  • … a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am bothered with …
  • … Yorkshire, wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the …
  • … Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to …
  • … breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal’, and offered …
  • … changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 June 1868 ). ‘It was …
  • … clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection …
  • … ratios was scanty, and he spent much of the first half of 1868 collecting facts on this question, …
  • … may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868] ). From the beginning, Darwin had …
  • … males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). Yet a number of Darwin’s …
  • … the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 March 1868 . Wallace maintained that males …
  • … entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, …
  • … in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
  • … odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] ). Francis sought additional advice …
  • … to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I had a long work with Crotch to …
  • … in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward …
  • … of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect my stomach …
  • … of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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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…

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  • … for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
  • … in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
  • … Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
  • … Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
  • … Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
  • … Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
  • … Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
  • … Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
  • … Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
  • … Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
  • … Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
  • … Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
  • … Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
  • … Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
  • … Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
  • … Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
  • … Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
  • … Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
  • … Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
  • … Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
  • … Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
  • … Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
  • … Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
  • … Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
  • … Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
  • … Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] London, …
  • … Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 Hayes, Bromley, Kent, …

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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1   25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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  • … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1    25 October 1868 Lund (Suède) 25 Okt. 1868. …
  • … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
  • … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
  • … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
  • … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
  • … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
  • … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1    25 October 1868 Lund (Sweden) 25 Oct. 1868
  • … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
  • … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
  • … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
  • … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
  • … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …

Cross and self fertilisation

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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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  • … to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
  • … produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
  • … their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ).  By this time he had already …
  • … (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
  • … quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
  • … taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
  • … he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …

Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868

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My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter.  Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named.  Other than this iconic…

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  • … with two copies of Part II of Volume 16 (July – December 1868) and no copy of Part I (January – June …
  • … my interest.  And as I did so, my eyes fell on a 10 June 1868 Darwin letter to Huxley in which …

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From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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  • … From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin …
  • … to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was by John Robertson ( …
  • … 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 February 1868, pp. 217–18. f3 CD had discussed …
  • … CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. 8–10. …

5873_1488

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From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

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  • … From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates,  23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …

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 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
  • … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
  • … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
  • … Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
  • … Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • … Letter 6083  - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
  • … Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
  • … Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • … Letter 6066  - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
  • … Letter 6081  - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 Darwin thought it would be only a ‘ short …
  • … writing it up as a separate publication in early February 1868 , wading through a ‘ mass of …
  • … Variation was finally off his hands at the beginning of 1868, the volume of his correspondence …
  • … are more than 260 surviving letters from February and March 1868 alone, two or three times the usual …
  • … the details of the experiment were discussed in March 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of …
  • … & sexual selection’ Darwin wrote to Wallace in September 1868, but although he had ‘ oscillated …

Inheritance

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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited.  But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did.  Darwin’s attempt to…

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  • … 'provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis’, was published in 1868 in his book, Variation of …
  • … some other name. (  to J. D. Hooker, 23 February '1868] )   And took …
  • … hardly possible. ( from A. R. Wallace, 24 February 1868 ) Darwin’s …

William Winwood Reade

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On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…

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  • … On 19 May 1868 , an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade …
  • … Nonetheless, Reade contacted Charles Darwin in 1868 to offer his services: his second expedition to …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • …  vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
  • … on the German translation of  Variation  (Carus trans. 1868). The French translation proved …
  • … the French edition of  Variation  (Moulinié trans. 1868), and CD now extended his permission for …
  • … Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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  • … a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December 1868 ). Innes had a tendency to tease …
  • … he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June [1868] ). Among the reasons justifying his …
  • … the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So embroiled in this process …
  • … the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Darwin wrote of the next …

Darwin's life in letters

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For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…

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  • … letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working life …

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…

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  • … Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 February 1868] Zoologist Edward Blyth sends …
  • … Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 February 1868] American naturalist Asa Gray …
  • … Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [23 March 1868] Haeckel informs Darwin …
  • … Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …
  • … Letter 6126 - Binstead, C. H. to Darwin, [17 April 1868] Charles Binstead, “an …
  • … Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a case of a …
  • … Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] John Innes reports that he has …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

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…

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  • … Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 May [1868] Darwin writes to Gray about his review …
  • … 6223 — Horsman, S. J. H. to Darwin, C. R., 2 June [1868] Horsman attempts to convince Darwin …
  • … Letter 6241 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 13 June 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down writes …
  • … Letter 6486 — Darwin, C. R. to Innes, J. B., 1 Dec 1868 Darwin writes to J. B. Innes, vicar …
  • … Letter 6492 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down provides …
  • … Letter 6501 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down is …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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  • … selection ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 323–6). However, by 1868, in The variation of animals and …
  • … discussion of the issue with Alfred Wallace in the spring of 1868. Wallace had sent a concise …
  • … natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). Darwin turned to his son George, a …
  • … as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Ultimately, Darwin’s view was …

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…

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  • … Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Mar 1868 Wallace writes to Darwin with a …
  • … Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., [21 Mar 1868] Darwin lets Wallace know he has …
  • … Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 24 Mar [1868] Wallace returns George Darwin’s …
  • … Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 27 Mar [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace saying …
  • … Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 6 Apr [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace on the …
  • … Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 8 [Apr] 1868 Wallace says if Darwin is not …
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