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Darwin's works in letters
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For the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin, we've added a new page to our Works in letters section on Cross and self fertilisation. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin, Origin itself, the…
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- … obtain for my works. ( letter to Ernst Dieffenbach, 2 October 1843 ) Darwin …
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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- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … identification is followed by a question mark. 2. The date Darwin rarely gave the year …
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
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … by Charles and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Etienne Page xiv, n., lines 2–5, delete ‘It is curious . . . in 1794’. 2 …
- … modification of species. Page xix, par. 1, line 2, insert after ‘and clearness.’: 5 …
- … a single parent-form. Page xix, par. 4, line 2, insert after ‘1860’: 6 …
- … ruminants Page 18, par. 2, line 15, insert after ‘England’: 8 …
- … will be given in a future work. Page 46, par. 2, lines 22–4, substitute for ‘but then . . …
- … with the conqueror. By the way, Page 99, par. 2, line 26, to page 100, par. 1, line 5, …
- … in certain definite directions. Page 162, par. 2, lines 6–7, insert after ‘deafness in’: …
- … (p. 32) Page 182, par. 2, line 15, insert after ‘full-grown animal.’: 20 …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … William Thiselton-Dyer how he ‘ syringed the plant for 2 minutes, & it was really beautiful to …
- … is one machine we must have. A strong horizontal axis about 2 feet long which goes round by clock …
- … above others below & the difference was very striking 2 of those causticed above being more …
- … & penetrate the ground just like a root to a depth of nearly 2 1/2 inches; then their growth …
- … the initial cost of publication with Darwin receiving 2/3s of the profits), but on commission …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … on some Marantaceous plant to make out meaning of 2 sets of differently coloured stamens.’ At …
- … and a mere mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly …
- … sold some 1700 Copies!!!’ After the initial publication on 2 July, two further printings were needed …
- … you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875). Back over old …
- … on her sister. He had described the case in Variation 2: 14–16, suggesting that such regrowth …
- … the eyes of one variety into another ( Variation 2d ed. 1: 420–4, 2: 360). Darwin had encouraged …
- … at its sensitiveness. If you blow gently at it from 1 or 2 feet distance, it absorbs moisture & …
- … meeting: ‘I did so enjoy my afternoon’, she wrote on 2 July , ‘and if it were not too much to ask …
1879 Letters now online
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In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a short biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin as an introduction to a translation of an essay by Ernst Krause on Erasmus’s scientific work. Darwin’s son…
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…
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- … life , (London: John Murray, 1st ed., 1859), p. 88. 2) “There is one other point deserving a …
- … a more inventive genius…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 316 – 317. 4) “Difference in …
- … and less selfishness…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 326 – 327. 5) “The chief distinction …
- … use of the senses and hands….” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 327. 6) “…Thus man has …
- … plumage to the peahen.” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that …
- … to her adult daughters….” Descent (1871), vol. 2, p. 329. 8) “Man is more powerful in …
- … gained the power of selection…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 371 – 372. Selected …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Vivisection: first sketch of the bill
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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …
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…
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…
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … his son to continue the observations. ‘I got out within 2 minutes of a very heavy shower’, William …
- … & make him think better of his work’. Hooker replied on 2 March , ‘I cannot tell you with …
- … covering the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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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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- … been received ‘today’. Following Francis Darwin ( LL 2: 116–17) and relying on Charles Lyell’s …
- … letter from Wallace to his friend Frederick Bates, dated 2 March 1858, arrived in England (McKinney …
- … concluded, ‘essentially unresolvable’ (Beddall 1988, p. 2). The correspondence between mid …
- … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
- … the rag is worth anything?’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters …
