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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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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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  • … Indeed, he told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send …
  • … whether it was worth reading ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 ). In a letter to his son …
  • … 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). Darwin’s wife and children also …

Interview with Emily Ballou

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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…

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  • … myself and him through this form. 4. How did your research affect your view …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … a favourable opportunity’ ( letter from Joseph Leidy, 4 March [1861] ). However, the publication …
  • … to Nat. History.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 4 April [1861] ). He also advised that the public …

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 …

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  • … “ 3. —Who shall give certificate. “ 4. —Duration of license. “ 5. …
  • … in Great Britain. Duration of licence. 4.—No licence granted under this act shall remain …

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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  • … and affection’. He hinted as much in his letter of 4 June : ‘you will see I have done an …
  • … family friend, Elinor Dicey, Darwin wrote to Henrietta on 4 October , ‘You ought to have seen …

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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  • … are not supplied unless good evidence is at hand. 4. The letter summaries The …

Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online

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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…

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  • … made this possible  ( Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Agitation for a …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … knows when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the …
  • … the project as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ). Continuing the line of …

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 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist …
  • … Letter 3681  - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, …
  • … through the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. Letter 4139  - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4

Francis Galton

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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…

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  • … & how difficult to judge on these latter heads” ( 4 January [1873] ). Like most of his …

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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  • … would be assured ( Origin  5th ed., pp. 103–4). The terminology that Darwin and others employed in …
  • … think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ).  Darwin did not …
  • … William Whitaker, and others ( Origin  5th ed., pp. 352–4). Later in the year he was pleased to …
  • … and for special ends’ ([Wallace] 1869b, pp. 393–4). Darwin was astonished by Wallace’s …
  • … able to work some hours daily’ ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 4 January 1870 ). Darwin’s health was …

Interview with John Hedley Brooke

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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…

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  • … were concerned about that problem. 4. Patterns in the response to Darwin …

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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  • … 1/2 a dozen synonyms’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] ). In the …

What is an experiment?

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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…

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  • … make far the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He made the point more …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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  • … description agreed with Darwin’s ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Having finished …
  • … ‘hardly anybody has accepted’ ( letter to W. Z. Seddon, 4 February 1880 ). On 16 February , ‘an …

Science, Work and Manliness

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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …

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  • … of “astonishing labour and patience”. Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 August 1863] …

Experimenting with emotions

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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…

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  • … ( ‘Observations of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s …
  • … anatomical) relation” (letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] ). Making experiments …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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  • … what actually occurred in nature (see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and  Natural …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … a suitable cook. Emma Darwin to Henrietta Darwin, [4 November 1863] In this brief note …
  • … with Galton. Emma Darwin to Henrietta Darwin, [4 December 1873] Here Emma describes …

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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  • … [5 and 7 October 1842] To William Darwin Fox, [4 September 1843] To Charles …
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