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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 …
  • … contempt of me. I feel convinced it is by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard Owen’s in …
  • … 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 …
  • … to throw off thick dictionaries by flexing. On 5 April , Edward Blyth, who had supplied Darwin …
  • … 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, …
  • … Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward Hewitt reported that female …
  • … in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, a neighbour of Darwin’s, …
  • … for the philosophy of the future.’ Further afield, Edward Wilson remarked on 14 October …

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, …
  • … by H.N.B. Erskine Wilson, Edward 8 Nov …
  • … not found Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868
  • … letter not found Wilson, Edward 22 Feb …
  • … send query around Wilson, Edward 14 Oct …

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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  • … [G. Montagu 180213]— facts about close species. Wilsons American Ornithology [A. Wilson
  • … . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Surveyor of Her Majestys
  • in the Himalayan Provinces by W. Moorcroft. Edited by Wilson 1841 [Moorcroft and Trebeck 1841
  • 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 18689] (an
  • …   History ] Vol. 4: p. 377 to end. June 8 th  Wilson Voyage Round Scotland [J. Wilson
  • letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Nov. 15 th  Wilson Voyage. Scotland [J. Wilson 1842] …
  • farm. 93 Feb. Highland Agricultural Report for J. Wilson origin of Domestic animals. 94
  • from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has
  • 44  Probably Francis Boott. 45  Edward Forbes provided sketches and notes for the
  • paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilsons work on the origin of domestic
  • London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15; 119: 22b Belcher, Edward. 1848Narrative of the voyage
  • domesticorum . Hafniæ.  *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837The natural history
  • … …  [By Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR
  • … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.]  119: 21b Bevan, Edward. 1827. The honey-bee; its natural
  • to the Hebrides . A new edition, greatly enlarged, by John Wilson Croker. 5 vols. London119: 4a
  • collected in Melville Island. Appendix XI in Parry, William EdwardA   supplement to the
  • and 12 atlases. Paris.  *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835.  …
  • Trilobites.  Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray Society. …
  • ser. 6: 142214.  *119: 21v.; 119: 18a Clarke, Edward Daniel. 181023Travels in
  • of Oxford. London. [Other eds.]  119: 21b Eyre, Edward John. 1845Journals of
  • … [Darwin Library.]  119: 18b; *128: 178 Forbes, Edward. 1841A history of British
  • London  2, pt 2: 483534119: 22a Forbes, Edward and Hanley, Sylvanus. 184953A
  • …  etc. 2d ed. Tiguri128: 16 Gibbon, Edward. 177688The history of the decline and   …
  • … ——. 1827Memoirs of the life and writings of Edward   Gibbon, composed by himself, and
  • … . London. [Other eds.]  119: 11b Gray, John Edward. 184352Catalogue of the specimens
  • … … from original journals and correspondence by H. H. Wilson. 2 vols. London.  *119: 14v.; 119: 11a
  • 2 vols. London119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 18689Guide to the study of   …

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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  • … lines of a geological formation,  3 March 1845 Edward Forbes's "Atlantis" …
  • … of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates,  23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …
  • … discovered in Celebes,  23 October 1879 A. S. Wilson on clubroot fungus of cultivated  …

3.13 Edwards 'Representative Men'

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< Back to Introduction A sequel to Portraits of Men of Eminence appeared in 1868, published by the London firm of Alfred William Bennett and again edited by Edward Walford. It was titled Representative Men in Literature, Science, and Art. The…

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  • … A sequel to Portraits of Men of Eminence appeared in 1868, published by the London firm of …
  • … photograph must have been taken during that year or early in 1868. It is a three-quarter-length …

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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  • … considerable research in published and unpublished sources. Edward Blyth needed little encouragement …
  • … The variation of animals and plants under domestication  (1868) and that it was destroyed or lost …
  • … 1855 paper implied some kind of belief in transmutation (see Wilson ed. 1970, pp. 54–5), but Darwin …