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Abstract of Darwin’s theory
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There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…
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- … natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same …
- … to the Darwin–Wallace paper read on 1 July 1858 at the Linnean Society of London (see letters to …
- … ; and letter from Charles Lyell and J. D. Hooker to the Linnean Society, 30 June 1858 ). Since …
- … published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–62, it …
- … to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, September 5th, 1857.” (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). …
- … was sent to A. Gray 8 or 9 months ago, I think October 1857 [‘or perhaps’ del ]’. The printed …
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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- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
- … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
- … Journal ] Linnæan Transact [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ] …
- … & Wernerian Transacts— [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London and Memoirs of …
- … vols. of Linnæan Transactions [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ]. May 3 …
- … June 10 th . Linnæan Trans. [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ] to end of Vol: …
- … 112 Jukes. “Students Manual of Geology” [Jukes 1857]— published a few years ago, good on …
- … Lucas l’Heredite Naturelle [Lucas 1847–50] 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami …
- … Thackeray English Humourists [Thackeray 1853] 1857 Jan. Cockburn life of Selby [ …
- … 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [1854–6]: Quits [Tautphoeus] 1857] 29 Lutfullah. Life of …
- … Marsh] 1858] Buckle History of Civilisation [Buckle 1857] Feb. 28 Sir J. Mackintosh …
- … Oct. 22. Olmstead Journey through Texas [Olmsted 1857] Dec. Motley’s History of Dutch …
- … *119: 4v.; 119: 6a Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . London. 1791–. [Vol. …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … his long paper on climbing plants in the Journal of the Linnean Society , and, arising from this, …
- … the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The year …
- … was ready to submit his paper on climbing plants to the Linnean Society of London, and though he was …
- … Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly …
- … of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to include among the …
- … scarlet fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society …
- … 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the Linnean, he complained to Hooker: ‘For the …
- … ). An abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April …
- … books that he needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist …
- … from which Darwin edited and submitted in October to the Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s …
- … vol. 13). Before submitting the letters to the Linnean Society, Darwin enlisted the help of …
- … published his results in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867), and Darwin …
- … the duke of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin …
- … himself in December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a really …
- … Mensch (Rolle 1866), a study of the development of human society in the light of Origin and …
- … in person, Hooker’s enthusiasm for science and scientific society was evidently undimmed: Frances, …
- … How to manage it , a love-story set in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to 1858 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … each other are again full of botany and news of scientific society. Darwin finished the year well …
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … Catarina Island in the new provincial lycée that opened in 1857, where he taught mathematics and …
- … plants’ in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). Having now …
- … sent off the letters for publication in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). The …
- … and published in the Transactions of the Entomological society of London in 1879 on Darwin’s …
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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- … ‘Action of carbonate of ammonia on roots’, read at the Linnean Society of London on 6 and 16 March, …
- … produced by planting in apposition’, was read at the Linnean Society on 4 May, but not published. …
- … sat for Collier in 1881 for a portrait commissioned by the Linnean Society. Collier sent Darwin a …
- … consult another physician. ‘Ever since I met Frank at the Linnean,’ he wrote, ‘I have been greatly …
- … his memory more than I shall. I have just come from the Linnean when we adjourned as a small tribute …
- … life in the 1840s: his duties as secretary of the Geological Society, his work on geology, coral …
- … the Rock’ ( letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 13 December [1857] ). In May 1857, Darwin wrote to …
- … class with Lyell’ ( letter to William Sharpey, 22 May [1857] ). There are a few letters …
- … by Thomas Francis Jamieson in a paper to the Geological Society. Darwin was a referee for the paper …
- … from my continued ill-health has been my seclusion from society & not becoming acquainted with …
- … ‘the imbecile, the maimed, and other useless members of society’. He regarded this as the highest …
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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- … and Wallace’s respective theories of organic change at the Linnean Society of London in July 1858 …
- … completed his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to …
- … Bernhard Tegetmeier, founder and president of the Apiarian Society, provided Darwin with information …
- … on variation under nature. Having learned in the summer of 1857 that his method for deriving …
- … with an abstract of his views sent to Asa Gray in September 1857. The correspondence between Darwin, …
- … to the reading of the Darwin–Wallace papers at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858, including a …
- … in public and that he did not attend the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. The …
- … theory to appear in one or more papers in the Journal of the Linnean Society. But once he had …
- … acted as referee for several papers submitted to the Royal Society and served on the society’s …
- … with Darwin receiving the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society, considered to be the highest …
- … (1851 and 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15 (1859): xxv). One of the …
- … require revision since the recent publication by the Linnean Society of the ingenious and original …
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … Gazette no. 21: 356-357. Darwin, Charles. 1857. "On the action of sea-water on the …
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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- … completed his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to …
- … Bernhard Tegetmeier, founder and president of the Apiarian Society, provided Darwin with information …
- … on variation under nature. Having learned in the summer of 1857 that his method for deriving …
- … with an abstract of his views sent to Asa Gray in September 1857. The correspondence between Darwin, …
- … to the reading of the Darwin–Wallace papers at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. It also includes …
- … in public and that he did not attend the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. After …
- … to appear in one or more papers in the Journal of the Linnean Society . But once he had commenced …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … ago’, he wrote to the American botanist Asa Gray in July 1857, it occurred to me that …
- … staggered about the permanence of species.— By 1857, Darwin had found the confidence to …
- … And this much acceleration I owe to you. ’ In February 1857, the rate of this acceleration was …
- … the way facts fall into groups ’, he told Fox in February 1857. Trials of strength …
- … in theory of the descent of species ’. In December 1857, Darwin had expressed his satisfaction that …
- … there is no good & original observation ’. In 1857, Darwin recorded in his journal that …
- … varieties differ from each other’, he told Wallace in May 1857, before stating ‘ I am now preparing …
- … extracts from Darwin’s writing as a joint paper to the Linnean Society of London. The aim was to …
- … had reported that presentation of the joint paper at the Linnean Society had ‘ gone on prosperously …
- … who thought so highly of it that they had it read before the Linnean Society. This insures me the …
- … that Wallace heard about the presentation of his work at the Linnean Society, Darwin was well into …
- … Ternate Essay by Darwin in 1858, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 249-52 …
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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- … Edward Blyth, curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, sends specimens and bird …
- … experiments from Miss Bateman, the first woman admitted to Linnean Society. Men: …
- … 2055 - Langton, E. to Darwin, F., [21 February 1857] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
- … Letter 2069 - Tenant, J. to Darwin, [31 March 1857] James Tenant, keeper of the …
- … Darwin seeks to decline the Secretaryship of the Geological Society. Once his writing skills and …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … and most famously, the problem of species change. In 1857, Darwin and Wallace exchanged …
- … observations and theoretical abilities. In a letter of 1 May 1857, he alluded to his own unfinished …
- … Science … may all your theories succeed” (22 December 1857). It may have been this shared interest …
- … own theory, initially in a joint paper with Wallace to the Linnean Society, and then in Origin of …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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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- … Hooker even suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. …
- … Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see letter from …
- … time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( see letter to H. B. …
- … the colour of their surroundings to the Entomological Society of London ( letter from H. W. Bates, …
- … Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to the Geological Society of London and an annual medal ( …
- … February 1874 ), and honorary member of the Entomological Society of France ( letter to Eugène …
