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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of  The variation …
  • … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
  • … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
  • … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
  • … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
  • … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
  • … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
  • … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
  • … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
  • … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
  • … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
  • … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
  • … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
  • … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
  • … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
  • … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
  • … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
  • … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
  • … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
  • … was gathering support in influential scientific circles. George Bentham devoted the first part of …
  • … could not satisfy himself on all points ( see letter from George Bentham, 21 April 1863 ). …
  • … on species, though so cleverly written’ ( letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] ). …
  • … the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club ( see letter from George Maw, 19 February 1863 ). Other …
  • … Oliver for references on phyllotaxy, and setting his son George, the mathematician in the family, to …
  • … a German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director …
  • … noted in ‘Three forms of  Lythrum salicaria ’. George contributed his mathematical …
  • … Malvern Wells, Darwin stopped in London overnight to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor …
  • … that even writing the letter was ‘against rules’. George Busk had diagnosed Darwin as having …
  • … specialist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). …