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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 …
- … The index of Variation had been entrusted to William Sweetland Dallas, a naturalist with long …
- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … 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, …
- … provided by the poultry expert and editor of the Field , William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who …
- … 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, …
- … in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
- … to Emma Darwin, 9 February [1868] ). Darwin’s eldest son, William, met on occasion with a …
- … to August Weismann, 22 October 1868 ). To the physiologist William Preyer Darwin wrote on 31 …
- … science, including Adam Sedgwick, John Stevens Henslow, and William Jackson Hooker. ‘I … am …
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’s own work on plant sensitivity and digestion. William, who had contributed to some of the …
- … and trimorphism that he had written between 1861 and 1868 and presented to the Linnean Society of …
- … Darwin corresponded most often with the assistant director, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, who …
- … as rain, wind, temperature, and light. While staying with William in Southampton he made notes on …
- … ‘I got out within 2 minutes of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The …
- … he had begun in 1839 with the birth of his first child, William. He had used some of this material …
- … attracted immediate attention from other researchers. William Preyer requested a copy and shared …
- … and classical scholars, including the eminent politician William Ewart Gladstone. Darwin wrote to …
- … 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in Southampton with William during the emperor’s visit, and so …
- … , he was criticised for having quoted from an article by William Rathbone Greg on the ‘careless, …
- … C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows Bowles, having read Ernst …
- … a fossil by a model-maker. The giant’s ‘discoverer’, William Conant, was a colleague of the showman …
- … brought a very happy occasion with the engagement of William to Sara Sedgwick. She was the daughter …
- … Charles Norton, had stayed at Keston Rectory near Down in 1868 and had visited Down House. Darwin …
- … Southampton a dull place, but he did his best to recommend William: ‘his temper is beautifully sweet …
- … ‘I enclose my marriage present’, Darwin wrote to William on 3 October , ‘I fear that Sara will …
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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- … edition appeared at the end of 1866 and had told his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have …
- … vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
- … of the age of the earth much greater than that calculated by William Thomson, but he did point out, …
- … based on recent work of Croll, Andrew Crombie Ramsay, William Whitaker, and others ( Origin 5th …
- … his long-time correspondent, the pigeon and poultry fancier William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who sent …
- … lusitanicum that had been painstakingly collected by William Chester Tait in Portugal. Darwin …
- … since its publication in 1862. Darwin asked his son William to examine the British orchid …
- … in order to better ascertain its manner of pollination. William’s contribution, and those of many …
- … on the German translation of Variation (Carus trans. 1868). The French translation proved …
- … the French edition of Variation (Moulinié trans. 1868), and CD now extended his permission for …
- … was probably the one he commissioned and paid for himself: William Sweetland Dallas’s edition of …
- … Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …
- … from Adolf Reuter, 23 September 1869 ). The physiologist William Thierry Preyer enclosed a paper …
