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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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- … ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
- … fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
- … François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
- … quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
- … probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
- … contained particles of starch very clearly,’ he wrote to Henry Groves, the botanist who had supplied …
- … we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
- … of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
- … find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
- … sooner or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The …
- … leaves into their burrows ( Correspondence vol. 29, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 …
- … on the summit, whence it rolls down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The …
- … light on it, which would have pleased me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, …
- … Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had married Thomas Henry Huxley’s daughter Marian. He returned …
- … [28 October 1836] , letter from Emma Wedgwood and Louisa Holland to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [21 and 24 …
- … ( letter from Aleksander Jelski, [1860–82] ). In 1863, the final blow was dealt to Darwin’s …
- … a fallen enemy!’ ( letter to T. F. Jamieson, 24 January [1863] ). From 1863 to 1865, Darwin …
- … A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To the physician Henry Holland, he remarked. ‘I shall …
- … a little work in Natural History every day’ ( letter to Henry Holland, 6 November [1864] ). …
- … on heredity. His belief in human improvement was tested by Henry Keylock Rusden, an Australian …
- … undertaken observations years earlier. In 1871, he had asked Henry Johnson to observe the thickness …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy …
- … medical practitioner Darwin contacted around this time. In 1863, Darwin experienced a period of …
- … Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865, he reported …
- … week of July, he had evidently given up the treatment (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. …
- … condition had been diagnosed as ‘suppressed gout’ by Henry Holland in 1849 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … pain and inflammation of the joints (see, for example, Holland 1855, p. 233, and Garrod 1863, pp. …
- … by William Brinton, William Jenner, and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], …
- … vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …
- … with dietary restrictions (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … in invisible ink on the germ' ( to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). Years before he …
- … friends for comment. They were not enthusiastic. Thomas Henry Huxley was worried that its …
- … Huxley, [17 July 1865] ). He was forced to confess in a letter to Hooker , that it was indeed & …
- … shall wait, before he expresses his opinion. . . Old Sir H. Holland says he has read it twice & …
