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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … A global reputation The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly …
- … replies from different corners of the world. Darwin’s work was now guaranteed to arouse …
- … Fleeming Jenkin, challenged different aspects of Darwin’s theory of transmutation as elucidated in …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … Thomas Henry Huxley sent Darwin the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & …
- … under Domestication’. Having just received the printer’s estimate of the size of the two-volume work …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … completed book: a paragraph throwing doubt on Asa Gray’s doctrine that each variation had been …
- … the year progressed, the book continued to consume Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on …
- … was further delayed by the time it took William Sweetland Dallas to prepare the index. John Murray …
- … anyhow most ought to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted …
- … & I cannot get on so quickly as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). …
- … the two men seems to have been uneasy, at least until Dallas finished the index. Although many of …
- … pooh-poohed her, & as it seems very unjustly’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 27 [March 1867] ). …
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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- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to …
- … Darwin had sent the manuscript to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that …
- … of Variation had been entrusted to William Sweetland Dallas, a naturalist with long experience …
- … to intervene, complaining on 9 January , ‘M r . Dallas’ delay … is intolerable … I am prepared …
- … though it would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from …
- … to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin …
- … your note’. Darwin enclosed a cheque to Dallas for £55 s ., and recommended to Murray that Dallas …
- … Generally favourable accounts appeared in some of London’s leading weeklies such as the Saturday …
- … Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s literary circles and an author of …
- … Darwin for comments. Darwin was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote …
- … by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard Owen’s in the British Museum, agreed about the …
- … Science, Robertson published a rejoinder, arousing Darwin’s ire still further: ‘he is a scamp & …
- … of details and untoward examples even from Darwin’s inner circle of expert naturalists. The Swiss …
- … provided by Variation for expanding Darwin’s network of informers proved very fruitful. On 1 …
- … from George Cupples, who was encouraged to write by Darwin’s ‘frequent references to facts …
- … the breed ‘was no authority whatever’. Darwin’s reply opened the door to a long-running …
- … cause of science.’ Darwin began to make an index of Weir’s correspondence in April, and by the end …
- … well as of ‘victorious males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). …
- … pigeon magenta. To Weir, he wrote on 27 February : ‘It w d be a fine trial to cut off the eyes …
- … emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867, was circulated to remote parts of …
- … and had himself watched elephants cry (letters to W. E. Darwin, [15 March 1868] and 8 April …
- … screaming in patients undergoing vaccination ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 April 1868] ). Francis …
- … veins, and the action of his platysma muscle ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [15 April 1868] ). The …
- … of everlasting woe?’ I am not sure whether it w d not be wisest for scientific men …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those …
- … variety of women had access to, and engaged with, Darwin's published works. A set of letters on …
- … May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over Hooker’s suggestion that his writing style might …
- … Letter 7312 - Darwin to Darwin, F., [30 August 1867 - 70] Darwin asks his son, …
- … H. E., [8 February 1870] Darwin seeks Henrietta’s editorial help with chapters three and …
- … got hold of it first. Darwin’s female readership Letter …
- … with which to work. She has transcribed parts of Darwin’s papers, including diagrams, to share with …
- … "epistolary acquaintance" of his, Sara Hennell . Hennell's writings show a " …
- … range of evidence in order to raise questions about Darwin’s conclusions, in particular his …
- … - Barnard, A. to Darwin, [30 March 1871] J. S. Henslow’s daughter, Anne, responds to …
- … Frances Wedgwood offers critical comments on Darwin’s work on self-regard. She asks Henrietta act as …
- … The poet Emily Pfeiffer responds critically to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. She has read …
- … selection for debates over marriage. Since reading Darwin’s work a “flood of questions” have …
- … to as such questions “seem almost...out of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8778 …
- … a fight between boatmen, which reminded her of Darwin’s comments on anger and the showing of teeth …
- … Reading Variation Letter 5712 - Dallas, W. S. to Darwin, [8 December 1867] …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection …
- … 1859, the year of the publication of Origin . Darwin’s son Francis described how his father filed …
- … at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his …
- … with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray must have been successful, for …
- … ( Letters 857 , 875 ). It was published in Murray’s Home and Colonial Library in three monthly …
- … between Charles Darwin and John Murray. Darwin’s next experience of publishing with Murray …
- … of scientific enquiry prepared for the use of Her Majesty’s Navy: and adapted for travellers in …
- … (12 June [1849] Letter 1245 ). Darwin’s next publications, his barnacle books ( Fossil …
- … was driven by natural selection. In order to ensure Darwin’s priority, his friends Charles Lyell and …
- … Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a retail price of 14 s ., selling to the trade at 9 s .6 d . …
- … November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all Murray’s stock of Origin was sold on the first …
- … favourite hobby and he continued to publish Charles Lyell’s books he was not himself a convert to …
- … Scepticism in Geology (1877), an argument against Lyell’s view of a world that is slowly and …
- … of Variation was further delayed by Darwin’s ill-health and the preparation of the fourth …
- … most of Variation he was doubtful of the book’s success, and when Murray calculated that it …
- … more despondent: ‘I fear it can never pay’ (3 January [1867] Letter 5346 ). In the end Murray …
- … out within a few days ( Letter 5844 ). Darwin’s next publishing project with John Murray in …
- … showed how his observations of crustacea supported Darwin’s theories; Darwin read the book when it …
- … Subsequently Darwin commissioned a translation from William Dallas, who prepared the indexes for …
- … with Murray 750 copies of a pamphlet of Chauncey Wright‘s critical review, published in America, of …
- … Letter 8616 ). However, when Robert Cooke, John Murray’s cousin, went round to investigate the …
- … ‘it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’ (11 April 1877 Letter …
- … decided to have this translated into English by William Dallas and published with an introduction of …
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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- … of correcting’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may …
- … material on emotional expression. Yet the scope of Darwin’s interests remained extremely broad, and …
- … Carl von Nägeli and perfectibility Darwin’s most substantial addition to Origin was a …
- … at Munich (Nägeli 1865). Darwin had considered Nägeli’s paper important enough to have a translation …
- … development of species. Darwin correctly assessed Nägeli’s theory as a major challenge requiring a …
- … & must be morphological’. The comment highlights Darwin’s apparent confusion about Nägeli’s …
- … use to challenge Nägeli; Darwin made full use of Hooker’s assistance and many of his examples …
- … Fleeming Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any …
- … it was his theory of alternate ice ages that piqued Darwin’s interest the most. He wrote, ‘this …
- … for his theory ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1). Croll’s theory, simply stated, proposed that ice …
- … accounted for the survival of tropical species using Croll’s theory. In the same letter to …
- … troubled at the short duration of the world according to Sir W. Thompson, for I require for my …
- … point out, ‘As regards determining the age of the earth’s crust from the secular cooling of the …
- … ). Darwin did not directly challenge Thomson’s estimate, but he added more on the process of …
- … 352–4). Later in the year he was pleased to see Thomson’s work challenged by both Thomas Henry …
- … The dog-breeder George Cupples worked hard on Darwin’s behalf, sending a steady stream of …
- … well as live chickens and eggs of various breeds. Darwin’s cook evidently agreed to supervise the …
- … ability to recognise the different varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February [1869] ). …
- … some years in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the …
- … painful’. Thus began what would become Darwin’s most detailed and lengthy correspondence on …
- … current. Darwin sent Crichton-Browne his copy of Duchenne’s photographic album, and began to receive …
- … humans: differences with Wallace But even as Darwin’s research on expression and sexual …
- … ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 7 May 1869 , letter from W. B. Dawkins, 17 July 1869 ). He …
- … on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), as well as on the German translation …
- … one he commissioned and paid for himself: William Sweetland Dallas’s edition of Fritz Müller’s Für …
