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From Friedrich Hildebrand   4 November 1868

Summary

Potato graft-hybrid fails to give potatoes.

August Weismann requests Wallace’s address to find out about experiments on butterflies hinted at in Variation.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Nov 1868
Classmark:  DAR 166: 210
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6448

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  • … From Friedrich Hildebrand   4 November 1868
  • … cite a specific work (see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 November [1868] and n.  6). …
  • … Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Freiburg 4 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wallace, Alexander. 1860. Remarks on …
  • … 5 (1858–61), Proceedings, pp. 119–20. Weismann, August. 1868. Über die Berechtigung der …
  • … ein akademischer Vortrag gehalten am 8 Juli 1868 in der Aula der Universität zu Freiburg …
  • … Freiburg im Breisgau Novbr 4 th 1868. Dear and Honoured Sir I intended to send you this …
  • … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 2 January 1868  and nn.  3 and 6 and Variation 1: 396 ( …
  • … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 3 July 1868 . By ‘bumpkin’, Hildebrand evidently meant ‘ …
  • … see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 3 July 1868 ). August Weismann had sent CD a …
  • … inaugural lecture on the justification of Darwinian theory ( Weismann 1868 ; see letter to …
  • … August Weismann, 22 October 1868  and n.   …
  • … to Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 November [1868] ). In Variation 2: 158 n.  61, CD had referred …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   3 July 1868

Summary

Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.

Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.

Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 July 1868
Classmark:  DAR 166: 209
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6267

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  • … From Friedrich Hildebrand   3 July 1868
  • … 209 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 3 July 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … with pollen of another individuum. April.  1868. See plate facing p.  822. Freiburg im …
  • … Bibliography Bentham, George. 1868. Anniversary address. [ …
  • … Read 25 May 1868. ] Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1867–8): lvii–c. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 10 ( …
  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … Bonn July 3 d | 1868. Dear and honoured Sir after having received some days ago Prof. …
  • … to George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society , made on 25 May 1868 ( …
  • … Bentham 1868 ). Bentham referred to Hildebrand’ …
  • … Pflanzen ( Hildebrand 1867a ) in Bentham 1868 , pp.  lxxiv–lxxv. Hildebrand had asked CD …
  • … both papers were published in the June 1868 issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society of …
  • … offspring’ in Botanische Zeitung 40 (1868): 648–51, 666–9, 684–6; he did not review or …
  • … translation of Variation , Carus trans.  1868, was published by E.  Schweizerbart’sche …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   18 May 1868

Summary

Sends graft-hybrid notice.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 166: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6182

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  • … From Friedrich Hildebrand   18 May 1868
  • … 208 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 18 May 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … translation of Variation (Carus trans.  1868; see Correspondence vol.  16, Appendix IV). …
  • … see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 3 July 1868 ). Christian Friedrich Schweizerbart had …
  • … Bonn May 18 th | 1868 Dear and honoured Sir Finally I can send you the copies of my …
  • … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 2 January 1868 . Hildebrand’s comments on …
  • … the apples were published in Hildebrand 1868 ; there is an annotated copy in the Darwin …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   2 January 1868

Summary

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1868
Classmark:  DAR 166: 207
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5774

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  • … From Friedrich Hildebrand   2 January 1868
  • … 207 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 2 Jan 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … translation of Variation (Carus trans.  1868). CD evidently had arranged for Hildebrand to …
  • … to Friedrich Hildebrand, 5 January [1868] ). Hildebrand’s name appears on the presentation …
  • … and apples were published in the 15 May 1868 issue of Botanische Zeitung ( Hildebrand  …
  • … Bonn January 2 nd | 1868. Dear and honoured Sir! I am very much obliged to you for sending …
  • … of Variation , which appeared in February 1868 ( Variation 1: 396). CD had earlier been …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   26 July 1875

Summary

No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 166: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10094

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  • … on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868. …
  • … See letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 17 July 1875  and nn.  1 and 2. Hildebrand 1868 . …
  • … of maize. Since my paper in the Bot. Zeit of 1868 I have only been looking out for some …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   6 December 1876

Summary

Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 166: 214
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10701

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  • … and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
  • … see Appendix III). In his letter of 2 January 1868 ( Correspondence vol. 16), Hildebrand …

From Friedrich Hildebrand   10 November 1863

Summary

Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].

Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 166: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4337

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  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( …
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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 …
  • … 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, …
  • … 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 …
  • … odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] ). Francis sought additional advice …
  • … to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I had a long work with Crotch to …
  • … in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward …
  • … of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect my stomach …
  • … of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion …

Darwin’s queries on expression

Summary

When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
  • … in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
  • … Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
  • … Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
  • … Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
  • … Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
  • … Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
  • … Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
  • … Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
  • … Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
  • … Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
  • … Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
  • … Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
  • … Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
  • … Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
  • … Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
  • … Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
  • … Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
  • … Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
  • … Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
  • … Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
  • … Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
  • … Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
  • … Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
  • … Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
  • … Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
  • … Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] London, …
  • … Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 Hayes, Bromley, Kent, …

6430_10256

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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1   25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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  • … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1    25 October 1868 Lund (Suède) 25 Okt. 1868. …
  • … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
  • … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
  • … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
  • … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
  • … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
  • … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1    25 October 1868 Lund (Sweden) 25 Oct. 1868
  • … CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
  • … in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
  • … An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
  • … of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
  • … on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
  • … produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
  • … their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ).  By this time he had already …
  • … (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
  • … quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
  • … taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
  • … he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …

Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868

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My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter.  Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named.  Other than this iconic…

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  • … with two copies of Part II of Volume 16 (July – December 1868) and no copy of Part I (January – June …
  • … my interest.  And as I did so, my eyes fell on a 10 June 1868 Darwin letter to Huxley in which …

5935_4582

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From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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  • … From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin …
  • … to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was by John Robertson ( …
  • … 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 February 1868, pp. 217–18. f3 CD had discussed …
  • … CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. 8–10. …

5873_1488

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From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

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  • … From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates,  23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …

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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  • … Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
  • … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
  • … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
  • … Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
  • … Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • … Letter 6083  - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
  • … Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
  • … Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • … Letter 6066  - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
  • … Letter 6081  - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 Darwin thought it would be only a ‘ short …
  • … writing it up as a separate publication in early February 1868 , wading through a ‘ mass of …
  • … Variation was finally off his hands at the beginning of 1868, the volume of his correspondence …
  • … are more than 260 surviving letters from February and March 1868 alone, two or three times the usual …
  • … the details of the experiment were discussed in March 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of …
  • … & sexual selection’ Darwin wrote to Wallace in September 1868, but although he had ‘ oscillated …

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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  • … 'provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis’, was published in 1868 in his book, Variation of …
  • … some other name. (  to J. D. Hooker, 23 February '1868] )   And took …
  • … hardly possible. ( from A. R. Wallace, 24 February 1868 ) Darwin’s …

William Winwood Reade

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On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…

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  • … On 19 May 1868 , an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade …
  • … Nonetheless, Reade contacted Charles Darwin in 1868 to offer his services: his second expedition to …

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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  • …  vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
  • … 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 …
  • … Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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  • … a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December 1868 ). Innes had a tendency to tease …
  • … he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June [1868] ). Among the reasons justifying his …
  • … the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So embroiled in this process …
  • … the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Darwin wrote of the next …

Darwin's life in letters

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For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…

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  • … letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working life …

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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  • … Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 February 1868] Zoologist Edward Blyth sends …
  • … Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 February 1868] American naturalist Asa Gray …
  • … Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [23 March 1868] Haeckel informs Darwin …
  • … Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …
  • … Letter 6126 - Binstead, C. H. to Darwin, [17 April 1868] Charles Binstead, “an …
  • … Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a case of a …
  • … Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] John Innes reports that he has …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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  • … Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 May [1868] Darwin writes to Gray about his review …
  • … 6223 — Horsman, S. J. H. to Darwin, C. R., 2 June [1868] Horsman attempts to convince Darwin …
  • … Letter 6241 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 13 June 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down writes …
  • … Letter 6486 — Darwin, C. R. to Innes, J. B., 1 Dec 1868 Darwin writes to J. B. Innes, vicar …
  • … Letter 6492 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down provides …
  • … Letter 6501 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down is …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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  • … selection ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 323–6). However, by 1868, in The variation of animals and …
  • … discussion of the issue with Alfred Wallace in the spring of 1868. Wallace had sent a concise …
  • … natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). Darwin turned to his son George, a …
  • … as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Ultimately, Darwin’s view was …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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  • … Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Mar 1868 Wallace writes to Darwin with a …
  • … Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., [21 Mar 1868] Darwin lets Wallace know he has …
  • … Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 24 Mar [1868] Wallace returns George Darwin’s …
  • … Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 27 Mar [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace saying …
  • … Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 6 Apr [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace on the …
  • … Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 8 [Apr] 1868 Wallace says if Darwin is not …
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