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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 …
- … had been delivered to the publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct …
- … on human expression that he may have drawn up in late 1866. His correspondents were asked to copy …
- … of Argyll, and an anonymous review by an engineer, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, challenged …
- … completely revised the German translation of Origin in 1866, would be called upon to translate …
- … hypothesis of pangenesis’. Such was the case, reported by Charles Victor Naudin, of a fan palm, …
- … anxious about the reception of pangenesis. He was happy that Charles Lyell had a positive response, …
- … will be a somewhat important step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). …
- … on the anatomy of expression by medical experts such as Charles Bell and Guillaume Benjamin Amand …
- … Beagle shipmate Bartholomew James Sulivan at Christmas 1866, Darwin had written at the end of the …
- … and ‘clever’, but with certain weak parts ( letter to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1867] ). Charles …
- … as one who feels himself likely to be beat’ ( letter from Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 ). Darwin …
- … c d hardly come into a scientific book’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …
- … the most telling Reviews of the hostile kind’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …
- … & botany, before writing about them’ ( letter from Charles Kingsley, 6 June 1867 ). The …
- … than those with beaks shorter than average’ ( letter to Charles Kingsley, 10 June [1867] ). …
- … work, Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (Haeckel 1866), contained much interesting material, …
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 5140 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 2 July 1866 Wallace writes a lengthy analysis …
- … in giving up revelation”. Letter 2534 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 18 Nov 1859 …
- … Letter 5303 — Boole, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., 13 Dec 1866 In this letter marked “private”, …
- … Letter 5307 — Darwin, C. R. to Boole, M. E., 14 Dec 1866 Darwin believes he is unable to …
- … be an ardent theist and evolutionist, giving the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards his …
- … beauty. Letter 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 22 Jan [1865] Darwin writes …
- … Letter 5003f — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. R., [6--10 Feb 1866] James Shaw transcribes a …
- … Letter 5004 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, James, 11 Feb [1866] Darwin thanks James Shaw for the …
- … Letter 5060 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. R., 19 Apr 1866 James Shaw fills a letter to Darwin …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … up each edition to the existing standard of science’ ( to Charles Layton, 24 November [1869] ). …
- … translation 1865 4 th English edition published, 1866 5 th English edition …
- … expansion ‘in many places’ . Chief among these was Charles Lyell, instrumental in shaping both …
- … under a blizzard of letters (see especially letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] and …
- … last one was a welcome endorsement from the religious author Charles Kingsley, a chaplain to the …
- … done.— By the time Darwin was told in February 1866 that a fourth English edition would …
- … (With a glossary of scientific terms??) by Charles Darwin F.R.S. …
- … ed. , pp. 450–61). Despite continuing scepticism from Charles Lyell, who was staying with the …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … &c” & officially die, & then publish books “by the late Charles Darwin”; for I cannot …
- … is a poor devil to believe?’ Hooker replied that Charles Naudin ‘ proves them to be foliar in …
- … other naturalists, and more general readers like Charles Kingsley , the Queen’s chaplain, who …
- … Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in November 1866. Darwin could never really let go of …
What did Darwin believe?
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What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…
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- … their own. Mary Boole’s letter In December 1866 Darwin received a letter from Mary …
- … the couple, together with a strong sense of propriety on Charles’s part, sustained their marriage. …
- … families. Josiah Wedgwood, who was grandfather to both Charles and Emma, was a Unitarian, and this …
- … his wife Fanny. In the early years of their marriage, Charles and Emma read a number of works …
- … Some of the Biblical commentary that Emma and Charles read in this period raised questions about the …
- … inner feelings or instincts? In a letter written to Charles several months after their …
- … regard to nature and to revelation, like the openness that Charles and Emma so valued between each …
- … manner of belief in his correspondence with the clergyman Charles Kingsley, who had written to him …
- … to the will of God.’ (Letter from T. H. Huxley to C. Kingsley, September 1860.) When he came …
- … ‘Here’s one more pertinent consideration … : Charles Darwin’s own statements of doubt about his …
- … Barlow, Nora, ed. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin (London: Collins). Barrett, …
- … subjects, campaigner for women’s rights. Darwin, Charles. 1868. Variation of animals and …
- … December 1859. Keynes, Randall. 2001. Annie’s box: Charles Darwin, his daughter, and human …
- … Wedgwood, Josiah. Master potter and grandfather of Charles Darwin and of Emma Wedgwood. …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … by H. W. Rutherford ( Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, …
- … Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray 1866] Wollaston Coleoptera …
- … 1859]. (goodish) 1 The personal library of Charles Stokes from whom CD borrowed books …
- … Erskine. 2 vols. London. *119: 14 Babington, Charles Cardale. 1839. Primitiæ floræ …
- … of Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 13 Badham, Charles David. 1845. Insect life . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, Charles. 1806. Essays on the anatomy of …
- … of the London Clay . London. *119: 12v. Brace, Charles Loring. 1852. Hungary in 1851: …
- … life from 1838 to the present time . Edited by John Charles Templer. 3 vols. London. 128: 9 …
- … . 3 vols. Edinburgh and London. 128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848. Journal of a …
- … nature of virtue . Cambridge. *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848. Memoirs of Sir Thomas …
- … Rural hours . 2 vols. London. *119: 24 Coote, Charles. 1819. The history of England, …
- … to the treaty concluded at Paris, in the year 1815; by Charles Coote . 4 vols. London. 119: …
- … during the years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York. [Abstract in DAR …
- … during the years 1838–1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in …
- … of Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540–1646 . 2 vols. London. …
- … Oceans, China, etc. New York. 119: 5a Fellows, Charles. 1839. A journal written during …
- … 128: 14 Follen, Eliza Lee. 1844. The life of Charles Follen . Boston. [Darwin Library.] …
- … . London. *119: 21v.; 119: 19a Fothergill, Charles. 1813. An essay on the philosophy, …
- … . London. [Other eds.] 119: 16b Frémont, John Charles. 1845. Report of the exploring …
- … dans les corps organisès. Extract from Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’, ed., …
- … spontané; Genus; Géographie zoologique. In Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’, ed., …
- … 119: 2a Girou de Buzareingues, Louis François Charles. 1828a. De la génération. …
- … of the English revolution, from the accession of Charles I . Translated by L. H. R. Coutier. 2 …
- … à la flore tertiare de la Suisse. (Translated by Charles Thomas Gaudin.) Bibliothèque …
- … 119: 17b Hombron, Jacques Bernard and Jacquinot, Charles Hector. 1846–54. Zoologie . 5 …
- … Brooke . 2 vols. London. *128: 180 King, Charles William and Lay, George Tradescant. …
- … Captain P. Parker King .) London. 119: 5a [Kingsley, Charles]. 1851. Yeast: a …
- … 180–91.] *119: 22v.; 119: 22a Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of …
