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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating letters …
- … am languid & bedeviled … & hate everybody’. Although Darwin did continue his botanical …
- … of the water-cure. The treatment was not effective and Darwin remained ill for the rest of the year. …
- … the correspondence from the year. These letters illustrate Darwin’s preoccupation with the …
- … to man’s place in nature both had a direct bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem …
- … from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
- … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
- … than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
- … sentence from the second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in …
- … was gathering support in influential scientific circles. George Bentham devoted the first part of …
- … could not satisfy himself on all points ( see letter from George Bentham, 21 April 1863 ). …
- … on species, though so cleverly written’ ( letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] ). …
- … the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club ( see letter from George Maw, 19 February 1863 ). Other …
- … Oliver for references on phyllotaxy, and setting his son George, the mathematician in the family, to …
- … sterility, that had already occupied much of his time in 1861 and 1862. With the publication in 1862 …
- … of sterility, a question he had been struggling with in 1861 and 1862; he wanted to determine …
- … a German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director …
- … noted in ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’. George contributed his mathematical …
- … Malvern Wells, Darwin stopped in London overnight to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor …
- … very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
- … that even writing the letter was ‘against rules’. George Busk had diagnosed Darwin as having …
- … Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who …