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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of …
- … Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But the crowning achievement of the year …
- … publisher in December. Much of Darwin’s correspondence in 1866 was focussed on issues surrounding …
- … 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). Darwin had first consulted Jones …
- … go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). Darwin began riding the cob, …
- … the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More predictably, however, Darwin …
- … how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). Towards Variation …
- … to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January [1866] ). Darwin found the evidence of …
- … Darwin had submitted a preliminary sketch of pangenesis to Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865 (see …
- … from the American botanist Asa Gray, the nurseryman Thomas Rivers, and the German botanist Robert …
- … to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When finally published in 1868, it …
- … definite views’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] ). The fourth edition of …
- … also added material obtained through correspondence in 1866, including observations by the American …
- … undertook an ambitious expedition to Brazil in 1865 and 1866, partly with a view to finding support …
- … ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September [1866] ). Darwin had first heard of Agassiz’s …
- … dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ). Darwin also ventured to inform …
- … more than a subsidiary agent’, Darwin wrote on 8 March [1866] , prefacing his remark with, ‘I …
- … Jones in future—’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 May 1866 ). Darwin himself was jubilant: ‘I have …
- … Garden!!!!!!!!!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1866] ). Celebrity Darwin’s …
- … exalted, and most brilliant intellects of our age’ (Anon 1866, p. 176). At Down, Darwin …
- … in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c . 10 May 1866] ). Henrietta’s letter …
- … I dread all exertion’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 May 1866] ). Darwin’s interest in Caspary’s …
- … The German zoologist had written to Darwin on 11 January 1866 , ‘Every time I succeed in making a …
- … His vast work, Generelle Morphologie , published in 1866, was dedicated to Darwin (as well as to …
- … has ever received’ ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 18 August [1866] ). Darwin clearly admired parts of …
- … dreadful’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] ). The Origin in Germany …
- … ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). Also in March, however, Christian …
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…
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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- … Comte Odart 1849” [Odart 1849] read very good . Rivers Catalogue of Roses [Rivers 1837] …
- … of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] Hasselquist— voyage to …
- … Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2” 12” 6 [A. Murray 1866] Wollaston Coleoptera …
- … 1 (1847) in Darwin Library.] *128: 179 Arnold, Thomas. 1838–43. History of Rome . 3 …
- … de Pekin . 16 vols. Paris. 128: 18 Beale, Thomas. 1839. The natural history of the …
- … ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.] 119: 5a Bell, Thomas. 1837. A history of British …
- … Croker. 5 vols. London. 119: 4a, 9b Boteler, Thomas. 1835. Narrative of a voyage of …
- … of natural history . London. 119: 20a Browne, Thomas. 1643. Religio Medici . First …
- … 125–7.] *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of civilization in …
- … the native tribes. London. 119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839. The physiology or …
- … of the Trilobites. Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray …
- … *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet. With …
- … . 3 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: 23b Campbell, Thomas. 1828. The poetical works of …
- … Irish famine . Belfast. 119: 22b Carlyle, Thomas. 1834. Sartor Resartus. London. …
- … of the Mancha . Translated from the Spanish [by Thomas Shelton]. London. [Other eds.] 119: …
- … la mer du sud, commencé sous les ordres de M. [Nicolas Thomas] Marion [du Fresne] … Cette …
- … . London. [Darwin Library.] 128: 10 De Quincey, Thomas. 1822. Confessions of an English …
- … Coleridge]. 3 vols. London. 119: 1a Doubleday, Thomas. 1842. The true law of population …
- … Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1841. Essays; with preface by Thomas Carlyle. London. [Other eds.] …
- … 1842. London. [Other eds.] 119: 12b Eyton, Thomas Campbell. 1838. A monograph on …
- … religion of mankind . London. *119: 1v. Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of …
- … Meister’s apprenticeship and travels . Translated by Thomas Carlyle. London. *119: 14 …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 165.] *119: 21v. Gray, Thomas. 1775. The poems of Mr. Gray. To …
- … à la flore tertiare de la Suisse. (Translated by Charles Thomas Gaudin.) Bibliothèque …
- … 119: 6a Hickson, William Edward. 1849. Review of Thomas Robert Malthus, An essay on the …
- … of this country. Edinburgh. 119: 14a Hogg, Thomas. [1820]. A concise and practical …
- … 180–91.] *119: 22v.; 119: 22a Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of …
- … naturelle des Orangers . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s …
