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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
  • letter-writing dwindled considerably. The correspondence and Darwins scientific work diminished
  • 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 Darwins preoccupation with the
  • to mans place in nature  both had a direct bearing on Darwins species theory and on the problem
  • detailed anatomical similarities between humans and apes, Darwin was full of praise. He especially
  • with Owen when it became clear that Owens November 1862 description of the recently discovered  …
  • 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] ). …
  • work on mimicry in butterflies, which had been published in 1862 (see  Correspondence  vol. 10). …
  • to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in September 1862 ( see letter to Julius von Haast, 22
  • 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
  • men, given at the Museum of Practical Geology at the end of 1862, and published as a book in early
  • that had already occupied much of his time in 1861 and 1862. With the publication in 1862 of his
  • a question he had been struggling with in 1861 and 1862; he wanted to determine experimentally
  • Edinburgh, had initiated the correspondence in November 1862 with a letter correcting Darwins
  • a German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director
  • noted inThree forms of  Lythrum salicaria ’. George contributed his mathematical
  • … ( see letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] , and Loring 1862). However, his tolerance of Grays
  • 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 wasagainst rules’. George Busk had diagnosed Darwin as having
  • Thomass Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who