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To J. D. Hooker   27 [or 28 September 1865]

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Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.

The Reader.

Politics and science.

Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.

[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [27 or 28] Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 115: 275
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4901

Matches: 48 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   27 [or 28 September 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 275 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Sept 1865 28 …
  • … Sept 1865 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … is established by the endorsement. In 1865, 27 September was a Wednesday, not a Thursday. …
  • … See letters from F.  H.  Hooker, [17 August 1865] , [21 or …
  • … 28 August 1865] , 6  …
  • … September [1865] , 13  …
  • … September [1865] , and …
  • … 22 September [1865] . Letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] . George Bentham , a colleague of Hooker’s at Kew, had …
  • … Blackwood and Sons. Geikie, Archibald. 1865. The scenery of Scotland viewed in connexion …
  • … Dent. New York: E. P. Dutton. Jamieson, Thomas Francis. 1865. On the history of the last …
  • … geological changes in Scotland. [Read 11 January 1865. ] Quarterly …
  • … Journal of the Geological Society 21 (1865): 161–203. Keynes, Randal. 2001. Annie’s box. …
  • … Estate. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1865. History of the rise and influence of the …
  • … Roberts, & Green. Palgrave, William Gifford. 1865. Narrative of a year’s journey through …
  • … Chapman & Hall. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of mankind …
  • … Bentham visited the Hookers at Kew on 16 August 1865; Hooker’s father, William Jackson …
  • … Hooker had died on 12 August 1865 ( Jackson 1906 , p.  203). CD had maintained a cordial …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] . CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin , died …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n.  5. Emma Darwin . CD refers to ‘On …
  • … A.  R.  Wallace 1864d ). See letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 22 September [1865] and n.  6. …
  • … CD refers to Lubbock 1865 . For the text of the note, see the letter to …
  • … A.  R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] , n.  9. CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley and John …
  • … See letter from J.  D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n.  15. Ellen Frances Lubbock . …
  • … to an article in The Times , 11 September 1865, p.  6, that reported on a meeting of the …
  • … often read to CD (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n.  9, and letter to A.   …
  • … R.  Wallace, 22 September [1865] ). …
  • … CD refers to Tylor 1865  and …
  • … Lecky 1865 ; Hooker had recommended them in …
  • … his letters of [26 May 1865] and …
  • … 13 July 1865. CD’s bound volumes, many with annotations, of the Annals and Magazine of …
  • … 1–14 (1848–54), ser.  3: vols.  15–16 (1865), are in the Darwin Library–CUL.  In addition, …
  • … For Gray’s comments on the paper, see the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July  1865 . CD …
  • … first consulted Henry Bence Jones in July 1865 (see letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] , n.  12). …
  • … From 22 August 1865, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records CD’s weight at weekly …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n.  4. Eliot 1861 . The letter is in …
  • … C.  Harris 1860 , Bullard 1856 . Palgrave 1865 . For Hooker’s opinion of the book, see the …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, 13 July 1865  and n.  19. On the purchase of the Reader , …
  • … letter from F.  H.  Hooker, 6 September [1865] and n.  7. After hearing about the sale, CD …
  • … letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 22 September [1865] ). An abstract of William Hallowes Miller’s …
  • … chemical section of the British Association meeting at Birmingham in 1865 was printed in …
  • … the Reader , 23 September 1865, pp.  350–2. Miller had discussed the place of science in …
  • … of Science; held at Birmingham in September 1865, Transactions of the sections, pp.   …
  • … 22–7). Jamieson 1865 , …
  • … Geikie 1865 , J.  F.  Campbell 1865a . …

To J. D. Hooker   [29 July 1865]

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Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].

Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.

Lubbock is now lost to science.

B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [29 July 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4874

Matches: 44 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [29 July 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 273 Charles Robert Darwin Down [29 July 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70]. …
  • … Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust. …
  • … production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good. …
  • … 468–80, 518–28, 571–6, 624–40. Verlot, Bernard. 1865. Sur la production et la fixation des …
  • … Paris: J. B. Baillière. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich …
  • … by the reference to the general election in West Kent, 22 July 1865 (see n.  16, below). …
  • … The Saturday following 22 July 1865 was 29 July. See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 . Although Hooker and CD both make reference to Yorkshire, …
  • … London: Macmillan and Co. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1865. Moraines of the Tees Valley. Reader …
  • … 6: 71. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1865. History of the rise and influence of the …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … Biology 26: 1–38. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1865. Sir Charles Lyell and the glacial theory …
  • … Extracted from Philosophical Magazine 29 (1865): 285–98. ] Variation : The variation of …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865  and n.  22). CD refers to the Temple of …
  • … Although there is no record of any payment for 1865 or 1866, there is a payment of £6 6 s. …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 , and n.  9). No letter to or from Lyell …
  • … Charles Lyell to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures; see also letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 1 June [1865] and n.  13). …
  • … journal that he had been ill since 22 April 1865 (see Correspondence vol.13, Appendix II). …
  • … IV; see also Bowlby 1990 , p.  379. Hooker 1865 . Hooker had told CD that he was spending …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 ). In his 1839 paper, ‘Parallel roads of Glen …
  • … In his letter in the Reader ( Hooker 1865 ), Hooker described the moraines in the upper …
  • … see Jukes 1862a and 1862b and Ramsay 1862  and 1865). Another geologist who favoured the …
  • … was Archibald Geikie (see Geikie 1863  and 1865). See Davies 1969, pp.  317–55, for a …
  • … s annotated copies of Jukes 1862b and Ramsay 1865  are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
  • … 1864] ; see also this volume, letter to Charles Lyell, 21 February [1865] and n.  8). …
  • … Foreign Science’ in the Reader , 15 July 1865, pp.  61–2. The article claimed that England …
  • … Hooker told CD that he had read the second volume of Lecky 1865 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865  and n.  15). Buckle 1857–61 . …
  • … See letter from J.   D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865  and n.   …
  • … 16. Lubbock 1865 ; see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 . CD had written to John …
  • … Lubbock praising the book (see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] and n.  2). …
  • … Lubbock stood for West Kent in the general election of 1865. He was defeated on 22 July. …
  • … The election results were reported in The Times , 24 July 1865, p.   …
  • … 6. Verlot 1865 . There is an annotated copy in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
  • … et Centrale d’Horticulture. CD cited Verlot 1865 frequently in Variation , especially on …
  • … commercial offprints of ‘Climbing plants’ from August 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 August 1865, p.  391; see …
  • … also Freeman 1977 ). Wichura 1865 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 June 1865] and n.  7). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 . In March 1864 Charles Paget Hooker had caught another …

To J. D. Hooker   22 and 28 [October 1865]

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Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.

Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.

On Wallace; anthropology.

H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].

W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 and 28 Oct 1865
Classmark:  DAR 115: 277
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4921

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   22 and 28 [October 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 277 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct 1865 28 …
  • … Oct 1865 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Islands [ J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135– 44]. W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 [" …
  • … a trip to London from 8 to 20 November 1865, but does not mention a visit to Bence Jones. …
  • … records two payments to Bence Jones for £12 12 s. , one on 31 October 1865 and the other …
  • … on 28 November 1865. Daniel Oliver informed CD that Hooker was …
  • … expected to return to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 26 October 1865; see letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 . …
  • … was expected to return to Kew on 26 October 1865, after more than a month’s absence due …
  • … to illness (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865  and n.  6). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865 . The Royal Society of London had traditionally …
  • … London: Lovell Reeve. [Houghton, William. ] 1865. Gleanings from the natural history of …
  • … John Murray. 1859. Palgrave, William Gifford. 1865. Narrative of a year’s journey through …
  • … and Co. [and others]. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n.  12. Most of CD’s copies of …
  • … have not been found, but volumes 15 and 16, for 1865, are in the Darwin Library–CUL.   …
  • … Between 1856 and 1865  Henry John Carter published about twenty articles in the Annals and …
  • … 93. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865 . CD had enclosed the letter from A.   …
  • … R.  Wallace, 2 October 1865 , with his letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 3 October [1865] . On the disputes between members of the Anthropological …
  • … supporters, see the letter from A.  R.  Wallace, 2 October 1865 , and the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865 . …
  • … An unsigned article in the October 1865 issue of the Anthropological Review , pp.  354–71, …
  • … 1987 , pp.  245–57. CD’s copy of the October 1865 issue of the Anthropological Review is …
  • … in his unbound issue of the 3 October 1865 number of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … see letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 29 January [1865] and nn.  4 and 5). In Origin , p.  363, …
  • … CD refers to a brief article in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 7 October 1865, p.  938, which …
  • … report in the Athenæum , 30 September 1865, pp.  435–6, and to Berthold Carl Seemann . The …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865  and n.  27). No correspondence between CD …
  • … as well as other works ( [Houghton] 1865 ; see Wellesley index ). Hooker had written to …
  • … CD that he could not get beyond the first volume of Palgrave 1865 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865  and n.  13). CD refers to Buckle 1857–61  and …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865 , n.  16). CD refers to Eliot 1860  and …
  • … 1861; see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] and …
  • … 6 October 1865 , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] . CD refers to Dolly Winthrop, a character in Silas …
  • … she rose at half-past four’ ( ibid. , p.  158). CD had received Wichura 1865  at the …
  • … beginning of 1865 (see letter to M.   …
  • … E.  Wichura, 3 February [1865] ); he evidently lent it to Hooker shortly after. …
  • … return in a letter to Hooker of [17 June 1865] . CD’s annotated presentation copy is in …
  • … see Marginalia 1: 871–3). Robert FitzRoy had died on 30 April 1865 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 May 1865 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 4 May [ 1865] ). CD’s letter to Charles Shaw , the honorary secretary of the …
  • … see the letter from Charles Shaw, 3 October 1865  and n.  6. Six Queen Anne Street was the …
  • … CD since July (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] , n.  12, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …

To J. D. Hooker   [4 June 1865]

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Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [4 June 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 270
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4852

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [4 June 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 270 Charles Robert Darwin Down [4 June 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n.  2. …
  • … CD refers to Lubbock 1865 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n.  14. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] . CD recorded in his …
  • … journal that he had been ill since 22 April 1865 (see letter to …
  • … John Chapman, 16 May [1865] and n.  4, and Appendix II). …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] . …
  • … In 1865, the Sunday following 2 June was 4 June. CD refers …
  • … plagiarism, and to Lubbock’s note in Lubbock 1865 , p.  x (see letter from Charles Lyell …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n.  3, …
  • … for the text of the note in Lubbock 1865 , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] , for Hooker’s impression of the controversy). See letter from …
  • … Charles Lyell to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures and n.  1. See …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n.  4. …
  • … In his letter to CD of [2 June 1865] , Hooker had referred to a letter …
  • … from Lubbock to Lyell dated 29 May 1865 (see enclosure to letter from Charles Lyell to …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] ). Hooker argued that Lubbock, in that letter, gave ‘Lyell’s …
  • … wrote in his letter to Lubbock of 25 May 1865 , ‘there are only three passages in which I …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] and nn.  12 and 13). CD is referring to the …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n.  7. CD apparently noticed other …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] , n.  12. CD refers to George and Ellen Busk …
  • … Busks by the Lyells (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n.  16). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n.  13; see also letter from Charles Lyell to …

To J. D. Hooker   10 [April 1865]

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Roguery at Kew.

Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?

Is rereading Origin for second French edition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 [Apr 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 263
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4809

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   10 [April 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 263 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 [Apr 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]? Is rereading Origin for second French …
  • … memorandum from C.  A.  Royer, [April–June 1865]. CD had been seeking medical advice from …
  • … George Busk . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 6 April [1865] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . …
  • … String Press. [Greene, Joseph Reay. ] 1865. The Linnean Society’s Transactions. Natural …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 April [1865] , and by the endorsement. CD evidently wrote ‘ …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . Hooker had promised to send Grisebach  …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . The reference is to the novel Can you …
  • … John Murray. 1859. [Thomson, Thomas. ] 1865. Species and subspecies. Natural History …
  • … in the Gardeners’ Chronicle on 25 March 1865, pp.  267–8, reporting that the ‘scientific …
  • … to be held at Erfurt in September 1865; the article went on to discuss definitions of …
  • … in monthly parts from January 1864 to August 1865 (see N.  J.  Hall 1991 , p.  560). …
  • … visited Down House from 4 to 6 March 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242). The reference …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] ). Hooker had mentioned the apparent illness …
  • … she was in fact pregnant (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n.  13). …
  • … unsigned review articles in the April 1865 issue of the Natural History Review. Joseph …
  • … of the Linnean Society of London ( [Greene] 1865 ), George Bentham reviewed Planchon  …
  • … 1864a and 1864b ( [Bentham] 1865 ), and Thomas Thomson’s article ‘Species and …
  • … subspecies’ was a review of Jordan 1864 ( [Thomson] 1865 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12 April [1865] . CD refers to an …

To J. D. Hooker   [17 June 1865]

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Huxley’s capital, witty letter.

Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".

Health has been very bad.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [17 June 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 271
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4862

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [17 June 1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 271 Charles Robert Darwin Down [17 June 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … London: R. Bentley. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich …
  • … by the reference to the letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 (see n.  5, below). …
  • … The first Saturday following 14 June 1865 was 17 June. See enclosure to letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [15 June 1865] . CD refers to Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
  • … She was on holiday in Wales from 29 May 1865 to …
  • … 22 June 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and mentioned the letter from Thomas Henry …
  • … to Emma Darwin that can be dated 19 June 1865 (DAR 245: 26). She wrote: Many thanks for D …
  • … Teesdale, County Durham (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 June 1865] and nn.  5 and 6). …
  • … Chapman’s ice treatment since 20 May 1865 as a cure for his frequent bouts of sickness ( …
  • … s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to John Chapman, 7 June 1865  and n.  1. Emma Darwin . …
  • … See letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865  and n.  2. Although Kingsley pursued an …
  • … to letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 June 1865] . No presentation list for ‘Climbing plants’ …
  • … received a presentation copy of Wichura 1865  from Max Ernst Wichura , and had evidently …
  • … it to Hooker (see letter to M.  E. Wichura, 3 February [1865] , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] ). CD’s copy, which is annotated, is in the Darwin …
  • … 1: 871–3). An abstract of Wichura 1865  was published under the title ‘Vegetable …
  • … hybrids’ in the Reader , 3 June 1865, p.  631. In his annotations to the …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 June 1865] CD wrote ‘Wimmer Book? ’; the article in the …
  • … grew many varieties of Salix (see also Wichura 1865 , pp.  1–2). See CD’s annotations to …
  • … the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 June 1865] , where he writes, ‘How to | Histry of …
  • … review in the Athenæum , 21 January 1865, p.  86. Frances Harriet Hooker had suffered a …

To Asa Gray   15 August [1865]

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Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".

Thanks for Specularia seed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Aug [1865]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4882

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  • … To Asa Gray   15 August [1865] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (87) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Aug [1865] Asa Gray …
  • … DAR 242) records ‘began diet’ on 24 July 1865; ‘left off diet’ on 29 July; ‘began diet’ on …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . …
  • … Letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . CD refers to Gray’s …
  • … plants’ (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865  and n.  5). Gray had objected to the …
  • … sufficient (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ; see also ‘Climbing plants’ , pp.  95– …
  • … Press. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1865. History of the rise and influence of the …
  • … 624–9, 679–85. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of mankind …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 June 1865] , and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to …
  • … J.  D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). He consulted …
  • … Henry Bence Jones in July and August 1865, recording payments of £1 1 s …
  • … to Jones on 22 and 28 July 1865 and 13  …
  • … and 30 August 1865 in his Account book–cash account (Down House MS). Jones recommended a …
  • … strict diet (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s …
  • … mentioned. See letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865  and n.  3. CD had earlier complained …
  • … see the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865  and nn.  13 and 14. See also Colp 1978 . CD …
  • … a letter to J.  D.  Hooker of 1 June [1865] , CD had mentioned that he could hardly read a …
  • … vol.  12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). CD refers to Lubbock 1865 , …
  • … Tylor 1865 , and …
  • … Lecky 1865 . CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker had already discussed these books (see …
  • … letters to J.  D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n.   …
  • … 5, and [29 July 1865] and nn.  13 and 15). …
  • … Wedgwood (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865  and n.  10). CD had evidently abandoned …

To J. D. Hooker   4 May [1865]

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On FitzRoy’s life and character.

Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.

Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 May [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 268a–b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4827

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   4 May [1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 268a–b Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 May [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … bronchitis and influenza (see letters from J.  D. Hooker, 12 April 1865  and [ …
  • … 19 April 1865] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [19 April 1865] . Elizabeth Bates Laugel was the wife of Auguste Laugel . …
  • … See letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 April 1865] and …
  • … 2 May 1865 . Robert …
  • … FitzRoy committed suicide on 30 April 1865 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 ). On FitzRoy’s breakdown in 1834, during the voyage of the Beagle , …
  • … 1864 ). CD refers to Maxwell Tylden Masters and to Caspary 1865 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [1 May 1865] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 May 1865 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 May 1865 . Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , was suffering from …
  • … or suffered nausea every day from 21 April to 1 May 1865; he also recorded in his journal …
  • … that he became ill on 22 April 1865 (see Correspondence vol.  13, Appendix II). …
  • … See also letter from George Busk, 28 April 1865 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.   Hooker, [1 May 1865] . CD had been seriously ill for parts of 1863 and 1864 (see …
  • … physician William Jenner £10 10 s. on 3 May 1865, presumably the date of his visit to Down …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 6 April [1865] and n.   2). Jenner had been treating CD …
  • … physician in his letter of 28 April 1865 . At the end of the letter, Hooker wrote: ‘ …
  • … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] , and letter from …
  • … John Murray, 1 April 1865 ). By ‘your Rafflesia’, CD may be referring to a comment of …
  • … in his letter to Walsh of 27 March [1865] : ‘With respect to Dimorphism you may like to …
  • … during his visit to Down from 4  to 6 March 1865; no letter containing this information …
  • … of the article appeared in the June 1865 issue of Annals and Magazine of Natural History , …

To A. R. Wallace   22 September [1865]

Summary

Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.

Belief in value of travel journals.

Current reading.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  22 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4896

Matches: 26 hits

  • … To A.  R.  Wallace   22 September [1865] …
  • … Add. MS 46434 f. 56) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Sept [1865] Alfred Russel Wallace …
  • … letter from C.  A.  Royer, [April–June 1865] and n.  4. CD’s copy of Royer trans.  1866 is …
  • … this letter and the letter from A.  R.  Wallace, 18 September 1865 . See letter from A.   …
  • … R.  Wallace, 18 September 1865 . In his letter to CD of 2 January 1864 , Wallace mentioned …
  • … London: John Murray. 1859. Phillips, John. 1865. Address of the president. Report of the …
  • … pp. li–lxvii. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of mankind …
  • … letter from F.  H.  Hooker, [17 August 1865] ). Müller 1864 . CD began corresponding with …
  • … see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). The second French edition of Origin , …
  • … H. Colburn. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1865. History of the rise and influence of the …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n.  12). CD’s seven volumes of Humboldt  …
  • … CD’s enthusiastic response to the summary of Wallace 1864d ). CD refers to Tylor 1865  and …
  • … Lecky 1865 , both of which had been recommended by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letters from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [26 May 1865] and …
  • … 13 July 1865 ). CD had also recommended these …
  • … books to Asa Gray (see letter to Asa Gray 15 August [1865] ). …
  • … Lubbock 1865 . CD probably refers to John Lubbock’s remark about Wallace’s independent …
  • … in the Darwin Library–CUL ( Lubbock 1865 , p.  479; see Marginalia 1: 512–13), Lubbock …
  • … Association for the Advancement of Science held in Birmingham from 6 to 13 September 1865. …
  • … The issue for 9 September 1865, pp.  291–6, covered the opening …
  • … and printed the presidential address of John Phillips ( Phillips 1865 ), while that …
  • … of 16 September 1865, pp.  321–5, reported on the sections. Numerous reports on papers …
  • … related to the meeting see the index in the Reader 6 (1865): vii. Wallace was a member of …
  • … for Section D, zoology and botany ( Reader , 16 September 1865, p.  325). See letter from …
  • … F.  H.  Hooker, 6 September [1865] and n.  7. Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … before his father’s death on 12 August 1865 and had not personally corresponded with CD …

To Asa Gray   19 October [1865]

Summary

AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.

Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.

Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Oct [1865]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4919

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   19 October [1865] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (93) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Oct [1865] Asa Gray …
  • … climbing plants [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary. …
  • … see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865  and n.  6). The reference is to John Lloyd …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … established by the reference to A.  Gray 1865–6 ; see n.  2, below. CD refers to the first …
  • … plants’ in the American Journal of Science and Arts ( A.  Gray 1865–6 ). The first …
  • … of the review was published in September 1865 and the conclusion in January 1866. Gray …
  • … 1868 (see letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] , n.  1). Joseph Dalton Hooker had suffered …
  • … letter from F.  H.  Hooker, [17 August 1865] ). He had been offered leave until the end …
  • … the month, but told CD he was returning to Kew about 20 October 1865 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 6 October 1865 ); Daniel Oliver later told CD that he was expected to return …
  • … London: John Murray. 1877. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
  • … days of Hunter and Charles Bell ’ ( A.  Gray 1865–6 , pp.  273–4). Gray referred to the …
  • … commented that he had observed ( A.  Gray 1865–6 , p.  282): the strong summer-shoots of …
  • … written after receiving a copy of CD’s ‘Climbing plants’ in August 1865 (see letters from …
  • … Fritz Müller , 12 August 1865  and n.   …
  • … 11, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , and …
  • … 31 August 1865 ; see also letter to …
  • … Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). Müller paid particular attention to branch climbers …
  • … see letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 4 October [1865] and n.  3). By ‘regular work’ CD typically …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 [April 1864] and n.  4). In 1865, CD conducted crossing experiments with …
  • … volume, memorandum from W.  E.  Darwin, [late February–May 1865], and letter from B.   …
  • … D.  Walsh, 29 May 1865 , n.  3). He counted seeds from crosses he made of long-styled …
  • … trimorphic plants (see letter to Max Wichura, 3 February [1865] and n.  9). CD hoped to …

To J. D. Hooker   1 June [1865]

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Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.

Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 June [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 269, 269b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4846

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   1 June [1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 269, 269b Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Charles Lyell to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n.  6. CD sometimes expressed concern …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 May 1865] . Hooker had sent CD letters written by his …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n.  10. CD used the word ‘splenditious’ …
  • … from Charles Lyell to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures. References to specific …
  • … between CD and Hooker (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [2 June 1865] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [4 June 1865] ) indicate that Lyell sent the same enclosures to CD, probably …
  • … John Murray. 1859. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of …
  • … The reference is to John Chapman (see letter to John Chapman, 16 May [1865] and n.  3). …
  • … CD began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also …
  • … Darwin to Henrietta Emma Darwin, [ 1 June 1865] (DAR 219.9: 28)), wrote: Papa had a good …
  • … see the letter from J.  D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n.  15. After writing his initial …
  • … note at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865 . For the text of the note, see the letter …
  • … from Charles Lyell to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n.  3. …
  • … Because Lubbock cancelled the note in late June  1865, it does not occur in all copies of …
  • … edition of Pre-historic times ( Lubbock 1865 ; see letter from Charles Lyell to J.  D. …
  • … and n.  14). CD’s annotated copy of Lubbock 1865 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
  • … 1: 512–13) includes the note. The reference is to Tylor 1865 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n.   …
  • … 13. Lubbock 1865 . Henrietta and George …
  • … Darwin went to London on 25 April 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Antirrhinum …
  • … this artificial self-pollination, dated 20 May 1865, are in DAR 51: A23; he described the …
  • … s notes on his experiments in 1863, 1864, and 1865 on peloric flowers of Antirrhinum majus …

To T. H. Huxley   4 October [1865]

Summary

Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.

The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.

Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  4 Oct [1865]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4909

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   4 October [1865] …
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 223) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Oct [1865] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2  October 1865  and n.  1). The reference is to Emma Darwin , …
  • … see letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 October 1865 , n.  1). The letter is in Emma’s hand. …
  • … this letter and the letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 October 1865 . See letter from T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 2 October 1865 . CD …
  • … first consulted Henry Bence Jones in July 1865 (see letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n.  12; see also letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n.  14). CD …
  • … fever suffered by Joseph Dalton Hooker in August 1865 and to the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] . See letter from F.   …
  • … H.  Hooker, 6 September [1865] and nn.  2 and 5. The reference is to …
  • … see letter from A.  R. Wallace, 2 October 1865  and n.  3). CD’s Account book–banking …
  • … see letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 27 May [1865] and nn.  4–8). Huxley’s reply has not been …
  • … found; however, see the letters to T.  H.  Huxley, 12 July [1865] and [ …
  • … 17 July 1865] , and the letter from T.   …
  • … H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 . The Huxley family had spent their holiday in Littlehampton, West …

To J. D. Hooker   17 April [1865]

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On Lubbock’s plans.

Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.

Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".

Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.

Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  17 Apr [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 265
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4814

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   17 April [1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 265 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Apr [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n.  13). Lubbock was standing for …
  • … 1867–8 ), and whose Elements of geology had reached a sixth edition in January 1865 ( C.   …
  • … Lyell 1865 ). CD had expressed his admiration for Lyell’s work in this genre on several …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [February 1865] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , …
  • … was seriously ill (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 April [1865] ). …
  • … ser. 26: 644–71. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1865. Les Etats-Unis pendant la guerre. II. De …
  • … University Press. [Thomson, Thomas. ] 1865. Species and subspecies. Natural History Review …
  • … Auguste. 1866. Les Etats-Unis pendant la guerre (1861–1865). Paris: Germer Baillière. …
  • … Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient changes of the earth and its …
  • … the last election in 1859 ( Dod’s parliamentary companion 1865). See also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n.  14. …
  • … is to Pre-historic times ( Lubbock 1865 ), in which Lubbock discussed the archaeological …
  • … Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 74). John William Lubbock died on 20 June 1865 (see letter from John …
  • … Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865  and n.  3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, …
  • … to the northern states of the USA in Laugel 1865 ; he discussed his support for the Union …
  • … Laugel 1864 , and Laugel 1866 . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 April [1865] , n.  2. CD …
  • … to George Bentham’ s review of Planchon 1864a and 1864b in the April 1865 issue of the …
  • … Natural History Review ( [Bentham] 1865 ); see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12 April [1865] and n.  6. CD evidently refers to Planchon 1864b ; there is …
  • … CUL. The reference is to [Thomson] 1865 . Thomas Thomson’s article was a critical review …
  • … faculties of naturalists’ ( [Thomson] 1865 , p.  227). Thomson used his review of Jordan’s …
  • … of botanical nomenclature in [Thomson] 1865 , pp.  238–41. In 1842, CD had served on a …
  • … 206–10, and Stevens 1994 ). [Thomson] 1865 , pp.  226 and 235–6, discussed the different …

To Max Ernst Wichura   3 February [1865]

Summary

He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.

Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion

and the differences between MEW and Naudin.

CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Max Ernst Wichura
Date:  3 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  Autographia (dealers) (1986)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4765A

Matches: 21 hits

  • … To Max Ernst Wichura   3 February [1865] …
  • … Autographia (dealers) (1986) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 3 Feb [1865] Max Ernst Wichura …
  • … CD’s ‘scharfsinnig’ (sagacious) theory of natural selection ( Wichura 1865 , p.  82). …
  • … John Murray. 1868. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich …
  • … Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency …
  • … in the sale catalogue. The year is established by the reference to Wichura 1865 (see n.   …
  • … 2, below), and by CD’s 1865 discussions …
  • … of Wichura 1865  with other correspondents (see, for example, letter to B.   …
  • … D.  Walsh, 27 March [1865] ). …
  • … Wichura 1865 . There is a heavily annotated presentation copy of Wichura’s Die …
  • … See also letter to B.  D.  Walsh, 27 March [1865] . Though Wichura concluded that hybrid …
  • … outnumbered their parent species ( Wichura 1865 , pp.  64–5). CD wrote in the margin of …
  • … hybrid seeds in bare spots ( Wichura 1865 , p.  65); CD wrote by this passage, ‘Explains …
  • … of hybrid pollen-grains, see Wichura 1865 , pp.  32–40, 79–80, 89. In CD’s abstract (see …
  • … CD made a similar annotation in Wichura 1865 , p.  38 (see Marginalia 1: 871–3). Wichura’ …
  • … variable but not hybridised; see Wichura 1865 , p.  89, where CD wrote in the margin: ‘ …
  • … see Gärtner 1849 , pp.  437–41, Wichura 1865 , pp.  27–8, and Marginalia 1: 871–3). There …
  • … Science and Arts (vol.  39, January 1865, pp.  107–8) about Naudin’s recent observations …
  • … in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See Wichura 1865 , p.  28, and Marginalia 1: 872. …
  • … The abstract CD inserted in Wichura 1865  indicates that he remembered Gärtner’s stating …
  • … 6). See also CD’s annotations to Wichura 1865 , p.  83, and CD’s inserted abstract (see …

To B. D. Walsh   19 December [1865]

Summary

Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,

male Daphnia laying eggs.

His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  19 Dec [1865]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4952

Matches: 20 hits

  • … To B.  D.  Walsh   19 December [1865] …
  • … History, Chicago (Walsh 6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Dec [1865] Benjamin Dann Walsh …
  • … London: John Murray. 1868. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1865. The new potato-bug, and its natural …
  • … see the letter from B.  D.  Walsh, 29 May 1865 , n.  3. CD’s research on intra-specific …
  • … discussed in the letter to M.  E. Wichura, 3 February [1865] . CD had sent Walsh a copy of …
  • … praised the paper in his letter of 29 May 1865 , noting the ‘remarkable fact’ of intra- …
  • … letter from B.  D.  Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In his paper on dimorphism in Cynips , Walsh …
  • … Walsh 1864a ). In his letter of 12 November 1865 , he discussed his ongoing experiments at …
  • … Newton, 15 March 1874 , Calendar no.  9364. CD refers to Walsh 1865 . See letter from B.   …
  • … D.  Walsh, 12 November 1865  and n.  8. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), John …
  • … the death of his father, John William Lubbock , in June 1865 ( DNB ). See letter from B.   …
  • … D.  Walsh, 29 May 1865  and n.  14. See also letter …
  • … from B.  D.  Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In …
  • … his letter to CD of 1 March 1865 , Walsh had expressed doubts about Nikolai Petrovich …
  • … of gemmation (see letter to B.  D.  Walsh, 27 March [1865] ; see also letter from B.   …
  • … D.  Walsh, 29 May 1865 ). In the concluding paragraph to his 1866 paper on willow-galls, …
  • … Haeckel 1865b ; see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n.  9). See letter …
  • … from B.  D.  Walsh, 12 November 1865  and n.  10. On John Scott’s research …
  • … corroborate Scott’s findings, see the letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865  and n.  3, …
  • … and the letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] and n.  7. On CD’s differing results, …

To J. D. Hooker   22 December [1865]

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Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.

Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.

Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 Dec [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 278, 278b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4953

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   22 December [1865] …
  • … DAR 115: 278, 278b Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Dec [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … to Hooker was that of 22 and 28 [October 1865]. After a period of illness following his …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [3 November 1865] and nn.  2 and 3). Julius von Haast had …
  • … from Julius von Haast, 27 September 1865  and n.  6). Charles Lyell and Thomas Henry …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
  • … his letter to Asa Gray of 19 October [1865] , he said that he was able to do no ‘regular …
  • … he seems to have meant writing. On CD’s health in late 1865, see the letter from E.  A.   …
  • … Darwin to Emma Darwin, 25 [November 1865] and n.  6. CD described same-form crosses …
  • … Forms of flowers , pp.  188–243. CD’s notes on Lythrum for 1865 are in DAR 109: B30–5, 40, …
  • … and 55–86; his notes on Primula for 1865 are in DAR 108. His list of illegitimate …
  • … see the letter to B.  D.  Walsh, 19 December [1865] and n.  10. Caelebogyne ilicifolia had …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 24 December 1865 ). Subsequent observations had confirmed that …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 ). In an article in the Annals and Magazine …
  • … Appendix VI). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July 1865  and n.  22, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [29 July 1865] and n.  5. …
  • … Victor Naudin appeared in the 2 December 1865 issue of Gardeners’ Chronicle , p.  1133. It …
  • … see Gardeners’ Chronicle , 4 November 1865, pp.  1033–4). The accusation was originally …
  • … in the Natural History Review for October 1865 ( Naudin 1865b ). The note alleged that …
  • … The Gardeners’ Chronicle for 18 November 1865, pp.  1081–2, carried a letter from Naudin …
  • … see letter from C.  V.  Naudin, 18 June 1865  and n.  4). On the relationship between CD’s …
  • … on hybridism and heredity, see the letter to M.  E.  Wichura, 3 February [1865] and n.  6. …
  • … an honorary fellow at the 4 December 1865 meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( …
  • … also letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 , n.  5. For the diploma, see Correspondence …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   6 April [1865]

Summary

Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  6 Apr [1865]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4804

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To W.  B.  Tegetmeier   6 April [1865] …
  • … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr [1865] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … while Murray was in France for three weeks (see letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 ). …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . …
  • … Letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . The note has not been found. Luke Wells was the …
  • … for Variation (see letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] , and letter from W.   …
  • … B.  Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 ). CD refers to Wells’s drawing of the smerle pigeon in the …
  • … barb pigeon in the Field , 18 February 1865. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing this …
  • … and four other issues of the Field with his letter of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W.   …
  • … B.  Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865  and n.  1); these items are in DAR 138.3 and are lightly …
  • … annotated. See letters to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and [ …
  • … 7 April 1865] . See …
  • … letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] and n.  3. John Murray had asked CD to correspond …
  • … see letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and n.  6). In addition to providing a …
  • … has not been found. See letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . CD refers to Wells’s …

To Fritz Müller   20 September [1865]

Summary

Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.

FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.

Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  20 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4895

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To Fritz Müller   20 September [1865] …
  • … 10 no 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
  • … relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . See …
  • … letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865  and n.  1, and letter …
  • … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet received …
  • … Müller’s second letter on twining plants of 31 August 1865 (see letter to …
  • … Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The information on Haplolophium and …
  • … is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
  • … 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  1; …
  • … the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865  and n.  11). Müller included drawings of …
  • … CD (see letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ), and some of these were reproduced in …
  • … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn.  16–18). CD’s observations on …
  • … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  19). CD refers to Bronn trans.   …
  • … 1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865  is incomplete. The section of the letter …
  • … also letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n.  5). In Living Cirripedia (1851) , …
  • … see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n.  7). CD evidently reconsidered the …
  • … in the missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from …
  • … Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). Since Müller would …
  • … not have received CD’s letter of 10 August [1865] when he wrote his own …
  • … letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the possibility of Anelasma as a …
  • … section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865  in which he discussed Alexander Agassiz’s …
  • … found. Agassiz’s letter to Müller, 9 March 1865 , which contains these observations, is …
  • … Fritz Müller to Alexander Agassiz, 29 June 1865 , in Möller ed.  1915–21, 2: 64–7) that …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   14 March [1865]

Summary

Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  14 Mar [1865]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4786

Matches: 18 hits

  • … To W.  B.  Tegetmeier   14 March [1865] …
  • … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Mar [1865] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … this letter and the letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . See letter from W.   …
  • … B.  Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . In …
  • … his letter of [28 February – 5 March 1865] , Tegetmeier mentioned that he had injured his …
  • … right eye. See letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865  and n.  5. See letter …
  • … also letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865  and nn.  3 and 4. The pigeon breeds …
  • … from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 , and n.  9. Tegetmeier sent …
  • … containing five issues of the Field with his letter of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W.   …
  • … B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865  and n.  1); these items are in DAR 138.3 and most are …
  • … carrier pigeon published in the Field , 25 February 1865, p.  139 (see letter from W.   …
  • … B.   Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 and n.  7). The article was illustrated by a wood-engraving …
  • … n.  10, below. See also letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 , letters to W.   …
  • … B.  Tegetmeier  28 March [1865] , 6  …
  • … April [1865] , and [ …
  • … 7 April 1865] , and letter to …
  • … John Murray, 31 March [1865] . Chapter 7 of Variation included illustrations of the heads …
  • … letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] ). See n.  8, above. CD had met Weir in the …

To Edward Walford   22 [January–April 1865?]

Summary

CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Walford
Date:  22 [Jan-Apr] 1865
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5508

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Edward Walford   22 [January–April 1865? ] …
  • … American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan 1865 22 …
  • … Feb 1865 22 …
  • … Mar 1865 22 …
  • … Apr 1865 Edward Walford …
  • … Edwards during his visit to London between 8 and 20 November 1865. See letter from E.   …
  • … A.  Darwin to Emma Darwin, 25 [November 1865] and nn.  2 and 3. …
  • … during his stay to London in November 1865, with a view to being included in Walford’s …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

Summary

The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

Matches: 29 hits

  • … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of  The …
  • … However, several smaller projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long …
  • … of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family had had a …
  • … the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his …
  • … letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 3 January 1865 ). Erasmus forwarded his letters …
  • … laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). Sic transit gloria …
  • … the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, Hooker, at the time …
  • … are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by …
  • … with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). Continuing ill-health …
  • … to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). He particularly hated being ill …
  • … of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , ‘unfortunately reading makes my head …
  • … it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). In July, he consulted …
  • … bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By October, Darwin thought he might be …
  • … to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until December, …
  • … hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). Delays and …
  • … last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In April he authorised …
  • … press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early June, he wrote to Murray …
  • … when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not until 25 December …
  • … of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the …
  • … like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). An abstract of the paper …
  • … for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted at the beginning of …
  • … the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published in a …
  • … German, he had it translated, and wrote to Müller in August 1865 that he had just finished hearing …
  • … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; since it is impossible to …
  • … clearly understand (l etter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] ). Darwin was particularly …
  • … scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ), he clearly read Müller’s letters …
  • … from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). This may have been unwise: Thomas …
  • … & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). Scott took these criticisms, no …
  • … again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at the time of writing, he had …

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

Summary

On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

Matches: 5 hits

  • … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London …
  • … Darwin wrote that he fell ill again on 22 April 1865 and was unable to ‘do anything.’  Emma Darwin’s …
  • … hand). Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865
  • … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865]). Darwin’s condition had been …
  • … and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], and letter from George Busk, 28 April …

Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]

Summary

Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … in the early 1900s. In his letter, 17 January 1865 , Darwin asked Denny about the …
  • … was in fact two letters. The second one dated 28 January 1865 . After joining the Advisory …
  • … intervening letter from Denny to Darwin, dated 23 January 1865 . While not of huge …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

Summary

In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

Matches: 22 hits

  • … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in …
  • … basis of Lubbock’s book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865).  By 1860, Lyell had begun work …
  • … material available pertaining to the antiquity of humans. In 1865, he wrote that the section on …
  • … not pursue any grievance against Lyell until the spring of 1865. 13  In the course of …
  • … C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865), combined with the wording of …
  • … between the end of February and the beginning of March 1865, Lubbock wrote the note which would …
  • … received a copy of Lubbock’s book, published in mid-May 1865, he immediately wrote to express his …
  • … Ramsay in a note to an article published in the April 1865 issue of the Philosophical Magazine . …
  • … thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). Hooker, for his part, could see …
  • … for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent Lubbock a …
  • … the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with Lyell …
  • … him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), Darwin wrote back ( letter to J. D …
  • … and Lubbock had no direct communication after the end of May 1865, each appealing to friends to …
  • … Thus, in print-runs after the end of June 1865, Lubbock had cancelled his note at the end of the …
  • … of both interested parties. Only one known review of Lubbock 1865 draws attention to Lubbock’s note; …
  • … situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that no one could do …
  • … (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] and n. 13). The third edition had …
  • … vii–ix (revised version of last section, printed in August 1865, but dated 1863 on the title page) …
  • … of the ‘ Elements of geology ’ 34 [C. Lyell 1865], and the printed proofs were transferred …
  • … (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). Later, Lubbock claimed that he had …
  • … the note which appeared at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865. He told Hooker, ‘I did not trust …
  • … ours’ (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, …

How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]

Summary

Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … found in a relatively short letter written by Darwin in June 1865 to his close friend Joseph …
  • … this letter was a reply ( From J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ), but there was no mention of any …
  • … Indian mutiny. At least three novels had been written around 1865. Suddenly, ‘How to’ made sense:  …
  • … a favourable review in the  Athenæum  in January 1865. It had all the criteria for a novel Darwin …

Inheritance

Summary

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…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … example of in that way. ( T. H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 ). 'Your last note& …
  • … make widely opposite remarks.' ( to T. H. Huxley, [17 July 1865] ). He was forced to confess …

Darwin's health

Summary

On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … regular attacks had occurred again in the last week of April 1865, and the third week of May, just …
  • … threw up food.  In his letter to Chapman of 16 May [1865] , Darwin stated that his sickness was …
  • … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness’ were …
  • … difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and 27 [or 28 September 1865] …

George Busk

Summary

After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ).    …

3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'

Summary

< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of …
  • … had been launched by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1863, but by 1865 Edward Walford had taken over as …
  • … Darwin wrote to Walford, probably in the spring of 1865, to say, ‘I should of course be proud to be …
  • … more than one sitting seems to have taken place, in November 1865 and April 1866. Darwin’s account …
  • … true Philosopher’. The beard that Darwin had grown by 1865–1866 helped to enhance this …
  • … public image – wrote to Emma, apparently in late November 1865, to say that he was waiting for a …
  • … which derived from the three-quarter view photograph of 1865–1866 mentioned above (see separate …
  • … of image Ernest Edwards 
 date of creation 1865–1866 
 computer-readable date …
  • … Letter from Darwin to Edward Walford, 22 [Jan. – April 1865?], (DCP-LETT-5508).  Letter from Erasmus …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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  • … Darwin to Hooker (on hearing of Robert FitzRoy’s suicide), 1865. As you are now so …

Referencing women’s work

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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…

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  • … Letter 4370 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [April - May 1865] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, …
  • … Letter 4794 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [25 March 1865] Darwin asks Charles Lyell for …

Darwin on race and gender

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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

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  • … [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, 6 November 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 …
  • … the making of the colonial order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865 . Cambridge: Cambridge University …

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 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 22 Jan [1865] Darwin writes to King's …
  • … Letter 4939 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. R., 20 Nov 1865 Scottish school teacher and writer …
  • … Letter 4943 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, James, 30 Nov 1865 Darwin writes to James Shaw. He is …

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 4823  - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, H. E., [May 1865] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, …
  • … Letter 4928  - Henslow, G. to Darwin, [11 November 1865] J. S. Henslow’s son, George, …

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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  • … started in January 1860, and advertised in the press since 1865 with the unwieldy title, …
  • … apparently discussing it or showing it to anyone until 1865, when he sent a version of it to Huxley, …
  • … a book based on a series of articles that had appeared in 1865. In it he challenged aspects of …
  • …  vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). Darwin’s wife and children also …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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  • … (DCP-LETT-4707); Naudin’s gushing acknowledgement, 18 June 1865 (DCP-LETT-4863). Letter from …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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  • … Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., [20 November 1865] Edward Cresy Jnr. seeks Darwin …

The evolution of honeycomb

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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…

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  • … precise measurement was bought to bear, a myth. In 1865, Darwin received a letter from Edward …

Race, Civilization, and Progress

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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…

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  • … Letter 4933 : Farrar, F. W. to Darwin, 6 November 1865 "so far as I can see, History, …
  • … Darwinonline ] John Lubbock, Pre-Historic Times (1865) [ available at archive.org ] …
  • … ] T. H. Huxley, "Methods and Results of Ethnology" (1865) [ available at archive …
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