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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 28 hits
- … Airy, Hubert (27) Aitchison, William (2) …
- … (1) Asher, G. M. (7) Ashley, Miss (1 …
- … (4) Aubertin, J. J. (7) Aussant-Carà, Paul …
- … (1) Aveling, E. B. (7) Axon, W. E. A. …
- … Baird, S. F. (1) Baird, William (1) …
- … (16) Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John …
- … Baxter, W. W. (36) Baxter, William (7) …
- … Bennett, A. W. (21) Bennett, William (2) …
- … (1) Blair, R. A. (7) Blair, R. H. (4 …
- … Blanche (2) Blenkiron, William, Jr (1) …
- … (3) Boott, Francis (7) Boott, Mary …
- … Bowles, W. B. (2) Bowman, William (29) …
- … Frank (17) Buckland, William (6) …
- … (1) Chambers, Robert (7) Chance, Frank …
- … (3) Clarke, R. T. (7) Clarke, T. W. …
- … Clephan, T. R. (1) Clift, William (1) …
- … Coldstream, John (2) Cole, William (3) …
- … Cooper, W. B. (1) Cooper, William (1) …
- … Croll, James (16) Crookes, William (1) …
- … la Beche, H. T. (3) Dealtry, William (1) …
- … Farr, John (2) Farr, William (7) …
- … Farrer, T. H. (137) Farrer, William (1) …
- … Graham, C. C. (3) Graham, William (5) …
- … Green, Thomas (1) Green, William (2) …
- … Hardy, R. P. (4) Hardy, William (1) …
- … Harris, J. (2) Harris, William (2) …
- … Harte, Richard (1) Harte, William (1) …
- … Prestwich, Joseph (4) Preyer, William (19) …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … The index of Variation had been entrusted to William Sweetland Dallas, a naturalist with long …
- … Darwin was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter …
- … provided by the poultry expert and editor of the Field , William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who …
- … to Emma Darwin, 9 February [1868] ). Darwin’s eldest son, William, met on occasion with a …
- … undergoing vaccination ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 April 1868] ). Francis was also drafted into …
- … desire to penetrate Truth’ ( letter from Ernest Faivre, 7 April 1868 ). Armand de Quatrefages, who …
- … to August Weismann, 22 October 1868 ). To the physiologist William Preyer Darwin wrote on 31 …
- … science, including Adam Sedgwick, John Stevens Henslow, and William Jackson Hooker. ‘I … am …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … edition appeared at the end of 1866 and had told his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have …
- … countered Nägeli’s thesis ( Origin 5th ed., pp. 151–7). Fleeming Jenkin and problems of …
- … of the age of the earth much greater than that calculated by William Thomson, but he did point out, …
- … based on recent work of Croll, Andrew Crombie Ramsay, William Whitaker, and others ( Origin 5th …
- … his long-time correspondent, the pigeon and poultry fancier William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who sent …
- … in Patagonia and Wales ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 7 May 1869 , letter from W. B. Dawkins, 17 …
- … lusitanicum that had been painstakingly collected by William Chester Tait in Portugal. Darwin …
- … since its publication in 1862. Darwin asked his son William to examine the British orchid …
- … in order to better ascertain its manner of pollination. William’s contribution, and those of many …
- … was probably the one he commissioned and paid for himself: William Sweetland Dallas’s edition of …
- … oil over the bumptious man’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 September 1869 ). Huxley playfully …
- … from Adolf Reuter, 23 September 1869 ). The physiologist William Thierry Preyer enclosed a paper …
