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Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … edition published May 1862 2d German translation, 1863 2d French translation 1865 …
  • … to keep costs low, and he was disappointed when the cover price was fixed at 7s/6d .  Even his …
  • … a larger target audience were also made.  Darwin persuaded John Murray to include a glossary of …

John Lubbock

Summary

John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring …
  • … neighbours for most of their lives.  Lubbock's father, John William Lubbock, third baronet, was …
  • … and wide-ranging studies in anthropology and prehistory, John Lubbock’s childhood interest in …
  • … mountain must come some Sunday to Mahomet.   ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] ) …
  • … meetings leave in the documentary record, it is clear that John Lubbock played a significant part in …
  • … with me on general issue, or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) …
  • … Darwin for the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1862 and 1863, and helped found the X Club (a …
  • … much interest for the good of my internal viscera’ ( to John Lubbock, 21 July [1870] ). It seems …
  • … a daughter? or scrupled to carry off anothers wife? ( from John Lubbock, 18 March [1871] ). …
  • … complained that he remained 'not a little in the dark' ( to John Lubbock, 26 March [1867] …
  • … in a banking career, and Darwin's last known letter to John Lubbock, sent shortly before …
  • … children were strained.  ‘I am afraid our feeling to Sir John’ Francis Darwin later wrote ‘did not …
  • … when he did agree to sell it seems the Darwins thought the price was rather high. A year …
  • … He signed himself, with unusual formality, “My dear Sir John, yours sincerely”. By this stage …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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  • of sterility between varieties of  Verbascum . When John Scott, foreman of the propagating
  • Darwin, impressed, gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). …
  • to publish on  Linum  ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his
  • buy it. When he submitted the manuscript to his publisher, John Murray, he boasted: ‘I can say with
  • in the least , whether the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his
  • paper for the  Natural History Review  ( see letter to John Lubbock, 16 [December 1862] ). Aware
  • part of his popular exposition of Darwins theory (Rolle 1863; see letter to Friedrich Rolle, 17
  • July that he and Emma hadcome to wish for Peace at any price’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July
  • of the old  Beagle  crew, Bartholomew James Sulivan, John Clements Wickham, and Arthur Mellersh, …
  • of this, he prescribed strict conditions for a meeting with John Lubbock: ‘if you couldlet me go
  • at 9 o clock I do not think it would hurt me’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 23 October [1862] ). …
  • on botany. Even at the start of their correspondence he told John Scott: ‘Botany is a new subject to
  • odds & ends of botany & you know far more’ ( letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). …
  • Lyell, 14 October [1862] ). Moreover, when the physicist John Tyndall, fresh from a summer in the
  • of Darwins circle was in Switzerland in the summer: John Lubbock briefly met up with Tyndall and
  • discovered prehistoric lake-dwellings ( see letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 ). Lubbock
  • to view the prehistoric sites near Amiens ( see letter from John Lubbock, 15 May 1862 ), and he
  • about the antiquity of the human species ( see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 ). …