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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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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…

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  • arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times , …
  • evidence to establish the age of the human race.  In 1861, Lubbock joined Thomas Henry Huxley
  • geologico-archaeological researches in Denmark’ (Lubbock 1861) for the October 1861 issue. The
  • source of many of thedetailsfor his article (Lubbock 1861, p. 494). Meanwhile, Lubbock continued
  • type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for Antiquity of man (see below
  • in the October Number of the Natural History Review , 1861, p. 489, in which he has described the
  • note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock 1861 had been written after the chapter
  • similarity of certain passages in C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865) …
  • explaining his position and citing passages in Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863c that were almost
  • was not original work (Lubbock had based much of his 1861 article on earlier Danish studies) it
  • which were published in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long
  • a translation for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1861. 35 The distinguished
  • the October number of theNatural History Reviewfor 1861, to improve the wording, and
  • in the October Number of the Natural History Review, 1861, p. 489, in which he has described the
  • and customs of modern savages.  London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles

John Lubbock

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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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  • Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and
  • the two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives.  Lubbock's fatherJohn William
  • the neighbours Several letters are more personal: In 1861 Darwin asked both the Lubbocks to

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 illness, was now
  • on botanical dimorphism and trimorphism, published between 1861 and 1864, which raised questions
  • Darwin had become interested in  Rhamnus  (buckthorn) in 1861, when Asa Gray informed him that a
  • … (Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 ). Darwin wished to establish

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … of the courtship of fowls sent by Bernard Peirce Brent in 1861 , described by Darwin as ‘almost …

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
  • than a month at a hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a
  • sterility, that had already occupied much of his time in 1861 and 1862. With the publication in 1862
  • of sterility, a question he had been struggling with in 1861 and 1862; he wanted to determine