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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
  • in expressing any judgment on Species or origin of man’. Darwins concern about the popular
  • Lyells and Huxleys books. Three years earlier Darwin had predicted that Lyells forthcoming
  • first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely on Darwins arguments for species change. …
  • … ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter that it
  • of creation, and the origin of species particularly, worried Darwin; he told Hooker that he had once
  • letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish telling Lyell of his
  • 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] ). …
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • specialist at St Thomass Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). …