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Science, Work and Manliness

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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …

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  • In describing what they did using the language of labour, Darwin and his male colleagues asserted
  • 1. Which elements of the scientific process do Darwin and his male correspondents tend to
  • another's scientific work? How does this differ from how Darwin praised women's work ? …
  • Letters Letter 282 - Darwin to Fox, W. D., [9 - 12 August 1835] Darwin
  • thinking and hammering”. Letter 1533 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [27 September 1853] …
  • the labour bestowed on it arereally surprisingand Darwin hopes that Danas health withstood the
  • bestowed on the subject. Letter 2669 - Bunbury, C. J. F. to Darwin, [30 January 1860] …
  • labour and patience”. Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 August 1863] Darwin
  • which wasno slight labour”. Letter 3901 - Darwin to Falconer, H., [5 & 6 January
  • health and strength. Letter 4000 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [20 February 1863] …
  • worker you are!”. Letter 4997 - Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, [4 February 1866] …

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
  • … ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . …
  • …  vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of
  • wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). …
  • difficulty in answering Owen  unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh
  • of Lyells book being written by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). …
  • to see men fighting so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). …
  • who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of  Origin , wrote to Falconer
  • to capture his and othersattention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter
  • a letter to the  Athenæum  in response ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). He later
  • partly composed such  a good letter (!)’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). At the
  • sentence from the second edition of  Antiquity of man  (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in
  • exercise Darwin was Huxleys assertion, first made in his 1860 review of  Origin , that in order
  • …  and  Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
  • very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
  • Thomass Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who

Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • Darwins work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed
  • … , it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwins species work. Yet when this study
  • anomalous. Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwins study of cirripedes, far from
  • classification using the most recent methods available, Darwin was able to provide a thorough
  • his views on the species question (Crisp 1983).    Darwins interest in invertebrate zoology
  • Robert Edmond Grant. In his Autobiography (pp. 4950), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and
  • numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwins first scientific paper, …
  • marine organisms was exercised during the Beagle voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm
  • Owen, Louis Agassiz, William Sharp Macleay, James Dwight Dana, Henri Milne-Edwards, and Christian
  • such questions as yours,—whether number of species &c &c should enter as an element in
  • from common stocksIn this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of those
  • organisms less complicated, as in Lernæa, (which I sh^d^ think was the strongest case known.^2^ …
  • as highness , then Lernæa a mere reproductive sack w d be higher; but this is too counter to
  • circumstances, (compare Plancental & Marsupial animals) w^d^ be similarly or parallely developed
  • metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c  states that in Crust, antennæ & …
  • 1852) or elevating it to a separate class altogether (R. Owen 1855). Milne-Edwards and Owen also
  • as a distinct class between the Crustacea and the Annelida (R. Owen 1855).^7^ Darwin, however, with
  • As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September 1860 ( Life and Letters , 2: 3456), …
  • animal, simple females alone being wanting. I never sh^d^. have made this out, had not my species
  • objects cast in the same mould. Systematic work w^d^ be easy were it not for this confounded
  • … (if publishing avowedly on doctrine of non-permanence) I sh^d^. not have affixed names, & in
  • But I must confess, that perhaps nearly the same thing w^d^. have happened to me on any scheme of
  • spirits  Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which
  • about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November 1853] ), Hooker
  • CDs specimen has remained unique. (The editors thank Drs R. W. Ingle and G. Boxshall of the British

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins alterations. The spelling and
  • book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been
  • to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838
  • 4  [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to be good by D r  L. Lindsay 5 [DAR *119: 1v. …
  • … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardsons Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 182937] …
  • on Annals of Nat. Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 183647] Lawrence [W. …
  • Teneriffe. in Pers. Narr. [A. von Humboldt 181429] D r  Royle on Himmalaya types [Royle
  • … [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindleys
  • 8 vo  p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian
  • Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on
  • to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19  : …
  • what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290
  • … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith
  • Footsteps of the Creator [H. Miller 1849] Dec. 10. Danas Geology. U.S. Expedition [J. D. …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol
  • of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • Nat. History of E. Borders [G. Johnston 1853]. 20 Danas Crustacea [J. D. Dana 18523] …
  • 1848Memoirs of the life of William   Collins, Esq., R.A.  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: …
  • by Richard Owen.  Vol. 4 of  The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
  • Robert. 1843Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
  • Peacock, George. 1855Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.  London.  *128: 172; 128: 21