From J. D. Hooker 13 August 1869
Summary
Did not intend to imply that Hallett said variation stopped, but that it arrives at a point where further accumulation in direction sought is so slow as to result practically in fixity of type – but not absolute fixity.
Duke of Argyll has requested JDH to superintend publication of a flora of India. JDH thinks he [Argyll] is paying him off for his kick at natural theology.
Willy [Hooker] returning from New Zealand.
A unique character in Drosophyllum.
Sees no reason for CD to contribute to Ross and Faraday memorials.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 27–9, DAR 100: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6862 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … to J. T. Moggridge, 7 June 1869 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 August [1869] and n. …
- … the Advancement of Science meeting at Exeter on 18 August 1869. See letter from J. D. …
- … visit to Down; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 September 1869 . See letter from J. D. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 August [1869] . The Darwins arrived home from Wales on 31 …
- … Hooker, 5 August 1869 and n. 5. See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 7 August [1869] and n. 12. See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 7 August [1869] . Hooker refers to Charles Lyell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … to James Hector ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 17 July 1869 and n. 6. Frances Harriet …
- … Hooker, 30 August 1868 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 August [1869] and n. 15. Herman …
- … Office) in error. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 August [1869] and n. 11. Hooker refers …
- … Hooker, 5 August 1869 and n. 4. North British Review ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 …
- … Symonds ; see also letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1869] . Hooker refers to his …
- … 1869 and 1870). Moore also listed four species of Leguminosae, two of Myrtaceae, and two of Rutaceae; in his opinion the flora was closer to that of Norfolk Island than to mainland Australia ( C. Moore 1870 ). Proteaceae is the family of proteas; Australia has more species than any other country. Leguminosae (now Fabaceae) is the bean family; Myrtaceae is the myrtle family; Rutaceae is the rue or citrus family. John Traherne Moggridge suffered chronic ill health ( R. Desmond 1994 ). See also letter …
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1869
Summary
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 35—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6988 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … review of literature, science, and art, established in October 1869 (see letter from John …
- … and 13 August 1869 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] and n. 13. …
- … British Islands ( J. D. Hooker 1870 ); see letter from J. D. Hooker, 11 March 1869 . …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] and n. 2. Hooker refers to Roderick …
- … Order of the Bath; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] and nn. 2 and 3. See …
- … September [1869] ). On the Spectator , see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
- … he was in New Zealand (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 June 1869 , 17 July 1869 , …
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1869]
Summary
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6608 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 November 1869
Summary
Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.
Will get the Kerner book.
Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.
Raises questions about the genealogical tree.
Serves Mlle Royer right.
Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 39–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7002 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … reference is to Kerner von Marilaun 1869; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] and n. 4; Nature was published by …
- … a CB, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . On Hooker’s declining the …
- … become vacant, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . On the civil KCBs as …
- … walnut genus. See the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] , for CD’s discussion …
- … Royal Society, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . Hooker also refers …
- … in New Zealand; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . Hooker had asked Mary …
- … Royal Society; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . The enclosure has not …
From J. D. Hooker 11 March 1869
Summary
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6655 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … In his letter to Hooker of 8 March [1869] , CD enclosed the letter from Fritz …
- … 12 January 1869 . Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill for a couple of weeks (see letter to …
- … Académie des Sciences (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 March [1869] and nn. 5 and 6). The …
- … 85–9, and the letter from J. D. Hooker to James Hector, 23 April 1869 (Yaldwyn and Hobbs …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] and n. 8). He left England on 11 November 1868 on the Matoaka , which arrived in New Zealand on 8 February 1869 ( …
- … 1869 ( T. H. Huxley 1869c ). In the address, Huxley challenged the accuracy of William Thomson’s calculations of the cooling of the earth. Hooker also refers to Charles Lyell . William Henslow Hooker had been sent to New Zealand for his health (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter …
- … letter of [28 November 1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16), Hooker had informed CD that he was going to write a ‘British Flora’ adapted to students’ purposes. The student’s flora of the British Islands was published in 1870 ( J. D. Hooker 1870 ). Thomas Henry Huxley’s article, ‘On the physical basis of life’ was published in the Fortnightly Review , 1 February 1869 ( …
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1869
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 4–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6560 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Society of India. In his letter of 16 January [1869] , CD mentioned that he had received …
- … 5). In his letter of 16 January [1869] , CD had asked Hooker whether he knew of cases …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 15 January 1869 and nn. 1 and 2, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 15 January 1869 and n. 4. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [ …
- … of Viola nana from Scott (see also letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 January 1869 and n. …
- … 2001, pp. 163–6. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1869] and n. 9. In orchid …
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877
Summary
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11190 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 [January] 1869
Summary
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 [Jan] 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5729 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1869] . In his letter to Hooker of 25 December [1868] ( …
- … and n. 2). CD’s annotations are for his letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1869] . …
- … 1869, he and Hooker were guests at Hardwick House, near Bury St Edmunds (F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 2: 4, 6). George Howard Darwin had recently been made a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter …
From J. D. Hooker [18 October 1862]
Summary
Does CD want Masdevallia?
Sends addresses of persons in S. America who would send Melastomataceae seeds.
Has ordered Matthieu Bonafous on maize [Histoire naturelle du maïs (1836)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3774 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 August 1869
Summary
Huxley has shown him the jaws of an Anoplotherium brought from the Gallegos by R. O. Cunningham.
Saw Hallett’s wheat crops at Brighton; results of his selection very striking.
Huxley is assembling his Darwiniana papers for republication.
Has written a crushing reply to Richard Congreve ["The scientific aspects of positivism", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 5 (1869): 653–70] and JDH feels "infantine" beside him.
Comments on Sabine’s being offered and accepting K.C.B.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6853 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and Emma Darwin had all been unwell (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 July [1869] ). …
- … Henry Huxley . See letter from T. H. Huxley, 7 May 1869 and nn. 2 and 3. Frederic …
- … on Auguste Comte . See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 July [1869] and n. 6. On the …
- … British Review , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 July [1869] and n. 7. Hooker refers …
- … 1869; an abstract was published in the Report of the thirty-ninth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , Transactions of the sections, p. 113. There is copy of the paper in the Darwin Library–CUL sent to CD by Hallett in 1875 ( letter …
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 October 1870
Summary
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7343 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1869
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6908 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 September 1869
Summary
Will come to Down on 25 Sept.
Thanks CD for supplementaries ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56] which he will quote in the British flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)].
F. A. W. Miquel could not come.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6895 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 May 1870]
Summary
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 May 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 47–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7198 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 March 1871
Summary
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 65–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7627 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1877
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11006 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 July 1869
Summary
On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Pangenesis.
Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].
Huxley is at Comte again.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 22–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6832 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
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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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Perfect copper-plate hand: From Adolf Reuter, 30 May 1869
Summary
My favourite correspondent was chosen not because he is a brilliant conversationalist or a significant scientific thinker – but after a decade of reading a series of challenging hand writings, my favourite is the one who wrote in a perfect copper-plate…
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- … My favourite correspondent was chosen not because he is a brilliant conversationalist or a …
A beginning, & that is something: To J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869]
Summary
Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker after finishing corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869.
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- … Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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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- … If I lived 20 more years, & was able to work, how I sh d . have to modify the “Origin”, & …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … < Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
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 …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings Darwin's first reflections on human progress were …