From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … responsible (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] and …
- … pottery (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December …
- … s theory, see also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 . …
- … 1862). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letters from J. D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 …
- … 10). CD had told Hooker that he was ‘burning with indignation’ at the conduct of Richard Owen towards Hugh Falconer (see letter …
From J. D. Hooker [16 February 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3989 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Asa Gray (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). …
- … Gray’s views on the British response to the war, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from …
- … Wedgwood ware (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December …
- … Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 , and this volume, letter from Asa Gray, 1 September 1863 . In …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … collect Wedgwood ware (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 …
- … 5–9, and Correspondence vol. 10, letters to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] and 28 …
- … in life’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] ). …
- … enclosed Asa Gray’s letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), in which Gray …
- … with his letter to Hooker of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). Hooker had …
- … a postscript to his letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), Gray replied to …
- … refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10; see n. 2, …
- … H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 146–50). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and nn. …
- … letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD reported that he could buy pitcher plants for only 10 …
- … 10 November and 15 December 1862. The lectures were entitled ‘On our knowledge of the causes of organic phenomena’. In his letter …
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1866
Summary
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5139 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1866]
Summary
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5093 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … December 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 ). CD …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] , …
- … 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July …
- … See n. 10, above. CD did not attend the congress (see letter from Robert Caspary, 7 May …
- … Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866] and n. 2). …
- … 10 and 11. No such list has been found. On 11 May 1866, the closure of a large lending firm, Overend, Gurney & Co. , a joint-stock company with limited liability, led to a commercial panic in London and other financial centres, with a number of banks closing doors and other firms temporarily suspending payments ( Annual Register (1866), pp. 44–5). Hooker had suggested in 1863 and 1864 that CD sit for the sculptor Thomas Woolner (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker at Kew (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 [June 1862] , …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1862 …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1863 ). CD’s eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin , was a banker in Southampton. Since his removal to Southampton in 1861, CD had encouraged William to study botany, and had repeatedly asked him to carry out observations (see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). …
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 31 March [1858] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ). …
- … T. H. Huxley 1863a . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 2. T. H. …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. In his letter to Hooker of 3 January [ …
- … 10 days— Ever yours affec | J D Hooker What is the sum of our knowledge regarding qualities induced in the individual being in any degree hereditary? Monday. End of letter : ‘( …
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1943 , pp. 105–7, Correspondence vol. 10, letters from John Lubbock , 17 April 1862 and …
- … in tropical areas (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1862] and …
- … in March 1864 (see, for example, letters from John Scott , 10 March 1864 and 28 March …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 and n. 13). On Mann’s …
From J. D. Hooker 11 May 1872
Summary
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8317 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … in the paper, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 5 September [1862] . …
- … 9 June 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, enclosure to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 …
- … September 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). The letter from Julius von Haast of 9 December …
- … of the collection, see the letter from Haast to Hooker of 10 August 1862 , in the archives …
- … considered triumphant by 9 10 of readers. Please return Haasts letter at your leisure. My …
- … vol. 10), is reproduced in this volume as an enclosure to the letter from Julius von …
- … are now a good 10 days behind England! A thousand thanks for your letter. I am grieved …
- … Britain. In his letter of 7 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), Hooker informed CD …
- … belief. In a letter published in The Times , 2 April 1863, p. 10, Colenso argued that …
- … 10 th . 1862. My dear D r . Hooker Having hurt my right hand slightly by a fall with a horse, I have to employ one of my travelling companions to write this. I had the pleasure to receive here your letter …
From J. D. Hooker [1 or 3 November 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 3] Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 173–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4325 |
From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]
Summary
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4529 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … asked Hooker to examine the case in his letter of 10 June [1864] . The common dandelion, …
- … son, William Erasmus, with his letter to Hooker of 10 June [1864] . See frontispiece to …
- … See letter from John Scott, 8 June 1864 and letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] . …
- … between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . In 1864, the …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. Hooker refers to the cowslip, …
- … Harvey, 19 May 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . The Hookers visited …
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the building of CD’s hothouse in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. …
- … and 23 September [1864] and n. 10). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December …
- … D. Hooker, 31 [May 1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 11. See …
- … 10, and Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). Hooker refers to John Smith (1821–88), the new curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter …
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Hooker, J. D. | |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (173) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (176) |
Darwin, C. R. | (173) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
Matches: 1 hits
- … My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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 …
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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
Matches: 1 hits
- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
Schools Gallery: Using Darwin’s letters in the classroom
Summary
English| History| Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks studying Darwin’s letters, including comparing sections from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ to letters…
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- … English | History | Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead …
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 …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Charles Darwin’s daughter Henrietta wrote the following journal entries in March and July 1871 in …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; at least I cd. not …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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- … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice writing …
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, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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 …