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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … "A child of God" (1) …
- … (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
- … Ambrose, J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences …
- … (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
- … Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
- … Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
- … Chance, Frank (3) Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) …
- … W. J. R. (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
- … Eck, F. A. (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
- … Librarian (2) Librarian, Royal Geographical Society (1) …
- … Institute (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … Rouse, R. C. M. (1) Royal College of Physicians (1) …
- … of Great Britain (1) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1 …
- … (1) Société des sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel (1) …
- … Society (1) secretary of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia …
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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- … by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man …
- … on 4 February 1868, only five days after the publication of his previous book, Variation in …
- … in recent years, and the information gathered on each of these topics was far more extensive than …
- … two large volumes, and by June Darwin gave up the idea of including the material on emotion; it …
- … including vigorous objections to the application of natural selection to humans from Alfred Russel …
- … sparked by Darwin’s proposed election to the French Academy of Sciences and his nomination for an …
- … family. As he was completing corrections to the final proofs of Descent in December, he wrote to …
- … Expression Darwin began receiving proofs of some of the illustrations for Descent as …
- … have been having some conversation with the Editor of the “Academy” about Mr Wallace’s last book …
- … was proposed for a corresponding membership of the elite Academy of Sciences, prompting an extended …
- … hoped to bring the same non-partisan spirit into the French Academy, ‘rest assured that I shall be a …
- … and his status as a naturalist. ‘It is being said at the Academy’, Quatrefages complained, ‘. . . …
- … the Belgian zoologist Edouard van Beneden when the Belgian Academy elected Darwin an associate …
- … ‘May all the learned bodies of the world protest, like the Academy of Belgium, against the debate …
- … great success in the army. He gained a commission in the Royal Engineers, obtaining the second …
- … taking third place in first-class honours in the natural sciences tripos in December. He had fallen …
- … continued to ride the dangerous Tommy. The Franco-Prussian war Darwin’s European …
- … of that month. But despite suffering heavy casualties, the Prussian armies won several decisive …
- … his German correspondents he declared his allegiance to the Prussian cause. ‘I cannot express too …
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 …
- … scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
- … ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
- … with the challenges presented by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, …
- … Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s Evidence as to man …
- … bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem of human origins. Specifically, Darwin …
- … similarities between humans and apes, Darwin was full of praise. He especially admired its …
- … included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
- … in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of the Royal Society voted instead for the …
- … failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
- … the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
- … to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … John Jenner Weir, ‘If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow man, he ought to do what I …
- … , pp. 87–90, Darwin had briefly introduced the concept of sexual selection to explain certain …
- … claimed that sexual selection was ‘the most powerful means of changing the races of man’ …
- … decades before. He also made efforts to expand his network of informants, especially among breeders …
- … leading physiologists, zookeepers, and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 …
- … would eventually swell to two separate books, Descent of man and Expression of the emotions in …
- … was also generated by the long-awaited publication of Variation in animals and plants under …
- … to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that year reading and correcting …
- … March, ‘you force public attention to bear on the natural sciences and they can only gain from this. …
- … 3 April , ‘your works are destined to renew the natural sciences entirely.’ Gaston de Saporta …
- … in July he was second in the entrance examination for the Royal military academy at Woolwich. ‘I …
- … to be bestowed on him, including the order of merit of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and …
