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Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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- … the grounds that no publisher was willing to work with such a politically controversial figure. …
- … of Origin. First published in 1862, Royer’s translation of Origin was …
- … Darwin’s theory of an ongoing, universal war in nature. Royer even went so far as to edit Origin …
- … into her revised subtitle. Unsurprisingly, on reading Royer’s ‘translation’ of Origin …
- … 2 or 3 days ago”, he told Asa Gray in 1862 , “a French Translation of the Origin by a Mad elle …
- … life will explain all morality, nature of man, politicks &c &c!!!.” ”Almost everywhere in …
- … know what conceited people there are in the world”. Royer’s translation of Origin was …
- … to explain that he had tried but failed to prevent Royer from “disfiguring your work completely”. …
- … French philosopher Ernest Renan who famously described Royer as “almost a man of genius”. [1] …
- … scientific practice – it was also, and more importantly, a decidedly masculine way to behave. In the …
- … in order to aid the flow of men’s ideas. To take a more active and public role was – as a caricature …
- … Société d’Anthropologie de Paris , she criticized a male-controlled scientific establishment in no …
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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- … Emma, Darwin weighed the pros and cons of married life for a man of science. In his notes, Darwin …
- … by”. Letter 3715 - Claparède, J. L. R. A. E. to Darwin, [6 September 1862] …
- … of natural selection. Claparède also criticises Clémence Royer’s controversial French translation …
- … she has read Lamarck’s work under her own steam and is a “first rate critic”. Letter 4377 …
- … Darwin, [30 March 1864] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a copy of her book, Botany for …
- … pedantic”. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. B., [8 November 1869] Darwin …
- … the Royal Society library. Kovalevsky would like to read a book by Jacobi on elliptic and theta …
- … for debates about marriage. Since reading Darwin’s work a “flood of questions” have occurred to …
- … [20 November 1871] Sarah Norton passes on to Darwin a pamphlet on Goethe and Darwinism from …
- … but stumbled across the pamphlet while looking for a novel to read. Norton is “in true feminine …
- … May 1872] Reade tells Darwin of his plans to write a book detailing his travels and …
- … [January 1880] Mary Johnson tells Darwin about a recent geological ramble she had taken …
- … patience. Letter 13607 – Darwin to Kennard, C. A., [9 January 1882] Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin …
- … not think you are conceited, but really I do think you have a good right to be so’ ( letter from J. …
- … such view will ultimately prevail Still taking a keen interest in the progress of his …
- … condition in Primula ’ and Orchids ; it suffered a further setback when illness struck the …
- … Huxley, species, and sterility The year began with a New Year’s greeting from Huxley, …
- … its final proof awaited the production, by selection from a common stock, of forms that differed …
- … doubt that twenty years experiments on pigeons conducted by a skilled physiologist … would give us …
- … have been performed I shall consider your views to have a complete physical basis' The …
- … by which Karl Friedrich von Gärtner had demonstrated a degree of sterility between varieties of …
- … now strongly inclined to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient …
- … his Primula paper, Darwin repeated his crosses through a second generation, both to test his …
- … looking through botanical books for indications that a species had more than one flower form, and …
- … daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work on ‘one …
- … through the following year, but the Melastomataceae remained a blind alley, and no publication ever …
- … Linum flavum ,but had ‘at first thought it was merely a case of unmeaning variability’ ( …
- … [1862] ), writing up his experiments in December as a paper for the Linnean Society. And …
- … and requested, ‘For the love of Heaven’, that Gray have a look at some American species, and send …
- … By October, Darwin had decided that the case warranted a paper for the Linnean Society ( letter to …
- … the three sexual forms (male, female, and hermaphrodite) of a single species, differing so much from …
- … a French Translation will appear very soon’ ( letter to C. E. Brown-Séquard, 2 January [1862] ). …
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. …
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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- … Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of On the origin of …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have to stop a bit for I must prepare a new edit. of …
- … views on all points will have to be modified.— Well it is a beginning, & that is something’ ( …
- … Darwin’s most substantial addition to Origin was a response to a critique of natural selection …
- … of species. Darwin correctly assessed Nägeli’s theory as a major challenge requiring a thorough and …
- … morphological features (Nägeli 1865, p. 29). Darwin sent a manuscript of his response (now missing) …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). Hooker went straight to a crucial point: ‘I do not quite like …
- … however favourable, would not be preserved within a breeding population. Such variations, according …
- … by emphasising variability within the breeding population as a whole; if a sufficient number of …
- … that single variations [i.e., variations that occurred in a single individual] might be preserved …
- … by admitting that the survival of tropical species was a difficulty for his theory ( Origin 4th …
- … that ice ages alternated between hemispheres, so that a warmer, non-glaciated hemisphere where …
- … to Sir W. Thompson, for I require for my theoretical views a very long period before the …
- … George Cupples worked hard on Darwin’s behalf, sending a steady stream of information on the …
- … with several answers to his questionnaire: ‘Passing slowly a common country cargo boat, the old man …
- … patients In addition to infants and non-Europeans, a group that particularly interested …
- … like the previous French editions, by Clémence Auguste Royer, and it had a new preface with Royer’s …
