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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 …
- … that is something’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] ). Much of the remainder of …
- … to be the case’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). Hooker went straight to a crucial …
- … probable’ (see also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January [1869] , and letter from A. R. Wallace, …
- … result of correspondence between Darwin and the geologist James Croll. In the previous year, Croll …
- … is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
- … period before the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Croll …
- … by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). …
- … towards [Thomson]’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 19 March [1869] ). Towards Descent …
- … ‘everlasting old Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ), he was able to return to work on …
- … ( letter from Robert Elliot to George Cupples, 21 June 1869 ). Details on mating behaviour …
- … in the garden ( letter from Frederick Smith, 8 October 1869 ). Albert Günther, assistant in the …
- … varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February [1869] ). The data contined to …
- … cocks & hens.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] ). Yet completion of the work was …
- … for Descent . Researching emotion In 1869, Darwin still expected that Descent …
- … hatred—’ ( from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and …
- … in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the director of …
- … ( enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 ). Darwin had often complained of the …
- … in regard to Man’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). More remarkable still were Wallace …
- … seem to you like some mental hallucination’ ( 18 April 1869 ). Since his marriage to Annie …
- … (Wallace 1869a; letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 March [1869] ), and scolded him for again being too …
- … demands justice’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). Proceeding on all fronts …
- … South American cordillera ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 May 1869 ), and fossil discoveries in …
James Crichton-Browne
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James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth-century, but the letters he exchanged with Charles Darwin as the young and overworked superintendent of the largest mental asylum in England, are almost the…
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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- … children Crichton-Browne, James 20 May …
- … nodding Crichton-Browne, James 19 May 1869 …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 18 March …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 3 April …
- … June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, …
- … Gray, Asa 9 May [1869] [Alexandria, Egypt] …
- … Gray, Jane 9 May [1869] [Alexandria, Egypt] …
- … Gray, Asa 8 & 9 May 1869 Florence, Italy (about …
- … King, P.G. 25 Feb 1869 Sydney, Australia …
- … Maudsley, Henry 20 May 1869 32 Queen Anne St. …
- … England Paget, James 9 July 1867 …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 17 Jan 1869 Sierra Leone, Africa …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 28 June [1869] Sierra Leone, …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 26 Dec 1869 Sierra Leone, Africa …
- … 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England …
- … Scott, John 2 July 1869 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … Theodore Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … for a US edition had been in place since December 1869, while German, Russian, French, and Dutch …
- … sending their compliments and praise. The asylum director James Crichton-Browne described the book …
- … his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 February 1871 ). …
- … could be produced by an operation of the mind. He wrote to James Crichton-Browne on 28 March to …
- … would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek’’‘ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 18 April 1871 ). …
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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- … Darwin lent Duchenne’s album to the asylum director James Crichton-Browne, who had become one of …
- … but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). …
- … crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] ). …
- … vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His views were presented more fully in a …
- … comparative anatomist through his work on primates. In July 1869, Mivart published the first of a …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … leading contributors to Expression , the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne, wrote to Darwin …
- … orbital one produces snapping of the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). …
- … that illustrated the physiognomy of the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 …
- … ants when Darwin forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James Duncan Hague, who had observed a …
- … line of research he had begun with Hereditary genius (1869), Galton tried to establish the …
