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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 …
- … markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating letters …
- … am languid & bedeviled … & hate everybody’. Although Darwin did continue his botanical …
- … letter-writing dwindled considerably. The correspondence and Darwin’s scientific work diminished …
- … of the water-cure. The treatment was not effective and Darwin remained ill for the rest of the year. …
- … the correspondence from the year. These letters illustrate Darwin’s preoccupation with the …
- … to man’s place in nature both had a direct bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem …
- … detailed anatomical similarities between humans and apes, Darwin was full of praise. He especially …
- … in expressing any judgment on Species or origin of man’. Darwin’s concern about the popular …
- … sentence from the second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in …
- … Darwin had also found a supporter in New Zealand. Julius von Haast, a German working as a provincial …
- … Institute of Canterbury in September 1862 ( see letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 ); he …
- … and palaeontological discoveries made in New Zealand. Haast’s arduous explorations and geological, …
- … who applauded him as a ‘glorious species man’, while Haast extolled Darwin as the ‘noble champion of …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 April [1863] , and letter from Julius von Haast, 21 July [–7? August] …
- … Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand, of which Haast was a founding member ( see …
- … reminded Huxley again of the German botanist Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s experiments, which had …
- … Primula crosses, the results of which were published in 1868 ( see letter to John Scott, 25 and …
- … finish, he struck a more optimistic note in a letter to Julius von Haast of 18 July [1863] , in …
- … months. However, the two-volume work was not published until 1868. Roping in the family …
- … very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
- … Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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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…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … letters on climbing plants to make another paper. Darwin also submitted a manuscript of his …
- … protégé, John Scott, who was now working in India. Darwin’s transmutation theory continued to …
- … Argyll, appeared in the religious weekly, Good Words . Darwin received news of an exchange of …
- … Butler, and, according to Butler, the bishop of Wellington. Darwin’s theory was discussed at an …
- … in the Gardeners’ Chronicle . At the end of the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of …
- … year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of …
- … in August. There was also a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and …
- … jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his paper on …
- … a sudden illness. Falconer was 56, almost the same age as Darwin himself. Falconer had seconded …
- … supported his candidacy, and had tried hard to persuade Darwin to accept the award in person (see …
- … illness and delay, the book was not published until January 1868. 'Climbing plants' …
- … Darwin had received a copy of Müller’s book, Für Darwin , a study of the Crustacea with reference …
- … Gardens, Edinburgh, that he should repeat Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s experiments on Verbascum , …
- … … inheritance, reversion, effects of use & disuse &c’, and which he intended to publish in …
- … manuscript was published as chapter 27 of Variation in 1868. The wider debate …
- … He wrote to Hooker, ‘I doubt whether you or I or any one c d do any good in healing this breach. …
- … Hooker’s behalf, ‘He asks if you saw the article of M r . Croll in the last Reader on the …
- … to receive virtual strangers like Samuel Butler ( letter to Julius von Haast, 26 December [1865] ) …
- … ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …
