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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, …
- … in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin had argued ( Origin , pp. …
- … formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Croll could not supply Darwin with an …
- … have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). Darwin did not directly …
- … 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 …
- … ( 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 …
- … investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February 1869 ). In a letter to the Gardeners …
- … of the soil ( letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 May [1869] ). In March, Darwin received …
- … in the early 1860s ( letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March 1869 ). This research contributed to …
- … editions ( see letter from Victor Masson, 29 September 1869 ). The work had been undertaken, like …
- … for himself: William Sweetland Dallas’s edition of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (Dallas trans. 1869 …
- … than Christian’. Müller confessed to his brother Hermann that he thought this a rather good joke, …
Cross and self fertilisation
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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…
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- … of self-fertility over subsequent generations. In June 1869, Müller remarked, on receiving a new …
- … circumstances fertility sometimes depends’ ( From Fritz Müller, 15 June 1869 ). By May 1870, …
- … relationship had lessened the fertility of the offspring (F. Müller 1868b, p. 629). Darwin urged …
- … seeds from the same pod were mutually sterile ( From Fritz Müller, 14 March 1869 ). ‘The case of …
- … will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from Germany, …
- … will decide in a great measure my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, …
- … though we have reached them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although …
- … to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann Müller had also read Meehan’s work …
- … their best work in order to obscure this matter’ ( From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ). The …
- … for half a century after Kölreuter’s papers’ ( To Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). Darwin’s copy …
- … worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote that …
- … silence writers like Meehan, Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). …
- … ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s references …
- … most efficacious encouragement for further work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). …
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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- … he attracted many admirers in German-speaking countries. In 1869, his birthday was celebrated by an …
- … vol. 17, letter from F. M. Malven, 12 February [1869] ). An extract from Darwin’s reply to Malven …
- … with his’ ( letter to F. M. Malven, [after 12 February 1869] ). Accompanying this extract was the …
- … some of whom drew substantially on his theory. In 1869, Hermann Müller (brother to Fritz) sent …
- … theory to flowers and flower-visiting insects; H. Müller 1869)). Darwin was full of admiration and …
- … investigated the stomach contents of bats?’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, 14 March 1870 ). …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … exhibited different forms . With typical enthusiasm, Müller had reported finding several new …
- … proves the absolute distinctness of the parents ’. Fritz Müller was enthusiastic, commenting, ‘ …
- … of Linum’ (p. 82) and clarified the meaning to Fritz Müller in a letter in September 1866, ‘ What I …
- … without comparing pollen-grains & stigmas’. When Hermann Müller wrote to say that, in his …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
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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- … 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 …
- … Co-adaptation Darwin encouraged the German naturalist Hermann Müller to continue his work on …
- … have now attended to the converse relation’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, 14 March 1870 ). …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … a letter, insect specimens, and an article on orchids from Hermann Crüger, head of the botanic …
- … on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper focusing on the role of …
- … work was being read with particular enthusiasm in Germany. Hermann Kindt, a German living in England …
- … the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). …
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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- … waltz and was much admired for it by other birds. Fritz Müller sent information on the auditory …
- … and the comparative fertility of different flower forms. Müller offered observations of orchids, …
- … information in the second printing of the book in February. Hermann Müller remarked in a letter …
- … paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained unpublished until it …
