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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

Summary

In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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  • arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times , …
  • implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and
  • species such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. …
  • book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865).  By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition
  • completed and set in type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for
  • Galton.   In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, evidently in response
  • about Lyells failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he discussed a
  • transmutation; he also wrote to Lyell telling him about the letter to the Athenæum . 9
  • 1863b, p. 213).  In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from Falconer, who reiterated his
  • and went on to say that he intended to make a copy of his letter to show to friends. 18 In
  • wrote to Darwin to ask what he thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). …
  • he reiterated his admiration for Lubbocks book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week
  • well as the Swiss lake-dwellings, was originally written in 1860 for the sixth edition of the ‘ …
  • discoveries and conclusions which had been made before 1860; but I gladly took advantage of the
  • to them, or to any authors of later date than the summer of 1860, I must have expanded the plan of
  • and customs of modern savages.  London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles
  • expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860  15 (1861): 284343. Translated by

John Lubbock

Summary

John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and
  • the two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives.  Lubbock's fatherJohn William
  • support at the British Association meeting in Oxford in 1860, proposed Darwin for the Royal Society& …
  • William, up in a banking career, and Darwin's last known letter to John Lubbock, sent
  • down.”   In the last year of his life Darwin provided a letter of introduction for Lubbock's

Species and varieties

Summary

On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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  • On the origin of species by means of natural selectionso begins the title of Darwins most
  • … & yet all the genera have 1/2 a dozen synonyms’ ( letter to HE. Strickland, [4 February 1849] …
  • and explicit in the work of contemporary naturalists. In a letter to his friend Joseph Hooker, he
  • I believe, from trying to define the undefinable’ ( letter to  JD. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). …
  • to look at sterility from a different perspective. In May 1860, he noticed differences in the
  • a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] …
  • of hybrids might be produced by natural selection ( letter from ARWallace, 1 March 1868 ). …
  • tosay no more but leave the problem as insoluble’ ( letter from ARWallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

Summary

The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now
  • Pound foolish, Penurious, Pragmatical Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But
  • able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
  • once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
  • see you out with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866
  • work doing me any harmany how I cant be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). …
  • production of which Tegetmeier had agreed to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January
  • ofDomestic Animals & Cult. Plantsto Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] …
  • good deal I think, & have come to more definite views’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December
  • … ‘I quite follow you in thinking Agassiz glacier-mad’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September
  • ten times more than the belief of a dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] …
  • past few years. Emma described the Royal Society event in a letter to George: ‘Your fatherentered
  • … , translated by Heinrich Georg Bronn, had been published in 1860 and 1863 by the firm E. …
  • Darwin and the New York publisher D. Appleton and Co. in 1860. Unfortunately, Appleton had produced
  • to the famous Oxford meeting of the British Association in 1860, where the bishop of Oxford, Samuel

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

Summary

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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  • On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July
  • of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin
  • and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the
  • As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the
  • observations indoors ( Correspondence  vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin
  • gradation by which  leaves  produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). …
  • fearfully for it is a leaf climber & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] …
  • matters which routinists regard in the light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864
  • long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was
  • …  paper was published, Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing
  • of the two species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly
  • thesplendid case of Dimorphismin  Menyanthes  ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. …
  • this interest. At the start of the year, he received a letter, insect specimens, and an article on
  • that it wasthe best medicine for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). …
  • at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a letter regarding the fertilisation of the
  • two years, with his stipend being paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

Summary

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
  • persevered with his work on Variation until 20 July, his letter-writing dwindled considerably. The
  • fromsome Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
  • … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
  • than  Origin had (see  Correspondence  vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
  • from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23
  • leap from that of inferior animals made himgroan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
  • out that species were not separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public
  • book he wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February
  • who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of  Origin , wrote to Falconer
  • exercise Darwin was Huxleys assertion, first made in his 1860 review of  Origin , that in order
  • …  and  Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol
  • of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William & Norgate 2126 [A. Murray 1866] …
  • Philosophie Positive G Lewes [Lewes 1853] (curious) Williams Missionary in T. del Fuego
  • to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk
  • … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860Gatherings of a naturalist in   …
  • vols. Oxford. [Other eds.] 119: 17b Gunnison, John Williams. 1852The Mormons, or
  • 13a Hamilton, James. 1854A memoir of Richard Williams . Edinburgh128: 9
  • de Humboldt, and translated into   English by Helen Maria Williams . 7 vols. London. [Darwin
  • resistance by the Turkish garrison, under   General Williams, to the Russian army: together with a