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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 of …
- … appeared at the end of 1866 and had told his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have to stop a …
- … material on emotional expression. Yet the scope of Darwin’s interests remained extremely broad, and …
- … plants, and earthworms, subjects that had exercised Darwin for decades, and that would continue to …
- … Carl von Nägeli and perfectibility Darwin’s most substantial addition to Origin was a …
- … a Swiss botanist and professor at Munich (Nägeli 1865). Darwin had considered Nägeli’s paper …
- … principal engine of change in the development of species. Darwin correctly assessed Nägeli’s theory …
- … now see is possible or probable’ (see also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January [1869] , and …
- … 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 …
- … for his theory ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1). Croll’s theory, simply stated, proposed that ice …
- … Darwin accounted for the survival of tropical species using Croll’s theory. In the same …
- … 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 ). …
- … from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and mental …
- … in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the director of …
- … of information which I have sent prove of any service to M r . Darwin I can supply him with much …
- … & proximate cause in regard to Man’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). More …
- … and the bird of paradise (Wallace 1869a; letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 March [1869] ), and …
- … an injustice & never demands justice’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). …
- … species that Darwin had investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February 1869 ). In a …
- … genus that he had studied in the early 1860s ( letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March 1869 ). This …
- … Sweetland Dallas’s edition of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (Dallas trans. 1869). The book, an …
- … whole meeting was decidedly Huxley’s answer to D r M c Cann. He literally poured boiling oil …
