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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
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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- … popular publications. A lengthy discussion written by George Douglas Campbell, duke of Argyll, …
- … FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle on Darwin’s 1831 to 1836 voyage, committed suicide at the end of …
- … The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
- … having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
- … his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
- … may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
- … always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
- … for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
- … gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
- … added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
- … of anything, & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] …
- … better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] …
- … to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). Delays …
- … willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After …
- … the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). An …
- … arising’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] ). Scott …
- … praised Scott’s ‘industry & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). Scott took …
- … … inheritance, reversion, effects of use & disuse &c’, and which he intended to publish in …
- … societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke of Argyll, …
- … this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …
- … He wrote to Hooker, ‘I doubt whether you or I or any one c d do any good in healing this breach. …
- … ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …
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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- … found acceptance at the time Origin was published. In 1836, Jacques Boucher de Perthes had found …
- … belief that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he …
- … In April 1860, Lubbock travelled with Joseph Prestwich, Douglas Strutt Galton, and George Busk to …
- … species such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. …
- … begun work on a sixth edition of Elements of geology (C. Lyell 1865). At the same time, he was …
- … Antiquity of man (see below, ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, …
- … Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, evidently in response …
- … address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
- … about Lyell’s 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 …
- … he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock …
- … later argue that the close similarity of certain passages in C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and …
- … his position and citing passages in Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863c that were almost identical. He …
- … and went on to say that he intended to make a copy of his letter to show to friends. 18 In …
- … letters, he thinks he was quite wrong not to allude to Sir C’s explanation of the matter’. 23 …
- … wrote to Darwin to ask what he thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). …
- … his admiration for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent …
- … his preface and note (see below, ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). By this time, Darwin …
- … When Hooker pressed him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), Darwin wrote …
- … Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] and n. 13). The …
- … 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyell’s …
- … ]. 10. Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] . …
- … seen is milk & water’ (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). Later, …
- … a mutual friend of ours’ (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
- … pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
- … And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
- … his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
- … Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
- … edition, published in 1842 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 …
- … Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January …
- … for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did …
- … ‘I’m a grown man now’, he reminded Darwin, ‘& sh d . stand on my own footing, & if it is …
- … whether he was the author of the review ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley …
- … had written the article ( enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 ). Huxley’s …
- … th he published that shabby rejoinder’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1874] ). On the …
- … as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). Huxley …
- … of the bullfinch was instinctive and likened them to Douglas Spalding’s observations on the …
- … in a few hours dissolve the hardest cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. …
- … whether at the ‘close of the putrefaction of flesh, skin &c, any substance is produced before …
- … details of an Australian variety of sundew ( letter from T. C. Copland, 23 June 1874 ). …
- … head that M r Spencer’s terms of equilibration &c always bother me & make everything less …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … Despite the difference in language between Darwin’s letter and the modern scientific paper quoted …
- … daresay very well, & for coining new words.’ See the letter The word first appeared …
- … to universal correct natural history’ (p. 95, 7th edition, 1836). White himself does not spell out …
- … natural history writers might be. But the editor of the 1836 edition has an equally powerful …
- … for atheism, but as Darwin himself acknowledged in a letter to Mary Boole, it was more satisfactory …
- … as a result of the direct intervention of God. See the letter We may contrast Darwin’s …
- … sucks it, must have! It is a very pretty case.’ See the letter Darwin was confident …
- … nature as she really is.’ It seems from Haeckel’s letter that what most struck him about …
- … of his great discovery is by contrast extremely modest. In a letter written in 1864 and …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … suppose abuse is as good as praise for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] …
- … to the printer, but without the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to …
- … books, Descent and Expression . In the same letter, Darwin revealed the conclusion to his …
- … variation of animals and plants under domestication . In a letter to his son William dated 27 …
- … of his brother’s embryological papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although …
- … . Indeed, he told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send …
- … tell me, at what rate your work will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This …
- … & sent to him, he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). …
- … fit person’ to introduce the work to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). …
- … Vogt should translate my book in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). …
- … varieties at the eye, which resulted in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 …
- … seems to me, if true, a wonderful physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
- … it will be a somewhat important step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). …
- … if you attack it & me with unparalleled ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] …
- … own discretion; anyhow most ought to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). …
- … however, & I cannot get on so quickly as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November …
- … with me about 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in …
- … as I have been taunted with concealing my opinions; & I sh d do this immediately after the …
- … see your second volume on “The Struggle for Existence &c.” for I doubt if we have a sufficiency …
- … to the work I shall find it much better done by you than I c d have succeeded in doing’ ( letter …
- … In January 1867, the duke of Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, published The reign of law (G. D. …
- … read it and whether it was worth reading ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 ). In a …
- … I have not a word to say against it but such a view c d hardly come into a scientific book’ ( …
- … I have not a word to say against it but such a view c d hardly come into a scientific book …
- … if I had the power of writing with severity I dare say I sh d triumph in turning poor devils …
