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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
  • in the fourth English edition, which appeared in 1866.   The changes and additions have been
  • …  Almost every year, as I am informed by Mr. EV. Harcourt, many European and African birds are

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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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
  • Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But the crowning achievement of the year
  • publisher in December. Much of Darwins correspondence in 1866 was focussed on issues surrounding
  • 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). Darwin had first consulted Jones
  • go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). Darwin began riding the cob, …
  • the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More predictably, however, Darwin
  • how I cant be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). Towards Variation
  • to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January [1866] ). Darwin found the evidence of
  • 13), and continued to refine his hypothesis in 1866. He wrote to Hooker on 16 May [1866] , ‘I … …
  • to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When finally published in 1868, it
  • definite views’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] ). The fourth edition of  …
  • also added material obtained through correspondence in 1866, including observations by the American
  • undertook an ambitious expedition to Brazil in 1865 and 1866, partly with a view to finding support
  • … ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September [1866] ). Darwin had first heard of Agassizs
  • dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ). Darwin also ventured to inform
  • more than a subsidiary agent’, Darwin wrote on 8 March [1866] , prefacing his remark with, ‘I
  • after the startling apparition of your face at R.S. Soirèewhich I dreamed of 2 nights running. …
  • Jones in future—’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 May 1866 ). Darwin himself was jubilant: ‘I have
  • Garden!!!!!!!!!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1866] ). Celebrity Darwins
  • exalted, and most brilliant intellects of our age’ (Anon 1866, p. 176). At Down, Darwin
  • on those terms so you are in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [  c . 10 May 1866] ). …
  • Georg Bronn, had been published in 1860 and 1863 by the firm E. Schweizerbart’sche
  • wasmerely ordinaryly diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 May11 June 1866] ). On
  • a case of dimorphic becoming diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ). Darwin
  • I am well accustomed to such explosions’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 22 June [1866] ). He urged
  • indeed at poor Susans loneliness’ ( letter from E. C. Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin, [6 and 7