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Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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  • … in zoology. New studies of animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early …
  • … book, Erasmus Darwin , had been published in November 1879. It was received well by his relations …
  • … he had written for the German journal Kosmos in February 1879, an issue produced in honour of …
  • … Butler, Evolution old and new , which had appeared in May 1879. Krause wanted to correct Butler’s …
  • … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and letter to Ernst Krause, 9 …
  • … Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 (before Evolution old and new was …
  • … had raised the plant from seeds sent by Asa Gray in December 1879. His observations differed, …
  • … by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 20–1). ‘I think you cannot …
  • … shake their heads in the same dismal manner as you & M r . Murray did, when I told them my …
  • … vol. 27, letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 December 1879 ). For some years, Wallace’s main source of …
  • … of Epping Forest’. In October, Darwin had discussions with John Lubbock and Huxley and was …
  • … the year’s end, a Christmas card from another old friend, John Maurice Herbert, inspired happy …

Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers

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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…

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  • had concealed this in his preface to his and Krauses 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . Although Darwin
  • eager to send his draft to the printers without delay, asked John Murray, his publisher, to make an
  • laboratory. The Lake District may have reminded Darwin of John Ruskin, who lived there. Sending the
  • 29 July 1881 ). The degree of Darwins distress prompted Murray to offer to publish as soon as the
  • … ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree. Both John Lubbock and Hooker asked for Darwins
  • about the year 1840(?) on all our minds’ ( letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] ). When
  • on 27 May . Romanes assured Darwin that the artist, John Collier, Huxleys son-in-law, wassuch a
  • after expressing their wish to visit Darwin ( letter from E. B. Aveling, 27 September [1881] ). …
  • Leopold Würtenberger, who had received £100 from Darwin in 1879 to continue his work on the
  • Darwin told his old Cambridge University friend John Price on 27 December . As Darwin rejoiced in

Bartholomew James Sulivan

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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…

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  • … he organised a reunion at Down with Arthur Mellersh and John Clements Wickham which Darwin …
  • … his former shipmates to support the mission’s work .  In 1879 he persuaded ‘the Beagles’ to adopt …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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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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  • the transcript) and the non-scientific on the right (labelledb’). He continued this separation of
  • Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon Suites
  • 183941]— in Geograph Soc Siebolds Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 183350]— d[itt]o Kalm
  • Domestic Improvement ] Loudons. Journal of Nat Hist Z & B [ Magazine of Natural History
  • Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns
  • of Birds from distant countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 183350] Zoolog. Soc
  • 1766] Count Dandalo on silk worm Eng. Translat 1825Murray [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 17931801]. d[itt]o. …
  • 1766]. good Bas. Montagus Select from old Divines [B. Montagu 1805] [DAR 119: 10a] …
  • … ] to end of Vol: XVIII & Part I. of V. 19 (1843) 25. Murray Domestic Poultry.— Domestic
  • th  Kings & Lays Missionary Voyage [King and Lay 1839] —— B. Halls Schloss Hainfell
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • 18349] Dec 12 th  The Emigrant by Sir F. B. Head [F. B. Head 1846] —— 16 th
  • Buffon [Milne-Edwards 183440]. March 5 th  St. Johns Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8
  • Tone Autobiography [Tone 1826] very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor
  • 1848] Madam Malguet [Torrens] 1848] —— Lives of John & Alex. Belthune [?Bethune 1840 and
  • Ireland [Thompson 184956]. Vol. I. II & 3 May. St. Johns Tour in Sutherlandshire [Saint
  • many vols. I have read.— [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William
  • 9  CD did not follow his own advice. In 1879, he stated that he had unbounded respect for
  • up the River   Amazon, including a residence at Pará . (Murrays Home and Colonial Library.) …
  • Translated from the German and French by Lady Duff Gordon. (Murrays Home and Colonial Library.) …
  • in DAR 71: 18091.]  *119: 22v.; 119: 22a Murray, Andrew. 1866The geographical