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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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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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  • … implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and …
  • … ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, 1: 51). …
  • … 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 …
  • … then mentioned: 2 have struck out Galton & Prestwich at p. 11 who will be …
  • … mistaken when he wrote in the first note that Galton and Prestwich accompanied Lubbock and Busk …
  • … by Hugh Falconer that Lyell had failed to credit him and Joseph Prestwich properly for their work in …
  • … of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in correspondence with Joseph Dalton Hooker, Asa Gray, and Huxley …
  • … fine sense of delicacy on the part of the author and so with Prestwich also Lubbock …
  • … 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 …
  • … expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860  15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by …

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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  • … a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his close friend Joseph Dalton Hooker: ‘I am languid & …
  • …  vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
  • … it gave insufficient credit to his own research and that of Joseph Prestwich. Hooker wrote: ‘I fear …
  • … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of  Origin , wrote to Falconer …
  • … not surprised to hear from Hooker that the French botanists Joseph Decaisne and Charles Naudin …
  • … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s 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 ( …