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George Busk

Summary

After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…

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  • records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Buskone of the foremost workers
  • Darwins friend Joseph Hooker, who reportedly described Busk asthe most fertile brain of any man I
  • him both on medical and physiological matters. Busk was also on the Council of the Royal
  • Copley Medal, news that was announced in 1864. Busk and his wife Ellen were part of a lively

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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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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  • … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of  The variation …
  • … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
  • … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
  • … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
  • … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
  • … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
  • … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
  • … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
  • … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
  • … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
  • … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
  • … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
  • … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
  • … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
  • … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
  • … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
  • … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
  • … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
  • … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
  • … was gathering support in influential scientific circles. George Bentham devoted the first part of …
  • … could not satisfy himself on all points ( see letter from George Bentham, 21 April 1863 ). …
  • … on species, though so cleverly written’ ( letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] ). …
  • … the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club ( see letter from George Maw, 19 February 1863 ). Other …
  • … Oliver for references on phyllotaxy, and setting his son George, the mathematician in the family, to …
  • … a German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director …
  • … noted in ‘Three forms of  Lythrum salicaria ’. George contributed his mathematical …
  • … Malvern Wells, Darwin stopped in London overnight to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor …
  • … that even writing the letter was ‘against rules’. George Busk had diagnosed Darwin as having …
  • … specialist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). …

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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  • travelled with Joseph Prestwich, Douglas Strutt Galton, and George Busk to France, to visit the
  • race.  In 1861, Lubbock joined Thomas Henry Huxley, Busk, and several other supporters of
  • 1861 issue. The article reported on his recent visit, with Busk, to study the kjökkenmöddings
  • … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
  • recent visit to Denmark, made by him in company with Messrs. Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. …
  • first note that Galton and Prestwich accompanied Lubbock and Busk during the trip to Denmark to
  • Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3  By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of
  • of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in
  • aggrieved about Lyells failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he
  • Hooker, and Huxley and also showed the correspondence to Busk. 26 In the end, it was Huxley
  • note on p. 11.  Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled
  • 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyells 1865 revisions, …
  • … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to
  • evidence appealed to.  53 Harley Street: November 1863  Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
  • in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had
  • a recent visit to Denmark, made by him in company with Mr. Busk. Note on page 11, C. Lyell
  • a recent visit to Denmark, made by him in company with Mr. Busk.— See above, Preface, p. vii. …
  • 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
  • of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence
  • vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyells unwillingness to commit
  • vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. See Correspondence
  • … ‘I should be quite satisfied with anything you & Tyndall & Busk settle’ (letter from John
  • University Press. 1985–.:  Falconer, Hugh. 1863. LetterAthenaeum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459
  • of the  et al . in Forchhammer 1851-5] Stocking, George W., Jr. 1987Victorian

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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  • … visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy …
  • … medical practitioner Darwin contacted around this time. In 1863, Darwin experienced a period of …
  • … joints (see, for example, Holland 1855, p. 233, and Garrod 1863, pp. 263-4). The diagnosis of …
  • … vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … edition published May 1862 2d German translation, 1863 2d French translation 1865 …
  • … been misinterpreted by the science-writer, and partner to George Eliot, George Henry Lewes . And he …
  • … Huxley , Osbert Salvin , Abraham Dee Bartlett , George Busk , and William Henry Flower …
  • … damaging criticisms published by the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart.  Responding cost …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’.  Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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  • … the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
  • … from that of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] …
  • … leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found that he could still continue …
  • … family to collect specimens and make observations. His son George, who later studied mathematics at …
  • … insects; his correspondence with Gray, Philip Henry Gosse, George Chichester Oxenden, Friedrich …
  • … scientific debate. He had begun taking the journal in April 1863 and was an enthusiastic subscriber. …
  • … support for Darwin’s theory and his work on hybridity that George Bentham expressed in his …
  • … and their predecessors had continued to grow following the 1863 publication of Huxley’s  Evidence …
  • … failure to win the award in the two preceding years. An 1863 letter from the president of the Royal …
  • … of supporters on the Council, including Hugh Falconer and George Busk, who had nominated him, the …
  • … ill. In Darwin’s absence, the Copley Medal was received by George Busk and deposited with Darwin’s …