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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 of …
- … scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
- … that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
- … persevered with his work on Variation until 20 July, his letter-writing dwindled considerably. The …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
- … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
- … than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
- … in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of the Royal Society voted instead for the …
- … failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
- … the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
- … to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …
