To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
- … In April 1873, the publisher John Murray announced in the Athenæum that a book by Darwin with …
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I …
- … attribtuted a critical review of Variation in the Athenæum to Richard Owen (see letter to J. …
- … by a graduate of the University of Cambridge ([Beverley] 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 …
- … Could not believe Owen to be so demoniacal as to write the Athenæum review [of Variation ]. …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … in October mail, and some “puerile” letters printed in Athenæum . He requests Darwin extract …
- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … Darwin had sent the manuscript to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that …
- … Record. Dallas had begun the work in November 1867 and had expected to complete it in a fortnight. …
- … on 23 February , ‘did you look at the Review in the Athenæum, showing profound contempt of me. I …
- … emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867, was circulated to remote parts of …
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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- … chosen the previous year when he sent two letters to the Athenæum ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
- … on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), as well as on the German translation …
- … it had been weekly, as then perhaps it would have killed the Athenæum by a lingering death, & …
