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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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… Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
… publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
… becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867 , as he continued to circulate a list of …
… transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
… the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
… publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
… for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867 ] ). A week later, Darwin had …
… the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867 ] to his close friend, Joseph …
… Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
… at what rate your work will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of …
… to introduce the work to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may …
… translate my book in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867 ] ). Darwin was not …
… like that of the date palm. Naudin had sent specimens to Hooker, who reported the ‘wonderful …
… insecurity persisted, however, and in November he told Hooker, ‘I shall not be at all surprised if …
… as I have been taunted with concealing my opinions; & I sh d do this immediately after the …
… the work I shall find it much better done by you than I c d have succeeded in doing’ ( letter to …
… Douglas Campbell, published The reign of law (G. D. Campbell 1867 ), a book based on a series of …
… from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867 ] ). In February, Hooker asked whether Darwin had read it …
… I have not a word to say against it but such a view c d hardly come into a scientific book’ ( …
… I have not a word to say against it but such a view c d hardly come into a scientific book …
… judgement he would subdue; that is yours’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin …
… if I had the power of writing with severity I dare say I sh d triumph in turning poor devils …
… alert (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). …

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 …
… produced by a cross between two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867 ] ). He noted …
… & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867 ] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
… of France where Moggridge lived for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867 ] ). …
… ‘I always supposed until lately that no evil effects w d be visible until after several …
… flower. ‘How utterly mysterious it is’, he reported to Hooker, ‘that there sh d be some …
… to impotence when taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or …
… Darwin sent specimens of plants he raised from this seed to Hooker, who named it Abutilon darwinii …
… a new species, & I am honoured by its name’, Darwin told Hooker, ‘It offers an instance, of …
… the season it becomes capable of self-fertilisation’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 23 July [1871] ). Darwin …
… ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of families of several …
… & I have no idea when it will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller …
… and not on ‘the evil effects of Interbreeding’ ( To J. V. Carus, 2 August [1873] ). In …
… & Trimorphic plants with new & related matter. ( To J. V. Carus, 19 March [1874] ). A year …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… for evaluation, and persuaded his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker to comment on a paper on Verbascum …
… committed suicide at the end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic …
… thriving, and when illness made work impossible, Darwin and Hooker read a number of novels, and …
… the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin …
… kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, …
… griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). …
… Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
… know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). He …
… and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). In …
… ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
… willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After …
… loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). …
… in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867 ), and Darwin summarised them in …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring Gray Louis Agassiz, Adam …
… this actor uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, …
… of natural selection to his friend, the botanist, Joseph D Hooker GRAY: 3 Charles …
… year 1839, and copied and communicated to Messrs Lyell and Hooker in 1844, being a part of …
… DARWIN: 7 January 1844. My dear Hooker. I have been …engaged in a very presumptuous work …
… the opportunity I enjoyed of making your acquaintance at Hooker’s three years ago; and besides that …
… sheet of note-paper! DARWIN: 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably nice and kind …
… 22 Hurrah I got yesterday my 41st Grass! Hooker is younger than Darwin and Gray by …
… species before… DARWIN: 24 My dear Hooker… you cannot imagine how pleased I am …
… on your bowels of immutability. Darwin passes to Hooker a brace of letters 25 …
… there is a little rap for you. GRAY: 26 Hooker [is] dreadfully paradoxical to …
… as well as any man. I send it… Darwin passes to Hooker an envelope of seeds. …
… and Hawks have often been seen in mid Atlantic. HOOKER: 28 Thanks for your letter …
… pleased to have. DARWIN: 33 My dear Hooker. Thanks, also, for [your] Photograph, …
… expression and so by no means does you justice. HOOKER: 34 I believe I have very …
… beguiled into should ‘rile’ you, as you say it does… Hooker rightly tells me, I have no business to …
… make a very audacious remark in opposition to what I imagine Hooker has been writing and to your own …
… to tell you, that before I had ever corresponded with you, Hooker had shown me several of your …
… – a Scottish paleobotanist and contemporary of Darwin and Hooker – splutters… FALCONER: …
… I can see that you have already corrupted and half-spoiled Hooker!! DARWIN: Now when I see …
… out much fuller in my sketch copied in 1844, and read by Hooker some dozen years ago…. I should be …
… world to come. DARWIN: 56 My dearest Hooker, You will, and so will Mrs Hooker, be …
… FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: 1857-1858 In which Gray and Hooker begin to consider the theological …
… C DARWIN, 18–19 AUGUST 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 …
… A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …

Scientific Networks

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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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… tapping into the networks of others, such as Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray, who were at leading …
… of face-to-face contact. His correspondence with Joseph Hooker and Asa Gray illustrates how close …
… The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker. The second is between Darwin …
… Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 23 Feb [1844] Darwin begins with a charming …
… Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin catches up on personal …
… name to specific name. Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 In …
… Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 12 Oct 1849 Darwin opens by discussing their …
… 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, …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867 ] Mary Barber responds to …
… in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L to Darwin, [8 & 9 May 1869] …
… Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
… of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November1872] …
… Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to Darwin, [17 December 1872] …
… little treatise”. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] …
… Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867 ] Sutton, the keeper of the …
… and orangs. Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867 ] …
… in a marble tablet”. Letter 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July 1869] John …
… Men: Letter 385 - Wedgwood, S. E. & J. to Darwin, [10 November 1837] …
… at Maer Hall, Staffordshire. Letter 1219 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [3 February …
… - Henslow, G. to Darwin, [11 November 1865] J. S. Henslow’s son, George, passes on the …
… The experiments were carried out “at the suggestion of Dr Hooker” and what little he has ascertained …
… Women: Letter 2345 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [20 October 1858] Darwin …
… of style. Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin …
… Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867 ] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
… Letter 2475 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [2 July 1859] Darwin returns the manuscript of …
… Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867 ] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
… 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867 ] Darwin thanks Muller for …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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… on publishers, decried on one occasion by Joseph Dalton Hooker as ‘Penny-wise Pound foolish, …
… Fuller consideration of Darwin’s work was given by Hooker in an evening speech on insular floras at …
… me any harm—any how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). Towards …
… continued to refine his hypothesis in 1866. He wrote to Hooker on 16 May [1866] , ‘I … am at work …
… it was too big. ‘You must congratulate me’, he wrote to Hooker, ‘when you hear that I have sent M.S. …
… Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When …
… of Darwin’s closest scientific friends and correspondents. Hooker’s research on alpine floras, Henry …
… have survived and appear in this volume), drawing Darwin, Hooker, and the botanist Charles James Fox …
… bigotted to the last inch, & will not yield’, he wrote to Hooker, who attached greater weight to …
… more than the belief of a dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ). Darwin …
… ‘Your father … entered at the same time with Dr B. J. who received him with triumph. All his friends …
… me to worship Bence Jones in future—’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 May 1866 ). Darwin himself …
… then went for ¾ to Zoolog. Garden!!!!!!!!!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1866] ). …
… tell him the truth how little exertion I can stand. I sh d like very much to see him, though I …
… began work on the new translation (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867 ), incorporating the revisions Darwin …
… original contract between Darwin and the New York publisher D. Appleton and Co. in 1860. …
… & admit how little is known on the subject’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). …
… see how differently we look at every thing’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 August [1866] ). Yet both …
… same thing in a different light from you’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 August 1866 ). The two …

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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… From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear …
… Pangenesis as I have my crudity. Ever yr affec | J D Hooker …
… please return it.—as I have no time to copy it.— J H. CD …
… in the Athenæum to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was …
… by a graduate of the University of Cambridge ([Beverley] 1867 ) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 …
… Chronicle , 22 February 1868, p. 184, in his letter to Hooker of 23 February [1868]. f4 …
… f10 These annotations are for CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. …

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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… the accursed Index-maker’, Darwin wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 6 January . Darwin had sent …
… Record. Dallas had begun the work in November 1867 and had expected to complete it in a fortnight. …
… ). Darwin sympathised, replying on 14 January , ‘I sh d have a very bad heart, as hard as …
… to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such …
… away’ that sparked the most discussion. Darwin wrote to Hooker on 23 February , ‘did you look at …
… thought it was by Gray himself, but Darwin corrected him: ‘D r Gray would strike me in the face, …
… editor of the London and Westminster Review . When Hooker later tried to refute the claims of the …
… a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). …
… on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. Darwin M.d’; Binstead evidently …
… (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to Hooker, ‘I am bothered with heaps of …
… kind almost heroic, in you to sacrifice your hair and pay 3 d in the cause of science …
… information on colour changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 …
… , ‘almost heroic, in you to sacrifice your hair and pay 3 d in the cause of science.’ Darwin …
… added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual …
… role of colour, sound, and smell in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 …
… Wallace that he had begun the previous year, writing to Hooker on 21 May , ‘I always distrust …
… emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867 , was circulated to remote parts of …
… the Linnean Society of London on 19 March. In a letter to Hooker on 21 May , he enthused over an …

Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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… Letter 4895 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 20 Sept [1865] Darwin thanks Müller for …
… thinks seems probable. Letter 5173 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. R., 2 Aug 1866 …
… to be dichogamous. Letter 5429 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Mar 1867 …
… of other species. Letter 5480 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr 1867 …
… Letter 5551 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 26 May [1867 ] Darwin thanks Müller for …
… Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. …
… to geology. Letter 1018 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [6 Nov 1846] Darwin …
… full of observations on barnacles and he would like to meet Hooker in London. Letter 1166 …
… Owen might discuss the topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific …
… superior”. Letter 1174 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 10 May 1848 Darwin …
… result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems. He tells Hooker that he sent Owen an account of …
… book. Letter 1140 — Darwin, C. R. to Ross, J. C., 31 Dec 1847 Darwin asks Ross to …
… C. R. to Gould, A. A., 20 Aug [1849] Darwin thanks J. D. Dana for cirripede specimens. Darwin …
… This collection of letters, written between Darwin and Hooker whilst Darwin was preparing his …
… history. Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848] Darwin writes …
… name to specific name. Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849 …

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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… exclaimed to his close friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker: ‘Hurrah! I have been 52 hours …
… 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The only approach to work which …
… by which leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s …
… peduncles to test sensitivity, and in his request to Hooker for another specimen: ‘I want it …
… plant morphology. Many of his other correspondents, such as Hooker and Gray, had grown accustomed to …
… the Lythrum paper was published, Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] …
… letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to Hooker: ‘I will fight you to the death, …
… and 249). When Darwin requested orchid specimens from Hooker in November, he said that he did …
… certain difficult & tedious points’, Darwin asked Hooker about the possibility of Scott’s …
… with his stipend being paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). …
… often at odds with one another: ‘Gardeners are the very d—l, & where two or three are gathered …
… enough to play your part over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). …
… … they do require very careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless …
… that in giving I am hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his …
… a first-class cabin for the journey ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 August 1864] ). Darwin …
… you have bearded this lion in his den’ ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] ). Walsh also …
… he spoke out on the modification of species ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] ). …
… he thought him ‘sanguine & unsafe’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 ). Hooker …
… correct if they contradicted the Bible ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] ). When …
… Lyell 1865] I shall recant for fifth time’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October [1864] ). Lyell …

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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… correcting’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have …
… he remarked to his best friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, ‘If I lived 20 more years, & …
… Well it is a beginning, & that is something’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] ). …
… Darwin sent a manuscript of his response (now missing) to Hooker, remarking: ‘I should be extremely …
… blunders, as is very likely to be the case’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). Hooker …
… principle (Nägeli 1865, pp. 28–9). In further letters, Hooker tried to provide Darwin with botanical …
… Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
… retrench that position following criticism from his friend Hooker, by admitting that the survival of …
… do fairly well, though if I had read you first, perhaps I d have been less deferential towards …
… males & females, cocks & hens.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] ). Yet …
… & contempt—almost hatred—’ ( from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James …
… by Wallace’s assertions: ‘If you had not told me I d have thought that they had been added by …
… on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867 ), as well as on the German translation …
… commentary (Royer trans. 1870). Darwin complained to Hooker, ‘Besides her enormously long & …
… [her] to translate “Domestic Animals”’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] ). Angered by …
… of the whole meeting was decidedly Huxley’s answer to D r M c Cann. He literally poured boiling …
… suggestions to its publisher, Macmillan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 ). Darwin …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin sends a manuscript copy of …
… of style. Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin …
… Letter 7312 - Darwin to Darwin, F., [30 August 1867 - 70] Darwin asks his son, …
… tone and style. Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 September 1870] …
… Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, J., [29 September 1870] Darwin asks Murray to …
… to women. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November 1872] …
… Letter 5391 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [6 February 1867 ] Lydia Becker thanks Darwin …
… - Barnard, A. to Darwin, [30 March 1871] J. S. Henslow’s daughter, Anne, responds to …
… with her father. Letter 7651 - Wedgwood, F. J. to Darwin, H. E., [1 April 1871] …
… be suitable. Letter 7411 - Pfeiffer, E. J. to Darwin, [before 26 April 1871] …
… Letter 5712 - Dallas, W. S. to Darwin, [8 December 1867 ] Translator and author …
… patience and care. Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] …
… is a revelation. Letter 9633 - Nevill, D. F. to Darwin, [11 September 1874] …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…

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… Variation under domestication, neared completion in 1867, that he systematically sought more …
… Typical is his query to Fritz Müller in February 1867 : Do you know of any lowly …
… as an argument in favour of Divine creation (Campbell 1867, pp. 203–4). Brent gave it as his …
… females are worn not by men but women, and he joked with Hooker about the consequences of both …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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… 5500 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, E. P. A., 12 Apr [1867] Darwin is sympathetic to Haeckel’s …
… Letter 5533 — Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, C. R., 12 May 1867 Haeckel thanks Darwin for the …
… 5544 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, E. P. A., 21 May [1867] Darwin discusses his previous …
… between Darwin and his close friends, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Charles Lyell, show that Darwin, who …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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… & stigmas’, Darwin remarked to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 25 January . He had been troubling …
… it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His publisher knew from …
… He requested a large number of plants from Hooker on 25 May , adding, ‘I often wish that I could …
… to Down if it lay in my power and you thought it w d . help you.’ ‘I declare had it not been for …
… warned Thiselton-Dyer, who seems to have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter …
… fuller’s teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris , a synonym of D. fullonum ). He thought that the …
… to the Royal Society of London by Darwin, who confessed to Hooker on 25 January , ‘I know that it …
… of its being printed in the R. Soc. Transactions, (sh d . the referees so order) would stimulate …
… vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper …
… as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by the emperor …
… & offer himself you & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). …
… the old story to be horsewhipped by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, …
… blending and swamped within a larger population ([Jenkin] 1867 ). Darwin had addressed this criticism …
… not give up Pangenesis with wicked imprecations’ (Trollope 1867 ; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 …
… the ceremony. ‘They are going to formally offer you the L.L.D degree’, George wrote before 28 May …
… 2: 230), and he later described the event to Hyacinth Hooker on 18 November 1877 : ‘There was a …
… without lying down to rest’, he explained ( letter to J. W. Clark, 12 November 1877 ). …

Was Darwin an ecologist?

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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.

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… statesman and author. Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law. London: Alexander …
… Further reading Campbell, George Douglas. 1867. The reign of law . London: Alexander …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… news to his closest friends. She wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker the day after Darwin’s death. ‘Our …
… Lyell had been a strong advocate of common descent. In 1867, Lyell expressed his enthusiasm for …
… of the organic world ( letter from Charles Lyell, 16 July 1867 ). In the same year, Darwin made a …
… property’ ( letter to George Warington, 11 October [1867] ). Respecting the privacy of …

Beauty and the seed

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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …

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… John Scott, who duly experimented and replied in September 1867 that his sulphur-crested cockatoo …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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… startled even close friends to whom Darwin sent prints. Hooker responded in jocular spirit: …
… change fundamentally the public’s perceptions of him. As Hooker had suggested with his allusion to …
… to the German edition of Origin published in 1867, again with a facsimile of Darwin’s signature, …
… from 4 th English edition (Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1867), frontispiece engraved by August …

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