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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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- … Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring Gray Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, etc… The …
- … of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of …
- … reprinted in Silliman’s Journal, as a nut for [Professor] Agassiz to crack. Darwin and Gray …
- … characteristic. Instead of learning caution from experience, Agassiz goes on faster than ever, in …
- … book GRAY: 78 The theory of Agassiz regards the origin of species and their …
- … such conclusions. I believe Horace is a prophetic type, as Agassiz would say, of future naturalists. …
- … fade. GRAY PAYS DARWIN A VISIT AT DOWN: 1868 In which Gray announces his …
- … apart theologically. GRAY: 175 Summer. 1868. The gist of my present note is to …
- … 189 [Jane Gray. Letter to her sister. Fall, 1868.] Mr Darwin [is].. fascinating… [he has] the …
- … THE OLDER ONE GETS THE MORE THERE IS TO DO: 1868-1876 In which the friends consider the …
- … 24 JULY 1865 175 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH, 22 JUNE 1868 176 TO A GRAY 15 AUGUST …
- … TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 180 TO A GRAY 8 MAY 1868 181 FROM A GRAY 25 MAY …
- … TIME 189 JANE LORING GRAY, LETTER TO HER SISTER, 1868 or 1869 190 C DARWIN …
- … A GRAY 9 AUGUST 1876 194 FROM A GRAY 25 MAY 1868 195 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER …
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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- … ( Variation ). Although it was not published until 1868, all but the concluding chapter of the …
- … in France, Germany, and Italy. In the United States, Louis Agassiz renewed his defence of special …
- … D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When finally published in 1868, it filled two lengthy volumes, …
- … glacial theory, prompted in part by the Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz’s recent claims. Agassiz …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works Comparative …
- … 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 1868–9] (an …
- … number & size of sporules of Fungus. March 4 th Agassiz etudes sur les Glaciers …
- … Lyell Second Visit to America [Lyell 1849] July 20. Agassiz & Gould Principles of Zoology …
- … Aug. 16 Harvey Sea-side Book [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov …
- … History of Brit. Star fishes [E. Forbes 1841]. —— Agassiz Report sur les Poissons Fossiles …
- … the French. London. [Darwin Library.] *119: 13v. Agassiz, Louis. 1835. Rapport sur les …
- … . Boston. [Darwin Library.] 119: 22a Agassiz, Louis and Gould, Augustus Addison. 1848. …
- … . 2 vols. London. 128: 23 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. 1791. Natural …
- … 12: 305–9. *119: 16v. Céran-Lemonnier, Louis. 1837. Atlas de la géographie des …
- … 19v. Cuvier, Georges. 1830. Éloge historique de Louis-François-Élisabeth Baron Ramond. …
- … [Other eds.] *128: 178; 128: 9 Desmoulins, Louis Antoine. 1822. Mémoire sur la …
- … Armand Petit and Élie de Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce. 1830–8. Mémoires pour servir …
- … Montpellier. *119: 9v. Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis. 1764. The elements of …
- … of London 21: 53–4. *128: 163 Duperrey, Louis Isidore. 1825–30. Voyage autour du …
- … 119: 10a Élie de Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce. 1845. Leçons de géologie …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 2a Girou de Buzareingues, Louis François Charles. 1828a. De la …
- … and Garnot, Prosper. 1826–30. Zoologie . In Duperrey, Louis Isidore, Voyage autour du monde, …
- … 119: 3a, 4a, 16b, 17b Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Jean Louis Auguste. 1842–3. Considérations …
- … 3: 1–29. *119: 22v. Marquis, Alexandre Louis. 1810. Fragmens de philosophie …
- … 3 vols. London. *119: 5v.; 119: 13b Necker, Louis Albert. 1823. Mémoire sur les oiseaux …
- … 2 vols. London. 119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 1868–9. Guide to the study of …
- … France 2: 91–124. 119: 3a Prévost, Jean Louis and Dumas, Jean Baptiste André. 1824. …
- … Library.] 128: 13 Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1854. Souvenirs d’un …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 5v. Ramond de Carbonnières, Louis François Élisabeth. 1799–1801. …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years 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…
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Darwin reckoned that he had started writing on 4 February 1868, only five days after the publication …
- … the folded margin. Darwin, who had posed for the sculptor in 1868, an experience he described as …
- … vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ; this volume, letter to Thomas Woolner, 10 …
- … Huxley’s address also discussed recent experiments by Louis Pasteur and John Tyndall that provided …
- … friends and colleagues at Down, including Alexander Agassiz and his family, Anton Dohrn, Albert …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
