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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
  • to walk daily on an average 3½ miles & often one mile at a stretch…. I feel altogether much more
  • Darwin had submitted a preliminary sketch of pangenesis to Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865 (see
  • from the American botanist Asa Gray, the nurseryman Thomas Rivers, and the German botanist Robert
  • D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When finally published in 1868, it filled two lengthy volumes, …