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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

Summary

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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  • …   On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
  • … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
  • … in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
  • … of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
  • … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
  • … as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
  • … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
  • … would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
  • … of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
  • … if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
  • … in three parts in the  Pall Mall Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s …
  • … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
  • … would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
  • … ignorant article… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] …
  • … ‘he is a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] …
  • … facts that they hoped might be of interest. Charles Henry Binstead, a civil engineer in Yorkshire, …
  • … On 11 February , Darwin wrote to the entomologist Henry Walter Bates, ‘I have just found that I …
  • … September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday that contained a …
  • … expression of natives faces as I meet them,’ wrote George Henry Kendrick Thwaites on 1 April …
  • … Darwin began a long correspondence on orchids with Thomas Henry Farrer, permanent secretary to the …
  • … the ascendant. His great public defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September …

Women’s scientific participation

Summary

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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  • … Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
  • … silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
  • … observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
  • … to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
  • … be made on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis . Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to …
  • … Expression from her home in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L …
  • … Expression during a trip to Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., …
  • … expression of emotion in her pet dog and birds. Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. …
  • … is making similar observations for him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. …
  • … of a crying baby to Darwin's daughter, Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, …
  • … briefly on her ongoing observations of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. …
  • … expression of emotion in dogs with Emma Darwin. Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, …
  • … birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to …
  • … of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, …
  • … that she make observations of her pet cats. Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 …
  • … on her experiments with fly-catching Drosera . Letter 9426 - Story …
  • … 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
  • … - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
  • … home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] …
  • … experiments with minnows. Letter 2781  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [3 May 1860] …
  • Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • Letter 6083  - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
  • Letter 6139  - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
  • Letter 6046  - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
  • Letter 6066  - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
  • Letter 6081  - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … [Youatt 1847]. Westminster Rev. Oct. 49. Article on Doubledays Theory on Pop. praised by
  • 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 18689] (an
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [ShakespeareKing Richard
  • Voyage to St Kilda [M. Martin 1698]. nothing —— Doubleday on Population [Doubleday 1842] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very
  • printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26  Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and
  • of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors
  • to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November
  • in December, 1841 . Oxford119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851
  • in DAR 71: 1501.]  128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843The Bible in Spain; or, the   …
  • 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhittpseud.  (Henry Vizetelly). 1849Four   months among the
  • the gold districts . London119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839Dissertations on
  • 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832A letter in vindication of   the principles of
  • 71: 1257.]  *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857History of
  • tribes.  London119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839The physiology or mechanism   …
  • … [Other eds.]  *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829Observations on the breeding
  • …   observations . London119: 7a Cockburn, Henry. 1852Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a
  • … [by Sara Coleridge]. 3 vols. London119: 1a Doubleday, Thomas. 1842The true law of
  • by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter fromJ.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. VigorsPhilosophical
  • 2 vols. London119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 18689Guide to the study of   …