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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.…
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- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the …
- … promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ). The profits for Darwin were …
- … first two printings, Darwin wrote to Murray on 20 March 1871 , ‘It is quite a grand trade to be a …
- … in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). Reaction …
- … sending their compliments and praise. The asylum director James Crichton-Browne described the book …
- … his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 February 1871 ). …
- … pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). The geologist William Boyd Dawkins …
- … to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). Thomas Henry Huxley marvelled that …
- … tide-marks!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 February 1871 ). Asa Gray remarked, somewhat …
- … and pointed ears” (letter from Asa Gray, 14 April 1871) Like his previous book, …
- … arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 ). Samples of hair arrived from …
- … his head ( letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 25 April 1871] )). Hinrich Nitsche, ‘the lucky …
- … orang-utan foetus ( letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April 1871 ). Darwin thought he might use the …
- … poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871] ). Animal anecdotes appeared in …
- … space each morning ( letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 ; letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 …
- … of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 April 1871] ). Roland Trimen, a long-time …
- … in the past ( letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 ). Candid disagreement …
- … were raised to a high pitch, as Innes wrote on 26 May 1871 about the darker races arising …
- … as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). On religion and morality …
- … Creator made it’ ( letter from George Morrish, 18 March 1871 ). Darwin received an anonymous …
- … Descent ( letter from a child of God, [after 24 February 1871] ). Yet some continued to …
- … religious feeling’ ( letter from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 ). The Anglican clergyman and …
- … brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ). Ernst Haeckel boasted of his month …
- … monkey !’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 December 1871 ). Descent was extensively …
- … independent of all times and all circumstances’ (8 April 1871, p. 5). Darwin condemned the author of …
- … & classics’ ( letter to John Murray, 13 April [1871] ). But a similar point was made by …
- … could be produced by an operation of the mind. He wrote to James Crichton-Browne on 28 March to …
- … would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek’’‘ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 18 April 1871 ). …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
- … Brooke, C.A.J. 30 April 1871 Sarawak, Borneo …
- … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
- … children Crichton-Browne, James 20 May …
- … nodding Crichton-Browne, James 19 May 1869 …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 15 March 1870 …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 18 March …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 3 April …
- … June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, …
- … Donders, F.C. 28 March 1871 Utrecht, Netherlands …
- … Foster, Michael 4 June [1871] Trinity College, …
- … Gray, Asa 14 April 1871 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Gray, Asa 10 & 14 March [1871] Cambridge, …
- … Mivart, G.J. 26 Jan 1871 North Bank, London, England …
- … England Paget, James 9 July 1867 …
- … 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's …
- … Rejlander, O.G. [1871] Victoria Street, London, …
- … Smith, Andrew 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's …
- … Smith, Andrew 17 April 1871 16 Alexander Square, …
- … Theodore Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 14 March 1871 33 Oakley Square, …
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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- … and letter from A. R. Wallace, 30 January 1869 ). James Croll, ice ages, and the age of …
- … result of correspondence between Darwin and the geologist James Croll. In the previous year, Croll …
- … is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
- … period before the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Croll …
- … by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). …
- … from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and mental …
- … in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the director of …
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 lent Duchenne’s album to the asylum director James Crichton-Browne, who had become one of …
- … but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). …
- … crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] ). …
- … essays (later revised as Genesis of species (Mivart 1871)), Mivart tried to carve out a position …
- … Bruce, about the possibility of inserting a question in the 1871 census about cousin marriage. …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … leading contributors to Expression , the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne, wrote to Darwin …
- … orbital one produces snapping of the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). …
- … that illustrated the physiognomy of the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 …
- … ants when Darwin forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James Duncan Hague, who had observed a …
- … vicar, George Sketchley Ffinden, who had been appointed in 1871. Darwin had usually been on good …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … on his behalf. The emotional specimen In 1871, Darwin contacted the German …
- … round them’ ( letter to A. D. Kindermann, [27 March 1871] ). Darwin had begun collecting …
- … relation” (letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] ). Making experiments familiar …
- … authenticity. Darwin described the verification process to James Crichton-Browne, who used …
- … all agree in their answer, I trust him’ ( letter to James Crichton Browne, 8 June 1870 ). The …
The expression of emotions
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Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…
