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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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- … and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved …
- … and Cross and self fertilisation (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became increasingly involved in …
- … renouncing plans for a medical career to become his father’s scientific secretary. Darwin had always …
- … The subject was brought closer to home by Francis Galton’s work on inherited talent, which prompted …
- … efforts to alleviate the financial troubles of Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. …
- … to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of …
- … leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found that the …
- … properties analogous to those in Drosera . Darwin’s experiments on plant movement and digestion …
- … copy of the Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873), a detailed guide to animal …
- … solution to Frankland for analysis. Following Frankland’s advice, he performed his own tests and …
- … enzyme. Cross- and self-fertilisation Darwin’s other main focus of botanical …
- … & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August 1873 ). Darwin worried, however, that …
- … when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). Keeping it in the family …
- … their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin …
- … will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 ). Erasmus, who had studied medicine …
- … work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September [1873] ). Shortly afterwards, it was arranged for …
- … 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to you on the …
- … anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in April ([Baynes] 1873). Darwin asked one of his Scottish …
- … during lectures, indicating attention. A friend of CD’s daughter Henrietta recollected the …
- … “I’m to starve sweat & purge it away” ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [1 October 1873] ). He also …
- … some little happiness & enjoyment in life” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 5 March [1873] ). Darwin …
- … “It is a good omen for the future” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 2 August [1873] ). But he was more …
- … world his opinions on the deepest subjects?” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 October [1873] ). Darwin …
- … “most strongly on public grounds” ( letter from G. S. Ffinden to Emma Darwin, 24 December 1873 ). …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
- … into this complicated relationship throughout Darwin’s life, as it reveals his personal and …
- … (and doubt) than many non-conformist denominations. Darwin’s parents attended a Unitarian chapel …
- … A nominal adherence to the Anglican Church’s teachings was still essential for admittance to many of …
- … necessary studies to be a clergyman. During Darwin’s lifetime, the vast majority of the …
- … with the pursuit of scientific interests. Indeed, Darwin’s Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, …
- … clergymen naturalists. A nostalgic piece in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine described the early …
- … on every side his own snug ivy-covered house’ (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1887): 321). …
- … to Caroline Darwin, 25–6 April [1832] ). Darwin’s sisters were extremely supportive of his desire …
- … (letter to W. D. Fox, [9–12 August] 1835 ). Darwin’s doubts about orthodox belief, and his …
- … went dutifully to the local Anglican church of St Mary’s each Sunday. All the children were baptised …
- … their children Mary and Charles were buried; later Darwin’s brother Erasmus, Emma’s sister Sarah, …
- … of the letters highlighted in this section focus on Darwin’s long-standing relationship with the …
- … was named perpetual curate of Down in 1846 (Crockford’s). Innes was a High-Churchman, that is, a …
- … end of his life Innes refused to be persuaded by Darwin’s theory of evolution, but nevertheless …
- … Innes’s approval the reins passed to George Sketchley Ffinden. Darwin’s relationship with …
- … informed Darwin that though he ‘heard all good of M r . Ffinden’s moral character, his clerical …
- … Innes, 5 June 1871 ). Particularly in the early days of Ffinden’s tenure, Innes continued to keep …
- … particular sums on the expectation of particular results. Ffinden strongly disapproved of the …
- … as a reading room for the working classes in the evening. Ffinden opposed the activity, and as a …
- … (letter to Down School Board, [after 29 November 1873] ). Ffinden fiercely resented Darwin for …
- … April [1875] ). The tensions between the Darwins and Ffinden over the management of parish …
- … Press in association with Nova Pacifica. Paz, D. G., ed. 1995. Nineteenth-century English …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Plants always held an important place in Darwin’s theorising about species, and botanical research …
- … the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in …
- … V). Darwin remained bitter and dissatisfied with Mivart’s attempts at conciliation, and spent weeks …
- … of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwin’s friends had to find ways of coming to …
- … the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s anonymous essay had appeared. ‘I told …
- … feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwin’s ire was not fully spent, however, for he …
- … The vivisection issue was a delicate one within Darwin’s family, and he tried to balance his concern …
- … paper sent me by Miss Cobbe.’ Darwin found Cobbe’s memorial inflammatory and unfair in its …
- … on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on Cobbe’s memorial had been read in the House of Lords …
- … on vivisection , p. 183). Darwin learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : …
- … medicine in London. Klein had assisted in some of Darwin’s botanical research and had visited Down …
- … Poisons, plants, and print-runs Darwin’s keen interest in the progress of physiology …
- … of protoplasm. He added the details of Brunton and Fayrer’s experiments to Insectivorous plants , …
- … I can say is that I am ready to commit suicide.’ Darwin’s despair over the revision process may have …
- … ). In the event, the book sold well, and Murray’s partner, Robert Cooke, politely scolded …
- … insects were observed in the field, and some of Darwin’s experiments on digestion were then repeated …
- … about the same time. As was the case with some of Darwin’s previous publications, however, the …
- … were finished. An elusive case Darwin’s attention seems to have been largely on …
- … between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s visit to Down House: ‘The place was one …
- … remain one of the most agreeable and interesting of memory’s pictures.’ Though trained in zoology …
- … red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). …
- … heavily on his son Francis, who had made the decision in 1873 to abandon his medical studies and …
- … of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the …
- … knowledge wd. allow me.’ thorns in Mr Ffinden’s side Tempers flared …
- … the authority of the Church. After becoming vicar in 1871, Ffinden had opposed their efforts, and …
- … on the digestive properties of Nepenthes since 1873. ‘You are aware that Dr Hooker has worked …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second half of …
- … been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a …
- … The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, to …
- … led Darwin to the self-assessment, ‘as for one’s body growing old there is no help for it, & I …
- … The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. …
- … in London, his son George organised a séance at Erasmus’s house. The event was led by the medium …
- … another Williams séance was held at the home of Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood. Those present …
- … to get the two men on each side of him to hold each other’s hands, instead of his, ‘& that he …
- … had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, when he realised the difficulty a …
- … vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 December [1873] ). Darwin himself had some trouble …
- … of human evolution and inheritance himself. In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] ). In 1873, Hooker had begun a series of …
- … vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted several weeks in …
- … Moulinié, who had died after a period of ill health in 1873. Edmond Barbier corrected defects in …
- … was a copy of Joseph Simms’s book on physiognomy (Simms 1873), which contained Darwin’s portrait to …
