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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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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
- … words to celebrate what would have been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th …
- … be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
- … Fox, to reminiscence about their university days together, and the long-abandoned pleasures of …
- … takes everything more quietly, as not signifying so much. And … one looks backwards much more than …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … house. The event was led by the medium Charles E. Williams, and was attended by George Henry Lewes …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
- … his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
- … Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
- … a three-year apprenticeship with the engineering firm Easton and Anderson of Erith, Kent. After a …
- … as not to bind him to long hours of work’ ( letter to Easton and Anderson, 4 May [1874] ). …
