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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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- … during his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close …
- … mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have …
- … again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered …
- … learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : ‘I declare to you I did not believe …
- … carried out on live animals in laboratories. In January 1875, he received details of experiments by …
- … printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). In the event, the book …
- … in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 July 1875, by Ellen Frances Lubbock: ‘in Utricularia …
- … born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875). Back over old ground …
- … In the end, following the advice of the physician James Paget, he removed the discussion in …
- … which I had long wished to see,’ he wrote on 21 April 1875 , ‘and now that I have seen it, I am …
- … do a good deal of “hammering”,’ he wrote on 14 July 1875 . ‘I shall not let Pangenesis alone …
- … his own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
- … & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February 1875?] ). By May, having finished …
- … proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] ). But Francis also found …
- … on astronomy, or the Duke of Wellington on art (Max Müller 1875, pp. 305–7). The debate between Max …
- … researches (Carus trans. 1875b; the series is Carus trans. 1875–87). More controversial was the …
- … Darwin wrote: ‘An anonymous compliment | received Feb 16th 1875’. The great and the good …
- … Insectivorous plants ( letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875] ). Such visitors from the upper …
- … I can talk to anyone’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] ). Finally it was arranged for the …
- … of twining plants (letters from Lawson Tait, 16 March [1875] and 27 March [1875] ). ‘As I am …
- … Nepenthes & will soon publish’, Darwin warned on 17 July 1875 . But Tait was undaunted. He …
- … Thiselton-Dyer ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1875 ). It was Thiselton-Dyer who …
- … was appropriate for so distinguished a nominee. Already in 1875, Lankester had been elected a fellow …
- … of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was notified of …
- … ‘high type’ ( letter from Woodward Emery, 17 September 1875 ). …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … the Trichinae’ (letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ). Darwin also worried that any bill …
- … their own petition (letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ). In the event, Darwin became …
- … within Darwin’s family. In his letter of 14 January 1875 to Huxley, Darwin mentioned the effect …
- … (letter from Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe, 14 January [1875] ). In the course of the public …
- … and William Shaen, with leading medical men, such as James Paget, and with the influential …
- … to Huxley (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 February 1875 ). Darwin was in London from 31 …
- … sketch for a petition (letter from T. H. Huxley, [4 April 1875] ). This was evidently passed back …
- … on 7 April (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 7 April [1875] ), and circulating it to others in …
- … were made (letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 10 April 1875 ), and another version was prepared …
- … of Lords (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] ). He was still unsure whether …
- … Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 April [1875] ). The next day he wrote to …
- … else you think best’ (letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875 ). After further consultations, a …
- … are evident in Darwin’s correspondence in April and May 1875. The initial petition (DAR …
- … order of the clauses. In the revised sketch, dated 24 April 1875, the penalty for unlawful …
- … at this alteration (letter from T. H. Huxley, 19 May 1875 , letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, …
- … corrections had been made (letter to Lyon Playfair, 26 May 1875 , and letter from Lyon Playfair, …
- … ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates , 3d ser., vol. 224 (1875), col. 794). A Royal Commission was a …
- … the RSPCA. The commission met between 5 June and 15 December 1875, examining fifty-three witnesses, …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in the St James’s Gazette on 8 December. Krause …
- … not have read the evidence given by physiologists to the 1875 Royal Commission for the regulation of …
- … 1881 ). However, some requests were inescapable. When James Paget wrote on 1 June to invite …
- … of wind transport in the growth of soil, while his brother James Geikie told Darwin on 10 October …
- … to raise money for the Belfast potato-blight researcher James Torbitt; Fritz Müller was offered £100 …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
- … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
- … in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by …
- … had been criticised from quite a different angle when James Clerk Maxwell discussed the limits of …
- … an individual would, when received by the Belfast merchant James Torbitt, become a weapon in a …
- … which shall hunt it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 ). Darwin beat an …
- … to consider Torbitt an untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ). …
- … Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the ‘awful job …
- … Darwin sought the best medical care. On 30 May, the surgeon James Paget advised complete rest for …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … scientific books in Darwin’s library were catalogued in 1875, and this manuscript catalogue is in …
- … to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Fox’s Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d Guizot …
- … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
- … 171] Pagets Travels in Hungary & Transylvania [John Paget 1839]— account of Dogs like …
- … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
- … Empire [Huc 1855] Feb 16 th Pagets Hungary [John Paget 1839] —— Bechsteins …
- … 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 1–3 & Last …
- … notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert …
- … de Neuchâtel . 47 Possibly a slip for James Abbott, Narrative of a journey …
- … This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilson’s work on the origin of …
- … referrred to in Darwin’s reading notebooks Abbott, James. 1843. Narrative of a journey from …
- … by Mary Howitt. London. 119: 15b Anderson, James. 1785. An account of the present state …
- … Dominique François Jean. 1839. Historical eloge of James Watt … Translated … with additional …
- … Harriet Martineau. London. 128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9. Ornithological …
- … and Sark. London. *119: 6v. Backhouse, James. 1843. A narrative of a visit to the …
- … methods of catching them . With notes by the translator [James Rennie]. London. *119: 7v. …
- … . Paris. [Darwin Library.] 119: 19a Bolton, James. 1794–6. Harmonia ruralis; or, an …
- … America. 2 vols. London. 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … …
- … trees . Edinburgh. 119: 7a, 13a Bowerbank, James Scott. 1840. A history of the fossil …
- … By Currer Bell. 3 vols. London. 128: 21 Brooke, James. 1853. Private letters of Sir …
- … from the vicinity of the river Congo. Appendix 5 of Tuckey, James Kingston, Narrative of an …
- … Egypt and Syria . London. 119: 4a Bruce, James. 1790. Travels to discover the …
- … Edinburgh and London. 128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848. Journal of a residence …
- … . London. [Other eds.] *119: 3v.; 119: 5a Dana, James Dwight. 1849. Geology . Vol. 10 …
- … Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540–1646 . …
- … of England 15: 76–88. *128: 177 Duncan, James. 1841. The natural history of exotic …
- … pts. Salem, Mass. [Darwin Library.] *119: 23v. Paget, James. 1853. Lectures on surgical …
