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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
- … has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, happily …
- … life. But the calm was not to last, and the second half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief …
- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the second edition …
- … Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1876 ). When Smith, Elder and Company …
- … observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) Darwin focused instead on the …
- … ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids was less a …
- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … with his new research in mind: ‘During this autumn of 1876 I shall publish on the “Effects of Cross …
- … “nunc dimittis.”’ (‘Recollections’, pp. 418–19). Darwin remained firm in his resolution to …
- … however, continued to be raised in various ways. On 10 January, Charles O’Shaughnessy , an Irish …
- … pamphlet, Darwin confounded (C. O’Shaughnessy 1876), which, he informed Darwin, ‘completely …
- … and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). Combatting enemies... …
- … disguised his views as to the bestiality of man’ (Mivart 1876, p. 144). Not only was the comment …
- … had succeeded in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had …
- … Mivart made a slanderous attack on George Darwin in late 1874 in an anonymous article, which …
- … least foundation’, Darwin told Alfred Russel Wallace on 17 June . It was the still raw memory of …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s …
- … in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle& …
- … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
- … The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John …
- … ). Darwin also had cause to regret his generosity to Lawson Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. …
- … Nepenthes , considered the morphological part of Tait’s work to be ‘trash’ and thought the paper …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … variation’ in the ‘big book’ he was writing in the 1850s, included a section on the correlation …
- … by this expression’ he later explained in Origin (p.143), ‘that the whole organisation is so …
- … to write up a ‘preliminary essay’ on his views in 1856, he went back to Fox to check his facts, …
- … with blue eyes’ were ‘invariably deaf’ ( Origin , p. 12; see also p. 144). Moreover, although he …
- … eyes are generally deaf’ ( Origin 3d ed. , p. 12). He had refined it yet further by the 4 th …
- … That was a distinction already pointed out to him by October 1860, by which time he was in …
- … a further complication to the example of cats, one observer, Lawson Tait, later claimed that it was …
- … of white cats ’ (letter originally tentatively dated 1860, and now redated 1875). Anecdotes about …
- … the book ( Variation 2d, 2: 322 n. 24). By this stage Lawson Tait was a frequent and, as Darwin …
- … and those with long beaks large feet ’ ( Origin p. 12). While he had first-hand knowledge …
- … alone have a good chance of living." ( Origin 3d ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more …
- … the African explorer and army surgeon William Daniell in 1856 was probably in reply to such a …
- … data by mobilising army doctors in the British colonies. In 1862 he got permission to send out a …
- … during a long succession of generations. ( Descent 1: 244–5 n. 48) …
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…
