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Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … Reports from the Scottish press on Thomas Henry Huxley’s Edinburgh lectures on the ‘relation of man …
  • … 17 IV Thomas Henry Farrer's notes on Passiflora and Tacsonia …
  • … V Draft subscription list for Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … 22 V St George Jackson Mivart, George Howard Darwin, and the Quarterly …
  • … German poems presented to Charles Darwin in February 1877 25 VII …

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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  • … of a long-running dispute with the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and early May, …
  • … by the loyalty of his close friends, Hooker and Thomas Henry Huxley. Because Mivart was a …
  • … were involved in the launch of Kosmos in April 1877. From Haeckel, Darwin received a copy of a …
  • … explorer Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov and the ornithologist Henry Eeles Dresser. ‘The horror was …