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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘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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- … conclusion of a long-running dispute with the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and early …
- … controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 …
- … wrote on 6 January , ‘You have also greatly honoured George. You have indeed been a true friend.’ …
- … reviewed in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. Darwin raised the matter at the end …
- … encouraged further research on the effects of grafting by George John Romanes. A scientific …
- … He drew attention to this discussion in a letter to George Rolleston, remarking on 2 September : …
- … it absorbs moisture & instantly rotates.’ George continued to suffer from poor …
- … wear away all the sooner for not trying to work too soon.’ George had begun research on tidal …
- … succeeds.’ ‘I’m afraid my letters smell of pitch,’ George replied on 26 October , ‘but I can …
- … In between his physics research and bouts of illness, George still found time to write articles for …
- … Dwight Whitney’s work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the American scholar’s side …
- … professor of oriental languages, Friedrich Max Müller. George’s article also rehearsed some of …
- … was an ‘impossible barrier’ between humans and animals. George, in turn, quoted Whitney’s favourable …
- … cordially in letters (see Correspondence vol. 21), and George’s review prompted Max Müller to …
- … Max Müller also published an article in response to George’s essay, suggesting that ‘Mr Darwin, jun. …
- … in the periodical press and elsewhere, growing more bitter. George, who was on friendly terms with …
- … when an earlier dispute between Darwin and the local vicar George Sketchley Ffinden resurfaced. In …
- … were involved in the launch of Kosmos in April 1877. From Haeckel, Darwin received a copy of a …
- … duke of Teck, a German prince married to a granddaughter of George III. Darwin had hoped to arrange …
- … at almost every one. One day in my house he called [George] Grote’s History “a fetid quagmire, …
- … had already had a distinguished career, having studied under George Rolleston at Oxford and Huxley …
