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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … they were ‘as nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). …
  • … Virchow’s attempt to discredit evolutionary theory in 1877, assured him that his views were now …
  • … editor of the journal Kosmos , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal …
  • … and particularly the theory of natural selection in 1877) had previously told Krause, ‘He is a very …
  • … of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin recorded that Darwin found …