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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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  • … his accusations in Unconscious memory in November 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in …
  • … 1881 ). However, some requests were inescapable. When James Paget wrote on 1 June to invite …
  • … a work about the production of vegetable mould: Archibald Geikie appreciated the action of worms …
  • … 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 …