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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating letters …
- … am languid & bedeviled … & hate everybody’. Although Darwin did continue his botanical …
- … letter-writing dwindled considerably. The correspondence and Darwin’s scientific work diminished …
- … of the water-cure. The treatment was not effective and Darwin remained ill for the rest of the year. …
- … the correspondence from the year. These letters illustrate Darwin’s preoccupation with the …
- … to man’s place in nature both had a direct bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem …
- … detailed anatomical similarities between humans and apes, Darwin was full of praise. He especially …
- … in expressing any judgment on Species or origin of man’. Darwin’s concern about the popular …
- … Lyell’s and Huxley’s books. Three years earlier Darwin had predicted that Lyell’s forthcoming …
- … first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely on Darwin’s arguments for species change. …
- … ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter that it …
- … of creation, and the origin of species particularly, worried Darwin; he told Hooker that he had once …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish telling Lyell of his …
- … ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was profound that the …
- … the ‘brutes’, but added that he would bring many towards Darwin who would have rebelled against …
- … from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s friend in the United States, …
- … off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray that Lyell’s and …
- … or Modification, ’. Faction fighting Darwin was not alone in feeling disaffected …
- … in the subject. ‘The worst of it is’, Hooker wrote to Darwin, ‘I suppose it is virtually Huxley’s …
- … that he had contributed to the proofs of human antiquity. Darwin and Hooker repeatedly exchanged …
- … sentence from the second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in …
- … in opposition to him ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] ). However, it is certain …
- … E. Darwin, [25 July 1863], and letter to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] ). Writing …
- … very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
- … by writing while lying down ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] ). He told Roland …
- … Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … was hesitant to leave Matthews there alone, but according to Darwin, damning in his faint praise, ‘ …
- … of character), determined to stay with the Fuegians’ (Darwin 1845, p. 223). When all seemed well the …
- … ‘I think we arrived just in time to save his life’, Darwin recorded (Darwin 1845, p. 226). …
- … he travelled on the Beagle, but was not mentioned in Darwin’s correspondence. When the Beagle …
- … until his death in 1893. References: Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches …
- … Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d edition. London: John Murray. …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The …
- … communicate to each other” (Barrett ed. 1987, p. 542-3). Darwin observed the similarities between …
- … Proponents of the natural language theory included Darwin’s cousin, Hensleigh Wedgwood , the …
- … series of influential lectures delivered several years after Darwin’s Origin of Species , Max …
- … notes of birds and the cries of beasts” (Müller 1861, 1: 22-3, 354). Darwin eventually …
- … the similarities between animal and human communication. Darwin’s arguments were based on his broad …
- … as well as observations of his own children and pets. Darwin described how language might have …
- … and snarls, for example), which functioned as warning signs. Darwin addressed the natural theology …
- … other functions, especially the use of the hands. Finally, Darwin drew an extended analogy between …
- … and animal psychology, build upon the work of Darwin and his contemporaries, while taking that work …
- … sources Barrett, Paul. et al. eds. Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1841. Cambridge: …
- … Alex V. W. Bikkers. London: John Camdem Hotten. Wake, C. S. 1868. Chapters on man, with the …
- … Johns Hopkins University Press. Alter, Steven G. 2008. Darwin and the linguists: the …
- … . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Hurford, James R., Michael Studdert-Kennedy, and Chris Knight, …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
- … in relation to Sex’. Always precise in his accounting, Darwin reckoned that he had started writing …
- … gathered on each of these topics was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result, …
- … and St George Jackson Mivart, and heated debates sparked by Darwin’s proposed election to the French …
- … Finishing Descent; postponing Expression Darwin began receiving proofs of some of the …
- … ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ). Darwin was still working hard on parts of the …
- … style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). She had …
- … , the latter when she was just eighteen years of age. Darwin clearly expected her to make a …
- … have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Henrietta …
- … so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February 1870] ). …
- … philanthropist Frances Power Cobbe. At Cobbe’s suggestion, Darwin read some of Immanuel Kant’s …
- … ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] ). Cobbe accused Darwin of smiling in his beard with …
- … as animals: ears Despite Cobbe’s plea, most of Darwin’s scientific attention in 1870 was …
- … fairy in Shakespeare’s A midsummer night’s dream. Darwin obtained a sketch of a human ear from …
- … of a pointed tip projecting inward from the folded margin. Darwin, who had posed for the sculptor in …
- … this volume, letter to Thomas Woolner, 10 March [1870] ). Darwin included Woolner’s sketch in …
- … its frequency and variability in humans ( Descent 1: 22-3). Humans as animals: facial …
- … of fright’, and one of his photographs, later used by Darwin in Expression , showed a man whose …
- … letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). Indeed, Darwin noted the same longitudinal …
- … Researching expression: questions and questionnaires Darwin’s research on emotions continued …
- … who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to …
- … (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief …
- … is of four kinds: There are volumes now in the Darwin Library in Cambridge that contain …
- … notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University …
- … and symbols are used: DAR — Darwin Archive CUL — Cambridge University …
- … , conveys the following information: CD’s copy, now in Darwin Libary–CUL, was used on board. The …
- … 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the Darwin Archive. The copy in the Darwin …
- … . 2 vols. Strasbourg, 1819. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘C. Darwin HMS Beagle’; DAR 32.1: 61). Darwin …
- … 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 1832 Philadelphia …
- … Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § Blainville, Henri …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § Bougainville, Louis …
- … Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL. § British …
- … 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Buch, Leopold von. …
- … . . . by Robert Jameson. London, 1813. (DAR 30.2: 154). Darwin Library–CUL. Bulkeley, John …
- … 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; Red notebook , p. 86). Darwin Library–Down †. Byron, George …
- … ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. Cook, James. …
- … Le règne animal. 4 vols. Paris, 1817. (DAR 30.1: 29v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 2d edition, 5 vols., …
- … 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de Freycinet, L. C. see Freycinet, L. C. Desaulses de …
- … la corvette . . .La Coquille 1822–5. Zoologie par MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., …
- … (Inscriptions: vol. 1 (1830), ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: …
- … concerning a future state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.]. London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline …
- … Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 22–3). Taxidermy.(Letter to Susan Darwin, …
