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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
- … on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). …
- … set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). …
- … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
- … unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To …
- … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
- … Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I …
- … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
- … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
- … `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). …
- … from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the …
- … & new views which are daily turning up’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). …
- … and with John Murray’s assistant, the excitable Robert Cooke. Darwin, as with Origin , was …
- … to pay something for the privilege . . . ?’ queried Cooke despairingly, `or have you agreed to …
- … numbers required led to increasingly frantic letters from Cooke: 'We are in a precious quondary …
- … & have not taken care of ourselves’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 November 1872 ). A …
- … in the face of a disappointed public ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 25 November 1872 ). Among those …
- … Mary Lloyd, were vying to read it first ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, [26 November 1872] ). …
- … darkness by an industrial strike ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 6 December 1872 ). Caught out by the …
- … reward to which any scientific man can look’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 29 April [1872] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … no stranger to physiology in contexts other than botany. His 1872 work, Expression of the emotions …
- … that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ …
- … described and illustrated Horace’s machine in a paper (F. Darwin 1880, pp. 449–55). …
- … and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February 1879 ). Darwin was …
- … to translate the paper into German, and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, …
- … the curious mode of germination ’ and concluded, ‘ M r Rattan seems to be a real good observer, …
- … of ‘Circumnutating Movements of Plants’, he told Robert Cooke of John Murray publishers, before …
- … or ‘The Nature of the Movements of Plants’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880] ). Cooke …
- … the length of the book was projected at 600 pages, which, Cooke pointed out was ‘a good deal more’ …
- … was willing to publish on the usual terms ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 15 July 1880 ). This was also …
- … who care for physiological Botany in this country ’. Cooke’s reply was not encouraging; taking into …
- … printing more copies or raising the price ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). Darwin …
- … and asked about the cost of these ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 ). Cooke replied that …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
