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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 10 hits
- … and letter from A. R. Wallace, 30 January 1869 ). James Croll, ice ages, and the age of …
- … result of correspondence between Darwin and the geologist James Croll. In the previous year, Croll …
- … is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
- … for his theory ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1). Croll’s theory, simply stated, proposed that ice …
- … Darwin accounted for the survival of tropical species using Croll’s theory. In the same …
- … period before the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Croll …
- … by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). …
- … of the female in the garden ( letter from Frederick Smith, 8 October 1869 ). Albert Günther, …
- … hatred—’ ( from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and …
- … in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the director of …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 27 hits
- … (3) Alglave, Émile (8) Alice (2) …
- … G. S. (1) Anderson, James (1) …
- … (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, …
- … Frederic (1) Bateman, James (1) …
- … (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) Beneden, Édouard …
- … (2) Blackley, C. H. (8) Blackwall, John …
- … Buckley, A. B. (21) Buckman, James (2) …
- … Burn, Robert (1) Burningham, James (1) …
- … C., W. S. (1) Caird, James (9) …
- … Carter, R. B. (2) Cartmell, James (1) …
- … H. (1) Crichton-Browne, James (40) …
- … Crocq, Jean (1) Croll, James (16) …
- … Dawson, J. W. (1) Dawson, James (2) …
- … Dickie, George (3) Dickson, James (1) …
- … Dixon, E. S. (2) Dixon, James (2) …
- … Druitt, Thomas (3) Drummond, James (a) (5) …
- … Edwards, [– ?] (1) Egan, James (2) …
- … Fraser, George (3) Fraser, James (1) …
- … Archibald (12) Geikie, James (13) …
- … Society of London (18) Gibb, James (1) …
- … (1) Gould, John (8) Gower, W. H. (1) …
- … J. M. (2) Grant, James (3) Grant, R. …
- … Heckel, Édouard (7) Hector, James (1) …
- … Hewitt, Edward (4) Heywood, James (1) …
- … Rowland (b) (1) Hilton, James (1) …
- … Humphry, G. M. (1) Hunt, James (a) (1) …
- … Jacobson, Miss (1) James, Constantin (1) …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Matches: 8 hits
- … thinking Agassiz glacier-mad’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September [1866] ). Darwin …
- … volume), drawing Darwin, Hooker, and the botanist Charles James Fox Bunbury into the discussion of …
- … arguments, such as that of the Scottish autodidact James Croll, who traced the glacial epoch to a …
- … being more than a subsidiary agent’, Darwin wrote on 8 March [1866] , prefacing his remark with, …
- … well most days since being in London, like what I was 7 or 8 years ago— one day I paid 3 calls! & …
- … of C. scoparius , sent to Darwin with his letter of 8 May [1866] , allowed detailed …
- … made by the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science , James Samuelson, in his letter of 8 …
- … One of the officers on the Beagle voyage, Bartholomew James Sulivan, wrote on 25 December of …
