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Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875 through his letters …
- … under domestication , although it was not published until 1876 owing to floods at the printers. …
- … writing Cross and self fertilisation , also published in 1876. In April, he was busy in London, …
- … vivisection, hoping to pre-empt Frances Power Cobbe’s more radical bill, and in November he gave …
- … that was set up to look into the subject. Darwin’s second visit of the year to London, in December, …
- … a painful experiment. Huxley told Darwin about Klein’s testimony: ‘ I declare to you I did not …
- … 1875 letters include: I am very glad of the 14 s , for though I much like making …
- … with 3000 copies printed in the first month. Mudie’s circulating library bought 150 copies; another …
- … Power Cobbe, a journalist and an acquaintance of Darwin’s, raised a petition and managed to get a …
- … An appendix on the issues is here . Mr. Ffinden accused me in the vestry of having …
- … between the Darwins and the vicar of Down, George Sketchley Ffinden, continued to be poor. John …
- … up a winter reading room for working men, despite Ffinden’s opposition, and that a temperance …
- … Such energy as yours almost always succeeds ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 13 October [1875] ) …
- … article on linguistics, supporting William Dwight Whitney’s view of the origin of language against …
- … an impassable barrier between animals and humans. Darwin’s son Francis, who was working as his …
- … The year was saddened by the death of several of Darwin’s correspondents, including one of his …
- … week in London canvassing members to support Lankester’s application at the next meeting. Emma must …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … plants (1875) and Cross and self fertilisation (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became …
- … renouncing plans for a medical career to become his father’s scientific secretary. Darwin had always …
- … The subject was brought closer to home by Francis Galton’s work on inherited talent, which prompted …
- … efforts to alleviate the financial troubles of Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. …
- … [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of Darwin’s study of insectivorous plants, a group that …
- … properties analogous to those in Drosera . Darwin’s experiments on plant movement and digestion …
- … had co-authored. Darwin contacted two of the Handbook ‘s other contributors, Thomas Lauder …
- … solution to Frankland for analysis. Following Frankland’s advice, he performed his own tests and …
- … enzyme. Cross- and self-fertilisation Darwin’s other main focus of botanical …
- … health, supported the decision on the basis of the family’s collective infirmity: “After all he is a …
- … during lectures, indicating attention. A friend of CD’s daughter Henrietta recollected the …
- … and clash his teeth together: “he would fly at the Empr’s throat like a bulldog” ( letter from L. M …
- … Stephen Bennet Francois de Chaumont, whose daughter’s habit of shoulder shrugging and finger rubbing …
- … Henry Reeks suspected the habit of scratching one’s head when puzzled to be a vestige of the …
- … named Kepler who was fearful of butchers and butcher’s shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 …
- … to make regular stops at public houses without the driver’s commands. The debate later …
- … 1873] ). Moggridge suggested the experiment of wiping one’s finger across the ants’ path without …
- … participate in a study of English men of science. Galton’s most recent article had called for a …
- … (Galton 1873a). Darwin was sympathetic to his cousin’s aims but regarded the project as “utopian” ( …
- … through a questionnaire. Darwin answered his cousin’s queries, though he tended to downplay the …
- … his sons to complete the list. Francis added to his father’s virtues: “sober, honest & …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Plants always held an important place in Darwin’s theorising about species, and botanical research …
- … the controversy involved a slanderous attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in …
- … V). Darwin remained bitter and dissatisfied with Mivart’s attempts at conciliation, and spent weeks …
- … of London, and a secretary of the Linnean Society, Darwin’s friends had to find ways of coming to …
- … the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s anonymous essay had appeared. ‘I told …
- … feel now like a pure forgiving Christian!’ Darwin’s ire was not fully spent, however, for he …
- … The vivisection issue was a delicate one within Darwin’s family, and he tried to balance his concern …
- … paper sent me by Miss Cobbe.’ Darwin found Cobbe’s memorial inflammatory and unfair in its …
- … on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on Cobbe’s memorial had been read in the House of Lords …
- … on vivisection , p. 183). Darwin learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : …
- … medicine in London. Klein had assisted in some of Darwin’s botanical research and had visited Down …
- … Poisons, plants, and print-runs Darwin’s keen interest in the progress of physiology …
- … of protoplasm. He added the details of Brunton and Fayrer’s experiments to Insectivorous plants , …
- … I can say is that I am ready to commit suicide.’ Darwin’s despair over the revision process may have …
- … ). In the event, the book sold well, and Murray’s partner, Robert Cooke, politely scolded …
- … insects were observed in the field, and some of Darwin’s experiments on digestion were then repeated …
- … about the same time. As was the case with some of Darwin’s previous publications, however, the …
- … were finished. An elusive case Darwin’s attention seems to have been largely on …
- … between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s visit to Down House: ‘The place was one …
- … remain one of the most agreeable and interesting of memory’s pictures.’ Though trained in zoology …
- … red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). …
- … own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
- … of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the …
- … knowledge wd. allow me.’ thorns in Mr Ffinden’s side Tempers flared …
- … the authority of the Church. After becoming vicar in 1871, Ffinden had opposed their efforts, and …
- … methods, and Darwin had to break the news to the author in 1876 that his Royal Society ambitions had …
- … In the event, the election was postponed until February 1876, and Lankester was duly elected. …
