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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 …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s friend in the United …
- … Huxley’s book would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin …
- … and letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] ). He told Gray: ‘Under the cloak of a fling at …
- … Lyells amended verdict on the Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] ). Darwin quoted a …
- … 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). He sent a copy to Asa Gray to review in an American journal, …
- … January [1863] and 31 January [1863] , and letter to Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] ). Asa Gray …
- … letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 , letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , letter to …
- … was ‘enough to drive the quietest man mad’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Hooker and Gray …
- … forms that he had started the previous year ( letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). The results …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as …
- … quotes from the correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton …
- … read the words of the following: Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin …
- … day archivist, this actor uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, …
- … in which the play unfolds and acting as a go-between between Gray and Darwin, and between the …
- … are described by his widow Jane the final days of Professor Asa Gray, Harvard Botanist. A series of …
- … of the Life of Darwin. At this time in his life, Asa Gray is in his late 70s. JANE …
- … secret and potentially incendiary ideas. A younger Asa Gray (now in his mid 40s) arrives in …
- … you might reasonably expect… Yours most sincerely Asa Gray. DARWIN: 16 My dear …
- … 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received this morning. I send my own, also, …
- … instructive to me. 42 Ever most cordially yours, Asa Gray Darwin, after a short …
- … run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument of Creation …
- … of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
- … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
- … JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161 TO ASA GRAY 13 …
- … 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165 A Gray TO C Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … and assistance with experiments. In January, he wrote to Asa Gray thanking him for some ‘new cases …
- … had ‘different functions’. He continued to write to Gray throughout the year about his quest for …
- … time on the problem: ‘the labour is great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ) …
- … By October, Darwin was flagging and declared to Gray: ‘I am utterly routed, beaten, “whipped” by …
- … by the extent of the sterility of own-form crosses. He told Gray: ‘Taking sexual power as the …
- … may be said to be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so …
- … seed. The case clearly excited Darwin, who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] …
- … had enjoyed observing the orchids: he described the work to Gray as a ‘hobby-horse’ that had given …
- … of the orchids that puzzled him, and was thrilled by Gray’s observations of North American species. …
- … of natural selection through the back door ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). Moreover, …
- … his opposition to the Origin ’ ( letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). Henry Walter …
- … part of his popular exposition of Darwin’s theory (Rolle 1863; see letter to Friedrich Rolle, 17 …
- … ). War abroad. Anxiety at home As usual, Asa Gray took care that Americans should know …
- … & genius you have for these researches’ ( letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). In thanking …
- … ‘not a shade of feeling against slavery’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). It was …
- … ‘fearful evil to the whole world’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] )—appreciated how well …
- … had ‘come to wish for Peace at any price’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ), the couple …
- … Richard Owen, one of his ‘chief enemies’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ), challenging …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … out in the United States and in Germany, he expressed to Asa Gray his astonishment at the widespread …
- … thinking that it would be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). …
- … were inexplicable by the theory of creation. Asa Gray’s statement in his March review that natural …
- … solely by explaining an ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). To those …
- … perfected structure as the eye. As Darwin admitted to Lyell, Gray, and others, imagining how …
- … caused him greater discomfort. As he readily admitted to Gray: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock …
- … change of form’, namely those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Only his …
- … in letters to his closest confidants Hooker, Lyell, and Gray. Initially he found it curious ‘how …
- … not thoroughly . . . I must be a very bad explainer.' Asa Gray and design in nature …
- … Origin in America by Louis Agassiz and his followers, Gray’s essays, Darwin believed, could also …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … the networks of others, such as Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray, who were at leading scientific …
- … contact. His correspondence with Joseph Hooker and Asa Gray illustrates how close personal ties …
- … D. Hooker. The second is between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Darwin and Hooker …
- … species to wide-ranging genera. Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 — Darwin, C. R. …
- … in the USA. Letter 2125 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 20 July [1857] Darwin writes …
- … Primula . Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends …
- … Letter 4170 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 18 May 1863 This is a very formal letter …
- … Letter 4258 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 31 July [1863] Becker has found seeds produced …
- … Letter 4260a — Darwin, C. R. to Becker, L. E., 2 Aug [1863] Darwin thanks Lydia Becker for …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin, [16 July 1863] Hildebrand writes to …
- … Letter 4235 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [8 July 1863] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a …
- … Letter 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a …
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … 4233 - Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, [29 June - 7 July 1863] Tegetmeier updates Darwin …
- … 3896 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H, [before 25 February 1863] Darwin offers the results of …
- … Letter 4010 - Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, [25 February 1863] Huxley praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin secretly passes on …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
- … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
- … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
- … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
- … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
- … note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
- … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
- … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
- … evidence appealed to. 53 Harley Street: November 1863 Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
- … in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had …
- … 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
- … of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyell’s unwillingness to commit …
- … vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. See Correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–.: Falconer, Hugh. 1863. Letter. Athenaeum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459 …
- … 13 (1858–63): i–x; 14 (1858–63): 1–34, 129–88; 15 (1863–66): 245–321. Lubbock, John. 1861. …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape-origin of man as tested by the …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … was led to take up this subject by reading a short paper by Asa Gray, published in 1858, on the …
- … of Climbing Plants , Chapter 1. Papers Gray, Asa. "Note on the Coiling of …
- … was a wise course of action. Letter 8545 - Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 6 October …
- … in the plant. The rest of the letter is filled with news of Gray’s trip to the Western United States …
- … old papers on climbing plants. Letter 8656 - Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 2 December …
- … of experimental information is exchanged between Darwin and Asa Gray? Do you think Darwin was …
- … seconds. Through this experiment the students, just like Asa Gray and Charles Darwin, were able to …
- … of tendrils, as described in the following excerpt from an 1863 letter he wrote to the English …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … produced seed capsules. He told the American botanist Asa Gray , ‘ If it should prove that the …
- … was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 3 February 1863. Forms of flowers …
- … make 126 additional crosses!! ’ Nevertheless, on telling Gray about the need for this further work, …
- … often adapted for insect visitation. In his reply to Darwin, Gray unsurprisingly revealed, ‘ I know …
- … ‘They did not believe in my results’ In July 1863, when Lythrum was flowering, Darwin …
- … believe in my results. ’ Undeterred, Darwin reported to Gray at the beginning of August, ‘I have …
- … triple marriage between three hermaphrodite. ’ Gray replied, ‘ If your Lythrum -paper shall be …
- … only produced seedlings of the same form, but in March 1863, Darwin told Scott that with regard to …
- … , a species of lungwort also known as blue cowslip. He told Gray in October 1865 that with respect …
- … of Origin . He encouraged Huxley to read it, noting, ‘ Asa Gray & Fritz Müller (the latter …
- … in as many natural families as possible’, explaining to Gray that he had ‘ become convinced that …
- … term heterostyly in preference to di- or trimorphism. Gray objected and suggested his own …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By …
- … on 2 February, and in April Darwin wrote to his friend Asa Gray, a botanist in the United States, …
- … be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted …
- … Scott had evidently started his crossing experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 ). However, probably the most enthusiastic …
- … Benjamin Dann Walsh in the Midwestern United States, and Asa Gray wrote a long review of ‘Climbing …
- … that Lyell in his Antiquity of man , published in 1863, had made unacknowledged use of Lubbock’s …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … to his newly completed book: a paragraph throwing doubt on Asa Gray’s doctrine that each variation …
- … Vorlesungen über den Menschen (Lectures on man; Vogt 1863) from German into French. With a …
- … Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend Asa Gray, ‘I am repeating this experiment on …
- … the queries to acquaintances in remote areas. On 26 March, Asa Gray wrote, ‘You see I have …
- … one to send them to, so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
- … , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from Asa Gray’s printed queries, was published …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … of his closest scientific colleagues and personal friends; Asa Gray and Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … 7 March 1862 Darwin wishes he could sympathize with Asa Gray’s politics. He mentions his …
- … work in high esteem. Letter 4053 - Darwin to Asa Gray, 20 March 1863 Darwin …
- … 1. What tone does Darwin use in his letters to Asa Gray? Is it similar to his way of writing to …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the …
- … the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
- … from that of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] …
- … leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found that he could still continue …
- … the result of a long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October …
- … species. References and enclosures in letters from Gray and Hooker show how Darwin was able to …
- … activities of collectors and curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles …
- … scientific debate. He had begun taking the journal in April 1863 and was an enthusiastic subscriber. …
- … old Testament’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). A …
- … and their predecessors had continued to grow following the 1863 publication of Huxley’s Evidence …
- … failure to win the award in the two preceding years. An 1863 letter from the president of the Royal …
- … read aloud to him by his ‘dear womenkind’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). It was …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … and Sciences , 4 (1857-60): 98-9 ) by the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. This brief paper sparked his …
- … and told his best friend Joseph Dalton Hooker in January 1863, ‘ I have been trying for health …
- … vomiting half the night— ' Darwin’s journal for 1863 resolutely records each chapter of …
- … His letters tell a different story, though. In June 1863, Darwin reported to Gray that although the …
- … regarding the tendrils of Echinocystis beyond what Gray had reported about their sensitivity to …
- … at this early stage of his research is evident; he promised Gray, ‘ If I can make out anything …
- … stage in his research, Darwin seems to have relied only on Gray’s brief notice. This might have been …
- … and physiology of climbing in its many forms. Asa Gray was soon to disabuse Darwin of the …
- … Henslow says tendrils of Cucurbitaceæ are stipules Gray branches, & Thomson leaves—: what …
- … I have no opinion of my own ’. By the beginning of August 1863, Darwin reported to Gray, ‘my …
- … ‘Not knowing what is known’ Gray was incredulous. ‘As to tendrils, What are Hooker …
- … Mohl’s work had been translated into English, thanks to Gray, although as he grumbled, ‘ you …
- … broken-down brother naturalist’ As the summer of 1863 drew to a close, Darwin’s bouts of …
- … paper to save my life ’. A week later, however, he wrote Asa Gray, ‘It is now six months since I …
- … it is over ’, but by the month’s end he confessed to Gray, ‘ I have not been able to resist doing …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … On 11 April 11 1861, Darwin wrote to the American botanist Asa Gray, who had become a valued friend, …
- … Son’. A photograph of Darwin which still exists in the Gray Herbarium, showing him as he looked in …
- … This identification is strengthened by the fact that the Gray Herbarium’s photograph appears to be …
- … me.’ If this was another print of the photograph sent to Asa Gray, Darwin was hazy on its dating, …
- … 1862, to the botanist Alphonse de Candolle in January 1863, and to the naturalist Roland Trimen, …
- … your photographs’ (DCP-LETT-1619). Letter from Darwin to Asa Gray, 11 April [1861] (DCP-LETT-3115). …
- … Letter from Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle, 31 Jan. [1863] (DCP-LETT-3957). Letter from Darwin to …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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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…
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- … on the basis of alleged evidence of a global ice age, while Asa Gray pressed Darwin’s American …
- … hybrids, soliciting assistance from the American botanist Asa Gray, the nurseryman Thomas Rivers, …
- … by Heinrich Georg Bronn, had been published in 1860 and 1863 by the firm E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … across the Atlantic, despite much effort expended by Asa Gray in trying to secure a new American …
- … changes, but their proposal was unsatisfactory to Darwin. Gray then approached another American firm …
- … become interested in Rhamnus (buckthorn) in 1861, when Asa Gray informed him that a North …
- … a subject of long discussion in previous years with Lyell, Gray, and Hooker. Wallace’s …
- … a subject of extensive correspondence between Darwin and Asa Gray for many years, was legally …
- … fact that Slavery is at end in your country’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] ). …
- … their father’s death in 1848 until Catherine married in 1863. Catherine had written shortly before …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
