To Henry Wentworth Acland 8 December [1865]
Summary
Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4948 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … a letter to Jeffries Wyman, 3 December [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), CD wrote that he …
- … Asa Gray (see especially Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 22 May [1860] , 3 …
- … July [1860] , and …
- … 26 November [1860] ). …
- … In 1860, Gray wrote a series of articles that presented CD’s theory of natural selection …
- … were themselves designed ([ A. Gray 1860 ], pp. 413–14). CD financed the publication of …
- … CD’s annotated copies of [A. Gray] 1860 and A. Gray 1861 are in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … identified; a number of Gray’s letters to CD in 1860 and 1861 are missing or incomplete. …
- … In his letter to Gray of 26 November [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), CD stated that he …
From Henrietta Anne Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
| Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4733 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] ; see also letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 10 April [1860] ). The reference is to Samuel Wilberforce , bishop of …
- … in the Quarterly Review ( [Wilberforce] 1860 ). See also Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix …
- … review of Origin by Richard Owen ( [Owen] 1860 ): ‘I never saw such an amount of …
- … Edward Moxon & Co. [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of Origin. ] Quarterly Review …
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … of the Belfast address. Osiris 2d ser. 3: 111–34. Campbell, George Douglas. 1860. …
- … Opening address, 1860–1 session. [ …
- … Read 3 December 1860. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4 (1857–62): 350–77. …
- … London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Unger, Franz. 1860. I. Die versunkene Insel Atlantis. II. …
- … Vorträge gehalten im Ständehause im Winter des Jahres 1860. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller. …
- … see his presidential address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 3 December 1860 ( G. …
- … D. Campbell 1860 , pp. 371–6). In the conclusion of his address ( G. D. Campbell …
- … over which plants had migrated eastward from America to Europe ( Unger 1860 , Heer 1855– …
- … 9 and 1860). The Atlantis theory was criticised on botanical grounds by Asa Gray and …
To J. D. Hooker 6 April [1865]
Summary
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4805 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5]. JDH …
- … Alefeld, Friedrich Christoph Wilhelm. 1860. Ueber Pisum. Botanische Zeitung 18: 204–5. …
- … Hooker. Have you the Botanische Zeitung for 1860 p. 204 (D r . Alefeldt on Pisum. ) & can …
- … The reference is to Alefeld 1860 , which provided information on a study of around fifty …
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … and remarked in his letter of 25 September 1860 ( Correspondence vol. 8): ‘The case you …
- … strong’. In his letter of 26 [September 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), CD wrote that he …
- … letter to G. H. K. Thwaites, 21 March [1860] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
- … 7 January [1865] . CD had begun Variation in 1860; after several interruptions, he most …
- … his chapter on dogs for Variation in August or September 1860 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 11 August [1860] , and letter from …
- … Charles Lyell, 18 September 1860 ). Lyell had had difficulties accepting CD’s view, first …
From George Henslow 6 November 1865
Summary
Pleased CD confirms his observations on Salvia.
Spring action of Medicago stamens described.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4931 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Cohn, Ferdinand Julius. 1860. Ueber contractile Gewebe im …
- … Pflanzenreiche. [Read 1 November 1860. ] Abhandlungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für …
- … thereby effecting cross-pollination ( Cohn 1860 , pp. 44–5, 48). Henslow may refer to a …
- … on the contractile tissue of plants ( Cohn 1860 ) was based principally on observations of …
- … Kraft’ (innate motor power) ( Cohn 1860 , pp. 4–6, 39–40, 47–8). A long abstract of the …
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
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- … Paris: F. Savy. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. Nouvelle théorie d’histoire naturelle. L’ …
- … and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, Laugel had sent CD a copy of his …
- … review of Origin in Revue des Deux Mondes ( Laugel 1860 ). See Correspondence vol. …
- … 8, letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] and letter to ? , …
- … 25 [April 1860? ] . …
- … There is an annotated copy of Laugel 1860 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Laugel …
- … 8, letter from H. C. Watson, 10 May 1860 ). For additional discussions on these two …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813 |
To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Cohn, Ferdinand Julius. 1860. Ueber contractile Gewebe im …
- … Pflanzenreiche. [Read 1 November 1860. ] Abhandlungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für …
- … contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich’ ( Cohn 1860 ). CD’s heavily annotated copy of the …
- … Drosera rotundifolia , which he began in 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8). In 1862 he …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
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- … Hooker refers to Le Fanu 1864 and Eliot 1860 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 …
- … Eliot 1861 ) to Mill on the Floss ( Eliot 1860 ); see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [ …
- … 1865] . Wood 1864 . Kay-Shuttleworth 1860 . Hooker refers to Clarissa ( S. Richardson …
- … Oxford: Clarendon Press. Eliot, George. 1860. The mill on the Floss. 3 vols. Edinburgh: …
- … Sons. Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips. 1860. Scarsdale; or, life on the Lancashire and …
From George Stewardson Brady 19 March 1865
Summary
CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | George Stewardson Brady |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1860. Origin 3d ed. : On the origin of species by …
- … 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 20 November [1860] , Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. …
- … 3d ed. (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] and n. …
- … 16, and letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. …
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … John Murray. 1859. Spencer, Herbert. 1860–2. First principles. London: George Manwaring; …
- … 8, 2d letter from R. S. Skirving, [1860? ] , ]and Variation 1: 181). See also n. 7, …
- … a continuation of First principles ( Spencer 1860–2 ). See also Correspondence vol. 12, …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] and n. 5, and Correspondence vol. 12, …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Macmillan & Co. Harris, Miriam Coles. 1860. Rutledge. New York: Derby & Jackson. Jackson, …
- … University Press. 1985–. Eliot, George. 1860. The mill on the Floss. 3 vols. Edinburgh: …
- … two in September. See also Appendix IV. Eliot 1860 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 …
- … Jamieson or Geikie’. M. C. Harris 1860 , Bullard 1856 . Palgrave 1865 . For Hooker’s …
To E. P. Wright 3 April [1865]
Summary
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4802F |
From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865
Summary
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4925 |
From Henry Denny 23 January 1865
Summary
Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].
| Author: | Henry Denny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B150–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4753 |
From Edward Perceval Wright 24 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.
Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.
| Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793 |
From Charles Kingsley 14 June 1865
Summary
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4861 |
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- … and was appointed professor of modern history at Cambridge University in 1860 ( DNB ). …
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Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of …
- … in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860] ). By May, with the work …
- … be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). Origin : reactions and …
- … his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] ). Darwin’s magnanimous …
- … utterly smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the …
- … the only track that leads to physical truth’ (Sedgwick 1860) that most wounded Darwin. Having spent …
- … investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). Above all else Darwin prided …
- … ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). To those who objected that his …
- … as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] ). This helps to explain why Darwin was …
- … progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To this and Lyell’s many other …
- … than a success ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 February [1860] ). I think geologists …
- … to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). Darwin began to tabulate (and …
- … and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like François Jules …
- … at it, makes me sick!’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] ). By the end of 1860, Darwin …
- … those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Only his theory, he believed, …
- … of species ( see letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 ). But Baer in fact eventually opposed …
- … other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he and others were well aware that …
- … after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other correspondents informed Darwin …
- … thing for subject.—’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). Further details of the meeting, …
- … theological reform tract Essays and reviews in January 1860 as to that of Origin itself. …
- … ( letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1860 ). What worried Darwin most about such …
- … support altogether (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and 11 August [1860] ). As …
- … view the subject’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1860] ); later he became ‘fairly sick’ …
- … of his geological argument, he wrote to Lyell on 6 June [1860] : 'I am beginning to despair …
- … Darwin was not, however, entirely preoccupied in 1860 with his critics and the reception of Origin …
- … two days after the second edition was issued, on 9 January 1860, he turned to preparing the first …
- … compressed arguments of Origin . Many of the letters of 1860 pertain to his collection of further …
- … in the fertilisation of plants. In the spring and summer of 1860, he began to investigate the …
- … changed structure.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 April [1860] ). Tracing the complicated …
British Association meeting 1860
Summary
Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford, June–July 1860 Several letters in the year 1860 …
- … Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the …
- … broken down” (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [June 1860] ). Undoubtedly the most famous …
- … are less well known. The following account of the 1860 meeting of the British Association in …
- … by their precise attribution. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, p. 19: Introduction to the reports …
- … lively during the week. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, pp. 25–6: Thursday session of Section D. …
- … monkey was the gift of speech. Athenæum , 14 July 1860, pp. 64–5: Saturday session, …
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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- … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
- … in the long run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument …
- … 1859 70 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 5 JANUARY 1860 71L AGASSIZ, JULY 1860 …
- … 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST AND OCTOBER, 1860 101 GRAY’S ARTICLE IN THE …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … response to Darwin (see letters from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860], [17 January 1860], and 23 January …
- … of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and n. 2). The firm agreed, however, to …
- … of species (two letters to Baden Powell, 18 January 1860), Darwin subsequently changed his mind. On …
- … this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had earlier sent Gray some …
- … given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin wanted inserted at …
- … American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860]. Darwin suggested to Gray that …
- … additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). By 1 May 1860, D. Appleton …
- … printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and enclosure) and were preparing to …
- … American edition of Origin was available in July 1860 (see [Gray] 1860b, p. 116). It is …
- … Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent, Feb. 1860 [Darwin’s …
- … 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April 1860?]. 4 Origin , p. 188. …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Essay: Design versus necessity
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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, September , 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … Monthly for July , August , and October , 1860, reprinted in 1861. I …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much …
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…
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…
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- … the last proof sheets on 26 December 1859 ; published 1860 1 st US ‘revised and augmented’ …
- … 2 nd to 3 rd editions; US edition By June 1860 Darwin was at least open to the …
- … be needed ‘ soon, ever, or never ’. By November 1860 he had heard that it was , and it was …
- … additions now sent.— In the meantime, in July 1860, a ‘revised and augmented’ American …
- … he had yet to start it on 28 January, but on 2 February 1860 he told Herbert Spencer that it was …
- … (see letter from Jeffries Wyman, [ c . 15] September 1860 ). Among pigs in a particular …
- … who only began corresponding with Darwin in November 1860, too late for the third edition. …
The whale-bear
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Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as a ‘word of ill-omen’. In the first edition of Origin he told the story of a black bear seen swimming for hours with its mouth wide open scooping insects from the water ‘like a whale’. He went on to imagine that natural…
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- … ( William Henry Harvey to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1860 ) Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
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…
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … a new ear-trumpet for him from London, and again in 1860 . Covington still assisted …
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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- … implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, 1: 51). …
- … book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition …
- … completed and set in type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for …
- … well as the Swiss lake-dwellings, was originally written in 1860 for the sixth edition of the ‘ …
- … discoveries and conclusions which had been made before 1860; but I gladly took advantage of the …
- … to them, or to any authors of later date than the summer of 1860, I must have expanded the plan of …
- … expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860 15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by …
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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- … vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
- … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer …
- … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of Origin , that in order …
- … and Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … to the copy he had sent five years previously in his 1860 letter to Hooker , Darwin exclaimed …
- … matter, and he was far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin …
- … most transformative photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and …
- … his ‘venerable beard’! Images: Charles Darwin, 1860-61, William Darwin, Courtesy of Harvard …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Bridges, Thomas (b) [Oct 1860 or after] [Keppel …
