To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … There is a copy of Anon. 1860 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Of the reviews …
- … this letter, Bentham made direct mention only of Pictet de la Rive 1860 , Bronn trans. …
- … 1860, and Claparède 1861 ( Bentham 1863 , p. xvii). …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. J. W. Dawson 1860 . There is an annotated copy in the Darwin …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Anon. 1860, which was published in the Calcutta Review , may …
- … Blyth (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 May [1860] and n. 7). …
- … 1859. Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1860. Sur l’origine de l’espèce par Charles …
- … reviews of Origin published in 1859 and 1860, see Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix VII. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Hopkins, William. 1860. Physical theories of the phenomena of …
- … is an annotated copy of Pictet de la Rive 1860 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … Georg Bronn translated the first German edition of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860). CD refers …
- … to Bronn trans. 1860, pp. 495–520. There is an annotated copy in the Darwin Library– …
- … 1974 , and Corsi and Weindling 1985. Hopkins 1860 was published in Fraser’s Magazine. On …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … identified; CD mentioned Owen’s comment in letters to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] and [ …
- … 2 July 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8). The London publishing house Longman, Green, …
- … Bibliography Bronn, Heinrich Georg, trans. 1860. Charles Darwin, über die Entstehung der …
- … Masson. Winkler, Tiberius Cornelis, trans. 1860. Het ontstaan der soorten door middel van …
- … to it, as hard as rock— Bird killed in 1860— Leg has been sent me & I find it diseased & …
- … There are copies of Bronn trans. 1860 and Winkler trans. …
- … 1860 in the Darwin Library–CUL; Bronn …
- … trans. 1860 is annotated (see Marginalia 1: 180–1). CD’s copy of Royer trans. 1862 has …
- … had been published in Germany ( Bronn trans. 1860 ), the Netherlands ( Winkler trans. …
- … 1860 ), and France ( Royer trans. 1862 ). …
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Hensel, Reinhold Friedrich. 1860. Über Hipparion mediterraneum. [ …
- … Read 28 June 1860. ] ]Abhandlungen der …
- … history at the University of Berlin until 1860; three years later, he was commissioned to …
- … Brazil ( Leopoldina 18 (1882): 19–21). Hensel 1860 . Hensel mentioned CD’s theory briefly …
- … that biological traits were gradually changing over time (see Hensel 1860 , pp. 69–70). …
- … zu Berlin (Physikalische Abhandlungen) (1860): 27–121. Jäger, Gustav. 1862. Die …
- … naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse in Wien 1860–1 1: 83–110. Jäger, Gustav. 1864. …
- … Gesellschaft in Stuttgart on 18 September 1860 (see n. 10, below), and at the …
- … Kenntnisse in Vienna on 10 and 15 December 1860 ( Jäger 1862 ; see n. 8, below). Jäger …
- … botanische Gesellschaft in Vienna on 5 December 1860. Pelzeln had given a lecture in which …
- … botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10 (1860): 98, Jäger strongly opposed Pelzeln’s view and …
- … Ornithologen-Gesellschaft on 18 September 1860. In the subsequent discussion, Bernhard …
- … zu Stuttgart vom 17. bis 20. September 1860 , pp. 6, 40–6). In the late 1860s, Altum, a …
To George Bentham 22 May [1863]
Summary
Natural selection implies that a form remains unaltered unless an alteration is to its benefit. This is not inconsistent with some forms remaining stable for long periods. Natural selection must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Of details we are still greatly ignorant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 711–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4176 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … See also Correspondence vol. 8, letter to H. G. Bronn, 5 October [1860] , and letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 8 October [1860] . …
- … appended to his copy of Bronn trans. 1860 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Correspondence …
- … 8, letter to H. G. Bronn, 5 October [1860] , CD note, and Marginalia 1: 180–2). These …
- … 8, letter to H. G. Bronn, 4 February [1860] ) to his German translation of Origin ( …
- … Bronn trans. 1860, pp. 503–5). CD prepared a four-page …
From Thomas Wright 27 February 1863
Summary
Regrets he did not make the statement [unspecified] referred to by CD.
Believes the Origin has been very valuable, even among those not disposed to agree with transmutation, in giving a great check to "species manufacture".
| Author: | Thomas Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4016 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … as I was not present at the Meeting for 1860. If I had any observations or experiments …
- … held at Oxford between 26 June and 3 July 1860, at which Edward Perceval Wright served as …
- … including physiology’. On Tuesday 2 July 1860 in Section D, in the debate following Philip …
- … distribution of animals ( Sclater 1860 ), the origin of species was discussed. A report of …
- … Brassica oleracea ’ ( Athenæum , 14 July 1860, p. 65). CD had probably written to Thomas …
From J. D. Hooker [31 July 1863]
Summary
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4226 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … John Murray. 1868. Westwood, John Obadiah. 1860. Mr Darwin’s theory of development. Annals …
- … 3d ser. 5: 347–8. [Reprinted from Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 February 1860, p. 122. ] …
- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Correspondence : The correspondence …
- … critic of CD’s theory (see Westwood 1860 and Correspondence vol. 8). Henry Walter …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 February [1863]
Summary
Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3998 |
To Roland Trimen 27 August [1863]
Summary
Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.
Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Summary
JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Spencer, Herbert. 1860–2. First principles. London: George Manwaring; …
- … May 1863 (see n. 6, above). Spencer 1860–2 constituted the first volume of a projected …
- … 8, letter to Herbert Spencer, 2 February [1860] ); the volume presented Herbert Spencer’s …
- … and morality. There is a copy of Spencer 1860–2 in the Darwin Library–CUL; the last two …
To Hermann Crüger 25 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for news about fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Discusses fertilisation of orchids.
Mentions observations by John Scott.
Asks about "bud-variations".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Crüger |
| Date: | 25 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4184 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of Origin , which was published in July 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix IV). …
- … By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton. 1860. Prete, Frederick R. 1990. The conundrum of …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [January 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8); however, no reply …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ). Origin was sold out at John Murray’s trade …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Reeve and Company. Bree, Charles Robert. 1860. Species not transmutable, nor the result of …
- … John Eatton Le Conte died on 21 November 1860, at Philadelphia, where he had been resident …
- … part review of Origin , which appeared in 1860 in the Atlantic Monthly ( A. Gray 1860b ), …
- … p. xvii. The reference is apparently to Bree 1860 . Although Charles Robert Bree did not …
From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
| Author: | Henrietta Grace Smyth; Henrietta Grace Powell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3977 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
To Hugh Falconer [25–6 August 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.
Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.
Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [25–6 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4277 |
From A. C. Ramsay 6 May 1863
Summary
Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].
Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].
Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.
Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4143 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the author. By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton. 1860. Rengger, Johann Rudolph. 1830. …
- … letter from William Whewell, 2 January 1860 ). In a letter to Lyell of 28 February 1863 ( …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [January 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8); however, Hooker …
- … 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ). CD detailed the order of publication in …
- … edition of Origin , published in July 1860 ( Origin US ed. , p. xi). In C. Lyell 1863a , …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [c. 26 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4314 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [before 27 January 1863]
Summary
Remarks on the influence of pollen of one species or variety on the seed and fruit of another while still attached to the female plant. Refers to a remarkable case previously given by D. Beaton and asks whether Beaton will repeat the details.
[CD’s letter is followed by notes by D. Beaton in which he answers CD’s question, dissociating himself from some of his remarks, and in particular denying C. F. v. Gärtner’s claim that colour of one variety of pea can be changed by the direct action of the pollen of a different variety.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 27 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3951 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
| letter | (105) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (100) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (22) |
| Gray, Asa | (11) |
| Bates, H. W. | (9) |
| Bentham, George | (5) |
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
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … 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
Summary
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 …
