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From J. D. Hooker 24 November 1868

Summary

On H. C. Watson’s false and contemptuous criticism of [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson] Flora Indica [1855].

W. B. Carpenter’s deep-sea dredgings.

James Croll’s last paper ["On geological time", Philos. Mag. 35 (1868): 363; 36 (1868): 141, 362].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	24 Nov 1868
Classmark:	DAR 102: 240–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6471

Matches: 20 hits

… From J. D. Hooker 24 November 1868 …
… DAR 102: 240–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 24 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… dredgings. James Croll’s last paper ["On geological time", Philos. Mag. 35 (1868): 363; …
… 36 (1868): 141, 362]. …
… Antarctic region could account for such low temperatures ( Carpenter 1868 , pp. 187–8). …
… The reference is to James Croll and Croll 1868 (see letter to …
… James Croll, 24 November 1868 ). Asa Gray and …
… Jane Loring Gray had been in England since September 1868 (see letter from …
… Asa Gray, 17 September 1868 ). John Lubbock . …
… Publishing. 1990. Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1868–70. Compendium of the Cybele Britannica; …
… was published privately in three instalments between 1868 and 1870 and later appeared …
… in a single volume ( Watson 1868–70 and 1870). …
… CD’s annotated copy of Watson 1868–70 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
… Bibliography Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1868. Preliminary report of dredging operations …
… of Natural History in Queen's College, Belfast. [Read 17 December 1868. ] Proceedings …
… of the Royal Society of London 17 (1868–9): 168–200. …
… Croll, James. 1868. On geological time, and the probable date of the Glacial and the Upper …
… 1 January 186[8], and n. 8. In Watson 1868–70 , 1: 45, Watson commented on the ‘baneful …
… Steam-Vessel Lightning in August and September 1868. The results of this expedition were …
… the north of the British islands’ ( Carpenter 1868 ). In his report, Carpenter referred to …

From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868

Summary

Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.

Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].

Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.

The Asa Grays at Kew.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	5 Sept 1868
Classmark:	DAR 102: 233–4
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6349

Matches: 26 hits

… J. D. Hooker, [8–10 September 1868] . …
… From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868 …
… DAR 102: 233–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 5 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Bickmore, Albert S. 1868. The Ainos, or hairy men, of Saghalien and the …
… Boston Society of Natural History, 4 March 1868. ] American Journal of Science and Arts 2d …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868 . CD’s annotations were notes for his letter to …
… transferred to Hiogo (Hyogo) and Osaka in July 1868 ( Foreign Office list ). The Ainu, a …
… CD and Hooker may have learned of the Ainu from reading Bickmore 1868 (see letter to …
… Charles Lyell, 14 July 1868 and n. 2). CD had …
… human expression in late 1867 or early 1868; for a transcription of the printed queries, …
… March 1976): 14–19. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the …
… the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 19 August 1868 (see letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] and n. 11). See letter …
… to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] and n. 12. Less than three pages of …
… s eighteen-page address ( J. D. Hooker 1868 ) were concerned with science and religion. …
… from Hooker’s address ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. 28), where Hooker referred to: Natural …
… it,” as a punishment for its bad conduct’ ( Pall Mall Gazette , 22 August 1868, p. 1). …
… The Pall Mall Gazette , 22 August 1868, p. 1, claimed that presidential addresses at …
… Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] and nn. 2 and 3). For some earlier …
… Chambers ). In his letter of 30 August 1868 , Hooker wrote that Asa Gray and his wife, …
… Loring Gray , were to sail from New York on 2 September 1868. CD had invited the Grays …
… to Down in his letter to Asa Gray of 15 August [1868] . Hooker and …
… the Grays dined at Down on 24 October 1868, and some or all of them stayed until 30 …
… H. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 24 September [1868] ). Jane Loring Gray’s inconsistent health …
… of a service at Norwich cathedral held during the 1868 meeting of the British Association, …
… the Pall Mall Gazette , 3 September 1868, p. 9, reported: an anthem was sung which seemed …

From Asa Gray 25 May 1868

Summary

CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	25 May 1868
Classmark:	DAR 165: 164
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6206

Matches: 16 hits

… From Asa Gray 25 May 1868 …
… DAR 165: 164 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 25 May 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography [Gray, Asa. ] 1868. [Review of Variation. ] …
… Nation 6 (19 March 1868): 234–6. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under …
… domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… Loring Gray visited England from mid-September until mid-November 1868 (see letter from …
… Asa Gray, 17 September 1868 , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 24 November 1868 ). They …
… visited Down from 24 to 30 October 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
… See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] . See …
… letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 2. …
… Gray’s review in Nation is [A. Gray] 1868 . Gray refers to his preface to the US edition …
… Variation , published by Orange Judd & Co. See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 3. …
… See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 5. …
… See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 6. …
… Cambridge [Massachusetts] 25 May, 1868 My Dear Darwin, I want to write you a long letter— …

From George Rolleston 30 September 1868

Summary

CD’s doctrines apply to man’s mental organisation, but the soul is a different matter. Cites Dean Henry Alford, M. J. Berkeley, and Prof. [J. F.?] Ferrier.

Author:	George Rolleston
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	30 Sept 1868
Classmark:	DAR 176: 208
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6401

Matches: 17 hits

… From George Rolleston 30 September 1868 …
… DAR 176: 208 George Rolleston Oxford 30 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in August 1868 ( …
… Berkeley 1868 ). See the letter to M. …
… J. Berkeley, 7 September 1868 , for CD’s comments on the address; see also letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 25 September 1868 . Rolleston refers probably to the Scottish metaphysician, …
… Bibliography Alford, Henry. 1868. The Christian conscience. …
… Good Words , 1 January 1868, pp. 25–32. …
… Berkeley, Miles Joseph. 1868. [Address to the biology section. ] Report of the 38th …
… Oxford. Sept 30. 1868. My dear Sir. When I had the advantage of seeing you in the College …
… appeared in the “Good Words” for January 1868. This I do now; and I have pasted on the …
… the Royal College of Surgeons in March 1868; he was in London from 3 March until 1 April ( …
… DAR 80: 171 and comprise most of page 26 of Alford 1868 and two paragraphs of Rolleston’s …
… address on physiology delivered on 5 August 1868 to the annual meeting of the …
… Medical Association at Oxford ( Rolleston 1868 , p. 184). Miles Joseph Berkeley gave the …
… University Press. 2004. Rolleston, George. 1868. [The address in physiology delivered …
… meeting of the British Medical Association. ] [Read 5 August 1868. ] Lancet 92: 176–84. …

From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868]

Summary

Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.

Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[20 Aug 1868]
Classmark:	DAR 102: 227–8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6326

Matches: 10 hits

… Au 24 | 68’. CD’s annotations are notes for his reply to Hooker of 23 August [ 1868]. …
… From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868] …
… DAR 102: 227–8 Joseph Dalton Hooker Norwich [20 Aug 1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
… on Norwich address [ Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e. , Asa …
… Press. 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the thirty- …
… address was given on Wednesday 19 August 1868 ( Report of the 38th meeting of the British …
… Drill Hall in Norwich ( J. D. Hooker 1868 ; see n. 1, above). He concluded the address …
… was printed in The Times , 20 August 1868, p. 6. The version in The Times contained a …
… Palgrave . In his address ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. lxiv), Hooker referred to John …
… seconded by John Tyndall ( The Times , 20 August 1868, p. 6). Hooker refers to his wife, …

From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868

Summary

BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.

Author:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 Sept 1868
Classmark:	DAR 166: 314
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6363

Matches: 16 hits

… From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868 …
… DAR 166: 314 Thomas Henry Huxley London, Jermyn St 12 Sept 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the thirty- …
… J. D. Hooker, 20 May 1868 and n. 13); for …
… reports of Fergusson’s lecture, see The Times , 24 August 1868, p. 7, …
… and the New-York Herald Tribune , 10 September 1868, p. 2. …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 September 1868 . No record of Peter Martin Duncan’s recent …
… Duncan visited Down House on 16 September 1868. On the Huxleys’ holiday at Littlehampton, …
… Jermyn St Sep r 12 th . | 1868 My dear Darwin I find among a heap of accumulated letters …
… Advancement of Science ( J. D. Hooker 1868 ). For more on the impact of CD’s theory at …
… of the British Association, see the letters from J. D. Hooker, [20 August 1868] and …
… 30 August 1868 . James Fergusson delivered a lecture on …
… at the Drill Hall in Norwich on 21 August 1868; Hooker chaired the event (see letter from …
… for Henry (Harry) Huxley, see the letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868 and n. 3. Harry …
… had stayed at Down House with his family from 18 April to 4 May 1868 (see letter to …
… Roland Trimen, 14 April [1868] , and Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Huxley’s wife was …

From George Thurber 18–20 April 1868

Summary

About an American edition of Variation.

Author:	George Thurber
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18–20 Apr 1868
Classmark:	DAR 178: 120
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6129

Matches: 20 hits

… From George Thurber 18–20 April 1868 …
… DAR 178: 120 George Thurber New York 18–20 Apr 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… cited an article in American Agricultural (1868), p. 100, for information on the colours …
… Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. [Gray, Asa. ] 1868. [ Review of Variation. ] …
… CD’s letter to Asa Gray of 11 March 1868 has not been found, but see …
… the letter from Asa Gray, 24 February 1868 . Thurber refers to Variation . Thurber …
… had edited since 1863, and to [Thurber] 1868 ( ANB ). No copies of the magazine have been …
… corrections in late March (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 25 March [1868] ). The ‘Author’s …
… to the American edition is dated 28 March 1868; three pages of corrections are inserted …
… Nation 6 (19 March 1868): 234–6. Meckier, Jerome. 1990. Innocent abroad: Charles Dickens’s …
… Press of Kentucky. [Thurber, George. ] 1868. Varieties and variation. [Review of …
… Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Variation US ed. : The variation of animals and …
… under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. New York: Orange Judd & Co. [1868. ] …
… New York April 18 th 1868 Mr Charles Darwin My Dear Sir— Our Excellent friend Doctor Gray …
… Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 45 (1868): 411. The journal was popularly known as ‘ …
… and to a public dinner held on 18 April 1868 in New York in honour of Charles Dickens , …
… Gray’s review of Variation had appeared in the 19 March 1868 edition of the Nation ( [A. …
… Gray] 1868 ). Thurber probably refers to Isaac Sprague . …
… review of Variation appeared in the July 1868 issue of Atlantic Monthly ([Sprague? ] …
… 1868). A brief notice of the publication of the American edition of …

From Osbert Salvin [1868?]

Summary

Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.

Author:	Osbert Salvin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[1868?]
Classmark:	DAR 84.1: 172–3
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5758

Matches: 17 hits

… From Osbert Salvin [1868? ] …
… DAR 84.1: 172–3 Osbert Salvin Brompton [1868? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1868–71. A monograph of the Alcedinidae: or, family …
… London: the author. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1868. A theory of birds’ nests: shewing the …
… to their mode of nidification. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1 (1868–9): 73–89. …
… in his monograph of the Alcedinidae ( Sharpe 1868–71 ). These descriptions appeared in …
… the first part of the monograph, published on 1 July 1868 ( …
… Sharpe 1868–71 , p. ii). Carcineutes pulchellus ( …
… is the species described here by Salvin (see Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. 251–2 and pl. 91). …
… in a paper on nidification ( Wallace 1868 ) that differences in male and female plumage …
… In a letter to Wallace of 5 May [1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16), CD indicated that he …
… to Sharpe’s description of Dacelo leachi (see Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. 289–90 and pl. 115). …
… Carcineutes and Dacelo were in his subfamily Daceloninae (see Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. x–xi). …
… now Megaceryle torquata , the ringed kingfisher; Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. 73–5 and pl. 24). …
… Chloroceryle americana , the green kingfisher; Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. 89–90 and pl. 28). …
… maxima , the giant kingfisher; Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. 67–9 and pl. 22). Sharpe did not …
… by marked structural differences ( Sharpe 1868–71 , pp. viii–ix). CD refers to the fact …

From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]

Summary

Hybrid geese.

Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.

Pairing habits of crows.

Author:	William Darwin Fox
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	9 Dec [1868]
Classmark:	DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6455

Matches: 19 hits

… From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868] …
… DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 William Darwin Fox 9 Dec [1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
… D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] and n. 6). Fox refers to Emma Darwin and Henrietta Emma …
… between this letter and the letter to W. D. Fox, 4 November 1868 . See letter to W. …
… D. Fox, 4 November 1868 . See letter from W. …
… D. Fox, 29 October [1868] . The rook ( Corvus frugilegus ), carrion crow ( C. corone ), …
… D. Fox, 4 November 1868 . Basil George Woodd , the father of Ellen Sophia Fox , lived in …
… health problems, see the letter from W. D. Fox, 29 October [1868] . CD had invited …
… Fox to visit in his letter of 4 November 1868 . CD sat …
… for the sculptor Thomas Woolner in November 1868 (see letter to J. …
… I can give them. I shall go backwards for convenience. 1868 Leicester Sheep Alderney Cows …
… Males females Males females 1868 23 …
… 12 — 1868 1 — 3 1867 23 23 — 1867 3 4 1866 24 18 — 1866 1865 15 — 11 — 1865 5 — 3 1864 …
… See letter to W. D. Fox, 4 November 1868 and n. 6. Fox refers to Leonard Jenyns and …
… of mid-Cheshire (which included Northwich), was held on 21 November 1868 ( The Times , …
… 23 November 1868, p. 4). As the holder of a Cambridge degree, Fox would …
… for the University of Cambridge, whose election was held on 16 November 1868 ( The Times , …
… 17 November 1868, p. 5). The keeper has not been identified. For the views …
… the subject, see the letter from W. D. Fox, 29 October [1868] , and the letter to W. …

From Friedrich Hildebrand 4 November 1868

Summary

Potato graft-hybrid fails to give potatoes.

August Weismann requests Wallace’s address to find out about experiments on butterflies hinted at in Variation.

Author:	Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	4 Nov 1868
Classmark:	DAR 166: 210
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6448

Matches: 13 hits

… From Friedrich Hildebrand 4 November 1868 …
… cite a specific work (see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 November [1868] and n. 6). …
… Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Freiburg 4 Nov 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wallace, Alexander. 1860. Remarks on …
… 5 (1858–61), Proceedings, pp. 119–20. Weismann, August. 1868. Über die Berechtigung der …
… ein akademischer Vortrag gehalten am 8 Juli 1868 in der Aula der Universität zu Freiburg …
… Freiburg im Breisgau Novbr 4 th 1868. Dear and Honoured Sir I intended to send you this …
… letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 2 January 1868 and nn. 3 and 6 and Variation 1: 396 ( …
… letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 3 July 1868 . By ‘bumpkin’, Hildebrand evidently meant ‘ …
… see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 3 July 1868 ). August Weismann had sent CD a …
… inaugural lecture on the justification of Darwinian theory ( Weismann 1868 ; see letter to …
… August Weismann, 22 October 1868 and n. …
… to Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 November [1868] ). In Variation 2: 158 n. 61, CD had referred …

From John Murray 12 February [1868]

Summary

CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.

First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].

Author:	John Murray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 Feb [1868]
Classmark:	DAR 171 : 355
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5869

Matches: 10 hits

… From John Murray 12 February [1868] …
… DAR 171 : 355 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 12 Feb [1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
… will cost £176. First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555]. …
… appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette for 10 February 1868 ([Lewes] 1868a). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 10 February [1868] and n. 3. …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 9 February [1868] . See …
… letter to John Murray, 9 February [1868] . For CD’s presentation list for the second …
… IV. See letter to John Murray, 9 February [1868] and n. 5. William Sweetland Dallas had …
… See letter from W. S. Dallas, 11 February 1868 . The first part of a three-part …

From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868

Summary

Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?

Author:	Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	26 Oct 1868
Classmark:	DAR 164: 47
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6432

Matches: 13 hits

… From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868 …
… to T. H. Farrer, 29 October [1868] . CD presumably also refers to Auguste Comte . …
… Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer Germany 26 Oct 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1868. On the manner of fertilization of the scarlet …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… Hildebrand 1867a to Farrer (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 19 September [1868] ). Farrer …
… had sent CD the manuscript of Farrer 1868 , and CD assisted him in its publication (see …
… letters from T. H. Farrer, 10 September 1868 and …
… 17 September 1868 , and letter to the Editor of Annals …
… of Natural History , 22 September [1868]). CD had mentioned the structure of Salvia …
… in his letter to Farrer of 15 September [1868] . The Moselle is a river flowing through …
… the Viola genus in his letter of 24 September 1868 . Farrer refers to the second volume of …
… from George Bentham, [after 29 September 1868] . CD’s annotations are notes for his letter …

From Asa Gray 24 February 1868

Summary

AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].

Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	24 Feb 1868
Classmark:	DAR 165: 161
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5921

Matches: 12 hits

… From Asa Gray 24 February 1868 …
… DAR 165: 161 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 24 Feb 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… of American edition of Variation [ Nation 6 (1868): 234–6]. Pangenesis is "as good an …
… Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University. [Gray, Asa. ] 1868. [Review of Variation. ] …
… Nation 6 (19 March 1868): 234–6. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under …
… domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… Cambridge, [Mass. ] Feb. 24, 1868. My Dear Darwin Have I told you, and thanked you for …
… See letter from Asa Gray, 14 January [1868] and n. 2 Gray refers to George Thurber of the …
… Co. Gray’s review of Variation appeared in the 19 March 1868 issue of the Nation ( [A. …
… Gray] 1868 ). Gray had helped to found the Cambridge Scientific Club, a discussion group …
… CD’s theory of heredity. The anonymous review of Agassiz and Agassiz 1868 appeared in …
… the 20 February 1868 issue of the Nation pp. 153–4. Gray refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker . …

From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868

Summary

Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.

Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.

Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.

Author:	Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	3 July 1868
Classmark:	DAR 166: 209
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6267

Matches: 15 hits

… From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868 …
… 209 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 3 July 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… with pollen of another individuum. April. 1868. See plate facing p. 822. Freiburg im …
… Bibliography Bentham, George. 1868. Anniversary address. [ …
… Read 25 May 1868. ] Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1867–8): lvii–c. …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 10 ( …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… Bonn July 3 d | 1868. Dear and honoured Sir after having received some days ago Prof. …
… to George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society , made on 25 May 1868 ( …
… Bentham 1868 ). Bentham referred to Hildebrand’ …
… Pflanzen ( Hildebrand 1867a ) in Bentham 1868 , pp. lxxiv–lxxv. Hildebrand had asked CD …
… both papers were published in the June 1868 issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society of …
… offspring’ in Botanische Zeitung 40 (1868): 648–51, 666–9, 684–6; he did not review or …
… translation of Variation , Carus trans. 1868, was published by E. Schweizerbart’sche …

From Hermann Müller [after 23 February 1868]

Summary

HM is certain his brother Fritz would like to see Für Darwin translated into English by Dallas. He will make arrangements with the German publisher.

Two friends are writing Darwinian works: Adolf Speyer on phylogeny of Lepidoptera

and August Röse on genealogy of mosses.

Author:	Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[after 23 Feb 1868]
Classmark:	DAR 171: 292
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5920

Matches: 10 hits

… to plant geography in his paper on the distribution of Thuringian mosses ( Röse 1868 ). …
… From Hermann Müller [after 23 February 1868] …
… Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller Lippstadt [after 23 Feb 1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
… the letter to Hermann Müller, 23 February [1868] . Müller refers to the German edition of …
… See letter to Hermann Müller, 23 February [1868] and n. 5. Müller refers to Fritz Müller …
… London: John Murray. 1862. Röse, August. 1868. Über die Verbreitung der Laubmoose in …
… der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann (1868): 409–12. Speyer, Adolf. 1869. Zur Genealogie …
… By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. West, David A. 2003. Fritz Müller. A …
… to translate F. Müller 1864 . See letter from W. S. Dallas, 22 February 1868 . See …
… letter to Hermann Müller, 23 February [1868] and n. 6. Anton de Bary was co-editor of …

From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868

Summary

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Author:	John Brodie Innes
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	30 Jan 1868
Classmark:	DAR 167: 15
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5819

Matches: 10 hits

… From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868 …
… DAR 167: 15 John Brodie Innes Milton Brodie 30 Jan 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… surveyors, and estate agents ( Post Office London directory 1868). CD’s sister …
… Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood did acquire the property later in 1868. See letter from J. …
… B. Innes, 14 December 1868 . Eliza Mary Brodie Innes . …
… Cambridge ( Cambridge University calendar 1868). Innes refers to the National School for …
… Horsman . See letter from J. B. Innes, 16 January 1868 and n. 1, and letter to J. …
… B. Innes, 20 January [1868] . See letter to J. …
… B. Innes, 20 January [1868] and n. 6. The reference is possibly …
… Milton Brodie | Forres NB 30 th . Jan y 1868 Dear Darwin, I heartily congratulate you and …

From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1868

Summary

The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.

Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.

Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.

William Hooker ill.

Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	30 Aug 1868
Classmark:	DAR 102: 229–32
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6333

Matches: 17 hits

… of the Christian life’, is in Magee 1889 , pp. 153–78. It was preached on 23 August 1868. …
… From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1868 …
… DAR 102: 229–32 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 30 Aug 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 August [1868] . The Aberdeen paper has not been identified. …
… Hooker refers to John Tyndall (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 August [1868] and n. 3). …
… On the afternoon of 26 August 1868, the mayor of Norwich, Jeremiah James Colman , gave a …
… s Hall, Norwich ( The Times , 27 August 1868, p. 8). In the evening, Thomas Henry Huxley …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 and n. 14. Hooker refers to William Connor …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… History 20: 349–72. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the …
… Isle of Wight (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 [August 1868] , and plate facing p. 630). …
… Loring Gray were in Europe from September 1868 until November 1869; they went first to …
… to the British Association ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. lxxii), Hooker said, ‘No science is …
… 8 ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 August [1868] and n. 9). Hooker called Alfred Russel …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868 ) and Julius Victor Carus . Hooker mistakenly …
… an article in the Athenæum , 29 August 1868 ([Robertson] 1868b), criticising Hooker’s …
… review of Variation ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. lxx; [Robertson] 1868a). The review and …

From J. D. Hooker 12 July [1868]

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Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.

Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 July [1868]
Classmark:	DAR 102: 220–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6272

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… From J. D. Hooker 12 July [1868] …
… DAR 102: 220–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 12 July [1868] Charles Robert Darwin …
… Hooker’s seventh child, Grace Ellen Hooker , was born on 3 June 1868 (see letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 5 June 1868 and n. 1). Hooker refers to Descent. …
… between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 June [1868] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 24 June [1868] . Hooker …
… visited CD at Freshwater from 8 August 1868 (see letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 6 August 1868 ). Hooker was to deliver the presidential address at the annual …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… papers 2: 45–63. ] Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the …
… for the Advancement of Science (1868): lvii). In his address, Hooker complained that he …
… of his official duties ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , pp. lviii–lix). Hooker discussed the …
… provincial and local museums, in Hooker 1868 , pp. lxi–lxiv. Hooker discussed CD’s work …
… of Lythrum salicaria ’ ), and ‘Climbing plants’ in Hooker 1868 , pp. lxvi–lxviii. Hooker …
… see Variation 2: 357–404) in Hooker 1868 , pp. lxix–lxx. In his address, Hooker announced …
… as the age of the inhabited globe. ( Hooker 1868 , p. lxxiii. ) At the beginning of his …
… give the congress their support ( Hooker 1868 , p. lix). Tom Tiddler’s ground: debatable …

From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868

Summary

JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].

Colouring in horses.

Author:	John Edward Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	17 Feb 1868
Classmark:	DAR 165: 217
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5886

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… From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868 …
… DAR 165: 217 John Edward Gray British Museum 17 Feb 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… letter from Henry Holland, 27 January [1868] and n. 4. …
… on pigs is being printed [ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49]. Colouring in horses. …
… See letter to J. E. Gray, 17 February [1868] and n. 4. Richard Owen had supported the …
… not Phillip Lutley Sclater. J. E. Gray 1868 . CD discussed the coloration of horses in …
… to John Obadiah Westwood . See letter to J. E. Gray, 17 February [1868] and n. 4. …
… The reference is to [Beverley] 1867 and 1868. See …
… BM 17 Feb 1868 My Dear Darwin Our suspicions relate to the same person I think there can …
… is being printed in the Proc Zool. Soc. 1868. I do not see that you make any observation …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

From Alexander Wallace 14 March 1868

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On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.

Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.

Author:	Alexander Wallace
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	14 Mar 1868
Classmark:	DAR 86: A26–7
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6011

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… 27 and 28 December 1867 (see letter to J. P. M. Weale, 23 January [ 1868] and n. 12). …
… From Alexander Wallace 14 March 1868 …
… DAR 86: A26–7 Alexander Wallace Colchester 14 Mar 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
… and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
… been found, but see the letter to Henry Doubleday, 1 March [1868] , and the letter to H. …
… T. Stainton, 2 March [1868] . Omne vivum aut mas aut femina ex ovo : everything alive …
… letter from Alexander Wallace, 28 February 1868 ). CD’s discussion of sheep has not been …
… proportion of sexes in sheep (see letter from Jonathan Peel, 4 March 1868 , and letter to …
… on butterflies in notes dated 17 March 1868 (DAR 81: 23). Roland Trimen may have reported …
… Jonathan Peel, 6 March [1868] ). Wallace’s wife has not been identified. Wallace …
… behaviour in Bombyx cynthia (now Samia cynthia ) in his letters of 25 February 1868 and …
… 28 February 1868. For Wallace’s original query regarding the …
… another, see his letter of 28 February 1868 . In a letter to J. B. Innes, 22 December [ …

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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
… The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
… and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
… and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ). My book is horribly …
… as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
… look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, replying on …
… fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such worries were laid to …
… was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
… not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace commiserated: ‘I am …
… to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John …
… a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am bothered with …
… Yorkshire, wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the …
… Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to …
… breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal’, and offered …
… changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 June 1868 ). ‘It was …
… clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection …
… ratios was scanty, and he spent much of the first half of 1868 collecting facts on this question, …
… may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868] ). From the beginning, Darwin had …
… males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). Yet a number of Darwin’s …
… the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 March 1868 . Wallace maintained that males …
… entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, …
… in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
… odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] ). Francis sought additional advice …
… to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I had a long work with Crotch to …
… in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward …
… of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). Heaven protect my stomach …
… of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Researching emotion …

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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… for ease of distribution sometime in late 1867 or early 1868. Darwin went over his questions, …
… in Ceylon, wrote the botanist George Thwaites on 22 July 1868 , “all endeavour to drill their …
… Scottish botanist John Scott wrote from Calcutta, 4 May 1868 : “Shame is … expressed by an …
… Bulmer, J 13 Aug 1868 [Gipps Land, nr. Flemington? …
… Bunnett, Templeton 13 Aug 1868 Echuca, Australia …
… Darwin, W.E. [after 29 March 1868] Chester Place, …
… Darwin, W.E. [7? April 1868] Southampton, England …
… Darwin, W.E. [22? April 1868] Southampton, England …
… Forbes, David 26 March 1868 Boulton, England (about …
… Geach, F.F. April 1868 Johore, Malaysia …
… Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
… Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] Trincomalee, Ceylon …
… Hagenauer, J.A. 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
… Hawkshaw, Cicely Mary (to ED) 9 Feb 1868 Liphook, …
… Hooker, J.D. 5 Sept 1868 Kew, London (about Nagasaki …
… Lacy, Dyson [before 13 Aug 1868] [Queensland, …
… Lane, H.B. 13 Aug 1868 Belfast, Australia? …
… Lang, Archibald G. 13 Aug 1868 [Coranderrk, …
… Muller, Fritz 30 Jan [1868] Itajahy, Santa Catharina …
… Reade, Winwood W. 23 May 1868 Conservative Club, …
… Scherzer, Karl Von 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, …
… Scott, John 4 May 1868 Royal Botanic Gardens, …
… Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868 Flemington, Australia …
… Speedy, J. 29 Sept 1868 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, …
… Swinhoe, Robert 4 Aug 1868 British Legation, Peking, …
… Thwaites, G.H.K. 1 Apr 1868 Peradeniya, Ceylon …
… Walsh, B.D. 25 March 1868 Rock Island, Illinois, USA …
… Weale, J.P.M. 23 Oct 1868 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
… Sarah E to ED [30 March-12 April 1868] London, …
… Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 Hayes, Bromley, Kent, …

6430_10256

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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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… From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Suède) 25 Okt. 1868. …
… CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
… in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
… An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
… of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
… on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …
… From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 Lund (Sweden) 25 Oct. 1868 …
… CD’s query, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 August 1868. Hooker passed CD’s query to Nilsson at …
… in Norwich (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1868). f3 Nilsson sent the response in …
… An English translation was never published. Earlier in 1868, Longman’s, Green, and Company had …
… of northern Europe during the Stone Age (Nilsson 1868); see letter to John Lubbock, 15 February …
… on Nilsson’s view in Lubbock’s introduction to Nilsson 1868, pp. xxxv–xxxvi. …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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… to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
… produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
… their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ). By this time he had already …
… (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
… quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
… taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
… he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …

Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868

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My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…

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… with two copies of Part II of Volume 16 (July – December 1868) and no copy of Part I (January – June …
… my interest. And as I did so, my eyes fell on a 10 June 1868 Darwin letter to Huxley in which …

5935_4582

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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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… From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin …
… to Richard Owen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868]); the review was by John Robertson ( …
… 1867) was reviewed in the Athenæum , 8 February 1868, pp. 217–18. f3 CD had discussed …
… CD’s reply. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 February [1868] and nn. 8–10. …

5873_1488

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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

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… From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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… of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates, 23 March 1868 Roland Trimen on the …

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 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 January 1868] Darwin asks Thomas Huxley to …
… 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S. E., [9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephew, Edmund, …
… - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 November 1868] Darwin’s nephews, Edmund …
… Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Doubleday responds to Darwin’s …
… Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
… Letter 6083 - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] Casparay details his …
… Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday …
… Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, [24 March 1868] John Weir describes experiments …
… Letter 6066 - Weir, H. W. to Darwin, [28 March 1868] Harrison Weir passes on …
… Letter 6081 - Darwin to Bowman, W., [2 April 1868] Darwin requests surgeon and …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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… in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 Darwin thought it would be only a ‘ short …
… writing it up as a separate publication in early February 1868 , wading through a ‘ mass of …
… Variation was finally off his hands at the beginning of 1868, the volume of his correspondence …
… are more than 260 surviving letters from February and March 1868 alone, two or three times the usual …
… the details of the experiment were discussed in March 1868 , it seems the original suggestion of …
… & sexual selection’ Darwin wrote to Wallace in September 1868, but although he had ‘ oscillated …

Inheritance

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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…

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… 'provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis’, was published in 1868 in his book, Variation of …
… some other name. ( to J. D. Hooker, 23 February '1868] ) And took …
… hardly possible. ( from A. R. Wallace, 24 February 1868 ) Darwin’s …

William Winwood Reade

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On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…

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… On 19 May 1868 , an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade …
… Nonetheless, Reade contacted Charles Darwin in 1868 to offer his services: his second expedition to …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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… vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may have resented the interruption to his …
… on the German translation of Variation (Carus trans. 1868). The French translation proved …
… the French edition of Variation (Moulinié trans. 1868), and CD now extended his permission for …
… Scientific Opinion , launched towards the end of 1868, was one of several periodicals begun in …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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… a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December 1868 ). Innes had a tendency to tease …
… he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June [1868] ). Among the reasons justifying his …
… the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So embroiled in this process …
… the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Darwin wrote of the next …

Darwin's life in letters

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For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents,…

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… letters. ( Darwin to John Jenner Weir, [6 March 1868] ) For all his working life …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 February 1868] Zoologist Edward Blyth sends …
… Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 February 1868] American naturalist Asa Gray …
… Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [23 March 1868] Haeckel informs Darwin …
… Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, [10 April 1868] James Samuel, editor of …
… Letter 6126 - Binstead, C. H. to Darwin, [17 April 1868] Charles Binstead, “an …
… Letter 6237 - Bullar, R. to Darwin, [9 June 1868] Rosa Bullar reports a case of a …
… Letter 6335 - Innes, J. B. to Darwin, [31 August 1868] John Innes reports that he has …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

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…

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… Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 May [1868] Darwin writes to Gray about his review …
… 6223 — Horsman, S. J. H. to Darwin, C. R., 2 June [1868] Horsman attempts to convince Darwin …
… Letter 6241 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 13 June 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down writes …
… Letter 6486 — Darwin, C. R. to Innes, J. B., 1 Dec 1868 Darwin writes to J. B. Innes, vicar …
… Letter 6492 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 4 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down provides …
… Letter 6501 — Innes, J. B. to Darwin, C. R., 12 Dec 1868 J. B. Innes, vicar of Down is …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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… selection ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 323–6). However, by 1868, in The variation of animals and …
… discussion of the issue with Alfred Wallace in the spring of 1868. Wallace had sent a concise …
… natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). Darwin turned to his son George, a …
… as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). Ultimately, Darwin’s view was …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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… Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 19 Mar 1868 Wallace writes to Darwin with a …
… Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., [21 Mar 1868] Darwin lets Wallace know he has …
… Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 24 Mar [1868] Wallace returns George Darwin’s …
… Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 27 Mar [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace saying …
… Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 6 Apr [1868] Darwin writes to Wallace on the …
… Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. R., 8 [Apr] 1868 Wallace says if Darwin is not …

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Matches: 17 hits

Summary

Matches: 17 hits

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Matches: 11 hits

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Matches: 13 hits

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Matches: 27 hits

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Matches: 30 hits

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Matches: 12 hits

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Matches: 7 hits

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Matches: 2 hits

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Matches: 4 hits

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Matches: 1 hits

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Matches: 1 hits

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Matches: 10 hits

Summary

Matches: 6 hits

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Matches: 3 hits

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Matches: 2 hits

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Matches: 4 hits

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Matches: 4 hits

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Matches: 1 hits

Summary

Matches: 7 hits

Summary

Matches: 1 hits

Summary

Matches: 6 hits

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