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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…
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … a half chapters of his Big Book between May 1856 and June 1858. With a total of around a quarter …
- … he had complained to Hooker in December 1856. By mid-1858, only the first chapter on breeding …
- … read Darwin’s draft discussion of the results in April 1858. Darwin was anxious to know whether this …
- … end ’. Darwin continued to write steadily until April 1858, when he again needed to visit Moor …
- … did ‘wonderful good’, Darwin recommenced writing in May 1858. ‘This work will be my biggest’, he …
- … men of science he felt could judge it adequately. On 18 June 1858, Darwin received a now lost letter …
- … have been equally pleased. Writing to his mother in October 1858, Wallace stated ‘I sent Mr. Darwin …
- … the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858 (Cambridge University Press) …
- … explain the receipt of Wallace's Ternate Essay by Darwin in 1858, Biological Journal of the …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … by Decaisne on Fruit Trees. Le Jardin Fruitier [Decaisne 1858–75]. (Pears.) [DAR *128: 167] …
- … important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy woman— (Read) …
- … [DAR *128: 154] Passionate Pilgrim [Thurstan 1858] (Read) Combes Constitution of Man …
- … Life [Smiles 1857] [DAR 128: 22] 1858 Hewitsons Oology [Hewitson [1833 …
- … [Audubon 1831–9]— [DAR 128: 23] 1858 Life of Montaigne by B. St. John …
- … & Last F. Smith Cat. of Ants in B. Mus. [F. Smith 1858] Zoologist [ Zoologist ] …
- … 1847]. March 10. Ellis 3 Visits to Madagascar [Ellis 1858] —— 16 Zoologist [ …
- … June 20. Carlyles Frederick the Great [Carlyle 1858–65] (very moderate) July 15 Dana Two …
- … Society from 1822 to 1841 then vice-secretary from 1841 to 1858. 40 ‘Jardine’s … Bees …
- … . 2 vols. London. *119: 15; 119: 17b ——. 1858–65. History of Frederick II. of Prussia, …
- … excursions . London. 128: 10 Decaisne, Joseph. 1858–75. Le jardin fruitiere du …
- … and fancy pigeons . London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1858) also in Darwin Library.] 128: 8 …
- … Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 128: 25 Ellis, William. 1858. Three visits to Madagascar during …
- … on mental physiology. London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1858) also in Darwin Library.] 128: 2 …
- … Scientific Library.) London. 128: 9 ——. 1858. Sea-side studies at Ilfracombe, Tenby, …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 22b [Marsh, Catherine M.]. 1858. English hearts and English hands; or …
- … Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, 1858, 1859 . 2 vols. Edinburgh and …
- … [Darwin Library.] *128: 157 Saint John, Bayle. 1858. Montaigne the essayist. A …
- … Gray. London. [Darwin Library.] 128: 18 ——. 1858. Catalogue of British fossorial …
- … Thurstan, Henry J. pseud . (Francis Turner Palgrave). 1858. The passionate pilgrim; or, Eros …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 18v.; 119: 13a Yule, Henry. 1858. A narrative of the mission sent by …
- … Handlingar . Stockholm. 1739–56, 1756–1856. New series, 1858–. 119: 8a Letters and …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
Divergence
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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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…
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
Letter from Wallace
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Alfred Russel Wallace, who was collecting natural history specimens in the Malay archipelago, sends Darwin an outline of his own theory of species change. Darwin was deeply shocked at how similar Wallace's ideas were to his own.
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- … Alfred Russel Wallace, who was collecting natural history specimens in the Malay archipelago, …
Charles Waring Darwin dies
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The Darwins' baby son, Charles Waring, dies of scarlet fever
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- … The Darwins' baby son, Charles Waring, dies of scarlet fever …
Species theory made public
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Articles by both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace describing their independently derived theories of species change, are read at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Darwin was at home with his family following the death of his son, Charles Waring, on 28 June…
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- … Articles by both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace describing their independently derived theories …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … dated. An entry in Darwin’s account book for February 1858 has led to the supposition that the …
4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin
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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…
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- … hinted at in Origin , Huxley’s polemical writings of c. 1858 onwards had already made the idea …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … subject by reading a short paper by Asa Gray, published in 1858, on the movements of the tendrils of …
Volume appendices
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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…
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- … Memorials presented to the British government in 1858 7 VII …
Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … known to the world at a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858. Moreover, the Society was now, in …
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…
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 22 [September 1858], and this volume, letter to J. B. Innes, 1 …
