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Charles Darwin's health improved substantially in 1866 under a
dietary and exercise regime prescribed by his physician Henry Bence
Jones. With renewed vigour, he worked steadily on his manuscript of
Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, submitting all
but the final chapter to his publisher in December. He also worked
on the fourth, and much revised, edition of Origin which was
delivered to printers in July, and preparations were begun for a
third German edition of Origin. His improved health allowed him a
more active social life. At Down, Darwin entertained a number of
scientific colleagues whom he had known previously only through
correspondence. He also made his first appearance in London
scientific society in many years, touring the Zoological Gardens at
Regent's Park, and appearing at a soiree at the Royal Society.
Volume 13 contains letters for 1865, the year Charles Darwin published his long paper on climbing plants and continued work on his book, The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication. 1865 was also the year when Robert FitzRoy committed suicide; Joseph Dalton Hooker became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Charles Lyell and John Lubbock quarrelled over an alleged incident of plagiarism. The volume includes a supplement of over 100 letters discovered or redated since the series began publication, including a fascinating collection written when Darwin was 12.
Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and
on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large
number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's
family and their friends that throw light on the lives of the women
of his circle and their relationships, social and professional,
with Darwin. The letters included are by turns entertaining,
intriguing, and challenging, and are organised into thematic
chapters, including botany and zoology as well as marriage and
servants, that set them in an accessible narrative context.
Darwin's famous remarks on women's intelligence in Descent of Man
provide a recurring motif, and are discussed in the foreword by
Gillian Beer, and in the introduction. The immediacy and variety of
these texts make this an entertaining read which will suggest
avenues for further research to students.
Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who
changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis
of evolutionary biology. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough,
this is a fascinating insight into Darwin's life as he first
directly addressed the issues of humanity's place in nature, and
the consequences of his ideas for religious belief. Incorporating
previously unpublished material, this volume includes letters
written by Darwin, and also those written to him by friends and
scientific colleagues world-wide, by critics who tried to stamp out
his ideas, and admirers who helped them to spread. They take up the
story of Darwin's life in 1860, in the immediate aftermath of the
publication of On the Origin of Species, and carry it through one
of the most intense and productive decades of his career, to the
eve of publication of Descent of Man in 1871.
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