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Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907. Ornithologist. First Prof. Zoology Cambridge. Biography: Wollaston 1921. DNB. 1858 N was pro-evolution after reading Darwin-Wallace paper. 1860 Tristram to N, The infallibility of the God Darwin and his prophet Huxley . 1865 CD refused to write a testimonial for N for the Cambridge Chair on the grounds that N knew only about birds—N R 45. 1870 FRS. 1870 Feb. 9 N spent Sunday at Down House—LLiii 79. 1870 May 23 CD visited N at Cambridge Museum. 1881 CD and ED took tea

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Q Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de, 1810-1892. French naturalist. 1859 CD sent 1st edition Origin to Q. 1867 CD to Q, about French translation of Origin—MLi 201. 1868 CD to Stainton, CD had written to Q about silkmoths—FUL 109. 1869 Q to CD, opposes CD on evolution, but hopes that their differences of opinion will never alter their good relationship—Carroll 368, 379, 382. 1870 Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français: étude sur la transformisme, Paris. 1879 Foreign Member RS. Queen

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Society 1838 CD Fellow. Royal Institution, Albemarle St, London. 1880 Apr. 9 Huxley gave address to on The coming of age of The origin of species , published in Nature, Lond., 22:1-4, and in Science and culture, 310. In the above-mentioned lecture Mr Huxley made a strong point of the accumulation of palaeontological evidence which the years 1859 to 1880 have given us in favour of evolution —LLiii 240. [page] 24

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science —MLii 155. 1867-1887 Superintendent of Royal Institution. 1868 Oct. 24 T stayed the night at Down House with Gray and the Hookers. 1874 Lyell to CD, congratulating him of T's Presidential Address to British Association at Belfast, you and your theory of evolution may be fairly said to have had an ovation —LLii 455. The Address with additions published London 1874, also in Fragments of science, 2 vols, 6 edition 1879. 1882 T was on Personal Friends invited list for CD's funeral. [page] 27

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, King's Road, Chelsea, London. J. H. Veitch, Hortus Veitchii, London 1906. Verbascum , see Primula 1868. Vermin and Traps 1863 Vermin and traps , Gardeners' Chronicle, No. 35:821-822 (Bii 83, F1728). Vernon, Colonel 1832 Nov. 11 CD to Caroline mentions a brother-in-law of Miss Gooch who CD had met at Montevideo who was doing a tour, on to Lima then overland to Mexico.—CCD I p. 277. Vestiges 1844 Vestiges of the natural history of creation, London. An anonymous work on evolution, by Robert Chambers q

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Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Carl, 1821-1902. Pathologist and politician. 1856- Prof. Pathological Anatomy Berlin. 1877 V gave an address at Münich connecting evolution with socialism, published as Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat, Berlin. 1878 Translated into English. Haeckel replied to it. 1878 V seconded CD's election to Koeniglich-Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. 1881 CD sat between V and Donders at the Int. Congr. Med. 1884 Foreign Member RS. 1892 Copley Medal

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Hertfordshire. 1877 CD Honorary Member. Watkins, Frederick, 1808-1888. Cambridge friend of CD, member of the Gourmet Club. 1860 CD to W on evolution, I think the arguments are valid, showing that all animals have descended from four or five primordial forms; and that analogy and weak reasons go to show that all have descended from some single prototype —LLii 328. 1874-1888 Archdeacon of York. 1887 W gives memories of CD collecting beetles and talking of the beauty of the Brazilian forests—LLi 168

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. 1877 CD to Z, had sent him a pig's foot with an extra digit, which W. H. Flower examined—Carroll 511, 512. 1877 CD to Z, on the development of his belief in evolution, When I was on board the Beagle I believed in the permanence of species —MLi 367. 1876 Zur Entwicklungstheorie, Jena. 1882 Charles R. Darwin und die Culturhistorische Bedeutung seiner Theorie vom Ursprung der Arten, Berlin. [page] 30

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invaluable Darwin Correspondence Project Online Database: (http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/). Readers are encouraged to send errors or corrections to the Companion to the editor, Dr John van Wyhe, at dbsjmvw@nus.edu.sg John van Wyhe November 2007 Introduction to the first edition (1978) THIS Companion is about Charles Darwin the man: it is not about evolution by natural selection, nor is it about any other of his theoretical or experimental work. A glance will show what it contains, and only a

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Down House for lunch. 1874 E attended seance with CD and ED at R. D. Litchfield's house. 1879 Oct. CD and ED called after Lewes's death. 1880 Married J. W. Cross, a New York Banker. Everest, Robert, 1799-1860. Anglican priest. CD to E on degeneration of British dogs in India in Variation. Letter from CD to E in Sotheby sale, Honeyman III, 1979 May. 1850-1860 At Calcutta. Evolution 1832 Geological use, Lyell, Principles 2:11. 1871 First use of the word in CD's sense is in Descent of man. 1872

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Holland 1877 [Letter of thanks by CD] in P. Harting, Testimonial to Mr Darwin—Evolution in the Netherlands , Nature, Lond., 15:410-412 (F1776). CD had received an album of portrait photographs for his 68th birthday. Holland, Mr 1857 CD to James Buckman, CD had asked my cousin Mr. Holland of Dumpleton to make the enquiries, but as he is not on the spot, I have ventured to ask you . The enquiry was about a rare breed of pigeon—Letter DCPOD vol. 6 CUP 1990 2151 230307. Holland, Edward, 1806-75

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A544 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2007. Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? Notes and Records of the Royal Society 61: 177-205. Text Image PDF

(1991) and the BBC Timewatch documentary made in the same year. The book argued, as they later summarized, '[Darwin] had buried evolution for twenty years, petrified for his respectability, upholding the paternalist order for a generation before being forced into the open.'31 In their view Darwin was so afraid of revealing his ideas that it was a 'contradiction that was tearing him apart'.32 In the documentary Desmond succinctly asked: 'So why didn't [Darwin] publish this new theory in 1838

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. Wickham in command. 1834 Oct. Admiralty refused to reimburse Fitz-Roy, so sold at Valparaiso for $7300 (nearly £1400). Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel, 1835-1910. Marine biologist. Son of J. L. R. A. Converted to belief in evolution by reading and corresponding with Fritz Müller. Fairly frequent correspondent with CD. EB. 1869 Dec. 1 visited Down House with wife. Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, 1807-1873. Known as Louis. Ichthyologist and geologist. Biography: 1886 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (2nd wife), 2

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. Biography: Jackson 1906, DNB. 1844 CD discussed flora of Sandwich Islands with. 1854 B presented his books and herbarium to Kew and worked there daily. 1858 Jul. 28 CD I have ordered Bentham, for, as — says, it will be very curious to see a Flora written by a man who knows nothing of British plants —LLii 131. Jul. 30 I have got Bentham and am charmed with it . These two quotations refer to Handbook of the British flora, 1858, which remained in print for more than 100 years. 1859 B accepted evolution

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invited list for CD's funeral. Crellin, J. K. 1968 C was editor of Darwin and evolution, London, a Jonathan Cape Jackdaw card wallet with facsimiles and other material, including t.p. of 1859 Origin. Creskeld, Poole, Yorkshire. Seat of Francis Rhodes, later Darwin. [page] 6

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. Soc., 415-431 (F661). Erratic Boulders, Transportal of 1848 On the transportal of erratic boulders from a lower to a higher level , Quart. J. Geol. Soc. (Proc.), 4:315-323 (Bi 218, F1677). Erskine, Frances Married Sir (later Baron) Thomas Henry Farrer as 1st wife. Erskine, William Married Maitland Mackintosh. Issue included Frances E. Essay on Instinct 1883 In G. J. Romanes, Mental evolution in animals, posthumous essay on instinct by CD, 355-384, index 405-411 (F1434). First foreign editions

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Lubbock. Fox, Anne, see Darwin [III]. Fox, Augustus Henry Lane, 1827-1900. Soldier, archaeologist, anthropologist. Father-in-law of Sir John Lubbock. Father with Lubbock of evolution of culture. No evidence that F and CD ever met or corresponded. 1867 FRS. 1877 Major General. 1880 Added Pitt-Rivers to surname on inheritance. 1882 Hon. Lieut. General. Fox, Frances Daughter of William Darwin Fox. 1852 Married Rev. J. Hughes. Fox, Samuel Married Anne Darwin [III]. Father of William Darwin F. Fox, Samuel

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meeting. He described the scene to Boyd Dawkins, then a fellow student—LLii. 322. 1869- Librarian at Lambeth Palace. Greg, William Rathbone, 1809-1881. Social essayist. 1878 CD to G, on G's son's views on and objections to CD's views on evolution—Carroll 557. Gresson, Rev. G. T. Of Worthing. before 1863 Second master at Bradfield College, a great dandy who wore white flannel trousers, a delicately tinted shirt, a purple velvet cap with tassel and primrose gloves for football —Blackie, Bradfield

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, Carl Georg Friedrich Rudolf, 1822-1898. Prof. Zoology Leipzig. 1864 CD to Falconer, L was an early convert to evolution. Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878. Man of letters. Many letters to and from CD in The George Eliot letters 8 and 9, 1978. DNB. 1854-1878 Common law husband of Mary Ann Evans [ George Eliot ]. 1868 Feb. L reviewed Variation favourably and gratifyingly —LLiii 76. 1873 Oct. lunched at Down House with Eliot. 1874 CD and ED attended a seance at Litchfield's house in London with L and

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. Massingberd, Mildred, see Charlotte Mildred M. Massingberd, The M problem is solved in Burke p. 11; Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd married Edmund Langton; she was elder daughter of; 1875 her husband died; ; her daughter Charlotte Mildred too the name also; she married Leonard D in 1900, as second wife; Masters, Maxwell Tylden, 1833-1907. Son of William M. Plant teratologist. 1860 CD to about evolution, mentioning that he had written to his father who was ill—MLi 147. 1860 CD to M, on