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A year in the life: 1860
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January |
No days |
Publication of second edition of The Origin of Species ...' by Charles Darwin. |
Thompson, 1977: 31 |
According to Thompson, P-R was in London when Darwin's book was published |
January |
No days |
Kate Stanley [Lane Fox's sister-in-law] attends Richard Owen's first public refutation of Darwin at the Royal Institution |
Chapman, 1981 |
Chapman makes point that Fox must have known about wider debates about evolution |
February |
26 |
Lane Fox attends Royal Geographical Society [RGS] meeting. |
The Times 2 March 1860 |
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March |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 33rd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about exact date |
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June |
20 |
Lane Fox at Her Majesty's levee. |
The Times 21 June 1860 |
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July |
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August |
No days |
Items obtained from Auvergne, France |
PRM accession book |
This was a month which Lane Fox often took as holiday, and later he is known to have holidayed in the Auvergne, it is possible that this is true for this as well. It is probably of no relevance at all but AW Franks was in the Auvergne in August 1860 [see Caygill, 1997: 82] |
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October |
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November |
5 |
Fourth son, Lionel, born |
Thompson, 1977: 123 |
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November |
26 |
Lane Fox attends RGS meeting |
The Times 29 November 1860 |
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December |
around 4 |
Alice, his wife, becomes ill |
Thompson, 1977: 123; Chapman, 1981: 105 |
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