Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

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

March

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 33rd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about exact date

May

June

20

Lane Fox at Her Majesty's levee.

The Times 21 June 1860

July

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]

September

October

November

5

Fourth son, Lionel, born

Thompson, 1977: 123

November

26

Lane Fox attends RGS meeting

The Times 29 November 1860

December

around 4

Alice, his wife, becomes ill

Thompson, 1977: 123; Chapman, 1981: 105