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F3390 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1916-18. [Letters to J. D. Hooker and recollections of Darwin, 1843-1881]. In Leonard Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Text

correspondence began in December; by January the momentous confession was made: At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. [11 January 1844] He had instantly recognised Hooker's capacity. 'I am pleased to think,' he writes on Hooker's rejection at Edinburgh in 1845, 'that after having read a few of your letters, I never once doubted the position you will ultimately hold among

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F1452.2 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

with the character of the American fossil mammifers, c. c., that I determined to collect blindly every sort of fact, which could bear any way on what are species. I have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression, adaptations from the slow willing of animals, c.! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends. You will now

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A334 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co. Text Image

. Sir Joseph Hooker was his most intimate friend during the growth of the Origin of Species. Although Hooker met Darwin in 1839, their friendship did not begin until four years later, when the former returned from the Antarctic Expedition. On January 11th, 1844, Darwin wrote admitting his conclusions on the question of evolution: At last gleams of light have come, he says, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

(quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression, adaptations from the slow willing of animals, etc.! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends. You will now groan, and think to

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

half-century that has elapsed since they were written. But on this occasion our minds dwell, not so much on your unrivalled work as a leader of botanical science, as on your close and unique relation to the Darwinian theory. It was you to whom Mr. Darwin, in January 1844, first communicated his views on the question of the 'Origin of Species,' when he used those famous words, I am almost convinced . that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable! When fearing, in 1854, that his

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A331 Book: Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text Image

species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.. .. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends. You will now groan, and think to yourself, on what a man have I been wasting my time and writing to. I should, five years ago, have thought so. ..'1 Elaborate investigations of all kinds during the long years which led up to the central work of Darwin's life were discussed in detail with the greatest of his

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A596 Book contribution: [Poulton, Edward Bagnall]. 1910. Darwin, C. R. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 11th ed. Cambridge: University Press, vol. 7, pp. 840-3. Text Image

almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable (l.c. ii. 13). In 1855 he began a correspondence with the great American botanist Asa Gray, and in 1857 explained his views in a letter which afterwards became classical. In 1856, urged by Lyell, he began the preparation of a third and far more expanded treatise, and had completed about half of it when, on the 18th of June 1858, he received a manuscript essay from A. R

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A260 Book: Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Text Image

read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way be which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends. You will now groan, and think to yourself, 'on what a man I have been wasting my time and writing to' I should

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

of agricultural and horticultural books, and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression, adaptations from the slow willing of animals, etc.! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have

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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

not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression' 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals' c,—but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his—though the means of change are wholly so—I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.57 Many scholars since the 1950s have felt this passage means that Darwin was very afraid. Yet the