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A252    Book contribution:     [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84.   Text   Image
more directly connected with the 'Origin of Species.' The 'Variation of Animals and Plants' was, like all Darwin's books, far more successful than the author expected. His letters contain more than one warning, even to scientific friends, that they must not attempt to read it all, that it is unbearably dull, that if they read the large print in two or three of the chapters they will have all that is worth reading. The most novel point in the book, and the one which had the strongest hold on the
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A873    Book contribution:     Geikie, A. 1888. The life and letters of Charles Darwin. Littell's Living Age 176, 2271 (7 January): 3-10.   Text   Image
change which, since that day, not yet thirty years ago, has come alike upon the non-scientific and the scientific part of the community in their estimation of it. Professor Huxley has furnished to the biography a graphic r chapter on the reception of the book, and * in his vigorous and witty style recalls the furious and fatuous objections that were urged against it. A much longer chapter will be required to describe the change which the advent of the Origin of Species has wrought In every
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A1015    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.   Text
some length into the various proofs of variation in a state of nature. This is the more necessary because the materials collected by Mr. Darwin bearing on this question have never been published, and comparatively few of them have been cited in The Origin of Species; while a considerable body of facts has been made known since the publication of the last edition of that work. Variability of the Lower Animals. Among the lowest and most ancient marine organisms are the Foraminifera, little masses
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A1015    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.   Text
Philosophy as any explanation of organic evolution, 1 an expression of opinion which would be repudiated by every Darwinian. For, even admitting the interpretation which Mr. Spencer puts on the facts he adduces, they are all included in the causes which Darwin himself recognised as having acted in bringing about the infinitude of forms in the organic world. In the concluding chapter of the Origin of Species he says: I have now recapitulated the facts and considerations which have thoroughly
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A1015    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.   Text
The shaded vertical bands exhibit the proportions of the fossil forms actually discovered, while the outline extensions are intended to show what we may fairly presume to have been the approximate periods of origin, and progressive increase of the number of species, of the chief divisions of the vegetable kingdom. These seem to accord fairly well with their respective grades of development, and thus offer no obstacle to the acceptance of the belief in their progressive evolution. Geological
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A1015    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.   Text
of rapacious mammals and birds. White colours, therefore, would not be eliminated by natural selection; but variations in this direction would bear their part in producing the recognition marks which are everywhere essential, and which, in these islands, need not be so small or so inconspicuous as elsewhere. Concluding Remarks. On a review of the whole subject, then, we must conclude that there is no evidence of the individual or prevalent colours of organisms being directly determined by the
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A1015    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.   Text
caverns, subterranean waters, etc.; and it is in such places as these, as well as in some oceanic islands which competing higher forms have not been able to reach, that we find many curious relics of an earlier world, which, in the free air and sunlight and in the great continents, have long since been driven out or exterminated by higher types. Summary of the first Five Chapters. We have now passed in review, in more or less details, the, main facts on which the theory of the origin of species
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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
Gorilla, 237; speech at Oxford, in answer to the Bishop, 238; lectures on 'Our Knowledge of the causes of Organic Nature,' 253, note; opinion of H ckel's work, 263; on the progress of the doctrine of evolution, 271; article in the 'Contemporary Review,' against Mivart, and the Quarterly reviewer of the 'Descent of Man,' 276; lecture on 'the Coming of Age of the Origin of Species,' 294; on teleology, 298. letters from, on the 'Origin of Species,' 213; on the discussion at Oxford, 240. , letters
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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
PRIMULA. Primula, dimorphism of, paper on the, 45. Primul , said to have produced seed without access of insects, 53. Proteus, 247. Publication of the 'Origin of Species,' arrangements connected with the, 196-200. Publications, account of, 38-49. Public Opinion, squib in, 259. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, review of the 'Expression of the Emotions,' in the, 279. Quarterly Review,' review of the 'Origin' in the, 242: Darwin's appreciation of it, 242, note; review of the 'Descent of Man' in the
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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
Sprengel's views as to cross-fertilisation, 300. Murray, John, criticisms on the Darwinian theory of coral formation, 282. Murray, John, letters to: relating to the publication of the 'Origin of Species,' 199, 201, 204: on the reception of the 'Origin' in the United States, 226 note; on the third edition of the 'Origin,' 245; on critiques of the 'Descent of Man,' 273; on the publication of the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' 297, 308; on the publication of 'Climbing Plants,' 315. Music, effects of
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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
, 185, 186; on the papers read before the Linnean Society, 191; on the mode of publication of the 'Origin,' 196, 198; with proof-sheets, 203; on the announcement of the work of the British Association, 203; on his adoption of the theory of descent, 212; on objectors to the theory of descent, 218, 219; on the second edition of the 'Origin,' 218, 223; on the review of the 'Origin' in the 'Annals,' 227; on objections, 229; on the review in the 'Edinburgh Review,' and on Matthew's anticipation of the
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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
isolation, 278. Wallace, A. R., first essay on variability of species, 41, 188; article in the 'Quarterly Review,' April, 1869.. 260; opinion of Pangenesis, 266; review of the 'Expression of the Emotions,' 279 , letters to: on a paper by Wallace, 182; on the 'Origin of Species,' 195, 209; on 'Warrington's paper at the Victoria Institute,' 264, note; on man, 268; on sexual selection, 269, 270; on WORMS. Mr. Wright's pamphlet in answer to Mivart, 275; on Mivart's remarks and an article in the
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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
. Albums of photographs received from Germany and Holland, 293. Algebra, distaste for the study of, 17. Allfrey, Dr., treatment by, 327. American edition of the 'Origin,' 226. Civil War, the, 249 Ammonia, salts of, behaviour of the leaves of Drosera, towards, 320. Andes, excursion across the, 136; Lyell on the slow rise of the, 153. Animals, crossing of, 148. 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' review of the 'Origin' in the, 227. Anti-Jacobin, 242, note, 243. Ants, slave-making, 191. Apocyne
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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
. 'Insectivorous Plants,' work on the 319-322; publication of, 47, 322. Insects, 10; agency of, in cross-fertilisation, 300. Institute of France, election as a corresponding member of the Botanical section of the, 292. Isolation, effects of, 278. JACKSON, B. Daydon, preparation of the Kew-Index placed under the charge of, 323. Jenkin, Fleeming, review of the 'Origin,' 274. Jenyns, Rev. Leonard, acquaintance with, 22; his opinion of the theory, 228. , letters to: on the 'Origin of Species,' 209; on
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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
; Theological views, 236. Theology and Natural History, 229. Thistle-seeds, conveyance of, by wind, 193. Thompson, Professor D'Arey, literature of the fertilisation of flowers, 310. Thwaites, G. H. K., 230. Tierra del Fuego, 29. Times review of the 'Origin' in the, 221, 222; review of the 'Descent of Man' in the, 273; letter to, on vivisection, 290; article on Mr. Darwin in the, 316. Title-page, proposed, of the 'Origin of Species,' 197. Torquay, visity to (1861), 245. Toxodon, 142. Translations of
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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
before the, 234. Camerarius on sexuality in plants, 299. Canary Islands, projected excursion to, 114. Cape Verd Islands, 129. Carlyle, Thomas, acquaintance with, 36. Carnarvon, Lord, proposed Act to amend the Law relating to cruelty to animals, 288. Carnations, effects of cross-and self-fertilisation on, 311. Carpenter, Dr. W. B., letters to: on the 'Origin of Species,' 210; review in the 'Medico-Chirurgical Review,' 231; notice of the 'Foraminifera,' in the Athen um, 257. Carus, Prof. Victor
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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
41; progress of the theory of the, 165; differences in the two editions of the 'Journal' with regard to the, 170; extracts from notebooks on the, 169; first sketch of work on the, 170; essay of 1844 on the, 171. 'Origin of Species,' publication of the first edition of the, 41, 206; success of the, 42; reviews of the, in the Athen uum, 211, 212; in 'Macmillan's Magazine,' 219; in the Times, 221; in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 224; in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 227; in the
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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
. Geological work in the Andes, 136. 'Geologist,' review of the 'Origin' in the, 250. Geology, commencement of the study of, 24, 113; lectures on, in Edinburgh, 14; predilection for, 134, 135; study of, during the Beagle's voyage, 27. German translation of the 'Origin of Species,' 247. Germany, Hackel's influence in the spread of Darwinism, 262. , photograph-album received from, 293. , reception of Darwinistic views in, 247. and France, contrast of progress of theory in, 261. Glacial period, influence
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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
on Geology and Zoology in, 14. , studies at, 11-15. Edinburgh Review,' review of the 'Origin' in the, 232, 233, 235; review of the 'Descent of Man' in the, 272. Effects of Cross- and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom,' publication of the, 47, 48, 310. Elie de Beaumon't theory, 146. England, spread of the Descent-theory in, 264. English Churchman, review of the 'Origin' in the, 241. Engravings, fondness for, 107. Entomological Society, concurrence of the members of the, 264. Epidendrum
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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
the voyage of the Beagle 125-139; during residence in London, 1836-42.. 140-49; on the subject of religion, 55-65; during residence at Down, 1842-1854..150-164; during the progress of the work on the 'Origin of Species,' 165-205; after the publication of the work, 206-265; on the 'Variation of Animals and Plants,' 265-268; on the work on 'Man,' 268-280; miscellaneous, 281-294; on botanical researches, 297-322. Cotyledons, movements of, 316. Crawford, John, review of the 'Origin,' 219. Creation
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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
torical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, * which now appeared for the first time, and was continued in the later editions of the work. It bears a strong impress of the author's personal character in the obvious wish to do full justice to all his predecessors, though even in this respect it has not escaped some adverse criticism. A passage in a letter to Hooker (March 27, 1861) gives the history of one of his corrections. Here is a good joke: H. C. Watson (who
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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
Darwin's commonplace book and papers, 286. DUNNS. Darwin, Dr. Robert Waring, 1; his family, 3, letter to, in answer to objections to accept the appointment on the 'Beagle,' 117; letter to, from Bahia, 128. 'Darwinismus,' 42. Daubeny, Professor, 241; 'On the final causes of the sexuality of plants,' 237. Davidson, Mr., letter to, 278. Dawes, Mr., 23. De Candolle, Professor A., sending him the 'Origin of Species,' 209. Descent of Man,' work on the, 269; publication of the, 46, 271. , Reviews of the, in
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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
on the subject seems to get rarer and rarer. How beautifully illustrated it is. Mr. Bates' paper, 'Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazons Valley' (Linn. Soc. Trans. xxiii. 1862), in which the now familiar subject of mimicry was founded. My father wrote a short review of it in the Natural History Review, 1863, p. 219, parts of which occur almost verbatim in the later editions of the Origin of Species. A striking passage occurs in the review, showing the difficulties of the case from a
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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
descent-theory, ever since that grand review in the Times and the battle royal at Oxford up to the present day. Ever, my dear Huxley, Yours sincerely and gratefully, CHARLES DARWIN. P.S. It was absurdly stupid in me, but I had read the announcement of your Lecture, and thought that you meant the maturity of the subject, until my wife one day remarked, it is almost twenty-one years since the Origin appeared, and then for the first time the meaning of your words flashed on me. * Published in
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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
from your polished stiletto of a pen. The book was published on February 24, 1871. 2500 copies were printed at first, and 5000 more before the end of the year. My father notes that he received for this edition 1470. Nothing can give a better idea (in a small compass) of the growth of Evolutionism, and its position at this time, than a quotation from Mr. Huxley*: The gradual lapse of time has now separated us by more than a decade from the date of the publication of the Origin of Species; and
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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
, 1864, General Sabine's presidential address at the Anniversary Meeting is reported at some length. Special weight was laid on my father's work in Geology, Zoology, and Botany, but the Origin of Species was praised chiefly as containing a mass of observations, c. It is curious that as in the case of his election to the French Institute, so in this case, he was honoured not for the great work of his life, but for his less important work in special lines. I believe I am right in saying that no little
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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
June 28th, Dr. Daubeny of Oxford made a communication to Section D: On the final causes of the sexuality of plants, with particular reference to Mr. Darwin's work on the Origin of Species. Mr. Huxley was called on by the President, but tried (according to the Athen um report) to avoid a discussion, on the ground that a general audience, in which sentiment would unduly interfere with intellect, was not the public before which such a discussion should be carried on. However, the subject was not
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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
the fifth edition of the Origin. The most important alterations were suggested by a remarkable paper in the North British Review (June, 1867) written by the late Fleeming Jenkin. It is not a little remarkable that the criticisms, which my father, as I before, felt to be the most valuable ever made on his views should have come, not from a professed naturalist but from a Professor of Engineering. The point on which Fleeming Jenkin convinced my father is the extreme difficulty of believing that
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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
predecessors. The chief addition was a discussion suggested by Mr. Mivart's Genesis of Species, which appeared in 1871, before the publication of the Descent of Man. The following quotation from a letter to Wallace (July 9, 1871) may serve to show the spirit and method in which Mr. Mivart dealt with the subject. I grieve to see the omission of the words by Mivart, detected by Wright.* I complained to * The late Chauncey Wright, in an article published in the North American Review, vol. cxiii. pp. 83, 84
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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
Saturday Analyst and Leader, Nov. 24, 1860, was scarcely fair in alluding to Mr. Darwin as the parent of the origin of species, seeing that I published the whole that Mr. Darwin attempts to prove, more than twenty-nine years ago. It was not until later that he learned that Matthew had also been forestalled. In October 1865, he wrote Sir J. D. Hooker: Talking of the Origin, a Yankee has called my attention to a paper attached to Dr. Wells' famous Essay on Dew, which was read in 1813 to the Royal Soc
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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
sincerely and cordially. The meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1860 is famous for two pitched battles over the Origin of Species. Both of them originated in unimportant papers. On Thursday, * In a letter to Mr. Huxley my father wrote: Have you seen the last Saturday Review? I am very glad of the defence of you and of myself. I wish the reviewer had noticed Hooker. The reviewer, whoever he is, is a jolly good fellow, as this review and the last on me showed. He writes capitally, and
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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
-sake tell me who he is? My dear Huxley, yours most sincerely. There can be no doubt that this powerful essay, appearing in the leading daily Journal, must have had a strong influence on the reading public. Mr. Huxley allows me to quote from a letter an account of the happy chance that threw into his hands the opportunity of writing it: The Origin was sent to Mr. Lucas, one of the staff of the [page] 22
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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
subject. X. says he will go to that part of hell, which Dante tells us is appointed for those who are neither on God's side nor on that of the devil. But his friends were preparing to fight for him. Huxley gave, in Macmillan's Magazine for December, an analysis of the Origin, together with the substance of his Royal Institution lecture, delivered before the publication of the book. Carpenter was preparing an essay for the National Review, and negotiating for a notice in the Edinburgh free from any
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A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image
Darwin, Mr., on colours of caterpillars, 83 on cause of colour in flowers, 89, 139 on sexual coloration, 138 his metaphors liable to misconception, 144 criticism of, in North British Review, 159 on mode of cross-fertilisation and its use, 400 debt of science to, 450 his voyage in the Beagle, 455 on dust collected 300 miles from land, 456 on productions of Cocos and Galapagos islands, 456 the origin of species, 458 animals and plants under domestication, 459 observations on variability, 460
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A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image
changes of the earth's surface fifty or a hundred times greater than any that have occurred during the historical period; but we cannot place any definite limit to the number of species he may have outlived, or to the amount of terrestrial change he may have witnessed. Wide differences of opinion as to Man's Origin But while on this question of man's antiquity there is a very general agreement, and all are waiting eagerly for 1 First published in the Anthropological Review, May 1864; reprinted
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A238    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image
inorganic world. The Objection that there are Limits to Variation Having now, I believe, fairly answered the chief objections of the Duke of Argyll, I proceed to notice one or two of those adduced in an able and argumentative essay on the Origin of Species in the North British Review for July 1867. The writer first attempts to prove that there are strict limits to variation. When we begin to select variations in any one direction, the process is comparatively rapid, but after a considerable amount
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A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image
; Darwin's Letter on Bastian's Theory of Archebiosis, 160; Darwin's Letter to, on Pangenesis, 182 Watson, H. C., 144 Wedgwood, Josiah, 18 Weismann, Prof., on Germ-Plasm, 179; Studies in the Theory of Descent, Meldola's Translation, 205 210 Westminster Review, Huxley's Article on Origin of Species in, 125 Wilberforce, Bishop, 149 Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, The, 31 PRINTED BY CASSELL COMPANY, LIMITED, LA BELLE SAUVAGE, LONDON, E.C. [page break
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A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image
brought the increased confidence he had hoped for. Furthermore, in the Preface to Darwiniana (1893) he expressly stated that he had not changed his mind as regards this article and the next which will be considered (see p. 137, where the passage is quoted). In 1860 Huxley wrote the article on The Origin of Species which appeared in the Westminster Review for April, and is reprinted in Darwiniana. He here states the reasons for his doubts about natural selection in considerable detail. At the beginning
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A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image
Huxley, Prof., Criticisms of Darwin's Theory, 46, 48; on Teleology, 113; Darwin's Influence upon, 119 143; agrees with Darwin on Evolution, 121; Views on Natural Selection, 121, 124, 126, 138; Article in the Times on the Origin of Species, 124; his Article in the Westminster Review, 125; Lectures on the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, 128, 142; Views as to Natural Selection not changed, 137, 138; Speech at the British Association Meeting at Oxford, 139; awarded the Darwin Medal of
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A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image
. In the Times of December 26th, 1859, appeared a masterly article upon the Origin, and, after a time, it became known that Huxley was its author. Volume II. of the Life and Letters explains the circumstances under which the review was written. The article is reprinted as the first essay ( The Darwinian Hypothesis, I.) in Darwiniana (Vol. II. of the Collected Essays of Professor Huxley, London, 1893). The following quotation (pp. 19, 20) shows the attitude he took up with regard to natural
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A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image
before Darwin. This seems almost incredible to us at the present day, when the biological world is divided into two sections on the very subject, and when it is generally recognised that Lamarck's theory would be, if it were proved to be sound, a formidable rival to natural selection as a motive cause of evolution. But the following quotations a few among many leave no doubt whatever upon the subject. Evidence on this point reached Darwin almost immediately after the appearance of the Origin
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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
1858. July 1st: Joint paper of Darwin and Wallace read at the Linnean Society. July 20th to July 27th: Began Abstract of Species book, i.e., the Origin of Species, at Sandown, I.W. Paper on Bees and Fertilisation of Flowers. 1859. May 25th: Began proof-sheets of the Origin of Species. November 24th: Publication of the Origin: 1250 copies printed. October 2nd to December 9th: At the water-cure establishment, Ilkley, Yorkshire. 1860. January 7th: Publication of Edition ii. of Origin (3000 copies
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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
read a review which interested me so much. By Heavens, how the blood must have gushed into the capillaries when a certain great man (whom with all his faults I cannot help liking) read it! I am rather sorry you do not think more of Agassiz's embryological stages,2 for though I saw how exceedingly weak the evidence was, I was led to hope in its truth. 1. In his chapter on the Reception of the Origin of Species (Life and Letters, II., pages 188-9), Mr. Huxley wrote: and the only review I ever have
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F1548.2    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 2   Text   Image   PDF
Theory of the Origin of Species, by Andrew Murray. Proc. Roy. Soc., Edinb. Volume IV., pages 274-91, 1862. The review concludes with the following sentence: I have come to be of opinion that Mr. Darwin's theory is unsound, and that I am to be spared any collision between my inclination and my convictions (referring to the writer's belief in Design). 2. Mr. Horner's Anniversary Address to the Geological Society (Proc. Geol. Soc. XVII., 1861). [page 31
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F1548.2    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 2   Text   Image   PDF
. ustulata, ii. 265. Order of Nature, i. 161. Ordination, i. 193, 194. Organ mountains, Darwin on plants of, i. 476, 478; glacial action on, i. 476. Organisms, simultaneous change in, ii. 233; amount of change in fresh water and marine, ii. 233. Organs, transition of, ii. 344; use of, ii. 428. Origin of the Fittest, Cope's, i. 341. Origin of Genera, Cope's work on, i. 341. Origin of life, i. 140. Origin of Species, acceptance of doctrine of Evolution due to the, i. 304; Darwin's belief in the
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; nor does it seem worth the labour. He sticks to Priestley's Green Matter, and seems to think that till it can be shown how life arises it is no good showing how the forms of life arise. This seems to me about as logical (comparing very great things with little) as to say it was no use in Newton showing the laws of attraction of gravity and the consequent move- 1. Review of Darwin's Theory on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, by A.G. (Amer. Jour. Sci. Volume XXIX., page 153
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remarks on classification, because it showed me that I wrote truly on this subject in the Origin. I saw Bentham at the Linnean Society, and had some talk with him and Lubbock and Edgeworth, Wallich, and several others. I asked Bentham 1. Parts of this letter are published in Life and Letters, II., page 362. 2. This refers to Bentham's paper On the Species and Genera of Plants, etc. Nat. Hist. Review, April, 1861, page 133, which is founded on, or extracted from, a paper read before the Linn
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intermediate gradations (which I imagine are rare) interest me much. See Origin on the driver-ant, page 241 (please look at the passage.) Letter 119. TO T.H. HUXLEY. This refers to the first number of the new series of the Natural History Review, 1861, a periodical which Huxley was largely instrumental in founding, and of which he was an editor (see Letter 107). The first series was published in Dublin, and ran to seven volumes between 1854 and 1860. The new series came to an end in 1865. Down
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me to enter on. I thank you sincerely for the great interest which your discussion has given me... Letter 245. TO J.D. HOOKER. [The following letter refers to Mivart's Genesis of Species.3] Down, September 16th [1871]. I am preparing a new and cheap edition of the Origin, and shall introduce a new chapter on gradation, and on the uses of initial commencements of useful structures; for this, I observe, has produced the greatest effect on most persons. Every one of his [Mivart's] cases, as it seems
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species, I think may be fairly attributed in large part to the Origin. It would be well for you to look at the short Introduction of Owen's Anat. of Invertebrates, and see how fully he admits the descent of species. Of the Origin, four English editions, one or two American, two French, two German, one Dutch, one Italian, and several (as I was told) Russian editions. The translations of my book on Variation under Domestication are the results of the Origin; and of these two English, one American
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