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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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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

; 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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

) Darwin refers to Hutton's review as very original, and adds that Hutton is one of the very few who see that the change of species cannot be directly proved... (Life and Letters, II., page 362). The review appeared in The Geologist (afterwards known as The Geological Magazine) for 1861, pages 132-6 and 183-8. A letter on Difficulties of Darwinism is published in the same volume of The Geologist, page 286. [page 184

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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

account of dominant and important species generally varying most. You speak of their views rather as if you were a thousand miles away from such wretches, but your concluding paragraph shows that you are one of the wretches. I am pleased that you approve of Hutton's review.1 It seemed to me to take a more philosophical view of the manner of judging the question than any other review. The sentence you quote from it seems very true, but I do not agree with the theological conclusion. I think he quotes

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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

corresponding with Sir J.D. Hooker on the Origin of Species. A biographical note on Harvey is given as a note to Letter 95. 2. In a letter to Hooker, May 22nd, 1860, Darwin wrote: Have you Pyrola at Kew? if so, for heaven's sake observe the curvature of the pistil towards the gangway to the nectary. The fact of the stigma in insect-visited flowers being so placed that the visitor must touch it on its way to the nectar, was a point which early attracted Darwin's attention and strongly impressed him. 3. The

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400. 2. For De Maillet see Mr. Huxley's review on The Origin of Species in the Westminster Review, 1860, reprinted in Lay Sermons, 1870, page 314. De Maillet's evolutionary views were published after his death in 1748 under the name of Telliamed (De Maillet spelt backwards). 3. Mr. Traill's results are given at page 420 of Animals and Plants, Edition II., Volume I. In the Life and Letters of G.J. Romanes, 1896, an interesting correspondence is published with Mr. Darwin on this subject. The plan

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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

greatly undervalued. Letter 98. TO T.H. HUXLEY. The reference here is to the review on the Origin of Species generally believed to be by the late Sir R. Owen, and published in the April number of the Edinburgh Review, 1860. Owen's biographer is silent on the subject, and prints, without comment, the following passage 1. Darwin wrote to Woodward in regard to the Origin: It may be a vain and silly thing to say, but I believe my book must be read twice carefully to be fully understood. You will

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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

; influence of, i. 201; isolation among scientific men, i. 226, 227; lecture on birds by, i. 203; letters to, i. 59-61; letter to the Athenaeum, i. 238; Life of, i. 226; on lowness of animals, i. 413; on Macacus, i. 206; on mammals of Old World, i. 132, 133; on morphology of vertebrata, i. 415; review in the Quarterly of the Origin, i. 145-7, 149; Palaeontology by, i. 227; on parthenogenesis, i. 102; review in the Edinburgh Review by, i. 196; on simple and multiple organs, i. 415; on use and disuse, i

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name has made a splendid medical discovery of nicotine counteracting strychnine and tetanus? Can it be my dear friend? If so, he is at full liberty for the future to sneer [at] and abuse me to his heart's content. Unfortunately, Prof. Haughtons' discovery has not proved of more permanent value than his criticism on the Origin of Species. 2. See Life and Letters, II., page 314. [page 154

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sudden variations. Here again comes in the mischief of my abstract. In fuller MS. I have discussed the parallel case of a normal fish like a monstrous gold-fish. I end my discussion by doubting, because all cases of monstrosities which resemble normal structures which I could 1. Die fruchtbarste und allgemeinste Ursache der Varietaten-Bildung ist jedoch die Wahl der Lebens-Weise (loc. cit., page 112). 2. A bibliographical Notice On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or the

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allied geographical races or close species, seemed to me a greater difficulty when I discussed the subject in the Origin. With respect to your illustration, it formerly drove me half mad to attempt to account for the increase or diminution of the productiveness of an organism; but I cannot call to mind where my difficulty lay.1 Natural Selection always applies, as I think, to each individual and its offspring, such as its seeds, eggs, which are formed by the mother, and which are protected in

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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

misrepresented by Owen, i. 153; founds Natural History Review, i. 157; obituary notice of Darwin, i. 37, 38; on the Origin of Species, i. 119; on Owen's archetype book, i. 246; president of the British Association meeting at Liverpool (1870), i. 322; on Priestley, i. 398; quoted by Lord Kelvin as an unbeliever in spontaneous generation, i. 329; reviews by, i. 280, 313, 333; review of Vestiges of Creation by, i. 75; on Sabine's address, i. 255, 256; on saltus, i. 198; prefatory note to Häckel's

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countries (Origin, Edition VI., page 336). 1. Possibly an unsigned article, entitled New Colonial Floras (a review of Grisebach's Flora of the British West Indian Islands and Thwaites' Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae). Nat. Hist. Review, January 1865, page 46. See Letter 184. [page 480

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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 supported by results of boring in coral island of, ii. 199. Fungoid diseases, Darwin on, ii. 444. Fungus, effect on roots and shoots, ii. 422. Für Darwin, F. Müller's, i. 263 (see Facts and Arguments for Darwin); Darwin quotes, ii. 263; Hooker's opinion of, ii. 357; publication of, ii. 92. Furze, seeds and seedlings, i. 148. Galapagos Islands, visited during the Beagle voyage, i. 26; birds of, i. 412; character of species of, the beginning of Darwin's evolutionary views, i. 37, 38, 119

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fruit-feeders, i. 116. Herschel, Sir J.F.W., edits Manual of Scientific Enquiry, i. 64; on Natural Selection, i. 330; on the Origin, i. 190-92; Physical Geography, i. 190, 191; on providential laws, i. 192; on heating of rocks, ii. 133; on importance of generalising, ii. 252; on study of languages, ii. 229; versus Lyell on volcanic islands, ii. 141, 142; mentioned, ii. 5. Heteranthera, two kinds of stamens, ii. 367; H. reniformis, ii. 368. Heterocentron, experiments on, ii. 302; seeds of, ii. 284

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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

the complete paper. In the present volume we have thought it right to give some expression to the attitude of Darwin towards Owen. Professor Owen's biographer has clearly felt the difficulty of making a statement on Owen's attitude towards Darwinism, and has (Life of Sir Richard Owen, Volume II., page 92) been driven to adopt the severe indictment contained in the Origin of Species, Edition VI., page xviii. Darwin was by no means alone in his distrust of Owen; and to omit altogether a reference

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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

89. 3. On the three forms, etc., of Lythrum. 4. Anthropological Review, May 1864. 5. Mr. Wallace wrote, May 10th, 1864: I send you now my little contribution to the theory of the origin of man. I hope you will be able to agree with me. If you are able [to write] I shall be glad to have your criticisms. I was led to the subject by the necessity of explaining the vast mental and cranial differences between man and the apes combined with such small structural differences in other parts of the body

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edition of the Origin runs: Yet he [Prof. Owen] at the same time admits that Natural Selection may [our italics] have done something towards this end. In the sixth edition of the Origin, page xviii., Darwin, after referring to a correspondence in the London Review between the Editor of that Journal and Owen, goes on: It appeared manifest to the editor, as well as to myself, that Prof. Owen claimed to have promulgated the theory of Natural Selection before I had done so;...but as far as it is

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, i. 255; in agreement with Falconer in opposition to Darwin's views on species, i. 455; Insecta Maderensia, i. 482; on rarity of intermediate varieties in insects, i. 430; review on the Origin by, i. 141; on varieties, i. 94; mentioned, i. 167, 172, 176. Wolverhampton, abrupt termination of boulders near, ii. 168. Wood, fossil, i. 23, 24, 26. Wood, T.W., drawings by, ii. 101. Woodcock, germination of seeds carried by, ii. 4, 5; protective colouring of, ii. 87. Woodd, C.H.L., letter to, ii. 132

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, ii. 37; on structure of Alps, ii. 229; Lyell's criticism of, ii. 229. Murder, expression of man arrested for, ii. 102, 103. Murdoch, G.B., letter to, ii. 93-4. Murray, A., address to Botanical Society of Edinburgh, i. 138; criticism of Wallace's theory of nests, i. 304; Darwin criticised by, i. 176; ii. 30; Darwin's criticism of work of, ii. 3, 12, 155, 156; on geological distribution of mammals, ii. 3, 7, 8, 155; on leaves and CO2, ii. 412; review of Origin by, ii. 30; mentioned, ii. 4, 7

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yet doubtful of ultimate issue. But the suffering was so pitiable I almost got to wish to see her die. She is easy now. When she will be 1. In the 1st edition of the Origin, page 373, Darwin argues in favour of a Glacial period practically simultaneous over the globe. In the 5th edition, 1869, page 451, he adopted Mr. Croll's views on the alternation of cold periods in the northern and southern hemispheres. An interesting modification of the mundane Glacial period theory is given in Belt's The

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. 422. First Principles, Spencer's, ii. 442. Fish, Pictet and Humbert on fossil, ii. 160. Fiske, J., letter to, i. 333-4. Fissure-eruptions, ii. 227. Fitton, reference to his work, ii. 231. FitzRoy, Captain, and the Beagle voyage, i. 8, 11; writes preface to account of the voyage, i. 39; Darwin nearly rejected by, i. 194; letter to Times, i. 129. Flagellaria, as a climber, ii. 342. Flahault, on the peg in Cucurbita, ii. 427, 428. Fleeming Jenkin, review of Origin by: see Jenkin. Flinders, M

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, ii. 203; European element in flora, ii. 26; Meyer and Doège on plants of, ii. 251. Cape Tres Montes, the Beagle's southern limit, i. 20. Caprification, F. Müller in Kosmos on, ii. 366. Capsella bursa-pastoris, cross-fertilisation of, ii. 414. Carabus, origin of, i. 200; in Chili, ii. 159; A. Murray on, ii. 3. [page 458

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too completely your own and my child. The reference is to Mr. Wallace's review, in the April number of the Quarterly, of Lyell's Principles of Geology (tenth edition), and of the sixth edition of the Elements of Geology. Mr. Wallace points out that here for the first time Sir C. Lyell gave up his opposition to evolution; and this leads Mr. Wallace to give a short account of the views set forth in the Origin of Species. In this article Mr. Wallace makes a definite statement as to his views on

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strong opponent of Darwin's views, and contributed a bitter and anonymous article on the Origin of Species to the Edinburgh Review of 1860. The position of Owen in the history of anatomical science has been dealt with by Huxley in an essay incorporated in the Life of Richard Owen, by his grandson, the Rev. Richard Owen (2 volumes, London, 1894). Huxley pays a high tribute to Owen's industry and ability: During more than half a century Owen's industry remained unabated; and whether we consider the

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. 276, 302, 418. Velleia, fertilisation mechanism of, ii. 258. Verbascum, crossing and varieties in, i. 138, 218, 222, 230, 231; ii. 271, 285, 293, 309; Scott's work on, ii. 325. Verbenaceae, i. 107. Verlot, on variation in flowers, ii. 157. Veronica, Antarctic species of, i. 163. Vessels, course of, as guide to morphology of flowers, ii. 273-5; 287. Vestiges of Creation, i. 48, 49, 85; Huxley's review of, i. 75; the Origin of Species and, i. 136. [page 506

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the result of F. Müller's writings, ii. 358; account of Florida Coral-reefs, ii. 147; letters to, ii. 147, 197, 198; visits Down, ii. 357, 358. Agassiz, L., biographical note on, ii. 175; attack on Origin, i. 159; Darwin's criticism of book on Brazil, i. 305; Darwin's opinion of, i. 104, 264, 459; views on creation of species, i. 262; on geographical distribution, i. 309; Methods of Study by, i. 258; misstatement of Darwin's views, i. 258; Walsh on, i. 258; Etudes sur les Glaciers, i. 476; ii

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. 142, 165. Reversion, i. 103, 120, 199; in ammonites, i. 341; Darwin on, i. 473; and degeneration of characters, i. 344; factors causing, i. 357; hybridism and, i. 397; ii. 340; Lord Morton's mare and, i. 364; stripes of mules due to, i. 320; struggle between Natural Selection and, i. 353; and crossing, ii. 75; peloria and, ii. 335. Review of the Descent of Man, by J. Morley, i. 324-9. Reviews, Darwin on an author writing his own, i. 158; on the Origin of Species, by Asa Gray, i. 140, 166, 170

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at Linnean, i. 185; Philosophical, i. 131, 135. Coal, Darwin on origin of, i. 63, 64; ii. 217-20; Lesquereux on the flora of, i. 260; marine marshes and plants of, i. 151; ii. 217, 218; ash of, ii. 219. Coal period, higher percentage of CO2 during, ii. 20, 21. Coast-lines, parallelism with lines of volcanoes, ii. 142. Cobbe, Miss, article in Theological Review on Descent of Man, i. 329. Cockburn Island, boulders from, i. 407. Cochin hen, experiments on, i. 224. Coelogyne, fertilisation mechanism

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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

slightly but is still in a precarious condition. I have been able to do nothing in science of late. My kind friend Asa Gray often writes to me and tells me of the warm discussions on the Origin of Species in the United States. Whenever you are strong enough to read it, I know you will be dead against me, but I know equally well that your opposition will be liberal and philosophical. And this is a good deal more than I can say of all my opponents in this country. I have not yet seen Agassiz's