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organic forms having been slower in small confined areas, such as all the fresh waters make compared with sea or land.'3  1 Oct. 11, 1859. Life and Letters, ii. 210. 2 Feb. 18, 1860. More Letters, i. 143. See Origin of Species, ed. vi, 83, 112. 3 Sept. 12, 1860. Life and Letters, ii. 340. See also Quarterly Review, July, 1909, 21, 22. [page] 48 FIFTY YEARS OF DARWINIS

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the establishment of such species.4 It must be admitted, however, that the evidence is as yet quite insufficient to establish this conclusion. It is interesting to observe how Darwin at once fixed on the part of Bates's memoir which seemed to bear upon Sexual Selection. A review of Bates's theory of Mimicry was contributed by Darwin to the Natural History  1 Life and Letters, ii. 391-3. 2 More Letters, i. 214. 3 More Letters, i. 215. See also parts of Darwin's letter to Bates in Life and Letters

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on 'sudden jumps' or 'monstrosities', as well as on 'large', 'extreme', and 'great and sudden variations' (see Appendix B, p. 254). Out of many examples I select one more because of its peculiar interest. The Duke of Argyll, in his address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Dec. 5, 1864, used the following words:—'Strictly speaking, therefore, Mr. Darwin's theory is not a theory of the Origin of Species at all, but only a theory on the causes which lead to the relative success and failure of

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be entitled to the same honourable place in the memory of future generations. As it is, we must regret that he did not keep up the struggle to the  1 More Letters, i. 203. 2 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., xviii. See also the writer's article in the Quarterly Review for July, 1909, 4-6. The following remarkable episode, which I owe to the kindness of my friend Mr, Roland Trimen, F.R.S., is quoted from p. 5:— 'At Down, about the end of the year 1867, when conversing with Mr. Darwin about the already

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entertain doubts on the subject, and on the appearance of the Origin of Species , I was forced, however reluctantly, to give up my long-cherished convictions, the results of much labour and study, and I cancelled all that part of my paper which urged Original fixity.' Life and Letters, ii. 294. See also the Quarterly Review (July, 1909), 6. [page] 14 FIFTY YEARS OF DARWINIS

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reasonings on geological theory with vehement opposition and his conclusions with coldness and contempt. There is, indeed, a very striking parallelism between the reception of the Principles of Geology by Lyell's contemporaries and the manner in which the Origin of Species was met a quarter of a century later, as is so vividly described by Huxley1. Among Lyell's fellow-geologists, two only—G. Poulett Scrope and John Herschel2—declared themselves from the first his strong supporters. Scrope in two

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sciences, we are entitled to say of it as Schleicher said of Darwin's theory of the origin of species, it depends upon observation, and is essentially an attempt at a history of development. Other questions there are in connection with language and evolution which require investigation—the survival of one amongst several competing words (e.g. why German keeps only as a high poetic word ross, which is identical in origin with the English work-a-day horse, and replaces it by pferd, whose congener the

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world was awaiting a liberator. Finally the revolution was proclaimed and the first decisive blow struck by the publication of The Origin of Species on the twenty-fourth of November, 1859. It was no hasty and ill-considered stroke. Events had been shaping themselves to this end since the twenty-seventh of December, 1831, when the little brig Beagle sailed from Plymouth harbor, bearing the unknown and youthful Charles Darwin to the discovery of a new world not, however, an unexplored continent

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species to pair together, and on Nov. 25 he wrote to Bates asking for fuller information on this subject3. If Bates's opinion were well founded, sexual selection would bear a most important part in the establishment of such species4. It must be admitted, however, that the evidence is as yet quite insufficient to establish this conclusion. It is interesting to observe how Darwin at once fixed on the part of Bates's memoir which seemed to bear upon sexual selection. A review of Bates's theory of

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notwithstanding his conviction that the hypothesis was sound, Darwin was quite aware that it was probably the most vulnerable part of the Origin. Thus he wrote to H. W. Bates, April 4, 1861: If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have [worried?] and quizzed sexual selection; therefore, though I am fully convinced that it is largely true, you may imagine how pleased I am at what you say on your belief3. The existence of sound-producing organs in the males of insects was, Darwin considered

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consequences. A REVOLUTION IN THOUGHT. The Origin of Species was published, and the whole edition of 1,250 copies exhausted, on November 24, 1859. Advance copies had been issued for review, and on November 19 the Athenaeum had committed the author to the tender mercies of the Divinity Hall, the College, the lecture room, and the museum. Looking back on the controversy which immediately followed, the contrast between the maturity of the new views and the crudity of the attacks which were directed

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Principles, 123; first sketch of 1842, enlarged draft of 1844, commencement of great treatise on Evolution in 1856, interruption by arrival of Wallace's papers, 128, 129; the 'Abstract' or Origin of Species commenced, 130; finished, 131; reception of, 132-139; influence of, 1, 159 OSBORN, H. F., his From the Greeks to Darwin, 16; on Lamarck, 87 PALEY, his influence on Darwin, 108 PHILLIPS, JOHN, his attitude towards Lyell's views, 30, 71 Philosophers, on Evolution, 16, 82 PLAYFAIR, JOHN, his

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methodical habits of the writer. Judging from the date of Owen's criticism and the date of the publication of Hunter's book, the letter was written in 1860. 57. Proof-sheets of the hostile Edinburgh Review article on the Origin of Species, April 1860, found among the papers of Sir Richard Owen after his death. The article was not signed, but it was generally known to have been written by Owen. 58. Darwin's On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by Insects

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rather nice Review of you in last Athenaeum and a very unnice one of my book; I suspect, from two or three little points, by Owen.—Ever yours very truly, C. Darwin. This year (1860) was remarkable in the annals of science for the publication of Darwin's great work on the Origin of Species. Writing to Dr. (Sir J.) Hooker on March 3, 1860, he gives the following table [Life and letters 2:293.] of those who went with him in his conclusions: [table] The Origin of Species raised a storm of controversy

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DATE PERIODICAL OR SOCIETY SUBJECT 1869 Journ. of Travel and Nat. Hist. A Theory of Birds' Nests April 1869 Quarterly Rev. Reviews of Lyell's Principles of Geology (entitled Geological Climates and Origin of Species ) 1869 Macmillan's Mag. Museums for the People * 1869 Trans. Entomol. Soc. Notes on Eastern Butterflies (3 Parts) 1870 Brit. Association Report On a Diagram of the Earth's Eccentricity, etc. March 1871 Academy Review of Darwin's Descent of Man May 23 1871 Entomolog. Soc. Address on

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contend with them, and by the death of all men who fail to contend with them successfully, there is ensured a constant progress towards a higher degree of skill, intelligence, self-regulation a better co-ordinance of actions a more complete life. Up to the period of the publication of the Origin of Species and the first conception of the scheme of the Synthetic Philosophy there had been no communication between Darwin and Spencer beyond the presentation by Spencer of a copy of his Essays to Darwin

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of travel. When the Malay Archipelago was in progress, a lengthy article on Geological Climates and the Origin of Species (which formed the foundation for Island Life twelve years later) appeared in the Quarterly Review (April, 1869). Several references in this to the Principles of Geology Sir Charles Lyell's great work [page]

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of the Glacial theory, adopting Croll's views (part of this has been published as a separate article in the Quarterly Review of last July, and has been highly approved by Croll and Geikie); a discussion of the theory of permanent continents and oceans, which I see you were the first to adopt, but which geologists, I am sorry to say, quite ignore. All this is preliminary. Then follows a series of chapters on the different kinds of islands, continental and oceanic, with a pretty full discussion

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to Flora of Australia, 139; on pangenesis, 197; visits Darwin at Freshwater, 219; signs memorial to City Corporation in Wallace's favour, 303; opinion on Wallace's Island Life, 307 Hooker, Sir Joseph, letters from: on Island Life, ii. 32 3; acknowledging Wallace's Life, etc., 82 3 Hopkins's review of the quot;Origin of Species, i. 144 Hopkinson, Prof. A., and Spiritualism, ii. 200 Howorth, Sir H. H., on subsidence and elevation of land, i. 277 Hubrecht, Prof., ii. 80; alleges differences between

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Mouth-gesture as factor in origin of language, ii. 65 Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, Darwin's, i, 285, 311, ii. 2 M ller, Fritz, F r Darwin, i. 164; on mimetic butterflies, 189 (note), 270, 300 Hermann, i. 189 (note) Murchison, Sir Roderick, and Wallace, i. 36; on Africa, 159 Murphy, Mr. M. J., ii. 164 Murphy's Habit and Intelligence, Wallace's review of, i. 246, 249 Murray, Andrew, attacks Darwin's Origin of Species, i. 142; opposes Trimen's views on mimetic butterflies, 201 Murray's

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variation and mutation men, by so continually saying if they vary without variation Natural Selection can do nothing, etc. Your argument that variations are not caused by change of environment is equally forcible and convincing. Has anybody answered de Vries yet? F. Darwin lent me Prof. Hubrecht's review from the Popular Science Monthly, in which he claims that de Vries has proved that new species have always been produced from mutations, never through normal variability, and that Darwin

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the Origin because it was based on imaginings and speculation not troubling to explain why Huxley and Lyell had found no speculation in the book. The critic in the North American Review rebuked Darwin for sneering and scornfully repudiating. Yet no sneering or scorn is to be found in Darwin's book. Charges of carelessness and ignorance were brought against an author who had obviously been most painstaking in assembling guaranteed data. Darwin, with extraordinary candor, had displayed as

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an anonymous very long, hostile, and speciously disingenuous review of the Origin of species, in which the case of the bear came in for its full share of misrepresentation. The following is an example: 'If the ursine species had not been restricted to northern latitudes, we might have surmised this to have been one of the facts connected with the distribution of the inhabitants of South America , which seemed to Mr. Darwin, when naturalist on board H.M.S. Beagle, to throw some light on the origin

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. Later Owen bitterly attacked On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection (henceforth referred to as O, see Abbreviations p. 24 and Bibliography p. 218) in the Edinburgh Review, April 1860. Darwin at first used to defend him, but later formed a low opinion of him for his ambition, envy and dishonesty. See also Letters 112 and 116 (footnote 2), pp. 203 and 209. 1 The Museum of the Zoological Society, then at 33 Bruton Street. The collection was some years later broken up and dispersed

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reference to the passage in Hearne's Travels relating to the famous bear-and-whale passage, for Darwin wrote giving this information on 10 December.1 It would have been difficult, from this exchanged correspondence, to foresee the venom of Owen's anonymous review of the Origin of Species, his coaching of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, or his disingenuous and disgraceful subsequent behaviour in regard to Darwin and his book.2 These letters were presented to the School, together with the