A2838    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. The great Darwin dead. Evening Gazette (21 April): 1.   Text

Darwin was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, the author of the celebrated Botanic Garden and the foreshadower of the Darwinian theory, and was born at Shrewsbury, in England, February 12, 1809. After studying at the grammar school in his native town, at the University of Edinburgh and at Christ's college, Cambridge, he took his last degree of Master of Arts in 1831, and set sail as voluntary naturalist in the ship Beagle on an exploring expedition around the world. Returning in 1836 he published

A2849    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Death of Professor Darwin. Manchester Evening News (20 April): 2.   Text

he went to Edinburgh, attended the lectures at the university for two years, entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1827, and took his degree in 1831. Captain Fitzroy, R.N., having offered to give up part of his own cabin to any one who would volunteer to accompany H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, Mr. Darwin tendered his services, and sailed, December 27th, in that vessel for the survey of South America and the circumnavigation of the globe, returning to England October 2nd, 1836. Mr. Darwin

A1202    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Death of Professor Darwin. The Bromley Record (1 May): 46-7.   Text   PDF

Majesty's ship Beagle in the Southern Seas. The first expedition, that of the Adventure and Beagle (1826-30) had explored the coasts of Patagonia; the Beagle which sailed again Dec. 27, 1831, and returned to England Oct. 22, 1836 [Oct. 2, 1836], made a scientific circumnavigation of the globe. Mr. Darwin served without salary, and partly paid his own expenses on condition that he should have the entire disposal of his zoological, botanical, and geological collections. On returning to England he

A2898    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin]. Launceston Examiner (22 April): 3.   Text

instructors; the Rev. Mr. Henslow, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, recommended him therefore to Captain Fitzroy and the Lords of the Admiralty in 1831, when a naturalist was to be chosen to accompany the second surveying expedition of H.M.S. Beagle in the Southern Seas. The first expedition, that of the Adventure and Beagle (1826-30) had explored the coasts of Patagonia. The Beagle, which sailed again December 27, 1831, and returned to England October 22, 1836, made a scientific

A7    Periodical contribution:     Carpenter, W. B. 1882. Charles Darwin: his life and work. Modern Review. 3: 500-24.   Text   Image

for the post and was accepted. The results of the marine surveys executed by Capt. Fitzroy during the 'Voyage of the Beagle,' are impressed on the copper plates from which our Charts are printed; but the life-work of Charles Darwin, of which the fundamental conceptions were formed, and the actual commencement made, during that voyage, constitute a monumentum are perennius, which will give it a place in the history of Mankind not less distinguished as having opened out a New World of Thought

A2842    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Death of Professor Darwin. Globe (20 April): 4.   Text   PDF

English pottery manufacture. He was educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School, and afterwards went to the University of Edinburgh. He next entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1832, and M.A. in 1837. He was chosen as naturalist to accompany the second surveying expedition on board H.M.S. Beagle, from 1831 to 1836, during which time scientific circumnavigation of the globe was made. On his return Mr. Darwin published a Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History

A2922    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Memoir of the late Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. The Zoologist 6, ser. 3): 193-196.   Text   PDF

Mr. Darwin was 'The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs' (1842-46), in which was enunciated the theory of their growth which is now generally accepted. This treatise was the first part of the Geology of the 'Adventure' and 'Beagle'; the 'Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands' (1844) formed the second volume; 'Geological Observations on South America' appeared in 1846, as the third section of the work; and this, with the exception of a number of detached papers, may be said to have

A2927    Periodical contribution:     Jenyns, Leonard. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin] The President's address. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 30: xxxiii-xlix.   Text   PDF

body. But I stopped both tyrant and prey. On the 6th of December, 1833, the 'Beagle' left the Rio Plata for the coast of Patagonia, and the occurrence of insects at sea is chronicled thus:— Several times when the ship has been some miles off the Plata, and other times when off the shores of Northern Patagonia, we have been surrounded with insects. One evening, when we were about ten miles from the Bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butterflies, in bands or flocks of countless myriads, extended as

A2927    Periodical contribution:     Jenyns, Leonard. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin] The President's address. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 30: xxxiii-xlix.   Text   PDF

under the loose dry blocks of coral, and was the only true insect which was abundant. On the advantages to the naturalist of extended travel, the closing words of the *Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the World' should be deeply impressed on the minds of all who may, if not now, yet in after-life, have opportunities of putting them in practice. In conclusion, it appears to me that nothing can be more

A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

influence the whole method of seeking after knowledge has been changed, and the increasing rapidity with which the results are every day developed becomes more and more bewildering. To what remote corners in religion, in legislation, in education, in every-day life, from Imperial Assemblies and venerable Universities to humble board schools and remote Scotch manses, the impetus initiated on board the Beagle and developed at the quiet and comfortable home at Beckenham, has reached, those who are

A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

chain of evidence by supplying the long-sought for missing links. Darwinism was, indeed, no hasty inspiration of a clever man. A score if failures led up to it. The labours of a lifetime devoted to research were the foundation on which it was built. The author of it first vaguely formulated his great thought while studying on board the Beagle; he matured it during thirty years of fact-collecting and reflection, and it added much to the confidence with which his startling inferences were

A6    Periodical contribution:     Balfour, John Hutton. 1882. Obituary Notice of Charles Robert Darwin. Transactions & Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 14: 284-8.   Text   Image

simple microscope is absolutely injurious to the progress of natural history (excepting of course with Infusoria). I have as yet found no exception to the rule, that when a man has told me he works with the compound alone, his work is valueless. Mr Poole, in his Index of Periodical Literature, gives an extensive list of Darwin's publications, which is reproduced in The Athenaeum for 13th May 1882, along with remarks on Darwin. Mr Darwin, after his return from the voyage of the Beagle, was very

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [2] Extracts from Proceedings of Geol. Soc. 1835. Novr. 18 Geological Notes (letters to Henslow) Sedgwick 1836 Novr. 30 Charles Darwin, Esq., A.B. Christ's College Cambridge Elected. 1837 Jany 4/ Observations of process of recent elevation on the Coast of Chile made during the Survey of H.M.S. Beagle, Commanded by Capt. Fitzroy R.N. by C. Darwin Esq F.G.S. Preached by A. Caldaclaugh Esq F.G.S. Some observations on the elevation of Strata on the Cost

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

difference would, no doubt, still remain immense, even if one of the higher apes had been improved or civilised as much as a dog has been in comparison with its parent-form, the wolf or jackal. The Fuegians rank amongst the lowest barbarians; but I was continually struck with surprise how closely the three natives on board H.M.S. Beagle, who had lived some years in England, and could talk a little English, resembled us in disposition and in most of our mental faculties. If no organic being excepting man

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

with equal or greater force with respect to the numerous points of mental similarity between the most distinct races of man. The American aborigines, Negroes and Europeans are as different from each other in mind as any three races that can be named; yet I was incessantly struck, whilst living with the Feugians on board the Beagle, with the many little traits of character, shewing how similar their minds were to ours; and so it was with a full-blooded negro with whom I happened once to be intimate

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

at considerable length. Male birds sometimes, though rarely, possess special weapons for fighting 71 For Proctotretus see 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle : Reptiles,' by Mr. Bell, p. 8. For the Lizards of S. Africa, see 'Zoology of S. Africa: Reptiles,' by Sir Andrew Smith, pl. 25 and 39. For the Indian Calotes, see 'Reptiles of British India,' by Dr. Günther, p. 143. 72 Günther in 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 1870, p. 778, with a coloured figure. [page] 35

A2423    Review:     Noll, F. C. 1882. [Review of Earthworms]. Zoologische Garten: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Tiergärtnerei (March): 95-96.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 31 Literatur. Reise eines Naturforschers um die Welt von Ch. Darwin. Uebersetzt von V. Carus. Mit 14 Holzschn. Erster Band aus Ch. Darwin's gesammelte Werke. Stuttgart. E. Schweizerbart. 1875. In den Jahren 1833—1837 machte der damals junge Naturforscher eine Reise mit dem vom Capt. Fitz Roy gefuehrten Schiffe Beagle um die Welt. Die Fahrt ging von den Capverdischen Inseln nach Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Patagonien, dem Feuerland, der

A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

when, as he himself tells us, the idea of the origin of species first struck his mind, down to the very end of his life. If The Origin of Species had never been written, if there had been no Darwinian hypothesis, the actual work he did would have been enough to gain him a reputation among the highest. His books on coral reefs, on the voyage of the Beagle, on minute vegetable anatomy, on domestication, on climbing plants, on the movements of plants, and, lastly, that marvellous book on

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

,' Eng. translat. edited by Sir J. Lubbock, 1868, p. 104. 26 Westropp, 'On Cromlechs,' c., 'Journal of Ethnological Soc.' as given in 'Scientific Opinion,' June 2nd, 1869, p. 3. 27 'Journal of Researches: Voyage of the Beagle, ' p. 46. 28 'Prehistoric Times,' 1869, page 574. N 2 [page] 18

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

, excepting that with non-social insects there seems to be no use for sound-producing organs, unless it be as a sexual call. Order, Homoptera.—Every one who has wandered in a tropical forest must have been astonished at the din made by the male Cicadæ. The females are mute; as the Grecian poet Xenarchus says, Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives. The noise thus made could be plainly heard on board the Beagle, when anchored at a quarter of a mile from the shore of Brazil; and

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

hand, is blackish-brown, with the belly partly black, whilst the female is reddish or yellowish-olive, with the belly either uniform yellowish or marbled with black. In the Tragops dispar of the same country, the male is bright green, and the 51 Mr. C. J. Maynard, 'The American Naturalist,' Dec. 1869, p. 555. 52 See my 'Journal of Researches during the Voyage of the Beagle, ' 1845, p. 384. 53 Dr. Günther, 'Reptiles of British India,' 1864, p. 7. 54 'Travels through Carolina, c., 1791, p. 128. 55

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

'Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle,' Birds, 1841, p. 16. For the Climacteris and night-jar (Eurostopodus), see Gould's 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' vol. i. pp. 602 and 97. The new Zealand shieldrake (Tadorna variegata) offers a quite anomalous case; the head of the female is pure white, and her back is redder than that of the male; the head of the male is of a rich dark bronzed colour, and his back is clothed with finely pencilled slate-coloured feathers, so that altogether he may be

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

chapter how different is the standard of beauty in these 20 Azara, 'Voyages,' c. tom. ii. p. 23. Dobrizhoffer, 'An Account of the Abipones,' vol. ii. 1822, p. 207. Capt. Musters, in 'Proc. R. Geograph. Soc.,' vol. xv. p. 47. Williams on the Fiji Islanders, as quoted by Lubbock, 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, p. 79. On the Fuegians, King and Fitzroy, 'Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle,' vol. ii. 1839, p. 182. On the Kalmucks, quoted by M'Lennan, 'Primitive Marriage,' 1865, p. 32. On the Malays

A1211    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Death of Chas. Darwin. New York Times (21 April): 5.   Text   PDF

the countries visited by the expedition. This was published as part of Capt. Fitzray's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H. M. S. Beagle and Adventurer. In succeeding years he edited, in five parts, the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, the notes of the habits and range of mammalia being by his hand. Out of the material obtained on this cruise he prepared for publication in 1842 The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; in 1874, Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, and in

A2897    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin]. Brisbane Courier (22 April): 5.   Text

-- a descendant of the well-known potter of that name, who brought him an accession to his means. Immediately after the honeymoon he embraced the opportunity of joining the scientific cruise of H. M. S. Beagle, which was despatched to circumnavigate the globe. She was absent five years, and during that time the young naturalist gathered immense stores of practical knowledge. He had agreed to serve without salary, stipulating only for the entire right of disposing of his collections. After his