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MLS-FM4.6900 Miscellaneous: 1892.10 Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle. Manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, FM4/6900/. Text

series of which the 1st was Capt. King's account of the first expedition of the Adventure Beagle and the 2nd was Captn. Fitzroy's account of the Beagle voyage from 1831 to 1836. Mr Darwins work was received by the literary scientific world with marked attention - critics at once placed it on a level with Humboldts narratives - several editions were produced. The work is now a standard one in all libraries. Mr Darwin has related his landing on St Paul's Rock near the Equator, but he makes no mention

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MLS-FM4.6900 Miscellaneous: 1892.10 Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle. Manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, FM4/6900/. Text

King, Philip Gidley. 1892. [Reminiscences of Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle]. Manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, MLS-FM4.6900 1 Reminiscences of Mr Darwin. Oct. 1892 The Beagle's voyage is destined to be for many years a celebrated one in the Annals of the Surveying Service of England as well as in Scientific circles. Firstly on account of the splendid work performed by her commander (Captain Beaufort Hyd. M.S.) afterwards Admiral Fitzroy and also that she was the home for

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MLS-FM4.6900 Miscellaneous: 1892.10 Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle. Manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, FM4/6900/. Text

following event is still fresh as ever in the memory of the writer. - It was necessary to erect a beacon as a guide to vessels making for Bahia Blanca South of the Entrance to the River Plata - the Beagle anchored some distance from that bar bound Bay on the open coast line about a mile from the shore. Three Boats crews were sent away and effected a landing through the surf; a day's provision had been supplied to them supposing they would return in the evening. A gale from South East however

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A986 Periodical contribution: Vaughan, John. 1893. Boyhood of Charles Darwin. Boys Own Paper, 8 April: 445-446. Text Image

; as a boy at Shrewsbury he had worked at chemistry, and found his recreation in shooting and bird-nesting; at Edinburgh he had learnt the art of stuffing birds; at Cambridge his chief pleasure and pursuit was collecting beetles; and from the time of his joining the Beagle his entire life was dedicated to his beloved science. Of Darwin's life at Down, where he resided for forty years, there are no stirring incidents to record. My life, he said, goes on like clockwork, and I am fixed on the spot

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A31 Periodical contribution: V[aughan], E.T. 1893. [Recollections of Charles Darwin at Christ's College]. Some recollections of Christ's College. Christ's College Magazine. Michaelmas Term. 8: 1-13: 2-3. Text

intellectual power, could never be forgotten. It was even then the same essentially as the striking photograph shows it to have been in old age. His mastery of Botany, and of Natural History generally, was even then acknowledged; and we knew that he was going on a scientific expedition round the world in the 'Beagle.' He had not read for University honours, but was placed very high on the 'Poll' in January 1831. Another friend of early days, belonging to the year above my own, James Hildyard, a

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A483 Periodical contribution: Vignoles, O. J. 1893. The home of a naturalist. Good Words 34: 95-101. Text Image

humility. Her words made me think of parts of his autobiography where it is evident that Darwin then retained reverence for revealed religion, e.g. in his notes on visiting some of the Pacific isles on his voyage in the Beagle. It is admirable to behold what the missionaries have effected both here, and in New Zealand. I firmly believe they are good men, working for a good cause. And in a letter he remarks: The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious

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A986 Periodical contribution: Vaughan, John. 1893. Boyhood of Charles Darwin. Boys Own Paper, 8 April: 445-446. Text Image

reading was always great. We have seen how he studied chemistry, which earned for him the nickname of Gas. He would sit for hours, generally in an old window in the thick walls of the school, reading the historical plays of Shakespeare. Over and over again he went through a copy of the Wonders of the World, a book which first gave him the desire to travel, which was afterwards fulfilled in the ever memorable voyage of the Beagle. Gilbert White's History of Selborne was eagerly devoured, and he

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A316 Pamphlet: Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen. Text Image PDF

VOYAGE. 15 accepting an offer which was the great determining fact in his life. I of course refer to the offer made to him to go out on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist. Here, again, we must not forget that he owed this offer to the kindly recommendation of Henslow. His father first opposed his going, but giving way on the intervention of his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood, Darwin went to London to see Captain Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle. Fitzroy, as an ardent disciple of Lavater, was at first

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A316 Pamphlet: Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen. Text Image PDF

over-estimated, but that is a point to which I shall have to refer later on. After an absence of five years the voyage of the Beagle came to an end, and in October 1836 Darwin was once more in England. In the following December he went to Cambridge, and resided there until the following spring. His impression of Cambridge then he gives in the following words:— Cambridge yet continues very pleasant, but not half so merry a place as before. To walk through the courts of Christ's College, and not

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F2032 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1894. [Note on a Toxodon skull]. In R. Owen ed. The life of Richard Owen. London: John Murray, vol. 1, pp. 119-120. Text Image PDF

Darwin, C. R. 1894. [Note on a Toxodon skull]. In R. Owen ed. The life of Richard Owen. London: John Murray, vol. 1, pp. 119-120. [page] 119 Amongst the descriptions which Owen made of the fossil mammalia collected by Darwin in the voyage of the 'Beagle' may be mentioned that of the Toxodon skull. The toxodon was a gigantic extinct mammal, presenting great peculiarities and having points in common with various orders of Mammalia. The following account of the toxodon in the autograph of Charles

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A316 Pamphlet: Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen. Text Image PDF

Nor was this intention and my father's wish ever formally given up, but died a natural death when, on leaving Cambridge, I joined the Beagle as naturalist. If the phrenologists are to be trusted, I was well fitted in one respect to be a clergyman. A few years ago the secretaries of a German psychological society asked me earnestly by letter for a photograph of myself: and some time afterwards I received the proceedings of one of the meetings, in which it seemed that the shape of my head had

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A316 Pamphlet: Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen. Text Image PDF

Cambridge—Grant and MacGillvray, Henslow and Sedgwick and Humboldt, not even omitting the intelligent, travelled negro bird-stuffer (with whom he used to talk at Edinburgh)—had prepared him, had so educated him as to make him desirous and capable of [page] BEAGL

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A316 Pamphlet: Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen. Text Image PDF

he came under the influence of the second great scientific force, counting Henslow as the first. I mean that felicitous writer and philosophic geologist Sir Charles Lyell. Darwin took with him on board the Beagle the first volume of Lyell's Principles of Geology, just published (1830), and read it carefully, and he says the book was of the highest service to him in many ways. The many successful geological observations made by him, and his palasontological discoveries, were no doubt due to the

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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

work; he has given us new conceptions of the world of life, and a theory which is itself a powerful instrument of research; has shown us how to combine into one consistent whole the facts accumulated by all the separate classes of workers, and has thereby revolutionised the whole study of nature. Let us endeavour to see by what means he arrived at this vast result. The Voyage of the BEAGLE Passing by the ancestry and early life of Darwin, which have been made known to the whole reading public by

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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

Beagle The Journal of Researches Studies of Domestic Animals Studies of Cultivated and Wild Plants Researches on the Cowslip, Primrose, and Loose-strife The Struggle for Existence Geographical Distribution and Dispersal of Organisms The Descent of Man and later Works Estimate of Darwin's Life-Work 450 475 INDEX 476 [page 2

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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

IX THE DEBT OF SCIENCE OF DARWIN1 The Century before Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle The Journal of Researches Studies of Domestic Animals Studies of Cultivated and Wild Plants Researches on the Cowslip, Primrose, and Loosestrife The Struggle for Existence Geographical Distribution and Dispersal of Organisms The Descent of Man and Later Works Estimate of Darwin's Life-Work. THE great man recently taken from us had achieved an amount of reputation and honour perhaps never before accorded to a

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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

on use of Toucan's bill, 298 on large serpents, 304 on the habits of humming-birds, 318 Bats, 307 Bayma, Mr., on Molecular Mechanics, 208 Beagle, Darwin's voyage in, 455 Beauty in nature, 153 not universal, 155 of flowers useful to them, 155 not given for its own sake, 156 Beetles, 288 abundance of, in new forest clearings, 290 probable use of horns of, 372 Belt, Mr., on virgin forests of Nicaragua, 265 on aspects of tropical vegetation, 268 [page] 47

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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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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin] [page] 36 CHAPTER II. H.M.S. BEAGLE, H.M. KETCH ARROW, ETC. 1831-42. On the advice of FitzRoy, in view of his approaching examination for the rank of lieutenant, Sulivan only remained in the Beagle as midshipman until February 12th, 1829. He then joined the Ganges, Captain Inglefield, leaving her on April 12th for the North Star, Captain Arabin, evidently for a passage home. On December 8th he passed his examination in seamanship

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

Beagle reached New Zealand, after touching at Otaheite. The month following she arrived at Sydney, where Mr. King left them to join his father. The Beagle sailed for England, calling at Mauritius, the Cape, and other places on her way home for the purpose of observations for meridian distances. She arrived at Greenwich in November 1836. One story not related by FitzRoy I may now give without offence. On the return of the vessel after such an interesting voyage, so many people came to visit her

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

Philosophy, which, he said, stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science ; and Humboldt's Personal Narrative, which roused in him the longing to travel a desire which was soon afterwards gratified by his voyage in the Beagle. Upon the whole, he says, the three years which I spent at Cambridge were the most joyful in my happy life; for I was then in excellent health, and almost always in high spirits. After passing his last

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

Her Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle. A second edition was published in a separate form in 1845 as 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, under the command of Captain Fitz-Roy, R.N. ; and a third edition but very slightly altered in 1860, under the title A Naturalist's Voyage: Journal of Researches, etc. This book is generally admitted to deserve above all others the generous description which

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

the 'Origin of Species' the principles of a natural classification. Sir Joseph Hooker remembers that Darwin at an earlier time recognised three stages in his career as a biologist: the mere collector at Cambridge; the collector and observer in the Beagle and for some years afterwards; and the trained naturalist after, and only after, the Cirripede work (Letter to F. Darwin). Professor Huxley considers that just as by Darwin's practical experience of physical geography, geology, etc., on the

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

was a curious case of somnambulism. The officers, seeing he was evidently overwrought, did not like to awaken him, so he missed the ball. Owing to heavy gales, the Beagle twice returned after having put out to sea before she finally sailed on December 27th, so there was an opportunity after all for the farewell to be spoken. It was the opinion of all on board the Beagle that never [page] 3

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

CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE SECRET OF DARWIN'S GREATNESS 9 II. BOYHOOD EDINBURGH CAMBRIDGE (1817 31) 16 III. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (1831 36) 21 IV. CAMBRIDGE LONDON WORK UPON THE COLLECTIONS MARRIAGE GEOLOGICAL WORK JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE CORAL REEFS FIRST RECORDED THOUGHTS ON EVOLUTION (1837 42) 25 V. DOWN GEOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE WORK ON CIRRIPEDES (1842 54) 35 VI. THE GROWTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1837 58) 42 VII. GROWTH OF THE ORIGIN (continued) CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS 50 VIII. DARWIN

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

Cape de Verde Islands, St. Paul's Rocks, Fernando Noronha, South America (including the Galapagos Archipelago, the Falkland Islands, and Tierra del Fuego), Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Keeling Island, Maldive Coral Atolls, Mauritius, St. Helena, Ascension. Brazil was then visited again for a short time, the Beagle touching at the Cape de Verde Islands and the Azores on the voyage home. Darwin says, concerning the intellectual effect of his work during the voyage: That my mind

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

outsailing those of the whole squadron. Throughout the many years of constant boat-work in the 'Beagle, Arrow, and Philomel, no accident occurred ; this he greatly attributed to the use of this rig. On the arrival of the Beagle at Buenos Ayres, FitzRoy, anxious to accomplish as much work as he could, purchased and fitted out at his own expense two little vessels in which to send officers on detached surveys. Lieutenant Wickham was given charge of one, Mr. Stokes, the mate, of the other. Sulivan thus

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

separate islands being rendered extremely rare from the depth of the sea, the direction of the currents, and the absence of gales. In this way time for specific modification was provided before the partially modified form could interbreed with the parent species and thus lose its own newly acquired characteristics. Although Darwin made these observations on the Beagle, they required, as Huxley has suggested (Obituary [1888], Darwiniana : Collected Essays, vol. ii., pp. 274 275. London, 1893

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

; Voyage of the Beagle, 21, et seq.; Preparation for and Effects of the Voyage, 22; the Most Important Discoveries during, 23; Places Visited, 23, 24; Re-visits Cambridge, 25; Work upon the Collections, and the Naturalist's Voyage, 25; at London, 25; Origin of Species, 25 29; Geological Work, 29, 33; Completion of A Naturalist's Voyage, 30; Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, 31; Papers on Earth-Worms, 31; Marriage, 32; Book on the Coral Reefs, 32; Ill-health, 32; at Down, 35; his Career as a

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

Charles, 11 Darwin, Robert Waring, Father of Charles, 10; Profession and Character, 10; his Dislike to the Beagle Expedition, 21 22; Death of, 41 Darwin Medal of the Royal Society awarded to Huxley, The, 140 Darwinism not Evolution, Huxley's Speeches, 139 141 Deposits, Oceanic, 55 Descent of Man, The, 186 Development, 166, 171 Dixey, Dr. F. A., Paper on Mimicry, 214 Domestication, Variation by, of Animals and Plants, 115, 161, et seq.; of Animals, 75 Down, Darwin's Home at, 35 Drosera and Other

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

instruments. Her cabin is the same size, but is four feet high, and has a table and seats. In these craft did one or other of the officers survey the coast from the Rio Plata to the Straits of Magellan over a period of nearly twelve months, whilst the Beagle was engaged farther south. In the meantime FitzRoy had added to the squadron a schooner-yacht, a much better vessel, which he named the Adventure (after the ship commanded by Captain King), and she was his consort during nearly the whole

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

amusements when on shore, except when I brought them to an anchor occasionally to prevent their shaking the ground (near my instruments), and then they would find something amusing in that; and when men in those spirits are happy and comfortable, it is astonishing how they make work fly. 'BEAGLE,' AT SEA, November 15th, 1834. It [Chiloe] will be a pleasant cruise, and all the officers want to go with me. I am to have Usborne, Johnson, and King, the assistant surgeon, and five men, besides the pilot

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

small craft, with Lieutenant Wickham]. His was the cheery, open heart which held out the hand of genuine friendship to any one, though of inferior rank in the service. As the voyage proceeded changes were made, and I became not only his shipmate but his helpmate; and later on he was appointed by Captain FitzRoy to take his share in the small-craft service, which added so much to the real work performed by the officers of the Beagle. To his craft I had the happiness of being appointed, and the

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

CHAPTER III. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (1831 36). ABOUT the time of the excursion with Sedgwick (the exact date is uncertain) Professor Henslow received a letter from George Peacock (formerly Dean of Ely and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge) stating that he had the offer to recommend a young man as naturalist to accompany Captain Fitzroy on a surveying expedition to many parts of the world. Leonard Jenyns (afterwards Blomefield) was evidently considered to be the most suitable person

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

longing to return to his family and friends. There was the same conflict between the naval and scientific departments of the Beagle on the untidiness of the decks which was afterwards repeated on the Challenger, where I have been told that one of the naval authorities used to say, with resigned disgust, Oh, no, we're not a man-of-war, we're only a dredger! In the course of the voyage the following countries and islands were visited in the order given: The [page] 2

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

by discovering such remains for himself. In his Autobiography he says: During the voyage of the Beagle I had been deeply impressed by discovering in the Pampean formation great fossil animals covered with armour like that on existing armadilloes; . . . . Darwin was thus led to conclude that there was some genetic connection between the animals which have succeeded each other in the same district; for in a theory of destructive cataclysms, followed by re-creations or, indeed, in any theory of

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

same time, within easy reach of all the advantages of London. Here, too, he had no difficulty in avoiding social engagements, which always injured his very precarious health, and thus interfered with work; although, at the same time, he could entertain in his own house at such times as he felt able to do so. In 1844, and again in 1846, he published works on the geology of the voyage of the Beagle; the first on the Volcanic Islands visited, the second on South America. A second edition, in which

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

CHAPTER VI. THE GROWTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1837 58). IN dealing with this subject in his Autobiography, Darwin tells us of his reflections whilst on the voyage of the Beagle, and here mentions another observation which deeply impressed him in addition to those which he again repeats, on the relation between the living and the dead in the same area and on the productions of the Galapagos Archipelago viz. the manner in which closely allied animals replace one another in proceeding

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

CHAPTER VII. GROWTH OF THE ORIGIN (continued) CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS. THE great periods of Darwin's scientific career are marked by intimate friendships, which must be taken into account in attempting to trace his mental development. Henslow was his intimate friend at Cambridge and during the voyage of the Beagle. The influence of Lyell, through his writings, was of the utmost importance during the voyage, and was deepened by the close personal contact which took place on Darwin's return

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

offer any explanation of the motive cause by which that process took place. The theory of descent with modification had often been thought of before, but in the eyes of the naturalist of the 'Beagle' (and, probably, in those of most sober thinkers), the advocates of transmutation had done the doctrine they expounded more harm than good. Huxley speaks of the Origin as one of the hardest books to master, in this agreeing with Hooker (see p. 111). In this essay Huxley gives a clear and excellent

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F2113 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393. Text PDF

accompany Captain Fitzroy as naturalist on H. M. S. Beagle, which was to make an extensive surveying expedition. The voyage lasted from December 27th, 1831, to October 2d, 1836. It was, Darwin himself says, by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career. He had great opportunities of making explorations on land whilst the ship was engaged in her surveying work in various parts of the southern hemisphere, and made extensive collections of plants and animals

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

service in the Beagle: To this usual certificate I am anxious to add a few words expressive of my very high opinion of your ability, integrity, and high-principled zeal. I have known you and watched your conduct ever since your entry into the service, and I sincerely believe that a worthier young man is not to be found. Wherever you go, or whatever [page] 4

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

for FitzRoy as an unrivalled sailor and a devoted public servant were unlimited; and when FitzRoy died, after having spent a fortune in the public service, Sulivan moved heaven and earth to get his services acknowledged, and, I believe, with success. I used to hear much of the voyage of the Beagle from Charles Darwin, whose niece I married, and whose son has married my daughter. He and the other partners in that historical cruise had an infinite respect for FitzRoy, whose abilities as a seaman

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

Plymouth, on October 24th the final start was not until December 27th his letters show that he had a very busy time making purchases and preparing for the voyage. These letters breathe the warmest affection to the members of his family and his friends, together with the keenest enthusiasm for Captain Fitzroy, the ship, and the voyage. The voyage of the Beagle lasted from December 27th, 1831, to October 2nd, 1836. Darwin says that it was by far the most important event in my life, and has

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

, and the conclusions to which he had at that time arrived. That he did attribute much importance to the evolutionary passages added in the second edition is shown by his letter to Lyell (July, 1845), in which he alludes to some of them, and specially asks Lyell to read the pages on the causes of extinction. He also edited and superintended the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, the special parts of which were written by various eminent systematists, and appeared separately between 1839 and

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October, 1846, to October, 1854. The works on the recent forms were published by the Ray Society (1851 and 1854), and those on the fossil forms by the Pal ontographical Society (1851 and 1854). These researches grew directly out of his observations on the Beagle, but it is evident that they reached far greater dimensions than he had at first intended. Thus, at the very beginning of the work, he wrote (October, 1846) to Hooker: I am going to begin some papers on the lower marine animals, which will

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

of any naturalist who should attempt to supply a motive force for evolution. And he regarded the previous attempts at an explanation the direct action of surroundings and the will of the organism as inadequate because they could not account for such adaptations. Therefore being convinced of evolution, but as yet unprovided with a motive cause which in any way satisfied him, he began in July, 1837, shortly after his return home from the Beagle, to collect all facts which bore upon the

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A10 Book: Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2. Text Image

gone out shooting alone, was drowned in a lake within sight of the ship's topmasts. Sulivan's father had said to him before .starting, Pick and send home any strange plant you find. This he did. The botanist Lindley was a great friend of his father's, and * See FitzRoy's Voyage of the Adventure and Beagle vol. ii., p. 125. [page] 3

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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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F2113 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393. Text PDF

1842 they took the country-house and little property of Down near Orpington in Kent, which remained his home and the seat of his labors for forty years; that is, until his death on April 19th, 1882. In a letter to his friend Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle, written in 1846, Darwin says, My life goes on like clockwork, and I am fixed on the spot where I shall end it. Happily, he was possessed of ample private fortune, and never undertook any teaching work nor gave any of his strength to the making