A490    Pamphlet:     [Shipley, Arthur Everett and James Crawford Simpson eds.] 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. [Cambridge: University Press].   Text   Image   PDF

27. LEATHER SHOT-POUCH WHICH BELONGED TO CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. 28. BULLET-MOULD WHICH BELONGED TO CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. 29. WOODEN BOX MADE FROM THE MAIN CROSS-TREE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE BY ONE OF DARWIN'S SHIPMATES. Lent by Francis Darwin, Esq., F.R.S. 30. CARD CALENDAR FROM THE STUDY AT DOWN. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. 31. Two METAL CANTEENS USED BY CHARLES DARWIN. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

gained a good place among the or crowd of men who do not go in for honours. I am very busy,...and see a great deal of Henslow, whom I do not know whether I love or respect most. Dec. 27. Sailed from England on our circumnavigation, in H.M.S. Beagle, a barque of 235 tons carrying 6 guns, under Capt. FitzRoy. There is indeed a tide in the affairs of men. [page] xi

A279    Pamphlet:     Darwin, George and Francis Darwin eds. 1909. Darwin celebration, Cambridge, June, 1909. Speeches delivered at the banquet held on June 23rd. Cambridge: Cambridge Daily News.   Text   PDF

When he first returned from the voyage on the Beagle he was entirely overwhelmed with the various duties connected with the publication of his journal, revising his collections and many other things of the kind, and he had no time for relaxation of any kind. In a very few years' time his health failed, and he retired in 1842 to Down. He then began the routine of life which continued for 40 years. Every morning he worked to the very end of his tether, so that he would often have to say in the

A288    Pamphlet:     Hovey, Edmund Otis ed. 1909. Darwin memorial celebration. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 19, no. 1, Part 1 (31 July): 1-40.   Text

it his inspiration for investigation was doubtless derived. As naturalist of the voyage around the world of the ship Beagle (1831 1836) his collections of plants made in South America and on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, and his observations upon the botanical features of the countries visited, contributed greatly to the knowledge of the flora of those regions. They were extensively utilized by Dr. Hooker in his Flora Antarctica and in his Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago, as well as

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

the Beagle, and is of peculiar interest because so few of Darwin's letters of this early date have been preserved. The letter clearly exhibits the keen interest which Darwin took in the working out of his collections, and the free and generous use he made of his material. A number of Diptera captured by him in Australia and Tasmania—evidently gifts to Mr. Hope—exist in the Hope Department, and are still in excellent condition. It is probable that species of other groups collected by him are

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

Sybilla, Limenitis, 164. Sydney, 202. 'Tails' of Pharmacophagus, primitive, 181. tanager, scarlet, 142. Tasitia, see 'Danaida 'berenice' and 'D. strigosa'. Tasmanian insects of Beagle, 202. Teleology and adaptation, 94-8. Telephoridae as mimics, 120. Tendrils, Darwin on origin of, 73-4. Tennyson, natural selection and, 8, 9. Thackeray, F. St. J., on Tennyson and evolution, 9 n. 1. Thayer, A. H., on white under sides of animal, 109, 110. Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William, 234 n. 2; at Oxford

F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF

om den strenge og bogstavelige Sandhed i hvert af Bibelens Ord, var jeg snart paa det rene med, at vor Trosbekendelse helt igennem kunde tages for gode Varer. Naar jeg tænker paa, hvor rasende jeg er bleven angrebet af de ortodokse, saa forekommer det mig latterligt, at jeg selv engang havde i Sinde at blive Præst. Denne Hensigt, lige saa lidt som min Faders Ønske, blev ganske vist ikke formelt opgivet, men den døde en naturlig Død, da jeg som Naturforsker paa „Beagle forlod Cam- bridge. Hvis man

F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF

nogen Vej, uden den faldt sammen med min Kurs. Derfor kom jeg til flere vilde Egne og havde megen Glæde af at rejse paa denne Maade. Jeg tog til Barmouth for at se til nogle Venner fra Cam- bridge, som læste dér, og derfra tog jeg saa tilbage til Shrews- hury og til Maer for Jagtens Skyld; thi dengang vilde jeg have anset mig selv for en stor Taabe, hvis jeg havde ofret de første Dages Agerhønsejagt paa Geologiens eller en hvilken som helst anden Videnskabs Alter. Rejsen med „Beagle fra 27

F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF

of the Beagle . I Juli begyndte jeg min første Notebog for Kends- gerninger vedrørende Arternes Oprindelse, over hvilken jeg grub- lede længe, og i de følgende tyve Aar arbejdede jeg stadig med dette Problem. I disse to Aar deltog jeg ogsaa lidt i Selskabslivet og fungerede som en af Æressekretærerne i Geologicai Society. Jeg kom meget sammen med Lyell. Noget af det mest karakteristiske ved ham* var hans Interesse for andres Arbejde, og jeg var lige saa forbavset som henrykt over den Interesse

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kilde, og dog var han skinsyg paa mange Omraader. Jeg besøgte ham et Par Gange, før jeg tog afsted med „Beagle , og en Gang bad han mig om at kigge i et Mikroskop og beskrive, hvad jeg saa. Det gjorde jeg, og saavidt jeg husker, saa jeg nogle underlige Proto- plasmastrømninger i en Plantecelle. Jeg spurgte ham, hvad det var for noget, men han svarede: „Ja, se det er nu min lille Hemme- lighed. Han var i Stand til de mest ædelmodige Handlinger. Selv da han blev gammel og svag og vanskelig kunde

F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF

stod Maal med den Tid, det krævede. Fra den 14. September 1854 brugte jeg al min Tid til at ordne den uhyre Mængde Optegnelser vedrørende Arternes Foranderlighed, samt til Iagttagelser og Forsøg i denne Sag. Paa Rejsen med „Beagle var jeg i høj Grad bleven overrasket ved i Pampasformationen at opdage store, forstenede Dyr, der var dækkede med et Panser lige- som hos de nulevende Armadillos; for det andet fandt jeg noget mærkeligt i den Maade, hvorpaa nær beslægtede Dyr erstatter hin- anden fra

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

when Cuvier laughed Lamarck out of court. How was it that Darwin succeeded where others had failed? Because, in the first place, he had clear visions— pens es de la jeunesse, execut es par l' ge m r —which a University curriculum had not made impossible, which the Beagle voyage made vivid, which an unrivalled British doggedness made real—visions of the web of life, of the fountain of change within the organism, of the struggle for existence and its winnowing, and of the spreading genealogical

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

and friendliness towards an obscure youngster who had of course absolutely no claim upon his time or attention. The little incident made an indelible impression upon my memory and taught me a lesson that was worth learning. Variable Protective Resemblance. The wonderful power of rapid colour adjustment possessed by the cuttle-fish was observed by Darwin in 1832 at St Jago, Cape de Verd Islands, the first place visited during the voyage of the Beagle. From Rio he wrote to Henslow, giving the

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

in Darwin's mind, and are able to record the story almost entirely in his own words1. From the point of view of the geologist, Darwin's life naturally divides itself into four periods. In the first, covering twenty-two years, various influences were at work militating, now for and now against, his adoption of a geological career; in the second period—the five memorable years of the voyage of the Beagle—the ardent sportsman with some natural-history tastes, gradually became the most

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

of the Beagle I had been deeply impressed by discovering in the Pampean formation great fossil animals covered with armour like that on the existing armadillos4. The impression made on Darwin's mind by the discovery of these fossil bones, was doubtless deepened as, in his progress southward from Brazil to Patagonia, he found similar species of Edentate animals everywhere replacing one another among the living forms, while, whenever fossils occurred, they also were seen to belong to the same

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which date he also read his first paper. Darwin did not become a Fellow of the Linnean Society till eighteen years later (in 1854). An estimate of the value and importance of Darwin's geological discoveries during the voyage of the Beagle can best be made when considering the various memoirs and books in which the author described them. He was too cautious to allow himself to write his first impressions in his Journal, and wisely waited till he could study his specimens under better conditions and

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

times dining as a guest. On January 4th, 1837, as we have already seen, Darwin was formally admitted to the Geological Society, and on the same evening he read his first paper3 before the Society, Observations of proofs of recent elevation on the coast of Chili, made during the Survey of H.M.S. Beagle, commanded by Captain FitzRoy, R.N. By C. Darwin, F.G.S. This paper was preceded by one on the same subject by Mr A. Caldcleugh, and the reading of a letter and other communications from the

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

ordinary excellence! The completion of the Geology of the Beagle and the preparation of a revised narrative of the voyage mark the termination of that 1 M. L. II. p. 221. 2 L. L. I. p. 80. [page] 37

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

matter to some extent its child. His attitude towards religion is stated clearly, in Chap. VIII. of the Life and Letters1. On board the Beagle he was simply orthodox and was laughed at by several of the officers for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality. By 1839 he had come to see that the Old Testament was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos. Next went the belief in miracles, and next Paley's argument from design broke down before the law of

A288    Pamphlet:     Hovey, Edmund Otis ed. 1909. Darwin memorial celebration. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 19, no. 1, Part 1 (31 July): 1-40.   Text

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

A288    Pamphlet:     Hovey, Edmund Otis ed. 1909. Darwin memorial celebration. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 19, no. 1, Part 1 (31 July): 1-40.   Text

literature, in leading to replacement of subjective by objective modes of investigation. Darwin's work as geologist practically ended with these publications of the Beagle results. It is true that in later years he made some contributions possessing much interest, but they were merely incidental to studies in other directions; the greater part of his long life was devoted to biological problems. At the same time, his whole mode of thinking and of observing was that of the geologist, so that if one were

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

reversion, 277. Beagle, voyage of the, 1, 4-6, 60, 66 n. 2, 85-6, 108, 202, 203 n. 1, 214. Beccari, views on evolution of, 19, 20, bee, experiment with Orchid and, 225. Beebe, C. W., on moisture and bird colours, 110; on control of birds' nuptial plumage, 142-3; natural selection and experiments of, 143. beech, light and shade foliage of, 41-2. beet, selection of 'fluctuations' in, 267-70, 278-9. Belt, T., on Nicaraguan frog 111; on sexual selection and mimicry, 135. Bentham, G., 13-14, 253; effect

F1481    Book:     Anon. 1909. Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebrations held at Cambridge June 22-June 24, 1909. With a sketch of Darwin's life. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. And this cannot be told without speaking of the one condition which enabled him to bear the strain and fight out the struggle to the end. Francis Darwin in The Life and Letters. Published Journal and Researches, being Vol. III. of the Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle.... 1842 In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my [species] theory in pencil in 35 pages1; and this was 1 This MS, published under the title The

F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF

min Fader, da har. ansaa det for klogt at tage med. Min Fader har altid anset Onkel Jos for en af de fornuftigste Mænd i Verden, og han gav ogsaa straks sit Samtykke i den venligste Form. Jeg havde brugt en hel Del Penge i Cambridge, og for at trøste min Fader- sagde jeg, at jeg maatte være mere end almindelig dreven, om jeg kunde bruge noget ud over mine faste Lommepenge, mens jeg var paa „Beagle ; men han svarede med et Smil: „Ja, men jeg har ogsaa hørt, at du virkelig er meget dreven. Den

A593    Periodical contribution:     Murray, John. 1909. Darwin and his publisher John Murray. Science progress in the twentieth century: a quarterly Journal of scientific work & thought. 3: 537-542.   Text

Narratives of the Surveying Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by publisher, but he only had the rights for the joint work, and as Darwin had in 1845 received no remuneration for his share of it, he was anxious to publish his journal separately, and came to consult my father, who at once agreed to include it in his Home and Colonial Library. Darwin writes to him: I write now to ask whether you would so far greatly oblige me as to negotiate with Mr. Colburn, which I particularly dislike and