CUL-DAR139.11.1    Printed:    1910--1911   Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings.   Text   Image

Personally I should avoid too detailed criticism so as to avoid responsibility. Could not you say that you cannot take responsibility, because if you did you would have to allude to what seems to you his almost insane behaviour in starting the quarrel, and also to show that Father (may have) had some ground for annoyance in Butlers book on Evolution Old New, which justified his advising K. not to notice it. I should prefer this to asking him to put in any such sentence as that — suggested on p

A34    Book:     Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image

theory, based on sound reasoning from careful observation. It is true that there were men, in advance of their age, who in some cases anticipated to a certain extent this work of establishing the doctrine of evolution on a firm foundation. Thus in Italy, the earliest home of so many sciences, a Carmelite friar, Generelli, reasoning on observations made by his compatriots Fracastoro and Leonardo da Vinci in the Sixteenth Century, Steno and Scilla in the Seventeenth, and Lazzaro Moro and

A34    Book:     Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image

CHAPTER VIII EARLY ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION FOR THE ORGANIC WORLD IN studying the history of Evolutionary ideas, it is necessary to keep in mind that there are two perfectly distinct lines of thought, the origin and development of which have to be considered. First. The conviction that species are not immutable, but that, by some means or other, new forms of life are derived from pre-existing ones. Secondly. The conception of some process or processes, by which this

A34    Book:     Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image

CHAPTER XII THE PLACE OF LYELL AND DARWIN IN HISTORY FROM the account given in the foregoing pages, it will be seen that without detracting from the merits of their predecessors or the value of the labours of their contemporaries we must ascribe the work of establishing on a firm foundation of observation and reasoning the doctrine of evolution both in the inorganic and the organic world to the investigations and writings of Lyell and Darwin. Lyell had to oppose the geologists of his day, who

CUL-DAR139.11.1    Printed:    1910--1911   Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings.   Text   Image

6 Butler's work Evolution Old and New had appeared since the publication of Dr. Krause's article . No mention was made of the fact that the article had been rewritten with an eye to Evolution Old and New. In fact the preface made this supposition impossible. Mr. Darwin knew perfectly well that he was not giving what he said he was giving: he knew he was saying that what he was publishing had appeared previously to my book, and he knew also that my book had in reality appeared prior to this by

CUL-DAR139.11.1    Printed:    1910--1911   Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings.   Text   Image

the reader's memory. The letters referred to and the extracts from some of the other documents will be found in the Appendix (post). CHARLES DARWIN AND S. BUTLER. 1879. Feb. 12 Dr. Krause's article on Erasmus Darwin appeared in Kosmos (German Magazine) -- Feb. 22 My book Evolution Old and New was announced as about to contain comparison between Erasmus Darwin and Charles Darwin. [43

CUL-DAR139.11.1    Printed:    1910--1911   Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings.   Text   Image

12 paragraph was struck out the unforeseen result followed that the two notes changed their meaning. The first note about Mr. Dallas now referred to the unaltered article and practically declared that it had been translated as it originally appeared in Kosmos; and the second note that Evolution Old and New had appeared since Kosmos, confirmed this meaning by implying particularly that nothing in the translated article could possibly have got there in consequence of Evolution Old and New. And

CUL-DAR139.11.1    Printed:    1910--1911   Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings.   Text   Image

12 paragraph was struck out the unforeseen result followed that the two notes changed their meaning. The first note about Mr. Dallas now referred to the unaltered article and practically declared that it had been translated as it originally appeared in Kosmos; and the second note that Evolution Old and New had appeared since Kosmos, confirmed this meaning by implying particularly that nothing in the translated article could possibly have got there in consequence of Evolution Old and New. And

A313    Pamphlet:     Harmer, S. F. and W. G. Ridewood eds. 1910. Memorials of Charles Darwin: a collection of manuscripts portraits medals books and natural history specimens to commemorate the centenary of his birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The origin of species" 2d ed. British Museum (Natural History). Special guide no. 4.   Text   Image   PDF

the series, and the references to the chapters given in the labels attached to the specimens refer to that edition. The sixth edition, 1872, is the last edition; copies bearing more recent dates are reprints, differing in pagination, but in no essential respect.) 129. (At the left-hand end of Case 6.) A skin of a Peacock Pheasant, Polyplectron malaccense, in which Darwin found the clue to the evolution of the single notched eye of the Peacock's tail feather from the paired ocellus such as is

A34    Book:     Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image

Lyell on Murchison, 57; Murchison on Lyell, 58; Lyell's avoidance of controversy, 63; differences of opinion with Scrope, 62, 63; attention to literary style, 65; professorship at King's College, London, 65, 69; lectures, 66; controversies at Geological Society, 71; aid of Darwin in discussions, 71; his friendship with Darwin, 73, 104, 105; his extreme caution, 75-77; candour in finally accepting Natural Selection, 77; opposition to his views, 83, 84; his belief in Evolution at an early date