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

Hooker and Huxley, in spite of their wide knowledge and long intercourse with Darwin, found the work, so condensed were its reasonings, a 'very hard book' to read, one on which it was difficult to pronounce a judgment till after several perusals! It would be idle to speculate at the present day whether the cause of Evolution would have been better served by the publication, as Darwin at one time proposed, of a 'Preliminary Essay,' like that of 1844, or by the great work, which had been

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

declined to adopt the theory of sexual selection, so far as it depends on preferences exhibited by females for beauty in the males. Wallace, however, in some respects has always been disposed to attach more importance to Natural Selection, as the greatest, if not the only factor in evolution, than Darwin himself. It will be seen that although Darwin had in all probability thought out all his important theoretical conclusions before 1869, when he reached the 'fatal age,' yet, owing to various delays

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

mand150.' But now geologists and biologists may alike feel that the liberty with respect to space, which is granted ungrudgingly to the astronomer, is no longer withheld from them in regard to time. We can say with old Lamarck: 'For Nature, Time is nothing. It is never a difficulty, she always has it at her disposal; and it is for her the means by which she has accomplished the greatest as well as the least results. For all the evolution of the earth and of living beings, Nature needs but

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

Ancient Assyria. By Rev. C. H. W. Johns, Litt.D. 51 Ancient Babylonia. By Rev. C. H. W. Johns, Litt.D. 40 A History of Civilization in Palestine. By Prof. R. A. S. Macalister, M.A., F.S.A. 78 The Peoples of India. By J. D. Anderson. M.A. 49 China and the Manchus. By Prof. H. A. Giles, LL.D. 79 The Evolution of Modern Japan. By J. H. Longford. 43 The Civilization of Ancient Mexico. By Lewis Spence. 60 The Vikings. By Prof. Allen Mawer, M.A. 24 New Zealand. By the Hon. Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., LL

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

recapitulated the facts. There was no answer. 1887 Dec. 1 (about) Frank Darwin published a second edition of Erasmus Darwin unaltered except for the addition of foot-note stating that Dr. Krause's article had been revised and added to before translation, and that among the additions there was an allusion to Evolution Old and New. -- Dec. 14 I wrote to the Academy, called attention to the fact that the new edition had appeared and traversed Frank Darwin's contention that Mr. Darwin had

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

Letters of Charles Darwin also referred to the natter as an oversight , In the same year he also published a new edition of Erasmus Darwin and took the opportunity of fulfilling his father's promise to Butler by inserting a third foot-note to the preface: Mr. Darwin accidentally omitted to mention that Dr. Krause revised and made certain alterations to his essay before it was translated. Among these additions is an allusion to Mr. Butler's book Evolution Old and New. Butler saw that this third

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

recapitulated the facts. There was no answer. 1887 Dec. 1 (about) Frank Darwin published a second edition of Erasmus Darwin unaltered except for the addition of foot-note stating that Dr. Krause's article had been revised and added to before translation, and that among the additions there was an allusion to Evolution Old and New. -- Dec. 14 I wrote to the Academy, called attention to the fact that the new edition had appeared and traversed Frank Darwin's contention that Mr. Darwin had

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

Letters of Charles Darwin also referred to the natter as an oversight , In the same year he also published a new edition of Erasmus Darwin and took the opportunity of fulfilling his father's promise to Butler by inserting a third foot-note to the preface: Mr. Darwin accidentally omitted to mention that Dr. Krause revised and made certain alterations to his essay before it was translated. Among these additions is an allusion to Mr. Butler's book Evolution Old and New. Butler saw that this third

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

portraits relating to Darwin. It is not the part of a Museum to endeavour to decide whether the share ascribed by Darwin to the operation of Natural Selection in the evolution of animals and plants was or was not correctly estimated. Some of the leading Biologists of the present day are in this respect even more Darwinian than Darwin himself, while others attribute less importance than he did to the principle of Natural Selection. But whatever view may be taken of this question, the magnitude of

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

utilized; while, if untrue or if not adequately presented to the world, they are rejected or forgotten1.'* Ideas of Evolution, both in the Organic and the Inorganic world, existed but remained barren for thousands of years. Yet by the labours of a band of workers in last century, these ideas, which were but the dreams of poets and the guesses of philosophers, came to be the accepted creed of working naturalists, while they have profoundly affected thought and language in every branch of human