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

Of the influence of the Principles of Geology in leading him to evolution, he wrote: 'Along with Malthus I had read, and been even more deeply impressed by, Sir Charles Lyell's immortal Principles of Geology; which had taught me that the inorganic world the whole surface of the earth, its seas and lands, its mountains and valleys, its rivers and lakes, and every detail of its climatic conditions were and always had been in a continual state of slow modification. Hence it became obvious that

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

left it to be inferred, instead of enunciating it even as my opinion, that the place of lost species is filled up (as it was of old) from time to time by new species. I have only ventured to say that had new mammalia come in, we could hardly have hoped to verify the fact81.' That Lyell was convinced of the truth of the doctrine of the evolution of species is shown by his correspondence with friends and sympathisers like Scrope and John Herschel. But he wrote: 6 2 [page] 8

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

more beautiful subject for reasoning and reflecting on, than the notion of great batches of new species all coming in and afterwards going out at once84.' We have cited this very remarkable passage, as it affords striking evidence of how deeply Lyell had thought on this great question at a very early period. Nevertheless it is certain that when he wrote the second volume of the Principles, he had not been able to satisfy himself that any hypothesis of the mode of evolution, that had up to that time

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

LAW 13 The Administration of Justice in Criminal Matters (in England and Wales). By G. Glover Alexander, M.A., LL.M. BIOLOGY 1 The Coming of Evolution. By Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. 2 Heredity in the Light of Recent Research. By L. Doncaster. M.A. 25 Primitive Animals. By Geoffrey Smith, M.A. 73 The Life-story of Insects. By Prof. G. H. Carpenter. 48 The Individual in the Animal Kingdom. By J. S. Huxley. B.A. 27 Life in the Sea. By James Johnstone, B.Sc. 75 Pearls. By Prof. W. J. Dakin. 28

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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

North American bears swimming in water and swallowing water-insects. Owen criticised Darwin for suggesting that this habit of the bear might in course of time lead to the evolution of a purely aquatic animal like a whale (see p. 25 of Owen's Edinburgh Review article here shown). The letter also refers to a copy of Hunter's Essays and Observations which he was expecting to receive from Owen. The printed slip giving the address to which Darwin wished the book sent is interesting as showing the

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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

. ( Origin of Species, Chap. ii.) 134. (In the upper part of the case.) A series of shells of Vivipara (= Paludina) of the Pliocene of Slavonia, arranged to show the evolution of ornamented and tuberculated forms in the higher strata from the smooth forms of the lower strata, in accordance with the views of Neumayr and Paul, 1875. 135. A series of shells of a Snail, Helix picta, in which the colours and markings of the shell exhibit a wide range of variation within the limits of the species. 136. A

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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

evolution of species. The intervals between the horizonal lines represent large units of time, e.g., a thousand generations, and the letters A to L at the bottom of the diagram stand for the several species of a genus occurring at one time in a country. While some of the species suffer extinction in course of time, as does D before reaching the period represented by the third horizontal line [page] 3

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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

modifications of the avicularia and vibracula, the evolution of which is discussed in Chap. vii of the Origin of Species. There can be no reasonable doubt that an avicularium is to be regarded as a modified zoœcium, while a vibraculum is an avicularium whose lower, or movable, jaw has been prolonged into a bristle-like structure, the seta. B. Part of a colony of a species of Bugula, consisting of branches composed of elongated zoœcia arranged in three or four transverse rows. The numerous

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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

illustration of the manner in which the evolution of such a useful apparatus may have begun. ( Origin of Species, Chap. vii.) 189. Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and a clutch of eggs, including a Cuckoo's egg, taken from the nest of a White-throat. The Cuckoo's eggs are small for the size of the bird; they are laid singly in strange nests, and the young Cuckoo, shortly after hatching, ejects its foster-brothers from the nest. Darwin explains at some length how the habits of the Cuckoo, at first probably

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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

of the middle cases in the North Hall. A series of remains illustrating in like manner the line of evolution of the Elephant is on view in the Geological Department. 194. Nautilus, an extremely ancient Cephalopod surviving to the present day almost unchanged in character. ( Origin of Species, Chap. xi.) 195. Lingula, an extremely ancient type of Brachiopod surviving to the present day almost unchanged in character. ( Origin of Species, Chap. xi.) [page] 4

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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

.) In his autobiography Darwin mentions that during the voyage of the Beagle he had been deeply impressed by discovering in the Pampas formation great fossil animals covered with armour like that on the existing Armadillos. He could only explain the facts on the supposition that species gradually became modified, and it was this supposition, supported by numerous other items of evidence accumulated on the voyage, which gradually ripened into his theory of the evolution of species by natural

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

in the direction of anticipating the lines in which enquiries on the method of evolution must proceed, having even a prevision of the doctrine of mimicry, long afterwards established by Bates and others. Lyell wrote: 'In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to find that you think it probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes. I left this rather to be inferred, not thinking it worth while to offend a certain class of persons by

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A596 Book contribution: [Poulton, Edward Bagnall]. 1910. Darwin, C. R. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 11th ed. Cambridge: University Press, vol. 7, pp. 840-3. Text Image

naturalists were already everywhere considering and discussing the problem of evolution, although Alfred Russel Wallace was the only one who, independently of Darwin, saw his way clearly to the solution. It is true that hypotheses essentially the same as natural selection were suggested much earlier by W. C. Wells (Phil. Trans., 1813) and Patrick Matthew (Naval Timber and Arboriculture, 1831), but their views were lost sight of and produced no effect upon the great body of naturalists. In the

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A579 Periodical contribution: Judd, J. W. 1911. Charles Darwin's earliest doubts concerning the immutability of species. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88, no. 1292 (2 November): 8-12. Text

for many years before reaching full conviction on the question of evolution. Nor is this surprising; no one can read the suggestive series of letters to Sir Joseph Hooker without realising how great and numerous were the doubts and difficulties through which the veteran botanist battled his way towards final acceptance of his friend's views. The publication of the Lyell correspondence showed that the author of the '' Principles at the time of the publication of the first volume was perfectly

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A579 Periodical contribution: Judd, J. W. 1911. Charles Darwin's earliest doubts concerning the immutability of species. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88, no. 1292 (2 November): 8-12. Text

nature of the initial stage of that evolution is one especially worthy of attention. In his autobiography, Charles Darwin has declared his belief that, before leaving England for the memorable voyage in the Beagle, he was quite indifferent to any speculations upon the subject of evolution—and this in spite of his admiration for his grandfather's Zoonomia as a literary production.1 Now concerning the exact period in his life when Darwin ceased to feel this indifference, and had his interest

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A579 Periodical contribution: Judd, J. W. 1911. Charles Darwin's earliest doubts concerning the immutability of species. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88, no. 1292 (2 November): 8-12. Text

, and it moved him to rage and to making wild charges of infidelity. Whewell saw it too, and shrank from accepting Lyell's doctrines because he could find no border-line between what he called uniformitarianism and evolution; but Herschel appears, at the time, to have been ready to go as far as Lyell himself. And the young naturalist on board the Beagle, did he begin to perceive, however dimly, through Lyell's eyes that evolution could not stop with the inorganic world? We have no evidence on

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CUL-DAR221.4.152 Printed: 1912 Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, naturalist `British Association Handbook': 451--457 BAAS Text Image

, however, Prof. Poulton's interesting essay on Prichard ( A Remarkable Anticipation of Modern Views on Evolution, Science Progress, New Series, Vol. I, No. 3, April 1897; reprinted in Essays on Evolution Oxford, 1908). [page] 45

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CUL-DAR221.4.152 Printed: 1912 Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, naturalist `British Association Handbook': 451--457 BAAS Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 451 Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, Naturalist. By W. T. Calman, D.Sc. The name of Patrick Matthew is mentioned by most historians of the Evolution theory as one of those who anticipated Darwin and Wallace in enunciating the principle of Natural Selection. Matthew's views were published in 1831 in an appendix to a work on Naval Timber and Arboriculture, and his claim to priority was fully admitted by Darwin. Apart, however, from the reference

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CUL-DAR221.4.152 Printed: 1912 Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, naturalist `British Association Handbook': 451--457 BAAS Text Image

it forward as one of the factors in a general theory of evolution. By the kindness of Miss Euphemia Matthew I have been permitted to see three of Darwin's letters to her father. As they have not hitherto been published, it has been thought worth while to give them here in full. The years in which they were probably written have been kindly added by Mr. Francis Darwin. DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT, S.E., June 13th [1862]. DEAR SIR, — I presume that I have the pleasure of addressing the Author of the

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CUL-DAR221.4.152 Printed: 1912 Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, naturalist `British Association Handbook': 451--457 BAAS Text Image

importance of artificial selection (p. 106, et seq.). The conjecture may be hazarded that Matthew, like Darwin and Wallace, had read Malthus's Principles of Population. His reference on p. 247 to population-preventive checks would seem to suggest this. At all events in 1831, with the misery of the hungry forties already in sight, the problems of over-population were forcing themselves on the attention of all men. Matthew's views on Evolution are given, in somewhat haphazard order it must be