A258    Book:     Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner.   Text   Image

of Researches. When Lyell faltered in the application of his own principles of evolution Darwin went on and was followed by Wallace. The two older men may be considered to have united in guiding the mind of Wallace, because this young naturalist, fourteen years the junior of Darwin, took both The Principles of Lyell and The Journal of Darwin with him on his journey to South America, during which his career fairly began. From his record of observations during his life in the tropics of America and

A258    Book:     Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner.   Text   Image

striking fact that he did not add a single new principle to the philosophy of evolution. His life was one of enforced activity and public service, which left him little or no repose for creative thought, yet he added to anatomy a number of very important generalizations. I have endeavored to show in how many ways Huxley was a model for us of the younger generation. My memorial address before the New York Academy of Sciences, delivered November 11, 1895, revised and delivered as A Student's

A258    Book:     Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner.   Text   Image

Inquisition, with the words, It still moves. As time advanced the prison gave way to the milder but effective weapons of ostracism and loss of official rank. In biology Linn us, Buffon, Lamarck, St. Hilaire, in turn discovered the evidences of evolution, but felt the penalty and either recanted or suffered loss of position. The cause of supernaturalism had never seemed stronger than in 1857; the masterly works of Paley and Whewell had appeared; the great series of Bridgewater Treatises to demonstrate

A258    Book:     Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner.   Text   Image

him, for this vision required the very scientific spirit and point of view which came to him through the reading of the Principles of Geology of Lyell, the masterly teacher of the uniformitarian doctrine of Hutton. That nature worked slowly in past as in present time and that the interpretation of the past is through observation of the present gave the note of Darwin's larger and more original interpretation, because the slow evolution which Lyell piously restricted to geology and the surface of

A258    Book:     Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner.   Text   Image

, as a consistent pupil of Lyell, he was inclined to believe that the chief changes in evolution are slow and continuous. MODERN DISSENT FROM DARWINISM There is some lack of perspective, some egotism, much one-sidedness in modern criticism; the very announcement, Darwin deposed, attracts such attention as would the notice Mt. Blanc removed does it not bespeak courage to attack a lion even when deceased? Preoccupation in the study of one great law, as in the case of Bateson on Mendelism and De

A7054    Book contribution:     Keith, Arthur. 1928. Darwin's home. In: idem, Concerning man's origin being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, together with recent essays on Darwinian subjects. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, pp. 66-82.   Text   PDF

the gracious reception which met me there. But what of the future? Since my visit the property has been in the market, with what result I have not learned. What if a future owner is one who knows not Darwin, and is all unconscious that he has become the absolute owner of the Nazareth of Evolution? Is it not right that this pulpit from which Darwin spoke to all the world should become the home of a national Darwinian experimental garden? Surely something of the spirit of Darwin, the father of

CUL-DAR262.6.3    Correspondence:   Leslie E. Goodwin to [unidentified]  1929.12.26   Leslie E. Goodwin to [unidentified]   Text   Image

I sent the sermon to Henshaw Ward, the author of Evolution for John Doe — a great admirer of Darwin. When he returned it he wrote me a very grateful letter— He regretted it had never been published. Anyhow I leave the matter entirely in the hands of Major Leonard Darwin. With kind regards, I am yrs. truly— Leslie E. Goodwin [In Leonard Darwin's hand:] P.T.O [2v

A346    Periodical contribution:     Blackman, F. F. 1932. Obituary notice of Francis Darwin. (With portrait). 1848-1925. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 110: i-xxi.   Text   Image

self-generated at an indication from outside. This view, which had been quite neglected, was now actively adopted. The Darwins regarded these curvatures as essentially biological adaptive responses to external signals arising in the illuminational or gravitational state of the environment; the response and stimulus having become linked together by association during the evolution of plants, so producing forms more fit in the struggle for existence. In the preface to The Power of Movement in

A349    Periodical contribution:     Ashworth, J.H. 1935. Charles Darwin as a student in Edinburgh, 1825-1827. (An address delivered on October 28, 1935). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 55: 97-113, pls. 1-2.   Text   Image

It was a great advantage to Darwin to have this experienced zoologist as his friend. In his Autobiography Darwin relates (p. 38) that one day when he was walking with Grant the latter burst forth in high admiration of Lamarck and his views on evolution ; Darwin adds that he listened in silent astonishment, and, so far as he could judge, without any effect on his mind. That exposition on Lamarck acquires fuller significance when it is remembered that Grant studied in Paris during the period

CUL-DAR156    Correspondence:   Darwin family  1942--1949   [All of DAR156 in one sequence of 88 images] Correspondence between certain members of the Darwin family, the British Association, etc., and the University Library, Cambridge, on the gift of the Darwin MSS. (1942-49)   Text   Image

division is to let Downe have a popular exhibit, items specially relating to Downe, but to keep in the University Library the rest of the material, in order that it may be available for any future student of Darwin his work. The material throws a good deal of light on his method of work the growth of his theory of Evolution natural Selection. The reason for choosing this particular item for Downe is that, though, the Diary was not fully published in the original editions it was fully published by