F1497    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins.   Text   Image   PDF

earlier; firstly his rejection of his grandfather's influence on his own views, and secondly his half-hearted denial that ideas of evolution were in the air . But it was the force of Charles Darwin's simplicity and single-minded scientific purpose that binds these three affairs together; he rejected his grandfather's influence because he rejected Erasmus Darwin's speculative method; he denied that evolutionary ideas were ripening, because these floating ideas were not yet substantiated by evidence

F1497    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins.   Text   Image   PDF

grown up by evolution is painful to me; but also because where this sentence comes in, it gives one a sort of shock and would give an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes. I think the disrespectful aspect would disappear if the first part of the conjecture was left without the illustration of the instance of monkeys and snakes. I don't think you need consult William

F1497    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins.   Text   Image   PDF

added largely to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos; and my preliminary notice, having been written before I had seen the additions, unfortunately contains much repetition of what Dr. Krause has said. In fact, the present volume contains two distinct biographies, of which I have no doubt that by Dr. Krause is much the best. I have left it almost wholly to him to treat of what Dr. Darwin has done in science, more especially in regard to evolution. The proof sheet was sent to Dr. Krause, with a

F1497    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins.   Text   Image   PDF

arose….You have indeed done me a lasting kindness. Yours affectionately, CH. DARWIN. The affair has annoyed and pained me to a silly extent; but it would be disagreeable to anyone to be publicly called in fact a liar. He seems to hint that I interpolated sentences in Krause's MS., but he could hardly have really thought so. Until quite recently he expressed great friendship for me, and said he had learnt all he knew about evolution from my books, and I have no idea what has made him so bitter

F1573    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21.   Text   Image   PDF

Erratic Boulders and on the Contemporaneous Unstratified Deposits of South America. Proc. Geol. Soc., vol. 3, 1842, p. 425, read May 5, 1841; Trans. Geol. Soc. vol. 6, 1842, p. 415. 2 Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841-1851). 3 Printed in The Foundations of the Origin of Species, edited by Francis Darwin, Cambridge 1909; and Evolution by natural Selection, with a Foreword by Sir Gavin de Beer, Cambridge 1958. 4 Charles Darwin: Notes on the Effects produced by the Ancient Glaciers of Caernarvonshire, and on

F1595    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66.   Text   PDF

), was one of the first converts to evolution by natural selection after the paper read before the Linnean Society in 1858: 'Herein was contained a perfectly simple solution of all the difficulties which had been troubling me for months past.' The following letters, preserved in the Balfour Library, Cambridge, were discovered among thousands of letters addressed to Newton, by Miss June Scrivener when she was Librarian. They are reproduced here by the courtesy of Professor Sir James Gray, C.B.E

F1595    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66.   Text   PDF

were reprinted under the title of Evolution by natural selection and published in 1958 by the Cambridge University Press for the XVth International Congress of Zoology and the Linnean Society of London. (Letter 35) [Charles Darwin to the Rev. Baden Powell]1 Down, Bromley, Kent Jan. 18th/60 My dear Sir, I am much pleased by your appreciation of my book, as everyone must admit that you are a master in philosophical logic: I am the more pleased at this, as one eminent scientific man2 writes to me that

F1573    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21.   Text   Image   PDF

. (Abbreviated as Autob.) 2 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by Francis Darwin, London 1887, vol. 1, p. iv. (Abbreviated as L. L.) 3 L. L., vol. 1, p. 330; Charles Darwin. The Foundations of the Origin of Species, edited by Francis Darwin, Cambridge 1909, p. xiv; Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace: Evolution by Natural Selection, with a Foreword by Sir Gavin de Beer, Cambridge 1958, pp. 5, and 25. 4 University Library Cambridge, Darwin MS.1402. 5 More Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by

F1575    Periodical contribution:     Barrett, P. H. ed. 1960. A transcription of Darwin's first notebook [B] on 'Transmutation of species'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 122: [245]-296, for 1959-1960 (April).   Text   Image

.) 122 C Notebook dealing with evolution theory. February-July 1838. (10x17cm.) 123 D Notebook dealing with evolution theory. July 15th 1838, finished October 2nd. (10x17cm.) 124 E Notebook dealing with evolution theory. Finished July 10th 1839. (10x17cm.) 125 M Notebook dealing with evolution theory. July 15th 1838. This book full of metaphysics on morals and speculations on expression. (10x17cm.) 126 N Notebook dealing with evolution theory. Begun October 2nd 1838. Metaphysics and expression

A340    Periodical contribution:     Haartman, Lars von. 1960. Charles Darwin and ethology. Societas Scientiarum Fennica Commentationes Biologicae XXII. 7: 1-28.   Text   Image

ethology is impossible without a knowledge of evolution, or it could only exist without realizing its own aims, as did comparative anatomy before Darwin's day. Darwin clearly realized the usefulness of behaviour studies in establishing phyletic relationships. He says, for instance (p. 367): »the study of the theory of expression confirms to a certain limited extent the conclusion that man is derived from some lower animal form, and supports the belief of the specific or subspecific unity of the