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F1583 Book: Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

), 391-401. 4 B. M. Bull. 2 (1960) 25-183; 2 (1961) 185-200; 3 (1967) 129-76; see also 'A Transcription of Darwin's First Notebook on Transmutation of Species ', ed. Paul II. Barrett, Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, Bull., 122 (1960) 245-96. 5 First published as The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Ed. Francis Darwin, (Cambridge, 1909); republished in Evolution By Natural Selection. With a foreword by Sir Gavin de Beer (Cambridge, 1958). [page

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F1583 Book: Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

the right one.'1 Early in May Darwin was corresponding with Lyell and with Hooker about the former's urgent recommendation that Darwin publish a preliminary sketch of his views on evolution,2 and in his Pocket Diary Darwin recorded for May 14, 1856: 'Began by Lyell's advice writing Species Sketch.' But the initial doubts Darwin expressed to Hooker about publishing a preliminary announcement of his views without giving supporting evidence grew stronger. Meanwhile his letters began to dwell on

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A255 Periodical contribution: Lewes, George Henry. 1856. Hereditary influence, animal and human. Westminster Review 66 (July): 135-62. Text Image

the race.* It is owing to the transmission of incidentally acquired characters that every great movement in human affairs achieves much more than its immediate object. It tends to cultivate the race. How could that new, unheard-of feeling for the wives, windows, and orphans of soldiers, which so honourably distinguished the war just closed, have ever arisen, had not the sympathetic feelings of the race been cultivated during centuries of slow evolution? How could Englishmen manifest their sturdy

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F2024 Book contribution: Bain, Alexander. 1904. [Recollections and a letter of Darwin]. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Text

in accounting for the Universe. Most curious and remarkable was his defiance of Darwin's evolution to bring about the races of animals and man as we find them—remarking with vehemence, I'll give you the Bank of Eternity to draw upon . He was, of course, unaware at that time of the limits put by physical authorities upon the age of the solar system. Sedgwick had made himself conspicuous by showing up the well-known Vestiges in the Quarterly Review; and he now felt much in the same mood with

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Christies-9178-Lot77 Draft: [1858] Draft of Origin, Sect. VI, folio 229 Text Image

; though it well may produce parts organs and excretions [highly useful or even indispensible, or highly injurious to another species, but in all cases at the same time useful to the owner]. The evolution of the text of Darwin's Origin, which has been termed the most influential scientific work of the entire nineteenth century, is complex and has been the subject of controversy, but it is evident that many years elapsed between his first tentative jottings in 1839, following his return from the

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CUL-DAR185.142 Draft: [1858--1859] Draft of Origin, Sect. 8, folio 324. Text Image

and hard and fast laws; a fact which makes the explanatory power of evolution by natural selection all the more extraordinary. It is characteristic of Darwin's book that key points are made at the end of chapters, as he gradually builds up his argument, and the final sentence of the current leaf provides the radical conclusion to a chapter that had ranged from Victorian hothouses to speculation on the origin of the domestic dog: there is no fundamental difference between species varieties

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F3532 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1983. Draft of Origin of species, folios 215, 215(a), 216. Sotheby's. Valuable historical manuscripts including science and printed books...28th March, 1983. London, p. 66-7. Text Image

), the first page headed by him Sect VI. Organs of little apparent importance the second Sect VI. Organs of small importance , the second page breaking off: finally, amongst animals, being a *** The importance in the history of ideas of the publication on 24 November 1859 of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection can hardly be exaggerated. The present manuscript is for pages 194-196 of the first edition. Darwin had sketched his first version of his theory of evolution by Natural

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F350 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. and A. R. Wallace. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. [Read 1 July] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3 (20 August): 46-50. Text Image PDF

Part, from which we propose to read to the Society the extracts referred to, is headed, On the Variation of Organic Beings in a state of Nature; on the Natural Means of Selection; on the Comparison of Domestic Races and true Species. 2. An abstract of a private letter addressed to Professor Asa Gray, of Boston, U.S., in October4 1857, by Mr. Darwin, in which * This MS. work was never intended for publication, and therefore was not written with care.—C. D. 1858. 1 Darwin's theory of evolution by

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F350 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. and A. R. Wallace. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. [Read 1 July] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3 (20 August): 46-50. Text Image PDF

balance so often observed in nature,—a deficiency in one set of organs always being compensated by an increased development of some others—powerful wings accompanying weak 1 Lamarck 1809. Lamarck's theory of biological transmutation or evolution was well-known to nineteenth-century naturalists. Very often, however, it was misrepresented in the English-speaking world, as Wallace does here, by representing it as driven by the will of individual organisms. [page] 6

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PC-USA-OriginMS324 Draft: [1858.11.00] Draft of Origin, Sect. 8, folio 324 Text Image

and hard and fast laws; a fact which makes the explanatory power of evolution by natural selection all the more extraordinary. It is characteristic of Darwin's book that key points are made at the end of chapters, as he gradually builds up his argument, and the final sentence of the current leaf provides the radical conclusion to a chapter that had ranged from Victorian hothouses to speculation on the origin of the domestic dog: there is no fundamental difference between species varieties

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