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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902. Palaeontologist. H worked especially on fossil cephalopods. Pupil of L. Agassiz and friend of Cope. 1872 CD to H about H's and Cope's ideas on acceleration and retardation in evolution. CD wrote on the back of one of H's papers I cannot avoid thinking this paper fanciful —LLiii 154, MLi 338. 1877 CD to H on inheritance of acquired characters—LLiii 232. 1881 Curator of Museum of Boston Natural History Society. Hybrids 1868 On the character and hybrid-like nature of

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall, 1856-1943. Entomologist. Specialist on mimicry in butterflies and author of many papers on evolution. DNB. See also G. W. Sleeper. 1935 Kt. 1889 FRS. 1893-1933 Hope Prof. Zoology (Entomology) Oxford. 1908 Essays on evolution, Oxford. 1909 Charles Darwin and the Origin of species, London. Pour le Mérite 1867 CD awarded this Prussian Order. Powell, Rev. Baden, 1796-1860. Mathematician. Father of Lord Baden Powell, Chief Scout. Correspondent of CD and important critic

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

T's Presidential Address to British Association at Belfast, you and your theory of evolution may be fairly said to have had an ovation —LLii 455. The Address with additions published London 1874, also in Fragments of science, 2 vols, 6 edition 1879. 1882 T was on Personal Friends invited list for CD's funeral. [page 280

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

. Quarter of a mile from Hartfield Grove, home of Charles Langton. 1849-1868 Home of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II]. Ridgemount House at Bassett, North Stoneham, Southampton, Hampshire. 1862-1892 Home of William Erasmus D. Ridley, C. 1878 CD to R, about Dr E. B. Pusey and evolution, a stern letter Dr. Pusey's attack will be as powerless to retard by a day the belief in evolution —LLiii 235. [page] 24

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

, Pernambuco. 1879 CD Corresponding Member. Galapagos Islands Ecuadorean Pacific islands, 90′-91′ W, 0′-1′ S. The importance of the fauna of these islands, especially of the ground finches now called Darwin's finches q.v., to the development of CD's early thoughts on evolution has often been stressed. There is a large biological literature on them, e.g. 1959 J. R. Slevin, Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., No. 25, 1-150; 1963 Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., No. 44:1-154; 1967 Nat. geogr. Mag., 131:540-585

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A544 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2007. Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? Notes and Records of the Royal Society 61: 177-205. Text Image PDF

that Darwin discussed evolution with 'very many' people. In the sixth edition of the Origin (1872) Darwin stated, 'I formerly spoke to very many naturalists on the subject of evolution, and never once met with any sympathetic agreement'.62 In his autobiography he recalled, 'I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species. Even Lyell and Hooker, though they would listen with interest to me, never seemed

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A544 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2007. Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? Notes and Records of the Royal Society 61: 177-205. Text Image PDF

. cit. (note 6), vol. 1, pp. 347–348. 26 N. Barlow (ed.), The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882 (Collins, London, 1958), p. 118. 27 Richards, op. cit. (note 25), p. 46. See also 'Darwin's delay', pp. 152–156 in Richards, Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior (University of Chicago Press, 1987). 28 A. Desmond, The politics of evolution (University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 408. 29 Desmond, op. cit. (note 28), pp. 411–412. 30 Desmond, op. cit. (note 28), p

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-1896, London, John Murray, 1915. This, the published edition, is the one quoted from throughout. Eiseley Loren Eiseley, Darwin's century: evolution and the men who discovered it, Garden City N.Y., Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. Ellegård Alvar Ellegård, Darwin and the general reader: the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution in the British periodical press, 1859-1872, Götesborgs Universitets Arsskrift, 64:1-394; Göthenburg Studies in English, 8. Expression Charles Darwin, The expression of the

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

-called auditory-sac in cirripedes , Nat. Hist. Rev., 3:115-116 (Bii 85, F1722). 1873 On the males and complemental males of certain cirripedes, and on rudimentary structures , Nature, Lond., 8:431-432 (Bii 177, F1762). 1936 Foreign edition: extracts only Russian (F341). 1964 Facsimile (F340). Claparède, Jean Louis René Antoine Édouard, 1830-1871. Swiss invertebrate zoologist. Early convert to evolution—MLi 259. 1861 Articles on evolution in Revue Germanique. 1862- Professor Comparative Anatomy

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

the main sequence under brief title, but is summarized here in date order of first publication: 1882 In George J. Romanes, Animal intelligence, contains extracts from CD's notes on behaviour, published with his permission and in press before his death. 1883 In George J. Romanes, Mental evolution in animals, contains an appendix which is from chapter 10 of the 2nd part of CD's intended big book on evolution. See also Stauffer, 1975. 1885 Über die Wege der Hummel-Männchen, in Gesammelte kleinere

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

. Stauffer, Charles Darwin's Natural selection, transcribed from what was intended by CD to be Part 2 of his big book on evolution, Variation under domestication being Part 1. 1980 Charles Darwin's red notebook, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), hist. Ser., 7: transcribed by S. Herbert. Contains CD's earliest notes on evolution, covering the period June 1836-June 1837. MEDALS: 1864 Copley (Royal Society), CD was proposed in 1862 but failed. 1879 Baly (Royal College of Physicians). 1853 Royal (Royal

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on earth I instigated you [C. Darwin Fox] to rob his poultry yard . E was a neighbour of F at the time. LLii 56. Eiseley, Loren C., 1906-1977. Prof. Anthropology Pennsylvania. 1958 Author of Darwin's century, and several books on evolution. Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, 1795-1876. Protozoologist. Prof. Zoology Berlin. 1845 Examined fine dust from Beagle in Atlantic for Protozoa—J. Researches 1845, 5. 1838 Die Infusionstierchen, Leipzig. Electric fish 1881 CD to Romanes, parable about evolution

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

. Historical sketch Of previous studies and ideas on evolution. 1860 Appeared in a shorter version, written before Feb. 20, in 1st German edition and 4th USA printing. 1861 First added to 3rd English edition of Origin, in answer to criticisms by reviewers. Hitote Tahitian Chief. 1835 Nov. 26 CD discussed lightning conductors with H and several other Chiefs. Hobart, Tasmania. 1836 Feb. 5-17 Beagle anchored in Storm Bay; CD landed. Hobhouse, Arthur, Baron, 1819-1904. Married Mary Farrer. Hobhouse, Mary, see

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A27b Book: Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher. Text

, Bert James, 1905-. American historian of evolution. 1939 L wrote introduction to calendar of CD to Asa Gray letters. 1959 Charles Darwin: evolution by natural selection, Boston, selections by L from CD's works. London Stereoscopic Company See also Stereoscopic Company. 1909 Three photographs of CD were shown at British Museum (Natural History) memorial exhibition, 1909; said to have been taken circa 1864. Long, Professor Character in E. G. E. Bulwer Lytton's novel What will he do with it, 4 vols

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, crossing the Andes by the southern, Portillo, pass. Mar. 29 returned by northern, Uspallata or Aconcagua, pass, crossing the Incas' bridge on Apr. 4. Mental Evolution in Animals 1883 G. J. Romanes, Mental evolution in animals, London, contains posthumous Essay on instinct by CD, q.v. Meteyard, Miss Elizabeth, 1816-1879. Daughter of a surgeon to Shropshire Militia. Spent her early years in Shrewsbury—Woodall p. 1. Biographer of the Wedgwoods. 1871 A group of Englishmen (1795-1815) being records

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S—Yvette Conry 1972 Correspondance entre Charles Darwin et Gaston de Saporta, Paris. 1863 CD to Lyell, S was pro-Origin—LLiii 17. 1868 CD to S, about the growth of belief in evolution in France—LLiii 103. 1878 CD to S, about his election to Académie des Sciences—MLi 376. Sara 1881 Nurse to Bernard Richard Meirion D—EDii 246, 247. Sarcey, Francisque, 1827-1899. French dramatic critic. 1880 S lunched at Down House in summer with Edmond Barbier. Schaaffhausen, Hermann Joseph, 1816-1893. German

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Charles Wyville, 1830-1882. Biologist. T held several chairs in Ireland. DNB. 1869 FRS. 1870 on Prof. Natural History Edinburgh. 1872 Director of scientific staff on the Challenger and edited results. 1876 Kt. 1880 T wrote anti-evolution introduction to the Challenger results: The character of the abyssal fauna refuses to give the least support to the theory which refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by Natural Selection —MLi 388. 1880 Letter by CD, Sir Wyville Thomson

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, Aberdeen, preface signed G. R., anti-evolution. The barriers are the breast, the backbone and the brain. 1862 CD to Huxley, '(a theological hash of the old abuse of me), Owen gives the author a new resumé of his brain doctrine'—MLii 341. Rosas, Juan Manuel, 1793-1877. Cattle rancher and Dictator of Argentine. CD met at Southampton. 1833 R helped CD with horses and safe conducts on inland journeys—J. Researches. 1834 CD to E. Lumb 'The Caesar-like Rosas'—J. H. Winslow, J. Hist. Geogr., 1:347-360

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46 J. Browne, Charles Darwin ( Jonathan Cape, London, 2002), p. 16; and especially J. Browne, Charles Darwin: voyaging (Pimlico, London, 1995), p. 453. 47 Brent, op. cit. (note 37); D. Ospovat, The development of Darwin's theory: natural history, natural theology, and natural selection, 1838–1859 (Cambridge University Press, 1981); B. Gale, Evolution without evidence (Harvester, Brighton, 1982); J. Browne, The secular ark ( Yale University Press, 1983); P. Bowler, Evolution: history of an idea

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British Library, B's books on evolution, a subject on which his knowledge was entirely theoretical, were 1879 Evolution old and new, 1880 Unconscious memory, 1887 Luck or cunning. Erewhon 1872 developed from Darwin among the machines , The Press, Christchurch, NZ, 1863 Jun. 13; this was signed Cellarius , a pseudonym. 1862 Darwin on the origin of species , The Press Dec. 20. Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler 1911. [page] 4