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

, and a baby in your house'—MLii 49. 1879 FRS. 1879 Married Ethel Duncan. 5 sons, 1 daughter. 1880 Dec. 17 'I have now got a monkey. Sclater let me choose one from the Zoo'—Life of Romanes 105. 1881 Apr. CD to R, about letter from Frances Cobbe on vivisection in The Times—LLiii 206. 1882 R was on Personal Friends invited list for CD's funeral. 1882 Animal intelligence, London (F1416), contains many extracts from CD's notes. 1883 Mental evolution in animals, London (F1434), contains CD's essay on

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

, pp. 1-53 from same setting of type as No. 1 (F1556). 1958 G. R. de Beer, editor, Evolution by natural selection, Cambridge, University Press, contains both drafts (F1557), issued for the XVth International Congress of Zoology (Darwin Centenary); 1871 Facsimile (F1560). First foreign editions: 1911 German (F1561). 1925 French (not in F). 1932 Russian (F1564). 1960 Italian (F1562). [page] 25

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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

to a man interested only in his theory of evolution when in fact, as his broad range of publications demonstrates, he had wide and deep interests in many natural phenomena. Some of the most focused and detailed work by historians on the development of Darwin's theory shows how his thinking changed in some subtle but crucial ways from the [page] 19

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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

early notebooks to the 1850s. Dov Ospovat argued that during the 1840s and 1850s Darwin gradually lost his teleological way of thinking, pondered questions of whether adaptation was perfect, how species diverge, and whether evolution is a progressive process.158 This and other work confirms that Darwin was not finished. We should always endeavour to remember the staggering magnitude of Darwin's research programme. Doing so makes the amount of time that elapsed less surprising. CONCLUSION It is

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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

, 1979); Mayr, op. cit. (note 1). 4 F. J. Sulloway, 'Darwin and his finches: the evolution of a legend', J. Hist. Biol. 15(1), 1–53 (1982); Sulloway, 'The Beagle collections of Darwin's finches', Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Zoo. 43, 49–94 (1982). 5 See, for example, Charles Darwin. Memorial notices, reprinted from Nature (Macmillan Co., London, 1882); W. B. Carpenter, 'Charles Darwin: his life and work', Mod. Rev. 3, 500–524 (1882); 'Charles Darwin', The Times, 21 April 1882; [G. W. Bacon], The life

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

The theory of evolution of living things, London. 1882 H was on Personal Friends invited list for CD's funeral. Henslow, Rev. John Stevens, 1796-1861. Married ?Jenyns. 1 son, 3 daughters. Father-in-law of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. DNB. CD, when at Cambridge, was known as the man who walked with Henslow . CD regularly attended his Friday evening gatherings, which continued every week in term until 1836 and were the forerunners of the Cambridge Ray Club 1837-. H became a strong personal friend of

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

, Sir Julian Sorrell, 1887-1975. Zoologist. Eldest son of Leonard H and Julia Frances Arnold. Author of works on evolution and biological popularizer. WWH. 1909 Feb. 12 H was present at CD celebrations at Oxford. 1919 Married Marie Juliette Baillot. 1938 FRS. 1939 The living thoughts of Darwin, selected by H, translated into many languages. 1958 Kt. Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933. Fourth child of Thomas Henry H. CD was his godfather—Jim Moore. Biographer of his father and of Hooker. 1885 Married 1

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

unequivocally in print his views on CD's position in regard to evolution. 1826 FRS. until 1827 Called to the Bar and practised until 1827. 1831-1833 Prof. Geology King's College London. 1832 Married Mary Elizabeth Horner d.s.p. 1836 Oct. 29 CD first met at L's house in London. 1839 ED to her sister Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II], Mr Lyell is enough to flatten a party, as he never speaks above his breath, so that everybody keeps lowering their tone to his —EDii 40. 1844 CD to Horner, I always feel

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

Watson, Hewett Cottrell, 1804-1881. Botanist and phrenologist, specialist in distribution of British plants. W accepted evolution by natural selection. 1857 CD to Hooker, W had marked up a Flora for CD to show which he considered to be good species. 1859 CD sent W 1st edition of Origin. 1861 CD to Hooker, W accuses CD of egotism, In the first four paragraphs of the introduction, the words 'I', 'me', 'my', occur forty-three times —LLii 362. Way, Albert, 1805-1874. Antiquary. Cambridge friend of

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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

the delay explanations were partly true but none was sufficient. He concluded that, among other things, 'it was because of his work agenda that he was not able to get to his species book more quickly'.27 Richards favoured the view that Darwin was not finished and was particularly concerned with the problem of instincts of neuter insects. New explanations for Darwin's delay were introduced by Adrian Desmond in the afterword to his celebrated book Politics of evolution (1989). After an in-depth

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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

readings of these and other such ambiguous fragments. The first letter is clearly reflecting on Darwin's blunder in his article about the parallel roads of Glen Roy.39 The second is no more about Darwin himself than the hanging dream. The fact that Darwin advised his son not to publish overly ambitious claims about his convictions in 1873 is not evidence that Darwin himself refrained from publishing his evolution theory from 1839 to 1858. As will be discussed below, the very fact that such

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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

(1992), Bowler and Bowlby (1990), Ruse (2000), Browne (2002), van Wyhe (2002), Stott (2003) and Quammen (2006), to name only a few.48 Desmond and Moore stress most strongly that Darwin's theory was 'secret' because they believe Darwin and his contemporaries must have seen 'evolution as a social crime'. 'Darwin could expect a furore among his geological friends if they discovered his secret. No more hail fellow, well met. He could be labelled as a traitor. His respectability would be

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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

was already talking about his ideas with many people by 1838. As he later wrote of this time in his autobiography, 'Nor did I ever intermit collecting facts bearing on the origin of species; and I could sometimes do this when I could do nothing else from illness.'90 By 1839, when Darwin finished his Notebook E, much of the basic framework of the theory of evolution by natural selection had been sketched out. Darwin, writing in 1876, recalled 'Here then I had at last got a theory by which to

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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

Natural Selection to Evolution, ...meant displacing God from His position as a detailed Creator specially concerned with mankind. . One of them, Darwin, the one who stood in such awe of his own father, said it was 'like committing [sic] murder'—as, indeed, it was unconsciously; in fact, parricide. He paid the penalty in a crippling and lifelong neurosis, and in an astonishing display of modesty, hesitancy, and dubiety concerning his work.167 There are also insurmountable inconsistencies with

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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

limbs.178 There are very many further examples. Perhaps historians have tended to overemphasize the heterodoxy of transmutation ideas before 1859. At one time this might have been done because it made a more dramatic story with Darwin triumphing against the blinkered scientific world. But later this evolution taboo-centred perspective may have been given a new lease on life when it seemed to explain the delay that historians had learned was true, but which was entirely absent from the primary

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

, vertical sundial in south wall of tower with inscription below. 1888 Edinburgh, 11 Lothian St, tablet erected 1888, now vanished. Site now part of a student recreation centre. 1935 Galapagos Islands, Wreck Bay, Chatham, erected 1935; inscription by Leonard D Charles Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1835 and his studies on the distribution of animals and plants thereon led him for the first time to consider the problem of organic evolution. Thus was started the revolution in thought on

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

and Victorians. 1955 Dorothy Laird, Charles Darwin. Naturalist. 1959 Arthur Keith, Darwin revalued. 1963 G. de Beer, Charles Darwin, evolution by natural selection. 1966 Julian Huxley and H. B. D. Kettlewell, Darwin and his world. 1970 P. J. Vorzimmer, Charles Darwin: the years of controversy. 1970 Marshall, A. J., Darwin and Huxley in Australia. 1973 Hull, D. L., Darwin and his critics. 1977 Mea Allan, Darwin and his flowers. The key to natural selection. 1981 Brent, Peter, Charles Darwin: a man

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A715 Periodical contribution: Pasquarè, G., Chiesura, G., Battaglia, T.A., Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny, I. and Pezzotta, F. 2009. Charles Darwin geologist at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): a field reappraisal. Acta Vulcanologica 20-21: 223-231. Text

A VOLUME DEDICATED TO PROFESSOR FABRIZIO INNOCENTI Pietro Armienti, Massimo D'Orazio and Sergio Rocchi Editors CONTENTS Fabrizio Innocenti (1939-2009) 9 ANDREA DINI, SERGIO ROCCHI, DAVID S. WESTERMAN, FEDERICO FARINA, The late Miocene intrusive complex of Elba Island: two centuries of studies from Savi to Innocenti 11 SAMUELE AGOSTINI, CARLO DOGLIONI, PIERO MANETTI, SONIA TONARINI, The 40-year contribution of Fabrizio Innocenti to understanding the geodynamic evolution of the Eastern

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F2043 Book: Wyhe, John van ed. 2009. Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883. With a foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Cambridge: University Press. Text

to Haeckel on the origins of Darwin's theory of evolution]. F1916 396 1876 [Letters to J. Torbitt on potato propagation]. F1978 397 [Evidence given to the Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments]. F1275 398 Cherry blossoms. F1772 399 Sexual selection in relation to monkeys. F1773 400 1877 [Letter on Stock Dove]. F1951 403 Holly berries. F1774 403 [The scarcity of holly berries and bees]. F1775 404 To members of the Down Friendly Club. F1303 405 Fertilisation of plants

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F2043 Book: Wyhe, John van ed. 2009. Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883. With a foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Cambridge: University Press. Text

variety of his scientific interests and abilities, which continued to his final days. This book brings together all the known shorter publications and printed items Darwin wrote during his lifetime, including his first and last publications, and the first publication, with A. R. Wallace, of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With over 70 newly discovered items, the book is fully edited and annotated, and contains original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography. John van Wyhe