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A2203 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Darwin on Climbing Plants. Cultivator & Country Gentleman (13 January): 24. Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 24 Darwin on Climbing Plants.-Messrs. D. Appleton Co., New-York, publish the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, by CHARLES DARWIN, F.R.S., c., being the re-publication, with corrections and additions, of an essay first published In the Journal of the Linnean Society, in 1865. Of course, like nearly everything from the pen of the same author, it is prepared with the view of illustrating the principle of the gradual evolution of species

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F401 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 6th ed., with additions and corrections. [First issue of final definitive text] Text Image PDF

At the present day almost all naturalists admit evolution under some form. Mr. Mivart believes that species change through an internal force or tendency, about which it is not pretended that anything is known. That species have a capacity for change will be admitted by all evolutionists; but there is no need, as it seems to me, to invoke any internal force beyond the tendency to ordinary variability, which through the aid of selection by man has given rise to many well-adapted domestic races

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F677 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. Über die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl oder die Erhaltung der begünstigten Rassen im Kampfe um's Dasein. Translated by H. G. Bronn and J. V. Carus. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. 6th edition. Ch. Darwin's gesammelte Werke. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von J. Victor Carus. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe vol. 1. Text Image PDF

vorstehenden Abschnitten und an andern Orten mehrere Sätze beibehalten, welche die Ansicht enthalten, daß die Naturforscher an eine einzelne Entstehung jeder Species glauben, ich bin deshalb, daß ich mich so ausgedrückt habe, sehr getadelt worden. Unzweifelhaft war dies aber der allgemeine Glaube, als die erste Auflage des vorliegenden Werkes erschien. Ich habe früher mit sehr vielen Naturforschern über das Thema der Evolution gesprochen und bin auch nicht einmal einer sympathischen Zustimmung

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A1486 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Westminster Review, 105, (January): 125-26. Text PDF

have been developed in accordance with his theory of evolution. The little book is, however, of the highest interest independent of any theoretical considerations, and to the botanist its study will be indispensable. 3 The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. By Charles Darwin. Second edition, revised. Sm. 8vo. London: Murray. 1875

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A1906 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Daily Alta (California), (17 January): 2. Text PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 2 Climbing Plants. THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS. By Charles Darwin, Second edition; revised. With illustrations. New York: D. Appleton Co.; San Francisco: Payot, Upham Co. 1875. 12mo.; pp. 200. The celebrated advocate of the doctrine of evolution has here given us a little treatise, the title of which does not promise much, but he finds in the subject many singular facts, which he has arranged and stated in an interesting manner

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A2204 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Penn Monthly, 7 (April): 333-334. Text

examples in nature that illustrate in a striking manner, the principle of the gradual evolution of species, but in doing so, it serves the least scientific reader with a very happy illustration of the immense field of research close at hand, for all who know where to look and how to observe. Apart from the technical nomenclature and the purely argumentative discussion and comparison of the conflicting views of botanists, all given with great fullness and fairness, there is just that kind of

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A2807 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Portland Daily Press (15 January): 2. Text

made, and some additional facts are brought forward. Mr. Darwin has availed himself of some interesting observations made by Fritz Muller on the climbing plants of South Brazil, and of two important memoirs, on the difference in growth between the upper and lower sides of tendrils, and on the mechanism of the movements of twining plants by Dr. Hugo de Vries. These works have strengthened rather than modified his views on the gradual evolution of species. The illustrations in the volume, not

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CUL-DAR26.1-121 Draft: [1876--1882.04.00] 'Recollections of the development of my mind and character' [autobiography] author's fair copy Text Image

in University College, he did nothing more in science — a fact which has always been inexplicable to me. I knew him well; he was dry formal in manner, but with much enthusiasm beneath this outer crust. He one day, when we were walking together burst forth in high admiration of Lamarck his views on evolution. I listened in silent astonishment, as far as I can judge, without any effect on my mind. I had previously read the Zoönomia of my grandfather, in which similar views are maintained, but

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Addendum kind friend to me would always take any trouble for me. He has been the mainstay in England of the principle of the gradual evolution of organic beings. Much splendid work as he has done in Zoology, he would have done far more, if his time had not been so largely consumed by official literary work, by his efforts to improve the education of the country. He would allow me to say anything to him: many years ago I thought that it was a pity that he attacked so many scientific men

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three or four times as extensive as that which was afterwards followed in my Origin of Species; yet it was only an abstract of the materials which I had collected, I got through about half the work on this scale. But my plans were overthrown, for early in the summer of 1858 Mr Wallace,1 who was then in the Malay archipelago, sent me 1Alfred Russell Wallace, 1823-1913, naturalist traveller, author of various works on geographical distribution evolution. F.R.S. 1893. N.B. 9

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Plants. This was a tough piece of work. The book bears somewhat the same relation to my little book on Climbing Plants, which Cross-Fertilisation did to the Fertilisation of Orchids ; for in accordance with the principles of evolution it was impossible to account for climbing plants having been developed in so many widely different groups, unless all kinds of plants possess some slight 1 His son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield. N.B. 2 See Appendix. Part ii. p. 167. On the Darwin-Butler controversy

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F1249 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

progress of the great principle of evolution. In order to avoid misapprehension, I beg leave to repeat that throughout this volume a crossed plant, seedling, or seed, means one of crossed parentage, that is, one derived from a flower fertilised with pollen from a distinct plant of the same species. And that a self-fertilised plant, seedling, or seed, means one of self-fertilised parentage, that is, one derived from a flower fertilised with pollen from the same flower, or sometimes, when thus

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F661 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou La lutte pour l'existence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text PDF

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Edition, not in Life Letters. N.B. 4 Robert Edmund Grant, 1793-1874, Professor of comparative anatomy zoology at London University 1827-1874; F.R.S. 1836. T. H. Huxley writes of Grant thus: — Within the ranks of the biologists at that time (1851-8) I met nobody, except Dr Grant, of University College who had a word to say for Evolution; his advocacy was not calculated to advance the cause. Life Letters, Vol. II, p. 188. N.B. 1

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her son Francis. 1885. My dear Frank, There is one sentence in the Autobiography which I very much wish to omit, no doubt partly because your father's opinion that all morality has 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

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F401 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 6th ed., with additions and corrections. [First issue of final definitive text] Text Image PDF

transmutation of species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are descended from some one progenitor, must have been an extremely slow process; and the progenitors must have lived long before their modified descendants. But we continually overrate the perfection of the geological record

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F661 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou La lutte pour l'existence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text PDF

comme portant deux sortes de pédicellaires, l'un ressemblant à ceux de l'Echinus, et l'autre à ceux du Spatangus ; ces cas sont intéressants, car ils fournissent des exemples de certaines transitions subites résultant de l'avortement de l'un des deux états d'un organe. M. Agassiz conclut de ses propres recherches et de celles de Miiller, au sujet de la marche que ces organes curieux ont dû suivre clans leur évolution, qu'il faut, sans aucun doute, considérer comme des épines modifiées les

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F661 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou La lutte pour l'existence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text PDF

que par une modification comparativement brusque, de nature marquée et importante ; opinion qu'il applique, sans doute, à la formation des ailes des chauves-souris et des ptérodactyles. Cette conclusion, qui implique d'énormes lacunes et une discontinuité de la série, me paraît improbable au suprême degré. Les partisans d'une évolution lente et graduelle admettent, bien entendu , que les changements spécifiques ont pu être aussi subits et aussi considérables qu'une simple variation isolée que

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F661 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1876. L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou La lutte pour l'existence dans la nature. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text PDF

ou22 AFFINITÉS MUTUELLES DES ÊTRES ORGANISÉS. à cet égard. De même les deux principaux groupes des cirrhipèdes, les pédoncules et les sessiles, bien que fort différents par leur aspect extérieur, ont des larves qu'on peut à peine distinguer les unes des autres pendant les phases successives de leur développement. Dans le cours de son évolution, l'organisation de l'embryon s'élève généralement ; j'emploie cette expression, bien que je sache qu'il est presque impossible de définir bien nettement

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A1148 Review: Anon. 1876. [Review of] The variation of animals and plants under domestication. Adelaide Observer (8 July): 19. Text PDF

livia, the blue rock pigeon. When we think of the extraordinary difference between the pouter, the carrier, and the fantail, and the marked peculiarities of each continued through generations, we must own that if they can be traced back to one common ancestor the versatility of nature is amazing, and the difficulty of accepting Mr. Darwin's theory of evolution is lessened enormously; for these variations have been produced in a comparatively short time by the clumsy agency of man. Five thousand