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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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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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

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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Library 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

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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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

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

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is a strong disbeliever in evolution, but he appears to have been so much struck by the imperfect instincts of the Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition? Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. This habit is not very uncommon with the Gallinace , and throws some light on

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dit des formes ou des groupes apparemment intermédiaires entre d'autres groupes et les reliant. OVA. — OEufs. OVARIUM ou OVAIRE (chez les plantes). — La partie inférieure du pistil ou do l'organe femelle de la piaule, contenant les ovules ou jeunes semences; par la croissance et après que les autres organes de la fleur sont tombés, l'ovaire se transforme généralement en fruit. OviGÈms. — Portant l'oeuf. OVULES (des plantes). — Les semences dans leur première évolution. PACHYDERMES. — Un groupe de