A1139    Review:     [Tait, Lawson]. 1876. [Review of] The variation of animals and plants under domestication. The Spectator (4 March): 312-3.   Text   PDF

attitude of opposition to Darwinian views may now be numbered on the fingers of a hand, whilst the rising school of thought is almost unanimous in favour of the doctrine of evolution. Very much of the opposition which the views contained in the Origin of Species had to encounter, leaving out of question, of course, the class opposition which was to be expected, was due to the absence of the details of the facts upon which those views were based, an absence which was rendered necessary by the hastened

A2028    Review:     Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Climbing plants and revolutions. Chicago Daily Tribune (22 January): 9.   Text   PDF

distinguished botanists have studied the subject with painstaking fidelity, illuminating it with many curious facts not previously discovered. To improve the value of his paper by incorporating into it the latest information gained by himself and others, has been the purpose of Mr. Darwin in the work of revision; but the chief object has apparently been to apply its conclusions anew to the question of evolution. In accumulating the data on which his essay is based, Mr. Darwin investigated the

A2094    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, Francis. 1876. Breeds and breeding. Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th ed. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, vol. 4, pp. 244-51.   Text

identical with a wild prototype either living or extinct, and that man has merely deprived them of liberty and regulated their environment and propagation in the manner most advantageous to each kind. At the present day, when the whole range of biological thought is so largely permeated by the principles of the doctrine of evolution, this objection will probably not be advanced. Yet, when it is remembered that such an authority as Col. Hamilton Smith held the belief that each breed of dog had

A492    Periodical contribution:     Hahn, Otto. 1876. Is there such a thing as Eozoon canadense? A microgeological investigation. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 17 (April): 265-282. (Translation of A487 by W. S. Dallas)   Text   Image

-body that originally passed into them. But this is not all. In specimens in which the Nummuline layer constituting the ' proper wall' of the chambers was originally well preserved, and in which the decalcifying process has been carefully managed (so as not by too rapid evolution of carbonic-acid gas to disturb the arrangement of the serpentinous residuum), that layer is represented by a thin white film covering the exposed surfaces of the segments, the superficial aspect of which as well as its

CUL-DAR139.19.1    Printed:    1876.09.07   Address 1 September 1876 to Section D (Biology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science `Nature' 14: 403-412   Text   Image   PDF

antiquity of the human type has been brought prominently forward by Prof. Mivart.4 He shows, by a careful comparison of all parts of the structure of the body, that man is related not to any one, but almost equally to many of the existing apes—to the orang, the chimpanzee, the gorilla, and even to the gibbons—in a variety of ways; and these relations and differences are so numerous and so diverse that, on the theory of evolution, the ancestral form which ultimately developed into man must have

A1914    Review:     Anon. 1877. [Review of Self fertilisation]. Sacramento Daily Union (13 October): 4.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 4 THE EFFECTS OF CROSS AND SELF-FERTILIZATION IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. New York: Appleton Co. Sacramento: A.S. Hopkins. We have here another volume of the minute and laborious researches of the great naturalist whose life is devoted to the demonstration of the doctrine of Evolution. The main object of Mr. Darwin in these experiments is to throw new light upon the difficult subject of hybridism, which has

A2607    Review:     Anon. 1877. [Review of Cross and self fertilisation]. Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The Chronicle (University of Michigan), 8 (17 March): 176.   Text

the conditions of life, and thus stands in the closest connection with life itself. It throws light on the origin of the two sexes and on their separation or union in the same individual and lastly on the whole subject of hybridism, which is one of the greatest obstacles to the general acceptance and progress of the great principle of evolution.   Mr. Darwin has deemed the results of his experiments of sufficient value to justify the details. The peculiar style of Darwin renders the work

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

If we admit the principle of gradual evolution, there must formerly have existed many species which presented every successive step between the wonderfully elongated tail-coverts of the peacock and the short tail-coverts of all ordinary birds; and again between the magnificent ocelli of the former, and the simpler ocelli or mere coloured spots on other birds; and so with all the other characters of the peacock. Let us look to the allied Gallinaceæ for any still-existing gradations. The species

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

, des espèces, it is manifest that at least a large number of naturalists must admit that species are the modified descendants of other species; and this especially holds good with the younger and rising naturalists. The greater number accept the agency of natural selection; though some urge, whether with justice the future must decide, that I have greatly overrated its importance. Of the older and honoured chiefs in natural science, many unfortunately are still opposed to evolution in every

A1141    Review:     Anon. 1877. [Review of] Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle'. 2d ed.   Text   PDF

-structure of a system of philosophy was laid down which has already, even in its author's life-time, revolutionised almost every phase of scientific thought. The Journal of that voyage now forms one of the most interesting books which either the young naturalist or the student of philosophy can read, for in its pages are to be found the elements of the doctrines of evolution which Mr. Darwin's later work has so firmly established. In the present book the geological observations made during the voyage