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A4672 Book: Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1878. Evolution in biology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. 8: 744-551. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection] Text

, though the conceptions originally denoted by evolution and development were shown to be untenable, the words retained their application to the process by which the embryos of living beings gradually make their appearance; and the terms Development, Entwickelung, and Evolution are now indiscriminately used for the series of genetic changes exhibited by living beings, by writers who would emphatically deny that Development or Entwickelung or Evolution in the sense in which these words were usually

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F4063 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1885. [Letter to G. A. Gaskell, 1878]. In Jane Hume Clapperton, Scientific meliorism and the evolution of happiness. London: Kegan Paul, pp. 340-41. Text

results at which I have arrived, I shall still be able to make myself understood. I believe I can point out, as now in action, two important laws of Race, to add to the one already so fully displayed by yourself. They are both naturally destructive of the action of the first law which is Natural Selection; and the last, which is now in the first stages of evolution, annuls as it grows the action of the two preceding ones. They each have existence for the same reason, viz. that they tend to

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CUL-DAR75.50 Abstract: [1878--1882.04.00] [reference incomplete] `American Naturalist' 1874-1878 Text Image

Bermuda of new delicate Butterfly 1877 p. 54 How to make pollen – tubes emitted. p. 145 New form of Pangenesis p. 149 Voices in Fishes to end of Paper. p. 471 Great Diversity of Habits in Woodpeckers. 545 Le Conte – Critical Periods in Evolution – on Evolution very suddenly rapid – I do not agree, but important Paper 607. Distribution of F. W. Fish in U. States 617 Birds of Guadalupe, all differ from those of mainland in certain characters 1878 37 Variation in nests. 473 Distribution of Uniones by

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F4067 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1878. [Letter to B. J. Placzek, 1878.] In idem, Notiz. Das Jüdische Literaturblatt (Magdeburg) 7, no. 40 (2 October): 160. Text Image PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 160 Notiz. Der Grossmeister der modernen Naturwissenschaft Charles Darwin, erwähnte in seiner Erwiderung auf meine ihm zugesandte Arbeit Der Darwinismus in der Agada : that a learned Jew in Poland (whose name i have at present forgotten) has publishet a small volume in Hebrew, showing that Evolution is an ancient belief, and that orthodox Jews may safely accept it. Da mir eine solche Broschüre unbekannt und deren Erwähnung in Darwin's Schreiben

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F4063 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1885. [Letter to G. A. Gaskell, 1878]. In Jane Hume Clapperton, Scientific meliorism and the evolution of happiness. London: Kegan Paul, pp. 340-41. Text

that a new law had been evolved, and this I set myself to discover. The word sympathy I have used in a wide sense, and as the quality meant has, as you point out, been most probably developed through natural selection, it exists in varying degrees of strength. Of the reality of the third law there will be most dispute. That its evolution is proceeding, I cannot myself see reason to doubt; and that it is destined to act a most beneficent part in the future of mankind, I firmly believe. As

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F1251 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1878. The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. 2d ed. 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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F1917 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1878. [Letters]. In Thayer, J. B., Letters of Chauncey Wright, with some account of his life. Cambridge [Mass.]: Press of John Wilson and Son. Text Image

their essential worth, and in a reverent memory. I have been a long time detained in Cambridge, but propose to go to Northampton to-morrow for a short visit to my brother. It was quite absorbed a few weeks ago in writing a rejoinder, so to speak, to Mr. Mivart's reply to my criticisms of his book. It is now in print, and will be published in the July number of the North American Review. 1 I have sent a proof of it to 1 Evolution by Natural Selection: Philosophical Discussions, p. 168. [page] 238

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F1917 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1878. [Letters]. In Thayer, J. B., Letters of Chauncey Wright, with some account of his life. Cambridge [Mass.]: Press of John Wilson and Son. Text Image

much struck by the suggestive views you give in your last letter1 of the limits or definition of the effects that can 1 On June 3, Mr. Darwin had written, thanking Wright for a copy of his article on Evolution by Natural Selection, which he had read with great interest. Nothing, he says, can be clearer than the way in which you discuss the permanence or fixity of species . As your mind is so clear and as you consider so carefully the meaning of words, I wish you would take some incidental occasion

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F1917 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1878. [Letters]. In Thayer, J. B., Letters of Chauncey Wright, with some account of his life. Cambridge [Mass.]: Press of John Wilson and Son. Text Image

letter, a number of the Nation, which contains a couple of Notes by me about books on evolution. They begin at the foot of page 113. In this letter, Chauncey expresses the purpose of writing again to Mr. Darwin; but in the six months of life that remained to him he did not do it. Mr. Darwin's latest note to him was written in reply to this, on March 13. He says, I write to-day, so that there shall be no delay this time in 22 [page] 338 LETTERS OF CHAUNCEY WRIGHT

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A2220 Review: Gray, Asa. 1878. [Review of Forms of flowers]. Darwin's botanical studies. The Independent, 30 (10 January): 11-12. Text PDF

insects, winds, etc.—and are, therefore, more or less precarious, they are supplemented by other and seemingly contradictory arrangements for a certain amount of close-fertilization also. Such are the topics of the book before us and of the related volumes of the series. Those who know of the author only through his writings upon evolution, and who look on these with misgiving or alarm, may yet share with us the interest with which we welcome works like these. To restore the idea of intention to

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

1861, which contains many useful references and remarks.* * Since the publication of Dr. Krause's article, Mr. Butler's work, 'Evolution, Old and New, 1879' has appeared, and this includes an account of Dr. Darwin's life, compiled from the two books just mentioned, and of his views on evolution. [page 1

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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319 Printed: 1879--1880 Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin London Text Image PDF

1861, which contains many useful references and remarks.* * Since the publication of Dr. Krause's article, Mr. Butler's work, 'Evolution, Old and New, 1879' has appeared, and this includes an account of Dr. Darwin's life, compiled from the two books just mentioned, and of his views on evolution. [page 1

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

fire, heat, and light. Matters which can only be slightly touched upon in the verses are further elaborated, partly in short footnotes and partly in more detailed memoirs (additional notes) which are relegated to the end of the volume. It is to these notes that our attention must principally be directed. We are especially interested in a note to verse 101 of the first canto, in which the author unfolds the idea and the first scheme of the theory of evolution. He says: From having observed the

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

part of this same section the author gives a short sketch of the theory of evolution, which, however, must have been more clearly developed in his mind. I reproduce it here, with some abridgments, because in it, fifteen years before the appearance of Lamarck's 'Philosophie Zoologique,' the principles of evolution were completely set forth. Darwin says, When we revolve in our minds, first, the great changes, which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity, as in the production of the

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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319 Printed: 1879--1880 Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin London Text Image PDF

fire, heat, and light. Matters which can only be slightly touched upon in the verses are further elaborated, partly in short footnotes and partly in more detailed memoirs (additional notes) which are relegated to the end of the volume. It is to these notes that our attention must principally be directed. We are especially interested in a note to verse 101 of the first canto, in which the author unfolds the idea and the first scheme of the theory of evolution. He says: From having observed the

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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319 Printed: 1879--1880 Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin London Text Image PDF

part of this same section the author gives a short sketch of the theory of evolution, which, however, must have been more clearly developed in his mind. I reproduce it here, with some abridgments, because in it, fifteen years before the appearance of Lamarck's 'Philosophie Zoologique,' the principles of evolution were completely set forth. Darwin says, When we revolve in our minds, first, the great changes, which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity, as in the production of the

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A2810 Review: Anon. 1879. [Review of Journal of researches]. [What Mr. Darwin saw]. Portland Daily Press (4 October): 1. Text

, birds, and stories of strafe countries and people. Mr. Darwin's observations are, of course, scientific and reliable; and persons who would object to his doctrines of evolution as tending to lessen the religious faith of young readers, will not find any expressions of this theory in the volume. It concerns itself simply with facts, and puts them in a pleasant and graphic manner. Some of the stories—and all the pictures—will please the little ones, though the general tone of the book suits it

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

Darwin, although with great acumen; and it is to Darwin therefore that the credit is due of having first established a complete system of the theory of evolution. The evidence of this I shall adduce hereafter. The unusual circumstance that a grandfather should be the intellectual precursor of his grandson in questions which now-a-days more than any others move the minds of men, must of itself suffice to excite the liveliest interest. But at the same time it must be pointed out that in this fact

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

the doctor's activity of which he was most capable of judging. The literati formerly extolled his poetical merits. Eighteen years ago an English physician praised his medical contributions; and it has remained for the present writer to add to these the hitherto neglected tribute of recognition* which is due to him on the part of natural history and physio-philosophy. It is characteristic of this distinguished man that he never exhibited those fluctuating opinions with respect to the evolution of

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F1319 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

(which I was obliged to mention only because the author always speaks of a filament, instead of the egg as the germ of the living creature), the author now, with the greatest acumen, maintains the theory of epigenesis in opposition to the theory of evolution (in the older sense), showing that every creature is a complete new formation, which, with each grade of development attained by it, develops other formative impulses, and thus can incorporate with its own essence even the latest