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A1924 Review: Anon. 1880. [Review of Erasmus]. American Catholic Quarterly Review, 5, (July): 570-71. Text PDF

work. It alone gives the history of Dr. Darwin's life, while Dr. Krause's brief essay is entirely concerned with the analysis of his works, and the vindication of his claim to be the true founder, in great part at least, of that system of evolution through natural selection of which his grandson is the exponent in our own day. To Mr. Charles Darwin the preparation of this sketch has evidently been a labor of love, and we, of course, should be the last to carp at his filial piety. At the same

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A2545 Review: Anon. 1880. [Review of Erasmus Darwin]. American bookseller, 9, no. 2 (15 January): 63, no. 3 (2 February): 92. Text

species, afterwards made by the present Darwin peculiarly his own, in his explanation of the method by which it may have come about, through evolution and natural selection, survival of the fittest, etc. The memoir is largely base upon family papers, letters, and upon Erasmus Darwin's own diaries and common-place books. It includes a review of his works and gives a photograph taken from a family portrait, and several woodcuts. It fills a twelvemo of over 200 pages. [page] 9

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F1414 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1882 [1880]. Prefatory notice. In Weismann, August, Studies in the theory of descent. With notes and additions by the author: Translated and edited, with notes, by Raphael Meldola F.C.S.: With a prefatory notice by Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Volume 1, pp. [v]-vi. Text Image PDF

branch of Natural History, will see how wide and rich a field for study has been opened up through the principle of Evolution; and such fields, without the light shed on them by this principle, would for long or for ever have remained barren. CHARLES DARWIN

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F3488 Pamphlet: Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield. Text

at some length. -- Feb. 10. an angry irrelevant reply from Romanes, and a note from the editor that the discussion must close. Here the matter ended. 1882 April 19 Death of Mr. Darwin. -- April 21 Preface to the second edition of Evolution Old and New After all Mr. Darwin may have been right, and I wrong (I think the summary incomplete without the following and the preceding reference and I do not know why Butler omitted them. H.F.J.) [page]

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F3488 Pamphlet: Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield. Text

recapitulated the facts. There was no answer. 1887 Dec. 1 (about) Frank Darwin published a second edition of Erasmus Darwin unaltered except for the addition of foot-note stating that Dr. Krause's article had been revised and added to before translation, and that among the additions there was an allusion to Evolution Old and New. -- Dec. 14 I wrote to the Academy, called attention to the fact that the new edition had appeared and traversed Frank Darwin's contention that Mr. Darwin had accidentally

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F3488 Pamphlet: Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield. Text

nor did he ever tell Butler that he had written these words in his preface. They formed part of a paragraph which was struck out at the request of Dr. Krause because of other matter which it contained and not with the intention of making it appear that the article had been translated without modification. But the preface contained also two notes — one at the beginning which guaranteed the accuracy of the translation by Mr. Dallas of the article and the other at the end which stated that Evolution

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F3488 Pamphlet: Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield. Text

Letters of Charles Darwin also referred to the natter as an oversight , In the same year he also published a new edition of Erasmus Darwin and took the opportunity of fulfilling his father's promise to Butler by inserting a third foot-note to the preface: Mr. Darwin accidentally omitted to mention that Dr. Krause revised and made certain alterations to his essay before it was translated. Among these additions is an allusion to Mr. Butler's book Evolution Old and New. Butler saw that this third

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F3557 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1913. [Letter to O. C. March, 1880]. In R. Swann, Collections of Yale University. Supplement to Yale Alumni Magazine (2 May): 10. Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 10 Charles Darwin; writes from Down, Kent, August 31, 1880: My dear Prof. Marsh,— I received some time ago your very kind note of July 28th, and yesterday the magnificent volume.* I have looked with renewed admiration at the plates, and will soon read the text. Your work on these old birds and on many fossil animals of N. America has afforded the best support to the theory of evolution which has appeared within the last 20 years. The general

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F913.2 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1880. De la variation des animaux et des plantes à l'état domestique. Traduit sur la seconde édition anglaise par Ed. Barbier; préface de Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

MONSTRUOSITÉS. 35 pement ; car, chez ces fleurs, tous les organes sont symétriques pendant les premières phases de leur développement, et ne pourraient pas devenir irréguliers s'ils étaient arrêtés a ce point de leur évolution. De plus, si l'arrêt de développement se produisait encore plus tût, il aurait pour résultat une simple, touffe de feuilles vertes, ce que personne ne regarderait probablement comme un cas de retour. Le Dr Masters désigne les premiers de ces cas sous le nom de pélorie

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

judge, a real advance has here been made in the mode of treating problems in Geographical Distribution, owing to the firm establishment of a number of preliminary doctrines or principles, which in many cases lead to a far simpler and yet more complete solution of such problems than have been hitherto possible. The most important of these doctrines are those which establish and define (1) The former wide extension of all groups now discontinuous, as being a necessary result of evolution ; (2

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

climate or general conditions of that country were not suitable to it, but in what the unsuitability consisted we could rarely hope to discover. Hence the exact locality of any species was not thought of much importance from a scientific point of view, and the idea that anything could be learnt by a comparative study of different floras and faunas never entered the minds of the older naturalists. But so soon as the theory of evolution came to be generally adopted, and it was seen that each animal

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A1492 Review: Anon. 1880. [Review of Erasmus Darwin]. Argus, (Melbourne), (28 February): 5. Text PDF

Triangles, and since then his name is remembered chiefly by a couplet, presaging certainly with remarkable provision the triumph of steam:─ Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar, Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, by the testimony of his more illustrious grandson, was no doubt a man of considerable originality and power of mind, who was before his time in many things, and who even conceived something like an idea of the theory of evolution. His German editor, Dr

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A1924 Review: Anon. 1880. [Review of Erasmus]. American Catholic Quarterly Review, 5, (July): 570-71. Text PDF

lace have elaborated into the modern theory of evolution. A fact which seems to have escaped Krause's notice is that in another question also, the government of the universe, Charles Darwin apparently holds the same position which was held by his grandfather. That there exists a superior Ens Entium, says the latter, which formed these wonderful creatures, is a mathematical demonstration. That he influences things by a particular providence is not so evident. The probability, according to my

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F1325 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

forms of circumnutation; as again are the equally prevalent movements of stems, etc., towards the zenith, and of roots towards the centre of the earth. In accordance with these conclusions, a considerable difficulty in the way of evolution is in part removed, for it might have been asked, how did all these diversified movements for the most different purposes first arise? As the case stands, we know that there is always movement in progress, and its amplitude, or direction, or both, have only

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F1984 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1880. Darwin's reply to a vegetarian. Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture n.s. 31: 180. Text Image

Darwin, C. R. 1880. Darwin's reply to a vegetarian. Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture n.s. 31: 180. [page] 180 DARWIN'S REPLY TO A VEGETARIAN. —The following letter was received from Charles Darwin in answer to one written to him by a person1 who saw in the theory of evolution, as set forth by this great naturalist, evidence in favor of vegetarianism. We find it in a German vegetarian journal, and translate: DEAR SIR.—I have so many letters to answer that mine to you must be

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

established between an animal and its native country, and a new set of problems at once sprang into existence. From the old point of view the diversities of animal life in the separate continents, even where physical conditions were almost identical, was the fact that excited astonishment; but seen by the light of the evolution theory, it is the resemblances rather than the diversities in these distant continents and islands that are most difficult to explain. It thus comes to be admitted that

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

most of the disputed questions as to the development of animals, and to confine ourselves to those general principles regulating the origin and development of species and genera which were first laid down by Mr. Darwin twenty years ago, and have now come to be adopted by naturalists as established propositions in the theory of evolution. The Origin of New Species. How, then, do new species arise, supposing the world to have been, physically, much as we now see it; and what becomes of them after

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

impossible, and that it either was or must have been effected by means of continents now sunk beneath the ocean. Concluding Remarks. When writing on the subject of distribution it usually seems to have been forgotten that the theory of evolution absolutely necessitates the former existence of a whole series of extinct genera filling up the gap between the isolated genera which in many cases now alone exist; while it is almost an axiom of natural selection that such numerous forms of one type could

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

nearest the shore, the finer silt and mud furthest from it. From the earliest geological times the great area of deposit has been as it still is, the marginal belt of sea-floor skirting the land. 1 Geographical Evolution. (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. 1879, p. 426.) [page] 8

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A1016 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

lecture on Geographical Evolution (which was published after the greater part of this chapter had been written) Professor Geikie expresses views in complete accordance with those here advocated. He says: The next long era, the Cretaceous, was more remarkable for slow accumulation of rock under the sea than for the formation of new land. During that time the Atlantic sent its waters across the whole of Europe and into Asia. But they were probably nowhere more than a few hundred feet deep over the