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CUL-DAR226.1.110[.2]    Printed:    1880.11.18   Sir Wyville Thomson and natural selection `Nature' 23: 53   Text   Image   PDF
half the world, which comes to much the same thing; the breeder might then have cause to rail if he had not picked up the stages of the process. The close examination of the newer tertiaries and the careful analysis of the fauna of the deep sea seem to me fairly to represent these two methods; both of these promise to yield a mass of information in regard to the course of evolution, but as to the mode of the origin of species both seem as yet equally silent. I will ask you in a week or two for
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F1969    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1880. [Letter of thanks to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union]. The naturalist 6 (65) (December): 65-68.   Text   Image   PDF
of natural knowledge, is the scientific basis yon have given to the grand doctrine of evolution. Other naturalists, as you yourself have shown, had endeavoured to unravel the questions that had arisen respecting the origin, classification, and distribution of organic beings, and had even obtained faint glimpses of the transformation of specific forms. But it was left to you to show, almost to demonstration, that the variations which species of plants and animals exhibit, and in natural
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
1828 Geoffroy St. Hilare [sic] declared his belief in evolution; the author of the 'Vestiges of Creation' (1844) was an evolutionist; many others, and among them Göethe, the Shakespeare of German literature, had expressed—the doctrine of evolution before Darwin; but it was our own great countryman who convinced the world of its truth. The bare facts of morphology, of classification, and of geological succession, are suggestive of evolution, but it required a Darwin to point out how evolution had
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
selection was a very great contribution to science, but the establishment of the principle of evolution was a still greater contribution to philosophy. The question as to how far evolution can be legitimately admitted to have taken place in the organic world is by some considered to be open to discussion. It cannot be denied that the proof that natural selection is competent to modify species does not necessarily carry with it the proof that groups of great dissimilarity, such, for example, as the
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A9    Periodical contribution:     Otago Institute (New Zealand). 1881. Honour to Mr. Darwin. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science. 23 (23 February): 393-4.   Text   Image
twenty-first anniversary of the publication of your great work, the Origin of Species. However limited the field of our own labours may be, we cannot but be sensible of the influence which that work has had throughout the whole domain of Natural Science, and especially upon Biology, which, as one great comprehensive Science, may be said to owe its very existence to the fact that you made belief in Evolution possible by your theory of Natural Selection. We are glad to think that you have lived
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
edition, as also in his 'Antiquity of Man,' he not only gave a masterly exposition of the Darwinian theory, but added considerably to its weight, and enforced its acceptance by several new and striking lines of argument. It would lead me too far astray on this occasion were I to attempt to go in any detail over the various lines of evidence converging upon the central idea of evolution. It suffices to say that many large groups of biological facts that had before appeared isolated and
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 64 DARWIN AND MODERN EVOLUTION. Our list of honorary members suffers, as I had the sad duty of announcing at a former meeting, by the removal of the universally-revered name of Charles Darwin, who breathed his last on April 19th, 1882, at his residence, Down, Kent, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. Much has already been said and written about Mr. Darwin, and I cannot hope to give you on the present occasion anything beyond a general sketch
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
of the theory of evolution it does not enter into my province to speak this evening. To my mind Darwin has exalted our conception of Nature beyond the theologies. He has taught us that there is no intermediate and direct interference with the course of natural law—he has enforced the lesson that in studying natural science we are concerned only with secondary causes. I cannot do better than conclude in the words of Bacon:— ''For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
hypothesis. But time presses, and I will only pause here to point out the somewhat interesting circumstance that the facts of this nature, which first led Darwin to speculate on the origin of species, have been left for their complete coordination and generalisation to the contemporary founder of modern evolution , Mr. A. R. Wallace, whose works on the 'Geographical Distribution of Animals' and 'Island Life 'may be regarded as the completion of the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of the 'Origin of
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F3396    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Letter extract from 1881 and recollection of Darwin's words]. In R. Meldola, The presidential address: Darwin and modern evolution. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3: 64-93.   Text
doctrine of evolution founded by Darwin in our time has not only remodelled the science of Biology, but its influence extends through every department of human knowledge. The spirit of Darwinism pervades and animates the whole of modern science. Wherever Nature presents gradation, we now suspect deviation. Branches and sub-branches of science, which, like Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology, were formerly ill-defined and vague in scope, under the ruling idea of evolution have now acquired
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A1936    Review:     Anon. 1881. [Review of Movement in plants]. Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 38, (April): 255.   Text   PDF
, if plants have a brain, or the equivalent of it, directing all their movements, then we suppose, along the line of evolution, the distance between a squash-vine and Mr. Darwin isn't worth talking about. Is that the direction and the aim of the argument
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F1357    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
case of geology, and more recently in that of the principle of evolution. Although these several objections seemed to me to have no weight, yet I resolved to make more observations of the same kind as those published, and to attack the problem on another side; namely, to weigh all the castings thrown up within a given time in a measured space, instead of ascertaining the rate at which objects left on the surface were buried by worms. But some of my observations have been rendered almost
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F1361    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. fifth thousand (corrected), and with textual changes. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
case of geology, and more recently in that of the principle of evolution. Although these several objections seemed to me to have no weight, yet I resolved to make more observations of the same kind as those published, and to attack the problem on another side; namely, to weigh all the castings thrown up within a given time in a measured space, instead of ascertaining the rate at which objects left on the surface were buried by worms. But some of my observations have been rendered almost
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F1061    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 3d ed. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   PDF
évolution graduelle. La sublime croyance à un Dieu n'est pas universelle chez l'homme ; celle à des agents spirituels actifs résulte naturellement de ses autres facultés mentales. C'est le sens moral qui constitue peut-être la ligne de démarcation la plus nette entre l'homme et les autres animaux, mais je n'ai rien à ajouter sur ce point, puisque j'ai essayé de prouver que les instincts sociaux, — base fondamentale de la morale humaine[50], — auxquels viennent s'adjoindre les facultés
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A1724    Review:     Anon. 1881. [Review of Movement in plants]. Baltimore Sun (14 March): 5.   Text   PDF
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 5 The Power of Movement in Plants. By Charles Darwin, assisted by Francis Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company, with illustrations. The author of the theory of evolution has never written a more interesting book than this, his latest work. In his introduction Mr. Darwin explains that the chief object of his book is to describe what he calls the circumnutation of plants,: that is to say, the revolving movements of plants on their stems in
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CUL-DAR226.1.176    Printed:    1881   Review of Movement in plants `Westminster Review' 2s 59: 304-305   Text   Image   PDF
importance of these movements is great in bringing about the evolution of either plant form or organization. [annotation by Darwin:] Westminster Revie
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F1061    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 3d ed. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   PDF
immondices, 581. CHILOE, pou des indigènes de, 185 ; population de, 189. Chimæra montrosat, apophyse osseuse sur la tête du mâle, 372. CHIMÉROÏDES, poissons, organes préhensiles des mâles, 364. CHIMPANZÉ, 613 ; oreilles du, 11 ; plates-formes qu'il construit, 63 ; noix qu'il casse avec une pierre, 85 ; ses mains, 50 ; absence d'apophyses mastoïdes, 53 ; direction des poils sur les bras, 164 ; évolution supposée du, 194 ; mœurs polygames et sociales du, 645. CHINE du Nord, idée de la beauté féminine
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F1061    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 3d ed. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   PDF
 GRADATION, des caractères secondaires chez les oiseaux, 471. GRALLATORES, manquent de caractères sexuels secondaires, 240 ; double mue dans quelques, 427. Grallina, nidification des, 498. GRATIOLET, professeur, sur les singes anthropomorphes, 167 ; sur leur évolution, 194 ; sur les cerveaux humains, 220-224. GRAVEURS, sont myopes, 32. GRAY, Asa, gradation des espèces de Composées, 191. GRAY, J.-E., vertèbres caudales des singes, 59 ; présence de rudiments de cornes chez la femelle du Cervulus
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F1061    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 3d ed. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   PDF
couvrant la nuit de feuilles de Pandanus, 87 ; ses mains, 49 ; absence d'apophyses mastoïdes, 53 ; direction des poils sur les bras, 164 ; caractères aberrants, 167-168 ; évolution supposée de l', 194 ; sa voix, 578 ; habitudes monogames de l', 615 ; barbe chez le mâle, 582. ORANGES, épluchées par les singes, 50. Orchestia Darwinii, dimorphisme des mâles, 296. Orchestia Tucuratinga, membres du, 294. Oreas canna, couleurs, 587. Oreas Derbianus, id, 587, 596. OREILLE, mouvements de l', 10 ; conque
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F1061    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 3d ed. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   PDF
sens moral comme distinction entre l'homme et les animaux, 103 ; variabilité, 27 ; sur la fécondité des femmes australiennes avec les blancs, 186 ; sur les Paulistas du Brésil, 189 ; évolution des races de bétail, 193 ; sur les juifs, 212 ; susceptibilité des nègres après un séjour dans un climat froid, pour les fièvres tropicales, 213 ; différence entre les esclaves de campagne et ceux de la maison, 216 ; influence du climat sur la couleur, 214 ; sur les Aïnos, 612 ; sur les femmes de San
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