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CUL-DAR.LIB.654 Printed: 1880 Island life. London: Macmillan & Co. Text

Australian plants in England, 486 Eucalyptus, 179 Eucalyptus and Acacia, why not in New Zealand, 475 Eucalyptus in Eocene of Sheppey, 486 Eupetes, distribution of, 25 Europe, Asia. c., as zoological terms, 31 European birds, range of, 16 European birds in Bermuda, 259 European occupation, effects of in St. Helena, 283 European plants in New Zealand, 477 in Chile and Fuegia, 489 Everett, Mr., on raised coral-reefs in the Philippines 362 Evolution necessitates continuity, 68 Excentricity and precession

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NHM-WP6.4.1 Note: [1880] "Darwin's notes on 'Island Life'" and "Notes have been recorded in text." Text Image

should expect on the theory of evolution. In Ireland the two main causes of specific change—isolation and altered conditions—are each more powerful than in Britain. Whatever difficulty continental fishes may have in passing over to Britain, that difficulty will certainly be increased by the second sea passage to Ireland; and the latter country has been longer isolated, for the Irish Sea with its northern and southern channels is considerably deeper than the German Ocean and the eastern half of

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F3715 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Letter to H. W. Crosskey and the Birmingham Philosophical Society, 1880]. Death of Charles Darwin, F.R.S. Birmingham Daily Post (21 April): 4. Text

the workings of nature, but there is still room enough for marvel. If we push back the first faint movings of sentient life upon our planet a thousand million of years, and trace the development of man from the first monad, is that dawning of life one whit less miraculous than if it had occurred yesterday? Mr. Darwin, with whom Mr. A. R. Wallace's name will ever be associated, confined himself to the problem of accounting for the evolution of higher organic forms out of the lower—the evolution

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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

Beginmngs of Life, 1872, vol. II, p. 98) dit que l'hypothèse « semble, être un reste de l'antique philosophie plutôt qu'elle ne parait dé-conler de la doctrine de 1 évolution ». Il cherche, en outre, à prouver que je n'aurais pas dû mployer le terme Pangenèse dont le Dr Gros s'était servi précédemment en lui attribuant nn autre sens. Le Dr Lionel Beale (Sature, 11 mai 1871, p. 20) se moque de toute la, doctrine; ses remarques sont très-acerbes, et quelquefois assez justes. Le professeur Wi-gand

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A5 Periodical contribution: Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 1880. Homage to Mr. Darwin. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 23 (18 November): 57. Text

Harvey. One of the most, important results of your long-continued labours, and one for which you will be remembered with honour and reverence as long as the human intellect exerts itself in the permit of natural knowledge, is the scientific basis you 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

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A3647 Periodical contribution: Brunton, Thomas Lauder. 1880. Indigestion as a cause of nervous depression. The Practitioner: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health, 25 (Oct. and Nov.) [Copy not found, CCD29:549. Identified in F3701 ] Text

rapid evolution of nervous energy in order to have exhilaration of the spirits, and depression of nervous energy is associated with melancholy. Now, the effect of bile-acids circulating in the blood, as shown by physiological experiments, is to depress the reflex function of the spinal cord, the functions of the brain also, producing drowsiness ending in coma, and also weakening the circulation by paralyzing the cardiac ganglia.[6] Such a combination of actions is just the one required by Mr

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F3366 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Extract from letter to Samuel Butler]. In S. Butler, Evolution old and new. Athenaeum, (31 January): 155. Text PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 155 'EVOLUTION OLD AND NEW.' I beg leave to lay before you the following facts:— On February 22nd, 1879, my book 'Evolution Old and New' was announced. It was published May 3rd, 1879. It contained a comparison of the theory of evolution as propounded by Dr. Erasmus Darwin with that of his grandson, Mr. Charles Darwin, the preference being decidedly given to the earlier writer. It also contained other matter which I could not omit, but which I

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CUL-DAR229.80 Correspondence: (Otago Institute) to Darwin Charles Robert 1880.10.01 (marking 21st anniversary of 'Origin') Text Image

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 to see the almost universal acceptance of the great doctrine which it has been the work of your life to establish: it is hardly an exaggeration to say that every important Botanical or Zoological discovery of the last 21 years, particularly in the departments of Embryology and Palæontology, has tended to

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F1789 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1880. Sir Wyville Thomson and natural selection. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 23 (11 November): 32. Text Image PDF

the least support to the theory which refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection. 2 This is a standard of criticism not uncommonly reached by theologians and metaphysicians, when they write on scientific subjects, but is something new as coming from a naturalist. Prof. Huxley demurs to it in the last number of NATURE;3 but he does not touch on the expression of extreme variation, nor on that of evolution being guided only by natural selection. Can Sir

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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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CUL-DAR53.2.169 Note: [1881--1882] Cleland J `Evolution, expression & sensation' Book 1881 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 169 J. Cleland, Evolution, expression sensation' Book 1881 (reviewed Nature vol. xxiv, p. 1) done Cleland, John. 1881. Evolution, expression, and sensation, cell life and pathology. Glasgow: James Maclehose. [inscribed][Darwin Library-Down] PD

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