A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

progressive evolution, it is still His creative activity, and the really great questions beyond remain untouched. The evolutionary process, supposing it to exist, must have had a beginning: who began it? It must have material to work with: who furnished it? It is itself a law or system of laws: who enacted them? Even supposing that the theory represents absolute truth, and is not merely a provisional way of looking at things incidental to the present stage of knowledge, these great questions are just as

F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

surprises me that more has not been made of this point by writers opposed to the principles of evolution. Of course if the point were raised, the argument in answer would require to be, either that the similar instincts were derived from common and very remote progenitors (in which case the fact would form by far the most remarkable instance of the permanency of instincts among changing species), or more probably, that similar causes operating in the two orders have produced similar effects

F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

ground, which are thus wasted. A third species, the M. precius of North America, has acquired instincts as perfect as those of the cuckoo, for it never lays more than an egg in a foster-nest, so that the young bird is securely reared. Mr. Hudson is a strong disbeliever in evolution, but he appears to have been so much struck by the imperfect instincts of the Melothrus Canariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, 'Must we consider these habits not as especially endowed or created instincts

A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

impartial spirit; and from that day to this it has been steadily gaining ground, until now there are few prominent writers and teachers on the various departments of natural science who are not, in whole or in part, adherents of the Evolution principle. Mr. Darwin himself did not formally take part in the controversy to which his book gave rise; he devoted himself to a more useful task—that of expounding the data on which his conclusions were based, and of testing those conclusions by further

CUL-DAR198.139    Correspondence:   Mengden Nicolai Alexandrovitch (Baron) to Darwin Charles Robert  1882   Mengden Nicolai Alexandrovitch (Baron) to Darwin Charles Robert   Text   PDF

the most friendly towards collectors, I wrote to Charles Darwin and 8 days afterwards was in possession of his autograph. Charles Darwin Down Kent 7 Feb. 1878 A year later religious doubts arose in me through the reading of his writings. And as I had already once had an opportunity of learning Darwin's kindness, I turned to him with the request that he would have the great kindness to write me whether the belief in God was reconcilable with the theory of evolution? A short time after I received

F1364    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. Seventh thousand. Corrected by Francis Darwin. 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

F839    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The movements and habits of climbing plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

be found in any part of the kingdom of nature. It is, also, an interesting fact that intermediate states between organs fitted for widely different functions, may be observed on the same individual plant of Corydalis claviculata and the common vine; and these cases illustrate in a striking manner the principle of the gradual evolution of species. * An English translation of the 'Lehrbuch der Botanik' by Professor Sachs, has recently (1875), appeared under the title of 'Text-Book of Botany,' and

A1211    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Death of Chas. Darwin. New York Times (21 April): 5.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 5 THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE EMINENT NATURALIST. HIS ANCESTRY AND EDUCATION— EARLIEST SCIENTIFIC WORK— HIS PUBLICATIONS— THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE USE HE MADE OF IT. The announcement that Charles Robert Darwin died on Wednesday at his residence, Down House, near Orpington, will be read by very few individuals who have not some degree of acquaintance with the physical theories formulated and taught by this distinguished naturalist, however

A2951    Book:     Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

, fully twenty-two years ago. He raised evolution from a subordinate to a commanding position in scientific thought. And it was not merely in zoology and in botany that the fresh, powerful impulse was felt; it affected every realm of investigation. It set thinkers in theology, in philosophy, in morals, and in history to reconsider their views, and many of them do not hesitate to tell us that in the evolutionary doctrine they find the safest guide in the subtlest mazes of these interesting

A2922    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Memoir of the late Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. The Zoologist 6, ser. 3): 193-196.   Text   PDF

treatise on the Earthworm and its ways has only served to enhance his reputation. Whether his now well-known theory of evolution will meet the fate of others which have preceded it, or become more enduring amongst scientific doctrines than the views of Lamarck and the author of 'The Vestiges of Creation,' it is of course impossible to say; but the impetus which his various works have given to modern thought and research, and the extraordinary number of biological facts which have been collected and