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

every case of species-transformation there are thus involved two factors, ''the nature of the organism, and the nature of the conditions. 29 It is to Professor Weismann that we owe the first full recognition of the important part played by the organism itself in the process of evolution, but it must be borne in mind that the part thus played is quoad modification, a purely passive one. In connection with the foregoing considerations, there arise the questions of the causes of variability and the

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

logically admit of any break between the organic and the inorganic worlds, and although, as I wish most strongly to emphasise, there is no necessary connection between Darwin's teachings and a belief in so-called ''spontaneous generation, it seems to me that if we accept evolution in its broadest meaning we are compelled to admit, with Lamarck and Haeckel, that at former periods, or possibly even at the present time, the very lowest beginnings of life have been or are being evolved by the

A1155    Review:     Anon. 1881. [Review of] The power of movement in plants by Charles Darwin; Francis Darwin. Sacramento Daily Union, 13, No. 5 (26 February): 6.   Text   PDF

throughout the vegetable kingdom, and occasionally from the light, ,or transversely with respect to it, are all modified forms of circumnutation; as again are the equally prevalent movements of stems, etc., towards the zenith, and of roots towards the center 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 their diversified movements for the most different purposes first arise? As the case

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

Mexicain ou un Caraïbe[34] ». D'après une grande école de philologues, école dont le nombre va croissant, chaque langage porte les marques de son évolution lente et graduelle. Il en est de même de l'écriture, car les lettres ne sont que des rudiments d'hiéroglyphes. On ne peut lire l'ouvrage de M. M'Lennan[35] sans admettre que presque toutes les nations civilisées ont conservé quelques traces de certaines habitudes barbares, telles que le rapt des femmes par exemple. Peut-on citer une seule nation

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

, les oiseaux doivent probablement dévorer les plus grosses ; le professeur Canestrini m'informe que plusieurs éleveurs, en Italie, croient, quoique sur des preuves insuffisantes, que les guêpes détruisent un plus grand nombre de chenilles femelles que de mâles lors de la première éclosion du ver à soie de l'Ailante. Le docteur Wallace remarque, en outre, que les chenilles femelles, étant plus grosses que les mâles, exigent plus de temps pour leur évolution, consomment plus de nourriture et ont

CUL-DAR139.17.11    Printed:    1881.04.19   Mr Darwin on vivisection `Times': 8b   Text   Image

outbreak of that dreadful malady had those experiments been so immensely beneficial as Mr; Darwin would have us believe? We seem to be always condemned to listen to a repetition of the story of the old Egyptian magicians who succeeded in reproducing the Plagues, but failed to cure them. But lastly, Sir, I beg to ask whether the principles of the evolution philosophy require us to believe that the advancement of the noble science of physiology is so supreme an object of human effort that the

A116    Review:     Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.   Text   Image

their peculiarities to their offspring. Thus a constant progress is maintained, the structures varying and gradually departing from their original types by this infinitely slow process of improvement by evolution, until new species, new genera, and new families arise. This process is called natural selection, showing that nature does her work of progressive improvement in organic beings, as the breeder does among domesticated animals, by the destruction or exclusion of the inferior individuals

A116    Review:     Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.   Text   Image

extensive research, is unable to remove the main difficulty in the way of the doctrine of evolution. He is obliged, in his Origin of Species, to assume the miraculous creation of four primary types, and only by analogy does he consider himself justified in referring these four types back to one common ancestor. This part of the argument he candidly confesses is weak and unreliable. Darwin, also, wisely avoids any reference to the origin of life itself, and when he has arrived at the four primary

A7    Periodical contribution:     Carpenter, W. B. 1882. Charles Darwin: his life and work. Modern Review. 3: 500-24.   Text   Image

bring forward the other side of the question, by the delivery of an Address of my own in the same place, 'On the Doctrine of Evolution in its Relations to Theism.' I was preparing this, with a more particular view to the Evolution of the Physical Universe (which, as it seemed to me, would afford the more suitable basis for my argument), when, by the death of Charles Darwin, the world lost the great constructor of the doctrine of Organic Evolution. I did not on this account think it expedient to

A2850    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary of] Darwin. Medical Register 1 (15 May): 36-7.   Text

In addition to these there are a number of most important monographs and other contributions to scientific literature. As the man whose name has been adopted for the title of a school of scientific study, Mr. Darwin will always occupy a prominent place in history and particularly in the literature of evolution. As a hard-working student, his example will stimulate close investigation and careful thought