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

expression of the plan according to which the succession of Animal and Vegetable forms had been created; not as indicating any genetic continuity between the earlier and the later. The doctrine of Evolution by genetic continuity was advocated (under the designation of 'Creation by Law') in a remarkable book published in 1844, entitled, 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.' But whilst the general doctrine was advanced with an ingenuity and plausibility that made a considerable impression on

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

), compares the discussions in this volume with those published twenty years ago on any 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 upon them by this principle, would for long or for ever have remained barren. It was fortunate for the Darwinian doctrine, that it at once secured the powerful advocacy of Prof. Huxley; whose vigorous pen and trenchant speech proved him a match for the

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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

not a doubt that, for the present generation at all events, no subject of scientific inquiry can present a higher degree of interest; and therefore it is mainly with the view of furthering this inquiry that I have undertaken this work. It will thus be apparent that the present volume, while complete in itself as a statement of the facts of Comparative Psychology, has for its more ultimate purpose the laying of a firm foundation for my future treatise on Mental Evolution. But although, from

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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

GURNEY, Rev. Archer. Words of Faith and Cheer. A Mission of Instruction and Suggestion. Crown 8vo, 6s. HAECKEL, Prof. Ernst. The History of Creation. Translation revised by Professor E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S. With Coloured Plates and Genealogical Trees of the various groups of both Plants and Animals. 2 vols. Second Edition. Post 8vo, 32s. The History of the Evolution of Man. With numerous Illustrations. 2 vols. Post 8vo, 32,s. Freedom in Science and Teaching. With a Prefatory Note by T

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F803 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1882. The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. 2nd ed. Revised 3d thousand. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

fundamental framework of the plant, such as the remnants of the fifteen primary organs arranged alternately in the five whorls; for almost everyone who believes in the gradual evolution of species will admit that their presence is due to inheritance from a remote parent-form. Innumerable facts with respect to the [page] 28

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F955 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand. Text Image PDF

pièces, des espèces, it is manifest that at least a large number of naturalists must admit that species are the modified descendants of other species; and this especially holds good with the younger and rising naturalists. The greater number accept the agency of natural selection; though some urge, whether with justice the future must decide, that I have greatly overrated its importance. Of the older and honoured chiefs in natural science, many unfortunately are still opposed to evolution in every

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A1163 Review: [Macleay, W. J.] 1882. [Review of] The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, VI: 864-5. Text PDF

science, as formerly in the case of Geology, and more recently in that of the principle of evolution. When men like Sir John Herschel or Sir Charles Lyell have spoken of the effects of slowly-acting causes in modifying continents and seas, they have been ridiculed by the thoughtless, who cannot see how the downfall of rain, the slow movement of rivers, the play of waves on shore-lines, can produce such results. In like manner the Biologist is ridiculed who, noting small changes in various races

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A2640 Periodical contribution: Quatrefages, M. de. 1882. [Recollection of Darwin]. Charles Darwin. Annals and magazine of natural history, vol. 9, ser. 5: 467-474. Text PDF

one of the most vivid aspirations, and, 1 do not hesitate to say, one of the noblest desires of the human mind; it is because it seemed to explain the world of organized beings, just as mathematics, astronomy, geology, and physics have explained the world of inorganic bodies. What Darwin attempted was to refer to the action of second causes alone the marvellous group of phenomena studied by the botanists and the zoologists; he endeavoured to explain their genesis and evolution, just as the

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A2640 Periodical contribution: Quatrefages, M. de. 1882. [Recollection of Darwin]. Charles Darwin. Annals and magazine of natural history, vol. 9, ser. 5: 467-474. Text PDF

which assumes the evolution and the transmutation of the species. Does Darwin, therefore, deny or misrepresent them? Certainly not; and it is [page] 47

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A2842 Printed: 1882 Death of Professor Darwin. Text PDF

of the various countries he had visited. Since that time Mr. Darwin has prosecuted his scientific investigations in England. He was married 1831 to his cousin, Miss Emma Wedgwood, by whom he had a large family. After publishing numerous papers and volumes on zoology, geology, and other scientific subjects, Mr. Darwin produced in 1859 his celebrated work on evolution, the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, which has since been translated into various European languages, and has

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A2843 Printed: 1882 Obituary. Charles Robert Darwin. Text PDF

ornithologists as breathing into their science a living soul the existence of which was previously unsuspected, and as endowing it with an interest and a beauty beyond any thing that it had been supposed to possess. When we remember the way in which the Theory of Evolution was, at its birth, scouted in so many quarters, it is with no small satisfaction that we can turn to the earliest volume of this periodical and point out how quickly the truth of the Darwinian ''hypothesis, as it used to be

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A2857 Printed: 1882 Charles Darwin. Text

evolution alone is the sole cause of life as it at present exists

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A2907 Periodical contribution: Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Robert Darwin. National Association of wool manufacturers, 12: 382-8. Boston. Text PDF

condition of retaining the disposal of his scientific collections. Darwin was then in an extremely early stage of his evolution as a naturalist; but Captain Fitzroy did not dream of applying any process of natural selection in the choice of a companion, and, with the support of Professor Henslow, the stripling of twenty-two years obtained what would now be considered a prize by any naturalist of double his age. The expedition, well manned, well appointed, and well provided, set sail from Plymouth

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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

of Barnacles. But the treatises here enumerated were merely the fore-runners of that work which, more than any other, has made the name of Darwin famous, namely, 'The Origin of Species,' which appeared in 1859, and which in its turn became the preface, as it were, to the elaborate series of works which at intervals followed it. The theory, as set forth in this remarkable volume, of the evolution of species from a few simple organisms, by a system of natural selection, is now too well known to

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