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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

its importance in relation to the evolution of the habit of climbing. The present letter was probably written in 1865, since it refers to Müller's paper read before the Linnean Soc. on December 7th, 1865. If so, the facts on circumnutation must have been communicated to Darwin some years before their publication in the Jenaische Zeitschrift. 3. Ibid., 1867, page 344. [page 346

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

has been in England two or three months, and is now going to tour over the Continent to see all the zoologists. We liked him very much. He is a great admirer of yours, and he tells me that your correspondence and book first made him believe in evolution. This must have been a great blow to his father, who, as he tells me, is very well, and so vigorous that he can work twice as long as he (the son) can. Dr. Meyer has sent me his translation of Wallace's Malay Archipelago, which is a valuable

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

animals, and which may be discovered in numbers among plants, are exclusively of a physiological kind, that they always show the formation or transformation of an organ to a special function. I do not know among plants a morphological modification which can be explained on utilitarian principles. Opposite this passage Darwin has written a very good objection : but Nägeli's sentence seems to us to be of the nature of a truism, for it is clear that any structure whose evolution can be believed to

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

work of other authors. I have Bentham's paper in my house, but have not yet had time to read a word of it. He is a man with very sound judgment, and fully admits the principle of evolution. I have lately had occasion to look over again your discussion on anemophilous plants,2 and I have again felt much admiration at your work. [In the beginning of August, 1873, Darwin paid the first of several visits to Lord Farrer's house at Abinger. When sending copies of Darwin's letters for the Life and Letters

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

10th [1877]. When I went yesterday I had not received to-day's Nature, and I thought that your lecture4 was finished. This final part is one of the grandest essays which I ever read. 1. Lord Farrer's house. 2. The seeds did not germinate; see the account of Hoya carnosa in Forms of Flowers, page 331. 3. Published in the Life of Romanes, page 62. 4. Abstract of a lecture on Evolution of Nerves and Nervo-Systems, delivered at the Royal Institution, May 25th, 1877. Nature, July 19th, August 2nd

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

than man. As evolution depends on a long succession of generations, which implies death, it seems to me in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow 1. Now Sir John Simon: he was for many years medical officer of the Privy Council, and in that capacity issued a well-known series of Reports. [page 445

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

the general law of evolution, and this would follow if he were to be immortal. This is all that I can say. Letter 780. TO J. POPPER. [Mr. Popper had written about a proposed flying machine in which birds were to take a part.] Down, February 15th, 1881. I am sorry to say that I cannot give you the least aid, as I have never attended to any mechanical subjects. I should doubt whether it would be possible to train birds to fly in a certain direction in a body, though I am aware that they have

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

Brackish-water plants, i. 116. Bradshaw, H., translation of Hebrew letter by, i. 365. Brain, Owen on, i. 238; evolution in man, ii. 39, 40; Wallace on Natural Selection and Evolution of, ii. 39. Branchipus, Schmankewitsch's experiments on, i. 391. Branta, mentioned in reference to nomenclature of Barnacles, i. 69. Brassica sinapistrum, germination at Down of old seeds, ii. 245. Braun, A., convert to Darwin's views, i. 259. Bravais, on lines of old sea-level in Finmark, ii. 176, 183. Brazil, L

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

. Geologists, evolutionary views of, i. 137, 187. Geology, ii. 113-241; arguments in favour of evolution from, i. 187; chapter in Origin on, i. 134, 135; practical teaching of, i. 375; English work in, ii. 156; Hooker talks of giving up, ii. 152, 153; Lyellian school, ii. 117; progress of, ii. 241. Geotropism, Darwin on, ii. 417. German, Darwin's slight knowledge of, i. 355, 356. Germany, converts to evolution in, i. [page 472

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

of, ii. 30-55; ears of, ii. 53, 107; geological age of, ii. 36, 37; and geological classification, ii. 220; hairiness of, ii. 39; introduction of, ii. 220, 221; rank in classification, ii. 33, 36; Turner on evolution of, ii. 105; Wallace on evolution of, ii. 31, 34-9. Mankind, descent from single pair, i. 377, 378; early history of, i. 263; progress of, ii. 30. Mantell, Owen's attack on, i. 65. Manual of Scientific Inquiry, Darwin's, i. 59, 60, 64; ii. 228. Manx cats, ii. 382. Maranta, sleep

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

colour, ii. 78, 87; F. Müller on Lepidoptera and, ii. 91. Mimosa, i. 445; Darwin's experiments on, ii. 289, 361, 368; M. albida, Darwin on, ii. 398, 429, 430; M. sensitiva, ii. 411. Mimoseae, F. Müller's account of seeds of, ii. 349. Mimulus, Pfeffer on movement of stigma, ii. 400. Mind, development of, ii. 51, 52, 54; evolution of, ii. 33; influence on nutrition, ii. 106, 107. Miocene land, i. 54-6. Miquel, F.A.W., on Flora of Holland, i. 100; on distribution of the beech, ii. 8; on flora of Japan

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

Thomson's address; but you say so exactly and fully all that I think, that you have taken all the words from my mouth; even about Tyndall. It is a gain that so wonderful a man, though no naturalist, should become a convert to evolution; Huxley, it seems, remarked in his speech to this effect. I should like to know 1. Mr. Darwin says (Descent of Man Edition I., Volume I., page 73; Edition II., page 99), that if men lived like bees our unmarried females would think it a sacred duty to kill their

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

preserve stability. And from this point of view he concludes it to be very desirable that one in Mr. Gladstone's position should think as he does. The matter is further discussed in the notes to Chapter XVI., page 423. 2. This refers to Mr. Spencer's discussion of the evolution of the mental traits characteristic of women. At page 377 he points out the importance of the limitation of heredity by sex in this relation. A striking generalisation on this question is given in the Descent of Man, Edition

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

, page 156). Müller published a large number of papers on zoological and botanical subjects, and rendered admirable service to the cause of evolution by his unrivalled powers of observation and by the publication of a work entitled Für Darwin (1865), which was translated by Dallas under the title Facts and Arguments for Darwin (London, 1869). The long series of letters between Darwin and Müller bear testimony to the friendship and esteem which Darwin felt for his co-worker in Brazil. In a letter

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

years ago? Mr. Huxley, after criticising Lord Kelvin's data and conclusion, gives his conviction that the case against Geology has broken down. With regard to evolution, Huxley (page 328) ingeniously points out a case of circular reasoning. But it may be said that it is biology, and not geology, which asks for so much time-that the succession of life demands vast intervals; but this appears to me to be reasoning in a circle. Biology takes her time from geology. The only reason we have for

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

have been handled in the namby-pamby, old-woman style of the cautious Oxford Professor.3 Letter 405. TO J.D. HOOKER. [Mr. Wallace was, we believe, the first to treat the evolution of Man in any detail from the point of view of Natural Selection, namely, in a paper in the Anthropological Review and Journal of the Anthropological Society, May 1864, page clviii. The deep interest with which Mr. Darwin read his copy is graphically recorded in the continuous series of pencil-marks along the margins of

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

Geological Society of London, and in 1861 he was selected for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. In 1873 Agassiz dictated an article to Mrs. Agassiz on Evolution and Permanence of Type, in which he repeated his strong conviction against the views embodied in the Origin of Species. See Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz, by Jules Marcou, 2 volumes, New York, 1896; Louis Agassiz: his Life and Correspondence, edited by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, 2 volumes, London, 1885; Smithsonian Report, 1873

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

the spring of 1863. In the Life and Letters, Volume III., pages 8, 11, Darwin's correspondence shows his deep disappointment at what he thought Lyell's half-heartedness in regard to evolution. See Letter 164, Volume I. 3. In Gymnadenia tridentata, according to Asa Gray, the anther opens in the bud, and the pollen being somewhat coherent falls on the stigma and on the rostellum which latter is penetrated by the pollen-tubes. Fertilisation of Orchids, Edition II., page 68. Asa Gray's papers are in

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

in evolution [page 450

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

Bullfinch, experiment on colouring, ii. 64; attracted by German singing-bird, ii. 74; Weir on pairing, ii. 70. Bunbury, Sir C.J.F., biographical note, ii. 224; Darwin's opinion of, i. 132; views on Evolution, i. 317; on Agassiz's statements on glaciation of Brazil, i. 476, 478; on plants of Madeira, i. 480; illness, ii. 221; mentioned, ii. 224. Bunsen, Copley medal awarded to, ii. 231; mentioned, ii. 229. Burbidge, F.W., on Malaxis, i. 474. Burleigh, Lord, i. 135. Burnett, ii. 119. Busk, G