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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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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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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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. 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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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in evolution [page 450
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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
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, parasitism of, ii. 374. Europe, movement of, ii. 138, 140. Eurybia argophylla, musk-tree of Tasmania, an arborescent Composite, i. 163. Evergreen vegetation, connection with humid and equable climate, i. 493. Evolution, i. 37-399; Darwin's early views, i. 37; Fossil Cephalopods used by Hyatt as test of, i. 340; Huxley's lectures on, i. 129-31; of mental traits, i. 351; F. Müller's contributions to, i. 383; Nägeli's Essay, Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art, i. 272, 273; ii. 206
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; homomorphic and heteromorphic unions described in, ii. 310. Forsyth-Major, zoological expedition to Madagascar, i. 454. Fortnightly Review, Huxley's article on Positivism, i. 313; Romanes on Evolution, i. 370, 371. Fossil Cephalopods, Hyatt on, i. 338. Fossil corals, ii. 194, 197. Fossil plants, small proportion of, i. 135; of Australia. ii. 26; sudden appearance of Angiosperms indicated by, ii. 20, 21. Fossil seeds, supposed vivification of, ii. 244. Fossils as evidence of variability, i. 42
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evolution, i. 260; on Coal floras, i. 260. Leuckart, convert to Darwin's views, i. 257. Lewes, G.H., letter to, i. 306-8. Lewy, Naphtali, letter to Darwin from, i. 365, 366. Lias, cephalopods from the, i. 340. Life, Bastian's book on the beginnings of, i. 321; mystery of, i. 302; origin of, i. 140, 164, 173, 418; ii. 171; principle of, i. 273; bearing of vitality of seeds on problem of, ii. 245. Light, action on plants of flashing, ii. 431. Lima, Darwin visits, i. 26. Limulus, ii. 102. Linaria
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, 153. Meloe, Lord Avebury on, i. 233; ii. 12. Melrose, seeds from sandpit near, ii. 244. Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 110. Mendel, G., W. Bateson on his Principles of Heredity, ii. 340; Darwin ignorant of work of, ii. 340; Laxton and, ii. 340. Mendoza, Darwin visits, i. 20, 25. Mental Evolution in Animals, Romanes', ii. 51. Mentha, of N. America, i. 444; M. borealis, variety in N. America, i. 429. Menura superba, colour and nests of, ii. 60. Menzies and Cumming, visit
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, 85; colour of caterpillars and, ii. 71; colour of shells and, ii. 95; Darwin's views on Sexual Selection and, ii. 84; evolution of colour and, ii. 59; mimicry and, ii. 87; monkeys' manes as, ii. 91; Wallace on colour and, ii. 72-8; Wallace on wings of lepidoptera and, ii. 67. Protective resemblance, Wallace on, ii. 72-8. Proterogyny, in Plantago, ii. 417. Prothero, G.W., i. 174. Protococcus, i. 164. Protozoa, i. 164, 165. Providential arrangement, i. 191. Prunus laurocerasus, extra-floral
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