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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

the study of nature, the theory of evolution extended its enlivening influence to the dominions of all human sciences. For this theory has not only effected a new development of the natural sciences, but it has given better and truer methods of research to other sciences as well, and thus invigorated them to a new and better life. As by the great genius of Darwin and Wallace evolution has proved to be not only a doctrine but a fact even if different opinions may be held about its ways and means

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

At 10.15. Dr. A. SMITH WOODWARD, F.R.S., V.P.L.S. THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALS IN SOUTH AMERICA. THE subject of the Evolution of South American Mammals is appropriate on the present occasion, because Darwin was one of the pioneers in the discovery of fossil mammalian remains in the Argentine pampas. During the 'Beagle' expedition he found the first evidence of the extinct ground-sloths, Mylodon and Scelidotherium, and of the strange large hoofed-animal Toxodon. Since Darwin's time, our knowledge

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

Edinburgh University, address, 42; delegate, 41. Engler, Prof. A., telegram from, 3. Entomological Society of London, delegate, 55. Evolution in insects, 73; of mammals, 79. Galton, Dr. F., medal presented to, 24; reply, 25. Geikie, Sir A., address by, 51; delegate, 51. Geological Society of London, delegate, 55. Gill, Sir D., delegate, 55. Glasgow University, delegate, 40. Gray, Prof. Asa, letter from C. R. Darwin to, 95. Haeckel, Prof. E., address by, 18; medal presented to, 16. Harmer, Dr

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

Mendelian lines. It was you, Dr. Galton, who first showed the way by which exact measurement could be applied to the problems of evolution and heredity, and indicated that their laws must be susceptible of proof. You have pointed out a new method, and the possibility of a more logical treatment of evolutionary questions. By establishing such principles as that of Recession to Mediocrity you have added new laws to evolution, and under the name of Cessation of Selection you have suggested an

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

complement of the principle of evolution in organic life which came to light at about the same time (p. lxxv). It is certainly a striking circumstance that almost simultaneously the study of inanimate and animate nature should have been revolutionised by the discovery of a new controlling principle in each. In another passage Professor Larmor points out that between them there is something in common; the automatic evolution towards improved adaptation, in this case with no limit or equilibrium

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

In looking at the theory of Evolution, we have to ask not is it desirable, but is it true. But if Evolution has no bearing on Theology, as regards conduct it is eminently encouraging, and the general outcome of Evolution appears to be as Darwin himself pointed out that those Communities which include the greatest numbers of the most sympathetic members will flourish best. In these and other points of view, Science, and even those branches which seem to have the least practical application, are

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

. 8vo. London, 1876. 23 The Study of Sociology. 6th ed. 8vo. London, 1877. 11 *The Factors of Organic Evolution. (Reprint.) 8vo. London, 1887. 23 Spiritual Evolution. An Essay on Spiritual Evolution...By J. P. B. 8vo. London, 1879. 28 Spix (Joh. Bapt. von) and C. F. Phil. von Martius. Travels in Brazil in the years 1817 1820. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1824. 15 Sprengel (Christian Konrad). Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen. 4to. Berlin, 1793. 44 Sprengel (J. W

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

Dr. Wallace, one of the two creators of the theory, and of Sir Joseph Hooker, who brought it into the world, is in itself enough to render our meeting memorable, and to ensure its success. Among the other Medallists to whom we render due honour to-day, while we regret the absence of Prof. Haeckel and Prof. Weismann, those valiant champions of evolution, we rejoice to have with us Prof. Strasburger, representing in our own day the great school of Hofmeister, who, by his unequalled morphological

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

orderly advance of the organic universe. Under the dominating genius and untiring experimental research of Darwin the truth of Natural Selection as one of the powerful factors in evolution was established and remains to us; but this fact is not the measure of the value of the first idea and after demonstration. There was here the germ of a revolution in human thought, and the debt we owe to Darwin and Wallace is that their thought and work, more particularly the thought and work of Darwin, have

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin' was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!' A few years, however, brought conviction, and writing in 1878 Mr. Darwin was able to say that there was almost complete unanimity among Naturalists about the truth of evolution. As regards the Joint Memoir and the 'Origin of Species,' no doubt the attacks of Theologians were mainly due to the belief, still widely entertained, that Evolution was incompatible with religion

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

idea is expressed with equal clearness, as for example in the words If any species should produce a variety having slightly increased powers of preserving existence, that variety must inevitably in time acquire a superiority in numbers. With both authors the key to evolution is at the same time the key to adaptation, the great characteristic by which living things are distinguished. Darwin and Wallace not only freed us from the dogma of Special Creation, a dogma which we now find it difficult to

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen. 8vo. Heidelberg, 1877. 113 do. 2te Aufl. 8vo. M nchen, 1878. 113 Naturgeschichte der Kunst. 8vo. Heidelberg, 1877. 14 Busk (George). Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844. Transl. from the German by G. B., A. Tulk, and A. H. Haliday. (Ray Soc. Publ.) 8vo. London, 1847. 17 *Butler (Samuel). Evolution, old and new. (Op. 4.) 8vo. London, 1879. 40 See Owen (J. P.). 24 Cabot (J. Elliot). See Agassiz (L.). Lake Superior. 8vo. Boston, 1850. 15 Cabot (Louis

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A4 Book: Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

*Rolleston (George). Forms of Animal Life. 8vo. Oxford, 1870. [2 copies.] 116 See Greenwell (W.). British Barrows. 8vo. Oxford, 1877. 114 *Rolph (W. H.). Biologische Probleme, zugleich als Versuch einer Rationellen Ethik. 8vo. Leipzig, 1892. 40 Romanes (George John). Observations on the Locomotor system of Echinodermata. By G. J. R., and J. C. Ewart. (Extr.) 4to. London, 1881. 74 Mental Evolution in Animals...With a posthumous Essay on Instinct, by Charles Darwin. 8vo. London, 1885. 47 *Mental

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

, delegate, 45. Wallace, A. R., certificate for, 77; medal presented to, 3; reply, 5; Note on extracts from Malthus, 111; On the Tendency of Varieties to depart from the original type, 98. see Darwin, C. R. Warren, Dr. T. H., delegate, 38. Waterhouse, C. 0., delegate, 55. Weismann, Prof. A., letter from, 20; medal presented to, 17. Weiss, Prof. F. E., delegate, 44. Woodward, Dr. A. Smith, Evolution of Mammals, 79. Zoological Society of London, delegate, 55

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

of those great Pioneers of Biology. The President then addressed Dr. FRANCIS GALTON. He said: Evolution, as understood by Darwin and Wallace, depends upon three factors, Heredity, Variation, and Natural Selection. In the study of the first of these factors, Heredity, the work of the present day is characterised by the application of exact methods, whether on biometrical or [page] 2

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

predilections lead me to refer especially to your charming book on Extinct Animals, which brings home to every intelligent mind, as no other book does, the historic evidence of Evolution. You have ever shown yourself a true Biologist, whose interests have always extended to plants as well as to animals, and whom on many occasions botanists have welcomed as a helpful friend and ally. In the controversies inseparable from the advancement of a great principle, you have always been the vigorous

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

Ray, another distinguished son of Cambridge, and perhaps the greatest naturalist of his time, took the first step towards a natural classification of plants. We now know that what he and those who followed him were unconsciously striving after was the principle of descent which Darwin established. Fifty years ago, Darwin and Wallace revealed two things to us. They gave the world a rational explanation of the evolution of living forms by descent. Of this it had long been expectant but could not

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

becomes more and more manifest. The doctrine of Evolution has touched every branch of human thought and has influenced the course both of intellectual advance and of material progress. Amongst the distinguished naturalists who are members of the Linnean Society many Graduates of the University are to be found. United to the Society, not only by these bonds of common membership but also by the common desire to advance the cause of learning and to enrich the stores of human knowledge, the Senate

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

If the work of Linneus, in 1758, introduced order and method into the classification of living nature, the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection, exactly a century later, gave rational explanation of the order, and grouped the Linnean facts into a consistent Scheme of Evolution. There has probably been no more inspiring idea in the history of Natural Science than that contained in the joint essay by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace read before the Linnean Society on July 1st, 1858; and all

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A281 Pamphlet: 1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society. Text PDF

-consolidation of the Monarchy, a very distinguished member of the Upper House began a famous speech by the remark, The first thing we have to consider is: Is Charles Darwin right or is lie not? and upon the rightness of Darwin's theory it was gravely proposed to reconstruct the Austrian Monarchy. Times have changed since then. We in this country are now quite abreast of other countries in our recognition of the enormous extent to which Darwinism and the theory of evolution have pervaded all branches of