CUL-DAR119.-    Note:    1838--1851   'Books to be read' and 'Books Read' notebook   Text   Image

vols. London. Backhouse, James. 1844. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London. Bradley, Richard. 1724. A general treatise of husbandry and gardening. 3 vols. London. [Darwin Library-CUL] Fothergill, Charles. 1813. An essay on the philosophy, study, and use of natural history. London. Hogg, James (the Ettrick Shepherd). 1807. The sheperd's guide; being a practical treatise on the diseases of sheep, their causes, and the best means of preventing them, with observations on

F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF

during the time of the visit. Dr. Macculloch (Western Isles, vol. ii., p. 32) says, It is asserted, that on the arrival of a stranger (at St. Kilda) all the inhabitants, in the common phraseology, catch a cold. Dr. Macculloch considers the whole case, although often previously affirmed, as ludicrous. He adds, however, that the question was put by us to the inhabitants who unanimously agreed in the story. In Vancouver's Voyage, there is a somewhat similar statement with respect to Otaheite: nor are

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. Yearly more are bred than can survive; the smallest grain in the balance, in the long run, must tell on which death shall fall, and which shall survive2. Let this work of selection, on the one hand, and death on the other, go on for a thousand generations; who would pretend to affirm that it would produce no effect, when we remember what in a few years Bakewell effected in cattle and Western in sheep, by this identical principle of selection. To give an imaginary example, from changes in progress on

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

formerly derived its chief sustenance by springing on rabbits or running them by scent, must decrease too and might thus readily become exterminated. But if its form varied very slightly, the long legged fleet ones, during a thousand years being selected, and the less fleet rigidly destroyed must, if no law of nature be opposed to it, alter forms. Remember how soon Bakewell on the same principle altered cattle and Western, sheep,—carefully avoiding a cross (pigeons) with any breed. We cannot

CUL-DAR6.16-50    Draft:    [1842.05.00--1842.06.00]   Sketch of Species Theory — rough copy much corrected   Text   Image

nature be opposed to it alter form.) remember how soon Bakewell on this same principle altered cattle Western Sheep carefully avoiding (pidgeons) a cross with any breed. (dd) Nature variation far less but such selection far more rigid scrutinizing (z. p. 2) (a) Nature lets the animal live, till on actual proof it is found less able to do the required work to serve the desired end, Man judges solely by his eye, knows not whether nerve, muscles, arteries, are developed in proportion to the change

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

, even birds, whereas we have seen that during these very same periods mice swarm to an incalculable degree. I may add that everyone has heard of the terrible destruction of sheep in Australia from the droughts: so it is in India, Dr. Falconer tells me in places where formerly one man could kill 30 or 40 Deer in a day, for some years after a great famine drought, hardly a single deer could be got. But to return to the cattle, further south in the Falkland Islands, there are no droughts, or injurious

F1700    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. and A. R. Wallace. 1858. Three papers on the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Zoologist 16: 6293-6308. [See F350]   Text   Image   PDF

, in a few years, Bakewell effected in cattle, and Western in sheep, by this identical principle of selection? To give an imaginary example from changes in progress on an island:—let the organization of a canine animal which preyed chiefly on rabbits, but sometimes on hares, become slightly plastic; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

times in England by methodical selection is clearly shown by our exhibitions of improved quadrupeds and fancy birds. With respect to cattle, sheep, and pigs, we owe their great improvement to a long series of well-known names—Bakewell, Colling, Ellman, Bates, Jonas Webb, Lords Leicester and Western, Fisher Hobbs, and others. Agricultural writers are unanimous on the power of selection: any number of statements to this effect could be quoted; a few will suffice. Youatt, a sagacious and experienced

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

. WEBER, effect of the shape of the mother's pelvis on her child's head, ii. 344. WEEDS, supposed necessity for their modification, coincidently with cultivated plants, i. 317. WEEPING varieties of trees, i. 361. WEEPING habit of trees, capricious inheritance of, ii. 18-19. WEEVIL, injury done to stone-fruit by, in North America, ii. 231. WELSH cattle, descended from Bos longifrons, i. 81. WEST Indies, feral pigs of, i. 77; effect of climate of, upon sheep, i. 98. WESTERN, Lord, change effected by

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

proved, as already remarked, by our Exhibitions. So greatly were the sheep belonging to some of the earlier breeders, such as Bakewell and Lord Western, changed, that many persons could not be persuaded that they had not been crossed. Our pigs, as Mr. Corringham remarks,19 during the last twenty years have undergone, through rigorous selection together with crossing, a complete metamorphosis. The first exhibition for poultry was held in the Zoological Gardens in 1845; and the improvement effected

F914.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

Western und Leicester, Fisher Hobbs und andern. Schriftsteller iiber Agricultur sind iiber die Wirksamkeit der Zuchtwahl einstimmig. Es Jiesse sich jede gewiinschte Zahl von Angaben in dieser Hinsicht citiren, doch werden schon wenige genugen. You at t, ein scharf­ sinnger und erfahrener Beobachter, schreibt 2: .,DRS Princip der Zuchtwahl ist das, was den Landwirth in den Stand setzt, den Cha­ racter seiner Heerde nicht bloss zu modificiren, sondern ihn durch­ aus zu veriindern. Ein grosser

F937.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

relation between the hairs and excretory pores in sheep, i. 248. WILDER, Dr. Burt, on the greater frequency of supernumerary digits in men than in women, i. 276. WILLIAMS, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians, ii. 374. WILSON, Dr., on the conical heads of the natives of North-Western America, ii. 351; on the Fijians, ii. 352; on the persistence of the fashion of compressing the skull, ii. 353. WING-SPURS, ii. 162. WINGS, differences of, in the two sexes of butterflies and Hymenoptera, i. 345

F944    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1874. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. 2d ed. 10 thousand. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

the male, 392, 403; female, rejecting the unadorned male, 419. Widows and widowers, mortality of, 140. Wigeon, pairing with a pintail duck, 414. Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of domestic animals in mountainous regions, 35; on a numerical relation between the hairs and excretory pores in sheep, 198. Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater frequency of supernumerary digits in men than in women, 223. Williams, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians, 599. Wilson, Dr., on the conical heads of the

F880.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 2d ed. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

the flesh of a spotted ox. The Kaffirs value an animal with a musical voice; and at a sale in British Kaffraria the low of a heifer excited so much admiration that a sharp competition sprung up for her possession, and she realised a considerable price. 64 With respect to sheep, the Chinese prefer rams without horns; the Tartars prefer them with spirally wound horns, because the hornless are thought to lose courage.65 Some of the Damaras will not eat the flesh of hornless sheep. In regard to

F880.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 2d ed. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

pigeons is no simple art: we may smile at the solemnity of these precepts, but he who laughs will win no prizes. What methodical selection has effected for our animals is sufficiently proved, as already remarked, by our Exhibitions. So greatly were the sheep belonging to some of the earlier breeders, such as Bakewell and Lord Western, changed, that many persons could not be persuaded that they had not been crossed. Our pigs, as Mr. Corringham remarks,19 during the last twenty years have undergone

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

, polygamous, 219; breeding plumage of the male, 392, 403; female, rejecting the unadorned male, 419. Widows and widowers, mortality of, 140. Wigeon, pairing with a pintail duck, 414. Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of domestic animals in mountainous regions, 35; on a numerical relation between the hairs and excretory pores in sheep, 198. Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater frequency of supernumerary digits in men than in women, 223. Williams, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians, 599. Wilson

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

, polygamous, 219; breeding plumage of the male, 392, 403; female, rejecting the unadorned male, 419. Widows and widowers, mortality of, 140. Wigeon, pairing with a pintail duck, 414. Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of domestic animals in mountainous regions, 35; on a numerical relation between the hairs and excretory pores in sheep, 198. Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater frequency of supernumerary digits in men than in women, 223. Williams, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians, 599. Wilson

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. (First Murray illustrated edition.)   Text   Image   PDF

Captain Beechey (chap. iv. vol. i.) states that the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island are firmly convinced that after the arrival of every ship they suffer cutaneous and other disorders. Captain Beechey attributes this to the change of diet during the time of the visit. Dr. Macculloch (Western Isles, vol. ii. p. 32) says, It is asserted, that on the arrival of a stranger (at St. Kilda) all the inhabitants, in the common phraseology, catch a cold. Dr. Macculloch considers the whole case, although often

F3275    Book:     Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.   Text   Image   PDF

682 vol. 1 NB1 w + NB2 ♦ Alpine Botany of do The entomology of Tierra del Fuego with respect to Europe - Patagonia to S. Africa must be well studied- Vol. 47 Zoolog Soc about contagious diseases my Father about diseases common to animals. The Highlands Western Isles in Letters of Walter Scott: 4 Vols W. f D. Edwards sur les Characters des Races Humaines Lesson Hist. Nat. des Mam. often quoted NB3 ♦ p114 Lyell's mark 14 to 56 all worth reading again - to 164. 174 ask Henslow to put name in my