CUL-DAR205.5.108    Note:    1844.11.00   After the "Vestiges of Nat Hist Creation" I see it will be necessary to   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [108] Nov/:—/44/. After the Vestiges of Nat Hist Creation , I see it will be necessary to advert to Quinary System, because he brings it to show that Lamarck's willing ( consequently my selection) must be erroneous — I had better rest my defence on few English, sound anatomical naturalists assenting hardly any foreign.— Advert to this subject, after Chapter on classification, then show, from our ignorance of comparative value of groups, source of

F273    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1846. Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

bands of stratification were nearly horizontal; but on the flanks of the mountains they were inclined from them, but in no instance that I saw at a very high angle. There can, I think, be no doubt that these zones, which appear only on the weathered surfaces, are the last vestiges of the original planes of stratification, now almost obliterated by the highly fissile and altered structure which the mass has assumed. The clay-slate cleaves in the same W.N.W. and E.S.E. direction, as on Navarin

F325    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1849. Section VI: Geology. In Herschel, J. F. W. ed., A manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: and adapted for travellers in general. London: John Murray, pp. 156-195.   Text   Image   PDF

vestiges not only proclaim the former existence of reptiles and birds at very remote periods, and in rocks often not containing a fragment of bone, but they generally prove that the level of the land subsided after the animal had left its impress on the ancient sea-beach, thus allowing thousands of feet of strata to be thrown down over them. The best place for searching for footsteps is in quarries of sandstone, in which the strata are separated by seams of shale. The best indication of their

F1816    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1849. [Letter on floating ice]. In Murchison, R. I., On the distribution of the superficial detritus of the Alps, as compared with that of Northern Europe. [Read 30 May] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London (Part 1) 4: 65-69.   Text   Image   PDF

with general ice-streams, the author has no difficulty in demonstrating that all the great trunk or lower valleys of the Arve, the Doire, and the Rhone, offer no vestiges of what he calls a true moraine; since although they contain occasional large erratic blocks, for the most part irregularly dispersed, all the other detritus is more or less water-worn, to great heights above their present bottoms. As Venetz and Charpentier have attached great importance to the original suggestion of an old

CUL-DAR128.-    Note:    1852--1860   'Books Read' and 'Books to be Read' notebook   Text   Image

Domestic Birds c read [Salt 1814] Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 p 264 on Quails at sea with seeds. — See for Pigeons. In Royal. (read) [Belon 1555] Belon, Pierre. 1555. L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux avec leurs descriptions, et neîfs portraits retirez du naturel. 7 parts Paris. [Chambers, Robert]. 1847. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. 6th ed. London. [Darwin Library-CUL] Forbes, Edward.1849-53. A history of British Mollusca and their shells. 4 vols. London. Harcourt

CUL-DAR205.6.56-57    Abstract:    [Undated]   Huxley T.H Review of `Vestiges' `Med Chir Review' 13 (April 1854): 426ff   Text   Image

p. 436. With respect to Heterocercal tail, the Lepidosiren has no tail-fin at all; in which it resembles Pterichthys c. Again the Salamandroid Lepidosteus with ball socket vertebra is accounted amongst Ganoid fishes the highest, has a heterocercal tail while Amia, which has ordinary vertebrae, has the tail homocercal. p. 437. The branchial clefts are here absurdly mistaken for a branchial apparatus. p. 426. Creation in the manner of law is the Vestiges own proposition. Law is a term to express

F339.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ, (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. etc. etc. London: The Ray Society. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

rostro-lateral compartments, vestiges of alæ. I may remark, that we have here the same structure as in Chelonobia, formerly described, with the following differences, that here the sutures pass through the outer lamina of the parietes, so that, as seen externally, the separation of the three compartments is much more perfect than in Chelonobia; on the other hand, internally, the separation is less distinct, as the two rudimentary rostro-lateral compartments do not form part of the sheath

F339.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ, (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. etc. etc. London: The Ray Society. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

vestiges of double teeth in the present genus; indeed, in some specimens the teeth seemed to be absolutely single. The maxillæ are villose: their edge exhibits a trace of being notched under the two great upper spines. The outer maxillæ are bilobed, but not very plainly: between these organs there is no little prominent mentum, as in the three previous genera. [page] 44

F339.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ, (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. etc. etc. London: The Ray Society. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

nearly equal width with the lateral compartment. It is a singular fact, that no portion of the rostro-lateral compartment helps to form the sheath; for the alæ of the lateral compartments, overlap the whole upper part of the rostro-lateral compartments, and abut against the true rostrum. Hence, when the sheath alone is examined, the number of the compartments appears only six. In a section the true rostrum can be seen to underlie the rostro-lateral compartments, and thus exhibits vestiges of alæ. The

F2024    Book contribution:     Bain, Alexander. 1904. [Recollections and a letter of Darwin]. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text

in accounting for the Universe. Most curious and remarkable was his defiance of Darwin's evolution to bring about the races of animals and man as we find them—remarking with vehemence, I'll give you the Bank of Eternity to draw upon . He was, of course, unaware at that time of the limits put by physical authorities upon the age of the solar system. Sedgwick had made himself conspicuous by showing up the well-known Vestiges in the Quarterly Review; and he now felt much in the same mood with

CUL-DAR120.-    Note:    1838   'Books' [read] alphabetical catalogue   Text   Image

de ces animaux. 3 vols. (Suites à Buffon.) Paris. [Darwin Library-CUL. Abstract in CUL-DAR205.3.132-5.] Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1851. Introduction à la zoologie générale. Paris. [Darwin Library-CUL] Mackenzie, Henry ed. 1799-1832. Prize essays and transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland: To which is prefixed, an account of the institution and principal proceedings of the Society. 9 vols. Edinburgh. Thompson, Allen. 1839. Generation. In vol. 2, pp. 424-80, of Todd, Robert Bentley, ed., The

F373    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1859. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue.   Text   Image   PDF

formation of rudimentary teeth which are subsequently absorbed, can be of any service to the rapidly growing embryonic calf by the excretion of precious phosphate of lime? When a man's fingers have been amputated, imperfect nails sometimes appear on the stumps: I could as soon believe that these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws [page] 454 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII

PC-Virginia-Francis-F373    Printed:    1859   On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. [Francis Darwin's copy]  London   Text   Image   PDF

formation of rudimentary teeth which are subsequently absorbed, can be of any service to the rapidly growing embryonic calf by the excretion of precious phosphate of lime? When a man's fingers have been amputated, imperfect nails sometimes appear on the stumps: I could as soon believe that these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws [page] 454 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII

F2293    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. [Letters to and about Adam Sedgwick and the Origin of Species]. In J. W. Clark and T. M. Hughes eds., The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 2 vols. Cambridge: University Press, vol. 1, pp. 380-1, vol. 2, pp. 356-9.   Text

evidence of geology; and that you under state it while you are talking of the broken links of your natural pedigree: but my paper is nearly done, and I must go to my lecture room. Lastly then, I greatly dislike the concluding chapter—not as a summary—for in that light it appears good—but I dislike it from the tone of triumphant confidence in which you appeal to the rising generation (in a tone I condemned in the author of the Vestiges), and prophesy of things not yet in the womb of time; nor, (if

F3490    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1951. [Letters to Phillips, 1859-60]. In J. M. Edmonds, Three unpublished letters from Charles Darwin to Professor John Phillips. Proceedings and Report, Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire 1948-50, pp. 25-9.   Text   PDF

organic body to undergo some change, or to effect some self-development, by reason of the intensive or abnormal exercise of its organs; we may allow to external conditions some influence in modifying the sensible characters of species, which is so boldly claimed by the author of the Vestiges of Creation; and we may agree with Mr. Darwin in his more practical view of the derivation of some specific forms of one period from others of earlier date by descent with modification. We may accept all

F376    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 2d ed., second issue.   Text   Image   PDF

, imperfect nails sometimes appear on the stumps: I could as soon believe that these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws of growth, but in order to excrete horny matter, as that the rudimentary nails on the fin of the manatee were formed for this purpose. On my view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple. We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,—as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds,—the vestige of an ear in

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws of growth, but in order to excrete horny matter, as that the rudimentary nails on the fin of the manatee were formed for this purpose. On my view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple. We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions, as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds, the vestige of an ear in earless breeds, the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless breeds

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

absorbed, can be of any service to the rapidly growing embryonic calf by the excretion of precious phosphate of lime? When a man's fingers have been amputated, imperfect nails sometimes appear on the stumps: I could as soon believe that these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws [page] 48

F800    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue.   Text   Image   PDF

of the rostellum, two or three little hairy points project; whether these have any functional importance I know not. The labellum has two basal lobes (of which vestiges may be seen in L. ovata) which curve up on each side, and would compel an insect to approach the rostellum straight in front. Two flowers had been touched either during the journey, or too quickly by some insect, and had exploded; and their pollinia in consequence were firmly cemented to the crest of the rostellum; but in most of

F655    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. Translated and with preface and notes by Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie.   Text   Image   PDF

train de devenir graduellement des esp ces, en assumant avec constance des caract res particuliers. Mais plus loin il ajoute: Except pourtant les types originaux ou anc tres du genre. En 1843 44, le professeur Haldeman1 a fort habilement expos les arguments pour et contre l'hypoth se du d veloppement des esp ces par voie de modifications. Il semble avoir pench du c t de la variabilit . Les Vestiges de Cr ationparurent en 1844. Apr s avoir tout consid r , dit l'auteur anonyme2, il faut conclure

F655    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. Translated and with preface and notes by Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie.   Text   Image   PDF

exist que dans la lign e des ascendants directs de chaque esp ce, mais seulement quelques vestiges de transitions analogues dans les diverses lign es collat rales aujourd'hui vivantes. Nous devrions au moins pouvoir prouver que ces transitions sont possibles d'une fa on quelconque, et c'est ce que nous pouvons faire ais ment. J'ai constat avec surprise combien il tait ais de d couvrir des degr s de transition conduisant d'instincts tr s-simples aux instincts les plus complexes et les plus

F3514    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1863. [German translation of portions of: Zoology (pt 2, pp. 10-12, pt 4, p. 151), Coral reefs, Journal of researches 2d ed., South America, Origin & Orchids]. In J. Schönemann, Charles Darwin, englischer Naturforscher. Unsere Zeit. Jahrbuch zum Conversations-Lexikon 7: 699-718.   Text   PDF

Untersuchung vorangingen, nämlich der Vestiges of the natural history of creation , als deren Verfasser der verstorbene Robert Chambers gilt, können wir uns hier kürzer fassen. Das Buch des geistvollen Schotten würde noch besser sein, als es ist, wenn er nicht die Vorrede sowol als einen großen Theil des Tertes der Vertheidigung gegen den Vorwurf der Irreligiosität gewidmet hätte. Aus der bittern Weise, in welcher er später die Angriffe einiger Gegner zurückgewiesen, geht zur Genüge hervor, daß

CUL-DAR18.(1-235)    Draft:    [1864]   'On the movements and habits of climbing plants' part 2   Text   Image

[addendum] And of this process of abortion we have seen every stage. In an ordinary tendril, as if in that of the pea, we can discover no trace of its primordial nature. In Mutisia clematis the tendril in shape colour closely resembles a the petiole with the midribs of the leaflets, occasionally a vestiges of laminæ are retained or reappear. And lastly In Corydalis claviculata on the same individual plant, some few of the leaves terminate in true tendrils, whilst [215v

CUL-DAR18.(1-235)    Draft:    [1864]   'On the movements and habits of climbing plants' part 2   Text   Image

the tendril in shape colour closely resembles a the petiole with the midribs of the leaflets, occasionally a vestiges of laminæ are retained or reappear. And lastly In Corydalis claviculata on the same individual plant, some few of [215

F834a    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1865. On the movements and habits of climbing plants. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams & Norgate.   Text   Image   PDF

leaflets; and occasionally vestiges of laminæ are retained or reappear. Lastly, in four genera in the same family of the Fumariaceæ we see the whole gradation; for the terminal leaflets of the leaf-climbing Fumaria officinalis are not smaller than the other leaflets; those of the leaf-climbing Adlumia cirrhosa are greatly reduced; those of the Corydalis claviculata (a plant which may indifferently be called a leaf-climber or tendril-bearer) are either reduced to microscopical dimensions or have